Patent & IP news for July 9, 2013

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post image When NPR Attacks Patents: Stories are Long on Drama, Short on Truth from ipcloseup.wordpress.com

“When Patents Attack… Part II!” revisits old ground about bad IP actors by relying on half-truths and high drama. “This American Life,” an entertaining weekly NPR news feature, cannot resist using ill-defined “trolls” as a ...

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post image Out of Plaice: Monte Carlo beached in County Monaghan opposition from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Readers of this weblog should now be familiar with the name of T.M.R. Restaurants Limited's application; opposition by Société Anonyme Des Bains De Mer Et Du Cercle Des Etrangers, the recent (9 ...

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post image "Is this real life? Is this just fantasy?" No rhapsody over Go Go Gorilla from ipkitten.blogspot.com

This Kat has received so many emails prompting him to write about the Mercury v Go Go Gorilla saga that initially he saw no point in blogging on it at all, on the basis that ...

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post image Italian Court excludes Wikipedia and Wikimedia foundation‘s liability in defamation case from ipkitten.blogspot.com

In the past years -- with the constant development of on line technology-- trade mark and copyright owners have been inclined to enforce their exclusive rights, more or less successfully- against Google or E-bay for example- ...

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Samsung asks for new trial on Apple's rubber-banding patent in light of reexamination history from www.fosspatents.com

After 11 PM local time on Monday, Samsung started yet another attempt to, as Apple called the previous one, "delay and derail" the limited damages retrial scheduled for November in the first Apple v. Samsung ...

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Panel Discusses Role Of ECOSOC In The Post-2015 UN Goals from www.ip-watch.org

The contribution the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) can make to the formation of a post-2015 UN development agenda was at the centre of a thematic debate in Geneva last week. The agenda ...

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Patent Application Costs from inventivestep.net

There are a large number of inventors and companies out there now that want patent work done as cheaply as possible.  Especially since the economy has tanked, many inventors and companies are attempting to low-ball ...

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Patent Application Costs from inventivestep.net

There are a large number of inventors and companies out there now that want patent work done as cheaply as possible.  Especially since the economy has tanked, many inventors and companies are attempting to low-ball ...

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WIPO Seeks To Open New Offices Around The World from www.ip-watch.org

The UN World Intellectual Property Organization is proposing to open five new regional offices around the world next year, with more envisioned in the future. In a move it says is in response to requests ...

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OHIM finally moves on invalidity of Apple designs for tablet computers from ipkitten.blogspot.com

First Apple RCD (001888454-0001) After the judgment from the Patents Court in July last year, which was subsequently upheld by the Court of Appeal, ruling that certain Samsung tablets do not infringe Apple’s Registered ...

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Oracle and Google's disagreement on the notion of 'thin' (or 'weak') copyright protection for software from www.fosspatents.com

On Friday Oracle's reply brief in its Android-Java copyright appeal against Google was published. I said in my first post that there's more stuff in it that's worth discussing. Here's a ...

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AT&T asks USTR to veto ITC exclusion order against older iPhones, iPads over Samsung patent from www.fosspatents.com

On Friday it became discoverable that Apple has filed a motion with the United States International Trade Commission (USITC, or just ITC) for a stay of remedial orders (import ban, cease and desist) pending an ...

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Homeric BGH decision on Duff Beer - or: “Reverse product placement” – What are the relevant circles?" from ipkitten.blogspot.com

At the end of last year, the German Federal Supreme Court (Bundesgerichtshof) had to decide an interesting case relating to the trade mark Duff Beer, a beer brand with which fans of the US cartoon ...

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Failure to Disclose Non-Prior Art May Support Inequitable Conduct Claim from docketreport.blogspot.com

The court denied plaintiffs' motion to dismiss defendant's inequitable conduct claim for failure to plead with particularity. "Plaintiffs . . . argue that [defendant's counterclaim] is insufficiently pleaded because [plaintiff] observed the [two cited devices] four ...

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Nations Begin To Take Action Against United States For NSA Spying from www.ip-watch.org

The Swiss Privacy Foundation (Digitale Gesellschaft) is pushing for legal charges to be pressed against foreign intelligence services violating Swiss law following the revelations of former National Security Agency (NSA) employee and whistleblower Edward Snowden ...

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When NPR Attacks Patents: Stories are Long on Drama, Short on Truth from ipcloseup.wordpress.com

“When Patents Attack… Part II!” revisits old ground about bad IP actors by relying on half-truths and high drama. “This American Life,” an entertaining weekly NPR news feature, cannot resist using ill-defined “trolls” as a ...

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ALJ Pender Issues Claim Construction Order In Certain Cases For Portable Electronic Devices (337-TA-861/867) from www.itcblog.com

On July 8, 2013, ALJ Thomas B. Pender issued Order No. 13 in Certain Cases for Portable Electronic Devices (Inv. No. 337-TA-861/867).  In the Order, ALJ Pender construed various claim terms in the asserted ...

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ALJ Bullock Issues Recommended Determination On Remedy In Certain Ground Fault Circuit Interrupters (337-TA-739) from www.itcblog.com

On June 25, 2013, Chief ALJ Charles E. Bullock issued the public version (dated May 22, 2013) of the Recommended Determination on Remedy (“RD”) in Certain Ground Fault Circuit Interrupters and Products Containing Same (Inv ...

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ALJ Gildea Grants-In-Part Motion To Strike And To Preclude Certain Proposed Claim Constructions In Certain Integrated Circuit Devices (337-TA-873) from www.itcblog.com

On July 8, 2013, ALJ E. James Gildea issued Order No. 14 in Certain Integrated Circuit Devices and Products Containing the Same (Inv. No. 337-TA-873).  In the Order, ALJ Gildea granted-in-part Respondents HTC Corp., HTC ...

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Myriad Seeks to Enforce its BRCA1/BRCA2 Gene Patents from www.patentlyo.com

By Dennis Crouch Myriad Genetics v. Ambry Genetics (D. Utah 2013) In AMP v. Myriad, the Supreme Court ruled that the process of isolating naturally occurring DNA is insufficient to transform the natural phenomenon into ...

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BIO IP & Diagnostics Symposium from www.patentdocs.org

The Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) will be holding an IP & Diagnostics Symposium from 8:00 am to 2:45 pm on July 22, 2013 at the Hilton Alexandria Old Town Hotel in Alexandria, VA. The ...

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