Patent & IP news for February 22, 2013

Claims in Issued Patents from www.patentlyo.com

The chart above shows the average and median number of claims in issued patents, grouped by issue week. The median count is a 20-week moving average. As you can see, over the past seven years ...

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Member States Sign Agreement to Establish Unified Patent Court from www.patentdocs.org

By Donald Zuhn -- On Tuesday, the Council of the European Union announced that twenty-four member states had signed the international agreement that would establish a Unified Patent Court (UPC), a specialized court having exclusive jurisdiction ...

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Vitiating the Doctrine of Claim Vitiation from www.717madisonplace.com

I do a fair amount of opinion work as part of my law practice; so, I’m always interested in cases where the doctrine of claim vitiation is a topic during oral argument. The doctrine ...

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ITC to Review Google’s Claims of Patent Infringement by Apple from www.ipwatchdog.com

After examining the record of the investigation the Commission decided to review the ALJ's determination with respect to the claim construction of the phrase "touch sensitive input device," which appears in claim 1 of ...

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CodeX – A Change In My Perception of the Legal Realm: A Semester in Osgoode’s IP Intensive Program from www.iposgoode.ca

Last fall I was in Palo Alto, California at Stanford Law School completing a placement as part of the Osgoode Intellectual Property and Technology Intensive Program. At Stanford, I was one of two interns at ...

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Technology Stars in Silicon Valley – An Intensely IP Semester at Stanford: A Semester in Osgoode’s IP Intensive Program from www.iposgoode.ca

If you’re ever in southern California, Starline Tours offers a special “celebrity homes” tour where they take you on a bus to see where movie stars live. But, despite being an ardent film fanatic ...

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DDEL addresses EMVR vs. smallest salable unit and comparability of portfolio licenses from patent-damages.com

The District of Delaware in AVM Tech., LLC v. Intel Corp., Civil Action No. 10-610-RGA (D. Del. January 4, 2013), ruled on Intel’s Daubert motion to exclude the testimony of AVM’s damages expert ...

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ALJ Rogers Denies Motion For Summary Determination Of Infringement in Certain Digital Models, Digital Data And Treatment Plans For Use In Making Incremental Dental Positioning Adjustment Appliances (337-TA-833) from www.itcblog.com

On February 15, 2013, ALJ Robert K. Rogers, Jr. issued the public version of Order No. 27 (dated January 23, 2013) denying Align Technology, Inc.’s (“Align”) motion for summary determination of infringement in Certain ...

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ALJ Shaw Rules On Motions In Certain Wireless Devices With 3G Capabilities (337-TA-800) from www.itcblog.com

On February 13 and February 15, 2013, ALJ David P. Shaw issued Order No. 104 and the public version of Order No. 70 (dated September 19, 2012), respectively, in Certain Wireless Devices with 3G Capabilities ...

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Andrzej Bobel And Neptun File Enforcement Complaint In Certain Dimmable Compact Fluorescent Lamps (337-TA-830) from www.itcblog.com

On February 19, 2013, Andrzej Bobel and Neptun Light, Inc. (“Neptun”) (collectively, “Complainants”)—both of Lake Forest, Illinois—filed an enforcement complaint in Certain Dimmable Compact Fluorescent Lamps and Products Containing Same (Inv. No. 337-TA-830 ...

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