Reason Magazine: Using Emotion and Faith to Advance their Anti-Patent Agenda from hallingblog.com Reason Magazine has released a video, entitled How Patent Trolls Kill Innovation. The magazine banner states that they support “Free Minds and Free Markets” but this video relies on the same irrational, emotion driven logic ...
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Gunn v. Minton (2013) from www.patentdocs.org By Kevin E. Noonan -- A patent issue exerted its Circe-like effect on the Supreme Court again today in Gunn v. Minton, a decision overruling the Texas Supreme Court on the question of whether the existence ...
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District Court Dismisses Copyright Suit Against Lexis, Westlaw from www.ipwatchdog.com White dropped his class certification request in an amended complaint and sought to receive an unspecified amount in damages on the basis that his copyrighted legal briefs had been included in both Westlaw's "Litigator ...
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Job Opening: Patent Analyst – Doylestown, PA from www.ipwatchdog.com Duties will include patent analysis, patent mining, and technology and market research. This position requires the ability to identify high quality patents using proprietary patent mining methodology, review patents to determine claim scope and quality ...
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European Commission Seeks Comments On Patent Licensing For Tech Transfer from www.ip-watch.org The European Commission announced today that it is inviting comments on a proposal for new competition rules for the assessment of technology transfer agreements. Under the rules, a licensor permits a licensee to exploit patents ...
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WIPO Negotiations: Latest Text Of Treaty For The Blind Is Short On Progress from www.ip-watch.org A new version of a text to become a treaty facilitating access to books and information for blind and visually impaired people was issued this morning at the World Intellectual Property Organization amidst concerns that ...
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Professor Giuseppina D’Agostino on The Agenda with Steve Paikin from www.iposgoode.ca IP Osgoode is pleased to announce that our very own Professor Giuseppina D’Agostino, Founder and Director of IP Osgoode, was featured on last Tuesday’s episode of The Agenda with Steve Paikin entitled “Is ...
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The Reference to the CJEU in Case C-466/12 Svensson from www.iposgoode.ca The European Copyright Society (ECS) was founded in January 2012 with the aim of creating a platform for critical and independent scholarly thinking on European Copyright Law. Its members are renowned scholars and academics from ...
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IP Osgoode Speaker Series: Douglas Pepper On Book Publishing in a Digital Age from www.iposgoode.ca On February 13, 2013, enthusiasts of the written word were treated to a lunchtime talk by Mr. Douglas Pepper, a long-time veteran of the North American publishing industry and the current President of Random House ...
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Patent Malpractice Cases Belong in State Court from inventivestep.net Yesterday, a unanimous Supreme Court has overturned the Federal Circuit practice of keeping malpractice cases against patent attorneys in Federal court with appeals to the Federal Circuit. Gunn v. Minton. In this case, the Texas ...
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WIPO Treaty For The Blind: Rightsholders Seek Safeguards, Civil Society Seek Real Access from www.ip-watch.org While country delegates at the World Intellectual Property Organization are working to find consensus on a text to become a treaty for the benefit of blind and visually impaired people, industry and nongovernmental organisations are ...
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Apple Awarded Motion Detection Sensing Systems Patent from www.ipwatchdog.com Apple received 37 patents in the third week of February from the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office. These awarded patents include three design patents and a few motion detection sensing systems that allow individuals to ...
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Trade Commissioner: EU To Seek GIs In US FTA, But No New ACTA from www.ip-watch.org There will be a chapter on intellectual property protection in the draft proposals for a US-EU free trade agreement - the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) - EU Trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht said today at ...
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Google’s Anti-Piracy Measures Not Enough, Recording Industry Says from www.ip-watch.org The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) today in a report accused Google of not doing enough to stop Internet users from accessing websites repeatedly accused of copyright infringement.
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Doctrine of Equivalents: On the Rise Again? from www.patentlyo.com By Dennis Crouch Brilliant Instruments v. GuideTech (Fed. Cir. 2013), Majority Opinion by Judges Moore and Reyna with Judge Dyk dissenting in part. Shalom Kattan was a prolific inventor while an employee at GuideTech. When ...
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ALJ Shaw Denies Motions In Certain Products Containing Interactive Program Guide And Parental Control Technology (337-TA-845) from www.itcblog.com On February 13 and February 14, 2013, ALJ David P. Shaw issued Order No. 29 and the public version of Order No. 26 (dated February 7, 2013), respectively, in Certain Products Containing Interactive Program Guide ...
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Federal Circuit Affirms ITC’s Final Determination In Flashpoint Appeal (2012-1149) from www.itcblog.com On February 14, 2013, a Federal Circuit panel consisting of Judges Moore, Mayer, and Wallach issued a per curiam judgment, pursuant to Federal Circuit Rule 36, affirming the ITC’s final determination in Flashpoint Technology ...
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Lamina Files New 337 Complaint Regarding Certain Laminated Packaging Products from www.itcblog.com On February 20, 2013, Lamina Packaging Innovations LLC of Longview, Texas (“Lamina”) filed a complaint requesting that the ITC commence an investigation pursuant to Section 337. The complaint alleges that the following entities (collectively, the ...
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Federal Circuit Confirms that a Sales Agent is not a Third Party to Trigger Early Entry under a Settlement Agreement from www.orangebookblog.com Eurand v. Impax Labs., No. 2012-1280 (Fed. Cir.) by Alex Menchaca In Eurand v. Impax, decided last week week by the Federal Circuit, one generic defendant, Impax, settled with the patent owner, Cephalon. The settlement ...
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