Dormant and unmonopolisable therapies: can you help? - Part One from ipkitten.blogspot.com Patent law is commonly regarded as an attempt to foster innovation, rewarding successful innovators with a period of exclusivity which allows the recoupment of research investments and stimulates R&D; efforts, promoting the diffusion of ...
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Litigation in the Brave New World 6: Case Management, Evidence and Trials from patlit.blogspot.com Case management: a term that means
different things to different people ... This final post in Don McCombie's Brave New World series on the European Union's Unified Patent Court (UPC) looks at certain aspects ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
The Branding Challenges of Groupon: A "Sticky" Situation from ipfinance.blogspot.com A colleague, a senior official at a leading governmental IP body, said it best to me several years ago during a pleasant luncheon conversation. "Forget patents and copyright", he declared, "the ultimate source of long-term ...
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White House Fact Sheet on Patents: We Hate Trolls! from www.patentbaristas.com The White House announced plans for a set of executive actions President Barack Obama will take that are aimed at reining in certain patent-holding firms, known as “patent trolls.” [I]nnovators continue to face challenges ...
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Dormant and unmonopolisable therapies: can you help? - Part Two from ipkitten.blogspot.com Dormant and unmonopolisable therapies: what’s the matter? In a 1981
study entitled ‘Patent-Term Extension and the Pharmaceutical Industry’, the US Congress observed that, ‘although all patented inventions receive protection for the same amount of ...
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Washington Catches “Troll Fever” – Multiple Strategies Proposed For Addressing NPEs from patlit.blogspot.com After years of grumbling about the adverse effects of patent infringement actions filed by plaintiffs who acquire their patents in order to generate licensing revenues through aggressive litigation tactics (variously called non-practicing entities (“NPEs”), patent ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
Battleground shopping: Big Pharma versus Indian Patent policy from spicyipindia.blogspot.com On March 13th 2013, in a hearing before the US House of Representatives, Pfizer's Chief Intellectual Property Counsel Roy Waldron derided India's pharmaceutical patent regime stating amongst other things that India has 'routinely ...
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A silly exercise in consultation: this cannot continue from ipkitten.blogspot.com Is this the parody that led to the referral? Here's another of those requests for comments on intellectual property cases that have been referred to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU ...
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UK Consultation: a Belgian judge comes to the rescue from ipkitten.blogspot.com Claws out for
the IPO ... Earlier today, the IPKat raged against an ineffective and frankly silly attempt by his friends at the United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office (IPO) to alert readers to the possibility of ...
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Litigation in the Brave New World: a full set of links from patlit.blogspot.com For the convenience of readers -- particularly for new followers of this weblog, who missed the beginning -- here is a full list of blogposts in
Don McCombie's 'Brave New World' series on what we can ...
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Another copyright in project homes case from ipwars.com Some 5 years after it went hunting, Tamawood[1] has successfully sued Habitare (now with administrators and receivers and managers appointed) for infringing copyright in house plans. Copyright in some plans was infringed (Torrington v ...
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USPTO Proposes Rules Changes to Implement Patent Law Treaty from www.patentdocs.org By Donald Zuhn -- In April, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office published a notice in the Federal Register (78 Fed. Reg. 21788) proposing changes to the rules of practice for consistency with the Patent ...
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Congressman Goodlatte Proposes To Codify Obviousness-Type Double Patenting from www.pharmapatentsblog.com As I wrote previously, Congressman Goodlatte (R-Va.) released “a discussion draft” of patent reform legislation on May 23, 2013. Although the stated purpose of the draft legislation is to “address the ever increasing problem of ...
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Congressman Goodlatte Proposes To Codify Obviousness-Type Double Patenting from www.pharmapatentsblog.com As I wrote previously, Congressman Goodlatte (R-Va.) released “a discussion draft” of patent reform legislation on May 23, 2013. Although the stated purpose of the draft legislation is to “address the ever increasing problem of ...
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Australia wants fair use (and so will you?) from ipkitten.blogspot.com From Australian Katfriends Fiona Phillips (super-stylish Director of the Australian Copyright Council) and John R Walker (visual artist and one of the few real experts in the area of artist resale royalty right, who recently ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
Czech Republic appears to be center of trademark scam operations from www.erikpelton.com This week I already posted about two trademark scam operations from UPTS and WIPT. Both have addresses in the Czech Republic. Another recent solicitation I received from WDTP (Worldwide Database of Trademarks and Patents) also ...
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Patent Law Treaties Implementation Act of 2012 Modifies U.S. Design Patent Law from www.ipwatchdog.com While much attention has been given to the recent, significant changes in U.S. patent law arising from the America Invents Act (“AIA”), lesser attention has been given to patent law changes brought about by ...
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Pallante, Goodlatte Lay Framework For US Copyright Review from www.ip-watch.org Washington, DC - United States Register of Copyrights Maria Pallante, US House Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Virginia), and US House Representative Anna Eshoo (D-California) this week outlined the priorities and challenges of an anticipated comprehensive review ...
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USPTO and KIPO Announce Launch of Cooperative Patent Classification System Pilot from www.ipwatchdog.com The pilot between KIPO and the USPTO marks a major first step towards KIPO classifying its patent collection using the CPC. For the pilot, KIPO will apply the CPC classification to patent documents in particular ...
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World’s Five Largest Intellectual Property Offices (IP5) Meet in Silicon Valley from www.ipwatchdog.com WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Commerce’s United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) hosted a meeting of the heads of the world’s five largest intellectual property offices in Cupertino, California. Known as ...
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IP5 Discuss Patent Harmonisation from www.ip-watch.org Officials from the IP5, the five largest intellectual property offices in the world, met this week to move forward on harmonising patent law procedure between the offices.
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Copyright Summit: Collaboration And Protection: Digital Management For The 21st Century from www.ip-watch.org Washington, DC – Collaboration, protection, and data were keywords during the second and final day of this week’s World Creators Summit (WCS) as discussions about innovative solutions to online infringement and improving collection rights management ...
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Defense Counsel Disqualified Due to Prior Prosecution Work on Plaintiff’s Behalf from docketreport.blogspot.com The court granted plaintiff's motion to disqualify defendants' counsel because defense counsel had been prosecution counsel for plaintiff for two patents, one of which was similar to the patent-in-suit and shared the same inventor ...
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AOP Vets Announces Winner: A Conversation With Jason Maples from www.ipwatchdog.com On May 16th, AOP announced that Iraqi war veteran, Jason Maples was the winner of its first ever AOP Vets Program. Jason was one of more than 20 other Veterans who participated in the six ...
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US Businesses Urge Obama To Stoke Trade War With India from www.ip-watch.org The heads of seventeen United States industry associations, including the US Chamber of Commerce, today issued a letter to President Barack Obama alleging that the Indian government is engaging in discriminating policies against US exports ...
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CAFC affirms Board decision in Bayne from ipbiz.blogspot.com Bad news for pro se appellant
Bayne:
The Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences
(“Board”) affirmed.1 We affirm the Board.From the decision:
Bayne ignores the fundamental principle that a
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