Patent & IP news for July 5, 2013

Friday fantasies from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Around the weblogs.  PatLit is hosting an appeal by Kingsley Egbuonu for UK intellectual property litigants to participate in his short online survey on the impact on IP litigation of the Jackson Review on the ...

Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook

The Patent Legacy of the Computer Mouse from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Given its long evolutionary history, it is curious that the mouse has also played a prominent role in the recent history of technology. For those of you who like the four-legged creature more or less ...

Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook

June's employment data from www.athenaalliance.org

The June employment numbers are out with 195,000 net new jobs and the unemployment rate at 7.6%. This is somewhat better than expected. Economist surveyed by Bloomberg and the Wall Street Journal expected ...

Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook

A new Member State, two wines and one controlled designation of origin from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Dreaming of a Croatian holiday? ©P McBride A few days ago Croatia became the 28th Member State of the European Union. While reading news from her native land, this Kat found out that Croatian accession ...

Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook

Organic Seed Growers & Trade Ass'n v. Monsanto Co. (Fed. Cir. 2013) from www.patentdocs.org

By Kevin E. Noonan -- Somewhat lost in the hubbub over the Supreme Court's ruling in AMP v. Myriad was the Federal Circuit's decision, just a few days earlier, in Organic Seed Growers & Trade ...

Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook

A Quick Look At The First Patent Trial And Appeal Board Decision In a Covered Business Method Patent Proceeding, SAP America, Inc. v. Versata Development Group, Inc. from www.pharmapatentsblog.com

On June 11, 2013, the USPTO Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) issued its first final decision in a covered business method patent (CBM) proceeding, in SAP America, Inc. v. Versata Development Group, Inc. (CBM2012-00001 ...

Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook

A Quick Look At The First Patent Trial And Appeal Board Decision In a Covered Business Method Patent Proceeding, SAP America, Inc. v. Versata Development Group, Inc. from www.pharmapatentsblog.com

On June 11, 2013, the USPTO Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) issued its first final decision in a covered business method patent (CBM) proceeding, in SAP America, Inc. v. Versata Development Group, Inc. (CBM2012-00001 ...

Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook

Friday Foreign Filing Roundup from info.inovia.com

We hope everyone had a wonderful 4th of July!  See below for the latest updates in patenting/foreign filing news for this past week: The United States ranked 5th for the 2013 Global Innovation Index ...

Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook

Board reverses enablement rejection for "computer readable medium" since specification discloses an integrated circuit embodiment from allthingspros.blogspot.com

Takeaway: The Examiner issued a § 112 First, Enablement rejection after the Applicant changed "medium" to "computer readable medium." The Applicant appealed and pointed to the specification 's disclosure of "a processor such as a computer ...

Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook

Repeated Assertion of Vague Infringement Contentions Warrants Summary Judgment of Noninfringement from docketreport.blogspot.com

The court granted defendants' motion for summary judgment of noninfringement as to plaintiff's flexible interface patents because plaintiff's infringement contentions did not contain the required specificity. "Through its experienced patent lawyers, [plaintiff] blatantly ...

Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook

Apple asks U.S. trade agency to stay import ban pending appeal to the Federal Circuit from www.fosspatents.com

As expected, Apple is fighting at all levels against the import ban of older iPhones and iPads that Samsung won from the ITC a month ago. Last week I published Apple and Samsung's submissions ...

Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook

Oracle to appeals court: Google concedes away the entire case under established copyright principles from www.fosspatents.com

On Wednesday Oracle filed its reply brief in the Android/Java copyright appeal, and it became publicly accessible this morning. Oracle's opening brief, filed in February, likened Google to a fictitious Harry Potter knockoff ...

Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook

ALJ Essex Issues Early Initial Determination Finding No Domestic Industry In Certain Products Having Laminated Packaging (337-TA-874) from www.itcblog.com

On July 5, 2013, ALJ Theodore R. Essex issued a notice Regarding the Initial Determination  (“ID”) on the Economic Prong of the Domestic Industry Requirement in Certain Products Having Laminated Packaging, Laminated Packaging, and Components ...

Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook