Patent & IP news for May 22, 2012

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post image Lok Sabha passes the Copyright (Amendment) Bill, 2012 with overwhelming support from the Opposition from spicyipindia.blogspot.com

Earlier today, the Lok Sabha on the last day of the current budget session, unanimously voted in support of the Copyright (Amendment) Bill, 2012, which has been pending in Parliament for the last two years ...

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post image Scoot from www.patenthawk.com

Hong-Jiun Gu and Jar Chen Wang got 6,722,674, claiming a scooter with safety wheels. On inter partes reexam, the examiner rejected claims as obvious, which the Board overturned. The aggrieved party appealed to ...

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post image USPTO to Host Clean Technology Partnership Meeting June 12, 2012 from www.patentabilityblog.com

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) will host its second Clean Technology Partnership Meeting on Tuesday, June 12, 2012, from 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm.  The meeting will be held in ...

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post image Katonomics 18: more on IP and economic growth from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Just like cats, countries come in two
different styles: the developed and
the developing
In this week's Katonomist column, experienced IP-flavoured economist Dr Nicola Searle continues her quest to make economics intelligible to ...

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U.S. sales ban of Galaxy Tab 10.1 looms large: hearing scheduled for June 7 from www.fosspatents.com

Yesterday, the CEOs and chief lawyers of Apple and Samsung started their two-day court-moderated settlement talks in San Francisco. Nothing is known about how those talks went on the first day. High-profile media and news ...

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Tips from the USPTO: An INTA ‘table topic’ summary from www.erikpelton.com

Two weeks ago I attended a roundtable “table topic” at the INTA conference featuring two staff attorneys from the USPTO.  The session was full of valuable information: - 92% of USPTO Examining Attorney work from home ...

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BPAI unreasonable removable destructive force from allthingspros.blogspot.com

Takeaway: In a variety of cases involving claim terms like "removable" and "detachable," the BPAI has reversed prior art rejections when the Examiner has interpreted these terms to allow for destructive forces rather than the ...

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WIPO Committee On Law Of Patents Walks A Fine Line from www.ip-watch.org

The law of patents is being discussed this week at the World Intellectual Property Organization with a focus on the potentially difficult issues of limitations and exceptions, high quality patents, and patents related to public ...

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PATENTSCOPE: Better free patent searching with new system upgrades from intellogist.wordpress.com

The WIPO PATENTSCOPE team has been very busy in the past month, releasing two big updates. The changes include better search functionality, a friendlier user interface (UI), and a fun analysis feature. PATENTSCOPE is quickly ...

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Nobel Laureate, Other Experts Hail WHO Effort On Medicines R&D Framework from www.ip-watch.org

The annual World Health Assembly being held this week has a rare chance to achieve a breakthrough on health research for the global poor if it can agree to move forward on a proposed convention ...

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Google wrongly suggests that compatibility is a basis for denying copyrightability from www.fosspatents.com

The Oracle v. Google jury is struggling with technical terminology and may, once again, be hung and potentially deliver another partial verdict. In this recent post, I discussed the patent liability issues the jury is ...

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USPTO to Host Clean Technology Partnership Meeting from www.ipwatchdog.com

The U.S. Commerce Department’s United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) will host its second Clean Technology Partnership Meeting on Tuesday, June 12, 2012, to bring clean technology stakeholders together to share ideas ...

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Copyright, Fair Use, and Academic Institutions from ipspotlight.com

A district court in Georgia recently issued an opinion that, if upheld, may allow academic institutions and others to share portions of digital documents online and avoid liability under U.S. copyright law. In Cambridge ...

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Delaware court doesn't allow Apple's four belated infringement counterclaims against HTC from www.fosspatents.com

The Chief Judge of the District Court of Delaware just denied an Apple motion to amend its answer to an HTC complaint in order to bring infringement counterclaims over four patents. Apple will now have ...

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Value of Microsoft’s Facebook Stake Drops Below $1B from ipcloseup.wordpress.com

MS Supports FB’s Success; Promotes It’s Own Facebook has been shedding market value like a wet collie its winter coat. With Facebook’s share price down to just $72.7B as of May ...

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WHO Members To Address Proposals For Financing Developing Country R&D from www.ip-watch.org

Members of the World Health Organization at their annual meeting tomorrow will address proposals for ways to finance research and development for diseases which afflict mainly developing countries but for which there are not lucrative ...

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Stealth Bombers back on the Radar – The Anton Piller Order from www.iposgoode.ca

As the author of the highly publicized decisions of Kerwhizz and Temple Island Collections, Judge Birss of the England and Wales Patent County Court (PCC) is no stranger to controversy. In his latest judgment, Suh ...

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Quote of the Day from www.717madisonplace.com

The BNA had a nice article summing up the recent roundtable on Mayo v. Prometheus that was held at George Washington University last week.  Retired Chief Judge Paul Michel of the Federal Circuit was one ...

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Oracle Fails to Predict Copyright Case Outcome against Google from www.iposgoode.ca

The copyright and patent dispute between Oracle and Google continues, however a partial verdict on the copyright side of the debate has been handed down. The trial jury has decided the Google has infringed on ...

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LawTechCamp reminds Lawful Access to consider the Charter: The Disclosure of Subscriber Information and Privacy Implications from www.iposgoode.ca

Throughout last weekend’s second annual lawTechCamp, audience members interacted with each other using the Twitter hashtag #ltcto2012. While many participants chose not to hide their online identity behind a veil of anonymity, this possibility ...

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