Patent & IP news for July 27, 2011

Guest Post: Philip Totaro’s Wind Tech and Patent Trend Update, and Introducing Wind Patent Watch from www.greenpatentblog.com

Back in February we released the preliminary results of a patent landscape report, which identified both historical and future trends in the horizontal axis, utility-scale wind turbine industry.  We now have a more comprehensive view ...

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Patent Term Adjustment (PTA) Statistics from www.patentlyo.com

The chart above shows the perecent of patents that are awarded some patent term adjustment (PTA) at issue. I have highlighted a recent apparent downward trend that began around October 2010. Still, around 80% of ...

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Wednesday whimsies from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Photo from here Putting life into IP book reviews. With a little bit of luck and a good deal of effort, there may be a real shake-up for the fusty, dusty world of book reviews ...

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Taking the Exudate - ConvaTec v Smith & Nephew [2011] EWHC 2039 (Pat) from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Seeping wounds. Not the name of a village in the West Country (the Kat has checked), and neither is it the most savoury of subjects for polite after-dinner conversation. However, it does form the background ...

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Meltwater in hot water over business model from ipkitten.blogspot.com

The Kat has a technical
 solution to the Meltwater problem "Do you know where your web end is?" That was the question with which the IPKat introduced his analysis of  Newspaper Licensing Agency Ltd and ...

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This American Life on Patents from www.mxlegal.com

"This American Life" on NPR is a great show; and I was quite surprised (and delighted) to see that their most-recent episode focused on patents, "When Patents Attack." Give it a listen, as the program ...

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"To boldly go ..." Supreme Court ventures into Star Wars territory from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Star Wars, as the IPKat has previously observed, is a science fiction movie franchise which is famous for its sequels.  In the same way that life imitates art, so too does litigation.  Let the IPKat ...

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Oracle v Google: The gloves are off? from www.tangible-ip.com

Having had to finally leave the excitement of the Nortel patent auction behind (sort of), I have turned my attention to another big IP story which also managed to grab the attention of the mainstream ...

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Love it or Leave it: HEINZ ketchup logo from www.erikpelton.com

Not all brand logos and themes come from an obvious source. I was recently reading a post from friend and consultant Seth Kahan about the “keystones” to a business – the core message and principle. Seth ...

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EMA Continues to Defer Approval of First Gene Therapy Application in Europe from www.patentdocs.org

By James DeGiulio -- Last year we reported that gene therapy was experiencing a revival of sorts, now that many of the safety concerns raised from early clinical trials have been resolved (see "Gene Therapy Experiencing ...

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Unforeseeability a Slender Reed for Rebutting Presumption of Prosecution History Estoppel from www.patentdocs.org

By Kevin E. Noonan -- The doctrine of equivalents, and the extent to which prosecution history estoppel limits application of the doctrine, was perhaps the issue that prompted the Supreme Court to start its decade-long review ...

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Google doesn't want techies to testify on value of Java to Android from fosspatents.blogspot.com

Damages claims are a highly controversial issue between Oracle and Google, and once again they couldn't agree. This time they disagreed on possible candidates for the role of a court-appointed expert. That comes as ...

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Reader Alert: IP Insider Becomes IP CloseUp on August 9 from ipinsider1.wordpress.com

A New Look & Name; More Great IP Updates The response to IP Insider has been fantastic. Launched 18 months ago the blog receives an average of over 1,400 visits per month, and the subscriber ...

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Angry Birds Developer Latest Invitee to the Lodsys Patent Infringement Party from tacticalip.com

By: Mark R. Malek This story hits a little close to home because of my love for the Angry Birds game.  I don’t think it is the game that gets me so much as ...

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S3 Graphics deal appears increasingly unlikely to help HTC against Apple from fosspatents.blogspot.com

In my previous posts on the dispute between Apple and HTC, most recently this one (in which I explained why Apple won't just settle for money like most other patent holders do), I consistently ...

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InterDigital vs. Nokia, Huawei and ZTE at ITC in Patent Dispute from ipwatchdog.com

This InterDigital complaint arises under Section 337 of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. § 1337). Pursuant to Section 337, the ITC conducts investigations into allegations of unfair practices relating to importation and ...

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The infringer hasn't been born -- and the judge wasn't born yesterday from patlit.blogspot.com

The Patents Court for England and Wales gave judgment today in ConvaTec Ltd and others v Smith & Nephew Healthcare Ltd and others [2011] EWHC 2039 (Pat), an infringement-and-validity trial heard by the Patents County Court ...

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INPI to Speed Up Examination of Brazilian Patent Applications from info.inovia.com

Our friends at David Do Nascimento Advogados Associados informed us that the National Industrial Property Institute of Brazil (INPI) will be making changes in order to speed up the examination of patent applications.

This should ...

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Quantum of damages for copyright infringement: which jurisdiction? from ipfinance.blogspot.com

The decision of the UK's Supreme Court today in Lucasfilm Ltd, Star Wars Production Ltd and Lucasfilm Entertainment Co Ltd v Ainsworth and Shepperton Design Studios Ltd (judgment here; IPKat note here; shorter note ...

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Whither the auto industry from www.athenaalliance.org

On the surface, this looks like dueling headlines: Wall Street Journal: Car Makers Help Drive Economic Recovery New York Times: The Auto Industry, Stuck in the Slow Lane But a closer look reveals more of ...

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Patent News Sources: WIPO Magazine from intellogist.wordpress.com

Welcome to another edition of Patent News Sources, where we identify and highlight some of our favorite go-to spots for the latest, greatest, and most intriguing patent-related happenings. Last time, we talked about the superb ...

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Walker Digital Patent Licensing Deals Confirmed – “Mystery” Suitor Looms from gametimeip.com

In a clever PR move, Walker Digital quietly announced last week that its re-invigorated licensing campaign has generated $25 MM in revenue over a 90 day period (in other words, since teaming up with strategic ...

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Lodsys fiercely opposes Apple's motion for an intervention from fosspatents.blogspot.com

Lodsys had an (extended) deadline today to respond to Apple's motion for an intervention in a patent infringement litigation in which Lodsys is suing 11 app developers, five of which are rather small. The ...

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UConn IP & Entrepreneurship Law Clinic Extends Pilot Program with USPTO from www.infringementupdates.com

Just received my Summer 2011 issue of UCONN magazine from my alma mater. While it is not available online yet, there is an article by Todd Rosenthal titled, "Protecting the World of Ideas" that discusses ...

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In Memory: Judge Glenn Archer from www.patentlyo.com

James Brookshire of the Federal Circuit Bar Association (FCBA) sent me a note today that Judge Glenn Archer has died. Judge Archer first joined the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in 1985 after ...

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