ALJ Gildea Orders Clarification Regarding Motion To Terminate In Certain Blu-Ray Disc Players (337-TA-824) from www.itcblog.com On December 10, 2012, ALJ E. James Gildea issued Order No. 37 in Certain Blu-Ray Disc Players, Components Thereof and Products Containing the Same (Inv. No. 337-TA-824). According to the Order, Complainant Walker Digital, LLC ...
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ALJ Rogers Rules On Motions To Compel In Certain Incremental Dental Positioning Adjustment Appliances (337-TA-562) from www.itcblog.com On December 6, 2012, ALJ Robert K. Rogers, Jr. issued the public version of Order No. 54 and Order No. 55 (both dated November 21, 2012) in Certain Incremental Dental Positioning Adjustment Appliances and Methods ...
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Ethics and OED 2012: Practitioner Discipline at the USPTO from www.ipwatchdog.com Next year I will be speaking at the 7th Annual Patent Law Institute sponsored by the Practising Law Institute. In addition to discussing ethical issues raised by the America Invents Act, such as the new ...
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October trade in intangibles - and revisions from www.athenaalliance.org Disappointing news from this morning's BEA trade data. The trade deficit rose by $1.9 billion in October to $42.2 billion from $40.3 billion in September, revised. Economist had expected a deficit ...
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European Unitary Patent And Court Becomes Reality from www.ip-watch.org A years'-long struggle ended Tuesday when the European Parliament overwhelmingly backed the creation of a unitary EU patent and patent litigation court system. The vote followed Monday's approval by the Council of Ministers ...
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How Major Patent Search Systems will Implement the CPC from intellogist.wordpress.com The full roll out of the Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) is less than a month away, and the classification search options for US and EP patent publications will soon change drastically for prior art searchers ...
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ALJ Gildea Grants-In-Part Motions To Compel In Certain Electronic Devices For Capturing And Transmitting Images (337-TA-831) from www.itcblog.com On December 7, 2012, ALJ James E. Gildea issued the public versions of Order No. 42 and Order No. 43 (dated November 14, 2012) and Order No. 44 and Order No. 45 (dated November 16 ...
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ALJ Essex Grants Joint Motion To Terminate Investigation In Certain Consumer Electronics And Display Devices (337-TA-836) from www.itcblog.com On December 11, 2012, ALJ Theodore R. Essex issued Order No. 29 granting Complainant Graphics Properties Holdings, Inc. (“GPH”) and Respondent Apple , Inc.’s (“Apple”) joint motion to terminate the investigation on the basis of ...
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Authors Challenged by Shifting Industry Business Models from www.ipwatchdog.com The new reality is that content creators are getting squeezed all around. Increasingly many want things to be free and don't care whether they copy a public domain work or whether it is something ...
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WIPO IP Indicators: Year of Records, China Tops Filings from www.ip-watch.org The World Intellectual Property Organization today issued its annual World Intellectual Property Indicators report showing that despite the "continued fragility of global economy," intellectual property is still performing. The report was issued as WIPO members ...
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In re Ditto (Fed. Cir. 2012) from www.patentdocs.org Cats and the Federal Circuit By Kevin E. Noonan -- Unlike dog breeds that tend to be of ancient vintage (Labra-doodles and Yorkie-poos to the contrary), many cat breeds are of relatively recent parentage. While there ...
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