Patent & IP news for August 8, 2013

Move It! FDA Boot Camp is Coming to Boston from www.patentbaristas.com

What: American Conference Institute’s FDA Boot Camp.  Basic training in core regulatory concepts for life sciences lawyers, business executives and policy analysts. The approval process…pre-approval concerns…product labeling… clinical trials…adverse events reports ...

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Thursday thingies from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Will the daleks come
to Dr Who's aid ...? Around the weblogs. First, a katpat to fellow blogger Michael Factor for drawing this Kat's attention to a delightful piece on Sharpened Sticks on why ...

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Transformative use victory for Green Day - and a poll asking what YOU think of fair use from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Seltzer's Scream Icon Is unauthorised use of an artist’s work in the video backdrop of a rock band's stage show fair use under US copyright law?
This was the very question that ...

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Lighting Ballast and Purposive Construction from www.grayonclaims.com

Lighting Ballast Control LLC v. Philips Electronics North America Corporation

Noticeably absent from the parties' briefs as well as the 20+ amicus briefs is any mention of how claim interpretation is performed in the United ...

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Ambry Responds to Myriad Lawsuit from www.patentdocs.org

Asserts Affirmative Defenses and Antitrust Counterclaims and Asks for Declaratory Judgment By Kevin E. Noonan -- On Monday Ambry filed its Answer to Myriad's complaint for patent infringement, and asserted patent misuse as an affirmative ...

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Federal Circuit Finds “Molecular Weight” To Be Insolubly Ambiguous from www.pharmapatentsblog.com

Please welcome Daniel Shelton, an associate in the Chemical, Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Practice of Foley & Lardner LLP, as a new author for PharmaPatentsBlog. In Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. v. Sandoz, Inc., the Federal Circuit invalidated ...

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Federal Circuit Finds “Molecular Weight” To Be Insolubly Ambiguous from www.pharmapatentsblog.com

Please welcome Daniel Shelton, an associate in the Chemical, Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Practice of Foley & Lardner LLP, as a new author for PharmaPatentsBlog. In Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. v. Sandoz, Inc., the Federal Circuit invalidated ...

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Third Circuit District Courts Take Aim at Non-Patent Eligible Patents Under § 101 from www.iplawalert.com

In a pair of recent decisions issued just days apart, the District of Delaware and the District of New Jersey have found patents relating to online transaction guaranties and financial services to be non-patent eligible ...

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Pharmaceutical Innovation, Competition And Patent Law: a Trilateral Perspective: a new book from patlit.blogspot.com

Pharmaceutical Innovation, Competition And Patent Law: a Trilateral Perspective, edited by Max Planck Director Josef Drexl and Finnish scholar Nari Lee, has just been published by Edward Elgar. This book has a strong list of ...

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ALJ Essex Issues Notice Of Initial Determination In Certain Computers and Computer Peripheral Devices (337-TA-841) from www.itcblog.com

On August 2, 2013, ALJ Theodore R. Essex issued a notice regarding the Initial Determination on Violation of Section 337 and Recommended Determination on Remedy and Bonding (“ID”) in Certain Computers and Computer Peripheral Devices ...

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ITC Reviews ALJ Essex’s Initial Determination And Finds No Domestic Industry In Certain Products Having Laminated Packaging (337-TA-874) from www.itcblog.com

On August 6, 2013, the International Trade Commission (the “Commission”) issued a notice in Certain Products Having Laminated Packaging, Laminated Packaging, and Components Thereof (Inv. No. 337-TA-874).  In the notice, the Commission determined to review ...

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Patent Acquisition Bar Imposed on Counsel Accessing Defendant’s Confidential Technical Information from docketreport.blogspot.com

The court granted defendant's motion for a two-year patent acquisition bar against plaintiff's counsel who obtain defendant's confidential technical information. "Defendant . . . argues that [plaintiff's attorneys] who gain access to [defendant's ...

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Google drip-feeds the open source community with periodic patent pledges that don't really matter from www.fosspatents.com

Today Google announced that it pledged 79 more patents to open source under the terms known from its March 2013 pledge relating to ten patents, which I described as a PR stunt. Based on the ...

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Clean Tech in Court: Green Patent Complaint Update, Part II from www.greenpatentblog.com

The second part of this green patent complaint update covers the period mid-June through most of July, during which several new complaints were filed in the areas of biofuels, components for hybrid and electric vehicles ...

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Shocked by Presidential veto, Ericsson and other FRAND patent holders make impractical proposals from www.fosspatents.com

The Presidential veto of Samsung's standard-essential patent-based ITC import ban against older iPhones and iPads, it's going to be very difficult (though not 100% impossible) for holders of FRAND-pledged SEPs to win such ...

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Google's Motorola files new German lawsuit against Microsoft, letter to U.S. court reveals from www.fosspatents.com

Just when many people thought the "smartphone patent wars" between major players were slowly but surely winding down (part of which was just a misconception because appellate proceedings are lower-key than proceedings in the first ...

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