Patent & IP news for April 23, 2013

Rethinking The Role Of Innovation In The Green Technologies Context from www.ip-watch.org

European Union (EU) Commissioner for Environment, Janez Potocnik, during a recent visit to Geneva, elaborated on the global challenges the world faces and on the strategic choices they impose, with a regional focus on Europe ...

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US Supreme Court May Invalidate Gene Patents, But Create Little Change from www.ip-watch.org

Prior to 15 April, most experts had expected the United States Supreme Court to rule in Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics that genes cannot be patented. The oral argument on that date strengthened ...

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We Are Just Too Pretty to get Sued for Infringement from www.ipwatchdog.com

Firefly was a briefly lived television show that aired on Fox in 2002. It only lasted for a few months before Fox yanked the plug (a most egregious decision that I shall never EVER forgive ...

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Innovations for a Greener Future: Recycling 2013 from www.ipwatchdog.com

Many recent patents and patent applications have been released within the month by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office that either improve on recycling methods or make better use of recycled material. A fully-recyclable cardboard ...

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Federal Circuit Supports Bare-Bones Patent Complaints from www.patentlyo.com

By Dennis Crouch K-Tech Telecommunications v. Time Warner (Fed. Cir.2013) The district court dismissed K-Tech's infringement lawsuit on a FRCP R. 12(b)(6) motion for failure to state a claim upon which ...

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Preserving the first to invent status of a pre-AIA filing in a post-AIA world from ocpatentlawyer.com

What should you do?  You have a provisional patent application which was filed pre-AIA (i.e., before March 16, 2013). You want to file a non provisional patent application with additional subject matter and claim ...

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BIO International Convention 2013 - Day 3 from www.patentdocs.org

Wednesday, April 24, 2013 Preview By Andrew Williams -- The 2013 BIO International Convention is beginning to wrap-up on Wednesday in Chicago, but you won't want to miss the events scheduled for this day. We ...

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ALJ Gildea Sets Procedural Schedule In Certain Integrated Circuit Devices (337-TA-873) from www.itcblog.com

Further to our March 14, 2013 and March 25, 2013 posts, on April 19, 2013, ALJ E. James Gildea issued Order No. 4 in Certain Integrated Circuit Devices and Products Containing the Same (Inv. No ...

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