Patent & IP news for April 25, 2013

IP valuation and the emergence of a tradable asset class from ipfinance.blogspot.com

Here's a piece from IP Finance's friend and supporter Jackie Maguire (Coller IP), giving a bit more context to the sudden emergence of officially-sponsored and commissioned studies into IP valuation and the role ...

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Bayer Healthcare Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. Watson Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Fed. Cir. 2013) from www.patentdocs.org

By Michael Greenfield -- Contraceptives were the subject of the Federal Circuit's recent decision in Bayer Healthcare Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. Watson Pharmaceuticals, Inc. But, unfortunately, it's a rather fact-specific case with nothing of prurient ...

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Anti-Counterfeiters Focus On Organised Crime, Softer Public Message from www.ip-watch.org

Istanbul - The unsuspecting consumer must above all be protected against counterfeit products, speakers said today at meeting of private sector, intergovernmental and governmental representatives. But increasingly organised crime is dealing the products, and anti-counterfeiting forces ...

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The Energy and Environmental Innovation Conundrum: Can the Patent System Protect New Ways of Using Old Technologies? from www.ipwatchdog.com

The field of clean or green technology is one of those areas where innovation is desperately needed if our planet Earth is to survive as a place where all living things can thrive. But what ...

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Tidbit: About 3% of recently issued US patents are following an interesting path that begins with the filing of a US provisional patent application followed one-year later with an international PCT application and then eventually followed-up with a US non-provisional... from www.patentlyo.com

Tidbit: About 3% of recently issued US patents are following an interesting path that begins with the filing of a US provisional patent application followed one-year later with an international PCT application and then eventually ...

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Examing Hybrid Electric Vehicle Patents of Ford, Chrysler & GM from www.ipwatchdog.com

Hybrid electric vehicles pose a number of potential environmental and economic benefits that make it an important sector within green technology. Hybrids store an electrical charge in a battery that either reduces the amount of ...

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USPTO e-Office Action Notification Failure for April 24-25 from www.ipwatchdog.com

Due to a system issue, the e-Office Action process is currently experiencing a problem with sending emails to external email addresses. Automatic Email notifications have been delayed for e-Office Action participants on 4/24 and ...

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WIPO Demonstrates 3D Printing; Making The Impossible Possible from www.ip-watch.org

Experts in the field of three dimensional (3D) printing, invited by the World Intellectual Property Organization, today tried to demystify this technology, which has been much talked about but still not very well understood. Seen ...

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