Patent & IP news for July 19, 2013

Friday fantasies from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Popular measure: Iranian crowds take
to the street to celebrate PCT ratification Iran joins the PCT club.  By PCT Notification No. 204 Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT), a somewhat repetitively-titled media release from the IPKat's ...

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Spider-Man Web-Blasts Away Patent Royalties from ipkitten.blogspot.com


On Tuesday, the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued its ruling in a lawsuit between Marvel, the purveyor of Spider-Man comics, movies and related products, and inventor Stephen Kimble.  The ruling was ...

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The Death of Browsing; the Death of the Backlist; the Death of the Book Industry? from ipkitten.blogspot.com

There are few terms that have undergone so great a change in context as "ecosystem'. Several decades ago, the notion was the bailiwick of ecology and environmental types, whose outlook was frequently at odds with ...

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Patent license unenforceable because of nonpatent rights from ocpatentlawyer.com

Patents are viewed as a necessary evil in the United States.  Monopolies are considered evil in the United States but patent laws which have monopoly like characteristics are designed to promote the Sciences in that ...

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IMS Study Shows Pro-Competitive Effects of Reverse Payment Settlement Agreements in ANDA Litigation from www.patentdocs.org

By Kevin E. Noonan -- Earlier this month, the Generic Pharmaceutical Association (GPhA) held a press conference to announce the release of a study of the effects of reverse settlement payment agreements in ANDA litigation. Such ...

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ALJ Bullock Issues Notice Of Initial Determination In Certain Ink Application Devices (337-TA-832) from www.itcblog.com

On July 18, 2013, Chief ALJ Charles E. Bullock issued a notice regarding the Initial Determination (“ID”) in Certain Ink Application Devices and Components Thereof and Methods of Using the Same (Inv. No. 337-TA-832). By ...

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Friday Foreign Filing Roundup from info.inovia.com

Hello everyone!  A brutal heat wave has hit New York City this week and we hope you are faring better in your neck of the woods.  Take a look at the latest headlines in foreign ...

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Assertion of Indirect Infringement Does Not Shift Burden of Proof On Patent Exhaustion Defense from docketreport.blogspot.com

In granting defendant's motion for summary judgment on a patent exhaustion defense, the court rejected defendant's argument that plaintiff bore the burden of proving a lack of exhaustion with respect indirect infringement claims ...

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Federal Circuit Deciding USPTO Procedure: New Grounds for Rejection from www.patentlyo.com

By Dennis Crouch In re Adler, Appeal No. 12-1610 (Fed. Cir. 2013) The Israeli company Given Imaging makes a swallowable capsule imaging device takes readings as it passes through a patient's GI tract. The ...

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ALJ Essex Grants Google’s Motion To Intervene In Certain Portable Electronic Communications Devices, Including Mobile Phones (337-TA-885) from www.itcblog.com

On July 16, 2013, ALJ Theodore R. Essex issued Order No. 5 in Certain Portable Electronic Communications Devices, Including Mobile Phones and Components Thereof (Inv. No. 337-TA-885). By way of background, this investigation is based ...

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Webinar on Battling Patent Trolls from www.patentdocs.org

Strafford will be offering a webinar/teleconference entitled "Battling Patent Trolls: Leveraging New Executive Orders, AIA and Other Tools" on July 31, 2013 from 1:00 to 2:30 pm (EDT). Scott A. McKeown of ...

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CLE on Patent-Eligible Subject Matter After CLS Bank and Ultramercial from www.patentdocs.org

Law Seminars International (LSI) will be offering a one-hour telebriefing on "Patent-Eligible Subject Matter After CLS Bank and Ultramercial: Implications of Two Key Federal Circuit Decisions" on July 22, 2013 from 3:00 to 4 ...

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