Patent & IP news for July 18, 2013

IP and Digital Entertainment conference: Part III from ipkitten.blogspot.com

The post-prandial session of today's CLT conference, "IP and Digital Entertainment conference", was opened by IP consultant and serious copyright enthusiast Amanda Harcourt. Speaking on "Personalised internet radio and Pandora: a legal perspective", Amanda ...

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IP and Digital Entertainment conference: Part I from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Today's CLT conference, IP and Digital Entertainment, held in the lovely setting of Holborn Bars, London, was opened by Gill Grassie (Brodies), giving an introduction to the digital revolution which spanned the relatively short ...

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IP and Digital Entertainment conference: Part IV from ipkitten.blogspot.com

The final instalment of today's CLT conference "IP and Digital Entertainment" featured Iona Silverman (Baker & McKenzie), on the commercialisation of instantly popular online content such as Gangnam Style, One Pound Fish and the Harlem ...

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Drafting License Agreements: Agreement Unenforceable Post-Patent-Expiration Even When Contract Says Otherwise from www.patentlyo.com

By Dennis Crouch Kimble v. Marvel Enterprises Inc. (9th Circuit 2013) Kimble's patent covers a pretty-cool web-shooting toy designed to mimic (in toy form) spider-man's super powers. U.S. Patent No. 5,072 ...

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IP and Digital Entertainment conference: Part II from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Your IP address
-- or your life! Following the coffee break (coffee 3 out of 10; biscuits 10 out of 10), Gary Moss (EIP) continued today's IP and Digital Entertainment conference with a paper on ...

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Green Patent PR (Continued) from www.greenpatentblog.com

Picking up where we left off, I now have a preliminary draft of the Patent PR study (available here) and a better sense of how the subject matter of clean tech press releases fits into ...

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Cybor Watch: Final Set of Briefs Filed in En Banc De Novo Claim Construction Appeal from www.grayonclaims.com

Lighting Ballast Control LLC v. Philips Electronics North America Corporation

This blog has continued work on collecting all of the briefs filed (both by the parties and amici) in the pending Lighting Ballast appeal regarding ...

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Senator Leahy Urges NIH to Use March-In Rights on Myriad BRCA Test from www.patentdocs.org

By Donald Zuhn -- On Friday, Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) sent a letter to Dr. Francis Collins, the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), "to urge [the Director] to consider using march-in rights under ...

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Myriad’s Trade Secret Trump Card: The Myriad Database Of Genetic Variants from www.pharmapatentsblog.com

One of the most interesting arguments that Myriad made in its Motion for Preliminary Injunctive Relief in its infringement action against Ambry Genetics Corporation relates to the database of genetic information that Myriad has developed ...

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Google keeps trying hard to avoid references to Huawei v. ZTE in Microsoft-Motorola FRAND case from www.fosspatents.com

The Microsoft v. Motorola breach-of-FRAND-contract trial scheduled to commence on August 26 in Seattle is not exactly an event Google (Motorola Mobility's owner) is looking forward to. One of the issues Google is going ...

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Principles for IP Provisions in Bilateral and Regional Agreements from www.iposgoode.ca

For several years, research at the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property and Competition Law (MPI) – in collaboration with experts from all over the world – has examined the trend of bilateral and regional agreements that ...

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Google is preparing a standard-essential patent damages lawsuit against Microsoft in Germany from www.fosspatents.com

As I already mentioned in my previous post, Microsoft and Google's Motorola filed various reply briefs yesterday relating to summary judgment and Daubert motions ahead of the breach-of-FRAND-contract trial scheduled to start on August ...

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XBox One: (Not) Attempting to Modernize Through Monopolization from www.iposgoode.ca

In late May 2013, Microsoft announced details of its new console, the XBox One, to be launched in November 2013. In addition to new games and technical improvements, consumers were surprised by Microsoft’s initial ...

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UPDATE: Hughes Nomination Approved by Committee from inventivestep.net

This morning, the Senate Judiciary Committee approved the nomination of Todd Hughes to the Federal Circuit.  He now awaits confirmation by the full Senate.  He joins Raymond Chen, whom the Committee approved in May. Sen ...

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UPDATE: Hughes Nomination Approved by Committee from inventivestep.net

This morning, the Senate Judiciary Committee approved the nomination of Todd Hughes to the Federal Circuit.  He now awaits confirmation by the full Senate.  He joins Raymond Chen, whom the Committee approved in May. Sen ...

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No Willfulness Claim Based on Post-Filing Knowledge Absent Motion for Preliminary Injunction from docketreport.blogspot.com

The court granted defendant's motion to dismiss plaintiff's willful infringement claims for failure to state a claim because plaintiff did not seek a preliminary injunction. "[In re Seagate Tech., LLC, 497 F.3d ...

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Federal Patent Court of Germany narrows scope of Microsoft patent challenged by Google from www.fosspatents.com

Short of the England and Wales High Court, the Munich-based Bundespatentgericht (Federal Patent Court of Germany) is the steepest challenge for the validity of a patent. This year it has already struck down (except that ...

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WIPO Folklore Talks Stalling; Work Continues On New Draft Text from www.ip-watch.org

Negotiators at the World Intellectual Property Organization this week are struggling to make headway on a draft text of an international instrument for the protection of traditional cultural expressions, or folklore. And accusations began to ...

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ITC Issues Opinion Reversing Determination Of No Section 337 Violation In Certain Kinesiotherapy Devices (337-TA-823) from www.itcblog.com

On July 12, 2013, the International Trade Commission (“the Commission”) issued the public version of its opinion reversing ALJ Thomas B. Pender’s finding of no violation of Section 337 in the Initial Determination (“ID ...

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News from Abroad: Second Referral for the "Broccoli" Patent Case to the Enlarged Board of Appeal from www.patentdocs.org

Following the issuance of decision G2/07 in connection with the "Broccoli" patent, which discussed whether plant breeding methods were excluded from patentability as essentially biological processes for the production of plants, the Technical Board ...

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