Patent & IP news for August 8, 2011

Tobacco brands in Australia: will there be a compensation bill? from ipfinance.blogspot.com

From this ... Current Australian plans for plain packaging of cigarettes have attracted considerable attention and have generated no little heat (for a recent example, see this piece by the British Brands Group, hosted on the ...

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BIO2011: Robert Cantrell on “All Fins On” from www.patentbaristas.com

When you’re networking with more than 15,000 of your closest friends at the BIO International Convention in Washington, DC, you’re bound to meet an interesting person or two.  I met more than ...

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Trademark and TTAB updates from the USPTO at the ABA Annual Meeting from www.erikpelton.com

Toronto hosted the American Bar Association’s Annual Meeting last week. I had the opportunity to speak at the conference, but also to listen to some great programs. Commissioner for Trademarks Deborah Cohn spoke, as ...

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Five bad Apples -- and look what's in store for IKEA ... from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Recently this Kat wrote about a number fake Apple stores in Kunming in China. Since posting, Chinese officials have found five fake Apple stores in Kunming. However, only two of the five stores have been ...

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Monday miscellany from ipkitten.blogspot.com

The IPKat's Turkish friend, Professor Mehmet Artemel, has been busily putting together a new website, IP in Turkey, which is full of useful legal information concerning the framework of intellectual property in that lovely ...

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Conference & CLE Calendar from www.patentdocs.org

August 15-19, 2011 - Intellectual Property Law Summer School 2011 (IBC Legal) - Cambridge, UK August 16-18, 2011 - The Bilski Impact: Procuring & Enforcing Software, Business Methods & Bioinformatics Patents (Patent Resources Group) - Alexandria, VA and Southfield, MI September ...

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The price of dysfunctional politics from www.athenaalliance.org

Late Friday afternoon, Standard and Poor's issued the following statement: Standard & Poor's Ratings Services said today that it lowered its long-term sovereign credit rating on the United States of America to 'AA+' from ...

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NDTX Strikes One License and Allows Another; Finds Fault in Expert’s Use of Entire Market Value Rule from patent-damages.com

On June 10, 2011, Judge Reed O’Connor of the Northern District of Texas issued an opinion granting in part and denying in part Universal Lighting Technologies’ (“defendant”) Motion to Strike, Limit, or Exclude Certain ...

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IP Insider Blog Becomes IP CloseUp from info.articleonepartners.com

The IP Insider blog, run for the last year and a half by intellectual property expert Bruce Berman, recently announced a switch in domain name, blog title, and overall IP philosophy.  As a result, IP ...

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Article One Partners Contributes Research in a Patent Lawsuit by Interval Licensing from info.articleonepartners.com

Article One Partners Contributes Research in a Patent Lawsuit by Interval Licensing; the USPTO Reexamines the Patent Prompting the Court to Stay the Case

Article One Partners today announced the conclusion of a high profile ...

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Does a patent license include related patents? from ipspotlight.com

According to a recent Federal Circuit decision, the answer is “yes” if the related patent is a continuation of the licensed patent (and so long as the license agreement does not expressly say otherwise). In ...

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Patent Wars Stifle Innovation from www.infringementupdates.com

The following is excerpted from an August 4, 2011 post by Larry Kahaner at the McGowan Blog on Business Leadership and Ethics published by The William G. McGowan Charitable Fund: The founders of the United ...

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Is a patent war between Apple and LG brewing? from fosspatents.blogspot.com

PatentlyApple (my favorite blog on new patents granted to Apple) reported this weekend on what appears to be the umpteenth "troll" lawsuit against Apple but might be an early indicator of another patent war between ...

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BIO: Unleashing the Promise of Biotechnology (pt.2) from www.patentbaristas.com

The Biotechnology Industry Organization believes that fully realizing the promise of biotechnology requires a comprehensive national strategy that fine-tunes some policies and overhauls others. BIO’s set of policy proposals address two vital needs: 1 ...

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Changes At The Top As RIAA Sees “Bright Future” from www.ip-watch.org

The Recording Industry Association of America today announced that Cary Sherman has been named chairman and CEO amid claims that the music industry is looking up. Sherman takes over for Mitch Bainwol, who resigned to ...

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Apple insists to intervene in Lodsys lawsuit against app developers from fosspatents.blogspot.com

About two weeks ago I reported on Lodsys's lengthy opposition brief to Apple's motion for an intervention. Many iOS app developers -- not only the ones who have already been sued but also countless ...

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Judge does not allow Google to outmaneuver Oracle with untimely invalidity contentions from fosspatents.blogspot.com

Judge William Alsup of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California has just denied, for the largest part, a Google motion for leave to supplement its invalidity contentions, i.e., a ...

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US Patent 7,970,543: of, and through, the Department of Commerce from ipbiz.blogspot.com

US 7,970,543, titled Predicting tropical cyclone destructive potential by integrated kinetic energy according to the Powell/Reinhold scale, lists as inventors Powell and Reinhold and cites papers to Powell et al.

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Patent Blogger and Blogger Named President of Patent Calls from ipwatchdog.com

Patent Calls, Inc., a provider of technology-based patent analysis services and solutions, last week announced the appointment of patent attorney Patrick Anderson as President. Those who are familiar with the patent blogosphere might recognized Anderson ...

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Hague Court Allows Individual Artistic Expression from www.iposgoode.ca

Jeffrey O’Brien is a JD candidate at the University of Alberta. Louis Vuitton may not have expected much of a counterattack when it sought to prevent Danish artist Nadia Plesner’s use of the ...

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The Federal Court Opines In Bartly: A Final Action Is A Final Action from www.iposgoode.ca

Amelia Manera is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. In Bartly v Canada (Commissioner of Patents), 2011 FC 873, a recent decision of the Federal Court, Justice Hughes clarifies that a Final Action ...

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Does Live Streaming Infringe Copyright? UK High Court Opines In TV Catchup from www.iposgoode.ca

Nora Sleeth is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Justice Floyd of the United Kingdom High Court has provisionally ruled in TV Catchup (TVC) that live Internet streaming of television programs is subject ...

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