OC Patent Lawyer receives Rising Star and AV status from ocpatentlawyer.com OC Patent Lawyer has received the highest rating by Martindale-Hubbel. AV rated means that my peers have rated me at the highest level of Legal Ability and Ethical Standards. To learn more about the rating ...
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New Dallas Stars logo: Love it or Leave it from www.erikpelton.com The National Hockey League’s Dallas Stars recently unveiled a new logo. In my opinion, the logo is hideous. It is too busy. The colors are atrocious. The three dimensional look is cheesy and too ...
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Friday fantasies from ipkitten.blogspot.com This week the IPKat learned of the existence of the Kosovo Institute of Intellectual Property (KsIIP). The KsIIP, so far as he can discover, is a non-profit association, established in Kosovo, which aims to promote ...
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AG Jääskinen says that "intention to target" applies also to online copyright infringement cases from ipkitten.blogspot.com At last! Merpel celebrates
publication of the AG Opinion
in Pinckney While busy thinking (as she constantly does) about online copyright-related issues, this Kat wanted to see whether there were any news concerning her long-time ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
USPTO Issues Memo on AMP v. Myriad to Examining Corps from www.patentdocs.org By Donald Zuhn -- On the same day that the Supreme Court handed down its decision in Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, Inc., the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued a one-page memorandum ...
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Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, Inc. (2013) from www.patentdocs.org By Kevin E. Noonan -- The Supreme Court rendered its opinion in Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, Inc. ("the Myriad case"), and in many ways it was anticlimactic: the Court adopted the Department of ...
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The Biotechnology Industry and the Choice to Patent or Rely on Trade Secrecy from ipfinance.blogspot.com The U.S. Supreme Court released its much anticipated decision in the Myriad case today. Basically, the U.S. Supreme Court held that isolated DNA is not patentable subject matter. While the U.S. Supreme ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
Trademarks and the Politics of Language from www.ipwatchdog.com Trademarks are an important protection for any business, but nowhere in Canada is this as vital as in Québec, where failure to have a registered trade-mark may lead to notices and fines for business owners ...
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Poland’s Minister Of Culture Calls For Intellectual Property Courts from www.ip-watch.org Poland’s Minister of Culture and National Heritage Bogdan Zdrojewski has called on the country’s Ministry of Justice to create and integrate intellectual property courts into the country’s legal system. Under the plan ...
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Can Global IP Rules Be Responsive To Public Interest Demands? The Case Of The Treaty For The Visually Impaired from www.ip-watch.org To what extent can global intellectual property rules address in an effective manner the needs of the most vulnerable members of society? This is the key question facing member states of the World Intellectual Property ...
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Patent Assertion and US Innovation from www.ipwatchdog.com Obama’s action plan was heavily influenced by a report, “Patent Assertion and U.S. Innovation,” which was released by the President’s Council of Economic Advisers, the National Economic Council, and the Office of ...
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Friday Foreign Filing Roundup from info.inovia.com Hi friends! We've gathered some of the latest stories in foreign filing/patenting news from the week of June 10th: The US Supreme Court ruled that isolated human genes may not be patented. Spain ...
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The End of an Era for Gene Patents? Supreme Court Rules that Isolated DNA is Unpatentable from www.iplawalert.com Over thirty years ago, the USPTO awarded the first gene patent (US 4,447,538) and the Supreme Court held that biological inventions were subject to patent protection. Since then, tens of thousands of U ...
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Myriad Case Decided: Natural Human Genes Not Patentable In US from www.ip-watch.org The United States Supreme Court came to a decision yesterday on the case of Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, Inc., striking down Myriad’s patent on isolating human genes from the bloodstream.
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DNA patenting: There’s still hope (maybe) from www.ipwatchdog.com The baffling aspect of the opinion is that the Court seems to agree that both the DNA of claim 1 and the DNA of claim 2 are man-made and do not occur in nature. Of ...
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WIPO-WTO-WHO Joint Symposium On Medical Innovation In July from www.ip-watch.org Three Geneva-based international organisations are continuing their collaboration on issues of health and innovation policy as it cuts across intellectual property rights by planning a 5 July symposium on "changing business models" in medical innovation ...
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Myriad: The PTO's Preliminary Guidance from www.patentlyo.com By Jason Rantanen Within hours of the Court's Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, Inc. decision yesterday, the USPTO published its preliminary guidance to the Patent Examining Corps relating to nucleic acid-related technology ...
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Creation of Affiliate to Avoid Injunction Warrants Lost Profits, Attorneys’ Fees and Possibly Enhanced Damages from docketreport.blogspot.com The court granted plaintiff's motion for contempt of a consent permanent injunction against defendant and its affiliate. Plaintiff was awarded lost profits and attorneys' fees along with a potential enhancement of double lost profits ...
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Bosch case: CAFC may entertain appeals from patent infringement liability determinations when a trial on damages has not yet occurred. from ipbiz.blogspot.com Bosch v. Pylon
Given the nature of the arguments made by the parties and the amici, we take a moment to explain what this case is not about. This case does not involve the question ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
Breach of Confidence: Your “Friends” Can’t Protect You from www.iposgoode.ca As social media becomes increasingly prolific, the perils of its use are becoming increasingly apparent. Yet another case has highlighted that the information you place in the online sphere is liable to harm you in ...
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Cracking Down on Green Mountain Trolls from www.iposgoode.ca Watch out, patent trolls – the Attorney General of Vermont is coming to get you. Vermont recently became the first US state to enact an anti-”patent trolling” law. Synopsis of the Law The new law ...
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Bosch v. Pylon: 1292(c)(2) CAFC Jurisdiction from www.patentlyo.com By Jason Rantanen Robert Bosch, LLC v. Pylon Manufacturing Corp. (Fed. Cir. 2013) (en banc) Download Bosch v Pylon Majority opinion written by Judge Prost, joined by judges Rader, Newman, Lourie, and Dyk. Judges Moore ...
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IP-Watch Follows The Mass Surveillance Debates from www.ip-watch.org Recent news about the United States National Security Agency (NSA)'s secret programmes to collect the records of domestic telephone calls in the US and international internet activity has dominated headlines. The revelation has spurred ...
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Audiovisual Sector Out Of EU Mandate For TTIP from www.ip-watch.org By Monika Ermert for Intellectual Property Watch After hours of late night discussion, the Foreign Affairs Council of Ministers meeting in Luxembourg Friday finally excluded the audiovisual sector from the negotiation mandate for the Transatlantic ...
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Manitowoc Cranes Files New 337 Complaint Regarding Certain Crawler Cranes from www.itcblog.com On June 12, 2013, Manitowoc Cranes, LLC of Manitowoc, Wisconsin (“Manitowoc Cranes”) filed a complaint requesting that the ITC commence an investigation pursuant to Section 337. The complaint alleges that Sany Heavy Industry Co., Ltd ...
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Affirmation-in-part in Ex parte Fung from ipbiz.blogspot.com Ex parte FungThere is a citation to MEMS Tech. v. ITC, declining to LIMIT the term "electrically coupled" to direct coupling.
Query: is PTAB permitted to cite an unpublished decision of the CAFC to ...
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Re-hearing in Bonadio from ipbiz.blogspot.com Ex parte BonadioAs to attorney argument:
Appellants‟ attorney argument does not persuade us otherwise. Estee Lauder Inc. v. L’Oreal, S.A., 129 F.3d 588, 595 (Fed. Cir. 1997) (stating that “arguments of ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
IPO Webinar on AMP v. Myriad from www.patentdocs.org The Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) will offer a one-hour webinar entitled "Myriad: Implications of the U.S. Supreme Court Opinion" on June 18, 2013 beginning at 2:00 pm (ET). A panel consisting of ...
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Web Conference on AMP v. Myriad from www.patentdocs.org Foley & Lardner will be offering a web conference entitled "The Supreme Court Decision(s) in Myriad: What Did the Justices Say? What Does It Mean for Industry?" on June 26, 2013 from 12:00 to ...
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2013 TTS Europe from www.patentdocs.org TTS Ltd. and the Wellcome Trust will be holding its 2013 edition of TTS Europe on July 1-2, 2013 at the Welcome Trust in London, UK. The TTS Global Initiative is the leading international meeting ...
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NAPP Annual Meeting from www.patentdocs.org The National Association of Patent Practitioners (NAPP) will be holding its 2013 Annual Meeting & Conference on July 28-30, 2013 in San Diego, CA. An optional short-course entitled: "The Nuts & Bolts of Patent Prosecution Practice for ...
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