US and China's Unprecedented Anti-Counterfeiting Partnership from ipkitten.blogspot.com Working together to combat counterfeiting For one month, the
US Customs and Border Protection agency ("CBP") and its Chinese counterpart, the
General Administration of China Customs ("GACC"), teamed up for an extensive operation to combat ...
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Failing to Use Post-Grant Review as a Bully Club from www.patentlyo.com by Dennis Crouch Inter Partes Review of U.S. Patent No. 7,582,051 (Heart Failure Technologies,LLC v. CardioKinetix, Inc.) (P.T.A.B. IPR 2013-00183) In early 2013, Akin Gump attorney Sanford Warren ...
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Apple's Cool design registration not invalid according to OHIM from ipkitten.blogspot.com The Apple/Samsung tablet wars continue unabated, with a recent invalidity decision relating to Apple RCD no.
000181607-0001 recently posted on OHIM’s
website. As readers with an interest in “cool” designs may remember, Samsung ...
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French sovereign patent fund shows muscle: FB spearheads patent litigation in Germany from ipkitten.blogspot.com The role of the state in the economy of innovation remains an endless debate. Besides creating a balanced system that could give enough incentives for inventors to create while not restraining information, the state sometimes ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
Duff, Dub or Flub? - on the misappropriation of the likeness of a golf professional from ipkitten.blogspot.com Herr Kaymer was not impressed In a case with facts not too dissimilar to those of Rihanna v Topshop (see IPKat report here) and rapper Riff Raff (see IPKat report here) the Higher Regional Court ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
News from Abroad: UK High Court Considers quia timet Injunctions from www.patentdocs.org The UK High Court recently gave its judgment in the case of Merck, Sharp & Dohme Corp. and Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceuticals Ltd (collectively referred to in the judgement as BMS) v Teva Pharma B.V. and ...
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Claim Construction Not Illuminated By Ambiguous Restriction Requirement from www.pharmapatentsblog.com In Plantronics, Inc. v. Alph, Inc., the Federal Circuit rejected arguments that the election made in response to the Restriction Requirement limited the scope of the claims in a manner that was not reflected in ...
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Claim Construction Not Illuminated By Ambiguous Restriction Requirement from www.pharmapatentsblog.com In Plantronics, Inc. v. Alph, Inc., the Federal Circuit rejected arguments that the election made in response to the Restriction Requirement limited the scope of the claims in a manner that was not reflected in ...
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Examiner reversed in part in Ex parte Hood from ipbiz.blogspot.com The topic of conclusory statements arose and there were cites to Kahn and Vaidyanathan.
As to product by process, PTAB mentioned In re Thorpe, 777 F2d 695, and Marosi, but relied on Greenliant, 692 F3d ...
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June trade in intangibles from www.athenaalliance.org This morning's trade data from BEA was something of a shocker: the deficit fell by $9.9 billion to $34.2 billion in June. Economist had been expecting a deficit of $43.5 billion ...
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Federal Circuit Advisory Council Gives Nod to Limited Claims and Prior Art in Patent Suits from www.iplawalert.com We previously reported that the Federal Circuit Advisory Council (“the CAFC Council”) recently approved a “Model Order Limiting Excess Patent Claims and Prior Art” that set default numerical limits on the number of asserted patent ...
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Judge Plager: Construe Ambiguous Terms Against the Drafter from www.patentlyo.com 3M Innovative Properties Companies v. Tredegar Corp (Fed. Cir. 2013) In 2009, 3M filed sued – alleging that Tredegar's elastomeric laminates (used for diaper waistbands) infringed four 3M patents. U.S. Patent Nos. 5,501 ...
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Valero pulls out of Mascoma project from ipbiz.blogspot.com from
Midwest Energy News :
The exit of its majority owner and operator leaves the future uncertain for a long-delayed project that has attracted at least $120 million in public financing to turn wood from Michigan ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
Hourly Rates of $510-$1,095 Excessive for Discovery Dispute Sanction from docketreport.blogspot.com The magistrate judge recommended granting plaintiff's motion for sanctions, in part, but determined counsel's claimed hourly rates of $530-$1,095 were not reasonable. "Defendant argues that based on the AIPLA Report of ...
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CAFC Councils Rescinds Model Order .... from www.iplawalert.com We previously reported that the Federal Circuit Advisory Council (“the CAFC Council”) recently approved a “Model Order Limiting Excess Patent Claims and Prior Art” that set default numerical limits on the number of asserted patent ...
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Google's Motorola struggles to invalidate patent underlying U.S. import ban won by Microsoft from www.fosspatents.com Today the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit held its hearing on the Microsoft-Motorola cross-appeal of last year's ITC ruling on Microsoft's complaint against the device maker that has meanwhile ...
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