Patent & IP news for July 23, 2012

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post image 20th Century Fox Film Corporation v. Zee Telefilms Ltd. & Ors. from spicyipindia.blogspot.com


This recently decided case involves a TV show, Time Bomb, produced by Zee Telefilms in 2005. The Plaintiffs alleged that this was a copy of their acclaimed show 24. The case was filed in 2005 ...

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Delhi High Court passes restraining orders in a declaratory patent lawsuit after the patent has already been revoked by IPAB! from spicyipindia.blogspot.com

Image from here.In a recent 80 page order, Justice Manmohan Singh of the Delhi High Court has, probably unwittingly, passed restraining orders in the case of L.G. Electronics India Pvt. Ltd. v. Bharat ...

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ACCC v Google from ipwars.com

Apparently, back on 25 June the High Court granted Google special leave to appeal from the Full Federal Court’s ruling that Google is liable for the misleading ads placed by advertisers. Maybe the internet ...

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Patentability of Computer Software Programs in India from spicyipindia.blogspot.com


In my previous post about the Samsung-Apple patent war in the tablet and smartphone market, I ranted about the curse of patents in the industry and how Judge Richard Posner, of the U.S. Court ...

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Google Says Some Apple Inventions Are So Great They Ought to Be Shared-take a bow Kent Walker from www.tangible-ip.com

Slashdot reports today that Google has come up with a really smart way of avoiding all of these pesky and irritating patent fights it is in right now. Referencing an article on All Things D ...

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Brands that deserve to make a comeback-Yahoo and Marissa Meyer from www.tangible-ip.com

If for no other reason than she has taken the job, one of the most challenging in the tech world right now, whilst heavily pregnant, and has told her (inevitably) male and (disappointingly)  female doubters ...

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Leeds Public Library and its help for inventors from britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk

Last week I stayed in Leeds overnight after giving a talk about the “common problems facing inventors” to the Leeds Inventors Group. The venue was Leeds’ main library, where their Business and...

(From Steve van ...

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US Congressional Committee Urged To Invite WIPO Staff Involved In Computer Shipments from www.ip-watch.org

The World Intellectual Property Organization has notified the US congressional committee scheduled to hold a briefing tomorrow on WIPO technical assistance shipments of computers and software to North Korea and Iran that the committee should ...

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Access To Medicines And Intellectual Property In Jordan from www.ip-watch.org

A new study sponsored by the Medicines Transparency Alliance (MeTA) sheds light on the impact of strong intellectual property protection on access to medicines.Related Articles:

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Submitting Prior Art Against a Pending Patent Application from ipspotlight.com

On July 17, 2012, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) a final rule expanding the ability of interested parties to submit prior art against a pending patent application for consideration by the USPTO ...

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Samsung drops one more patent ahead of next week's Apple trial from www.fosspatents.com

Apple and Samsung have previously dropped a number of claims against each other in the federal lawsuit that will go to trial in California next week. Also, Judge Koh contributed to the winnowing process by ...

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WIPO Copyright Committee Negotiating Texts Available from www.ip-watch.org

The World Intellectual Property Organization Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) is meeting intensively to try to resolve differences on a variety of instruments, from visually impaired readers, to broadcasting, to educational and ...

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Fairly Dealt: Strong Statement by the SCC in Alberta (Education) v. Access Copyright from www.iposgoode.ca

One of the recent pentalogy of copyright decisions that has forever changed Canadian copyright law is Alberta (Education) v. Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency (Access Copyright), 2012 SCC 37. The decision focused on the concept of ...

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In lobbying and litigation, Google blurs distinction between standard-essential and other patents from www.fosspatents.com

Since Friday evening there has been a lot of discussion on the Internet about an AllThingsD article entitled "Google Says Some Apple Inventions Are So Great They Ought to Be Shared". The article is worth ...

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European Commission Seeks Public Input On Preservation Of The Open Internet from www.ip-watch.org

The European Commission (EC) announced today that it would begin a period of public consultation on the subject of internet neutrality.Related Articles:

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The EPO Rules that Email Use will not Publically Disclose a Patent from www.iposgoode.ca

Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. has survived a challenge against its “Display Device” patent by DSM IP Assets B.V. in a ruling by the Boards of Appeal of the European Patent Office (EPO) that ...

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Considering Canada’s Supreme Court Decisions in this week’s WIPO Proceedings from www.iposgoode.ca

As members of the international intellectual property community attend the 24th session of the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR), they are told to keep the spirit of Beijing alive, referring to the ...

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Allergan Inc. c. Canada (Health), 2012 FC 767: Comity or Tragedy? from www.iposgoode.ca

A somewhat confusing victory for Allergan Inc. was won on June 18th,upholding their patent on COMBIGAN, despite the fact that their invention was ruled to be obvious.  The Honourable Justice Hughes ruled in favour ...

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