Patent & IP news for April 21, 2012

Motorola told judge its $4 billion royalty demand from Microsoft 'was in fact reasonable RAND' from www.fosspatents.com

Late on Friday, Microsoft and Motorola made some really interesting filings in the FRAND enforcement case in Seattle (which has already resulted in a temporary restraining order against Motorola). The parties filed reply briefs defending ...

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Prometheus Fall Out: The SmartGene Case from hallingblog.com

The SmartGene v. Advanced Biological Laboratories case is the first fallout from the Supreme Court’s Prometheus decision.  Advanced Biological Laboratories (ABL) owns two patents (6,081,786 6,188,988) directed to computerized methods ...

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The need for an‘independent’ review of the TKDL project from spicyipindia.blogspot.com

I would like to conclude the last few posts on the Traditional Knowledge Digital Library (TKDL), with a call for an independent review of the entire project. In specific, the review should examine the TKDL ...

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GEMA vs YouTube - what the Hamburg court really said... from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Further to Tara's post on the GEMA vs. YouTube case (see here), please find below this Kat’s summary of the court’s press release of 20 April 2012 (which can be retrieved here ...

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Kenyan High Court’s Overturning Of Anti-Counterfeit Law Hailed from www.ip-watch.org

The High Court of Kenya yesterday ruled that the country's 2008 Anti-Counterfeit Act was too broad and could interfere with the flow of legal generic medicines to patients, leading the UNAIDS organisation to issue ...

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Frustrations Show At Slow Progress On Protection Of Traditional Knowledge at WIPO from www.ip-watch.org

At the close of a WIPO meeting to advance a text to become a potential treaty to protect traditional knowledge, some countries found that the results of the session were somewhat disappointing, although some progress ...

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