Patent & IP news for July 20, 2011

Can Netflix Defy Pricing Gravity? And Why Is It Trying to Do So? from ipfinance.blogspot.com


Surely the most dramatic news of last week in the area of content distribution was the announcement by Netflix that it was raising its prices for DVD and streaming plans. Netflix is the U.S ...

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Article One Featured Researcher: Manjeet Singh from info.articleonepartners.com

This week’s featured researcher is Manjeet Singh, a patent attorney from Chennai, India.  He has three years of experience analyzing patents for a patent research company, and is currently working as a patent attorney ...

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Tees & Radar: Patent Pendency 2011 from www.patentlyo.com

I updated my patent database to include all patents issued thus far in 2011. For 2011, the median original patent issued in 3.8 years (4.0 years average pendency). For patents issued from continuation ...

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No shelter for Chinese IP infringers as Special Action Programme strikes home from ipkitten.blogspot.com

"Hands up if you think the
Special Action Programme
is doing a good job ..." While all good Americans are compiling their Watch Lists and all good Europeans are contemplating their border controls, what are all ...

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What does Nortel mean for the winners and losers? from www.tangible-ip.com

Try these two tables. Who individually wanted it the most, that is, semi-speculatively, who put up the most individual money? Amounts committed, or who wanted it most? Company Amount Google $2.5bn Apple $2bn RPX ...

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Love it or Leave it: Cheerios trademark from www.erikpelton.com

Cheerios® cereal is celebrating its 70th birthday this year. It is a great name and logo. Simple. Suggestive — happy, fun and “O” shaped. The logo and packaging has been remarkably consistent for years. Kids love ...

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Green Patent Acquisitions: ABB Buys EV Charging Tech Company Epyon from www.greenpatentblog.com

ABB, a large power and automation equipment conglomerate, recently announced that it has acquired Dutch EV charging company Epyon Power (Epyon). Epyon, a a spin-off of Delft University of Technology, provides DC charging stations and ...

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Wednesday whimsies from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Don't gnash your teeth --
join IPSoc today! Events in the offing.  The IPKat is getting increasingly excited at the seminar on Initial Interest Confusion on 7 September (details here), now that registrations have passed ...

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Lamborghini Trademark Infringement Lawsuit from patentlawip.blogspot.com

The Italian car maker Lamborghini wasted little time in filing a lawsuit (US District Court, State of Nevada, Case No. 2:11-cv-01154-ECR –RJJ) against the Palazzo resort in Las Vegas. The Palazzo recently opened an ...

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Ketzel Cotel 1992-2011 from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Before anyone else emails the IPKat to tell him, let him tell you: yes, he does know that Ketzel the cat (right) is dead.  This sad piece of news, which was broken by the New ...

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Sprinkles Cupcakes Wages Trademark Lawsuit from patentlawip.blogspot.com

Sprinkles Cupcakes gained huge popularity due to its delicious cupcakes and also to a helping hand from the PR gained from getting on the Oprah Winfrey and Martha Stewart show. The company which has locations ...

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How an invention changed the lives of Africans from www.ipeg.eu

It’s holiday time in Europe, so we blog much less than we usually do. Vacation also means reading, so we took a wonderful book, “Congo” by the Flemish writer David van Reybrouck.  He describes ...

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The Bum Box®, a portable seating invention from britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk

Recently I was at an open-air concert at Kenwood House, and we were offered free portable, collapsible seats made out of cardboard. As soon as I was offered it I guessed there was a patent ...

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Extension Of WIPO Committee On TK, Genetic Resources Appears Likely from www.ip-watch.org

As the mandate of the World Intellectual Property Committee on the protection of genetic resources, traditional knowledge, and folklore is reaching its end, diplomats meeting this week seem to be coming to agreement on its ...

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Aeroponic farming in towers on the roof from britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk

The 16 July issue of The Daily Telegraph had an interesting article about a New York restaurant, Bell Book & Candle, which grows most of its vegetables on the roof. Plastic towers are scattered...

(From Steve ...

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WIPO Calls On Film Industry Stars To Promote Audiovisual Treaty from www.ip-watch.org

The UN World Intellectual Property Organization yesterday invited a panel of international film producers and star Spanish actor Javier Bardem to sing the praise of an international treaty to help the audiovisual industry address the ...

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RPost Sues Adobe and EchoSign for Infringing Five Patents from www.infringementupdates.com

The following is excerpted from a July 19, 2011 RPost press release: RPost, the inventor of Registered Email® services and a pioneer of electronic signature services announced today that it has brought suit against Adobe ...

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EU Announces €7B For Innovation, R&D from www.ip-watch.org

The European Commission yesterday announced the availability of nearly €7 billion euros (nearly US$10 billion) to boost innovation, its biggest grant ever for research and development. The move is predicted to create 174,000 ...

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Tax fairness or a new unfairness from www.athenaalliance.org

Here is an interesting idea from my friend Rob Atkinson over at ITIF: a one-size-fits-all tax code is not one-size-fit-all. In a new report, (U.S. Corporate Tax Reform: Groupthink or Rational Debate?), he points ...

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Canada Prefers Cash, not Elephants, Actually. from tacticalip.com

Danie Roy As you may recall, I recently posted an article about Nortel’s sale of its patent portfolio for $4.5 billion. Or 12.5 solid gold elephants, if you prefer. Right now it ...

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The Top 25 US Patent Classes for Patent Quality from ipwatchdog.com

Ocean Tomo released the results of its Patent Quality Benchmark Study. The Patent Quality Study is intended to provide a benchmark for those studying patent quality across the 430 United States Patent Classes as defined ...

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Google not hanging about-Intertrust link surfaces from www.tangible-ip.com

With $2.5bn of unspent Nortel auction cash seemingly burning a hole in its pockets and the market overall critical of its quirky auction performance, Google has moved quickly to start talks with InterDigital, known ...

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Google blinks in Oracle patent case, indicates willingness to pay from fosspatents.blogspot.com

[DEVELOPING STORY -- still adding detail]

Oracle and Google just filed their joint reply to the judge's request for input on "the extent to which" that lawsuit should be stayed.

As I expected, the common ...

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Edison Nation Launches Phase 2 of $25 Million Innovation Fund from ipwatchdog.com

Louis Foreman, the producer of the Emmy Award winning PBS television show Everyday Edisons and the publisher of Inventors Digest, announced in April 2011 that he was launching of a $25 million Innovation Fund. Phase ...

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Parliament Study: ACTA Not Fully In Line With EU Rules from www.ip-watch.org

The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) under negotiation by a group of countries including those in the European Union is more ambitious than current EU law and risks problems for access to medicines, concluded a recent ...

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Patent Workbench™: A New File History Tool from intellogist.wordpress.com

Patent Workbench™ is a tool that I’ve come to know over the last few months. As I’ve used it, I’ve begun to get more and more excited about its capabilities, as it ...

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Social Media Use in Doctor / Patient Communications from ipspotlight.com

My colleague Rebekah Monson recently co-authored an article discussing the growth of social media as a tool for doctor/patient communications.  Although this use of social media requires careful consideration so that private information is ...

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Playlist troll who was awarded $8 million from Apple files new lawsuit over more products from fosspatents.blogspot.com

The week before last I blogged about a $8 million jury verdict in favor of a non-practicing entity named Personal Audio LLC against Apple for the infringement of some downloadable playlist patents. That lawsuit had ...

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Competitor Case: EDVA Guts Price Erosion and Lost Sales Case and Finds Lump Sum Reasonable Royalty Theory Flawed from patent-damages.com

Defendant, United Technologies Corp., filed two Motions in Limine to preclude Plaintiff, Rolls Royce, from Presenting Evidence or Argument at Trial of “Lost Profits and Price Erosion” and “Unsupported Lump Sum Reasonable Royalty” Damages. On ...

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Happy 175th, U.S. Patent No. 1 from patentlibrarian.blogspot.com

July 13, 2011 was the 175th anniversary of the granting of U.S. patent no. 1, issued to Senator John Ruggles of Thomaston, Maine. Senator Ruggles was chair of the Committee on Patents and the ...

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