Patent & IP news for March 1, 2012

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post image The New Business Identity Theft from blawgit.com

Identity Theft vs. Business Identity Theft Almost everyone is familiar with identity theft. A criminal obtains your personal information, and uses that information to steal, leaving you to mop up your decimated credit. Business identity ...

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post image Kodak's IP Golem from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Surely one of the most compelling figures in religious lore is the so-called Golem. For nearly two millennia, Jewish tradition has maintained multiple versions of this figure (see here and here). In its most basic ...

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post image Database dismay for Dataco from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Despite his years of experience to the contrary,
the judge still hoped against hope that
cases with the word "football" in their name
might have something to do with football
for a change ...
Judgment has ...

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post image IBM's Patent Abandonment Strategy from www.patentlyo.com

by Dennis Crouch It is well known that IBM receives more US patents than any other company. The company also abandons more patents than any other company. Once a patent issues, the patent holder must ...

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

The tiny island country of Iceland has long punched above its weight in innovation, cracking the top 20 countries for per-capita patent applications in 2004.  At the same time, its economy and inventors were in ...

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Court Dismisses PubPat's Declaratory Judgment Action against Monsanto from www.patentdocs.org

By Kevin E. Noonan -- On Friday, Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald presiding in the Southern District of New York granted Monsanto's motion to dismiss a case brought by the Public Patent Foundation (PubPat) on behalf ...

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Patently-O in the Courts: Tropp v. Conair Corporation from www.patentlyo.com

By Dennis Crouch Tropp v. Conair Corporation (E.D.N.Y. February 28, 2012) Download TroppConair A federal court in the Eastern District of New York recently justified its holding in a patent case based ...

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Trademark scam update: Petition to USPTO and letter to Virginia Attorney General from www.erikpelton.com

In the last few weeks, the issue of “trademark scams” has received much attention – and rightfully so. Trademark applicants and registrants – even those represented by counsel – have recently received solicitations that are misleading because they ...

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Prior User Rights and the Incentive to Keep Innovations Secret from www.ipwatchdog.com

However, if prior users are keeping their technology secret while being protected, that leap-frogging from one breakthrough to the next be impeded. Disclosure is the backbone of the progression of the sciences for this reason ...

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BPAI reference inventors collaboration not obvious from allthingspros.blogspot.com

Takeway: The Applicant appealed an obviousness rejection of claims to a chemical cleaning composition. The Examiner relied on a secondary reference to teach adding deionized water to a base composition. The Applicant attacked the rationale ...

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Of The Patent System, Risk Taking And ‘Not Being A Complete Puss’ — An Inventor Speaks Out from gametimeip.com

A patentee takes great risks. They deserve protection. Those are the words of Joe Atler, inventor of certain CGI techniques (US Patent 6,720,962) and self-made champion of his own cause. After getting the ...

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One real amendment and more than fifty other proposals from ipkitten.blogspot.com

This is not one story but two, rolled together in a press release from the Irish minister with responsibility for IP matters. Usually, when a government does this, it's a good bet that they ...

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Apple wins German injunction against Motorola over photo gallery patent from fosspatents.blogspot.com

I just attended, at the Munich I Regional Court, the public pronouncement of a decision on another Apple v. Motorola lawsuit in Germany. Presiding Judge Dr. Peter Guntz announced that Apple has won an injunction ...

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National Inventors Hall of Fame Announces 2012 Inductees from www.ipwatchdog.com

In celebration of its mission to recognize and foster invention, the National Inventors Hall of Fame has announced its 2012 Inductees. The inventors to be honored this year created remarkable innovations that include the now ...

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Richard Taranto Nomination Hearing from www.717madisonplace.com

The Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday conducted the nomination hearing for Federal Circuit nominee Richard Taranto.  The hearing was a little bit more like the hearings we are used to seeing for Supreme Court Justice nominees ...

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Meltwater Holding BV v The Newspaper Licensing Agency Limited: Is Google Next? from www.iposgoode.ca

On February 14th, 2012 following the High Court and Court of Appeal decisions, the UK Copyright Tribunal released an interim decision concerning the requirement of licensing agreements for media and news monitoring services in Meltwater ...

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Richard Taranto: Next Federal Circuit Judge from www.patentlyo.com

In his blog, Bill Vobach reports on the recent Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Federal Circuit nominee Richard Taranto. Vobach reports: It appeared that the hearing was only attended by three senators — Senator Franken (Minnesota ...

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Musical Patents in Memory of Davy Jones from intellogist.wordpress.com

It’s a sad day in music, as Davy Jones of The Monkees passed away due to a massive heart attack. While The Monkees may have been some lazy music exec’s project to create ...

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Life Technologies Found Liable for Infringing Promega’s DNA Analysis Patents from holmansbiotechipblog.blogspot.com

On February 23, a district court in the Western District of Wisconsin granted a summary judgment motion finding that various Life Technologies products for DNA analysis, including AmpFISTR PCR kits, infringe Promega’s Patent Numbers ...

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District of Delaware: Paragraph IV Certification Not Required for Jurisdiction Under Section 271(e)(2) or Declaratory Judgment Act from www.orangebookblog.com

Cephalon v. Sandoz, No. 11-821-SLR (D. Del.) In January 2010, Sandoz sent a Paragraph IV notice letter to Cephalon in connection with its ANDA for a generic version of Cephalon's FENTORA (fentanyl citrate) buccal ...

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