Patent & IP news for July 17, 2011

Letter from AmeriKat: America Invents Act Review from ipkitten.blogspot.com

The AmeriKat taking what would
be the first of many Kleenexes this
week (picture by prettyinprint reporduced
here under CC licence)Summer - a time meant for lounging on Scottish wool blankets nibbling on sandwiches flanked ...

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Freedom Fries from www.patenthawk.com

The ever-subversive Hal Wegner has been attacking the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act in his privately circulated newsletter. Today's missive from the miscreant laments the "anti-foreigner discrimination" of the bill - the failure "to legislatively overrule ...

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Did Midas Mulligan Run a Fractional Reserve Bank? from hallingblog.com

Was Midas Mulligan, the hero banker in Atlas Shrugged, running a fractional reserve bank?  There has been much criticism of the Federal Reserves’ handling of our money supply and its effect on the economy.  Much ...

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Will Google+ Be the Next Facebook? from ipwatchdog.com

Google, which is undoubtedly the most popular website in the world seems to constantly be challenging the domination of the second-most popular website, Facebook, which is the world’s largest online social network that currently ...

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Two Cents from the Last Sane Person in the World from tacticalip.com

Danie Roy As a little bit of a geek, I like to stay on top of when shiny new technology comes out. So, initially, I was excited to hear about a patent awarded for a ...

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Conference & CLE Calendar from www.patentdocs.org

July 18-19, 2011 - Hatch-Waxman Boot Camp*** (American Conference Institute) - San Diego, CA July 20, 2011 - Are Products of Nature Patentable Subject Matter? (American Bar Association) - 1:00 - 2:30 PM (Eastern) July 20-21, 2011 - Advanced ...

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Court Report from www.patentdocs.org

By Sherri Oslick -- About Court Report: Each week we will report briefly on recently filed biotech and pharma cases. Abbott Laboratories et al. v. Watson Pharmaceuticals et al. 1:11-cv-00607; filed July 8, 2011 in ...

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Protecting Image Rights from ipfinance.blogspot.com

This weekend's post on Afro-IP is worthy of comment on this blog because it involves a case where damages were claimed based on the misuse of a photograph containing the image of a former ...

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“News Of The World” And The Regulation Of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 from www.iposgoode.ca

Dan Whalen is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Disgraced UK tabloid News of the World has finally crumbled under the mounting weight of the national phone-hacking scandal. As investigations heat up and ...

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