Patent & IP news for October 5, 2012

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post image Has it ever happened ...? from patlit.blogspot.com

Interim injunctive relief for infringement
of a standards-essential patent: have
you ever applied ...?
A curious reader has written in with the following question. Does anyone have an answer?
(a) Has anyone ever applied in the ...

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post image India signs Nagoya protocol ahead of Hyderabad CBD meet from spicyipindia.blogspot.com

GoI yesterday announced that the Union Cabinet had approved the ratification of the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit Sharing, which India had signed in May, 2011. The Nagoya Protocol, as we've written before ...

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post image September employment from www.athenaalliance.org

Positive, some what strange, numbers from BLS this morning on the employment situation. In September, 114,000 net new jobs were created according to payroll data (in line with economists' forecasts of 118,000 jobs ...

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post image The Revival of Parker v. Flook from www.patentlyo.com

The Supreme Court's much maligned 1978 decision in Parker v. Flook, 437 U.S. 584 (1978) is seeing something of a revival following the Federal Circuit's substantial rejection of the case under Judge ...

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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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Tobacco Plain Packaging reasons from ipwars.com

Having previously announced the conclusion that the Tobacco Plain Packaging laws were valid, today the High Court published their reasons. 6 of the judges, Heydon J dissenting, ruled that s 51(xxxi) did not apply ...

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German court holds that Android does not infringe Microsoft's radio interface patent from www.fosspatents.com

This morning, the Mannheim Regional Court sided with Motorola Mobility on one of Microsoft's various patent assertions against the Google subsidiary. Presiding Judge Andreas Voss ("Voß" in German) announced the decision, which Microsoft may ...

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Google-HTC patent purchase agreement under pressure in Delaware from www.fosspatents.com

This is a follow-up to a post I did in July on clues to the terms of a Google-HTC rent-a-patent agreement that had only one purpose: to give the Taiwanese device maker some temporary ammunition ...

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Copyright Fair Use Cases of the United States Supreme Court from www.ipwatchdog.com

October overwhelmingly means one thing in the legal world. No, not Halloween, although to some it may seem just as scary. Every October the United States Supreme Court breaks its hibernation and starts its new ...

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USPTO begins to post comments received on trademark filing fees from www.erikpelton.com

As noted earlier, the USPTO seeks comments regarding some issues related to the trademark application filing fees. The comment deadline has been extended to October 22, 2012. But it has already begun posting the responses ...

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IP Office of Singapore Provides Free Patent, Trademark, and Design Searching through eSearch from intellogist.wordpress.com

The Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS) has had a busy year: last October the Surf-IP search system was shut down, and IPOS recently streamlined the layout of its website to make it much more ...

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Top 5: Tips for Using Known Prior Art from info.articleonepartners.com

Sometimes when attempting to find prior art for a Study, seeing a list of Known Prior Art can seem a little daunting. How are you supposed to find new and relevant prior art if the ...

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Friday Foreign Filing Roundup from info.inovia.com

Happy autumn everyone! Here’s your look at the latest foreign filing news from the first week of October: Effective today: A new USPTO fee schedule reveals only minor increases. Cornell’s new graduate technology ...

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Is Charles River Licensing British Telecom Patents To Fund German Investment Accounts? from gametimeip.com

Little more than one year ago, GametimeIP reported that a German investment fund acquired a substantial portfolio from British Telecom: According to a press release issued yesterday, the German patent fund Patentportfolio 2 S.a ...

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Digital Downloading is at the Core of a Growing Culture of IP Piracy from ipcloseup.wordpress.com

Attitude Toward Content Theft Fuels Free-Riding on Others’ Inventions & Counterfeits of Branded Products The ease of downloading copyrighted content on a computer or smart phone is at the core of an explosion of IP abuse ...

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All In! Doubling Down on Erroneous Attacks on the Federal Circuit from www.ipwatchdog.com

In a recently published Forbes.com article titled"The Federal Circuit, Not the Supreme Court, Legalized Software Patents," Lee doubled down with his absurd and provably incorrect assertions regarding the patentability of software patents. But ...

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Chinese IP Law from writtendescription.blogspot.com

This is a guest post by Camilla Hrdy (cahrdy@gmail.com), a Visiting Fellow with the Information Society Project at Yale Law School.

This blog post is informed by a fascinating conference I attended, New ...

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FTC Petitions for Certiorari in Reverse Payments Dispute from www.iplawalert.com

As we anticipated, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) filed a petition for certiorari yesterday with the Supreme Court in FTC v. Watson Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

In that case, the Eleventh Circuit upheld reverse payments (payments made ...

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Kickstarter Posting Alone Was Insufficient to Support Exercise of State-Specific Personal Jurisdiction from docketreport.blogspot.com

The court granted plaintiff's motion for jurisdictional discovery while a group of individual defendants' motions to dismiss for lack of personal jurisdiction and improper venue were pending. "Plaintiff noted. . . that the individual Defendants personally ...

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Over the years, we have seen a few moves to conflate the subject matter eligibility requirements of 35 U.S.C. § 101 with the nonobviousness requirement of 35 U.S.C. § 103. Bi-Directional Conflation: The conflation is bi-directional and follows the basic... from www.patentlyo.com

Over the years, we have seen a few moves to conflate the subject matter eligibility requirements of 35 U.S.C. § 101 with the nonobviousness requirement of 35 U.S.C. § 103. Bi-Directional Conflation: The ...

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Self Replicating (and Alive) Inventions: Supreme Court Grants Certiorari in Monsanto v. Bowman from www.patentlyo.com

Mr. Bowman v. Monsanto Co. (Supreme Court 2012) Beginning its 2013 term with a bang, the Supreme Court has granted Vernon Bowman's petition for a writ of certiorari in the Indiana farmer's longstanding ...

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Provisional Patent Applications from inventivestep.net

A provisional patent application is a patent application that may be filed at the PTO that can be used to establish a filing date or date of invention.  The application expires 12 months from its ...

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Beer … here. from www.717madisonplace.com

The Federal Circuit issued its en banc opinion in Beer v. U.S., __ F.3d __ (Fed. Cir. 2012) this afternoon.  The Beer opinion is not a patent case — it concerns judicial pay. It ...

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Supreme Court Questions Whether Patent Law Malpractice Claims “Arise Under” the US Patent Laws (And Thus Are Amenable to Federal Jurisdiction). from www.patentlyo.com

By Dennis Crouch Gunn v. Minton (Supreme Court 2012) Over the past few years we have seen an ongoing subject matter jurisdictional battle between state courts, regional federal circuit courts of appeal, and the Court ...

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IPLAC IP Law Symposium from www.patentdocs.org

The Intellectual Property Law Association of Chicago (IPLAC) will be holding its annual IP Law Symposium from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm on November 2, 2012 at the Standard Club in Chicago, IL ...

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