Still on "Licences for Europe": an insider's report from the UGC Working Group from ipkitten.blogspot.com A few days ago the IPKat reported news of last week's decision of stakeholders representing the research sector, European technology SMEs, and open publishers to withdraw from the “Licences for Europe” initiative, due to ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
Thursday thingies from ipkitten.blogspot.com Kontrite Kat If you are the person who sent the IPKat what looks like quite an urgent email yesterday and are still awaiting a reply, can you please re-send it? In a clumsy attempt to ...
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Love it or Leave it: new Miami Dolphins logo from www.erikpelton.com A few weeks ago, the NFL’s Miami Dolphins unveiled a new logo design. Will it be a hit or a bust? I think it will be a hit. Here is why I like the ...
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It all comes out in the wash: New Zealand grapples with computer programs "as such" from ipkitten.blogspot.com Patenting computer programs:
getting round the "as such"
limitation can be child's-play
for skilled professionals ... Computer programs "as such" not to be inventions in New Zealand? A katpat goes to Earl Grey, Sarah Chapman ...
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Google-funded anti-IP groups support Google against Oracle's copyright appeal -- is that it? from www.fosspatents.com Amicus curiae briefs must be filed with U.S. appeals courts "no later than 7 days after the principal brief of the party being supported is filed". Google filed its brief in the cross-appeal of ...
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Motorola Mobility: Has there been an impairment of goodwill in Google's acquisition of its patent portfolio? from ipfinance.blogspot.com When companies face a decline in the value of a certain asset, they may find it necessary to write down the goodwill value of that asset to reflect such impairment. One need look no further ...
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Patent Profile: Mayo Foundation Receives Patent for Methods of Selecting Medications from www.patentdocs.org By Josh Bosman -- In March, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued U.S. Patent No. 8,401,801, entitled "Methods for Selecting Medications." The '801 patent, which is assigned to the Mayo Foundation ...
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"Commercially essential" patents: an explanation from patlit.blogspot.com Reporting on the Enforcement session in yesterday's Best Practices in IP 2013 conference (see earlier post
here), this blogger confessed himself to be unaware of the term "commercially essential patent", in contrast with technically ...
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Federal Circuit Holds That Third Party Clinical Trial May Not Constitute Public Use from www.pharmapatentsblog.com In Dey, L.P. v. Sunovion Pharmaceuticals, Inc., the Federal Circuit vacated the district court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of Sunovion, and remanded for further consideration of whether Sunovion’s clinical trial ...
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Federal Circuit Holds That Third Party Clinical Trial May Not Constitute Public Use from www.pharmapatentsblog.com In Dey, L.P. v. Sunovion Pharmaceuticals, Inc., the Federal Circuit vacated the district court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of Sunovion, and remanded for further consideration of whether Sunovion’s clinical trial ...
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Exclusive Interview with Steve Kunin, Part 2 from www.ipwatchdog.com On May 6, 2013, I sat down with Steve Kunin and we discussed a wide range of patent issues. In Part 1 of the interview we discussed the new post grant procedures for challenging issued ...
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RIM Tries to Patent Flexible Display for Handheld Devices from www.ipwatchdog.com Research In Motion’s development of better mobile devices is on display in a number of intriguing documents. One application released recently outlines RIM’s development of a mobile device with a flexible display that ...
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The Design Community’s Current And Future IP Challenges from www.ip-watch.org A panel of professionals working in the design industry this week gave their views on the interaction between intellectual property, innovation and design.
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WIPO Delegates Trying To Find Consensus On Technical Assistance And Designs from www.ip-watch.org Members of a World Intellectual Property Organization committee working towards a treaty to simplify the international registration of industrial designs are finding it difficult to agree whether the draft treaty text should include articles on ...
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(Gift) Carded in the US Court of Appeals from www.iposgoode.ca Gift cards are everywhere. They are in envelopes as gifts for your friends on their birthdays. They are in your own wallet for your favourite stores. Gift cards are also in the United States Court ...
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The Arithmetic of Fair Dealing at the Supreme Court of Canada from www.iposgoode.ca In the 2012 Supreme Court of Canada copyright cases, the Court found an opportunity to redefine the law of fair dealing in Canada. While the Court acknowledged that fair dealing is a question of fact ...
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Advancing the Role of Trademarks from www.uspto.gov Guest blog by Commissioner for Trademarks Deborah S. Cohn
For the last two years the USPTO’s Trademarks team has actively engaged the private sector in developing pro bono and educational outreach programs. The primary ...
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Appellant loses mass spec case on analysis of drilling fluid from ipbiz.blogspot.com from
Ex parte ANNIE AUDIBERTThe issue in the case:
Did the Examiner reversibly err in concluding the claimed invention, in
particular controlling drilling based on the C13/C12 ratio measured from
continuously extracted constituents ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
Intent Requirement Precludes Inequitable Conduct “In All But The Rarest Cases” from docketreport.blogspot.com Following a bench trial, the court found that plaintiff did not engage in inequitable conduct to obtain its wind turbine patent because defendant failed to establish that plaintiff's employees deliberately withheld prior art and ...
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The Patent Troll Assaults Continue ... But To What End? from www.iplawalert.com Somewhere, someone must have taken the famous cartoon of Elmer Fudd, in full hunting regalia, and changed the caption to read, “Shhhhhhhhhhh, I’m hunting Twolls.” (After securing the appropriate IP permissions, of course.)
This ...
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MPAA, US Blind Federation Urge Narrow Focus On Treaty For Blind At WIPO from www.ip-watch.org The US film industry and advocates for the blind joined forces today to urge World Intellectual Property Organization negotiators to keep treaty talks focussed on the core issue of making more books available to the ...
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Odds and Ends from www.717madisonplace.com 1) The House Committee on Small Business conducted a hearing on the impact of the AIA earlier this month. Patently O’s Dennis Crouch was one of the witnesses. You can see more materials here ...
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Country Names An Easier Road Than Technical Assistance For WIPO Trademark Committee from www.ip-watch.org The protection of country names was discussed today by World Intellectual Property Organization members with a more amiable approach than on how to include technical assistance in a draft treaty text on industrial designs. The ...
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And how intangible make the US a good place to locate from www.athenaalliance.org And in another story, here is a great example of why the new model of manufacturing and innovation will revitalize US industry (Motorola to open Tex. factory): Motorola Mobility officials said they see significant business ...
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What the Chinese are buying from www.athenaalliance.org Skipping directly to the punchline: intangibles and knowledge. That is what the Chinese companies are buying with their purchases of U.S. companies -- including the proposed purchase of Smithfield Foods by Shuanghui International. As a ...
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ITC Issues Final Determination Of No Violation In Certain Automated Media Library Devices (337-TA-746) from www.itcblog.com On May 28, 2013, the International Trade Commission (the “Commission”) issued a notice determining to modify in part Chief ALJ Charles E. Bullock’s Remand Initial Determination (“RID”) finding no violation of Section 337 in ...
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