Apple v Samsung: The War Over "Cool" from ipfinance.blogspot.com Last August, we published a blog post--"Apple v Samsung: Don't Take Your Eyes Off the Brand and User App Ball" (
here) in which we questioned whether Apple's successful verdict in suit against ...
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USPTO News Briefs from www.patentdocs.org By Donald Zuhn -- USPTO Extends Comment Period on Preparation of Patent Applications In January, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office published a notice in the Federal Register (78 Fed. Reg. 2960) requesting public comment ...
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Google Seeks Patent on System For Targeting Customers Who Invite Other Customers to a Business from www.ipwatchdog.com Google is another technological innovator whose name comes up often every week at the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, as they are in the habit of protecting many of their Android system and Internet developments ...
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Patent Trolls in Public from www.patentlyo.com Guest post by James Bessen, Boston University School of Law and Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard, and Michael J. Meurer, Boston University School of Law As Congress considers the SHIELD Act, it is ...
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Samsung Lawyer Assesses IP Legal Battle With Apple from www.ip-watch.org Cape Town, South Africa - Professor Charles Gielen, an insider in the epic design war between Apple and Samsung, has described the hostile standoff between the two corporate giants as a shape-shifting space for intellectual property ...
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Pharma Law and Business Roundup for March 2013 from www.ipwatchdog.com In response to the scandal over a fungal meningitis outbreak, the FDA has begun a crackdown on compounding pharmacies and targeting about 30 ‘high risk’ operations in nearly a dozen states. San Francisco officials approved ...
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Manufacturing and services - the fusion from www.athenaalliance.org In my posting of new reports back in January, I included Bill Bonvillian's article "Reinventing American Manufacturing: The Role of Innovation". The piece is a good discussion of the state of policy on manufacturing ...
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ALJ Rogers Grants Motion To Terminate Investigation As To DeLorme In Certain Two-Way Global Satellite Communication Devices (337-TA-854) from www.itcblog.com On March 15, 2013, ALJ Robert K. Rogers, Jr. issued Order No. 21 in Certain Two-Way Global Satellite Communication Devices, Systems, and Components Thereof (Inv. No. 337-TA-854). In the Order, ALJ Rogers granted a motion ...
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First-Sale Doctrine: Authorized Foreign Sales Exhaust US Copyrights [and US Patents] from www.patentlyo.com By Dennis Crouch Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons (Supreme Court 2013) In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court here holds that the first-sale doctrine applies to copies of a copyrighted work lawfully made abroad. Although ...
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ALJ Bullock Terminates Enforcement Proceeding Based on Settlement Agreement In Certain Prepregs, Laminates, And Finished Circuit Boards (337-TA-659) from www.itcblog.com On March 18, 2013, Chief ALJ Charles E. Bullock issued Order No. 20 in Certain Prepregs, Laminates, and Finished Circuit Boards (Inv. No. 337-TA-659). According to the Order, ALJ Bullock granted a joint motion filed ...
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More Thrift Shop Access or More Axcess: First Sale and the US Supreme Court’s opinion in Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. from ipfinance.blogspot.com Today the US Supreme Court issued its much anticipated opinion in Kirtsaeng concerning application of the first sale doctrine. Ms. Rosati at the IPKAT website has covered the opinion here. I found a couple of ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Gets Patent for Genetically Modified Human Immune Cells for Cancer Therapy from www.ipwatchdog.com As the patent community waits to see whether the United States Supreme Court will deal a significant, perhaps fatal blow, to the patenting of many genetic related innovations in Association of Molecular Pathology v. Myriad ...
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WIPO Reports Robust Growth In Demand For IP Rights In 2012 from www.ip-watch.org In a press briefing at the United Nations today, World Intellectual Property Organization Director General Francis Gurry described what he qualified as a robust growth in applications for patents, designs and trademarks despite the economic ...
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European Unitary Patent: A Quick Primer from intellogist.wordpress.com The European Unitary Patent has been a long time coming (depending on who you ask)! In any case, the process to get us where we are today has been a lenghty one. The reality of ...
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US Supreme Court Applies First Sale Doctrine Worldwide from www.ip-watch.org Today, the United States Supreme Court handed US copyright owners a stinging defeat. The decision in Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons dramatically slashes the ability of US copyright owners to control copies of their works ...
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Pharma, International Red Cross Combine To Fight NCDs from www.ip-watch.org The International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers & Associations (IFPMA) and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) announced on 19 March a two-year partnership on non-communicable diseases.
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ALJ Bullock Sets Procedural Schedule In Certain Robotic Toys (337-TA-869) from www.itcblog.com On March 18, 2013, Chief ALJ Charles E. Bullock issued Order No. 5 in Certain Robotic Toys and Components Thereof (Inv. No. 337-TA-869). In the Order, ALJ Bullock set the procedural schedule for the investigation ...
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