Ask the patent attorney series from www.lotempiolaw.com Recently, I've been working on a new website designed to help inventors. The website is called patenthome.com. Ever since I started blogging at LoTempiolaw I've been learning more and more about social ...
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Court Report from www.patentdocs.org By Sherri Oslick -- About Court Report: Each week we will report briefly on recently filed biotech and pharma cases. Precision BioSciences, Inc. et al. v. Cellectis SA et al. 5:12-cv-00719; filed November 5, 2012 ...
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Conference & CLE Calendar from www.patentdocs.org November 12-14, 2012 - Fall Intellectual Property Counsels Committee (IPCC) Conference (Biotechnology Industry Organization) - Charleston, SC November 14, 2012 - Patents and the Public Good (Greater Washington, DC Chapter of the Licensing Executives Society) - Washington, DC November ...
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Reviving Abandoned Applications from www.patentlyo.com Around 5,200 utility patents issued on November 6, 2012. I was surprised to find that at least 76 of those had been abandoned at some point during prosecution and later revived and then patent ...
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Southeast Asian States Move To Harmonise Their E-Commerce Laws from www.ip-watch.org Cebu City, Philippines – The 10 member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) met over the weekend to advance the groundwork for what is perceived as a challenging but progressing task of harmonising ...
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Third time a charm? The Innovative Design Protection Act in the face of The Knockoff Economy. from www.iposgoode.ca On Friday November 1, 2012, the American University, Washington College of Law Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property (PIJIP) hosted the Inaugural Peter Jaszi Distinguished Lecture on Intellectual Property, featuring Christopher Sprigman, Professor at ...
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Court rules that USPTO is mis-calculating patent term adjustment from ipspotlight.com Owners of certain recently-granted patents may be able to extend the patent’s term in certain situations, according to a recent court ruling from the Eastern District of Virginia. U.S. patent law allows for ...
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Next Global Fund Director To Be Chosen From Four Candidates This Week from www.ip-watch.org The Global Fund against AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, a health financing institution focused on the global South, is poised this week to select its next director – from the North. And while the selection process has ...
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Judge Bryson to Take Senior Status from inventivestep.net Federal Circuit Judge William Bryson will take senior status effective January 7, 2013. Judge Bryson was nominated to the court by President Clinton and began his service in September 1994. While Judge Linn will continue ...
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Womble Carlyle Expands IP and Life Science Litigation Teams from www.ipwatchdog.com In October, Life Science litigators Mary Bourke, Mark Pino, Kristen Cramer, Dana Severance and Daniel Attaway joined the firm from Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP, an intellectual property law firm located in Delaware, which not ...
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Are you a Patent Attorney Masquerading as a Patent Agent? from www.patentlyo.com In looking through the USPTO database of registered practitioners, I was surprised to see that 93 patent agents list a current affiliation with the major firm, Finnegan Henderson. That seemed to me like an unusually ...
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8 New PTAB Judges Sworn in at USPTO from www.ipwatchdog.com Leading up to the swearing in, PTAB Vice-Chief Judge James Moore explained the need for the new Judges, as well as pointing out that the USPTO has already had 13 covered business method patent reviews ...
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Kodak Bankruptcy Funding is Contingent on Patent Sale from ipcloseup.wordpress.com Report says that funding will hinge on a $500 million deal. A story from Reuters that appears today in The NY Times online and was originally reported by the Wall Street Journal states that Kodak ...
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Kodak Agrees to Financing, Must Sell Patents for $500 Million from www.ipwatchdog.com The financing commitment Kodak received is composed of new term loans of $476 million, as well as term loans of $317 million issued in a dollar-for-dollar exchange for amounts outstanding under the company’s pre-petition ...
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News from Abroad: Progress for Single European Patent and Litigation System from www.patentdocs.org Unitary European Patent The European Union (EU) Parliament is close to approving new regulations for a single patent covering 25 states of the EU. Under these regulations, patents granted by the European Patent Office can ...
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ITC Issues Opinion In Certain Video Game Systems (337-TA-770) from www.itcblog.com On November 6, 2012, the International Trade Commission (the “Commission”) issued an opinion in Certain Video Game Systems and Wireless Controllers and Components Thereof (337-TA-770) construing the term “toy wand” and remanding the case to ...
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