Google's new anti-patent stance has four credibility issues -- but not the one many people think from fosspatents.blogspot.com The purpose of this present blog is and will continue to be analysis, not advocacy. I want to be right in terms of describing what's going on and predicting as accurately as possible what ...
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IP strategist caught up in phone hacking scandal from ipfinance.blogspot.com Mary-Ellen Field The phone hacking scandal has had many victims. One of those is intellectual property expert and strategist Mary-Ellen Field, a name many readers will recognise and a personal friend. She was the business ...
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It works! Money-saver saves money litigating his trade mark from ipkitten.blogspot.com The IPKat is thinking of taking Mark with him the next
time he goes to The Old Nick for a pint of Badger, currently
the most extortionately expensive thing he does these days The carpet ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
Chinese Apple Counterfeits Stores Poping Up from patentlawip.blogspot.com Local officials from Kunming, the capitol city of the province of Yunnan, China, have begun to crack down on the much-publicized “fake” apple stores that came to light last week. Two of the five stores ...
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When This American Life Attacks Patents from hallingblog.com This American Life presented a story entitled “When Patents Attack.” This is a rambling story that touches on many points. I will review some of issues raised in this story below. I will suggest some ...
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When Patents Attack! – Audio Report from TAL. from anticipatethis.wordpress.com JW Note: An interesting report on so-called ”patent trolls” from This American Life (TAL), a weekly hour-long radio program produced by WBAZ, hosted by Ira Glass, and distributed by Public Radio International (PRI). A summary ...
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Bill Prohibiting Reverse Payments Voted out of Committee from www.patentdocs.org By Donald Zuhn -- On Thursday, the Senate Judiciary Committee reported the Preserve Access to Affordable Generics Act (S. 27) out of committee without amendment by a 10-8 vote. The bill, which was introduced by Senator ...
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Federal Circuit Upholds Board's Strict Interpretation Of Appeal Brief Rule from www.pharmapatentsblog.com At first glance, the Federal Circuit decision in In re Lovin didn't appear very interesting. I know that in a Board appeal you need to argue claims separately if you want the Board to ...
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Fuzzysharp Tech. v. 3DLabs — Part 2 from www.717madisonplace.com Another interesting aspect of the recent Fuzzysharp v. 3DLabs oral argument was the attention paid to the Research Corp. Technologies v. Microsoft case decided back in December 2010. In that case, Chief Judge Rader wrote ...
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Traversing The Perils Of Facebook And Other Notes from www.iposgoode.ca Simone Garcia is a high school student at The Country Day School, who is writing for the IPilogue on intellectual property (IP) law, technology and, in this case, social media. This is the first in ...
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L’Oreal v. eBay Ruling Gives Trade-mark Holders An Ally In Their Fight For Online Brand Protection from www.iposgoode.ca Michael Gilburt is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. On July 12, 2011, the Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ) issued its decision on the long-standing dispute between cosmetics manufacturer L ...
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What’s Wrong with Reexamination and How to Make it Better from ipwatchdog.com The real sin is that reexamination could be a much better process. Those in Congress talk about alleviating the burden on the district courts by having a reexamination proceeding available, but they don't seem ...
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2011 NAPP Annual Meeting - Outsourcing Foreign Filing from info.inovia.com Last week, I had the pleasure of attending and speaking at the National Association of Patent Practitioners (NAPP) Annual Meeting. Presenters included directors from WIPO, law professors, and attorneys from the US and abroad, speaking ...
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CLE Courses with Flexibility: Video-on-Demand Courses from PRG from intellogist.wordpress.com I recently had the opportunity to watch one of Patent Resources Group’s Video-on-Demand (VOD) courses, and I wanted to share a few points I took away from the experience. I viewed the course “Patent ...
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Google Claims Patents Block Innovation from ipwatchdog.com The mutually assured destruction approach to patenting can explain in part why large companies continue to patent at the rate they do, but the justification completely misses the point that these large tech giants were ...
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Prosecution History Estoppel: Defining a Foreseeable Alternative from www.patentlyo.com Duramed Parmaceuticals (Teva Women's Health) v. Paddock Labs. (Fed. Cir. 2011) By Dennis Crouch Note: This case supports the already accepted notion that the presumptive bar to the doctrine of equivalents created by a ...
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Judge to PTO: Faster! Faster! Faster! from www.patentlyo.com MONKEYmedia v. Apple (W.D. Tex. 2011) In an interesting decision, W.D. Texas Judge Sam Sparks has ordered the USPTO to expedite the reexamination of the patents being asserted in litigation. The case involves ...
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InterDigital sues Huawei, ZTE and Nokia over 3G patents from fosspatents.blogspot.com One week after putting itself formally on the selling block in the current mobile patent buying frenzy, mobile patent holding and research company InterDigital LLC (NASDAQ:IDCC) today announced an ITC complaint and a companion ...
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Rihanna Gets Smacked With Lawsuit from tacticalip.com By Daniel Davidson It has been said, “Ain’t nothing gonna break my stride, nobody’s gonna slow me down.” Considering all that Rihanna has been through, including being smacked with a copyright infringement suit ...
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Daubert Motions: Challenging Expert Opinions from www.infringementupdates.com Inform Legal is hosting a Live Audio Conference on September 9, 2011 or September 28, 2011: Since the U.S. Supreme Court decided Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals in 1993, the federal law governing expert ...
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BPAI alternative or options from allthingspros.blogspot.com Takeaway: In
Ex parte Rokosz, the BPAI treated claim language involving "or" as an alternative limitation, even though the Applicant argued that the claim required the presence of both options. The limitation in question was ...
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Hungarian model captures Kat's heart, almost ... from ipkitten.blogspot.com Resisting the temptation to rush out into the street and kiss the first Hungarian he sees, the IPKat is currently rejoicing at some exciting news. As Kats go, not every feline has a position regarding ...
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