Patent & IP news for October 16, 2011

America Invents: what do litigators need to know? from patlit.blogspot.com

All smiles as President Obama signs
the Act -- but who will be smiling
once the litigation commences? PatLit asked leading US intellectual property practice Faegre for some comments for its largely non-US-based readership on what ...

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Apple told Samsung it owns a "thicket of patents" and would license only "lower level patents" from fosspatents.blogspot.com

On Friday, the decision of the Federal Court of Australia to grant Apple a preliminary injunction against the Galaxy Tab 10.1 was published, with a very few passages redacted out. It's a long ...

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Hey Apple, What Happened to Mac vs. PC? from ipwatchdog.com

Forever a PC family, IPWatchdog has slowly converted over to all Apple/Mac products. It started with iPhones, then an iPad, followed by 27" iMacs, and now MacBook Airs. This conversion ultimately got me thinking ...

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Australian injunction could be extended to other Samsung products, HTC, Motorola -- and beyond from fosspatents.blogspot.com

After the Federal Court of Australia granted an Apple motion for a preliminary injunction against the Galaxy Tab 10.1 on Thursday, I pointed out immediately that the technical scope of the decision was broad ...

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Supreme Court Patent Case of the Week — Shaw v. Cooper (1833) from www.717madisonplace.com

JOSEPH SHAW, PLAINTIFF IN ERROR v. JOSEPH COOPER. 32 U.S. 292 (1833) Supreme Court of United States. 299*299 The case was submitted to the court, on printed arguments, by Mr Paine, for the ...

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Copyright safe harbour scheme review Mk 2 from ipwars.com

Last Friday, the Commonwealth Attorney-General released a Consultation Paper on ‘Revising the Scope of the Copyright Safe Harbour Scheme’. As reported then, there were two components to that review. Over the weekend, the second component ...

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