Patent-Conscious Preparation for a Summer at the Beach from www.patentlyo.com Guest Post by Marketa Trimble As the America Invents Act slowly fades as a cocktail party topic, your conversation might gravitate to your upcoming summer vacation at the beach. Don't worry, this conversation will ...
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Earth Day: Environmentalists are Evil from hallingblog.com Earth Day was created in the Nixon administration and the first was in 1970. This day violates the 1st Amendment by the Federal Government “respecting an establishment of religion.” Environmentalists are often portrayed by the ...
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Business Innovation and the Law: a new book from ipfinance.blogspot.com Business Innovation and the Law: Perspectives from Intellectual Property, Labour, Competition and Corporate Law, edited by Marilyn Pittard , Ann L. Monotti and John Duns (Faculty of Law, Monash University, Australia), is a curiously restless book ...
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Rich relation, poor relation, correlation from ipfinance.blogspot.com Having not-quite-so-recently received my copy of the March/April issue of
The Patent Lawyer, I rediscovered a piece which I had written for it on patent statistics and what, if anything, they mean, having been ...
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Court Report from www.patentdocs.org By Sherri Oslick -- About Court Report: Each week we will report briefly on recently filed biotech and pharma cases. Depomed, Inc. v. Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. 3:13-cv-02467; filed April 17, 2013 in the District Court ...
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BIO International Convention 2013 - Chicago from www.patentdocs.org Monday, April 22, 2013 Preview By Andrew Williams -- This week, the 2013 BIO International Convention is in Chicago, home of the Patent Docs. If you are planning on attending, you probably already know that the ...
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German Parliament Sends Message: Stop Granting Software Patents from www.ip-watch.org The German Parliament has passed a joint motion against the growing trend of patent offices to grant patents on software programs. The resolution on “Secure Competition and Innovation in the software development,” obliges the German ...
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WIPO Members Send Draft Treaty For The Blind To Marrakesh from www.ip-watch.org Members of the World Intellectual Property Organization have completed work on a draft treaty on copyright exceptions for the blind and visually impaired and agreed to move to a diplomatic conference in Morocco in June ...
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Mixed Reactions Among Participants In WIPO Talks On Treaty For The Blind from www.ip-watch.org At the close of this week’s negotiating session for an international treaty on copyright exceptions for blind and visually impaired persons, some governments, including upcoming host Morocco, expressed disappointment in the outcome of a ...
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Being Green: Bayh-Dole Makes Every Day Earth Day from www.ipwatchdog.com Normally when we discuss the impact of the Bayh-Dole Act, allowing universities and small companies to commercialize inventions made with federal support, we focus on the life sciences where the resulting new drugs and therapies ...
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Sun Power: Keeping it Green with New Energy Technologies from www.ipwatchdog.com Solar energy is one of the alternative energy forms that many believe can be an effective part of the new alternative energy that replaces our current carbon-based fossil fuel situation. However, solar radiation can be ...
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Curbing Vaccine Costs Key To Extending Global Immunisation Reach from www.ip-watch.org As the World Health Organization kicks off a week devoted to the promotion of vaccines, newly published research has identified challenges, such as weak supply systems and information gaps, that need to be addressed to ...
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PTO Budget Problems from inventivestep.net As I alluded to last week, the PTO is again facing a budget crisis. Acting PTO Director Teresa Stanek Rea told employees last week that “immediate and significant” budget cuts were coming due to lower-than-expected ...
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Protecting Traditional Knowledge: WIPO Members Back To The Drafting Table from www.ip-watch.org World Intellectual Property Organization delegates are meeting once again this week to try to advance a text that could become an international instrument to protect traditional knowledge. Substantial work needs to be done on the ...
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Suffolk Tech. v. AOL et al., In Search of a Reasonable Royalty Post-Uniloc from www.iplawalert.com On April 12, United States District Judge Ellis of the Eastern District of Virginia excluded the testimony of patentee Suffolk’s damages expert directed to a reasonable royalty based on the Nash Bargaining Solution, a ...
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ALJ Shaw Grants Motion To Strike And Denies Motion To Quash In Certain Personal Data And Mobile Communications Devices (337-TA-710) from www.itcblog.com On April 10, 2013, ALJ David P. Shaw issued the public versions of Order No. 128 (dated November 1, 2012) and Order No. 129 (dated November 7, 2012) in Certain Personal Data and Mobile Communications ...
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ALJ Shaw Denies Motion To Amend Complaint And Grants Motion To Terminate Investigation Based On Lack Of Standing In Certain Devices With Secure Communication Capabilities (337-TA-818) from www.itcblog.com On April 9, 2013, ALJ David P. Shaw issued the public versions of Orders No. 14 and 15 (both dated July 18, 2012) in Certain Devices with Secure Communication Capabilities, Components Thereof, and Products Containing ...
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ITC Issues Article Regarding Statistics On Section 337 Investigations With Emphasis On NPE Activity from www.itcblog.com On April 15, 2013, the International Trade Commission (“ITC” or the “Commission”) issued an article highlighting the sustained increase in the agency’s Section 337 caseload over the last five years and providing detailed statistics ...
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BIO International Convention 2013 – Day 2 from www.patentdocs.org Tuesday, April 23, 2013 Preview By Andrew Williams -- The 2013 BIO International Convention continues on Tuesday in Chicago, home of the Patent Docs. We are presenting a preview of some of the sessions or other ...
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