ArchPatent: Patent Searching When You Need To Wade Through Lots of Search Results from www.patentbaristas.com “The objective of ArchPatent is providing the simplest, most intuitive USPTO search tool.” ~Tony Rainoldi ArchPatent is a new service for searching U.S. patent information. It offers a number of tools for searching for ...
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August employment from www.athenaalliance.org Mixed news from BLS this morning on the employment situation. The number of jobs went up somewhat by 96,000 in August while the unemployment rate dropped to 8.1%. According to the Wall Street ...
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The "Battle for Soles" Has Been Won...By All? from dunlapcodding.com September 5, 2012, the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals came to a decision regarding one of the most closely watched cases in trademark law, Christian Louboutin v. Yves Saint Laurent. The Court of Appeals ...
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First To File Practice: An Alternative Interpretation Of The Grace Period Shielding Disclosure Exception from www.pharmapatentsblog.com I was honored to participate in the USPTO’s First-Inventor-To-File Roundtable yesterday (September 6, 2012). One issue raised by several speakers was the USPTO’s proposed requirements for invoking what I refer to as the ...
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Breaking News: Roche-Cipla Verdict is out! from spicyipindia.blogspot.com The readers of Spicy IP, who have been following the developments in the matter of F. Hoffmann La Roche Ltd. v. Cipla Ltd. (reported earlier here, here and here) , may be interested to know that ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
Top 5: Places to Do Your Research from info.articleonepartners.com Over the past couple of years, we’ve featured great apps to help you with your research, resources we think are worth your while, and many other pieces of advice to help you improve your ...
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New rules for inventor declaration and power attorney from allthingspros.blogspot.com Heads up: Big changes to patent practice starting September 16, 2012. Several new rules packages to implement various provisions of the America Invents Act (AIA) take effect on that date. The only rules package I ...
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Find prior art and win $ at Patexia from ipbiz.blogspot.com There is currently a "prior art" contest at Patexia. Specifically, the $5000 contest is a prior art search related to charge pumps in voltage controlled oscillators. The technical area is primarily directed to an electrical ...
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Vita-Mix loses appeal at CAFC from ipbiz.blogspot.com Vita-Mix loses an appeal to the CAFC:
Vita-Mix Corporation (“Vita-Mix”) appeals from the district court’s final judgment in which the court con-cluded that Vita-Mix infringed the asserted claims of two United States patents, K-TEC ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
We Produced Privileged Documents; Now What? from www.iplawalert.com The production of a party’s privileged documents is every lawyer’s--and client’s--worst nightmare because it provides additional facts (and avenues for discovery) as well as legal analysis of those facts that may not ...
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Continuations-in-Part (CIPs) and Priority Claims from www.patentlyo.com By Dennis Crouch This post considers the meaning of priority in a continuation-in-part application and, in particular, when the claimed priority document can serve as prior art against the child. Yesterday, I wrote about the ...
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Top 10 Weekly IP & Patent 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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Friday Foreign Filing Roundup from info.inovia.com Hello everybody! Here’s the latest in foreign filing/patenting news for the first week of September: The USPTO is seeking comments on a proposed fee schedule in the latest set of reforms being implemented ...
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USPTO Issues World’s First Invisibility Cloak Patent from www.ipwatchdog.com Invisibility cloaks have long been a prop in science fiction stories, such as the Harry Potter invisibility cloak or the device used to cloak Klingon war ships in Star Trek. The concept of invisibility goes ...
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IP Osgoode Webpage Renovations for the New Semester from www.iposgoode.ca The IP Osgoode team has been hard at work this summer redesigning certain parts of our webpage to help improve reader experience and make our exciting projects more visible to you. The major changes include ...
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CLS Bank v. Alice Corp: Patenting Software Ideas from www.patentlyo.com By Dennis Crouch "Settlement risk" is real in almost every transaction. When a lawyer does legal work, how does she know that she'll get paid. Conversely, if a client pays up-front, how does he ...
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First-to-File Rule Trumps Forum Selection Clause from docketreport.blogspot.com The court granted defendant's motion to transfer venue of plaintiff's infringement action under the first-to-file rule and rejected plaintiff's argument that a forum selection clause in the parties' license agreement precluded such ...
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The Contributions Of Julian Assange To The Debate On Intellectual Property from www.ip-watch.org Cables on intellectual property (IP) issues from United States embassies in various parts of the world, leaked by Wikileaks, reveal how the country works to achieve its objectives.
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USPTO issues new fee increase proposal for 2013 from ipspotlight.com On September 6, 2012, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office published an updated proposal to increase its patent fees for Fiscal Year 2013. After a prior proposal published in May, the new proposal has ...
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Orphan Drugs and Rare Diseases Conference from www.patentdocs.org American Conference Institute (ACI) will be holding a conference on Orphan Drugs and Rare Diseases: Maximizing Opportunities and Overcoming Stumbling Blocks in the Designation and Development Process on November 28-29, 2012 in Boston, MA. The ...
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TTT Webinar on Myriad from www.patentdocs.org Technology Transfer Tactics will be offering a webinar entitled "Myriad: The Gene Patent Fight Continues . . ." on October 4, 2012 from 1:00 - 2:00 pm (Eastern). Patent Docs author Dr. Kevin Noonan of McDonnell, Boehnen ...
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Biotech Patents Conference from www.patentdocs.org American Conference Institute (ACI) will be holding its 14th Advanced Forum on Biotech Patents on November 28-29, 2012 in Boston, MA. The conference will allow attendees to: • Prepare for the impending first-to-file regime and decide ...
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