Patent & IP news for April 9, 2012

Monday miscellany from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Pistols for two, breakfast for one, coriander for no-one. The IPKat seems to have struck a new and possibly inexhaustible stream of posts on the topic of fiction writing about or by members of the ...

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Indian Intermediary Liability Law Requires a Thorough Makeover from spicyipindia.blogspot.com

Two recent developments, on two different sides of the world, have reopened my eyes to the flawed intermediary liability legal regime that currently exists in India. The first was the recent ruling of the second ...

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47% vacancy at the Copyright Office from spicyipindia.blogspot.com

One of the constant complaints on this blog has been the lack of resources and staffing at the Copyright Board. The situation was so bad that the Delhi High Court took suo-moto cognizance of the ...

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“Meet the trademark bloggers” – INTA 2012 edition – will be on May 7th (RSVP please) from www.erikpelton.com

”Meet the Bloggers“ will take place next month during the annual INTA conference. I am honored to be co-hosting the event along with John Welch (TTABlog®), Ron Coleman (Likelihood of Confusion®), and Marty Schwimmer (The ...

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Florida Regional Inventors Conference April 27-28 from www.patentbaristas.com

United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), Invent Now® and the National Academy of Inventors™ invite you to the Florida Regional Inventors Conference, a great chance to get practical advice from expert USPTO staff and ...

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French Fried from www.patenthawk.com

5,750,561 owner Aventis sued Hospira and Apotex for infringing the cancer drug concoction. Co-inventor Jean-Louis Fabre withheld references from the PTO during prosecution, and it caught up with him, and Aventis. "There simply ...

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Networking Online to Drive your Research from info.articleonepartners.com

Last week, we gathered a few useful tips on how to expand your researching skills. This week, we’d specifically like to highlight the topic of collaboration. While the internet can seem like a big ...

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Trying to make sense of TKDL’s access policy – Why is the Indian Patent Office being ignored? from spicyipindia.blogspot.com


The Traditional Knowledge Digital Library(TKDL) which we have often blogged about on this blog for reasons that aregood, bad and ugly, is an ambitious project, by CSIR & the Ministry of Health,Govt. of India ...

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Breaking News: 4th Circuit paves a partial path for Rosetta Stone in Google Adwords case from ipkitten.blogspot.com


The AmeriKitten bewildered by the
amount of IP judgments landing
at her paws this week IP judgments are like buses, it seems.  After weeks and months of prowling around her room waiting for judgments, the ...

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Oh no: German courts and clueless politicians want to attract even more patent lawsuits from www.fosspatents.com

I just found out (from a German-language article published a week ago) that the Düsseldorf Regional Court as well as its appeals court, the Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court, have decided to staff up in order ...

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Beware of Non-U.S. Intellectual Property Scams from ipspotlight.com

Quite frequently, clients send me copies of official-looking documents that they have received relating to a non-U.S. patent, trademark or domain name.  The documents typically describe an upcoming deadline and request that the client ...

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Proper uses of a means plus function limitation from ocpatentlawyer.com

The following case illustrates my propensity for limiting my use of what patent attorneys call the means plus function claim limitation.  There are particular uses for means plus function limitations but more often than not ...

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Electronic Terminal Disclaimers Now Get Immediate Approvals from www.uspto.gov

You may remember that last November USPTO launched a new feature called eTerminal Disclaimer (eTD) as an open beta. eTD enables filing of terminal disclaimers (TDs) using an electronic interface from the USPTO’s online ...

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Change? Derviation May Feel a Lot Like Interference Practice from www.ipwatchdog.com

How this will philosophically change things remains unclear because the America Invents Act requires that the petition filed to institute a derivation proceeding demonstrate that the claimed invention in the subject application or patent was ...

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Shopping seems to be the in hobby from www.tangible-ip.com

After Facebook last week comes Microsoft’s latest acquisition with 800 patent families acquired from AOL for a figure of $1bn. How to read this: 1. AOL needs the cash and cannot monetize the portfolio ...

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No Access from www.patenthawk.com

5,875,435 claims an automated accounting system. '435 owner Noah Systems sued Intuit for infringement. Intuit got the litigation stayed pending reexam. Reexam by "the PTO confirmed the patentability of the original claims of ...

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Judge Posner denies Motorola motion to throw out Apple's touchscreen heuristics patent from www.fosspatents.com

In two months (plus two days), a highly important Apple v. Motorola trial will begin in Chicago. The case originally involved 15 Apple and 6 Motorola patents but has been narrowed to a fraction of ...

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Federal Circuit on Software Patents: Show Me the Algorithms from www.ipwatchdog.com

Earlier today the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued a decision in Noah Systems, Inc. v. Intuit, Inc. According to the Federal Circuit the specification of the ’435 patent must contain ...

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Microsoft brushes aside Motorola's arguments against an anti-enforcement injunction from www.fosspatents.com

Microsoft just filed its reply to a Motorola brief opposing Microsoft's motion in the Western District of Washington for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction barring Motorola from the enforcement of an injunction ...

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