Patent & IP news for August 5, 2012

Division Bench of Delhi High Court settles the law on interpretation of IPR (Imported Goods) Enforcement Rules, 2007 from spicyipindia.blogspot.com

Image from hereIn an interesting co-incidence, the Delhi High Court delivered two judgments on an identical point of law on the same day – 13th July, 2012. The first judgment by Justice Manmohan Singh was ...

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Grizzled grandpas and tests for inventive step: the shifting sands of patents in Europe from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Rarely has this Kat come away from a conversation with his friend Gwilym Roberts (Kilburn & Strode) without feeling that he is fortunate indeed to be an academic and a commentator, since Gwilym can be pretty ...

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New Prize dwarfs Nobel prize money; Indian awarded from spicyipindia.blogspot.com

Ashoke SenA new annual prize called The Fundamental Physics Prize has been instituted by Russian internet mogul Yuri Milner and it's prize money of $3 million each, more than doubles the Nobel Prize which ...

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From the Archives: Official documents from the 1999 Indo-American Pharmaceutical Patents trade dispute before the WTO from spicyipindia.blogspot.com

Image from hereKhomba Singh of the ET had carried this interesting report on 3rd August, 2012 hinting at the possibility of the European Union (E.U.) installing ‘non-tariff’ barriers to punish Indian generics for ...

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Summer heat in the courtroom: Apple has four Android-related patent trials this month from www.fosspatents.com

The big Apple v. Samsung trial in California (by the way, its primary hashtag on Twitter is #iCourt, though some also use #appsung) is by far not the only Android-related patent trial for Apple during ...

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CBS Sunday Morning on August 5, 2012 from ipbiz.blogspot.com

Charles Osgood introduced "ports of call," a tour of islands around the world, a recycled episode. Susan Spencer did the cover story. 32.7 million Americans live alone. Second, Tracy Smith on whistle stop on ...

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Important New Changes to US Patent Law for PCT Applicants from www.ipwatchdog.com

For the international community, however, there is an important change slated for September 16, 2012.  The AIA will changewho is entitled to be an applicant in U.S. national applications. This change will impact applicants ...

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"He had learned it didn’t pay to protect his secrets [with a patent]. " from ipbiz.blogspot.com

NICK BILTON in the New York Times on 5 August 2012. writing on the Apple/Samsung patent business in ND Cal brought up a case from 1933:

Mr.[Horace] Goldin filed a lawsuit against the ...

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Hatch/Rader-Waxman from www.717madisonplace.com

It would have been interesting to be a fly on the wall during the panel conference that followed the oral argument of  Momenta Pharmaceuticals et al. v. Amphastar et al., App. No. 2012-1062 (Fed. Cir ...

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Agreement, of a sort, reached on the Unified Patent Court from www.iposgoode.ca

As has already been widely reported, on Friday 29 June 2012 the European Council agreed on what has been presented as the final step on the long road to the Unitary EU Patent and a ...

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Re-examination vs. Invalidity Proceedings: A Question of Judicial Supremacy from www.iposgoode.ca

Re-examination and invalidity proceedings each play an important role in the patent system, offering different avenues that narrow or invalidate existing patent claims. However, a lack of clarity on how the two provisions co-exist has ...

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ABA Webinar/Teleconference on the AIA from www.patentdocs.org

The American Bar Association (ABA) Section of Intellectual Property Law, ABA-IPL Young Lawyers Action Group, Young Lawyers Division, and Center for Professional Development will be offering a live webinar and teleconference entitled "The America Invents ...

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Webinar on Impact of Recent Supreme Court and Federal Circuit Decisions from www.patentdocs.org

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP will be offering a live webinar on the "A Review of the Impact of Recent Supreme Court and Federal Circuit Decisions on Patent Strategy" on September 6, 2012 from 10 ...

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ABA Webinar/Teleconference on Mayo v. Prometheus from www.patentdocs.org

The American Bar Association (ABA) Section of Intellectual Property Law, Health Law Section, and Center for Professional Development will be offering a live webinar and teleconference entitled "Mayo v. Prometheus: The Supreme Court's New ...

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Conference & CLE Calendar from www.patentdocs.org

August 21, 2012 - Mayo v. Prometheus: The Supreme Court's New Methodology for Analyzing Patent Eligibility (American Bar Association) - 1:00 - 2:30 pm (EDT) August 24, 2012 - The America Invents Act: The Boundaries of ...

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Court Report from www.patentdocs.org

By Sherri Oslick -- About Court Report: Each week we will report briefly on recently filed biotech and pharma cases. Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. v. Watson Pharmaceuticals Inc. et al. 1:12-cv-00993; filed July 27, 2012 in ...

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