Friday fantasies from ipkitten.blogspot.com The IPkat is sad to report the death of Niel Ackermann, a prominent Cambridge-based IP lawyer, who sadly passed away last week after a 14 month battle with cancer. Niel, who hailed from South Africa ...
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Top 5: Dilbert Patent Comics from info.articleonepartners.com Anyone who has ever worked in an office setting can find humor in Scott Adams' Dilbert comic series. In addition to the usual satire on co-workers, management, and competition, Adams covers a wide variety of ...
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Europe's runaway patent train on track -- for scrutiny, or mutiny? from ipkitten.blogspot.com The AmeriKat despondently looks away after her pawing at the scratchpost of unitary patent politics uncovered some unsettling news Last week the AmeriKat had a question: Under the new Danish Presidency, would the European Union ...
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Tebow legend grows… and so does the number of Tebow trademarks from www.erikpelton.com I blogged here less than a month ago about the Tim Tebow phenomenon. At the time in mid-December, there were four trademark applications referencing “Tebow” plus two owned by his charitable foundation. I closed the ...
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Obama’s Fundamental Change Means – US is No Longer the LAND OF THE FREE from hallingblog.com The Heritage Foundation has just released its Index of Economic Freedom. The US has fallen to 10th place in the rankings. It appears the President Obama’s idea of fundamentally remaking the US is to ...
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USPTO Proposes Rules Changes for Implementing AIA Provisions -- Preissuance Submissions Provision from www.patentdocs.org By Donald Zuhn -- Last week, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office published four Federal Register notices as part of its efforts to implement the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act. Yesterday, we discussed the Office's ...
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Yet Another Study Suggesting Changes in Hatch-Waxman Regime from www.patentdocs.org Statistics Illustrate Costs of Generic Drugs to Innovation By Kevin E. Noonan -- The question of whether the Hatch-Waxman generic drug regime is a net positive for innovation and drug development has been the subject of ...
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Patent Drafting: Drilling Down on Variations in a Patent Application from www.ipwatchdog.com One of the challenges that a drafter faces when trying to satisfy the enablement requirement is with respect to describing things that can and will vary depending on the circumstances. What you want to do ...
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Friday Foreign Filing Roundup from info.inovia.com Here's a look at the foreign filing/patent law news from the week of January 9, 2012: The USPTO announced that they will open a 31,000 square foot satellite office in Detroit, which ...
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Loss of jobs at Novartis preceding expiry of Diovan patent protection from ipbiz.blogspot.com In connection with the loss of patent protection for Diovan/valsartan in Sept. 2012, GEN wrote of Novartis:
The U.S. restructuring [of Novartis] will include the loss of some 1,630 positions in the ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
The Year Ahead 2012: Top IP Legal Issues In The United States from www.ip-watch.org This year could bring major changes in US intellectual property law. Congress and the nation’s courts will be confronting a variety of issues that have broad ramifications for copyrights, trademarks and patents. Here are ...
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Obama to Announce Restructuring of Department of Commerce from www.ipwatchdog.com The Obama government restructuring plan is of particular importance within the patent community because it will affect the Commerce Department as well as five smaller agencies. As soon as I heard that my Spidey-senses started ...
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Expiry Notice: A Review Of EU Antitrust Rules And Technology Transfer Agreements from www.iposgoode.ca Courtney Doagoo is a doctoral student at the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law. On December 6 2011, the European Commission launched a public consultation to review the current regulatory regime surrounding “EU antitrust rules ...
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Abbott Loses Patent Rights Due to Gap in Consultant Contract from www.patentlyo.com Abbott Point of Care v. Epocal (Fed. Cir. 2012) Abbott and Epocal both sell products used for point-of-care testing of blood samples. In 2009, Abbott sued Epocal in the Northern District of Alabama alleging infringement ...
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USPTO In Obama’s Proposed Consolidation Of Trade-Related US Agencies? from www.ip-watch.org US President Obama today announced a proposal to combine six government agencies working in areas of international trade and economics, aimed at boosting efficiency. This includes the Commerce Department, which currently houses the US Patent ...
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Website Blocking and John Doe orders: Barking up the wrong tree? (Part II) from spicyipindia.blogspot.com by Kartik Khanna. Part I is available here. I had discussed inPart I of this post that Reliance Communication’s [‘RCOM’] initiative inblocking websites on the basis of the John Doe order has no legal ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook