In New Suit with A123 Hydro-Quebec Drills Black & Decker and Leans on Segway from www.greenpatentblog.com In a previous post, I wrote about patent litigation between Canadian utility Hydro-Quebec (H-Q) and Massachusetts based lithium ion battery maker A123 Systems (A123), in which A123 lost its bid to have its declaratory judgment ...
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Gilead dips its toes into Patent Pool from spicyipindia.blogspot.com Earlier this year, we had carried a post on UNITAID's
Medicines Patent Pool being in talks with several key pharmaceutical companies. In a
press release by the Medicines Patent Pool today, they announced an ...
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Worth the wait, worth its weight from ipkitten.blogspot.com It's not often that the IPKat describes a book as being cheap when it weighs in at £295 and feels like it weighs 295 pounds, but
Pharmaceutical, Biotechnology and Chemical Inventions: World Protection and ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
Featured Resource: Intellogist from info.articleonepartners.com This week, Article One profiles one of the most thorough and detailed resources available – Intellogist. Unlike many of the other resources featured in this blog, Intellogist is not a search engine. Instead, it is more ...
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Reckitt Benckiser Inc. v. Watson Laboratories, Inc. - Florida (Fed. Cir. 2011) from www.patentdocs.org By Donald Zuhn -- Last week, in Reckitt Benckiser Inc. v. Watson Laboratories, Inc. - Florida, the Federal Circuit affirmed a decision by the District Court for the Southern District of Florida holding that Defendant-Appellee Watson Laboratories ...
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Medicines Patent Pool Boosts HIV Drug Prospects With First Licence from www.ip-watch.org The Medicines Patent Pool and pharmaceutical company Gilead Sciences today announced a breakthrough licence agreement to allow for the production of key HIV medicines at lower cost and in an easier-to-use formulation, making them more ...
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Space Shuttle Tribute: Best space logos from www.erikpelton.com Last week saw the launch of the Final Space Shuttle Mission (STS-135). The exploration of space, planets, stars and all that comes with it has fascinated me since childhood. NASA has a great history of ...
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Supreme Court Says Bayh-Dole Act Does Not Trump Inventor Rights from www.pharmapatentsblog.com In Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University v. Roche Molecular Systems, Inc., the Supreme Court upheld the basic principle of U.S. patent law that rights to an invention vest initially in ...
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Design patents – overview of the application process in the United States from ipspotlight.com In a previous post, I summarized the process that an inventor should expect when applying for a United States patent application. That post discussed the process for a “utility patent”, which is the typical patent ...
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PCC Page 33: Octopus dress and address from patlit.blogspot.com While the Patents County Court
is less formal than the High Court,
counsel should not be too casual ... Eloquently explicated by the Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys (CIPA), the PCC Pages seek to explain how ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
A business method patent (not yet) from ipwars.com RPL applied for an innovation patent of a method entitled ‘Method and System for Automated Collection of Evidence of Skills and Knowledge’. The applied for innovation relates to a method for people to obtain recognition ...
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L’Oréal v eBay Part III: what the world says ... from ipkitten.blogspot.com Here in Part III, in alphabetical order, are some early responses to this morning's Court of Justice ruling in Case C‑324/09
L’Oréal SA, Lancôme parfums et beauté & Cie, Laboratoire Garnier & Cie ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
25% Apportionment Factor Based on Past License And Not Industry Rule of Thumb Does Not Offend Uniloc from docketreport.blogspot.com The court denied defendants' motion in limine to exclude portions of plaintiff's damages expert's testimony. "As [plaintiff's expert] explains in his report, in 1996, [a third party and a defendant] entered into ...
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May trade in intangibles from www.athenaalliance.org The May trade data is out and it looks like the economy is reverting to some past (bad) behavior. The deficit increased by $6.6 billion to $50.2 billion. Exports were down by $1 ...
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Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement: Did US Move Threaten Public Health? from www.ip-watch.org Civil society groups say a leaked document from regional free trade negotiations between countries bordering the Pacific Ocean shows the United States favouring giant pharmaceutical companies at the expense of public health. Separately, the tobacco ...
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Patent Reform Stalled in the Senate Thanks to Debt Ceiling from ipwatchdog.com That being the case it seems likely to me that patent reform won't be picked up in the Senate until after Labor Day in September. What does this mean for patent reform? Who knows ...
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Jacob Sherkow: Negativing Invention from writtendescription.blogspot.com Does nonobviousness favor "flash of genius" inventions over laborious ones, despite Congress's explicit declaration that "
[p]atentability shall not be negatived by the manner in which the invention was made"? Jacob Sherkow argues that ...
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First app developer gets 30-day extention to answer Lodsys's complaint from fosspatents.blogspot.com Four days ago I reported that the first app developers have already been given a deadline by the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas to answer Lodsys's patent infringement complaint ...
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Jim Beam Is Giving Cuervo Crow’S Feet from tacticalip.com By Daniel Davidson Back in 1997, the makers of Jim Beam, Jim Beam Brands Co., and Jose Cuervo tequila entered into an agreement where the tequila maker would only use a mark that looked confusingly ...
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Odds and Ends from www.717madisonplace.com The other weekend I discovered that MIT has an “opencourseware” site where it has posted videos of different semester long courses. Apparently MIT has been doing this for many years — I’m just late to ...
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