Patent & IP news for May 29, 2013

Best Practices in IP 2013: conference reports 4, 5 and 6 from ipkitten.blogspot.com

The afternoon sessions of today's conference on "Best Practices in Intellectual Property 2013: International Perspectives on Creating and Extracting Value", were focused on monetisation and enforcement issues and this Kat thought it best to ...

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Best Practices in IP 2013: the monetisation session from ipfinance.blogspot.com

Following Jonathan Taub's keynote speech, today's "Best Practices in IP 2013" conference continued with a panel session featuring Paul Lerner (WiLAN), Naftali Levy (Alvarion), Ilan Ben David (Genoa Color), Zvi Marom (BATM), Steven ...

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Best Practices in IP 2013: a conference report 2 from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Following Ruud Peters' talk, a panel of business leaders offered their own perspectives on how to build and manage an IP portfolio, in a session moderated by Einav Zilber (Applied Materials Israel).

First up was ...

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Best Practices in IP 2013: patent enforcement from patlit.blogspot.com

The final session of today's Tel Aviv conference, "Best Practices in Intellectual Property 2013: International Perspectives on Creating and Extracting Value", dealt with enforcement -- including patent litigation.  Moderated by Zeev Pearl (Pearl Cohen Zedek ...

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An Australian artist's perspective on UK extended collective licensing from ipkitten.blogspot.com

A month has passed since the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (ERR) Act received Royal Assent.
Its copyright provisions - in particular: orphan works and extended collective licensing (ECL) - have attracted a good deal of controversy, both ...

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Best Practices in IP 2013: a conference report 1 from ipkitten.blogspot.com

This Kat is attending a conference, "Best Practices in Intellectual Property 2013: International Perspectives on Creating and Extracting Value", held at the Tel Aviv Sheraton, just a few yards from the sparkling Mediterranean.  The programme ...

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Best Practices in IP 2013: conference keynote on monetisation from ipfinance.blogspot.com

Today's Tel Aviv conference on "Best Practices in Intellectual Property 2013: International Perspectives on Creating and Extracting Value" focused on, among other things, IP monetisation.  This session, moderated by Monte Silver (CEO Yazam IP ...

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USPTO News Briefs from www.patentdocs.org

By Donald Zuhn -- USPTO Modifies After Final Consideration Pilot Program Earlier this month, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office published a notice in the Federal Register (78 Fed. Reg. 29117) regarding modifications to the ...

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Best Practices in IP 2013: a conference report 3 from ipkitten.blogspot.com

The third session of today's conference, moderated by Daniella Atzmony (In House IP Managers Forum) on Best Practices in IP focused on various aspects of costs. Daniella handled this session by making it ...

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IPXI to Launch First Offering on Exchange from www.ipwatchdog.com

Today, IPXI is announcing a signature event to begin marketing the first Unit License Right™ (ULR™) contract offering to be listed on the Exchange. This first offering of its kind will enable operating companies, investors ...

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No chlorine in terephthalic acid from ipbiz.blogspot.com



From the story titled Feds probe cause of freight train-garbage truck collision



Nick Materer, an Oklahoma State University chemist, said sodium chlorate, when combined with fuel, makes a more volatile mixture. "When you mix them ...

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Integrating the Federal R&D System into the Economy from www.ipwatchdog.com

We have made significant strides over the past 30 years through laws like the Bayh-Dole Act, the Federal Technology Transfer Act, and supporting Executive Orders leading to the creation of 9,000 new companies around ...

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Top 10 New IP Paper Downloads from writtendescription.blogspot.com

Here's an updated list of the most downloaded IP papers that were posted on SSRN in the past 60 days (with notes about the ones that were not on last month's list):

1. The ...

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Civil Society Observer At UPOV Gets A Public Face from www.ip-watch.org

The Association for Plant Breeding for the Benefit of Society (APBREBES) announced that its website is now online and its first newsletter has been issued. Related Articles:

• UPOV 1991 Will Adversely Impact Farmers In Tanzania ...

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The Italian ‘Google Vividown’ Case: ISPs’ Liability for User-Generated Content from www.iposgoode.ca

The re-posting of this analysis is part of a cross-posting collaboration with MediaLaws: Law and Policy of the Media in a Comparative Perspective. On 21 December 2012, the Milan Court of Appeals overturned the decision ...

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Recent Scholarship: Investing in America's Future by David Kappos from www.patentlyo.com

Last fall, then-PTO Director David J. Kappos delivered a speech on software patents, the PTO, and innovation, in which he strongly defended software patents. Below, Director Kappos, now with Cravath, Swaine & Moore, summarizes an article ...

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German court unconvinced that HTC, ViewSonic infringe Nokia patent on pre-sorting text messages from www.fosspatents.com

HTC and ViewSonic continue to defend themselves vigorously and, so far, effectively against Nokia's patent infringement lawsuits in Germany. Today the Munich I Regional Court held a second hearing (tantamount to a trial) on ...

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Financial IP Exchange To Launch First Contract Offering In June from www.ip-watch.org

The Intellectual Property Exchange International Inc. (IPXI), the world’s first financial exchange that facilitates non-exclusive licensing and trading of IP rights, will start offering a licence contract in June. Related Articles:

• US Justice Dept ...

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PTAB decision in re-exam 95/001,028; 37 CFR 41.77(b) from ipbiz.blogspot.com

The final result in the re-exam of US 6,991,298:



the previous decision is modified in that the rejections of claims 1-9,
11-15 are overcome;
claims 17-30, 44-53, 58, and 101-114 are rejected under ...

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Food Culture Clash: EU, US Conflicting Concepts For GIs; Both Covet Asian Market from www.ip-watch.org

Geographical indications were born in Europe and still remain a widely used means to protect products from a particular region, with particular characteristics. The European Union has been a strong advocate of GIs in international ...

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Disclosure of Confidential Information to Plaintiff’s Outside “Licensing Agents” Prohibited from docketreport.blogspot.com

The court granted defendant's motion to prohibit plaintiff's licensing agents from having access to defendant's confidential information. "[Plaintiff's] contention that 'it is a small company with only a handful of employees ...

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Chisum Patent Academy Offers Summer Seminar from www.patentbaristas.com

The Chisum Patent Academy will hold its fifth annual Seattle summer seminars on July 31-August 2, 2013and August 5-7, 2013. Both seminars will cover the same material. The interactive, roundtable-format, advanced patent law seminars are ...

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Can Apple Unlock a Benefit to the Smartphone Patent Wars? from www.iposgoode.ca

There have been many high profile court cases of patent infringement in the past year, culminating in a headline-topping $1 billion award for Apple against Samsung. Even with massive awards like this, at the end ...

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ALJ Gildea Sets Procedural Schedule In Certain Microelectromechanical Systems (“MEMS Devices”) (337-TA-876) from www.itcblog.com

Further to our April 10, 2013 and May 3, 2013 posts, on May 17, 2013, ALJ E. James Gildea issued Order No. 4 in Certain Microelectromechanical Systems (“MEMS Devices”) and Products Containing Same (Inv. No ...

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ALJ Pender Sets Target Date For Enforcement and Modification Proceedings In Certain Dimmable Compact Fluorescent Lamps (337-TA-830) from www.itcblog.com

Further to our April 11, 2013 post, on May 21, 2013, ALJ Thomas B. Pender issued Order No. 3 in Certain Dimmable Compact Fluorescent Lamps and Products (Inv. No. 337-TA-830). According to the Order, ALJ ...

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ALJ Bullock Sets 16-Month Target Date In Certain Linear Actuators (337-TA-880) from www.itcblog.com

Further to our May 3, 2013 post, on May 23, 2013, Chief ALJ Charles E. Bullock issued Order No. 4 in Certain Linear Actuators (Inv. No. 337-TA-880). In the Order, ALJ Bullock set September 5 ...

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Another IP amendment bill from ipwars.com

The Intellectual Property Laws Amendment Bill 2013 was introduced into Parliament today. The changes include: amendments to the Crown use provisions in the Patents Act to ensure they apply where the relevant Commonwealth, State or ...

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Trolling Abuse from www.patenthawk.com

The USPTO supposedly grants patent rights based upon inventive merit, though historically that has sometimes been an impolite fiction. The chairs of the judiciary committees in Congress, Senator Patrick Leahy and Rep. Bob Goodlatte, would ...

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