Patent & IP news for June 6, 2013

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post image 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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post image 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 ...

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post image 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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post image 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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post image 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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post image 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 ...

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post image 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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post image 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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post image 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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post image 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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post image 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 ...

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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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Gibbons Directors Listed as 2013 New Jersey Super Lawyers from www.iplawalert.com

Two attorneys in the Gibbons Intellectual Property Department , David E. De Lorenzi, Department Chair, and Vincent E. McGeary, a Director in the Department, were listed as leaders in their fields by New Jersey Super Lawyers ...

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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. Related Articles:

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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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ITC Issues Limited Exclusion Order And Cease And Desist Order After Finding Violation Of Section 337 In Certain Electronic Devices, Including Wireless Communication Devices, Portable Music And Data Processing Devices, And Tablet Computers (337-TA-794) from www.itcblog.com

On June 4, 2013, the International Trade Commission (the “Commission”) issued a notice in Certain Electronic Devices, Including Wireless Communication Devices, Portable Music and Data Processing Devices, and Tablet Computers (Inv. No. 337-TA-794).  In the ...

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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
rejection under section 103 ...

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