Patent & IP news for April 16, 2013

WIPO Delegates Progressing On Once-Moribund Broadcasting Treaty from www.ip-watch.org

A meeting meant to advance discussions on a treaty to protect the rights of broadcasting organisations held last week at the World Intellectual Property Organization yielded substantive results, according to the meeting chair. However, civil ...

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Trade Secrets Litigation: DuPont Wins Property from U.S. Subsidiary as Part of its $920M Damages Award Against the Parent from www.iplawalert.com

Kolon USA, Inc., the U.S. subsidiary of South Korea-based Kolon Industries Inc. (“Kolon”), recently was ordered by New Jersey District Court Judge Esther Salas to turn over its property to DuPont as part of ...

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PBS NewsHour Examines Oral Argument in AMP v. Myriad -- Patent Docs Author Kevin Noonan Appears on Program from www.patentdocs.org

On Monday, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, Inc. (a transcript of the oral argument can be found here). The PBS NewsHour examined yesterday's argument in ...

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Myriad Oral Argument: Supreme Court Analogies show Supreme Ignorance from hallingblog.com

Yesterday the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics No. 11-725 and once again proved that they are incompetent to rule on patent cases.  The Justice made analogies ...

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Samsung Awarded System of Location Tracking Designed for Parents from www.ipwatchdog.com

Patent applications published recently by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office show Samsung’s goals of developing stronger systems of software protection and user interfaces for gesture-based gaming systems. Another patent application assigned to Samsung ...

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Supreme Court Hears Myriad Gene Patent Challenge from www.ipwatchdog.com

If cDNA is patent eligible subject matter, as it seems likely based on the tone of the oral argument, that should be very good news for Myriad. As Justice Breyer recognized during questioning of Mr ...

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ALJ Rogers Sets Procedural Schedule In Certain Radio Frequency Identification (“RFID”) Products (337-TA-875) from www.itcblog.com

Further to our March 26, 2013 and April 5, 2013 posts, on April 15, 2013, ALJ Robert K. Rogers, Jr. issued Order No. 5 in Certain Radio Frequency Identification (“RFID”) Products and Components Thereof (Inv ...

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Welcome Back Fee Diversion: USPTO Likely to Begin Sending Collected Fees back to Treasury from www.patentlyo.com

By Dennis Crouch Many agencies within the Federal Government are suffering under sequestration that effectively cuts budgets by about 5% for the rest of the fiscal year. In March, I reported that the USPTO would ...

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