Patent & IP news for May 10, 2012

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post image An INTA First Timer's Post-Conference Musings: 17 Tips for Next Year's Newbies from ipkitten.blogspot.com

As this Kat reflects a bit at 37,000 feet on her trip home from her very first INTA (while patiently waiting for the drink cart to finally make it to her seat row), she ...

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post image SAS: “Shake-and-Strain” : its time for functionality again from ipkitten.blogspot.com

"Shake-and -strain" -- the secret
of functionality of a good cocktail
Last week the IPKat posted a quick note ("Not much of an SOS for SAS", here) on a Court of Justice of the European ruling ...

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post image USPTO To Implement Pilot Program For Considering Information Disclosure Statements Filed in Allowed Cases from www.patentabilityblog.com

More good news from the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).  The USPTO will implement a pilot program, Quick Path IDS (QPIDS), for considering Information Disclosure Statements (IDS) filed in allowed cases that have ...

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Judge Alsup believes 'fair use' issue may require new trial from www.fosspatents.com

Reports from yesterday's Oracle v. Google court session (Bloomberg, IDG, ZDNet) indicate that Judge Alsup won't throw out Google's "fair use" defense by means of a judgment as a matter of law ...

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EFF and FSF comments on partial jury verdict raise total non-issues from www.fosspatents.com

After the partial verdict finding Google to infringe 37 Java APIs (while not taking a position on Google's "fair use" defense), two of the world's most prominent software advocacy groups, the Electronic Frontier ...

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Patent landscape reports: analysing business sectors from britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk

WIPO has a very useful list on its site of patent landscape reports. These are analyses of trends and patterns by country, company and so on of particular sectors. They are arranged in the broad ...

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Patents World-Wide: Deciding Where to Pursue Patent Rights from www.ipwatchdog.com

The moral of the story is this: First, pick the countries where you want to seek patents wisely, filing obtaining a patent in a country only when there is an articulable business strategy. Second, remember ...

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Ignorance: Bridgeline Digital’s Shockingly Bad Patent Strategy from gametimeip.com

Bridgeline Digital (Nasdaq: BLIN) describes itself as an “award-winning web development company,” but it likely won’t win any awards for the way it chose to handle a patent dispute with a Puerto Rican technology ...

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As WIPO Director Reports On Development Agenda, Developing Countries Demand Full Implementation from www.ip-watch.org

A World Intellectual Property Organization committee meeting this week to assess the development dimension of WIPO activities heard the progress report of the director general. Developing countries took the opportunity to claim that the mandate ...

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GAO a Helpful Partner on AIA Implementation from www.uspto.gov

USPTO is making it a major focus to actively engage and have regular conversations with our stakeholders on a host of issues. Look no further than how we have managed the rulemaking process to implement ...

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Call For Transparency In The Trans-Pacific Partnership Negotiation from www.ip-watch.org

In this post, three US law professors explain a recent call by over 30 legal scholars for the US Trade Representative to increase transparency for the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement intellectual property chapter, and their response ...

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Anti Patent Rhetoric, does it help? from www.ipeg.eu

Why are bright people uncharacteristically dense when it comes to understanding patents? Ignorance about a simultaneously technical, legal and commercial discipline is a factor, but there may be something else going on. The recent wave ...

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USPTO Introduces Quick Path IDS Submission Pilot Program from www.ipwatchdog.com

In the QPIDS pilot, IDS submissions will be considered by the examiner before determining whether prosecution should be reopened. Prosecution will only be reopened where the examiner determines that reopening prosecution is necessary to address ...

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New IFPMA-Backed Report On R&D For Diseases In Developing Countries from www.ip-watch.org

With the launch of a new report concerning research and development for diseases predominately afflicting developing countries, the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers & Associations (IFPMA) today convened a panel of public health specialists to discuss ...

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Microsoft makes headway with German lawsuits against Motorola over multi-part text message interface from www.fosspatents.com

Last summer, Motorola sued Microsoft in Germany (in the United States, Microsoft was first to sue). But Microsoft has responded with several German lawsuits of its own. Among other things, Microsoft is asserting EP1304891 on ...

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Swiss Government Postpones ACTA Signature from www.ip-watch.org

Switzerland has postponed signature of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) until it has more information from several ongoing processes in Europe, the government said yesterday. Related Articles:

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Patent Searching Tips: Using Google to narrow it down from intellogist.wordpress.com

On this special episode of Danny Rooney, Danny tries to do something he has never done before…be serious. Today, I want to give a quick refresher on how to use two patent search systems ...

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Oracle wants to preserve the jury's infringement finding and limit retrial to 'fair use' from www.fosspatents.com

In response to Google's motion for a new trial on both copyright infringement and "fair use", Oracle just filed a brief according to which a retrial should be limited to the one issue the ...

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Agreements to block parallel imports from ipwars.com

According to the Age today, a number of (fashion) importers have agreed with their overseas manufacturers that the manufacturers will not supply orders to online purchasers in Australia: Importers close door on overseas online stores ...

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