As new school year begins, are trademark bullies still on the playground? from www.erikpelton.com School is back in session this month. Bullies will no doubt continue to roam the playgrounds and hallways. What about trademark bullies? Here a some updates on issues related to trademark bullying: Commissioner Debbie Cohn ...
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Patent Wars: a visual account from patlit.blogspot.com Via Scott Baxter comes this delightful infographic, the contents of which are self-explanatory:
Via: Business Insurance Site PatLit hopes that this diagram will be kept regularly updated.
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Twilight Domain Name Cybersquatting from patentlawip.blogspot.com It could be argued that twilight.com’s owner Tom Markson simply likes the movies, books, and whole Twilight franchise and has no intention of cybersquatting. But Summit Entertainment, the very lucrative Twilight Franchise’s ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
Monday miscellany from ipkitten.blogspot.com Plants and steak ... Do you like plants with your steak stake? If so, you'll be pleased to know that the European Commission invites stakeholders to register for the EU Plant Variety Rights Conference which ...
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Conference & CLE Calendar from www.patentdocs.org September 13, 2011 - Biotechnology/Chemical/ Pharmaceutical (BCP) Customer Partnership Meeting (U.S. Patent and Trademark Office) - Alexandria, VA (and webcast) September 14, 2011 - This Time It's Real -- New U.S. Patent Reform Law Within ...
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Reaction to Senate Passage of H.R. 1249 from www.patentdocs.org By Donald Zuhn -- On Thursday, the Senate passed the House version of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (H.R. 1249) by an 89-9 vote (see "Senate Passes H.R. 1249"). The legislation now awaits the ...
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Guest Post - To Promote Progress in Science and Job Creation from www.patentlyo.com By Shubha Ghosh, Vilas Research Fellow and Professor of Law at the University of Wisconsin Law School Whether the "Leahy-Smith America Invents Act' will help to create jobs is a complicated empirical question. The logic ...
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Damages Expert Opinion Based on "50% Profit Sharing Rule" Was Not Unreliable from docketreport.blogspot.com The court denied in part plaintiff's motion to strike the second supplemental report of defendant's damages expert even though the expert relied on "a 50% profit sharing rule" that plaintiff argued was "not ...
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What is Judge Crabb’s track record in patent litigation? from docketreport.blogspot.com District courts have a great deal of discretion in patent cases. Procedural rules, scheduling issues, fact and expert discovery, disclosure requirements, evidentiary matters, and many substantive rulings are all determined by a judge. And many ...
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Patents Defended from www.infringementupdates.com The following is excerpted from an article by Michael M. Rosen appearing in the September 12, 2011 issue of The American (The Journal of the American Enterprise Institute): On September 8, Congress at long last ...
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Gowlings Hosts A Celebration For Professor David Vaver from www.iposgoode.ca Joshua Dallmann is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School and an IP Osgoode Student Intern in the inaugural Intellectual Property Law & Technology Intensive Program (IP Intensive). On September 8, 2011, members of the ...
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UK and the Knowledge Economy from www.athenaalliance.org Back in June, the Work Foundation in the UK published A Plan for Growth in the Knowledge Economy. That report laid out a vision of a possible economic future for the UK:By 2020 we ...
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In Celebration: Double Book Launch for Profs David Vaver and Carys Craig from www.iposgoode.ca Amelia Manera is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School and an IP Osgoode Student Intern in the inaugural Intellectual Property Law & Technology Intensive Program (IP Intensive). On Friday, September 9, 2011, members of ...
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Patents are now Stronger from ocpatentlawyer.com The evidence needed to invalidate a patent needs to be clear and convincing regardless of whether the information was before the Patent Office. This is a higher standard than the preponderance of the evidence standard ...
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Book Review – Intellectual Property Law: Copyright, Patents, Trade-Marks, 2nd Ed. from www.iposgoode.ca Teresa Scassa is the Canada Research Chair in Information Law at the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law. The publication of the second edition of David Vaver’s Intellectual Property Law: Copyright, Patents, Trade-Marks is ...
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EU Extends Copyright Protection From 50 To 70 Years from www.ip-watch.org Over the objections of eight countries, ministers from the European Union on Monday extended copyright protection for performers and record producers from 50 to 70 years. The move brought cheers from the recording industry and ...
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Confirmation Hearing for Judge Evan Wallach from www.717madisonplace.com The Senate Judiciary Committee’s hearing for Judge Evan Wallach took place last week. Judge Wallach was introduced to the committee by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. You can watch the video of the hearing ...
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Apple asks courts to stay two Motorola Mobility lawsuits until Google has acquired the company from fosspatents.blogspot.com On Friday, Apple filed motions to stay in two of its various lawsuits with Motorola , arguing that the pending acquisition of Motorola Mobility (MMI) by Google has resulted in "a fundamental loss of Motorola's ...
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America Invents: How the New Law Impacts Your Patent Practice from ipwatchdog.com The just-enacted America Invents Act is the most significant patent reform legislation in decades, and it promises to change virtually all of patent practice as we know it over the next 18 months. Some pieces ...
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Evan Wallach Confirmation Hearing from inventivestep.net Lost amid last week’s news surrounding passage of patent reform was the Senate Judiciary Committee’s confirmation hearing of Evan Wallach. In July, Judge Wallach was nominated to a seat on the Federal Circuit ...
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Patently-O Bits & Bytes by Lawrence Higgins from www.patentlyo.com Will the number of Provisional Patent Applications Filed Increase? The US patent system will soon become a first to file jurisdiction, switching over from the first to invent. With the switch, it would seem that ...
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Petition drawing objection new matter location element from allthingspros.blogspot.com Applicant loses drawing objection petition because new matter introduced by showing relative locations of claimed elements
Takeaway: In an application directed to a "compressed tank system" for use in a vehicle fuel cell, the Examiner ...
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