Patent & IP news for March 14, 2012

Wednesday whimsies from ipkitten.blogspot.com

It's not yet known whether The Old Nick allows this
sort of thing, but a pint of Badger is always available This Thursday, 15 March, IPKat blogmeister Jeremy will be at The Old Nick ...

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KAT UPDATE: Home Secretary approves TVShack creator's extradition from ipkitten.blogspot.com


This Kat has been closely following the extradition proceedings involving university student Richard O'Dwyer. As many readers are by now aware, Mr O'Dwyer hosted the website TVShack.net, which provided links to unauthorised ...

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The First, but of how many? India grants compulsory licence for Bayer drug Sorafenib from ipkitten.blogspot.com


A big Katpat to D. P. Ahuja & Co. and Laura Ramsay of Dehns for drawing the IPKat's attention to this Decision of the Controller of Patents Mumbai concerning compulsory licences in the field of ...

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Condomization from www.patenthawk.com

The courts have the trickiest part of protecting the interests of the State. Laws are designed to protect the government and its minions from liability, while maitaining a facile appearance of equity. Cracks in the ...

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YouTube, and Twitter, and Facebook! Oh my! Keeping up with Erik Pelton online from www.erikpelton.com

I try to take advantage of everything the web has to offer — and to allow those interested in learning about trademark tips and trademark cases and anything else trademark related to follow in a variety ...

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"Public Interest" Groups Call for Synthetic Biology Regulation from www.patentdocs.org

By Kevin E. Noonan -- A broad coalition of 111 public interest groups announced today a manifesto for containing "synthetic biology," a term with a loose definition (including "extreme genetic engineering") that includes efforts such as ...

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Blocking Of Internet Traffic Common In Europe – EU Report from www.ip-watch.org

Operators and internet service providers in Europe resort mostly to blocking voice-over-internet protocol (VoIP) and peer-to-peer traffics to guard the security of and prevent congestion on their networks, according to a preliminary report from the ...

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Big Brother Sues Israeli Reality Show for Copying from www.ipwatchdog.com

This lawsuit could set a precedent in Israeli copyright laws concerning television formats and could reveal behind-the-scenes industry secrets. The Israeli Copyright Law 2007 does not provide copyright protection for an idea, but only its ...

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What is WIPO Doing to Combat International Patent Scams? from www.ipwatchdog.com

A conversation with Matthew Bryan, who is the Director of the PCT Legal Division at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) regarding what WIPO is doing to combat patent schemes that plague the industry. As ...

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Profile of a Trademark Searcher from intellogist.wordpress.com

Here at the Intellogist Blog, we’ve interviewed a wide range of intellectual property professionals: Patent translators Product managers Patent analysts A patent searcher and instructor Executive Director of the Coalition for Patent and Trademark ...

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Kodak hires investment, no IP Firm, to sell patents from www.ipeg.eu

Facing big money problems, Eastman Kodak Co. in July 2011 hired a New York City investment bank to help it shop around a huge cache of digital imaging patents. Such a deal, potentially worth billions ...

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Samsung suffers second and even more important FRAND defeat to Apple in the Netherlands from fosspatents.blogspot.com

Dutch website Webwereld.nl reports that the Rechtbank 's-Gravenhage (the District Court of The Hague, Netherlands) just handed Apple -- and the concept of FRAND standards, which is more important than even the world's most ...

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Judge Posner praises Apple's claim constructions as 'superior', calls a Motorola proposal 'ridiculous' from fosspatents.blogspot.com

In a recent post on key patent trials that will involve Apple in June, I said that claim construction in a very important federal lawsuit against Motorola in the Northern District of Illinois (Motorola's ...

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CAFC reverses, remands in Aspex v. Marchon from ipbiz.blogspot.com

The summary of the outcome:

In sum, we reverse the district court’s grant of summary judgment on res judicata grounds to Revolution and Marchon with respect to products that were not at issue in ...

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Blunder by Nike in marking product from ipbiz.blogspot.com

Usually, intelligent companies do a little research before assigning a product name. In response to naming a shoe "Black and Tan Quickstrike," Nike stated that the product was "unofficially named by some using a phrase ...

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MHRD IP Chair in NLU Jodhpur presents IP Roundtable Symposium from spicyipindia.blogspot.com

The followers of Spicy IP may be pleased to know that a two-day roundtable symposium on 'The Emerging Legal and Policy Landscape of Intellectual Property Protection for Pharmaceuticals in India' is going to be held ...

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Ukraine WTO Trademark Dispute vs. Australia Tests Public Health Measures from www.ip-watch.org

Ukraine yesterday filed a World Trade Organization dispute settlement case against Australia for its 2011 law requiring plain packaging on tobacco in an effort to address the severe public health problem related to its use ...

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Google wants to push back Oracle trial -- preferably by a few months, alternatively by two weeks from fosspatents.blogspot.com

Yesterday Judge Alsup entered an order setting April 16, 2012 as the definitive trial date for Oracle v. Google. Since then, there's been some more activity in that litigation, and today, Google's lead ...

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WIPO To Discuss Role Of Patents In Access To Water from www.ip-watch.org

The World Intellectual Property Organization has waded into the global debates over access to safe drinking water, with an upcoming workshop on patents and water purification technologies. Related Articles:

• WTO, WHO, WIPO To Discuss TRIPS ...

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Intérêt de l’entreprise et choix stratégiques : les licences concédées par Gilead au Medicines Patent Pool from www.ip-watch.org

Bien que Gilead ait apporté des améliorations considérables à ses précédentes licences volontaires portant sur des médicaments antirétroviraux essentiels, les licences que l’entreprise a concédées au Medicines Patent Pool, fondation créée par UNITAID, comportent ...

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Featured Researcher: Jose F. from info.articleonepartners.com

This week's featured researcher is Jose from Mexico.  He is a bilingual internal medicine and infectious disease physician.  His education includes medical school in Mexico City and specialty training at University of Texas at ...

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Pilot Patent Case Program May Bring More Litigation to Western PA from www.infringementupdates.com

The following is excerpted from a March 12, 2012 Business Workshop article by David Oberdick published at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania has been selected to ...

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Diane Sawyer does patents on March 14, 2012 from ipbiz.blogspot.com

The final story on ABC World News with Diane Sawyer on March 14, 2012 involved the diaper patents of Marion Donovan, although Donovan was not explicitly named. Diane suggested the inventor (Donovan) got one million ...

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