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Sanofi Aventis Taxotere Patents invalidated by CAFC from ipkitten.blogspot.com While this guest Kat was enjoying the Easter Monday public holiday in the UK, the US Courts were busy issuing decisions, and so today the IPKat's attention was drawn by an
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Re(tro)specting Dilution? from spicyipindia.blogspot.com India introduced a statutory right to prevent "dilution" of well known marks for the first time in 2003 (through the Trademarks Act 1999, which came into force in September 2003). We'd blogged about this ...
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USPTO News Briefs from www.patentdocs.org By Donald Zuhn -- PPH Program between USPTO and HIPO Becomes Permanent On Thursday, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office announced that the USPTO and the Hungarian Intellectual Property Office (HIPO) had signed a Memorandum ...
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Patent for Battleship game from britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk There has been publicity over the new film Battleship, based on the game of that name. Back in 1933 Louis Coffin applied for a patent for the game. It's the classic game where opponents ...
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Acohs v Ucorp or the limits of implied licences from ipwars.com The Full Federal Court (Jacobson, Nicholas and Yates JJ) has largely upheld Jessup J’s ruling, but with a noteworthy limitation on the scope of implied licences. Acohs and Ucorp both provide in competition with ...
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International Patent Forum, London from britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk As a mere librarian I’ve never been to a patent law conference before, so the International Patent Law Forum 2012 will be my first. The organisers, magazine Managing Intellectual Property, kindly...
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‘The Last Samurai’ Infringement Case Decided from tacticalip.com TweetBy Daniel Davidson The trial, which started in Mach of this year, has finally ended with the accused being the victors. The suit which was filed by brothers and writers, Aaron and Mathew Benay,...
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Non-Traditional Trademarks: Shoe and Sole configurations/designs from www.erikpelton.com Shoe soles and other shoe designs and patterns can be non-traditional trademarks. The Louboutin red soled women’s designer shoesare well known, expensive, and the subject of trademark litigation (for an excellent discussion, see: Duets ...
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USPTO Florida Regional Inventors Conference – April 27-28 from www.ipwatchdog.com The 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 ...
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Could AOL Patent Sale Have Netted More Than $1B? from ipcloseup.wordpress.com Investor Pressure May Have Triggered a “Too-Quick” Sale It was widely reported yesterday that AOL Inc. (NYSE: AOL) on Monday agreed to sell more than 800 patents and related products to Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT ...
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Celebration! Tuesday April 10 is Be Kind To Lawyers Day from www.ipwatchdog.com So, what is this International Be Kind To Lawyers Day? I am so glad you asked! Steve Hughes, a non-lawyer from St. Louis, has been working with attorneys for many years now through his consulting ...
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Brands that deserve to die. Part 1-Ryanair from www.tangible-ip.com I for one can’t name another brand that is so universally, well continentally, used but loathed as Ryanair. It’s surely rare that so many people use a brand but so many also loathe ...
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New Intellectual Property Leaders: China from info.articleonepartners.com Throughout global IP, developing IP economies are having an increassing impact on innovation and IP rights. However, some of the new leading nations in IP have proved to be just as interesting. The relatively young ...
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Exploring WIPO Lex: Search National Laws and Treaties on Intellectual Property from intellogist.wordpress.com The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) website seems to be a never-ending treasure trove of intellectual property (IP) information and search resources. The WIPO Gold portal gives you access to free databases for searching patent ...
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Could AOL Patent Sale Have Netted More Than $1B? from www.ipeg.eu It was widely reported yesterday that AOL Inc. (NYSE: AOL) on Monday agreed to sell more than 800 patents and related products to Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) for $1.056 billion. It was also written ...
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ITC postpones decision on Microsoft complaint against Motorola to May 18 from www.fosspatents.com Last month, the Commission, the six-member decision-making body at the ITC, decided to review parts of an initial determination on Microsoft's October 2010 complaint against Motorola. Yesterday, the Commission extended the target date for ...
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Sapna Kumar: The Accidental Agency? from writtendescription.blogspot.com Has the Court of Appeals for theFederal Circuit stripped the Patent Office of its administrative power?
Professor Sapna Kumar’s article,
The Accidental Agency (forthcoming Florida Law Review), explains how the Federal Circuithas essentially become ...
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SmartGene, Inc. v. Advanced Biological Laboratories SA (D.D.C. 2012) from www.patentdocs.org By James DeGiulio -- In an opinion issued only ten days after the Supreme Court's decision in Mayo Collaborative Services v. Prometheus Laboratories, Inc. ("Prometheus"), the District Court for the District of Columbia is believed ...
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