Patent & IP news for October 5, 2011

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post image Dr. Roya Ghafele Presents at CIPA Congress 2011 from info.articleonepartners.com

This week, the 2011 Congress of the Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys (CIPA) will be held in London.  Article One Partners is pleased to announce that Article One Strategic Advisor Dr. Roya Ghafele will be ...

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post image Rife With Corruption from www.patenthawk.com

That the USA is rife with corruption at every level is finally catching public attention. The so-called "Wall Street" protests are a widespread movement against the plutocracy. With an irony of namesake, the Wall Street ...

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post image The economic impact of IP: whatever happened to the rest of the world? from ipkitten.blogspot.com

This is not a rant. It's a genuine question born of a certain degree of bewilderment. And it's certainly not intended as having an anti-American thrust to it.

Cunningly disguised as The Invisible ...

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post image Litigation risk, tax rates and gains from patent enforcement: a new paper from ipfinance.blogspot.com

"Trading and Enforcing Patent Rights" is the title of a paper by an Anglo-Canadian trilogy of professors: the Alberto Galasso (Toronto), Mark Schankerman (London School of Economics) and Carlos J. Serrano (Toronto). Issued in August ...

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post image PAKI sent packing as General Court gets it right from ipkitten.blogspot.com

A Kat remembers ... "Paki-bashing" was a term that entered the English language during
his teems, along with "aggro" and "skinhead". Note the Doc Martens, often termed "bovver boots"
This Kat was going to let this ...

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post image PCC Page 40: IPOff in privileged company from patlit.blogspot.com

Providentially proffered by the Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys (CIPA), the PCC Pages seek to explain how litigation works in the recently-revamped Patents County Court (PCC) for England and Wales, taking as its theme a ...

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post image Federal Circuit Upholds Strong Domestic Industry Requirement for USITC Patent Litigation from www.patentlyo.com

John Mezzalingua Associates (d/b/a PPC, Inc.) v. International Trade Commission (Fed. Cir. 2011) Most U.S. patent litigation takes place in federal district courts. However, when an infringing product is imported into the ...

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post image 10 reasons to register a trademark from www.erikpelton.com

There are many reasons to register a trademark with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (www.USPTO.gov). Here are 10 of the best reasons, in no particular order. The registration symbol. It looks ...

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post image Great American Inventor Steve Jobs Dies from hallingblog.com

Steve Jobs was an inventor on over 300 patents.  He is the quintessential American inventor entrepreneur.  He and Steve Wozniak started Apple in January of 1977.  The company went public in December of 1980 and ...

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WIPO Releases Report on IP Activity from www.patentdocs.org

By Donald Zuhn -- The World Intellectual Property Organization released a report last month, providing an overview of worldwide intellectual property activity through 2009, the most recent year for which complete data was available. The 26-page ...

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The Patent Blog, Live: a fun event ! from britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk

Last night we had The Patent Blog, Live, a new kind of event where readers of this blog could meet me and ask questions. This was the posting advertising it. Unfortunately Nigel Hanley of the ...

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Samsung's attempt to ban the iPhone 4S over FRAND patents is deeply troubling from fosspatents.blogspot.com

As the Wall Street Journal report, Samsung announced this morning that it seeks to ban the new iPhone -- the iPhone 4S -- in various markets. Today, Samsung will make simultaneous filings of petitions for preliminary injunctions ...

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Yes, As A Matter Of Fact, Unauthorized Use Of Patented Technology Is Serious from gametimeip.com

During Randall Rader’s (Chief Judge of the nation’s patent appeals court) recent Texas visit, he recounted a tale of his visit to Shanghai where he advised his foreign counterparts that “Courts have an ...

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Wednesday whimsies from ipkitten.blogspot.com

The principle of equal treatment.  On Monday this Kat asked about the invocation of breach of the principle of equal treatment as a ground of appeal in trade mark proceedings. No comments were posted, but ...

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Complaint Accusing "Object Oriented Software Applications and Systems That Access a Relational Database" Was Sufficiently Specific to State a Claim from docketreport.blogspot.com

The court denied defendant's motion to dismiss plaintiff's direct infringement claim for failing to identify an accused product or system, as well as failing to identify which of 40 method claims were infringed ...

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Some More Heretical Thoughts on Strategies for Coping with First to File Under the America Invents Act* from ipwatchdog.com

So what does this AIA “mumbo jumbo” mean in plain English? Well, to me and especially to others who have previously opined on this provision of the AIA, it means you not only don’t ...

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Featured Researcher: Ken A. from info.articleonepartners.com

 

Ken A. is a chemist who currently lives in Chicago. He has worked as a research and development chemist in the polymer area and as an assistant professor of chemistry.  More recently, he has resigned ...

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Oracle-Google trial "will likely be postponed" from Halloween from fosspatents.blogspot.com

In late August, Judge William Alsup indicated for the first time that the Oracle v. Google trial, which had originally been scheduled to begin on Halloween, might have to be postponed due to an unrelated ...

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Longtime Litigator Joe Katarincic Writes a Pittsburgh Legal Thriller from www.infringementupdates.com

Previous client, Joe Katarincic, has added to his many accomplishments with the publication of a novel. The following is excerpted from an October 3, 2011 article by Tim Grant published by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: In ...

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PATINEX 2011 Lessons Learned from Seoul, Korea from intellogist.wordpress.com

The PATINEX 2011 Expo in Seoul, Korea was a great event that provided numerous insights into the worldwide patent landscape. The two keynote speakers, US CAFC Chief Judge Randall R. Rader and USPTO Deputy Director ...

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Parliament Committee Urges EU Commission To Support Print Disabilities Treaty from www.ip-watch.org

The European Parliament’s Petitions Committee this week issued a call for a binding treaty allowing persons with print disabilities to make accessible copies of published works and to send them across borders. Related Articles ...

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Patent Battle over Modified Meganucleases Heats Up from holmansbiotechipblog.blogspot.com

Meganucleases are endodeoxyribonucleases characterized by a large recognition site (double-stranded DNA sequences of 12 to 40 base pairs); as a result this site generally occurs only once in any given genome. For example, the 18-base ...

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Is Kickstarter Infringing? from tacticalip.com

Danie Roy A while back I wrote on using sites like Kickstarter to fund inventions. I weighed the pros and cons of depending on the kindness of strangers to fund an invention, and how such ...

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Briefs in Akamai v. Limelight and McKesson v. Epic en banc appeals from www.717madisonplace.com

The oral arguments for two en banc patent cases dealing with the issue of divided infringement are set for November 18, 2011.  Here are the parties’ briefs to the Federal Circuit for these two en ...

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Professor Carys Craig On Copyright Reform from www.iposgoode.ca

Pauline Wong is the Assistant Director of IP Osgoode. In light of the introduction on September 29, 2011, of Bill C-11, the current copyright reform bill in Canada, we would like to highlight again commentary ...

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AUTM Survey Shows Significant Increases in University Patent Filings and Issuances in FY2010 from www.patentdocs.org

By Donald Zuhn -- The Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM) recently presented the highlights of the AUTM Licensing Activity Survey Summary for FY2010. While the full report will be released later this fall, the academic ...

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