Patent & IP news for March 21, 2012

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post image US and EP "opposition fees" compared from ipkitten.blogspot.com

USPTO Director David Kappos has a blog post on his Director's Forum entitled "Comparing USPTO's New Post-Grant Processes and Associated Costs to EPO's". The title promises a little more than it delivers ...

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post image Guest Post: Madras High Court overrules IPAB on 'Rhizome Imperial Gold' from spicyipindia.blogspot.com

Arun C. Mohan, a practising IP lawyer before the Madras High Court has sent us this interesting post regarding the mark 'Rhizome's Imperial Gold' which was under litigation before the IPAB and subsequently the ...

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post image Featured Researcher: Sreedevi S. from info.articleonepartners.com

This week’s Featured Researcher is Sreedevi S. from Calicut, India.  She recently embarked on a career as a freelance patent researcher, and found Article One while searching for ways to do patent research online ...

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post image Supreme Court ‘Only Black Magic Patent Eligible’ from hallingblog.com

The Supreme Court ruling in Mayo Collaborative Services v. Prometheus Labs., Inc. (Supreme Court 2012) was released on March 20, 2012 and they held unanimously against Prometheus and invalidated two patents under 35 USC 101 ...

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post image The Velvet Underground Sues Andy Warhol Foundation for Trademark Infringement from patentlawip.blogspot.com

Issues of copyright and trademark ownership can become tricky when an artist makes a work for hire.  This is currently the case with The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and 60’s rock ...

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post image Wednesday whimsies from ipkitten.blogspot.com

"HOW MUCH did you say
a gin and tonic cost!"
Thespians rescue beleaguered Hobbit.  The Kat's post on the lamentable tale of the Hobbit public house being threatened by the owners of a bristling ...

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post image Zeus denies fire to Prometheus from ipkitten.blogspot.com

“Madness,” “..lost their minds...,” “disaster for personalized medicine,” were a few of the thoughts that ran through this Kat’s head as he sat down to write this post. But since this is a sober ...

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post image Charriol Files Cable Motif Jewelry Copyright and Trade Dress Infringement Lawsuit from www.iptrademarkattorney.com

A’lor International Ltd., dba Charriol USA, is suing sixteen defendants for manufacturing and selling numerous jewelry designs incorporating a nautical cable motif that allegedly infringe Charriol’s copyrights and trade dress. Charriol claims that ...

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post image As easy as A, B, C from ipkitten.blogspot.com

BAILII is one of the IPKat's favourite charities (you don't believe him? You can donate here). Otherwise known as the British and Irish Legal Information Institute, BAILII provides free and pretty well instant ...

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Ten things Oracle v. Google tells us about the judge presiding over Yahoo v. Facebook from fosspatents.blogspot.com

On Google+ I recently said that I don't consider Yahoo v. Facebook, however interesting it may be for the Internet community at large, to be sufficiently wireless-related for the FOSS Patents blog to cover ...

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French IP Industry Experts Discuss IP Portfolios, Trademarks Online from www.ip-watch.org

PARIS – Intellectual property assets and how they influence corporate value, plus trademarks in the digital world were discussed last week by intellectual property professionals gathered in Paris. Related Articles:

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Reducing the Cost of Maintaining International Patent Rights from www.ipwatchdog.com

It is with great interest that we at Sentry IP read the report the United States Patent and Trademark Office made to Congress earlier this year on “International Patent Protections For Small Businesses”. The USPTO ...

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Pharmaceutically Speaking: Supreme Court Rules Prometheus Labs Patents Invalid from tacticalip.com

TweetDanie Roy The Supreme Court finally ruled that the Prometheus Labs patents in Mayo v Prometheus are invalid.  I personally tip my hat to the court on this decision.  I’ve written about...

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How Can Patent Searchers Use Pinterest? from intellogist.wordpress.com

Social media is the new frontier that creative, collaborative patent professionals can use to network within the intellectual property field and learn about new resources for patent searching.  Many free online communities are built around ...

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Nigerian Courts Step Up Against Copyright Piracy: 18 Convicted from www.ip-watch.org

The last year has witnessed a series of convictions of copyright pirates by the Federal High Courts in Nigeria. Information provided by Afam Ezekude, the Director General of the Nigerian Copyright Commission, the government agency ...

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Special Report: Focus On Intermediaries’ Role Rises As Internet Matures from www.ip-watch.org

With the commercial internet now in its early twenties, stakeholders are finding themselves at a crossroads, unsure whether to allow business as usual or embrace a more regulated regime. Intellectual property, with its penchant for ...

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Eviscerating Patent-Eligibility of Drug Testing Methods: The Nonsensical Reasoning in the SCOTUS Prometheus Decision* from www.ipwatchdog.com

Well, Justice Breyer, the writer of the dissenting opinion in Laboratory Corp. v. Metabolite Laboratories, Inc., finally got his wish. Writing the opinion for a unanimous Supreme Court in Mayo Collaborative Services v. Prometheus Laboratories ...

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US Supreme Court Narrows Patentable Subject Matter from www.ip-watch.org

By Steven Seidenberg for Intellectual Property Watch On 20 March, the US Supreme Court cut back on the types of inventions that can be patented in America. The court held in Mayo Collaborative Services v ...

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Mayo v. Prometheus: Natural law ++ Significant application ~ Patent from spicyipindia.blogspot.com

The United States (US) Supreme Court recently invalidated an extremely broad patent, allowed by the Federal Circuit (CAFC), covering a method for determining the proper dose of a drug used to treat autoimmune disorders.  We ...

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SpicyIP Announcements: Socio-Legal Review Call for Papers from spicyipindia.blogspot.com

The Socio-Legal Review, the student edited peer reviewed journal of the National Law School of India University, Bangalore is holding the 2nd Annual SLR Essay Competition. Students from law schools and other undergraduate courses ...

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Setting the Record Straight on the Innovatio Patent Portfolio from www.ipwatchdog.com

Ray Niro responds --- There is nothing disingenuous about the licensing and enforcement of the Innovatio IP patent portfolio. Nor is this effort about “forcing quick licensing agreements” on questionable patents. The earliest of the Innovatio ...

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U.S. Supreme Court Speaks on Patent-Eligibility of Diagnostic Method Claims from www.orangebookblog.com

Mayo Collaborative Services v. Prometheus Labs., Inc., No. 10-1150 (U.S. 2012) by Nabeela Rasheed On Tuesday, in a far-reaching decision, the United States Supreme Court addressed the issue of patent eligibility of diagnostic method ...

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Mayo Collaborative Services v. Prometheus Laboratories: Supreme Court Limits the Scope of Patent Claims to Diagnostic Methods from 37thoughts.wordpress.com

This morning, the Supreme Court of the United States handed down its unanimous opinion in Mayo Collaborative Services et al. v. Prometheus Laboratories, Inc., reversing the Federal Circuit’s earlier ruling that the diagnostic-method patent ...

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Prometheus v. Mayo: Analysis and Implications of an Important Supreme Court Decision from holmansbiotechipblog.blogspot.com

When I first read the Supreme Court's decision in Prometheus, I must admit I was somewhat taken aback. To my mind, the Federal Circuit had already drawn a reasonable and relatively well-defined line between ...

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Oral Argument Mayo v. Prometheus from www.717madisonplace.com

Now that the Mayo Collaborative Services, et al. v. Prometheus Laboratories, Inc., 566 U.S. ___ (2012) decision has issued, some folks might once again be interested in the oral argument.  The oral argument is ...

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Legislators Support Labeling of Genetically Engineered Foods from www.patentdocs.org

By Donald Zuhn -- Last week, in a letter sent to the Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, Margaret Hamburg, 55 members of Congress expressed support for a recent petition to require the labeling of ...

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