Patent & IP news for April 12, 2013

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post image Stent Patent Cannot Heal Divided Claim Construction: Four Judges = Four Different Claim Constructions from www.patentlyo.com

By Dennis Crouch Bruce Saffran v. Johnson & Johnson (Fed. Cir. 2013) Claim construction has become the most highly contentious issue in patent litigation. A difficulty with claim construction is that the question does not involve ...

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A Primer on Claim Construction -- Comments on Dr. Mason's Response from www.patentdocs.org

By Donald Zuhn -- Yesterday, we posted a response from Dr. Chris Mason of Cornell University to a recent Patent Docs post and an article posted by Dr. Chris Holman on Holman's Biotech IP Blog ...

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A Response to Dr. Mason's "Rebuttal" to Criticisms of His Genomics Medicine Article from www.patentdocs.org

By Kevin E. Noonan -- Much of the gene patenting debate had appeared, to experienced patent practitioners, to be akin to a conversation with Kevin Kline's character in A Fish Called Wanda, or perhaps a ...

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New LinkedIn Group for IP-Backed Finance Research from ipfinance.blogspot.com

IP Finance blogger Jeremy has learned that his friend Stephen Robertson of Metis Partners has created an IP-Backed Finance Research LinkedIn group, the details of which can be seen below:
IP-Backed Finance Research

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Smile, it’s Springtime from www.tangible-ip.com

Been a while-time to come out of Winter hibernation I can get out of many good habits during the British winter, and this has been a particularly rotten one, so I’ve got out of ...

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USPTO Proposes New Rules to Implement Patent Law Treaty from www.ipwatchdog.com

The notable changes in the PLTIA to implement the PLT can be generally broken down into four major categories, although there are all kinds of nuance as you probably could have guessed. Nevertheless, the categories ...

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Debate In Beijing: ICANN As Online Content Regulator? from www.ip-watch.org

The publication by governments of additional safeguards for new top-level domains at this week‘s 46th meeting of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) sparked warnings that the private net management body ...

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U.S. Department of Commerce Announces Patents for Humanity Winners from www.ipwatchdog.com

The U.S. Department of Commerce today announced the winners of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s (USPTO) Patents for Humanity pilot program during an awards ceremony on Capitol Hill supported by the ...

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New SMS Tool To Report Non-Tariff Trade Barriers At African Borders from www.ip-watch.org

Small traders and businesses facing barriers to moving goods across African borders now can send a mobile phone text message alert that could help resolve the problems more quickly. Related Articles:

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The Laws of Physics and Copyright Law: SDNY Rules that First-Sale Doctrine Does Not Apply to the Resale of "Used" Digital Media from www.iplawalert.com

Owners of books and music in physical media form need not fear if ever they decide to sell, rent, or otherwise dispose of these copyright-protected materials. The first-sale doctrine permits such activities by extinguishing a ...

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Liveblogging PatCon 3: A Conversation with Industry from www.patentlyo.com

By Jason Rantanen Today I'll be liveblogging from PatCon 3. For those who are interested, the substance will be after the break. I'm told that video recordings will be available for the plenary ...

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Is ICANN Policymaking Around Its Bottom-Up Multistakeholder Process? from www.ip-watch.org

This week, registry, registrar and user constituencies at the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) complained about what they saw as deviations from the bottom-up multistakeholder process by late additions made to policies ...

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EU High Court Clears Copyright Collecting Societies of Antitrust Charges from www.ip-watch.org

European copyright collecting societies are not engaged in a cartel but the European Commission was correct in finding that some of the provisions in their reciprocal representation should be barred, the EU General Court (GC ...

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PatCon 3: Plenary Session from www.patentlyo.com

By Jason Rantanen I'm continuing to blog the presentations at PatCon 3. Mark Lemley (Stanford) James Malackowski (Ocean Tomo, LLC) David Abrams (Penn) Mark Lemley - Why Do Juries Decide if Patents are Valid? In ...

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Race For WTO Director General Down To Five Candidates from www.ip-watch.org

The number of candidates seeking to be the next director general of the World Trade Organization has dropped from nine down to five. Related Articles:

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They Invented What? (No. 226) from anticipatethis.wordpress.com

U.S. Patent No. 6,167,572: Reinforced garment with looped grasping handles. What is claimed to be new and desired to be protected by Letters Patent is set forth in the appended claims: 1 ...

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PatCon 3: Posner/Epstein Debate on the Patent System from www.patentlyo.com

Continuing to liveblog from PatCon 3. I'll continue updating this post throughout the debate. A Debate About the Patent System The Honorable Judge Richard Posner of the United States Court of Appeals for the ...

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ALJ Pender Issues Public Version Of Initial Determination In Certain Dimmable Compact Fluorescent Lamps (337-TA-830) from www.itcblog.com

On April 5, 2013, ALJ Thomas B. Pender issued the public version of the Initial Determination (“ID,” dated February 27, 2013) finding no violation of Section 337 in Certain Dimmable Compact Fluorescent Lamps and Products ...

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Reorganizing STEM programs - and going beyond from www.athenaalliance.org

Today we continue with our look at the President's budget proposal (see earlier postings). One of the budget's themes is "educating a competitive workforce." Within this overall framework are a number of programs ...

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