Medical Product Developments and the Valley of Death from ipfinance.blogspot.com It is called the "valley of death". While the phrase may seem to conjure up the words of the 23rd Psalm written over two millennia ago ("Yea, though I walk through the valley of the ...
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USPTO News Briefs from www.patentdocs.org By Donald Zuhn -- USPTO Seeks Comments on Patent Law Harmonization Last week, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued a notice in the Federal Register (78 Fed. Reg. 7411) seeking comments on matters related ...
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Property in the proceeds of infringement from ipwars.com In a decision which no doubt has some further distance to run, Newey J (sitting in the Chancery Division of the High Court in England) has ruled that the owner of copyright does not have ...
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Prioritized examination: Too fast and too furious from ocpatentlawyer.com History of Prioritized Examination The United States and Patent Trademark Office (USPTO) has for a couple of years proposed a pay-to-play type of patent examination called Prioritized Examination. The normal course of a patent application ...
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USPTO Seeking to Improve Quality of Patents from ipspotlight.com In one of his final posts on the USPTO Director’s Forum Blog, departing director David Kappos presented some eye-opening statistics about patent quality. The post discussed a study of over 22,000 patent applications ...
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Valentine’s Day Gifts, with a Patent Twist from www.ipwatchdog.com According to Men's Health, the #3 gift idea for women on Valentine's Day is lingerie. So we set out to find some patent related lingerie and find some we did! One of the ...
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Proposed Bill Seeks to Answer the Pay for Delay Debate from www.iplawalert.com As the so-called pay for-delay case is ripening for Supreme Court oral argument on March 25, 2013, on Tuesday a bi-partisan group of senators introduced legislation meant to strongly deter such arrangements.
The introduction of ...
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People: Tracking IP Influencers’ Latest Moves from www.ip-watch.org From changes in policymaking leadership and staffing shake-ups to a flurry of hiring in law firms and new strategic alliances, the past few months have been an interesting time for IP people watching. With over ...
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Federal Circuit Judicial Watch from www.patentlyo.com By Dennis Crouch Three of the Federal Circuit's twelve judicial positions are currently open. Those slots were previously held by Judges Michel, Linn, and Bryson. Judge Michel's slot has been unfilled since his ...
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ALJ Bullock Denies Motion For Forfeiture Of Respondents’ Bonds In Certain Ground Fault Circuit Interrupters (337-TA-739) from www.itcblog.com On February 4, 2013, Chief ALJ Charles E. Bullock issued the public version of Order No. 73 (dated January 15, 2013) in Certain Ground Fault Circuit Interrupters and Products Containing Same (Inv. No. 337-TA-739). According ...
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Microsoft’s Bing Search Engine Alleged to Infringe Vringo Patents from www.ipwatchdog.com The patent infringement lawsuit, filed in the Southern District Court of New York State, seeks reasonable royalties from Microsoft for not only infringing on I/P Engine’s patents in Microsoft’s own search engine ...
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President Obama Nominates Two to Serve on the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit from www.patentlyo.com The following is the press release: WASHINGTON, DC – Today, President Obama nominated Raymond T. Chen and Todd M. Hughes to the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. " Raymond T. Chen and Todd ...
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USPTO Solicitor Ray Chen Nominated for the Federal Circuit from www.ipwatchdog.com Earlier today President Barack Obama made two nominations for the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Nominated were Raymond T. Chen, who is currently the Solicitor for the United States Patent and ...
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ALJ Rogers Sets 14.5-Month Target Date In Certain Mobile Handset Devices And Related Touch Keyboard Software (337-TA-864) from www.itcblog.com Further to our January 30, 2013 post, on February 5, 2013, ALJ Robert K. Rogers, Jr. issued Order No. 4 in Certain Mobile Handset Devices and Related Touch Keyboard Software (Inv. No. 337-TA-864). In the ...
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ALJ Pender Sets Remand Target Date In Certain Electronic Media Devices (337-TA-796) from www.itcblog.com Further to our January 24, 2013 post, on February 5, 2013, ALJ Thomas B. Pender issued Order No. 28 in Certain Electronic Digital Media Devices and Components Thereof (Inv. No. 337-TA-796). By way of background ...
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ALJ Pender Issues Recommended Determination on Remedy and Bond in Certain Kinesiotherapy Devices (337-TA-823) from www.itcblog.com On February 1, 2013, ALJ Thomas B. Pender issued the public version (dated January 22, 2013) of the Recommended Determination on Remedy and Bond (“RD”) in Certain Kinesiotherapy Devices and Components Thereof (Inv. No. 337-TA-823 ...
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Fate Of Google Book Search Still To Come, Expert Says from www.ip-watch.org A few years ago, internet giant Google had the idea to digitise tens of millions of the world’s books and ran into legal trouble with the publishers and authors of some of them. The ...
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They Invented What? (No. 224) from anticipatethis.wordpress.com U.S. Patent No. 6,473,908: Garment having a buttocks cleavage revealing feature. JW Note: Wishing our readers a Happy Valentine’s Day 2013! Having fully described the invention in such clear and concise ...
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