Patent & IP news for December 20, 2011

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post image APPLE UPDATE: You win some, you lose some ... from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Apple’s troubles in China increase: Apple does not own the iPad trade mark in China and is being sued for using it. Meanwhile, in America, the International Trade Commission has found that some HTC ...

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post image The Science of Economic Growth: Part 1 from hallingblog.com

This is a multi-part post on the science of economic growth.  Standard economic theory has failed miserably to define the source of economic growth, which means it is impossible for it to provide rational policies ...

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post image Katonomics: how far have we gone? from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Regular readers of this weblog have come to appreciate the weekly Katonomics posts from the IPKat's own economist-in-residence Dr Nicola Searle. If you were tuning in to this blog in the hope of catching ...

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post image Book Review Monday: Trademark Surveys from www.patentbaristas.com

“There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.”  ~British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli Surveys are everywhere and poll results are available for every imaginable topic.  In the U.S.,   there were concerns ...

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post image ABA Journal Blawg 100 Recognizes Top Law and IP Blogs from info.articleonepartners.com

The Journal of the American Bar Association is holding its fifth annual ABA Journal Blawg 100 survey.  The survey aims to narrow thousands of great law blogs in America down to the 100 best.  There ...

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post image UPDATE: EU patent given the go-ahead by Legal Affairs Committee from ipkitten.blogspot.com

The AmeriKat slightly losing the
holiday cheer after the unwelcome
present from the Legal Affairs
Committee
As predicted and further to the AmeriKat's post this morning (here), the European Parliament's Legal Affairs Committee ...

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Will Patents Become Irrelevant in a Biosimilars Future? from www.patentdocs.org

By Kevin E. Noonan -- The future is always the undiscovered country. But it tends to be one that people believe they can understand based on what has happened in the past. This is the reason ...

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Oracle wants Google trial to start in January because Java 'is now losing ground to Android' from fosspatents.blogspot.com

Late on Monday by local time, Oracle and Google filed another joint pretrial statement requested by Judge Alsup. The word "joint" may be misleading: they disagree on all of the important issues and agree only ...

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Sound Prediction & The Case For Xalatan® from www.iposgoode.ca

Lena Vartanian is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School and is enrolled in Professor Mgbeoji’s Patents class in Fall 2011. As part of the course requirements, students are asked to write a ...

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Mapping economic complexity from www.athenaalliance.org

Earlier this year, Ricardo Hausmann, César Hidalgo and others at the Center for International Development at the Kennedy School at Harvard released a report Atlas of Economic Complexity. [See also a story in the New ...

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British Sky v Digital Satellite Warranty: A “Made in Europe” Approach To Database Protection from www.iposgoode.ca

Courtney Doagoo is a doctoral student at the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law. On October 27, 2011, the High Court of Justice Chancery Division ruled in favour of British Sky Broadcasting Group PLC et ...

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Special Feature – US Intellectual Property Attachés Report On Strategies Abroad from www.ip-watch.org

WASHINGTON, DC - American intellectual property attachés serving abroad have helped propel global discussions on intellectual property rights and have helped protect inventors’ rights amidst a “global flat economy,” but enforcement remains a difficult challenge in ...

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Federal Circuit Vacates Grant of Preliminary Injunction on Procedural Grounds from www.iplawalert.com

Last week in Warner Chilcott Labs Ireland Ltd. v. Mylan Pharms., the Federal Circuit vacated a grant of preliminary injunction in a Hatch-Waxman case by the District Court of New Jersey. The Federal Circuit acted ...

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The Best Patent Search Gifts of 2011 from intellogist.wordpress.com

The holidays are a time to reflect on all the wonderful gifts for which we have to be thankful: family, friends, and (of course) database platform updates.  Ok, so maybe everyone isn’t excited over ...

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WIPO Reports Uptick In IP Filings In 2010 from www.ip-watch.org

The World Intellectual Property Organization today released a report showing global filings for patents and trademarks turned upward in 2010. But there were some variations across the map. Related Articles:

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Second District Court Rejects Constitutional Challenges to False Marking Provisions of America Invents Act from www.grayonclaims.com

Brooks v. Dunlop Manufacturing Inc. (N.D. Cal. Dec. 9, 2011)

Since the passage of the America Invents Act, a number of entities with pending false marking claims have challenged the constitutionality of the AIA ...

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Economics and IP: the Katonomics posts from ipfinance.blogspot.com

After posting this item on the IPKat weblog, it occurred to me that there are probably a good many readers of the IP Finance weblog who are interested in the point at which economics intersects ...

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Update, Thank You + Please Vote IPWatchdog from www.ipwatchdog.com

Hello everyone. I am writing today to provide an update to our readers on several matters (i.e., Renee's surgery and our server issues), and to make a plea for votes in the ABA ...

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USTR Releases List Of Possibly IP Infringing Markets from www.ip-watch.org

The United States Trade Representative’s office today released its second report in a year on markets it has labeled “notorious” based on unofficial comments it has received. The report identifies physical and internet-based marketplaces ...

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ITC judge finds Motorola in infringement of a Microsoft patent from fosspatents.blogspot.com

AllThingsD's Ina Fried just reported that "Microsoft won an interim victory in its patent dispute with Motorola as the International Trade Commission issued an initial ruling that certain Motorola products infringe on one of ...

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Trademark Litigation Or Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution from tacticalip.com

By Daniel Davidson In an era where the world is connected through the internet and domain names have sold for hundreds of millions of dollars, there rests a question that calls for the ol’ pros ...

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Design Patents: The Under Utilized and Overlooked Patent from www.ipwatchdog.com

As the chart below demonstrates, design patent applications have been on the rise since 1975, but still in fiscal year 2011 there were just over 30,000 design patent applications filed. That strikes me as ...

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