How Do You Determine if it Makes Economic Sense to File a Patent? from hallingblog.com Just because you can obtain a patent for your invention does not mean that you should file for a patent. So how do you determine whether it makes business sense to file a patent application ...
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FICCI announces Online Certificate Course on IP: May-July 2012 from spicyipindia.blogspot.com The
Online Certificate Course on Intellectual Property (IP) started by
Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) has been much appreciated by the participants of the Course. Readers will recall that we had ...
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Patents and jurisdiction 2: Innovia v Frito-Lay from ipkitten.blogspot.com The Frito-Lay patents and applications -- or are they Innovia's? We Europeans are inordinately interested in the question of which court we sue each other in when we have a patent-related dispute. This is not ...
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AOL and Microsoft: Patent Strategy Ain't What It Used To Be from ipkitten.blogspot.com This Kat is once again in a bit of a panic. Having more or less come to terms with the copyright questions that confronted him in preparing the syllabus for his impending course
here, he ...
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NPE Litigation: A Guide to Claims & Litigation Brought by Patent Trolls from www.patentbaristas.com What: Known by many names within the industry – non-practicing entity (NPE), patent assertion entity (PAE) and most infamously as “patent trolls” – NPEs over the past few years have single-handedly spawned a sub-specialty of patent litigation ...
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Complicated, replicated! Will me-too site be a match for Match.com? from ipkitten.blogspot.com This Kat seems to be inadvertently developing a niche for posts on sex-related issues with an intellectual property flavour (and for receiving frequent 'please explain notices' from the IT department at her place of work ...
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Patents and jurisdiction I: Solving Solvay? from ipkitten.blogspot.com A single market, perhaps,
but the EU remains a patch-
work of jurisdictions Last week the IPKat posted this note on the Opinion of Advocate General Cruz Villalón in
Case C 616/10 Solvay SA ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
The Customs Order in the Dell case: Will it stand up during an appeal? from spicyipindia.blogspot.com We have finally managed to get a copy of the order of the Customs Commissioner in the Dell case, which I had blogged about yesterday. The order is accessible over
here and the previous post ...
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Oracle and Google are still $700 million apart on damages for past infringement from www.fosspatents.com At close of business on Tuesday, Judge William Alsup ruled on Oracle's and Google's different objections to a damages report authored by Dr. James Kearl, the court-appointed damages expert whose opinions will likely ...
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Terrafugia's "roadable aircraft" invention from britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk Terrafugia has published patent specifications for a "roadable aircraft". It flew for the first time on the 23 March. The idea of an airplane that can then take to the roads has long been a ...
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Microsoft-Motorola case in Seattle: claim construction order and list of issues for today's hearing from www.fosspatents.com At 11 AM Pacific Time today, Microsoft and Motorola will meet in a Seattle courtroom to discuss Microsoft's motion for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction against the enforcement of an injunction a ...
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Trade And Development With A Dash Of IP: Conference To Set Course For UNCTAD from www.ip-watch.org The quadrennial conference of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) sets the course of the UN body work for the next four years. The mandate of the conference has evolved since its ...
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The importance of including algorithms in software patents from ipspotlight.com The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit recently issued its second decision in the past month in which it found a software patent to be invalid for failure to disclose an algorithm ...
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The words mean what they say… from 37thoughts.wordpress.com Short and sweet today, from the Federal Circuit. In an appeal captioned SmartMetric v American Express, the Federal Circuit ruled, perhaps unsurprisingly, that the following claim language did not encompass the use of contactless smart ...
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Book Review: Making Millions with Your Invention from www.ipwatchdog.com The overarching theme of this book is to approach inventing in a business responsible way, so Janessa had me on page 1. Many who are unfamiliar with the trials and tribulations of inventors frequently fail ...
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IP Awareness Assessment Tool: How Sound are Your Company’s IP Strategies? from intellogist.wordpress.com The USPTO website recently issued a press release announcing the creation of a tool for testing your “IP Awareness”: The U.S. Department of Commerce’s Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and National Institute of ...
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Finding Prior Art: An EPO Search Workshop from info.articleonepartners.com Prior art can come from almost anywhere, if the researcher has the skill and ability to access it. Each spring, the European Patent Office hosts their annual “Search Matters” conference. The EPO describes the event ...
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ITC judge postpones Microsoft-Barnes&Noble decision by more than a month from www.fosspatents.com There are two ongoing ITC investigations of complaints by Microsoft against Android device maker: one against Motorola, which just got delayed for the third time in as many months, and another, lower-profile one against Nook ...
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IP Contributes $5 Trillion and 40 Million Jobs to US Economy from www.ipwatchdog.com Today I attended the an event on Intellectual Property and the US Economy which was held in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House grounds. The purpose of the event was to unveil ...
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Smart People Shunning Law School. Bad News For Future Recruiting? from www.patentbaristas.com As reported in the Atlantic, applicants to law school are down 15.6 percent for the year. Bigger problem? The wrong students may have stopped applying. The smallest drop in applications (4.3%) was among ...
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Microsoft wins in U.S. court, prevents Motorola from near-term enforcement of forthcoming German ruling from www.fosspatents.com [DEVELOPING STORY -- may still add detail]
I just heard from a local source watching developments that the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington granted a Microsoft motion for a temporary restraining ...
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US Government Report: IP Boon To US Economy, Accounts For 40 Million Jobs from www.ip-watch.org Intellectual property-intensive industries in the United States support at least 40 million jobs and contribute more than $5 trillion - or 34.8 percent of - US gross domestic product (GDP), according to a report released by ...
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Bill C-11: Through the Lens of Social Norms from www.iposgoode.ca The Copyright Modernization Act (Bill C-11) has generated much discussion on its merits and deficiencies. However, one issue that commentators have not discussed in depth is the relationship between laws and social norms. Specifically, whether ...
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Two Years to Trial, Three Years Later from www.iposgoode.ca Three years ago, the Federal Court announced a plan to try to schedule trials within two years of the commencement of the proceeding. Since that time, many new patent cases have been commenced and some ...
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Do Diagnostic Method Claims Fall under the Safe Harbor of 35 U.S.C. § 287(c)? from www.patentdocs.org (And If So, Would That Address Justice Breyer's Concerns in Mayo v. Prometheus)? By Kevin E. Noonan -- Sometimes solutions to thorny issues are within our grasp if only we looked in the right place ...
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Interview With Vladimir Nika: Enforcing IP Rights In Albania 2010 – 2015 from www.ip-watch.org In 2010, institutions in Albania created a strategy to help enforce intellectual property rights within five years. Intellectual Property Watch recently conducted a written Q and A with Vladimir Nika, Albanian office director for the ...
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