Patent & IP news for January 2, 2013

Intangible capital: 2013 welcomes smarter-companies from ipfinance.blogspot.com

Today the IP Finance weblog's friend Mary Adams (see earlier posts here and here) has excitedly announced the launch of smarter-companies, which seeks to become a marketplace of consulting tools that help optimize the ...

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Software Patents and Music and the Myth of Simultaneous Invention from hallingblog.com

People who believe that software should not be patentable often argue that there are only so many combinations of instructions that can be made.  Since the universe of instructions is limited all possible combinations are ...

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Abandoning Provisional Applications from www.patentlyo.com

By Dennis Crouch This post is a follow-up on my November 2012 discussion of provisional rights entitled Provisional Patent Applications as a Flash in the Pan: Many are Filed and Many are Abandoned. Provisional patent ...

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Federal Circuit Statistics - FY 2012 from www.patentlyo.com

By Jason Rantanen Each year the Federal Circuit provides caseload statistics. The court recently released the statistics for FY 2012 (October 2011-September 2012). In terms of overall caseload, the number appeals filed with the court ...

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I Sat at the Knee of a Master: My Dad, Alvin Guttag* from www.ipwatchdog.com

Dad left this mortal world this past Thursday, December 27, at the age of 94, having experienced a full life and after a final year and a half of fairly steady (and occasionally precipitous) physical ...

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H.R. 6621 as amended passed in the House late last night. It is expected that President Obama will sign the bill today before a new Congress begins on January 3, 2013. More here: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.uscongress/legislation.112hr6621 from www.patentlyo.com

H.R. 6621 as amended passed in the House late last night. It is expected that President Obama will sign the bill today before a new Congress begins on January 3, 2013. More here: http ...

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Industry Insiders Make Patent & Innovation Wishes for 2013 from www.ipwatchdog.com

It is that time of the year where we all start to look ahead to the new year, perhaps making some New Year resolutions that are sure to last for at least a few days ...

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USPTO and EPO Announce Launch of Cooperative Patent Classification System from www.ipwatchdog.com

An ambitious harmonization effort, CPC is the product of a joint partnership between the USPTO and the EPO to develop a common, internationally compatible classification system for technical documents used in the patent granting process ...

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The need for government investment from www.athenaalliance.org

Round 1 of the fiscal cliff regarding the automatic tax increases is over; Round 2 on spending is about to begin. As we go into Round 2 we should keep in mind the importance of ...

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Collaborative Capacity Building In Intellectual Property: Leveraging On African Diaspora Exchange from www.ip-watch.org

Depending on where one locates its advent, contemporary globalization is now more than half a century old. It requires asking whether globalization has been beneficial to Africa. One quick and easy way of addressing this ...

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2012 Trends: New Life in the Doctrine of Equivalents from www.patentlyo.com

Guest post by Donald S. Chisum, Chisum Patent Academy Looking back at the approximately 125 precedential decisions on patent law of the Federal Circuit in 2012, I asked myself: are there any new trends? One ...

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ALJ Gildea Grants Joint Motion To Terminate Research In Motion Respondents In Certain Consumer Electronics (337-TA-839) from www.itcblog.com

On December 21, 2012, ALJ James E. Gildea issued Order No. 25 granting a joint motion to terminate Respondents Research In Motion Ltd. and Research In Motion Corp. (collectively, “RIM”) from the investigation in Certain ...

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PatentCore Joins Forces with LexisNexis® on Patent Advisor™ from www.ipwatchdog.com

Reed Technology and Information Services Inc., a part of the LexisNexis® family and a provider of content management services, announced earlier today that it has joined forces with PatentCore. You may recall that PatentCore is ...

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UPDATE: Congress Passes AIA Technical Corrections Bill from inventivestep.net

Both houses of Congress have now passed the AIA Technical Corrections bill.  Notably, the bill does not contain the language regarding patent applications filed prior to June 1995:  there is no longer any requirements regarding ...

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A Guide to the CPC Search Tool on Espacenet from intellogist.wordpress.com

We’ve been following the development and roll-out of the Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) over the past year, from the initial release of the CPC scheme to a guide describing how major patent search systems ...

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ALJ Pender Issues Remand Determination Finding No Violation Of Section 337 By Apple In Certain Wireless Communication Devices (337-TA-745) from www.itcblog.com

On December 18, 2012, ALJ Thomas B. Pender issued a notice regarding the Initial Determination on Remand (the “Remand ID”) in Certain Wireless Communication Devices, Portable Music and Data Processing Devices, Computers and Components Thereof ...

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ALJ Shaw Grants-In-Part Motion To Compel In Certain Audiovisual Components (337-TA-837) from www.itcblog.com

On December 27, 2012, ALJ David P. Shaw issued the public version of Order No. 45 (dated October 11, 2012) granting-in-part Funai Electric Co., Ltd., Funai Corporation, Inc., P&F; USA, Inc., Funai Service Corporation ...

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