Patent & IP news for July 22, 2011

IP transactions: a possible Masters course from ipkitten.blogspot.com

The IPKat has his own ideas about Masters
(nb Master Cat mousepad available here) The IPKat's friend, fellow blogger, author and former student Mark Anderson mentioned to him earlier this year that he was ...

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When the Reverse Triangular Merger Comes to Save the Beta Male from ipkitten.blogspot.com


It's tough not being an Alpha male. The anthropologists tell you that you have been at the bottom of the mating pole for millennia; the business press keeps looking for Alpha males with animal ...

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Limitation Conjugation from www.patenthawk.com

Conjugated estrogens are a mixture used to treat post-menopausal hot flashes by artificially ramping lost hormonal production. For that benefit runs a greater risk of breast cancer, heart attack, or stroke. Duramed asserted 5,908 ...

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Friday fantasies from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Alfred, Lord Tennyson did not writs this ...

Friday, Friday,
It's your day and my day!
'Tis time to be sage
And to visit this page. 

There we will find
Great peace of mind
Amid ...

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Average Number of References Cited Per Patent from www.patentlyo.com

What are the odds that the PTO's new limited disclosure rules and the Federal Circuit's Therasense and Excergen decisions will turn this trend around? How will patent prosecutors alter their disclosure protocol based ...

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USPTO Proposes Change in Duty of Disclosure from www.patentdocs.org

By Kevin E. Noonan -- The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued a notice in the Federal Register today (76 Fed. Reg. 43631) proposing to change the Office's definition of materiality in Rule 56 ...

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Duramed Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. Paddock Laboratories, Inc. (Fed. Cir. 2011) from www.patentdocs.org

By Donald Zuhn -- In Duramed Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. Paddock Laboratories, Inc., the Federal Circuit today affirmed a decision by the District Court for the Southern District of New York granting summary judgment of noninfringement to ...

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Oracle gets to depose Google CEO Larry Page for two hours on willful patent infringement, value of Android from fosspatents.blogspot.com

Late on Thursday by local time, magistrate judge issued an order according to which "Oracle may depose [Google co-founder and CEO] Mr. Page for a maximum of two hours, excluding breaks, solely on topics relevant ...

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USPTO Adapts To Therasense from www.pharmapatentsblog.com

The USPTO announced on July 21, 2011, that it plans to "revise the standard for materiality" for the duty of disclosure in view of the Federal Circuit's decision in Therasense, Inc. v. Becton, Dickinson ...

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PTO to Match Materiality Standard to Therasense from inventivestep.net

Yesterday, the PTO published a Federal Register notice that it plans to conform its materiality standard for complying with the duty of disclosure to that set forth by the Federal Circuit in Therasense. The PTO ...

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Friday Foreign Filing Roundup from info.inovia.com

Here's a recap of the patent/foreign filing news from this week:

• Applications for patents on inventions and trademarks for Australian businesses have increased for the first time since the global financial crisis.
• July ...

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Kim Kardashian Suing Old Navy Over Look Alike from tacticalip.com

By: Rene Dial Old Navy getting sued over look alike. At first thought this sounded crazy.  How can a celebrity sue a company for using a model that just happens to look like the celebrity ...

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Traditional Knowledge, Folkore Treaty Texts Still Advancing At WIPO from www.ip-watch.org

Delegates at the World Intellectual Property Organization this week continued work on evolving draft texts of treaties to protect genetic resources, traditional knowledge and traditional cultural expressions (TCEs), or folklore. But more work will be ...

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WIPO Traditional Knowledge Committee On Way To New Mandate from www.ip-watch.org

Delegates working on an international instrument to protect traditional knowledge and folklore against misappropriation today agreed this afternoon to ask the World Intellectual Property Organization General Assembly in September to extend the mandate of the ...

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Apple says Samsung has "abusively" asserted UMTS patents to get away with "illicit" copying from fosspatents.blogspot.com

Late on Thursday, Apple filed its answer to Samsung's counterclaims in their federal lawsuit in the Northern District of California. The 78-page document contains Apple's defenses and its counter-counterclaims, i.e., Apple's ...

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Copyright Law – The Government vs. The People from blawgit.com

The Indictment of Aaron Swartz United States federal prosecutors have just indicted 24 year-old Harvard Fellow, Aaron Swartz on charges of wire fraud, computer fraud, unlawfully obtaining information from a protected computer, recklessly damaging a ...

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Others also discover patents from www.athenaalliance.org

It looks like the size of recent patent portfolio valuations has caught the eye of more than investment bankers (see earlier posting). Activist shareholders may now also be getting into the game. According the the ...

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Judge orders overhaul of Oracle's damages report but maintains Halloween trial date from fosspatents.blogspot.com

Google got some good news -- but also some additional harsh criticism of its "brazen" attitude toward intellectual property rights -- at the end of an otherwise dreadful week in its defense against Oracle's lawsuit. Judge ...

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