New Project on "Unjustified Threats" Provisions from ipkitten.blogspot.com While researching whether there are any new developments relating to section 21 of the UK Trade Marks Act 1994, the so-called "unjustified threats provision" (a friend and fiend of many UK trade mark practitioners), this ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
RTI review petition "disposed off" from spicyipindia.blogspot.com The IPO, through Dr Kardam, has formally disposed off the review petition I had filed in connection with an appeal filed against an order of the GI Registry under the Right to Information Act (RTI ...
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Binding, but not to be followed blindly: Aerotel gets a freshener from ipkitten.blogspot.com Virtual reality has evolved from a paradox to a
well-understood expression in colloquial English, but that wasn't much comfort for Really Virtual. In
Really Virtual Co Ltd v UK Intellectual Property Office [2012] EWHC ...
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Rospatent makes it three-in-a-bed for Patent Translate from ipkitten.blogspot.com The IPKat has read with fascination of the agreement which the European Patent Office (EPO) and its Russian counterpart Rospatent have signed in order to "facilitate innovation" by cooperating in the mechanical translation of patents ...
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Buffalo patent attorney James J. Ralabate from www.lotempiolaw.com Respected and beloved longtime Buffalo patent attorney James J. Ralabate passed away last week at the age of 84. James was part of the "greatest generation." As a patent attorney he held many high patent ...
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Facebook embarrasses Yahoo, exposes allegation of fraudulent patent application as bogus from www.fosspatents.com I normally don't report on Yahoo v. Facebook on this blog, with only one exception so far. This post is a second exception because something that just happened in that case is nothing short ...
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Ergo Licensing, LLC v. CareFusion 303, Inc and the validity of computer-implemented means-plus-function claims from www.postgrant.com Ergo Licensing, LLC v. CareFusion 303, Inc, No. 11-1229 (Fed. Cir. Mar. 26, 2012) provides Federal Circuit precedent for showing the invalidity of computer-implemented means-plus-function claims.Ergo's U.S. Patent No. 5,507,412 ...
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Findings from the 2012 PCT Yearly Review from info.inovia.com The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) recently released the 2012 edition of its PCT Yearly Review. You can download the full report here, but a few key statistics are: The number of PCT filings set ...
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Survey Finds That Many U.S. Consumers Are Favorable Towards Plant and Animal Biotechnology from www.patentdocs.org By Donald Zuhn -- A survey on consumer perceptions regarding food technology [link] indicates that many U.S. consumers have favorable opinions concerning the benefits offered by plant and animal biotechnology. The survey, which was commissioned ...
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Protecting Your Invention When You Need Help from www.ipwatchdog.com At what point does an idea take enough form to be considered an invention that can be protected? First, it is completely correct to say that ideas cannot be patented. Having said that, it is ...
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USPTO proposes fee increases for FY 2013; more increases may follow from ipspotlight.com On May 14, 2012, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office proposed an increase in its patent fees for Fiscal Year 2013. As in most years, the fee increase is based on fluctuations in the ...
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Singapore Builds Patent Capacity Ahead Of New System from www.ip-watch.org The tiny island state of Singapore has begun to ramp up its capacity for patent search and examination ahead of a bold move to adopt a new patent system, one of the proposed major amendments ...
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They Invented What? (No. 215) from anticipatethis.wordpress.com U.S. Patent No. 5,961,986: Anti-wrinkling apparatus. The invention claimed is: 1. An apparatus for deterring wrinkles of a person’s skin between and above a person’s breast, said apparatus comprising: a ...
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South Africa Hopes New Bill Brings Traditional Knowledge Protection from www.ip-watch.org The Intellectual Property Laws Amendment Bill currently in the in-tray of South African President Jacob Zuma and awaiting a signature, holds the hope that it will finally pave the way for the protection of the ...
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Live News: Rajya Sabha begins to debate Copyright (Amendment) Bill, 2010 from spicyipindia.blogspot.com The Rajya Sabha has just started to debate the Copyright (Amendment) Bill, 2010. Apparently the sitting of the House has been extended today by one hour till 7:30. Javed Akhtar initiated the debate with ...
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PCT National Stage Entry Deadlines 101 from info.inovia.com Perhaps the most common, and most important, question we field here at inovia relates to when the PCT application needs to enter the national phase (or stage; the terms are interchangeable). The national stage filing ...
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AkzoNobel And Intellectual Ventures Collaborate On R&D from gametimeip.com From a press release circulated by Intellectual Ventures yesterday: Akzo Nobel N.V. (AkzoNobel) and Intellectual Ventures (IV®) announced today that they have entered into a joint collaboration agreement to develop new technologies for the ...
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Recent Articles on Patent Damages from patent-damages.com If the following list of articles is any indication, patent damages is a hot topic in the scholarly journals. Only a few years ago there were very few articles written on patent damages. NOTE: ALL ...
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More Free Chemical Search Tools: Materials Project and ChemExper from intellogist.wordpress.com Here at the Intellogist blog, we’ve discussed free online tools for chemical searches ranging from government resources, like the ever-trusty PubChem and the Chemical Data Access Tool from the EPA, to international tools like ...
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Delaware-based federal court orders Apple and HTC to talk settlement on August 28 from www.fosspatents.com Today the United States District for the District of Delaware ordered the lawyers as well unspecified decision makers of Apple and HTC to meet in Delaware on August 28, 2012, to discuss a possible settlement ...
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US Legal Academics Call For Congressional Review Of ACTA from www.ip-watch.org An open letter was sent yesterday from 50 American legal academics encouraging members of the United States Senate Finance Committee to exercise their Constitutional responsibility to ensure that the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) is treated ...
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Essential USPTO trademark resources from www.erikpelton.com The USPTO website (www.USPTO.gov) contains an amazing array of trademark resources. Even many experienced practitioners are not aware of all of them. While the following list is not _all_ of the trademark resources ...
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