Mega-Patent Portfolio Sales: Chimera or Here to Stay? from ipfinance.blogspot.com I do not usually use this blog platform to offer my counterpoint to a post by one of my IP Finance colleagues. However, I will make an exception this time in connection with Rob Harrison ...
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Guest Post: Gaston Kroub on Cleantech Patent Litigation After Apple v. Motorola from www.greenpatentblog.com As readers of this blog know, green patent activity continues at a record pace. Accordingly, Cleantech companies of all sizes need to stay aware of general trends in patent litigation, as the increasing number of ...
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CJEU to give pharma company branding a health-czech from ipkitten.blogspot.com Even with his eyes shut, Oscar could always
taste which colour the swans were -- but he
liked the black ones best ... All the way from the Nejvyšší správní soud - and you've got to believe ...
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Insured from www.patenthawk.com Like banks, insurance companies are a cornerstone of the capitalist empire that the U.S. government feels beholden to. The courts are part of the cabal of plutocratic protection. So it was a nonstarter when ...
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Top 4 Niche Olympic Patents from intellogist.wordpress.com The Olympics are upon us, and even though we haven’t had an official opening ceremony, some of the competition has started, especially in soccer. The USA men’s team won’t be there due ...
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A Different Challenge To The Post-Notice Of Appeal Patent Term Adjustment Problem from www.pharmapatentsblog.com Deca-Medics, Inc. has filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia challenging a Patent Term Adjustment (PTA) award based on how its patent application was processed after a ...
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With German FAT patent ruling, Microsoft scores third court victory over Google in as many months from www.fosspatents.com This morning, Judge Voss of the Mannheim Regional Court, who has already presided over more smartphone-related patent lawsuits than any other judge in the world, announced a ruling in Microsoft's favor against Google subsidiary ...
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Top 5: Innovative Tech Tuesdays and Patents of the Week from info.articleonepartners.com Recently, Article One has started posting cool, innovative technologies on our Facebook and Twitter feeds. Each week on “Tech Tuesday,” we post a couple of exciting inventions, followed by Thursdays with the “Patent[s] of ...
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2Q 2012 GDP - and waiting for better measures from www.athenaalliance.org News from BEA this morning is that the economy slowed in the April-June period. GDP grew by only 1.5% in the second quarter, compared with 2% in the first quarter and 4.1% in ...
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Top 10 Weekly Patent & IP News Update from info.articleonepartners.com Welcome to Article One's Top 10 Weekly News Update. Each week, Article One provides a quick list of the top news in patents and IP. Here are some of the stories that we've ...
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The First Sale Doctrine – A Nightmare to the Copyright Abolitionists from tacticalip.com TweetBy: Mark R. Malek For weeks now I have been going round and round with some folks on twitter about the legitimacy of copyright law. Of course, this prompted me to write some articles proving ...
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UK Perspective: Bancorp Services v. Sun Life Assurance from www.ipwatchdog.com The EPO applies what might be referred to as a “subtraction” test for claims containing a mixture of patent-eligible and patent-ineligible features, those features that are patent-ineligible being disregarded and novelty and obviousness under aa ...
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Bancorp Services: Further Fracturing of the Patent Eligibility Landscape for Business Methods and Systems* from www.ipwatchdog.com In holding the method, system, and media claims of the ‘792 and ‘037 patents to “cover no more than abstract ideas and therefore do no recite patent-eligible subject matter,” Judge Lourie’s opinion trivializes the ...
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America Invents Act does not Preclude Pretrial Consolidation from docketreport.blogspot.com The court denied plaintiff's motion to consolidate three of its cases for pre-trial purposes, but rejected defendants' argument that consolidation would violate the spirit of the America Invents Act. "[T]he Court notes that ...
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Next WTO Ministerial To Be Held In Bali In December 2013 from www.ip-watch.org The World Trade Organization will hold its next ministerial level meeting in Bali, Indonesia, in the first week of December 2013, it announced today.
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Applicant files computer application without drawings and loses petition arguing "drawings not required" from allthingspros.blogspot.com Takeaway: The Applicant filed a software patent application which referred to drawings, but the filing did not actually include the drawings. The PTO sent a Notice of Incomplete Application. In response, the Applicant filed a ...
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Prior Art Enablement: Burden on Patent Applicant to Prove Non-Enablement from www.patentlyo.com by Dennis Crouch In re Antor Media Corp (Fed. Cir. 2012)(Lourie, J.) As part of an ex parte reexamination process, the Board of Patent Appeals (BPAI) found Antor's patent claims invalid as both ...
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Hricik on Ethics from www.patentlyo.com Professor Hricik has a series of interesting posts on his Patent Ethics site: Adverse Inference Order for Spoliation Entered Against Samsung in Apple Patent Suit A Professional, Effective Cease and Desist Letter Speaking of Privilege ...
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Innovation And The Law: Some Lessons From The Patent Wars from www.ip-watch.org They’ve been at each other’s throats for three years, and there’s no end in sight. Over two dozen businesses involved with smartphones and tablet computers are suing one another for patent infringement ...
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Ongoing Debate: Is Software Patentable? from www.patentlyo.com by Dennis Crouch A pair of recent Federal Circuit decisions continue to highlight ongoing ambiguities and difficulties regarding the scope of patent subject matter eligibility for software related patents. Bancorp Services, L.L.C. v ...
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Friday Foreign Filing Roundup from info.inovia.com Hey everyone! Here’s what we found in the way of foreign filing/patenting news for the week of July 23rd: More on the America Invents Act: Check out the USPTO’s latest proposal to ...
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Thought for the Day from www.717madisonplace.com The thought for the day comes from the US Supreme Court decision in Aro Mfg. Co., Inc. v. Convertible Top Co., 365 U.S. 336 (1961). In that case, the Court explained what an “invention ...
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ACI Maximizing Pharmaceutical Patent Lifecycles Conference from www.patentdocs.org American Conference Institute (ACI) will be holding its 13th Annual Maximizing Pharmaceutical Patent Lifecycles conference on October 10-11, 2012 in New York, NY. The conference will allow attendees to: • Understand how the patent cliff will ...
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Biotech & Pharmaceutical Patenting Conference from www.patentdocs.org C5 (UK) will be holding its 23th Annual Forum on Biotech & Pharmaceutical Patenting on October 10-11, 2012 in London, UK. The conference will allow attendees to: • Discover competitive patent filing strategies, tactics, and implications of ...
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Apple-Samsung patent fight is not about pushing competition off the market from www.ipeg.eu Apple this week missed earnings expectations as it faces stiffening smartphone competition from the likes of Samsung without its own blockbuster new hardware to satisfy eager consumers. Apple missed lofty analyst expectations for the fiscal ...
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