Patent & IP news for May 3, 2012

Will a well known brand name ever become generic again? from www.erikpelton.com

Under trademark law, words which describe an entire category of products or services cannot be protected because they are generic. A generic term cannot even acquire secondary meaning over a period of time or as ...

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US District Court rules Tarceva patent valid: impact on India from spicyipindia.blogspot.com


Our regular readers would know that Roche had sued Cipla before Delhi High Court (DHC) claiming that Cipla’s generic product Erlocip violates Roche's Indian Patent IN196774("774 patent") for 'Erlotinib Hydrocloride' or commonly ...

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One in the eye from Pie? Or, when is a licence not a licence? from ipkitten.blogspot.com

In a post this March, this Kat confessed that he had failed to spot that there was a hearing before the Court of Justice of the European Union in a reference for a preliminary ruling ...

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IPAB dismisses patent revocation petition for lack of evidence from spicyipindia.blogspot.com

Image from hereIn a decision dated the 9th of March, 2012, the Intellectual Property Appellate Board (IPAB), dismissed a revocation petition under Section 64 of the Patents Act, 1970. The petition had been filed ...

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So You Want to Protect Your Trademark? from blawgit.com

Your Company’s Most Valuable Asset Trademarks are often the most valuable asset of a company. They are what consumers use to associate your product with your company. Trademarks embody the goodwill of your company ...

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Guyism Website Sued For Infringing Copyrighted Katy Perry Bikini Pictures from www.iptrademarkattorney.com

Mavrix Photo is a celebrity photography agency that licenses the pictures to magazines and celebrity gossip websites. Mavrix alleges that it has licensed individual images of celebrities for over $100,000 to major content outlets ...

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Another #INTADC event? Senate Judiciary comm. to hold “Oversight of the Office of the I.P. Enforcement Coordinator” 10am on 5/9 from www.erikpelton.com

Thousands of trademark attorneys have begun to descend upon our nation’s capital this weekend for the annual conference of INTA® (International Trademark Association). Some may want to attend the Senate Judiciary Committee’s hearing ...

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China Patent Forum: an unrepeatably good offer from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Great Chinese inventions I: indistinguishable
from the real thing, these patented robo-pandas
are made to measure for foreign zoos where
bamboo shoots are scarce.  They run on AA
batteries ... The IPKat is constantly aware of ...

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ESA/USPTO Report Indicates Importance of IP Protection to U.S. Economy from www.patentdocs.org

By Donald Zuhn -- A report prepared by the Economics and Statistics Administration and U.S. Patent and Trademark Office shows that IP-intensive industries support tens of millions of jobs and contribute several trillion dollars to ...

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Oracle-Google jury fairly likely to render copyright liability verdict today (Thursday) from www.fosspatents.com

It's always difficult, and admittedly a bit daring, to predict when a jury verdict will come down. It can take a dozen people any amount of time to reach a consensus, especially on technical ...

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Viacom v. YouTube: Chipping Away At The DMCA from www.ip-watch.org

It was a major legal battle between copyright owners and online businesses. Then, on 5 April, online businesses won. Mostly. The US appellate court ruling in Viacom International, Inc. v. YouTube, Inc. basically upheld the ...

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Google seeks to Europeanize the law of the United States with respect to copyrightability from www.fosspatents.com

In my previous post I just explained why there are signs that an Oracle v. Google jury verdict on copyright liability may come down today -- in fact, Judge Alsup may proactively incentivize it by telling ...

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Beyond Latent Semantic Analysis: Linguistic Genomics on M·CAM DOORS™ from intellogist.wordpress.com

Professional patent analysts are always looking for new tools with unique patent data analysis and visualization features.  I recently viewed a demonstration of the “intellectual property risk management tool” M·CAM DOORS™, which utilizes a ...

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Court: Patent license extends to continuation patents unless the agreement expressly says otherwise from ipspotlight.com

In another case highlighting why it’s important for license agreements to clearly describe the parties’ intent, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York recently considered a situation where a ...

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WIPO And EPO Sign Patent Cooperation Agreement from www.ip-watch.org

The heads of the World Intellectual Property Organization and the European Patent Office today signed a three-year agreement to mutually improve the procedural framework of the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT). Related Articles:

• EPO, European Commission ...

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Draft Proposal Calls For Delay Of WHO R&D Treaty Talks from www.ip-watch.org

A new draft proposal suggests that World Health Organization members postpone negotiations for a convention on financing of research and development for diseases predominantly afflicting poor populations. The negotiation of a convention is up for ...

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EPO and WIPO Sign Agreement to Enhance Co-operation from www.ipwatchdog.com

Munich/Geneva, 3 May 2012 — With the aim of further developing the international patent system to better support innovation in economies around the globe, the European Patent Office (EPO) and the World Intellectual Property Organization ...

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Motorola will soon assert six more U.S. patents against Apple -- most likely in Florida from www.fosspatents.com

Last week I reported on Apple's recent assertion of six patents against Motorola and HTC in the same lawsuit in the Southern District of Florida. At the time of my post, Motorola had already ...

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America’s First Patent Thicket: Sewing Machine War of the 1850s from www.ipwatchdog.com

The story of the invention and development of the sewing machine challenges these two assumptions insofar as it is a story of a patent thicket in an extremely old technology, but, more important, it is ...

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Motorola appeals Microsoft's temporary restraining order to the Ninth Circuit from www.fosspatents.com

In a filing made yesterday in the Western District of Washington, Motorola gave notice of its appeal to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit against the temporary restraining order that prohibits ...

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BPAI: Reducing the Backlog from www.uspto.gov

The Board of Appeals and Interferences (BPAI), like other areas within the USPTO, have experienced increased growth, leading to a large backlog of ex parte appeals. With the new Post-Grant Review processes set forth in ...

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Federal Circuit Judges Audio Key from www.717madisonplace.com

I have added an “audio key” to the blog that attempts to provide a representative sound bite of each judge’s voice.  Hopefully, this will help people identify a particular judge when listening to recordings ...

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