Facts versus formalism: protecting descriptive and allusive terms from ipkitten.blogspot.com The IPKat has been giving some thought to two very recent decisions from England and Wales that address a popular debating point among consumers, businesses, lawyers -- and a regular question for law students sitting their ...
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WIPO Releases IP Facts and Figures, 2012 Edition from info.articleonepartners.com Earlier this week, the WIPO released their IP Facts and Figures, 2012 edition. “The World Intellectual Property Organization’s (WIPO) 2012 IP Facts and Figures provides an overview of intellectual property (IP) activity based on ...
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Book Reviews: Economics of Olympics and Sports Events from ipkitten.blogspot.com As we reach the final days of the London Olympics, your Katonomist took a look at two books on the economics of the Olympics and such sporting events from publisher Edward Elgar. She would like ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
Employee Compensation Incentives for Patents (Only): Does It Make Sense? from ipkitten.blogspot.com This Kat had occasion this week to revisit the issue of employee compensation for inventions. There may no subject in IP that has yielded as many different national schemes—statutory, judicial, or other—as has ...
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Love it or Leave it: LONDON 2012 Olympic logo from www.erikpelton.com Over the past 2 weeks, I have watched quite a few hours of the Olympics coverage. The competition is great. What about the London 2012 logo? When the logo was first unveiled a few years ...
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HTC Share Price Collapse from ipfinance.blogspot.com It's not been a good few months for Tawanese handset manufacturer
HTC. It's seen its share price collapse by over 45% in the past three months and around 70% in the past year ...
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Lamb comforts Parliamentarians: to ERR is human from ipkitten.blogspot.com One of the legal developments which has been quietly creeping along in the wake of London's long summer of royal celebrations and Olympic festivities is the progress of the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill ...
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SDTX issues two orders precluding plaintiff’s expert from testifying on reasonable royalty from patent-damages.com In WesternGeco LLC v. ION Geophysical Corp., Case No. 4:09-CV-1827 (SDTX), the court issued an opinion on July 16, 2012 and another opinion on July 19, 2012 excluding the plaintiff’s expert from testifying ...
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June trade in intangibles from www.athenaalliance.org The trade data for June released this morning by BEA has some unexpected good news. The deficit fell by $5.1 billion to a total of $42.9 billion. Economists had expected only a slight ...
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Loser Pays System Introduced in Congress from www.patentlyo.com Congressman Peter Defazio recently introduced H.R. 6245. The working title of the bill is the “Saving High-Tech Innovators from Egregious Legal Disputes Act of 2012” also known as SHIELD. The Bill would permit the ...
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Courts in Korea and Germany postpone decisions on three lawsuits involving Apple from www.fosspatents.com Three lawsuits involving Apple -- it's the plaintiff in two of them, and the defendant in the third -- were postponed today by courts in South Korea and Germany.
The Munich I Regional Court (which has ...
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Sale of Software Does Not Establish Direction or Control of Customer Sufficient to Support Direct Infringement Claim from docketreport.blogspot.com The court granted defendant's motion to dismiss plaintiff's claims for direct infringement based on defendant's vicarious liability for its customers. "[A]n allegation that Defendant provides the software and that customers install ...
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Inovia Expands Foreign Filing Network into Egypt from info.inovia.com We recently announced the addition of Egypt to our agent network, bringing our total country count to 85. Saba & Co., a leading IP firm in the Middle East and North Africa, will handle PCT national ...
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Traditional medicines, clinical trials and re-entry of data exclusivity? from spicyipindia.blogspot.com In response to consistent pressure from external agencies to impose some kind of quality control on "traditional Indian herbal" medicines, India may very soon make it mandatory for traditional medicines to undergo clinical trials before ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
Prior Art Hunt for Obtaining an Advantage in a Computer Game from www.ipwatchdog.com Article One Partners always has interesting patent studies going on at any particular time, but one of their studies recently caught my eye in particular. There is an ongoing patent study relating U.S. Patent ...
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PatentScope Has JP Data from patentlibrarian.blogspot.com Japanese patent documents are now available in PatentScope. The JP national collection is the 29th added to the system and includes more than 3 million records from January 2004 through July 2012. New data will ...
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Fox News commentator concedes representing Samsung prior to district bar admission from www.fosspatents.com I was first to identify Susan Estrich, a law professor and TV celebrity, as the Samsung lawyer about whose lack of a notice of appearance and, more importantly, admission to the Northern District of California ...
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BPAI provides concise summary of how to rebut an Examiner's claim interpretation from allthingspros.blogspot.com Takeaway: In an appeal involving a cartridge for caulking compound, the main issue was the meaning of of the term "punch" in claim limitations such as “punching an opening in the tubular container.” The BPAI ...
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