Patent & IP news for April 26, 2012

World Intellectual Property Day 2012: Visionary Innovators from www.patentbaristas.com

“Behind many extraordinary innovations there are extraordinary human stories.” ~Francis Gurry, Director General of WIPO On April 26, 2012, WIPO celebrates World Intellectual Property Day.  The theme of World IP Day this year is “Visionary ...

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Ive received most votes as "visionary innovator" from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Jonathan Ive, that is. In a vote to find the "Favourite British Visionary Innovator 2012", he received
nearly half of all votes cast in a field of ten nominees.

Sir Jonathan Ive, KBE
Senior VP ...

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Love it or leave it: ETCH-A-SKETCH from www.erikpelton.com

Thanks to a Mitt Romney staffer, ETCH A SKETCH® has been in the news quite a bit lately. The toy has been around since 1960. According to Wikipaedia, it was “inducted into the National Toy ...

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World IP Day: A Natural Take from spicyipindia.blogspot.com


SpicyIP wishes all of its readers a very imaginative IP day. Each year, we've commemorated this blessed occasion with a short note, and also offered up a new SpicyIP product (a database/website etc ...

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A little ephemera for World IP Day from ipkitten.blogspot.com

What better way to celebrate World IP Day can there be than to report on the latest intellectual property ruling of the Court of Justice of the European Union in Case C‑510/10 DR ...

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Open-sourcing of Java and API copyrightability are entirely unrelated issues from www.fosspatents.com

My list of Twitter messages from the Oracle v. Google trial shows that Jonathan Schwartz told the jury about how "open" Java was meant to be and in the very same context claims tha APIs ...

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Judge denies assertion of revived Oracle patent but Google still needs to take a license to it from www.fosspatents.com

After Oracle's '702 patent was brought back to life by the United States Patent and Trademark Office, emerging stronger than ever from the ex-parte reexamination proceedings, the parties had a genuine dispute over whether ...

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Judge plans to inform jury that structure, sequence and organization of Java APIs are copyrightable from www.fosspatents.com

Late on Wednesday by local time, Oracle and Google made a handful of filings, all of which relate to how the jury will be instructed with respect to the copyright questions it will get to ...

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World IP Day from tacticalip.com

TweetToday has been designated by the World Intellectual Property Organization as IP Day, the anniversary of the day WIPO came into force.  This celebration is provides an opportunity to appreciate...

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Motorola virtually concedes infringement of overscroll bounce patent but disputes validity from www.fosspatents.com

This afternoon I attended, at the Munich I Regional Court, a first hearing (the second hearing will be a trial) on one of Apple's various German lawsuits against Motorola Mobility. In this action, Apple ...

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World Intellectual Property Day 2012 from www.iposgoode.ca

Today marks the 12th annual World Intellectual Property Day. This observance day was created in 2000 by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). It is an opportunity to “celebrate the contribution that intellectual property makes ...

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A Worldwide Patent Coverage Map Update for World IP Day from intellogist.wordpress.com

Happy World Intellectual Property Day everyone! To quote WIPO: World Intellectual Property Day is an opportunity to celebrate the contribution that intellectual property makes to innovation and cultural creation – and the immense good that these ...

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LexisNexis VP Joins Article One Partners from www.ipwatchdog.com

Vanderheyden joins AOP from the legal software and solutions corporation LexisNexis, where he was Vice President and Managing Director, Global IP Solutions. While at LexisNexis, he helped to develop TotalPatent, a leading patent research tool ...

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Confessions of the Borat Applying Patent Examiner from www.ipwatchdog.com

Yes, it was I. The former Borat applying patent examiner turned law student. See Prior Borat: Non-traditional Prior Art Rejections! If nothing other than offering comic relief, the now infamous Borat patent rejection has hopefully ...

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Day Marked By Initiatives On The Benefits Of IP, Open Technology from www.ip-watch.org

Intellectual property rights have been around for centuries in some cultures, but in recent decades have taken off as a global set of rules, bringing with it many business opportunities and policy concerns. Today, on ...

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Optus TV Now (no more) from ipwars.com

The Full Court (Finn, Emmett and Bennett JJ) has unanimously allowed the appeal from Rares J’s finding that Optus TV Now did not infringe the copyright held by the AFL, the NRL and Telstra ...

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Court Report - Part III from www.patentdocs.org

By Sherri Oslick -- In an effort to catch up with recently filed biotech and pharma cases, Patent Docs presents this additional installment of Court Report. Depomed Inc. et al. v. Watson Laboratories Inc. Florida et ...

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(Once Again) It Ain't Necessarily So from www.patentdocs.org

By Kevin E. Noonan -- A large part of the debate on patenting genetic diagnostic method and isolated genes has revolved around the effects of such patents on what is loosely termed "personalized medicine." Personalized medicine ...

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