Patent & IP news for September 2, 2011

Patent Wars in Picture Form from www.patentbaristas.com

Mashable has an infographic on the recent patent wars.  Winding its way from the early conceptions of patent rights to trends in patent filings and ending with recent patent tiffs involving tech companies like Apple ...

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ICANN and those gTLDs again: another view from ipkitten.blogspot.com

There are invariably two sides to any dispute --
and Merpel is happy to take on her adversaries Merpel has let off her head of steam concerning ICANN, and this has attracted the attention of World ...

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ICANN: a dream at last coming true, or a legal scam? from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Merpel gets around a fair bit these days. Being a fictional Kat she can sneak into all sorts of places and eavesdrop on some fascinating events. This is her report on what she did yesterday ...

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August employment from www.athenaalliance.org

Stagnate. That is the best way to summarize August's employment data released this morning: Nonfarm payroll employment was unchanged (0) in August, and the unemployment rate held at 9.1 percent, the U.S ...

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Artificial Distinction between Software and Telecoms for Essential IP Disclosure from ipfinance.blogspot.com

In this, the sixth in his series of posts for IP Finance, Keith Mallinson (WiseHarbor) defends the non-interventionist approach which the European Union takes towards horizontal cooperation agreements against the criticisms levelled against the criticisms ...

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Friday fantasies from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Friday has come around again so please, please check the IPKat's Forthcoming Events page for all the exciting things you can do once the kids are back at school, the dog has been collected ...

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USPTO News Briefs from www.patentdocs.org

By Donald Zuhn -- USPTO Planning to Review Existing Rules In a notice published in the Federal Register (76 Fed. Reg. 39797) earlier this summer, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office indicated that it has ...

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Judge Moore Sticks up for Patent Prosecutors from www.717madisonplace.com

On the heels of Cybersource Corp. v. Retail Decisions, Inc., an opinion that would have made Justice Douglas blush, the Federal Circuit has decided Classen Immunotherapies, Inc. v. Biogen-Idec et al., 2006-1634 (Fed. Cir. Aug ...

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Freelance Patent Profession from intellogist.wordpress.com

Labor Day is fast approaching the in the US, signaling the end of summer and give workers a brief respite from the daily grind. I was reading an interesting article on The Atlantic’s website ...

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Love it or leave it: Versus to become NBC Sports Network from www.erikpelton.com

Last week NBCUniversal announced that the TV channel known as “Versus” (formerly OLN or Outdoor Life Network) will become “NBC Sports Network” in January 2012. This change is part of the shake up from NBC ...

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Radio Broadcasters Receive Favourable Treatment in Copyright Amendment Bill from spicyipindia.blogspot.com

As members of the Rajya Sabha get set to debate the provisions of the Copyright (Amendment) Bill, 2010, there’s one issue that is sure to come up in the course of the discussions. With ...

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Can I object to the production of my client’s source code on the basis of relevance or confidentiality? from docketreport.blogspot.com

The short answer is probably not. We conducted a search of all court orders involving discovery disputes where a party objected to the production of source code on the basis of relevance or confidentiality. We ...

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Calculating the value of a copyright from www.athenaalliance.org

Oracle and SAP are in copyright battle. SAP has admitted that a former subsidiary violated Oracle's copyright through an illegal download. The only question in the fight is how much SAP owes Oracle in ...

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To Satisfy Twombly and Iqbal, Infringement Pleading Must Do More Than Identify Accused Product from docketreport.blogspot.com

Defendant's motion to dismiss plaintiff's infringement action for failure to state a claim was granted. "[Plaintiff's allegation of direct infringement] contains nothing more than a '[t]hreadbare recital[] of the elements of ...

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The Patent System’s Intended Beneficiaries from gametimeip.com

It's the invention, stupid! Your reward for bringing products to market are sales. The patent system ensures that you share your profits with those who invented the technologies exploited by your products. Of course ...

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Friday Foreign Filing Roundup from info.inovia.com

Here's a recap of the foreign filing/patent law news from the week of August 29, 2011:

• The USPTO and Taiwan Patent Office launched a pilot PPH program. 
• IPWatchdog.com posted some good tips ...

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Patently-O Bits & Bytes by Lawrence Higgins from www.patentlyo.com

Google's Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt Opinions about the Patent System Schmidt suggested that the problem with the current patent system is that; in the early 90s and 2000s there were a lot of patents ...

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Google’s Purchase Of Motorola May Signal Trend In The Smartphone Market from www.iposgoode.ca

Brent Randall is a JD candidate at the University of Ottawa. On August 15, 2011, Google announced that it would be acquiring Motorola Mobility which will enhance the capabilities of their Android operating system for ...

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Update on ITC investigation of Apple's first complaint against HTC from fosspatents.blogspot.com

In mid-July, Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) Carl Charneski made an initial determination (a recommendation for an ITC decision) that HTC was deemed to infringe two Apple patents with its Android-based devices. That initial determination related ...

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Part I: Gandhi Rice Trademark opposition filed in Ecuador from spicyipindia.blogspot.com

As promised in an earlier post we bring you a detailed analysis of the Gandhi trademark opposition filed in Ecuador by Lalit Bhasin. This post has been divided into two parts: Part I will deal ...

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Kellogg’s Toucan Sam Asserted Against Archaeology Initiative from ipwatchdog.com

According to the Maya Archaeology Initiative press release, a detailed response was sent by their legal representative to Kellogg’s, which among other things asserted that the toucan in MAI’s logo looks nothing like ...

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Patent Reform 2011: Vote Scheduled At the Conclusion of Labor Day from www.patentlyo.com

As you enjoy the holiday weekend, keep in mind that next week we will likely see final passage of the Patent Reform Act of 2011 (a.k.a. the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act). The President ...

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Apple to ITC: Andy Rubin got inspiration for Android framework while working at Apple, hence infringes an Apple API patent from fosspatents.blogspot.com

I just provided a detailed update on the current state of affairs in the ITC investigation of Apple's first complaint against HTC, and I saved a true gem for this separate blog post. It ...

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Judge inclined to order "the top executive officers" of Oracle and Google to spend one or two complete days in court on forced settlement talks from fosspatents.blogspot.com

Judge William Alsup of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California presides over Oracle's lawsuit against Google and is building maximum pressure on the two companies to settle. Earlier this ...

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Interesting Infographic on Patents. from anticipatethis.wordpress.com

JW Note: Below is a interesting infographic just published at Mashable. Many thanks to Muhammad Saleem for sending us the embed code and giving us permission to reproduce here at the AT! blog.  Via: Business ...

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Facebook Settles Trademark Infringement Lawsuit With Lamebook from tacticalip.com

By: Mark R. Malek Many of you may recall that last November I wrote an article about how Facebook was on the receiving end of a trademark lawsuit wherein Lamebook asked the court to determine ...

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SCOTUS Is No Longer the ‘Court of Correction’ from www.infringementupdates.com

The following is excerpted from an article by Steven Seidenberg from the September 2011 print issue of the ABA Journal: It had been a tough 10 years for the U.S. Court of Appeals for ...

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Top 50 Green Technology Blogs? from ipbiz.blogspot.com

Green Web Hosting Blog named the Top 50 Green Technology Blogs back in 2008. Among them:

Harga-Blog: Andrew Hargadon is an Associate Professor of Technology Management at the Graduate School of Management at University of ...

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“Broad conclusory statements” alone are insufficient to establish obviousness from ipbiz.blogspot.com

Mytee sought a DJ that its "banana glide" vacuum product did not infringe Harris's two patents, and that the two patents were invalid. As to claim construction, Mytee proposed that the term “apertures” be ...

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Joint Judicial Conference from www.patentdocs.org

Judges from both the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the Tokyo Intellectual Property High Court will be participating in a Joint Judicial Conference on October 26-27, 2011 in Tokyo, Japan ...

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