Patent litigation, the new Europe and litigators' future income from patlit.blogspot.com Here's a reminder that the Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys' annual CIPA Congress is being held in London on 11 and 12 October and that patent litigation unsurprisingly features among the topics under discussion ...
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Govinda gooovinda! Closer look at G.I registry’s decision on Tirupati laddu rectification plea from spicyipindia.blogspot.com The
Tirupati laddu rectification application before the G.I Registry is a textbook example of an adversarial system of adjudication. The NIIST-CSIR Scientist, R.S. Praveen Raj who instituted the rectification proceedings failed to turn ...
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A reply to 'A simple gutting of Copyright Defences' from spicyipindia.blogspot.com I felt compelled to reply to Shamnad’s
last post on the OUP-DU photocopying controversy for several reasons. The most important objection being that neither I nor Mr. Saika advocated, in my
last post, that ...
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OUP vs DU: A Simple Gutting of Copyright Defences? from spicyipindia.blogspot.com Imagine yourself as a judge, blessed with legal acumen, integrity and what not. A case is brought before you, as below:A person (Ashok) walks upto a shopkeeper (Ravi) and demands money for allegedly patrolling ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
Guest Post: Part I – Protecting Parental Lines of Extant Hybrids in India from spicyipindia.blogspot.com A few months ago I came across an order of the Registrar of Plant Varieties on the internet. The order seemed to be quite important, given the names and the number of the parties who ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
July trade in intangibles - and revisions from www.athenaalliance.org The US trade deficit was essentially unchanged in July, according to data released this morning from the BEA. The July deficit was $42.0 billion compared to June's (revised) deficit of $41.9 billion ...
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USPTO Seeks to Modernize eFiling from www.patentdocs.org By Donald Zuhn -- In a Patents Alert e-mail distributed last month, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office announced that it was examining ways to modernize electronic filing. One proposal, Text2PTO, would allow applicants to ...
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Santarus v. Par Pharmaceutical: Rader and Newman Disagree on Written Description Support for Negative Limitations from www.ipwatchdog.com Last week the Federal Circuit decided the case of Santarus, Inc. v. Par Pharmaceutical, Inc., which dealt with whether a drug covered by an Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA) infringed the patents owned by that ...
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Microsoft-Motorola dispute over proper way to determine FRAND royalty rates continues from www.fosspatents.com Late on Monday, Microsoft and Google-controlled Motorola Mobility filed their replies in support of their Daubert motions (motions seeking to exclude each other's FRAND testimony). I reported on the original motions and opposition filings ...
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“Evolving” Laws at Time of Infringement Preclude Finding of Willful Infringement and Award of Enhanced Damages or Attorneys’ Fees from docketreport.blogspot.com The court denied plaintiff's motion for enhanced damages and attorneys' fees even though the jury had found that defendant willfully infringed plaintiff's seed patent. "[T]here are unique factors present in this and ...
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Public Not Eager To Be Consulted By International Telecommunication Union from www.ip-watch.org The global public consultation started by the UN International Telecommunication Union (ITU) on the draft future International Telecommunication Regulations (ITR) has elicited few responses on the consultation website since it opened to comments on 15 ...
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USPTO to Implement New Patent Quality Process from info.inovia.com Recently, the USPTO published the newest rule to be implemented under the America Invents Act, a bill signed into law last September with the purpose of creating a more efficient and streamlined patent system. The ...
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Apple seeks sanctions against HTC after inventor of two 4G patents denies that he knows his stuff from www.fosspatents.com On Friday I commented on Bloomberg's report on the start of the ITC trial in the investigation of HTC's second complaint against Apple, which is, at this point, all about two patents allegedly ...
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Roche vs Cipla: Pondering the Puzzle from spicyipindia.blogspot.com The much awaited Roche vs Cipla judgment is out. And much like the Ayodhya judgment, it runs into innumerable pages, ensuring that only the most perseverant brave through it. Rated as India's first drug ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
Beyond Question: RMail Challenges Subject Matter Eligibility from www.patentlyo.com RMail v. Amazon.com and PayPal (E.D.Tx 2012) Over the past few weeks we have been having an interesting debate over whether subject matter eligibility under 35 U.S.C. § 101 constitutes as ...
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The Gibbons Institute of Law, Science & Technology presents "Views from the Bench" from www.iplawalert.com Please join us Tuesday, October 16, as the Gibbons Institute of Law, Science & Technology welcomes the Honorable Kathleen M. O'Malley, Circuit Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, to present Views ...
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Review Of WIPO Shipments To Iran, North Korea Issued; US Calls For New Safeguards from www.ip-watch.org An independent study of the World Intellectual Property Organization’s technical assistance to countries sanctioned by the United Nations was released today, and while it did not conclude whether WIPO violated UN protocol or whether ...
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A Patent Analysis Tool For Merging Assignee Names in TotalPatent Charts from intellogist.wordpress.com The semantic search option on TotalPatent is a unique tool for patent searchers which I highlighted in a previous post, so today I’d like to call attention to a new TotalPatent feature created specifically ...
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Guest Post: Part II – Protecting Parental Lines of Extant Hybrids in India from spicyipindia.blogspot.com Contd. The Parental Lines case
by Mrinalini Kochupillai
(Following the background in the previous post, the key legal issues discussed by the Registrar in the Parental Lines decision are explained here.) ‘Variety:’ Section 2(za ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook