Patent & IP news for September 7, 2012

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post image 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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post image 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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post image 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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Apple increasingly likely to depend on FRAND defense against HTC's second ITC complaint from www.fosspatents.com

This morning I read a highly informative report by Bloomberg's Susan Decker on the first day of the ITC's evidentiary hearing on HTC's second ITC complaint against Apple. After the dismissal of ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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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Apple and Google need more time for appeal of Judge Posner's ruling and in a Miami litigation from www.fosspatents.com

In July, both Apple and Google subsidiary Motorola Mobility filed notices of appeal of Judge Posner's dismissal of their two-way Chicago lawsuit. Yesterday, the parties jointly asked the United States Court of Appeals for ...

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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. Related Articles:

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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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