Patent & IP news for June 11, 2013

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post image The Definitive Guide on Effective World-Wide Patent Prosecution and Opposition/Cancellation from www.patentbaristas.com

American Conference Institute’s Advanced Summit on Global Patenting Strategy & Practice unites seasoned counsel with experience practicing in critical jurisdictions to share their wealth of knowledge and help you understand not only the mechanics of ...

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post image Are British Asians more likely to be confused? Wait and zee from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Wait and Zee. Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd and others v Zeebox Ltd may not be the biggest and most important case to come before the Chancery Division of the High Court for England and Wales ...

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post image Once you've seen one, you've seen them all: but this report on lookalikes is different from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Sometimes the lookalike
is as good as the original ...
It's no secret that, even as they fight their never-ending battle with real fakes for the hearts [and pockets, adds Merpel] of consumers, brand owners ...

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post image Nation of Laws? from hallingblog.com

John Adams is famous for saying that we are a nation (government) of laws not men.  What he meant by that was all people must abide by the law and the laws control the government ...

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SpicyIP Event: IPEX - 2013, Hyderabad from spicyipindia.blogspot.com

SpicyIP is happy to announce IPEX - 2013, a conference and exposition on "Building and Managing an IP Ecosystem for Business Excellence". The event is partnered by the Indian Patent Office, USPTO-GIPA as well as Nalsar ...

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Congress Continues Efforts to "Reform" U.S. Patent Law from www.patentdocs.org

By Donald Zuhn -- It has been less than three months since the remaining provisions of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (AIA) took effect, and just short of five months since the AIA Technical Corrections Act ...

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Microsoft to Patent a New Kind of DVR from www.ipwatchdog.com

As a constant developer of new technologies, Microsoft is seen often as an assignee on a great many U.S. Patent & Trademark Office patents and applications every week. This week on Companies We Follow, IPWatchdog ...

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Nokia announces partial settlement with ViewSonic: standard-essential patents licensed from www.fosspatents.com

Nokia announced today that "Viewsonic recently took a royalty bearing license to Nokia's wireless essential patents for 2G, 3G, 4G and wireless LAN, becoming the latest of more than 40 companies licensed to Nokia ...

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Would you use a mobile version of USPTO.gov website? from www.erikpelton.com

I search trademark information – for cases, for clients, for items of interest – all the time. Day and night. In office and out of office. And I often use my phone or mobile device. It is ...

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Patent dispute heats up as Google files motion to sanction Skyhook for allegedly frivolous claims from www.fosspatents.com

Tensions are rising between Google and Massachusetts-based Skyhook Wireless, a small company in the location-positioning field that, in parallel to suing Google for patent infringement, complained about bullying tactics. Skyhook recently stepped up its patent ...

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Criticism Of The 2012 ITRs Not Valid, Says Former Senior ITU Official from www.ip-watch.org

The failure to reach agreement in Dubai in December 2012 at the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) World Conference on International Telecommunication (WCIT-12) resulted in a refusal to sign the treaty that was approved at the ...

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The Office of the Privacy Commissioner Calls for Changes to PIPEDA from www.iposgoode.ca

On May 23rd, 2013, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (“OPC”) released a report entitled “ The Case for Reforming the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act” (the “Report”). The Report proposes a ...

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What’s Next for Patent Trolls? from inventivestep.net

Last week, the White House released a list of legislative priorities and executive actions aimed at curbing litigation by so-called patent trolls. Legislative Recommendations Require patentees and applicants to disclose the real party in interest ...

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Counterfeit Drugs - The Challenges of a Deadly Global Epidemic from www.iplawalert.com

For years, the average person who heard the phrase “knock offs” would immediately think of counterfeit versions of brand name luxury goods. While counterfeiters continue to target those types of goods, they are by no ...

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What’s Next for Patent Trolls? from inventivestep.net

Last week, the White House released a list of legislative priorities and executive actions aimed at curbing litigation by so-called patent trolls. Legislative Recommendations Require patentees and applicants to disclose the real party in interest ...

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No Basis for Striking Expert Reports under Federal Rules of Civil Procedure from docketreport.blogspot.com

The court denied without prejudice plaintiff's motion to strike portions of a report by defendant's invalidity expert. "Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(f) governs the court’s authority to strike items from ...

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Small carriers, minority activists, others write to ITC supporting Samsung against Apple patent case from www.fosspatents.com

Today a dozen public interest statements filed in connection with the ITC investigation of Apple's complaint against Samsung, in which a preliminary ruling is under thorough review by the U.S. trade agency's ...

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Winners of the Gowlings Best Blog in IP and Technology Law Prize! from www.iposgoode.ca

IP Osgoode would like to congratulate the winners of the Gowlings Best Blog in IP Law and Technology Prize for 2012-2013.  Four prizes in total are awarded each year to Osgoode students and the winning ...

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Mass Surveillance No Surprise To Many In Technology And Politics from www.ip-watch.org

Revelations about boundless spying by the National Security Agency and other US agencies on the electronic communications of US and non-US citizens are rippling international politics and will be a surprise topic at the upcoming ...

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Federal Circuit Reverses In InterDigital Communications Appeal (2012-1628) from www.itcblog.com

On June 7, 2013, the Federal Circuit issued its opinion in InterDigital Communications, LLC v. ITC (2012-1628).  This was an appeal by InterDigital Communications, Inc., InterDigital Technology Corp., and IPR Licensing, Inc. (collectively, “InterDigital”) from ...

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ALJ Shaw Issues Notice Of Initial Determination In Certain Products Containing Interactive Program Guide And Parental Control Technology (337-TA-845) from www.itcblog.com

On June 7, 2013, ALJ David P. Shaw issued a notice regarding the Initial Determination (“ID”) in Certain Products Containing Interactive Program Guide and Parental Control Technology (Inv. No. 337-TA-845). By way of background, the ...

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Judge Lourie on Boilerplate from www.717madisonplace.com

An appellant was arguing to the court recently that boilerplate preceding the claim section of a patent should preserve a broad claim interpretation even though the specification taught a single embodiment and made a rather ...

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Product tolerant organisms from ipbiz.blogspot.com

Note US 8,460,906 to Cobalt Technologies.

First claim


A system for making a solvent or organic acid, comprising a bioreactor that comprises: a) growth medium in contact with a solid or semi-solid support ...

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KSR dooms appellant in Ex parte Weiner from ipbiz.blogspot.com

The appellant lost in Ex parte Weiner

KSR is mentioned:


“The combination of familiar elements according to known methods
is likely to be obvious when it does no more than yield predictable results.”
KSR Int ...

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Mouttet cited in Ex parte Hosoi from ipbiz.blogspot.com

Ex parte Hosoi


Like our appellate reviewing court, “[w]e will not read into a
reference a teaching away from a process where no such language exists.”
DyStar Textilfarben GmbH & Co. Deutschland KG v. C ...

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Mouttet cited in Ex parte Albert from ipbiz.blogspot.com

Ex parte Albert


“If a person of ordinary skill, before the time of invention and without
knowledge of that invention, would have found the invention merely an easily
predictable and achievable variation or combination of ...

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