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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Pay-to-delay: settlements can cause litigation too from patlit.blogspot.com PatLit is delighted to welcome Marian T. Flattery to its readers. Marian is a seasoned patent practitioner at the distinguished practice of Finnegan; she has also guest-blogged for the
PharmExec weblog. You can read all ...
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EPEAT Certification Highlights Importance of Eco-labels from www.greenpatentblog.com EPEAT, Inc. (EPEAT) is an Oregon company that administers an environmental rating program certifying green computers and other electronic equipment. Manufacturers can register their products as EPEAT certified, and purchasers, whether they are large institutions ...
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Olympic trademarks from www.erikpelton.com Much has been made about the brands advertising on the Olympic telecast on NBC. What about the Olympic brand itself? We are inundated with it during these few weeks of competition. What is protected by ...
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Patent Troll Legislation: Grand Standing from hallingblog.com The Saving High-Tech Innovators from Egregious Legal Disputes (SHIELD) Act was introduced by Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and co-sponsored by Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT). This Bill is pure grandstanding. If you read the actual Bill ...
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G.I. Registry dismisses plea against G.I. tag for ‘Tirupati Laddu’; imposes costs of Rs. 10,000 on Praveen Raj from spicyipindia.blogspot.com Image from
here.Although we are yet to see a copy of the final order, we have been informed that the Geographical Indications Registry dismissed, on July 30th 2012, the rectification petition filed by Praveen ...
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Why is digital music more expensive in Australia? from ipkitten.blogspot.com Bruce's digital didgeridoo
turned out to be quite a paw-full Why is digital music more expensive in Australia? This question is currently being considered by the
House of Representatives Standing Committee on Infrastructure and ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
"Baby It's Cold Outside": IP Rights in Antarctica from ipkitten.blogspot.com It is August on the eastern littoral of the Mediterranean Sea. That can mean only one thing--unless you are lucky enough to be hugging the coastal beach, or are up in the hills, you face ...
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More on the MOU from ipkitten.blogspot.com The start of a beautiful relationship?
Following last week's
post on the Role of the
IPO, the IPO has since
published the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the IPO and the
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SpicyIP Tidbit: ToI on “U.S. doublespeak on patent waiver” from spicyipindia.blogspot.com On the 27th of July, both the
Times of India and the
ET carried a news report titled “U.S. doublespeak on patent waiver”. The report alleges hypocrisy on the part of the U.S ...
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Judge Koh once again bars Samsung from making the 'Apple imitated Sony' argument from www.fosspatents.com Judge Koh shows no signs of bowing to public pressure from Samsung. She stands firmly behind her own and Magistrate Judge Grewal's decisions to exclude certain claims and materials, while trying to conceal her ...
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Mediaquest v Registrar from ipwars.com It turns out that the Registrar does have power to undo an assignment of a registered trade mark that has been registered wrongly. A Mr Brailsford was the registered owner of the Peel Away trade ...
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First To File Practice: Grace Period Inventor Disclosures from www.pharmapatentsblog.com This is the first article in my First-To-File Friday series. On each Friday in August, I will publish an article that takes an in-depth look at one of the prior art exceptions of the first-to-file ...
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New Patent Reform Takes Swing at Patent Trolls from www.ipwatchdog.com Yesterday Congressman Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and Congressman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) introduced the Saving High-tech Innovators from Egregious Legal Disputes Act, or SHIELD Act for short. If ever passed into law the SHIELD Act would ostensibly ...
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Congress Mulls Changes To Patent Enforcement from gametimeip.com Two bills currently pending in Congress, if passed, would ultimately impact patent enforcement far more than the lengthy America Invents Act signed into law last year. First up is H.R. 3889 Promoting Automotive Repair ...
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July employment from www.athenaalliance.org July's employment numbers from the BLS shows a somewhat improving story. 163,000 jobs were created in July but the unemployment rate rose by 0.1% to 8.3% (what the BLS calls "essentially ...
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Congress Considers Significant Limits to Design Patents from www.ipwatchdog.com Where exactly does the right to have a repaired vehicle look exactly like a new vehicle come from? I don't find that in the Constitution either, but once again patents are right there in ...
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Divergent Approaches To Copyright Reform Emerge In Europe from www.ip-watch.org Two very different views of copyright reform emerged this week, one from a report commissioned by the UK government, the other from a French citizens' advocacy group. The former envisions an intricately linked system of ...
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Friday Foreign Filing Roundup from info.inovia.com Hello all! Take a look at the foreign filing/patenting news from the week of July 30th: The USPTO is continuing to extend PPH programs at a steady pace, with Colombia and Israel among the ...
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Design Patents from inventivestep.net Utility patents get all of the publicity in when discussing innovation. Another option that an inventor may want to consider is a design patent. Utility patents cover structural and functional aspects of an invention, while ...
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Is it too early for a 5-D Apple? from www.iposgoode.ca Apple is closing the gap to making full virtual reality a possibility. On July 24th 2012, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office granted the company a patent for its groundbreaking 5 dimensional technology. The ...
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BPAI affirms enablement rejection of "detecting at least one gamma ray" aftering finding POSITA knows that detection requires multiple rays from allthingspros.blogspot.com Takeaway: In an application involving the use of radiation to test materials, the Applicant appealed an enablement rejection for claims that included the step of "detecting
at least one emitted prompt gamma ray." The Examiner ...
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"Business of Biosimilars & Generic Drugs" Conference, Boston, MA, September 10-12 from www.orangebookblog.com I will be speaking on "Best Practices in Portfolio Management During the Patent Exchange Process" at IIR USA's 13th Annual Business of Biosimilars & Generic Drugs conference, to be held in Boston from September 10th ...
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The name of the game is the peripheral claim from www.717madisonplace.com One issue that seems lost in the quagmire of patent eligibility decisions is a recognition that the U.S. has evolved from the out-dated practice of central claiming (where inventions were determined from the specification ...
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Apple sales secrets in court from ipbiz.blogspot.com Greg Sandoval reports on the latest turn in the Samsung/Apple case in ND Cal related to possible disclosure in court of sales summaries for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch as well as tracking ...
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