Patent & IP news for June 20, 2012

Havana Club Trademark Dispute with US and Bacardi from patentlawip.blogspot.com

Cuba and the US are at war…over Rum! Cuba’s state distillery sells the popular rum “Havana Club” in over 120 different countries (distributed through Pernod Ricard, a French company). But entry of Cuba ...

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BIO 2012: Prometheus, Myriad, Classen, and the Patentability of Diagnostic Methods from www.patentbaristas.com

A panel of distinguished lecturers provided thoughts and insights on recent major court cases in the biotech arena — and the decision-making behind them. In a discussion on the effects of Prometheus (and Myriad), the consensus ...

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Court upholds sanctions (for now): Samsung cannot leverage workarounds at trial from www.fosspatents.com

Tuesday was not a good day for Samsung's defense against Apple. A few hours after the Federal Circuit denied Samsung a rehearing regarding the Galaxy Tab 10.1, Magistrate Judge Paul S. Grewal in ...

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Near-Final Draft Of Rio+20 Outcome Document Shows Likely Commitments from www.ip-watch.org

A draft of the outcome document for this week’s Rio+20 meeting in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, said to be close to the final version, shows where governments have placed their focus. It appears ...

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Stepping Down From SpicyIP from spicyipindia.blogspot.com

For reasons that are both personal and professional, I will be stepping down from the leadership of SpicyIP, effective today. I will write a longer post about future arrangements soon.
I want to take this ...

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Biotech Companies Send Letter on Myriad Case to Attorney General and Solicitor General from www.patentdocs.org

By Donald Zuhn -- Last week, a group of 23 industrial, environmental, food, and agricultural biotechnology companies sent a letter to Attorney General Eric H. Holder, Jr. and Solicitor General Donald Verrilli, Jr., expressing their concerns ...

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Trademark Scammers Out of Business Thanks to Leason Ellis from www.ipwatchdog.com

Yesterday Leason Ellis announced that the case has been resolved with the signing of a consent decree and Settlement Agreement. Without a doubt this can be characterized as nothing short of a complete and total ...

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Advantages of the New Third Party Submissions under the AIA from www.postgrant.com

35 U.S.C. 122(e) and proposed new rule 37 CFR § 1.290 will greatly expand the public's ability to directly place prior art into another's pending application.  The new process will ...

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Samsung finally wins its first offensive case against Apple -- but it's only a consolation prize from www.fosspatents.com

Earlier today, Dutch IDG website Webwereld reported on a court ruling in The Hague that finds Apple liable for infringement of one of four patents Samsung is asserting in that action. Meanwhile the story has ...

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A View to a Kill: Montreal ‘Body Parts’ Murder Brings Array of Secondary Legal Issues from www.iposgoode.ca

When suspected Montreal “body parts” killer, Luka Magnotta, was detained in Berlin on June 4 following an international manhunt, only one small piece of a complex legal web was resolved. In addition to the ongoing ...

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BIO 2012: Everything America Invents Act from www.patentbaristas.com

A panel discussion at BIO 2012 pondered the questions as to whether the America Invents Act (AIA) provides a new option replacing patents to secure freedom-to-operate for internally used innovations in biotechnology. Amendments to 35 ...

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HTC argues Apple isn't entitled to immediate import ban, needs whole new lawsuit from www.fosspatents.com

Two weeks ago, Apple filed an enforcement complaint against HTC with the ITC, asking for an emergency proceeding that could result in an import ban of 29 HTC devices that allegedly infringe Apple's '647 ...

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Oracle does not want even one cent of damages from Google unless its appeal succeeds from www.fosspatents.com

In preparation of today's Oracle v. Google case management conference, the parties filed a stipulation on statutory damages regarding Google's infringement of the nine-line rangeCheck function and eight decompiled files. Such stipulation was ...

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USPTO Extends After Final Pilot; USPTO Adds Advancement of Examination Option to Law School Clinic Program from www.ipwatchdog.com

If you have not tried to use the After Final Pilot you should really give it a try. At our firm we have found examiners quite willing to work with us After Final under the ...

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Remnants of HTC's ITC complaint against Apple in bad shape after claim construction order from www.fosspatents.com

Following the dismissal of five patents it borrowed from Google (a decision it has just appealed), HTC's second ITC complaint against Apple is down to only three patents. And the outcome with respect to ...

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Kappos on the Hill,Testifies to Senate Judiciary Committee from www.ipwatchdog.com

Earlier today David Kappos, the Director of the USPTO, testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee at the Senate’s first oversight hearing of the America Invents Act. Among other things, Director Kappos noted that the ...

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Former WIPO Director Idris Reported Arrested In Sudan from www.ip-watch.org

According to local press reports, the former director general of the World Intellectual Property Organization, Kamil Idris, was arrested by security forces last week in Sudan on unknown charges. Related Articles:

• As WIPO Director Reports ...

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Google wants the ITC to deny import bans more often -- except when Motorola pursues them from www.fosspatents.com

This month, the ITC received a number of statements on the public interest in connection with Motorola's pursuit of import bans against Apple and Microsoft. In fact, I heard today that six Republican senators ...

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My Favorite Open Access Resources: OpenDOAR from intellogist.wordpress.com

Recently, I highlighted one of my favorite Open Access (OA) resources that allows users to search through a global directory of OA journals, the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ).  The DOAJ isn’t alone ...

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An Interesting Patent “Pure Play” — Internet Patents Corp from gametimeip.com

My article about Internet Patents Corp (Nasdaq: PTNT), an operating company that converted in 2011 to a patent “pure play,” just published on Seeking Alpha.  See Internet Patents Corp.: A Patent Pure Play Poised To ...

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SpicyIP Tidbit: Madras HC clarifies extent of URL blocking from spicyipindia.blogspot.com

In an update to the seemingly random mass censoring of video and torrent sites about a month ago, an ISP consortium approached the Madras High Court for a clarification as to the extent of the ...

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