Patent & IP news for March 29, 2013

Pre-AIA Filing Numbers from www.patentlyo.com

By Dennis Crouch The chart above shows weekly application filings for the first 10 weeks of 2013, including the week ending on March 15, 2013. That date is important because it was the last day ...

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In re Owens from www.patentlyo.com

Guest post by Sarah Burstein, Associate Professor of Law at the University of Oklahoma College of Law. Professor Burstein will be speaking at Stanford's conference on Design Patents in the Modern World next week ...

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Academic White Paper Rebuts FTC and S. 214 from www.patentdocs.org

By Kevin E. Noonan -- Paul Bender, former Clinton-era Principal Deputy Solicitor General, and his colleagues Christopher A. Mohr and Michael Kippler at the University of Arizona Law School, published a White Paper entitled "S. 214 ...

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DOJ Says IP Exchange Licensing Model is Pro-Innovation from www.ipwatchdog.com

IPXI is the first financial exchange that facilitates non-exclusive licensing and trading of intellectual property rights with market-based pricing and standardized terms. Earlier this week word came from the Intellectual Property Exchange International Inc. (IPXI ...

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J&J Seeks Ridiculously Broad Patent on Method of Treating Pain from www.ipwatchdog.com

Essentially you take a topical analgesic, cool it, remove it from the cooling environment and then apply. If this claim gets patented it will be extraordinarily embarrassing for the USPTO. But what exactly was Johnson ...

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New HBS competitiveness survey from www.athenaalliance.org

Last month, the Harvard Business School released the findings from its 2012 Survey on U.S. Competitiveness, Competitiveness At A Crossroads. Directed by Michael Porter, Jan Rivkin and Rosabeth Moss Kanter, this survey updates their ...

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ALJ Bullock Finds That Respondent Waived Invalidity Defense In Certain Ink Application Devices (337-TA-832) from www.itcblog.com

On March 26, 2012, Chief ALJ Charles E. Bullock issued Order No. 27 denying Respondent T-Tech Tattoo Device, Inc.’s (“T-Tech”) motion for summary determination that claims 1 and 19 of U.S. Patent No ...

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ALJ Gildea Grants Complainant’s Motion To Terminate Investigation Based On Withdrawal Of Complaint In Certain Mobile Electronic Devices Incorporating Haptics (337-TA-834) from www.itcblog.com

On March 27, 2013, ALJ E. James Gildea issued Order No. 35 in Certain Mobile Electronic Devices Incorporating Haptics (Inv. No. 337-TA-834). In the Order, ALJ Gildea granted a motion filed by Complainant Immersion Corporation ...

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ALJ Essex Sets Date For Early Domestic Industry Submissions In Certain Products Having Laminated Packaging (337-TA-874) from www.itcblog.com

On March 28, 2013, ALJ Theodore R. Essex issued Order No. 3 in Certain Products Having Laminated Packaging, Laminated Packaging, and Components Thereof (Inv. No. 337-TA-874). In the Order, ALJ Essex first recognized the ITC ...

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ResMed Files New 337 Complaint Regarding Certain Sleep-Disordered Breathing Treatment Systems from www.itcblog.com

On March 28, 2013, ResMed Corp. of San Diego, California, ResMed Inc. of San Diego, California, and ResMed Ltd. of Australia (collectively, “ResMed”) filed a complaint requesting that the ITC commence an investigation pursuant to ...

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