Patent & IP news for August 17, 2012

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post image 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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post image China Becomes Second BRIC to Embrace Green Patents as SIPO Launches Fast Track from www.greenpatentblog.com

The State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) of China recently enacted a prioritized examination program for invention patent applications directed to a number of technology areas, including several categories of green technologies (see the translated program ...

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post image Please vote for my SXSW panel proposal: Have expanding IP rights reached the tipping point? from www.erikpelton.com

I have submitted a proposal for a panel at SXSW Interactive 2013 conference. Your vote would be most appreciated!  See below for the full description of this panel which would (tentatively) be with Anne Gundelfinger ...

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Judge denies Samsung's motion for adverse inference jury instruction against Apple from www.fosspatents.com

After Apple won an adverse inference jury instruction against Samsung for spoliation of evidence (deletion of presumably relevant emails), the Korean company brought a "me too" kind of motion asking for the same kind of ...

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Association for Molecular Pathology v. United States Patent and Trademark Office (Fed. Cir. 2012) from www.patentdocs.org

By Kevin E. Noonan -- As we reported earlier today, the Federal Circuit, in a decision that substantially reiterates its prior opinion, determined in Association for Molecular Pathology v. U.S. Patent and Trademark Office that ...

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First To File Practice: Grace Period Shielding Disclosures from www.pharmapatentsblog.com

This is the third article in my First-To-File Friday series. On each Friday in August, I am publishing an article that takes an in-depth look at one of the prior art exceptions of the first-to-file ...

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Intellectual Property Follow Friday – The U.S. Government Edition from www.ipwatchdog.com

Today's "follow Friday" recommendations focus on those in the U.S. government who tweet about innovation and intellectual property, with a focus on those who are lesser-known, at least based on the number of ...

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Federal Circuit holds that isolated DNA molecules are patent-eligible subject matter from ipspotlight.com

Today the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued its much-anticipated opinion in Association for Molecular Pathology (AMP) and ACLU v. USPTO and Myriad Genetics (Fed. Cir. 2012).  In the decision, the ...

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Myriad after remand: isolated genes still patentable from ipbiz.blogspot.com

In Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad, decided by the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on August 16, one again has three opinions by the three judges.

The first, by Judge Lourie, includes ...

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Southwest Air Facebook marketing flops from ipbiz.blogspot.com

From within Southwest promotion backfires, charges customers:

A discount backfired on Southwest Airlines. The airline had a half-price ticket sale on Friday for its Facebook friends, but instead those customers were billed multiple times.(...) The ...

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Top 5: Productivity Patents, Projects, and Programs from info.articleonepartners.com

We’ve all been there: Friday lunchtime rolls around and the motivation to do any more work disappears. The weekend is calling your name and that chair by the pool has “naptime” written all over ...

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Rumors of Apple-Google alliance to buy Kodak patents show smartphone giants' auction fatigue from www.fosspatents.com

According to today's Wall Street Journal, Apple and Google as well as Android device makers including Samsung and HTC (both of whom are embroiled in litigation with Apple, as is Google's Motorola Mobility ...

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The New York Times errs in discussion of Myriad case from ipbiz.blogspot.com

From Court Reaffirms Right of Myriad Genetics to Patent Genes :

A panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upheld Myriad’s right to patent “isolated” genes known as ...

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Zakaria reinstated at TIME and CNN from ipbiz.blogspot.com

See post Time and CNN Reinstate Journalist After Review including the comment:

I wonder if Fareed fired the ''research assistant'' who did the actual reading and unattributed quoting of Lepore's article. From what I ...

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Google Introduces New “Prior Art” Finder for Patent Searching from tacticalip.com

TweetBy: Mark R. Malek As I was perusing my intellectual property news after traveling most of this past week, I found out about this Google’s new “Prior Art Finder” tool.  I gave it a ...

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Joint Authorship – Are You Getting Your Due Credit? from tacticalip.com

TweetRogers and Hammerstein.  Abbot and Costello.  Timbaland and, well, everyone.  When two or more people come together to make with the intent to beautiful music, or whatever, together, that...

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Judge Bryson sitting by designation in EDTX denies summary judgment motion and motion to exclude defendants’ expert’s testimony on noninfringing alternatives for reasonable royalty from patent-damages.com

On August 10, 2012, in TQP Development, LLC v. Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc., Case No. 2:08-CV-471-WCB (E.D. Tex.), Judge William C. Bryson of the Federal Circuit, sitting by designation, considered plaintiff’s motion ...

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Under Therasense, Failure to Disclose Non-Enabling Reference was not Material Misrepresentation Sufficient to Support Inequitable Conduct Defense from docketreport.blogspot.com

On remand, the court reversed its pre-Therasense finding of inequitable conduct and determined that plaintiff's database patent was not unenforceable under Therasense v. Becton, Dickinson & Co., 649 F.3d 1276 (Fed. Cir. 2011) where ...

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Wrigley v. Cadbury: Judge Newman Emphasizes Commercial Success and Copying from www.iplawalert.com

In WM. Wrigley Jr. v. Cadbury Adams USA, a recent Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit decision related to chewing gum patents, Wrigley brought suit against Cadbury for infringement of its U.S. Patent ...

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HTC wins transfer of Apple's standards-related antitrust lawsuit from Virginia to Delaware from www.fosspatents.com

About two months ago, Apple brought antitrust counterclaims against HTC's second ITC complaint (the one that was filed about a year ago) and immediately removed them to the Eastern District of Virginia (since the ...

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Apple and Google's Motorola Mobility disagree on implications of Wisconsin FRAND ruling from www.fosspatents.com

Apple and Google may agree on a joint bid for Eastman Kodak's patents, but they certainly can't agree on what a partial summary judgment ruling in the Apple v. Motorola Mobility FRAND-related lawsuit ...

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AMP v. USPTO Remand: Déjà Vu as Federal Circuit Majority Reaffirms Myriad’s Isolated DNA Sequences Are Patent-Eligible* from www.ipwatchdog.com

The other point that also bears repeating (and quoting) from the majority opinion in the AMP remand is Judge Lourie’s response to the so-called “preemption” question: "Plaintiffs argue here that they are preempted from ...

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The Case or Controversy in AMP v. PTO from www.patentlyo.com

By Dennis Crouch A substantial number of patent lawsuits are declaratory judgment actions that involve a user asking a federal court to rule that it is not liable for patent infringement (either because the user ...

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Major Updates to TotalPatent! from intellogist.wordpress.com

TotalPatent (created by LexisNexis, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc) is a large player in the patent search system field, and the it’s undergone a number of major updates in the last year.  The ...

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Eddie Murray, Advanced Medical Optics, and Abbott Labs from ipbiz.blogspot.com

See post Eddie Murray charged with insider trading in SEC probe . From within the post

According to the SEC, Murray made about $235,314 in illegal profits after Illinois-based Abbott Laboratories Inc. publicly announced its ...

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Association for Molecular Pathology v. US PTO Decided on Remand from holmansbiotechipblog.blogspot.com


As reported in previous posts, on petition for certiorari the Supreme Court vacated the Federal Circuit's 2011 decision in Association for Molecular Pathology v. US PTO and remanded the case for further consideration in ...

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Google opts for escalation: Motorola Mobility files new ITC complaint against Apple from www.fosspatents.com

Bloomberg just reported that Google's Motorola Mobility filed a new ITC complaint against Apple. The complaint is not yet available on the ITC's document system. Bloomberg cites an announcement by Motorola and says ...

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Friday Foreign Filing Roundup from info.inovia.com

Hi everybody! Here's a look at the foreign filing/patenting news for the week of August 13th: We expanded our agent network in Africa, adding OAPI and Nigeria as PCT national stage entry destinations ...

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Inovia Network Expands in Africa from info.inovia.com

The inovia agent network is growing!  We recently announced the addition of Egypt to our network, bringing the total country count in our network to 85.  We’ve now expanded our network even further to ...

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A patent worth hundreds of millions of dollars? from ipbiz.blogspot.com

from Intellectual Property Today in 2002:

On April 11, the Associated Press reported that the federal government has admitted infringing an Exxon Mobil Corp. petroleum patent and agreed to pay the oil company
$ 2,583 ...

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Forum on Biologics and Biosimilars from www.patentdocs.org

As part of an ongoing forum to bring researchers from universities and companies together to exchange ideas, discuss challenges, and explore potential collaborations to promote commercialization, Catalyzing Collaboration Between Industry and Academia in the Life ...

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TTT Webinar on Post Grant Proceedings from www.patentdocs.org

Technology Transfer Tactics will be offering a webinar entitled "New Post Grant Proceeding Rules: Adjusting to the New Reality" on September 19, 2012 from 1:00 - 2:15 pm (Eastern). Randi Isaacs, In-House Patent Counsel ...

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Webinar on Final AIA Rules from www.patentdocs.org

The American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA) will be offering a webinar entitled "The Final USPTO AIA Rules: What You Need to Know" on August 22, 2012 from 12:30 - 2:00 pm (Eastern). Sally ...

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ACI FDA Boot Camp Devices Edition from www.patentdocs.org

American Conference Institute (ACI) will be holding its FDA Boot Camp Devices Edition conference on October 24-25, 2012 in Chicago, IL. ACI faculty will help attendees: • Master the basics of the application and approval processes ...

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