Patent & IP news for June 19, 2012

BIO 2012 Day 2: Justices Ponder Hot Tubbing from www.patentbaristas.com

Patent law is essential to industry and commerce, whether creating new markets and technologies through “creative destruction” and “disruptive innovation” or evolving and improving those that already exist. Cases involving these patents, however, require a ...

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Tea Board ‘regrets’ earlier RTI reply; discloses legal expenses on registering and defending its Intellectual Property from spicyipindia.blogspot.com

Continuing from my earlier post on how the Tea Board & APEDA were making an absolute mockery of the Right to Information Act, 2005, I’m glad to report that the Tea Board has overruled its ...

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BIO Takes Stock: How Global Biotechnology Benefits from Intellectual Property Rights from www.patentbaristas.com

“The relationship between IPRs and biopharmaceutical innovation is together with copyright on the internet perhaps the most contentiously debated topic in the literature.” ~ “Taking Stock: the Gains of Global Biotechnology Research from IPRs” Proponents argue ...

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Oracle and Google are cleaning up and preparing for the appeals process from www.fosspatents.com

In preparation of a case management conference that Judge Alsup will hold tomorrow (Wednesday), Oracle and Google submitted a joint case management statement late on Monday that identifies the remaining issues that need to be ...

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Noticeable absences from the list of new gTLD applicants: Facebook, Twitter, Coke, Disney & more from www.erikpelton.com

Last week the list of applications for creation of new .ANYTHING generic top-level domain names -gTLDs – was made public. The full list of the ICAAN “reveal day” list of 1,930 new applicants for gTLDs ...

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Canada’s IP Writing Challenge 2012 from www.iposgoode.ca

The Intellectual Property Institute of Canada (IPIC) and IP Osgoode are delighted to announce our 2012 Canadian writing challenge in intellectual property law. We are pleased to be running our third annual writing challenge.  Our ...

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Happy(?) Birthday, Bill C-11! from www.iposgoode.ca

After years of debate (almost 15, to be precise) and numerous revisions and cancellations (4, to be precise), Bill C-11 or An Act to Amend the Copyright Act, arguably the most controversial set of changes ...

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Rio+20 Conference Opens With IP, Tech Transfer, Underlying Debate from www.ip-watch.org

As world leaders along with thousands of government, private sector and nonprofit participants, get ready to meet in Rio de Janeiro this week, 20 years after this Brazilian city hosted the historic first Earth Summit ...

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WTO Review Provides Update On China’s IP Rise from www.ip-watch.org

A World Trade Organization review of China’s trade policy includes assessments of the country’s progress on adopting - and becoming a leader of - the global intellectual property rights system. Related Articles:

• US, China Hold ...

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Study Finds EU Copyright Law Harms Investment In Cloud Computing from www.ip-watch.org

A technology industry-friendly economic study released today found that changes to European copyright laws in recent years have negatively impacted venture capitalists' investments in cloud computing companies. This followed several French and German court rulings ...

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IP Owners Join USPTO: Copying For Patent Applications Is Fair Use from www.ip-watch.org

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and a leading US rights holder group have entered a case involving rights over prior art submitted in patent applications, arguing that it falls under fair use ...

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Galaxy Tab 10.1 injunction moves closer after Federal Circuit denies Samsung a rehearing from www.fosspatents.com

Two weeks ago, Judge Lucy Koh denied, just for the time being, Apple's motion for a preliminary injunction against the Galaxy Tab 10.1 following a partially-successful appeal to the Court of Appeals for ...

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File Sharing More Opportunity Than Burden, Says Speaker At WIPO from www.ip-watch.org

The music industry often claims that unauthorised file sharing online is ripping off artists and the economy to the tune of billions of dollars. Although such file-sharing is impacting sales, the losses are grossly overestimated ...

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IAM Seine … Really … from tacticalip.com

TweetIntellectual assets encompass intellectual property and potentially a lot more.  To simplify the startup of a company’s Intellectual Asset Management (IAM) program, focusing on one or more...

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Valid but Not Infringed, Merck’s Loses Blockbuster Nasonex® from www.ipwatchdog.com

Last week, on Friday, June 15, 2012, Merck (NYSE: MRK) announced the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey (Judge Peter G. Sheridan) ruled against the company on the issue of patent ...

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Ensuring Quality Inter Partes and Post Grant Reviews from www.uspto.gov

In pursuing our mission to ensure the highest possible level of patent quality, the USPTO has for decades employed the BRI standard—broadest reasonable claim interpretation—to construe claims before the Office. Using this standard ...

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Music Publishers, Universal Group Sign “Groundbreaking” Licence Deal from www.ip-watch.org

A trade association representing music publishers and songwriters today announced a model licensing deal with Universal Music Group that is expected to allow songwriters and publishers to share in the revenue from music videos. Universal ...

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Canada, Mexico Tilt Weight West In Complex Trans-Pacific Partnership Talks from www.ip-watch.org

A complex trade negotiation among several countries bordering the Pacific Ocean just got more weighted toward the west as Canada and Mexico joined their North American partner the United States in the talks. They may ...

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5 Recent Changes to the PubMed Interface from intellogist.wordpress.com

The NCBI Entrez service, a gateway to multiple life sciences collections hosted by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), links to a number of free databases that are invaluable free resources for various types ...

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WHO Paper: How To Guard Against Tobacco Companies And Trade Law from www.ip-watch.org

The World Health Organization has published a paper that explains to policymakers and others how to take measures to protect public health against tobacco while staying within the bounds of international trade and investment law ...

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Claim Interpretation for Post-Grant Review and Inter Partes Review under the AIA – Part I from www.reexamlink.com

Today, USPTO Director David Kappos posted a comment advocating the use of  the broadest reasonable interpretation standard (BRI) for claim interpretation in post grant review and inter partes review under the America Invents Act.  This ...

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The Chief Justice is coming to town from ipwars.com

to give this year’s Francis Gurry Lecture on Intellectual Property: ‘A public law perspective on Intellectual Property’ Wednesday 25 July, 6:00pm at Melbourne Uni’s Law School. Free. More information here; register here ...

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