IBM Chief Patent Counsel on Patent Litigation Reform from www.ipwatchdog.com Federal Circuit Chief Judge Rader recently delivered an important and noteworthy defense of the U.S. patent system the recent annual meeting of the Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM). His ideas have merit, but ...
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Costco Attempts to Defend Sale of Counterfeit TIFFANY Diamonds from www.ipwatchdog.com This should have been an open and shut case. But then Costco decided to aggressively defend what seems indefensible. Costco is basing its defense on the belief that the "[t]he word Tiffany is a ...
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Patent and Copyright First-Sale and International Exhaustion Standards to Remain in Conflict ... For Now! from www.iplawalert.com On the heels of its March 19, 2013, decision in Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., where the Supreme Court held that international exhaustion , i.e., an ex-U.S. first-sale rule applies to copyrights, the ...
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What is a Business Method Patent? from inventivestep.net The America Invents Act set up a transitional program for reexamination of business method patents. These patents can be challenged on prior art grounds of novelty and non-obviousness, but also on grounds that they are ...
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GI Experts Speak Of Value But Concede International Accord Hard To Reach from www.ip-watch.org Bangkok, Thailand - Experts on geographical indications ended two days of discussions here by acknowledging greatly the benefit of GIs to national economies and cultural heritages, but conceded that it has been tough to reach a ...
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India Dismisses Antitrust Complaint Against Gilead Sciences from www.ip-watch.org The Indian fair trade regulator has dismissed a complaint against biopharmaceutical company Gilead Sciences that alleged the company engaged in anti-competitive activities in the licensing of its anti-HIV drugs, according to the SpicyIP blog.
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India: Drug Patents for True and Genuine Inventions, but not for Gleevec from www.patentlyo.com By Dennis Crouch In the U.S., Gleevec costs around $70,000 per year. In India, that price is only $2,500 (for a generic version). The difference is that the Indian government has refused ...
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Heightened Judicial Deference for Patent Claim Constructions? from www.ipwatchdog.com Patent litigants have long expected an appeal to follow nearly every jury verdict and that a key question (if not the key question) on appeal will be the district court’s construction of one or ...
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Inventorship: Limits of Collaboration from www.patentlyo.com By Dennis Crouch Rubin v. General Hospital Corp (Mass. General) (Fed. Cir. 2013) Back in 2000, Dr. Rubin and his team identified an IKAP Gene mutation as causing a syndrome known as Familial Dysautonomia. Rubin ...
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Singapore Reveals 10-Year Plan For Global IP Development from www.ip-watch.org The Government of Singapore today has revealed a set of initiatives it plans to implement over the next decade to further develop the country as an intellectual property hub.
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Wilson Sonsini Hires IP Litigators Away from Sidley Austin from www.ipwatchdog.com Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati announced last week that it was significantly expanding its patent litigation practice by hiring a team of IP litigators away from Sidley Austin. Poplawski is not just any lateral hire, which ...
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ALJ Shaw Rules on Discovery Motions in Certain Wireless Devices with 3G Capabilities (337-TA-800) from www.itcblog.com On March 21, 2013, ALJ David P. Shaw issued the public versions of Order Nos. 96 and 98 in Certain Wireless Devices with 3G Capabilities and Components Thereof (Inv. No. 337-TA-800). By way of background ...
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ALJ Shaw Denies Motions for Summary Determination in Certain Wireless Devices with 3G Capabilities (337-TA-800) from www.itcblog.com On March 21, 2013, ALJ David P. Shaw issued the public versions of Order Nos. 92, 93, and 99 in Certain Wireless Devices with 3G Capabilities and Components Thereof (Inv. No. 337-TA-800) denying Complainant and ...
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US Court Rules TV Streaming Service Does Not Violate Copyright Law from www.ip-watch.org The Second United States Circuit Court of Appeals today determined that online live television broadcasting service Aereo doesn’t violate US copyright law, upholding a lower court ruling. Aereo is a cloud computing-based service in ...
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ALJ Pender Issues Claim Construction Order In Certain Electronic Devices, Including Mobile Phones And Tablet Computers (337-TA-847) from www.itcblog.com On March 21, 2013, ALJ Thomas B. Pender issued Order No. 8 construing the disputed terms of the asserted patent claims in Certain Electronic Devices, Including Mobile Phones and Tablet Computers, and Components Thereof (Inv ...
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Novartis Loses Patent Bid: Lessons From India’s 3(d) Experience from www.ip-watch.org New Delhi - On 1 April, in a packed room in India’s Supreme Court, two judges - Justice Aftab Alam and Justice Ranjana Desai - delivered a verdict that has the potential to dramatically change the national ...
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