Patent & IP news for August 15, 2012

Froth from www.patenthawk.com

The waste that typifies the U.S. patent system continues unabated. As this blog regularly documents, observations by parties entrenched in the processes reveal a badly broken system, chockablock with incompetence at the USPTO and ...

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Disabled from www.patenthawk.com

The CAFC again limits patent protection without basis in statute. Under government grant, MIT developed a device, usable as a sensor or computer memory, employing quantum mechanical effects; patented as 5,629,922.  Exclusive licensee ...

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Paul Ryan: Good or Bad for Patents, Tech Startups and the Economy from hallingblog.com

Congressman Paul Ryan has been selected as the vice presidential running mate of Mitt Romney.  Many in the Republican Party have hailed him as true advocate of free market principles.  Unfortunately, his voting record is ...

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Meyer v. Bodum: A Waste of Public and Private Resources? from www.patentlyo.com

Meyer Intellectual Properties Limited v. Bodum, Inc. (Fed. Cir. 2012) Panel: Dyk (concurring), Moore, O'Malley (author) At its heart, Meyer v. Bodum is essentially an obviousness case, although for reasons having to do with ...

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Google Helps Patent Enforcement Companies With New ‘Infringement Finder’ from gametimeip.com

In a rare move, given their previous disdain for intellectual property owners, Google released new enhancements to the free Google Patents search engine to help patent owners–along with lawyers, analysts and advisors–identify and ...

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Berkeley professor Teece, notorious for abetting FRAND abuse, to testify for Samsung on Friday from www.fosspatents.com

A week ago, I wrote that "Samsung can hardly explain away all of Apple's smoking guns for intentional copying". The noose keeps tightening, and Samsung's efforts to deny copying continue to fail. Case ...

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Apple’s ‘Innovative’ Australian Patent Strategy from www.ipwatchdog.com

As readers will no doubt be aware, Australia is one of the jurisdictions in which Apple is currently pursuing litigation against its Android-based smartphone and tablet competitors. The claims and counter-claims by Apple and Samsung ...

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Three Innovative Exhibits in Washington DC from intellogist.wordpress.com

In the US, there’s no better place to learn about the history of patents than the US capital city, Washington DC.  The central headquarters for the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is ...

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Plagiarism in the revolutionary times from ipbiz.blogspot.com

Todd Andrlik, in a blog post How Plagiarism Made America , which pushes his book Reporting the Revolutionary War: Before It Was History, It Was News, points to newspapers copying reports of other newspapers in the ...

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(Still) Waiting for Akamai and McKesson .... from www.iplawalert.com

As the summer rolls along, IP practitioners still await the Federal Circuit’s decisions in the en banc rehearings of Akamai Technologies, Inc. v. Limelight Networks, Inc., 629 F.3d 1311 (Fed. Cir. 2010) and ...

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IP Osgoode and Osgoode PD host Joint Teleseminar on Copyright Pentalogy from www.iposgoode.ca

On September 13, 2012, IP Osgoode will be hosting a joint teleseminar with Osgoode Professional Development. The topic of the seminar will be the recent developments in copyright law as a result of Supreme Court ...

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What do we mean by "intangible assets" from www.athenaalliance.org

There is a problem with our language. Specifically with the use of the phrase that is the cornerstone of this blog: "intangibles". It is a word that gets used sometimes without a specific meaning but ...

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WHO Hopes For “Domino Effect” Of Australian Ruling In Favour Of Tobacco Plain Packaging from www.ip-watch.org

The director of the World Health Organization, the global public health body, today vigorously applauded the ruling by Australia's high court upholding the Australian government's upcoming ban on trademarked labels on tobacco packages ...

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CAFC affirms invalidity of Rambus claim from ipbiz.blogspot.com

As to Reexamination No. 90/010,420, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed the BPAI's determination that claim 18 of Rambus’s U.S. Patent No. 6,034,918 is invalid ...

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Recent Federal Circuit Nonobviousness Opinions from www.patentlyo.com

By Jason Rantanen I'm catching up with recent Federal Circuit opinions this week. First up, a trio of precedential opinions involving nonobviousness, a surprisingly hot topic. Alcon Research, Ltd. v. Apotex Inc. (Fed. Cir ...

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Can Patent Related Press Releases Be a Tortious Act? from www.ipwatchdog.com

A story of such potential liability is now playing out in Taser International v. Stinger, (Case No. 2:09-cv-289 (D. Nev.)). Taser, the developer of the TASER weapon for use by law enforcement, originally sued ...

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The Proposed Unified Patent Court for Europe: conditio sine qua non for a Unitary Patent or unavailing venture into the unknown? from www.patentlyo.com

The following is an invited guest post by William Bull. Mr. Bull is a researcher at the Maastricht European Private Law Institute (M-EPLI) at Maastricht University in the Netherlands European countries have now almost reached ...

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CAFC stirs up a froth in Meyer v. Bodum from ipbiz.blogspot.com

In a complex legal case about a a relatively simple method of making froth, the CAFC had to address four issues:

On appeal, Bodum argues that the district court erred when it: (1) granted summary ...

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Multi-Defendant Case Severed Per AIA (§ 299), But Consolidated for Pre-Trial With Venue Issues Delayed Until After Claim Construction. from docketreport.blogspot.com

After granting defendants' motion to sever and consolidating the cases for pre-trial purposes, the court issued an order retaining all cases through the claim construction phase, even if pending motions to transfer were or would ...

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Cisco Pays $36 M To License Acacia Patents Acquired From Philips, J2 And Two Start-ups from gametimeip.com

Last month, Acacia reported in its second quarter earnings that 72% of its revenue for, or $36 M, came from a single licensee.  (See A Tale Of 2 Quarters – Acacia Research Illustrates Patent Play Volatility ...

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Recent Federal Circuit Nonobviousness Opinions: Kinetic Concepts from www.patentlyo.com

By Jason Rantanen Kinetic Concepts, Inc. v. Smith & Nephew, Inc. (Fed. Cir. 2012) Panel: Bryson, Dyk (concurring in the result), O'Malley (author) Download 11-1105 Dennis will be writing about the advisory jury issue in ...

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Google’s “Prior Art Finder” — What it is and what it isn’t from intellogist.wordpress.com

Google announced a major update to their Google Patents search tool yesterday. These changes include two main offerings: 1. The inclusion of EP documents 2. The introduction of the “Prior Art Finder” tool As of ...

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Featured Resource: Scirus from info.articleonepartners.com

As we noted in last Friday’s Top 5, we love to keep our researchers up to date with the best resources. In the past, we have done posts featuring some of these resources and ...

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Re-exam 95/000,312 as to US 7,054,547 from ipbiz.blogspot.com

Time-Warner's cross-appeal in 2012-1410 was dismissed.
[See http://www.cafc.uscourts.gov/images/stories/opinions-orders/2012-1409.8-15-12.1.pdf ]

The title of the patent being re-examined is DISC HAVING A SEGMENT CODE FOR PROHIBITING ...

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USPTO Issues Several Final Rules for Implementing AIA Provisions from www.patentdocs.org

By Donald Zuhn -- On Tuesday, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office published six notices in the Federal Register providing five final rules packages for implementing various provisions of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act and ...

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