Decriminalizing Defamation – Are Sections 499/500 of the IPC constitutional? from spicyipindia.blogspot.com Sending a person to JAIL or even tagging him as an ‘ACCUSED’ for comments which may or may not be defamatory, in this day and age, appears to be ridiculous!
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Superman KOs “superman workout” from ipwars.com DC Comics, the owner of rights to the, er, man of steel character, has successfully blocked an attempt the register “superman workout” for “conducting exercise classes; fitness and exercise clinics, clubs and salons; health club ...
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Trolls are Not the Only Bad Actors in Patent System, nor most damaging from ipcloseup.wordpress.com Businesses that routinely steal others inventions are hoping that new legislation will make patent infringement more acceptable. When it comes to bad behavior so-called patent trolls, businesses that acquire and enforce questionable IP rights to ...
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Congressman Goodlatte Proposes Patent Reform to Eliminate Section 145 Actions And Exelixis I-Type Patent Term Adjustment from www.pharmapatentsblog.com As reported on the House Judiciary Committee website, on May 23, 2013, Congressman Goodlatte (R-Va.) released “a discussion draft of legislation designed to address the ever increasing problem of abusive patent litigation.” This draft legislation ...
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Congressman Goodlatte Proposes Patent Reform to Eliminate Section 145 Actions And Exelixis I-Type Patent Term Adjustment from www.pharmapatentsblog.com As reported on the House Judiciary Committee website, on May 23, 2013, Congressman Goodlatte (R-Va.) released “a discussion draft of legislation designed to address the ever increasing problem of abusive patent litigation.” This draft legislation ...
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Supreme Court Will Examine Patent Licensee’s Burden of Proof for Declaratory Judgment of Noninfringement from www.ipwatchdog.com The Supreme Court on May 20, 2013, agreed to review a Federal Circuit decision that a patent licensee bears the burden of proof in its action for a declaratory judgment of noninfringement where the license ...
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IAM Patent 1000 published – 2013 edition from ipspotlight.com Intellectual Asset Management (IAM) magazine has released the IAM Patent 1000: The World’s Leading Patent Practitioners 2013. Each year, IAM surveys its readers and asks them to recommend patent litigation, licensing, and prosecution attorneys ...
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IAM Patent 1000 published – 2013 edition from ipspotlight.com Intellectual Asset Management (IAM) magazine has released the IAM Patent 1000: The World’s Leading Patent Practitioners 2013. Each year, IAM surveys its readers and asks them to recommend patent litigation, licensing, and prosecution attorneys ...
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Kiwi Chameleon? New Zealand Proposes Patent Changes from www.ipwatchdog.com The New Zealand Government recently announced a proposed change to patent law involving the patentability of computer programs. The Government is calling it a clarification of the law. One opposition party is calling it a ...
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NDIL grants Daubert motion on non-infringing alternatives and license agreements from patent-damages.com On January 18, 2013 Judge Posner in the Northern District of Illinois issued a lengthy opinion in Brandeis Univ. v. Keebler Co., Case No. 1:12-cv-01508 (Doc. No. 474), covering both claim construction and a ...
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Chinese domain name scams continue from www.erikpelton.com I received the following email last week: (Letter to the President or Brand Owner, thanks) Dear Sir or Madam, We are the department of Asian Domain Registration Service in China. Here I have something to ...
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Congratulations to 2013 Mark T. Banner Award Recipients! from www.patentlyo.com By Jason Rantanen I'm very happy to announce that my Iowa Law colleague, Christina Bohannan, has been selected to receive the ABA Intellectual Property Law Section's 2013 Mark T. Banner Award for her ...
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Trolls are Not the Only Bad Actors in Patent System, nor most damaging from ipcloseup.wordpress.com Businesses that routinely steal others inventions are hoping that new legislation will make patent infringement more acceptable. When it comes to bad behavior so-called patent trolls, businesses that acquire and enforce questionable IP rights to ...
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How peer review creates intangible assets from www.athenaalliance.org We all know that peer review is the standard method of grant and publication review in academia. As such it performs a gate-keeper role in the creation of knowledge. But there is another role that ...
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ITC Decides To Not Review Remand Initial Determination In Certain Gaming And Entertainment Consoles (337-TA-752) from www.itcblog.com On May 23, 2013, the International Trade Commission (“the Commission”) issued a notice determining not to review the Remand Initial Determination (“RID”) in Certain Gaming and Entertainment Consoles, Related Software, and Components Thereof (Inv. No ...
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Guest Post on Using the Antitrust Laws to Police Patent Privateering from www.patentlyo.com Editorial by David A. Balto. Mr. Balto is an antitrust attorney in Washington D.C. whose representations include high technology firms. In addition to his practice, Mr. Balto was formerly a policy director of the ...
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Domestic industry focuses on plan to adopt and develop technology from ocpatentlawyer.com Litigation at the International Trade Commission (ITC) of Washington, DC requires the patentee to have a domestic industry [in the U.S.] to block the importation of infringing products into the United States. The ITC ...
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Objection to Overbroad Discovery Requires Supporting Evidence, not Supposition from docketreport.blogspot.com The court required plaintiff to provide information regarding its process in answering defendant's document demands before ruling on defendant's motion to compel further production. "When decrying the burden imposed by the document demands ...
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Strengthening Our Engagement with China from www.uspto.gov Blog by Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Acting Director of the USPTO Teresa Stanek Rea
As part of our ongoing engagement with China, the USPTO recently hosted two Chinese delegations and ...
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Google-supporting IP professors feel Oracle interprets the scope of copyrightability too broadly from www.fosspatents.com For an appeal that Linus Torvalds thought was a waste of money by Oracle, the Android-Java copyright case has actually drawn a whole lot of interest, and the effort that Google, its funded friends and ...
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ALJ Bullock Terminates Investigation Based On Settlement Agreements In Certain Sintered Rare Earth Magnets (337-TA-855) from www.itcblog.com On May 28, 2013, Chief ALJ Charles E. Bullock issued Order Nos. 108 and 111-114 in Certain Sintered Rare Earth Magnets, Methods of Making Same and Products Containing Same (Inv. No. 337-TA-855). According to Order ...
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Dey v. Sunovion from www.patentlyo.com By Jason Rantanen Dey, L.P. v. Sunovion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Fed. Cir. 2013) Download 12-1428.Opinion.5-16-2013.1 Panel: Newman (dissenting), Bryson (author), O'Malley Although decided under the "old" version of 35 U.S ...
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University of Minnesota loses at CAFC from ipbiz.blogspot.com See
Regents of University of Minnesota vs. AGA Medical Appellant Regents of the University of Minnesota
(“the University”) owns U.S. Patent No. 6,077,281 (“the
’281 patent”) and U.S. Patent No. 6 ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook