Patent & IP news for June 10, 2013

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post image The Right of Publicity from blawgit.com

Hey, That’s Me! You spend months working on your cosplay outfit, and it turns out perfect. You are the hit of the con, with everyone taking your picture. Then, all of a sudden, you ...

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post image Joinder in Patent Office Proceedings Clarified by PTAB from www.reexamlink.com

Several posts ago we explored how the Board perceived joinder of a subsequent petition filed by a petitioner to an ongoing proceeding.  A recent ruling by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) clarifies how ...

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post image Little time to talk about Hauck from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Some curious questions are heading towards the Court of Justice of the European Union these days.  The United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office has emailed interested parties -- including this Kat -- to say that it has received ...

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post image Monday miscellany from ipkitten.blogspot.com

A welcome guest at our Birthday Seminar Arrangements for the IPKat's 10th Birthday Seminar next Wednesday continue apace. Last week we first revealed the identity of two of our panellsts -- Darren Smyth and Mark ...

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SIPO and KIPO to Use Cooperative Patent Classification System from www.patentdocs.org

By Donald Zuhn -- Earlier this year, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and European Patent Office announced the formal launch of the Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) system, a global classification system for patent documents ...

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News from Abroad: UK Court Seek Clarification of the Term "Human Embryo" from www.patentdocs.org

In Oliver Brüstle v Greenpeace (Case 34/10) the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruled that any non-fertilised but parthenogenically stimulated human ovum constitutes a "human embryo" within the meaning of Article ...

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White House Announces Initiatives Against Patent Trolls from www.pharmapatentsblog.com

On June 4, 2013, the White House issued a press release announcing its “Task Force on High-Tech Patent Issues.” The press release outlined five executive actions and seven legislative recommendations “designed to protect innovators from ...

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White House Announces Initiatives Against Patent Trolls from www.pharmapatentsblog.com

On June 4, 2013, the White House issued a press release announcing its “Task Force on High-Tech Patent Issues.” The press release outlined five executive actions and seven legislative recommendations “designed to protect innovators from ...

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Think Patent Arbitration can’t Work? Think Again. from www.ipwatchdog.com

Articles, such as this one, tout arbitration as an alternative: faster, cheaper and more confidential than litigation, with other benefits as well. However, in actual practice, relatively few patent disputes are submitted to arbitration. Worldwide ...

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Microsoft brief stresses that standard-setting would be a 'blatant antitrust violation' without FRAND from www.fosspatents.com

On March 20, 2013 Microsoft requested permission to submit an amicus curiae brief to the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on the standard-essential patents (SEPs) part of the "Posner appeal" (Apple ...

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Obama Administration's Latest Crackdown on Patent Trolls from www.iplawalert.com

We have recently posted on various developments relating to the surge of litigations involving non-practicing entities, or patent assertion entities, also called “patent trolls.” Last week, the Obama administration launched its latest attack on these ...

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Tax-paying for Fun and Profit from ipfinance.blogspot.com

"Tax-paying for Fun and Profit" is the title of an unusual working paper by Robert Kunstadt and Ilaria Maggioni, which you can read here on MPRA. According to the abstract,
"Modern advances give us the ...

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Monsanto Wins Again in Federal Circuit: Organic Farmers Have No Standing to Challenge Patent from www.patentlyo.com

By Dennis Crouch Organic Seed Growers and Trade Ass'n v. Monsanto Company (Fed. Cir. 2013) In 2011, Dan Ravicher at PubPat led a group of 23 plaintiffs in a lawsuit against Monsanto seeking declaratory ...

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Workarounds not mentioned once in pro-Samsung brief by Google, HTC, SAP, Rackspace, Red Hat from www.fosspatents.com

When a Google-led group of companies (also including, in alphabetical order, HTC, Rackspace, Red Hat and SAP) last month asked the Federal Circuit for permission to file an amicus curiae brief in support of Samsung ...

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Stay Pending CBM Review Granted Prior to Institution Despite Different Prior Art from docketreport.blogspot.com

The court granted defendant's motion to stay pending PTAB covered business method review even though the CBM petition involved different prior art and the PTAB had not yet instituted review. "Plaintiff argues . . . that the ...

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Keurig Loses Coffee Pod Patent Infringement Case from www.ipwatchdog.com

Keurig makes and licenses brewers and beverage cartridges (pods) that are known as "K-Cups." JBR makes beverage cartridges that are known as "OneCups," which are made to be used with the Keurig brewers. Back in ...

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Patent marking shows whether product is covered under a patent from ocpatentlawyer.com

In the world of patents, the stakes can be very high where awards can reach into the hundreds of millions of dollars and sometimes billions of dollars.  When a license is given, royalties are paid ...

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ALJ Rogers Sets Procedural Schedule For Enforcement Proceedings in Certain Two-Way Global Satellite Communication Devices (337-TA-854) from www.itcblog.com

Further to our May 23, 2013 and June 4, 2013 posts, on June 6, 2013, ALJ Robert K. Rogers, Jr. issued Order No. 6 in Certain Two-Way Global Satellite Communication Devices, System and Components Thereof ...

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ITC Institutes Investigation (337-TA-881) Regarding Certain Windshield Wiper Devices from www.itcblog.com

On June 5, 2013, the U.S. International Trade Commission issued a press release announcing their vote to institute an investigation of Certain Windshield Wiper Devices and Components Thereof (Inv. No. 337-TA-881). The investigation is ...

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E.T. Radcliffe And Emir Tiar File New 337 Complaint Regarding Certain TV Programs, Literary Works For TV Production And Episode Guides from www.itcblog.com

On June 7, 2013, E.T. Radcliffe, LLC of Dallas, Texas (“Radcliffe”) and Emir Tiar of Coto De Caza, California (“Tiar”) (collectively, the “Complainants”) filed a complaint requesting that the ITC commence an investigation pursuant ...

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