Patent & IP news for June 21, 2012

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post image Free Kindle Version of The Decline and Fall of the American Entrepreneur from hallingblog.com

Get your free Kindle version of the book that explains why the US has lost its innovation engine – The Decline and Fall of the American Entrepreneur: How Little Known Laws and Regulations are Killing Innovation ...

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Docs at BIO: Session on Prior User Rights as a New IP Option from www.patentdocs.org

By James DeGiulio -- The Leahy-Smith America Invents Act changed the law on prior user rights ("PUR") in the United States, providing protection for inventors' trade secrets and protection against infringement liability from a later granted ...

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Google's newest H.264 royalty demand is still hundreds of times the pool rate from www.fosspatents.com

Major news agencies (Bloomberg, Dow Jones, Reuters) report on a "settlement offer" that Google subsidiary Motorola Mobility made Microsoft, and Microsoft's response, describing this as "little more than an effort to change the subject ...

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Oracle v. Google: Judge enters non-final final judgment, Oracle files final motion before appeal from www.fosspatents.com

Yesterday, Oracle and Google met in court for the last case management conference before the appeal. I previously reported that they were "cleaning up and preparing for the appeals process" before the Court of Appeals ...

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

In Part I of this topic, I posted some of the reasons why the Patent Office has taken the position that the broadest reasonable interpretation (BRI) standard should be used in post-grant review and inter ...

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Is “Arnold Palmer” generic for beverage that is half iced tea, half lemonade? from www.erikpelton.com

Watching the U.S. Open golf championship last weekend, I got to thinking: is “Arnold Palmer” generic for beverage that is half iced tea, half lemonade? I don’t know.  I have hear many people ...

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Getting a Loan with Your Patents from www.ipwatchdog.com

An assignment indicates who owns an issued patent or pending patent application. They are registered with the USPTO and available for public inspection. There is a special type of assignment called a “security agreement”. A ...

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Whose Copyright Reigns Supreme? Copyright and Reality Television Shows from www.iposgoode.ca

The battle’s heating up, but this time it’s not in kitchen stadium – it’s in the courthouse. Today’s secret ingredient – copyright which protects reality TV shows such as Iron Chef, American Idol ...

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Meryl Streep, Other Top Actors, Urge WIPO To Finish Audiovisual Treaty from www.ip-watch.org

World Intellectual Property Organization members yesterday resumed a 12-year-old top-level negotiation for a treaty on the protection of performers’ rights in audiovisual productions, this time with the eloquent urgings of some of the world’s ...

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Unprecedented Vote: EU Parliament Trade Committee Rejects ACTA from www.ip-watch.org

In an unprecedented move, the European Parliament Committee on International Trade (INTA) today in Brussels passed a report recommending the rejection of the controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA). Never before has INTA voted to reject ...

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If You Can’t Join ‘Em, Beat ‘Em: New Industry Effort A Jab At Patent Pool? from www.ip-watch.org

A new pharmaceutical industry initiative aimed at improving access to HIV treatments in least-developed countries is raising questions as to how it will fit with the Medicines Patent Pool, an existing group with a similar ...

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UN Non-Takeover Of The Net: ITU’s Touré Calls For Documents To Be Public from www.ip-watch.org

UN International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Secretary General Hamadoun Touré today in Geneva announced he would propose to the ITU Council later this month to make the draft documents for the much-debated International Telecommunication Regulations (ITR ...

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Christopher R. Leslie: Patent Tying, Price Discrimination, and Innovation from writtendescription.blogspot.com

Do patent tying arrangements diminish incentives for innovation?  In his recent article Patent Tying, Price Discrimination, and Innovation, 77 Antitrust Law Journal 811 (2011), Professor Christopher R. Leslie (University of California, Irvine School of Law ...

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Whose Beard to Fear: Brian Wilson’s or James Harden’s? from dunlapcodding.com

Teaser Text  Do Oklahoma Thunder fans and James Harden have anything to fear?

“Fear the Beard”—a phrase that doesn’t truly rhyme, but is catchy nonetheless. Most recently, this phrase is associated with James ...

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US-EU Transatlantic Trade Deal Would Skip IPRs from www.ip-watch.org

The Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) yesterday released an interim report with the European Union on ways to expand transatlantic trade and investment. But apparently this would not including trying to bridge ...

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University Licensing and Biotech IPRs Good for the Economy from www.ipwatchdog.com

Earlier in the week BIO also unveiled another report it commissioned and which was authored by Lori Pressman, David Roessner, Jennifer Bond, Sumiye Okubo, and Mark Planting. This report, titled Taking Stock: How Global Biotechnology ...

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BIO Hails House Passage of FDA Safety and Innovation Act from www.ipwatchdog.com

It will enhance the development and review of innovative new therapies through increased transparency and scientific dialogue, advancements in regulatory science and strengthened post-market review. It will also increase FDA’s access to external expertise ...

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Free Search of Full-Text Indian Patents through the Improved IPAIRS 2.0 Portal from intellogist.wordpress.com

Back in November 2010, we looked the Indian Patent Information Retrieval System (IPAIRS), a search portal offered by the Indian Patent Office. We concluded that although IPAIRS is a useful free source to have access ...

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BIO Releases Consultant Report Promoting IP Rights from www.ip-watch.org

At its annual meeting this week in Boston, the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO), put its name to a report promoting the advantages of intellectual property rights for the industry. The report, “Taking Stock: How Global ...

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LML Payment Systems Wraps Up Patent Monetization Effort from gametimeip.com

LML Payment Systems (NASDAQ:LMLP) hired McKool Smith to enforce its payment processing patents against the giants of the financial industry.  That effort wrapped up earlier this year, and with the patents expiring in January ...

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ABA Urges Senate to Vote on Richard Taranto Nomination from www.717madisonplace.com

The ABA sent a letter to Senate leaders the other day urging a vote on several consensus nominees, including Richard Taranto for the Federal Circuit.  You can read the letter here.  The Blog of Legal ...

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Business Names Are Trademarks Made Unregistrable by Morality from www.iposgoode.ca

The Japanese restaurant ‘Fuku’ (pronounced foo-koo), which recently opened a new West Palm Beach location, ran into a snag attempting registering their trademark. The Florida Department of State Divisions of Corporations rejected the application on ...

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New UK Code Pulls ISPs into the Anti-Piracy Battle from www.iposgoode.ca

The UK will likely be implementing new anti-piracy measures through the publication of a new code this month. In 2010, the passing of the Digital Economy Act (DEA) mandated that communication regulator Ofcom publish a ...

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