Tulisa, that sex tape and 'false' privacy becoming 'real' privacy from ipkitten.blogspot.com Only if you had a complete UK tabloid blackout for the last week would you have been able to escape the Tulisa sex tape drama. Juicy sordid details aside, the case is interesting because of ...
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Friday fantasies from ipkitten.blogspot.com It's not every day that the IPKat brings news from a Saudi BOG but, courtesy of the Abu-Ghazaleh Intellectual Property Group's newsletter comes
tidings that will warm the hearts of all true IP ...
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Mayo Collaborative Services v. Prometheus Laboratories -- What the Court's Decision Means from www.patentdocs.org By Kevin E. Noonan -- Biotech has met its Benson in the Court's Prometheus decision. Before considering what can be done, it is prudent to consider the implications of this decision (and the previous decade ...
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What It Takes To Infringe a Patent from tacticalip.com TweetBy: Mark R. Malek My last article discussed the permissibility of designing around a patent. To summarize, in order to design around a patent, also known as reverse engineering a patent, the...
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Temporary unavailability of this blog during parts of the weekend (March 24-25) from fosspatents.blogspot.com As some of you may have noticed, the domain name of this blog has been affected by a design decision on Google's part (Google runs the Blogger, or blogspot.com, service). It is now ...
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Mayo v. Prometheus recap: personalized medicine delivery method ruled not patentable from ipspotlight.com This week the United States Supreme Court issued a key decision in which it struck down a patent covering a medical testing method, holding that the subject matter is ineligible for patenting under Section 101 ...
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Facebook goes for some retail therapy from www.tangible-ip.com News today that Facebook has decided to go patent shopping and has bought a portfolio of over 500 patent families from IBM. If the ROI includes the ability to immediately fend off Yahoo! then the ...
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Global Fund Changes Continue As West Africa Team Leader Departs from www.ip-watch.org The head of the West Africa region for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria is the next in the line of departures under the organisation’s reforms. On the way out, he ...
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New Chair For WTO GI Register Talks Seeks New Ideas from www.ip-watch.org With general instructions from the December ministerial to change tactics in negotiations, the new chair of World Trade Organization special sessions on creating a geographical indications register for wines and spirits is calling on members ...
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USPTO Announces 2012 National Trademark Expo from www.ipwatchdog.com The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) will host the 2012 National Trademark Expo on Friday, Oct. 19, and Saturday, Oct. 20, at the USPTO’s headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia. The free two-day event ...
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LXBN TV interview: Yahoo/Facebook patent case from www.lotempiolaw.com I spoke with with Colin O'Keefe of LXBN TV about the patent infringement suit Yahoo recently filed against Facebook. In the interview, we discuss:
- the numerous patents Facebook allegedly infringes upon,
- why Yahoo chose ...
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Cultural Education Campaign Too Late to Alter the Course of “Arepa” Trademark Debate? from www.iposgoode.ca The trademark registration of “arepa”, the name used to describe a traditional Venezuelan food, has generated significant debate and concern among Toronto’s Venezuelan community. Eduardo Lee, the owner to Toronto’s Arepa Café, registered ...
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Friday Foreign Filing Roundup from info.inovia.com Hi everyone, here's a look at the foreign filing/patent law news from the week of March 19, 2012: The EPO is "going green" with a new awareness campaign. This major pharmaceutical case has ...
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Oracle and Google ordered to hold settlement conference (no later than April 9, 2012) from fosspatents.blogspot.com Now that Oracle and Google have a firm trial date (the trial will start on April 16, 2012), the court decided that another attempt to settle the dispute, which started with Oracle's lawsuit in ...
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Intellectual Property Portfolio Management Trends from www.patentbaristas.com Legal IQ has launched a new white paper on Intellectual Property (IP) Portfolio Management Trends and Success Factors 2012, which reviews the recent challenges and changes in IP. It draws upon the insight of leading ...
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Webinar on First-to-File from www.patentdocs.org Technology Transfer Tactics will be offering a webinar entitled "Moving From First to Invent to First to File: Understanding the Opportunities and Challenges" on April 26, 2012 from 1:00 - 2:00 pm (Eastern). Charles ...
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