Patent & IP news for January 30, 2012

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post image Patent Law Blog (Patently-O) from www.patentlyo.com

By Dennis Crouch Krippelz v. Ford (Fed. Cir. 2012) This case involves an interesting 20+ year history between Mr. Krippelz and Ford Motor Company, including 14 years of litigation over a mirror lamp. Ford has ...

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post image Monday miscellany from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Wanted! The IPKat has been asked to find a work experience placement, either in a law firm or in the legal department of a company, for a bright and interested 15 year old schoolboy from ...

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post image Public Health players combine forces from spicyipindia.blogspot.com

January 30th marked an unprecedented level of cooperation between the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, several top pharmaceutical companies, governments and other big players in the public health field towards combating and attempting to eliminate ...

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post image REPORT: House of Commons Committee hears unified evidence on unitary patent proposals (Part I) from ipkitten.blogspot.com

The Houses of Parliament ready for some evidence
on the unified patent proposals
Last Wednesday the IPKat informed readers that the AmeriKat would be forgoing any prospect of birthday joy in favor of attending the ...

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post image Be explicit about things implicit in your patent application to avoid written description issues from ocpatentlawyer.com

Written Description Requirement To get a patent, an inventor must satisfy the written description requirement.  This is accomplished through the preparation of a patent application which describes the invention and shows any drawings if necessary ...

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post image IP and Entrepreneurs: Going, Going, Gone from ipkitten.blogspot.com

How are IP rights presented to budding entrepreneurs? I had another enlightening glance at the answer to that question quite by serendipity over the weekend. While taking a walk on the IIT-B campus, I passed ...

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post image Developing IP Economies: Jordan from info.articleonepartners.com

With patent data available for no less than 184 WIPO member states, trends in IP can be found all over the world.  The largest patent offices often receive the most attention, but many smaller patent ...

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post image REPORT: House of Commons Committee hears unified evidence on unitary patent proposals (Part II) from ipkitten.blogspot.com


Bifurcation -  litigating just one half of the
patent cookie can be satisfying
or unappetising depending if you are
a patentee...

Turning to the question of bifurcation, the Committee asked whether or not it was clear ...

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post image Mass Aggregators from www.patenthawk.com

"The patent world is quietly undergoing a change of seismic proportions. In a few short years, a handful of entities have amassed vast treasuries of patents on an unprecedented scale... Mass aggregators do not engage ...

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post image INTA announces Annual Calendar of Events from spicyipindia.blogspot.com


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The followers of Spicy IP would undoubtedly already be familiar with the name INTA, which stands for International Trademark Association, a not-for-profit membership association (having close to 6000 trademark owners as ...

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post image Katonomics 10: IP valuation again --how much is a footballer worth? from ipkitten.blogspot.com

You can't keep a good Katonomist down -- particularly on a date like 31 January.  That's the closing date for the English and Danish "transfer windows" within which football clubs can sell their overpaid ...

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Court Report from www.patentdocs.org

By Sherri Oslick -- About Court Report: Each week we will report briefly on recently filed biotech and pharma cases. Cephalon Inc. v. Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc. et al. 1:12-cv-00073; filed January 24, 2012 in the ...

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The giants among us -- or US"? from ipfinance.blogspot.com

"The Giants Among Us" is an article by Tom Ewing & Robin Feldman that has recently been published at 2012 Stanford Technology Law Journal 1.  You can read it online here. Astonishingly, given that it was ...

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Patent Drawings: An Economical Way to Expand Disclosure from www.ipwatchdog.com

While formally compliant drawings are not technically always required at the time of filing, there are significant benefits to submitting professional patent illustrations at the time of filing. Indeed, it is my opinion that the ...

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Can I Trademark a Color? from tacticalip.com

Many products use a particular color to distinguish themselves. The definition section of the Lanham Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1127, defines trademarks as including “any word, name, symbol, or device, or any...

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Trademark Tip: Words vs. Logo from www.erikpelton.com

One of the most frequent questions I am asked is whether a business should file to protect its name or its logo. A trademark application for a mark that is just wording is called a ...

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Litigating? Be nice or face the wrath. from 37thoughts.wordpress.com

In an order dated January 26, 2012, Chief Judge Gerald Rosen of the Eastern District of Michigan sua sponte sanctioned plaintiffs’ counsel $1,000.   The offense?   The “transparent gamesmanship” of opposing the defendant’s out-of-time ...

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WHO, Gates, Industry And NGO Leaders Elevate Attention To Neglected Diseases from www.ip-watch.org

A range of some of the world’s top public and private partners today announced an “unprecedented” level of cooperation to fight diseases primarily afflicting poorest populations worldwide for which there is insufficient research and ...

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“Politics Of Intellectual Property” Looks At The National Level from www.ip-watch.org

A much-referenced book now out in paperback remains one of the few books with a broad social sciences perspective on current conflicts over intellectual property policy, with a focus on the national level set within ...

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GI Register Gains Ground Outside WTO from www.ip-watch.org

A private sector-led effort to compile a register of geographical indications is gaining support, topped by a sizeable donation from the Italian government. The effort is being undertaken outside the World Trade Organization in spite ...

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European Commission Orders Italy To Drop Patent Linkage Delaying Generics from www.ip-watch.org

The European Commission has issued a formal request to Italy to remove linkage between patents and generic medicines authorisation that it says is causing delays in generics reaching the market. Related Articles:

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USPTO Road Show in Denver on February 16th from www.717madisonplace.com

If your travels bring you near Denver on February 16th, note that the PTO will be conducting a road show at The University of Denver, Sturm College of Law: United States Patent and Trademark Road ...

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