Patent & IP news for August 20, 2013

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post image The interplay between patent litigation and competition law in India I from patlit.blogspot.com

Our good friend and blogging colleague from India, J. Sai Deepak, founder of The Demanding Mistress intellectual property and innovation weblog, has kindly written two pieces specially for PatLit, of which this is the first ...

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post image Too many transactions, not enough forethought? from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Newcastle United FC' plays
in black and white. What
a shame the licence in this
case wasn't also ...
sdfasdfasdfsdf.  The month of August provides lean fare for IP bloggers.  With so many courts closed ...

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post image Patent process, overall steps and procedures from ocpatentlawyer.com

What is the overall patent process? The process for obtaining a patent involves 1) a patentability opinion, 2) preparation and filing of the patent application, 3) prosecution of the patent application, 4) issuance, abandonment or ...

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post image Department of Commerce Publishes Green Paper on Updating Copyright Policies from www.patentbaristas.com

The U.S. Department of Commerce released a green paper on Copyright Policy, Creativity, and Innovation in the Digital Economy (Green Paper) to advance discussion on a set of policy issues critical to economic growth ...

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post image Pro-Patent Momentum on the Rise? from ipcloseup.wordpress.com

Five recent articles challenge anti-IP myths driven by tech giants. Does the business media have the courage to follow? For decades patent enforcement has been depicted as the province of villains and cheats. Drawing this ...

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post image Product placement on the airwaves: so natural -- but unfair? from ipkitten.blogspot.com

The following piece is posted by Jeremy for fellow Kat Neil, who is currently on his travels.

"Daddy, daddy! That naughty
man said 'iPad' again!"
It seems so natural that one hardly notices what has ...

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University of Utah prevails at CAFC in a case of opposing state universities from ipbiz.blogspot.com


University of Utah v. MAX-PLANCK-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR
FORDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN E.V., MAXPLANCK-
INNOVATION GMBH, WHITEHEAD
INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH,
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY,
AND ALNYLAM PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.


Of background, the initial action involved an attempt ...

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Federal Circuit Finds Taclonex Patent Not Obvious, Reverses USPTO Decision from www.pharmapatentsblog.com

In Leo Pharmaceutical Products, Lt. v. Rae, the Federal Circuit issued a rare decision reversing an obviousness determination by the USPTO Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). The patent at issue was a Taclonex® patent ...

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Shop Rights: What are they and can they be assigned? from ipspotlight.com

“Shop rights” arise when an employee uses an employer’s resources to create an invention, but the employer does not own the invention. A shop right permits the employer to use a patented invention for ...

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Shop Rights: What are they and can they be assigned? from ipspotlight.com

“Shop rights” arise when an employee uses an employer’s resources to create an invention, but the employer does not own the invention. A shop right permits the employer to use a patented invention for ...

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Patent Ethics by Hricik from www.patentlyo.com

Professor David Hricik writes Patently-O's Ethics Blog: Patent Ethics by Hricik available online at patentlyo.com/hricik. For the past year, Professor Hricik took a hiatus while clerking for Randall Rader – Chief Judge of ...

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To stay or not to stay, that is the question from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Our blogmeister Jeremy has been reminding us how difficult it is to find news stories during the long summer month of August. This particular moggy has also not been blogging on IP matters for a ...

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Hiring an IP Law Professor at the University of Missouri from www.patentlyo.com

I wanted to post this hiring announcement for – We are looking to hire a tenure-track or (tenured) professor to teach and research in the field of intellectual property. My Dean Gary Myers and the faculty ...

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Pro-Patent Momentum on the Rise? from ipcloseup.wordpress.com

Five recent articles challenge anti-IP myths driven by tech giants. Does the business media have the courage to follow? For decades patent enforcement has been depicted as the province of villains and cheats. Drawing this ...

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WIPO Releases New PCT Video Series from info.inovia.com

We are thrilled to have the opportunity to share new videos released by WIPO this week, which are taken from their latest YouTube series "Learn the PCT". These short programs are packed with information on ...

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Contempt of Permanent Injunction Warrants Disgorgement of Profits and Coercive Penalty from docketreport.blogspot.com

The court found defendant in contempt of a permanent injunction after determining that defendant's new software product was not more than colorably different than the enjoined product. The court ordered a disgorgement of defendant ...

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Trademark Lawyers, Why You Should Hire One from patentlawip.blogspot.com

Here is a great posting by the United States Patent and Trademark Office regarding why you should hire a trademark lawyer to file your trademark application:


http://www.uspto.gov/trademarks/basics/private_attorney.jsp


Los ...

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ALJ Gildea Issues Claim Construction Order In Certain Wireless Communications Equipment (337-TA-866) from www.itcblog.com

On August 14, 2013, ALJ James E. Gildea issued the public version of Order No. 38 (dated August 7, 2013) in Certain Wireless Communications Equipment and Articles Therein (Inv. No. 337-TA-866), construing numerous terms in ...

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ITC Institutes Investigation (337-TA-890) Regarding Certain Sleep-Disordered Breathing Treatment Systems from www.itcblog.com

On August 19, 2013, the U.S. International Trade Commission issued a press release announcing their vote to institute an investigation of Certain Sleep-Disordered Breathing Treatment Systems and Components Thereof (Inv. No. 337-TA-890). The investigation ...

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Federal Circuit Rejects Supreme Court Original and Exclusive Jurisdiction over State-vs-State Inventorship Disputes from www.patentlyo.com

By Dennis Crouch A highlight of this opinion is Footnote 1 of Judge Moore's dissenting opinion that states "The majority baldly asserts that issues of patent ownership and inventorship are not sufficiently grand for ...

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Federal Circuit Finds Taclonex Patent Not Obvious, Reverses USPTO Decision from www.pharmapatentsblog.com

In Leo Pharmaceutical Products, Lt. v. Rae, the Federal Circuit issued a rare decision reversing an obviousness determination by the USPTO Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). The patent at issue was a Taclonex® patent ...

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