Looking for something? Last week's Katposts from ipkitten.blogspot.com The past week has been, as usual, a hectic one for the IPKat, Merpel and the IP fraternity in general so, if you've missed anything over the last seven days, here's a list ...
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Guest Post: The Traditional Knowledge Digital Library and the EPO from spicyipindia.blogspot.com Tufty the Cat, who is qualified as a U.K. and European patent attorney and who maintains a
blog by the same name, accessible over here has written for this interesting guest post on the ...
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Donald Duck, Patents, and Ping Pong Balls from info.articleonepartners.com There is a well-known story among IP lawyers about prior art coming from, of all places, a comic strip. The story not only explains how prior art works in layman's terms, but also makes ...
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Trademark Office Warns of Unscrupulous Companies Requesting Deceptive Fees from blawgit.com The Deceptive Letters The United States Patent and Trademark Office has just released a warning that unscrupulous companies are attempting to deceive trademark owners into paying unnecessary trademark fees. Using confusing names, like “United States ...
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Non-traditional trademarks: Costumes and Uniforms from www.erikpelton.com All this week I will feature posts on non-traditional trademark topics. Traditional trademarks are names, logos and slogans. Non-traditional trademarks are everything else the can function to identify the source of goods or services, such ...
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“[T]he issue of principle . . . is that there is no issue of principle.” from ipkitten.blogspot.com Judge Birss QC assures us that his decision in
Merck Sharp Dohme Corp & Anor v Teva Pharma BV & Anor [2012] EWHC 627 (Pat), relating to an application by Bristol-Myers Squibb for an interim injunction pending ...
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Monday miscellany from ipkitten.blogspot.com This Kat dined tonight at Concert Noble, the impressive venue chosen by the Pharmaceutical Trade Marks Group for its Spring conference. Attending this event, he has been reminded how much can be learned from participating ...
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Apple and Foxconn: When Saying Less Might Be Better from ipkitten.blogspot.com It is often said that Apple's ultimate secret has been its ability to create a self-contained ecosystem, with the Apple brand at the epicentre. In reality, though, the Apple brand sometimes finds itself inextricably ...
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Why Britain needs an innovation economy (and why learning new IP skills is vital) from www.tangible-ip.com I picked this up from the UK’s Guardian online on Saturday. It is so powerfully accurate that I thought it was worth repeating word for word. My only expansion point is to emphasise the ...
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Adult Swim Declared In Facebook’s Patent Infringement Pool! from gametimeip.com I have a lot of fond memories from childhood. Well, I have memories from my childhood. Among them were those summer-time trips to the local swimming pool. Growing up in a small, southern town, the ...
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US Group Creates Social Platform To Lobby For And Create Internet Reforms from www.ip-watch.org Public Knowledge, a Washington, DC-based public interest group, has launched an initiative that capitalises on active participation from American online and social media users to lobby for the adoption of some reforms in internet governance ...
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The fiduciary shield doctrine and patent law from ipbiz.blogspot.com Back in 2005, IPBiz posted about the
Solaia patent case, which involved a non-practicing entity [NPE, here Solaia] suing others for patent infringement.
Underneath the patent case was an interesting state court case, between the ...
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PatentScope Adds PCT Licensing Information from patentlibrarian.blogspot.com PatentScope now includes licensing information for PCT applications. PCT applicants who wish to make their applications available for licensing may request so by filing the appropriate forms. (See the
December 2011 PCT Newsletter.) As of ...
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The Saga Continues: Waldman v Thomson Reuters Corporation Class Action Certified from www.iposgoode.ca On February 21, 2012, Judge Perell of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice granted certification for a proposed class action suit under the Class Proceedings Act, 1992, S.O. 1992, c. C.6 against Thomson ...
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IP Note: Ysolde Gendreau on the Copyright Act from www.iposgoode.ca Professor Ysolde Gendreau from the Faculty of Law at the University of Montreal wrote an interesting opinion piece for the Montreal Gazette last week. The piece canvasses the history of the Copyright Act, and draws ...
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Debate Heats Up Ahead Of EU Parliament Discussion On ACTA from www.ip-watch.org Opposing opinions on the controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) clashed anew ahead of next week's meetings of the European Parliament where the EU body is expected to make critical decisions on the fate of ...
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UK Inventor Burns Patent He Can’t Afford to Use from ipcloseup.wordpress.com The High Cost of Enforcement Compels Him to Destroy His Rights Before Parliament Without the funds to enforce a patent it’s not worth the paper it’s written on. We’ve all heard that ...
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CAFC Muddle: Deciphering the Marine Polymer En Banc Ruling* from www.ipwatchdog.com Where the en banc decision gets particularly interesting (and adversarial) is with respect to the second question, namely when does “intervening rights” apply to reexamined claims? By a 6 to 4 vote, (and a reversal ...
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USPTO and AUTM Announce Joint Patent Examiners Training Initiative from www.ipwatchdog.com The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and the Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM) announced on Friday, March 15, 2012, the launch of the USPTO/AUTM Patent Examiners Training Initiative, a joint program ...
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"This American Life" and Foxconn/Apple from ipbiz.blogspot.com News.yahoo noted:
On Friday [March 16], "This American Life" retracted an entire storyline told by Daisey that aired in early January after Daisey's translator said he made up significant details of the tale ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook