Patent & IP news for November 13, 2012

Suppose no-one want to watch ... from ipfinance.blogspot.com

The advertisement below arrived in my email inbox earlier today.  Reading it, I found myself pondering over the apparently unstoppable one-way flow of movies from the United States to Europe. We have heard much discussion ...

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The Baby Boom of Patent Practitioners from www.patentlyo.com

By Dennis Crouch This morning, the USPTO provided official notice that Practitioner Registration No. 70,549 has been assigned and Robert Kent of Houston is now a patent agent. The PTO rolls have been steadily ...

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Apple Clocks now run to time - and how to make USD 21 Million from ipfinance.blogspot.com

It's well known that swiss trains run to time - and it's good to see that Apple's iOS Operating System is using the image of the iconic Swiss railway clock on the screen ...

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USPTO News Briefs from www.patentdocs.org

By Donald Zuhn -- Impact of Hurricane Sandy on USPTO Operations On November 2, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued a notice that in view of the official closing of Federal Government offices in ...

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Stoll: Maintaining Post-Grant Review Estoppel in the America Invents Act: A Call for Legislative Restraint from www.patentlyo.com

In our newest Patently-O Patent Law Journal article, former Commissioner of Patents Robert Stoll considers and rejects the call for legislative reforms that would reduce the estoppel associated with post-grant review filings. Stoll writes: Critics ...

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The Real McCoy Part 2: I am a Man Who Thinks and My Thoughts are Valuable from www.ipwatchdog.com

One of the more indelible images of the civil rights movement are those from the Spring of 1968 as Black sanitation workers went on strike in Memphis, Tennessee holding signs that read “I am a ...

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Philippines Heads Toward Expanded Copyright Law from www.ip-watch.org

The Philippine Senate, the upper house of the country's bicameral congress, has approved a bill that seeks to put teeth into its copyright law as the island nation fights a bad reputation as one ...

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US trade decific in an energy self-sufficient scenario from www.athenaalliance.org

Yesterday, the International Energy Agency published their World Energy Outlook with this shocker as part of their main forecast: "the United States becomes a net exporter of natural gas by 2020 and is almost self-sufficient ...

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ALJ Bullock Rules On Motion To Disqualify In Certain Rubber Resins (337-TA-849) from www.itcblog.com

On November 6, 2012, ALJ Charles E. Bullock issued Order No. 13 in Certain Rubber Resins and Processes for Manufacturing Same (Inv. No. 337-TA-849). In the Order, ALJ Bullock denied Complainant SI Group, Inc.’s ...

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Is Lear Still King? from www.iplawalert.com

In a recent decision, the Second Circuit crowned Lear, Inc. v. Adkins, 395 U.S. 653 (1969), but a petition to the Supreme Court has the possibility of dethroning this ruling and Lear.

In Lear ...

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Proposal For EPO Staff Bonus Raises Questions from www.ip-watch.org

A proposal of the European Patent Office President Benoît Battistelli to pay a collective reward to EPO staff in 2012 in view of the positive operating result of 2011 has stirred concerns about the kind ...

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IP Osgoode Speaker Series: Justice Marshall Rothstein & Justice Roger T. Hughes from www.iposgoode.ca

IP Osgoode Speaker Series: “Reflections on the Supreme Court of Canada 2012 Copyright Decisions” Featuring Justice Marshall Rothstein of the Supreme Court of Canada “Advocacy Skills and IP: Observations from the Bench” Featuring Justice Roger ...

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How to Use PatentOptimizer™ Analytics to Filter Documents and Locate Keyword Variants within a Patent Result Set from intellogist.wordpress.com

LexisNexis® PatentOptimizer™ is a patent analysis tool created by LexisNexis, and it was designed to assist patent attorneys and agents when drafting patent documents.  The PatentOptimizer™ Analytics feature may additionally be of use to patent ...

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Cloaking Device Inventor Says Deflector Shield Realized from www.ipwatchdog.com

Like so many other popular science fiction books, movies and franchises, Star Trek has inspired many innovators to ask the question "why not?" Although Star Trek did not have a monopoly on inspiration for cloaking ...

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ALJ Essex Grants Motion To Terminate Investigation As To All Respondents In Certain CMOS Image Sensors (337-TA-846) from www.itcblog.com

On November 8, 2012, ALJ Theodore R. Essex issued Order No. 9 in Certain CMOS Image Sensors and Products Containing the Same (Inv. No. 337-TA-846). In the Order, ALJ Essex granted a motion filed by ...

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ALJ Rogers Grants Motion To Terminate Investigation As To Yellowbrick Tracking In Certain Two-Way Global Satellite Communication Devices (337-TA-854) from www.itcblog.com

On November 8, 2012, ALJ Robert K. Rogers, Jr. issued Order No. 7 in Certain Two-Way Global Satellite Communication Devices, Systems, and Components Thereof (Inv. No. 337-TA-854). In the Order, ALJ Rogers granted a motion ...

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