Patent & IP news for April 26, 2013

Is the Apple brand getting a bit of a free-pass? from ipfinance.blogspot.com

The hottest topic in the high tech world must certainly be the recent developments surrounding Apple. In particular, we refer to the drop in the share price from over US$ 700 per share to just ...

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If it's creative and it's culture, there may be tax relief ahead from ipfinance.blogspot.com

According to "Tax reliefs for the creative sector", a Department for Culture, Media & Sport Policy Paper (here), the UK government has published revised draft Regulations -- the Cultural Test (Programmes and Video Games) Draft Regulations 2013 ...

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Don’t Write This Letter to the Patent Office from www.patentlyo.com

by Dennis Crouch We all get frustrated. After an examiner rejected his client's application for a telescoping tripod sprinkler, patent attorney Andrew Schroeder could no longer resist and filed the following remarks to Examiner ...

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Patent Profile: Nestec Receives Patent for Method of Predicting Risk of Celiac Disease from www.patentdocs.org

By Josh Bosman -- Earlier this month, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued U.S. Patent No. 8,409,819, entitled "Methods to predict risk for celiac disease by detecting anti-flagellin antibody levels." The ...

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In “Great Shame,” WIPO Fund For Indigenous Peoples’ Participation Running Dry from www.ip-watch.org

The participation of indigenous peoples at the United Nations World Intellectual Property Organization has become compromised as the funds allowing the organisation to invite indigenous peoples representatives is running dry. At the outset of this ...

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European Parliament Trade Committee Backs Cultural Exclusion From EU-US FTA from www.ip-watch.org

The International Trade Committee (INTA) of the European Parliament yesterday passed a resolution welcoming negotiations for a Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between the European Union and the United States (23 in favor, five ...

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Claim Construction: A Game of Chance at the Federal Circuit from www.ipwatchdog.com

Where the Federal Circuit is reviewing a validity decision from the district courts, the Federal Circuit reviews the claim construction de novo. The Federal Circuit also chooses not the most likely meaning, but the broadest ...

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1Q 2013 GDP numbers from www.athenaalliance.org

This morning BEA released their advanced estimate of the U.S. GDP for the 1st quarter of 2013. The 2.5% rate of growth was both better than last quarter (0.4%) but less than ...

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Three Stories About China: Yum Brands, the Venture Capital Market in China and More, and Hollywood from ipfinance.blogspot.com

Several years ago, Yum Brands, the company that owns KFC (Kentucky Fried Chicken), Taco Bell and Pizza Hut, was lauded as the company that had figured out how to succeed in China.  Indeed, a substantial ...

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ALJ Rogers Rules On Motion To Strike Complainants’ Interrogatory Responses And Expert Reports In Certain Rubber Resins (337-TA-849) from www.itcblog.com

On April 12, 2013, ALJ Robert K. Rogers, Jr. issued the public version of Order No. 36 (dated March 5, 2013) in Certain Rubber Resins and Processes for Manufacturing Same (Inv. No. 337-TA-849). According to ...

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