Patent & IP news for August 12, 2012

Of mice and rice: when registration's not nice? from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Most Kats get by pretty well on a balanced diet of delicacies, preferably four-legged ones which squeak and two-legged ones which flap.  Apart from being made of meat, which is what they normally eat, their ...

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Apple v. Motorola: Analyzing Judge Posner’s Decision from www.ipwatchdog.com

J. Posner also brought the value of the patents declared to be essential under standards bodies to bear on the damages question.  Essential patents must be evaluated for absolute value and relative value to the ...

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Microsoft keeps pushing for a third German injunction against Google's Motorola Mobility from www.fosspatents.com

Microsoft has thus far won two German injunctions against Google subsidiary Motorola Mobility's Android-based devices, one over a multi-part message layer patent in Munich and another one over a file system patent in Mannheim ...

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CBS Sunday Morning on August 12, 2012 from ipbiz.blogspot.com

Charles Osgood introduced the stories for CBS Sunday Morning on August 12, 2012. Osgood mentioned Romney's choice of Paul Ryan [a grad of Miami University], with Jan Crawford covering. In the cover story, David ...

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Plagiarism problems at UMissouri med school from ipbiz.blogspot.com

See St. Louis Post-Dispatch article MU docs plagiarized, journal says.
University investigates in wake of retraction.

The people charged were Amar Jadhav and Anand Chockalingam. There is a third author, Apeksha Ingole, who is affiliated ...

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Judge is tired of Apple-Samsung blame game, orders lawyers to meet in person this Sunday from www.fosspatents.com

Judge Lucy Koh, the federal judge presiding over the Apple v. Samsung trial in California, just entered the following order:

"The Court is disappointed by the parties' respective reports regarding their meet and confer efforts ...

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Non-Public Litigation: The Hidden Story of Monsanto v. DuPont from www.patentlyo.com

Guest Post by Professor Bernard Chao Last year, I wrote about the problem of courts that injudiciously seal records in patent cases. See Bernard Chao, Not So Confidential: A Call for Restraint in Sealing Court ...

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"It was a take-it-or-leave-it proposition" from ipbiz.blogspot.com

Penn State's Board of Trustees opted to take no action on Sunday, August 12, as to ratifying the NCAA document signed by President Rodney Erickson in July.

Erickson had noted "It was a take-it-or-leave-it ...

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"60 Minutes" on August 12, 2012 from ipbiz.blogspot.com

"60 Minutes" speaks to Paul Ryan and Mitt Ryan. Ryan: "I said yes."

Second story. An experiment in re-training the unemployed.

Third story. A visit to one of the poorest places on earth, the Congo ...

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Conference & CLE Calendar from www.patentdocs.org

August 16, 2012 - Challenging a Patent Application: Preissuance Submissions to the USPTO (Intellectual Property Owners Association) - 2:00 - 3:00 pm (ET) August 21, 2012 - Mayo v. Prometheus: The Supreme Court's New Methodology for ...

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Webinar on Preissuance Submissions from www.patentdocs.org

The Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) will offer a one-hour webinar entitled "Challenging a Patent Application: Preissuance Submissions to the USPTO" on August 16, 2012 beginning at 2:00 pm (ET). A panel consisting 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. Cumberland Pharmaceuticals Inc. v. Perrigo Co. 1:12-cv-06327; filed August 9, 2012 in the Northern District ...

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Alcon Research, Ltd. v. Apotex Inc. (Fed. Cir. 2012) from www.patentdocs.org

"This is not how patent law works." By Andrew Williams -- Writing for the majority in Alcon Research, Ltd. v. Apotex Inc. last Wednesday, Judge Moore took issue with a position advanced by Alcon's counsel ...

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