Patent & IP news for February 3, 2012

Trademark guide to Super Bowl® XLVI from www.erikpelton.com

Sunday is the Super Bowl®. In addition to the football game, Super Bowl Sunday is all about brands – teams, television networks, advertisers, celebrities, and more. For this year’s game, here is a lineup of ...

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The Super Bowl Goes Digital, and Yonjo Quiroa Goes to Jail from ipkitten.blogspot.com

It’s Super Bowl weekend in America! This Kat applauds Amerikat for the great enthusiasm she showed for the championship game of American football last year. This guest Kat will likely find a comfy couch ...

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The Super Bowl Goes Digital, and Yonjo Quiroa Goes to Jail from ipkitten.blogspot.com


It’s Super Bowl weekend in America! This Kat applauds Amerikat for the great enthusiasm she showed for the championship game of American football last year. This guest Kat will likely find a comfy couch ...

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CATO & Reason Demonstrate Ignorance of Property Rights – Patents from hallingblog.com

The CATO Institute are reiterating the findings of the flawed paper The Private and Social Costs of Patent Trolls , Boston University School of Law Working Paper No. 11-45, by James E. Bessen, Michael J. Meurer ...

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SOS -- can you hear the ducks? from ipkitten.blogspot.com

"Have brains, will travel", was the IPKat's first thought when he first encountered the term "Intellectual Passport".  One of his readers would however like to know a little more about the term.  He writes ...

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Friday Fantasies from ipkitten.blogspot.com

This Kat has been overwhelmed by not just the quantity of mail he has received in the past few days but also by its quality.  He hopes to get most if not all of this ...

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Top 5: Patents for the Best Super Bowl Party from info.articleonepartners.com

The National Football League's Super Bowl is one of the most watched sporting events in the world.  While the outcome of this Sunday's game is most meaningful to the fans of the two ...

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ICT esperanto and competition among standards from ipfinance.blogspot.com

It has been a little while since the IP Finance weblog has hosted a piece from regular guest contributor and ICT patents and standards expert Keith Mallinson (WiseHarbor) -- but we are pleased to welcome him ...

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Update: Motorola’s Sales Ban overturned by Apple from www.tangible-ip.com

Back in December, Motorola was successful in imposing a sales ban in Germany on iPhones and iPads (with the exception of the new iPhone 4S and the wifi-only iPads) for infringing a Motorola-owned GPRS patent ...

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Venture Funding Increased 22% in 2011 from www.patentdocs.org

By Donald Zuhn -- Last month, the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), a trade association representing the U.S. venture capital industry, released the results of its MoneyTree Report on venture funding for 2011. The report ...

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Motorola wins German injunction against Apple's iCloud and client devices -- this time around, it's not a FRAND patent from fosspatents.blogspot.com

This morning, Judge Andreas Voss of the Mannheim Regional Court pronounced a decision on a German Motorola Mobility lawsuit against Apple Sales International, Apple's Ireland-based European sales organization. Motorola won a permanent injunction against ...

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Apple removed products from German online store due to Motorola injunction based on FRAND patent from fosspatents.blogspot.com

There are two big Apple-Motorola news items from Germany today:

• As I reported earlier, Motorola Mobility today won a permanent injunction against Apple's iCloud and the related client devices.

• The leading German news agency ...

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Stopping Online Piracy in the Age of Entitlement from www.ipwatchdog.com

As for the particulars of SOPA, perhaps there are some who are against the legislation for valid, thoughtful reasons and would like to see something better. That, however, seems to be the substantial minority. Those ...

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Tell WIPO What You Think! from www.ip-watch.org

The World Intellectual Property Organization has launched a survey of stakeholder perceptions and expectations of the UN agency. Related Articles:

• Let The WIPO Dialogues Begin!
• Fire At WIPO Premises Forces Two-Day Shutdown
• WIPO Audit/Evaluation ...

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Appeals court grants Apple temporary suspension of enforcement of Motorola injunction from fosspatents.blogspot.com

This Friday may have been the most eventful day to date in the smartphone and tablet computer patent wars. The latest news is that Apple announced that its temporarily-removed products are going to be back ...

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Friday Foreign Filing Roundup from info.inovia.com

Here's a look at the foreign filing/patent law news for the week of January 30, 2012: We recently announced our Small Business Solutions Team, which was created to address the unique needs of ...

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Is Anyone Listening? from www.iposgoode.ca

The idea of surreptitiously recording confidential conversations as material to be used against someone comes straight out of spy movies and thriller novels. The act itself is clearly reprehensible but it is surprisingly difficult to ...

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WIPO: ISP-Trademark Meeting Agreed; Industrial Design Treaty, Country Names Still On Table from www.ip-watch.org

Delegates at the World Intellectual Property Organization this week resumed an adjourned October meeting and agreed to continue exploring the possibility of a treaty on industrial design by commissioning an impact study on the costs ...

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