Crowdsourcing Freedom to Operate Patent Search from info.articleonepartners.com Article One Partners’ research community has become known as one of the best ways to uncover useful prior art from around the world. There are a variety of ways that this can drive innovation and ...
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Those scams again: signs of progress from ipkitten.blogspot.com Apart from bees buzzing, lawn-mowers growling and [in England] wickets falling, one of the sounds of the summer is the chinking of wine-glasses as IP scammers come together to celebrate the gullibility or negligence of ...
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Patently-O Daily E-Mail from www.patentlyo.com Each morning, Patently-O automatically sends out about 20,000 e-mails to subscribers around the world. The e-mail includes the latest posts from the blogs and a link to the website. For many, this is a ...
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Life Sciences Venture Funding up 37% in Second Quarter from www.patentdocs.org By Donald Zuhn -- Last month, the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), a trade association representing the U.S. venture capital industry, released the results of its MoneyTree Report on venture funding for the second quarter ...
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QU-IP of the Week: Justice Floyd on Obviousness from spicyipindia.blogspot.com Given that the IP community at large has several witty commentators and decision makers in its midst, we decided to initiate a new series called "Quip of the Week" (Quip also happens to contain "IP ...
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Association for Molecular Pathology v. United States Patent and Trademark Office (Fed. Cir. 2011) from www.patentdocs.org By Kevin E. Noonan -- The Federal Circuit rendered a fractured decision on Friday in Association for Molecular Pathology v. U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (the Myriad case), with a majority opinion by Judge Lourie ...
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Dragon's Den inventions and blogging from britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk The UK IPO has started a blog where they will comment on the intellectual property issues in each episode of TV's Dragon's Den. Comments on the first episode are already available. A blog ...
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Andrew Cohen on Myriad decision from ipbiz.blogspot.com Andrew Cohen discussed the Myriad case in Atlantic. He carefully pointed out the degrees of Judge Lourie (Ph.D. in chemistry) and of Judge Moore (electrical engineering) but mentioned dissenting Judge Bryson's discussion
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Myriad: Isolated DNA sequences are patentable subject matter from ipspotlight.com In a much-anticipated decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit held that isolated DNA molecules may be patented, so long as the molecules meet other criteria such as novelty and non-obviousness ...
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Myriad Outcome: Winds Shift Again For Gene Patenting In the US from www.ip-watch.org In a long-awaited decision, a United States federal appeals court has decided that US companies can patent breast cancer genes, reversing a previous ruling. The decision was not unanimous, with one of the three judges ...
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The Intellectual Property Exchange International: A Market for IP Assets? from www.iplawalert.com With the importance of Intellectual Property to a company’s bottom line, maximizing that value continues to command a prominent role. “Monetizing” an IP asset, such as a patent, is typically done by licensing, where ...
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Judge Crabb Discontinues "Stand-Alone" Claims Construction Hearings from docketreport.blogspot.com "For reasons that are irrelevant to this order and not subject to input from counsel, the Honorable Barbara B. Crabb, District Judge, has changed her procedures for construing claims and deciding summary judgment motions in ...
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Patent Litigation Statistics: 1980 – 2010 from ipwatchdog.com In trying to determine whether patent litigation is out of control it is worth looking at the numbers of patent cases terminated and how they are terminated. What becomes clear is that there is no ...
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The BPAI’s Precedent: Most Cited Cases by the Board from www.patentlyo.com The following list provides the most-often cited cases in BPAI decisions thus-far in 2011. The vast majority of BPAI decisions involve a patent applicant appealing an examiner's final rejection and the most common patentability ...
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Search Platforms of CAS: SciFinder vs STN from intellogist.wordpress.com A popular topic on the CHIMF-L listserv during the past week has been SciFinder and CAS databases. Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) is a division of the American Chemical Society, and the organization produces a variety ...
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(In re NTP)^8 from ipbiz.blogspot.com Further to the NTP decisions of 1 Aug 2011, and the IPBiz post thereon, note the caption given by LEXIS:
IN RE NTP, INC. IN RE NTP, INC. IN RE NTP, INC. IN RE NTP ...
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Google's new attempt to have Oracle's copyright infringement claims dismissed from fosspatents.blogspot.com Yesterday Google filed its motion for summary judgment on count VIII -- the copyright part -- of Oracle's amended complaint. Google wants to have all copyright infringement allegations dismissed before the patent infringement claims in this ...
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Joint Appendix Practice from www.patentlyo.com By Jason Rantanen ClearValue, Inc. v. Pearl River Polymers, Inc. (Fed. Cir. 2011) (nonprecedential order) Download 2011-1078.8-1-11.1 The preparation of joint appendices in connection with Federal Circuit appeals is an instance where norms ...
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If Patents Annoy You, Then You Must Have Standing from www.patentbaristas.com In a 2-1 decision, the Federal Circuit upheld that companies can patent genes but decided that they cannot patent methods to compare the gene sequences. The Federal Circuit handed down a decision on the Myriad ...
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CAFC issues decision on patentability of "isolated" DNA in Myriad case from www.postgrant.com The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued a decision in the Myriad case (Association for Molecular Pathology v. PTO) on July 29, 2011. This decision has been long-awaited since 2010, when the District ...
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Navigating the Patent Minefield in Development of Generic Drugs 1: How to Identify Key IP Protection from www.infringementupdates.com GenericsWeb recently produced the above-titled webinar to demonstrate some techniques for identifying ‘key’ patent protection of established pharmaceutical products. Faced with many different ‘expiry dates’ for a given pharmaceutical product, it is often a complicated ...
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Font Used In Harry Potter Merchandise Could Spell Damage Award from www.iposgoode.ca Brent Randall is a JD candidate at the University of Ottawa. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, the final film in the Potter film series, was released on July 15, 2011. With its ...
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UK IPO Research Report Estimates Economic Contribution Of Intellectual Property Rights from www.iposgoode.ca Kalen Lumsden is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. The Intellectual Property Office of the United Kingdom recently released a report titled The Role of Intellectual Property Rights in the UK Market Sector ...
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Federal Circuit Ruling In Myriad Genetics: Genes Are Patentable from www.iposgoode.ca Danny Titolo is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit recently overturned a Southern District of New York court’s decision by ruling that genes can ...
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Federal Court Posts “Model” Bifurcation Order For Intellectual Property Matters from www.iposgoode.ca Danny Titolo is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. The Federal Court of Canada has established a new “model” bifurcation order which is to be used in matters pertaining to intellectual property. Bifurcation ...
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