Knicks’ Jeremy Lin Should Block Unauthorized Linsantity Trademark Filing At USPTO from www.iptrademarkattorney.com This NBA season’s “LIN-derella” feel good story is New York Knicks’ Jeremy Lin’s fast-break rise from bench warmer to player of the week award recipient in a week. With his success, the nicknames ...
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CIPA Guide to the Patents Acts (UK & European Law) from www.patentlyo.com by Dennis Crouch I just received my new copy of the CIPA guide to the Patents Acts – Seventh Edition, published by Sweet & Maxwell in the UK. CIPA is the Charted Institute of Patent Attorneys and ...
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Community Milestone Featured on IPWatchdog Blog from info.articleonepartners.com Last week, Article One’s announcement of the $2 million in Rewards milestone was prominently featured on the well-known IPWatchdog IP blog. IPWatchdog’s Gene Quinn wrote that the announcement came just 11 months after ...
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Monday miscellany from ipkitten.blogspot.com When February comes, the IPKat is always kindly reminded by his readers that
World Intellectual Property Day, celebrated each year on 26 April and often for several days before and after, is again on the ...
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Might one presume? Luxembourg court advises Austrians on German legal provisions from ipkitten.blogspot.com "Who gets what?" was the issue at stake in the litigation leading to
Case C‑277/10,
Martin Luksan v Petrus van der Let, a reference for a preliminary ruling from the Handelsgericht Wien (Austria ...
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A bauble for the Bon Bon: rapper does have a reputation but isn't greatly damaged, rules Aussie court from ipkitten.blogspot.com This Kat has a little riddle with which to tease his readers. It goes like this:
Question: what do you get if you cross an American rap artist with a digruntled Australian tour promoter and ...
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Design Patents and the Cold Civil War from hallingblog.com The bill H.R. 3059, titled the “Promoting Automotive Repair, Trade, and Sales” (PARTS) Act claims to reduce the cost of automotive repairs by limiting design patents for automotive parts to 30 months. This bill ...
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Trade Secrets, Transparency, and Temporality from www.iposgoode.ca Access to information is generally important in a free and democratic society. It’s particularly important in the context of regulating drugs, medical devices, and other products. In Merck Frosst Canada Ltd. v. Canada (Health ...
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Trademark Scam Information (video) from www.erikpelton.com In the last few days and weeks, we have received a great number of inquiries about trademark monitoring or trademark registry services based on letters received in the mail. These letters look official or governmental ...
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Ideas Offered For IP And Genetic Resources In WIPO Committee from www.ip-watch.org A new paper from the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD) offers ideas on addressing misappropriation of genetic resources and traditional knowledge at the World Intellectual Property Organization.
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WIPO Offers Dispute Services For Objections To New TLDs At ICANN from www.ip-watch.org The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has embarked on a programme of allowing new generic top-level domains on the internet (like .com), an initiative that has worried trademark holders and international organisations ...
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Loans as a funding source from ocpatentlawyer.com Funding sources is the topic that I discussed with Keith Coleman at First USA Capital. Keith, many of my start up clients are looking for funding to take their idea or business to the next ...
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Microsoft Says It Will Not Act On Patents In Standards from www.ip-watch.org Microsoft Corporation has issued a statement that it will not seek injunctions on its standard essential patents in keeping with its promises to international standards organisations. It further said it will make those essential patents ...
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IPO Article on Misjoinder from www.reexamlink.com My last post was on the America Invents Act amendments to 35 U.S.C. 299 affecting joinder in patent infringement actions. If you are interested in that topic, you should see an article reported ...
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Global Fund Communications Director Steps Down from www.ip-watch.org Changes continue at the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria as the director of communications announced today that he is stepping down immediately after nearly a decade.
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Public interest beats patentee's right to injunction from ipkitten.blogspot.com The IPKat just noticed this
note by
Dave Healey on the PATENTMATH blog (to whom goes a grateful Katpat) about the decision
Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. v. W.L. Gore & Associates, Inc., 2010-1510 (Fed. Cir ...
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European Commission clears Google-Motorola deal but with reservations concerning standard-essential patents from fosspatents.blogspot.com The European Commission just announced that it has approved Google's proposed acquisition of Motorola Mobility. In addition to a press release announcing the decision, the Commission's Vice President of Competition Enforcement, Joaquín Almunia ...
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Perfect Storm is Set to Slam IP Rights, Holders from www.ipeg.eu Broad and largely unfounded disdain for intellectual property rights and holders has gone beyond bickering between operating companies and NPEs, or Hollywood (old economy) and Silicon Valley (new economy). It is starting to have an ...
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Bio/Pharma Amici Brief Filed in Marine Polymer Reexam Appeal from www.ipwatchdog.com On September 26, 2011, the a three-judge-panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued a ruling in Marine Polymer Technologies, Inc. v. HemCon, Inc., which found intervening rights due to ...
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Obama’s Proposed Budget Raises R&D, Innovation Spending from www.ip-watch.org US President Obama's proposal for the fiscal year 2013 budget, released today, raises or maintains spending in a number of key areas for technology and innovation, according to an analysis by the Information Technology ...
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In Celebration of Black History from www.uspto.gov Every year, Black History Month provides a golden opportunity for employees of the United States Patent and Trademark Office to remember and honor the invaluable contributions African-Americans have made, and continue to make, to the ...
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ACTA Doubts Rampant In Europe; Industry Call For “Reasoned Assessment” from www.ip-watch.org Europeans came out by the thousands this week to protest the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), as it goes before the parliament and the remaining governments that have not yet signed on. But a large number ...
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Patent Law Blog (Patently-O) from www.patentlyo.com By Dennis Crouch This is fun – Managing IP just listed me on the shortlist for its IP Thought Leader award for 2012. [List] Others on the list include Eric Goldman, Mark Lemley, Daniel Ravicher, and ...
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On Suspending SOPA and Piping PIPA Down from www.iposgoode.ca If the past month is any indication at all, 2012 is going to be an eventful year for intellectual property legislation, at least in the US and Canada. The controversy over the twin anti-digital piracy ...
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Obama Proposes FY2013 PTO Budget of $2.953 Billion from just-n-examiner.livejournal.com Secretary of Commerce John Bryson distributed an email to Commerce Department employees today, with the details of President Obama's proposed FY2013 budget for the Department.
The PTO's proposed budget is set at $2 ...
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USPTO Proposed Budget Just Shy of $3B from www.patentlyo.com President Obama has released his proposed FY2013 budget that would begin October 1, 2012. The budget proposes to provide the USPTO with full access to its fee collections at an estimated $2.95 billion ($250 ...
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