A BuzzFeed brouhaha and the state of statutory damages in America from ipkitten.blogspot.com BuzzFeed is a popular “viral news” site that made its name with frivolous cat pictures (the IP Kat purrs in approval) but, more recently, has become a serious media company with famous journalists and a ...
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Bill Introduced to Criminalize Purchase of Counterfeits in NYC from ipcloseup.wordpress.com Legislation would make NY the first U.S. city to prosecute buyers of fake goods with jail terms of up to one year. The New York City Council has introduced a bill to make the ...
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Judge Rader Explains 35 USC 101 in Ultramercial v Hulu from www.pharmapatentsblog.com In the June 21, 2013 Federal Circuit decision in Ultramercial, Inc. v. Hulu, LLC, the court again reversed the district court’s finding that the claims at issue fail to satisfy § 101. Writing the opinion ...
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CLS Bank Intl. v. Alice Corp. Pty. Ltd.: En Banc Federal Circuit Cements Confusion Over Patent-Eligibility for Software from www.lawupdates.com By Tom Zuber and Jeff Zuber || The Federal Circuit recently released a highly divided opinion regarding the patentability of software. In CLS Bank Intl. v. Alice Corp. Pty. Ltd., 2011-1301 (Fed. Cir. May 10, 2013 ...
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Judge Rader Explains 35 USC 101 in Ultramercial v Hulu from www.pharmapatentsblog.com In the June 21, 2013 Federal Circuit decision in Ultramercial, Inc. v. Hulu, LLC, the court again reversed the district court’s finding that the claims at issue fail to satisfy § 101. Writing the opinion ...
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WIPO Negotiators Reach Breakthrough On “3-Step Test” In Treaty For Blind from www.ip-watch.org Marrakesh, Morocco - A breakthrough was reached over the weekend in the World Intellectual Property Organization negotiations to provide more access to visually impaired people, according to participating sources. Agreement appears to have been struck on ...
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It's Fine for some: when wrongs are right from ipkitten.blogspot.com The Court of Appeal for England and Wales is very much in this Kat's sights right now, since he is becoming increasingly puzzled as to its role and how that role is discharged. The ...
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Joint Infringement Case Moves Toward Supreme Court Review from www.patentlyo.com By Dennis Crouch Limelight Networks, Inc. v. Akamai Technologies, Inc., Docket Nos. 12-786 and 12-960 (Supreme Court 2013) Limelight and Akamai have proposed dueling questions to the Supreme Court. Limelight, the accused infringer, asks: "Whether ...
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South Africa A Leader In Renewable Energy, Lagging In IP Rights from www.ip-watch.org Leader of the newly formed Renewables Club and rated as a world leader in the green energy race, South Africa has done little to secure this advantage with intellectual property rights of its own.
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US Patent Litigation Study - Facts and Analysis at your paws... from ipkitten.blogspot.com With the internet “fact mill” being what it is, the IPKat was pleased to see some refreshing scientific analysis of patent litigation in the US by the good people at PwC. The post can be ...
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ALJ Rogers Issues Public Version Of Initial Determination In Certain Digital Models, Digital Data, And Treatment Plans For Use, In Making Incremental Dental Positioning Adjustment Appliances Made Therefrom (337-TA-833) from www.itcblog.com Further to our May 8, 2013 post, on June 14, 2013, ALJ Robert K. Rogers, Jr. issued the public version of the Initial Determination (“ID,” dated May 6, 2013) finding a violation of Section 337 ...
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US Gives Boost To Materials Genome Initiative from www.ip-watch.org The Obama administration and academic and industry partners today announced their commitment to support the Materials Genome Initiative (MGI), a public-private endeavor whose aim is to reduce the time required to develop novel materials that ...
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ITC Institutes Investigation (337-TA-884) Regarding Certain Consumer Electronics With Display And Processing Capabilities from www.itcblog.com On June 20, 2013, the U.S. International Trade Commission issued a press release announcing their vote to institute an investigation of Certain Consumer Electronics With Display And Processing Capabilities (Inv. No. 337-TA-884). The investigation ...
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ITC Institutes Investigation (337-TA-885) Regarding Certain Portable Electronic Communications Devices, Including Mobile Phones from www.itcblog.com On June 20, 2013, the U.S. International Trade Commission issued a press release announcing their vote to institute an investigation of Certain Portable Electronic Communications Devices, Including Mobile Phones and Components Thereof (Inv. No ...
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ITC staff submissions a mixed blessing for Samsung in Apple, Ericsson patent cases from www.fosspatents.com Today the Office of Unfair Import Investigations (OUII, commonly referred to as "the ITC staff") filed a response to an Ericsson motion for drastic sanctions against Samsung. Last week it filed a reply submission on ...
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European Dialogue On Internet Governance: Regulating Cyberspace After Prism? from www.ip-watch.org Lisbon, Portugal - The surveillance affair around the US Prism programme left its mark on the 2013 European Dialogue on Internet Governance (
EuroDIG) in Lisbon last week. Legal experts at the sixth edition of the European ...
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Bill Introduced to Criminalize Purchase of Counterfeits in NYC from ipcloseup.wordpress.com Legislation would make NY the first U.S. city to prosecute buyers of fake goods with jail terms of up to one year. The New York City Council has introduced a bill to make the ...
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New Draft Text Shows Progress On WIPO Treaty On Books For The Print-Disabled from www.ip-watch.org Marrakesh, Morocco – Negotiators were still hard at work here at press time trying to reach the deadline of tomorrow set by the president of the diplomatic conference, to get agreed language to a drafting committee ...
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Claim interpretation not supported by specification from allthingspros.blogspot.com Takeaway: The claims on appeal referred to storing files having different "file formats" in different directories. The Examiner interpreted this to mean storing video files in one directory and audio files in another. The Applicant ...
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