Patent & IP news for August 26, 2013

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post image GAO Report Finds Patent Trolls are Not the Problem With Litigation from inventivestep.net

Last week, the General Accounting Office (GAO) provided a report that was requested by Congress on patent litigation in the US. The report found that the number of patent lawsuits was fairly steady from 2000 ...

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post image Petzilla vs. the trademark registration: beware the improper assignment trap from ipspotlight.com

Intent-to-use (ITU) trademark applications can give companies the opportunity to reserve valuable trademark rights before actually using the mark in commerce. However, ITU applications do have certain limitations – including restrictions on assignment. In many cases ...

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post image The BGH, Pippi Longstocking and a fancy dress from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Pippi (the TV character)
on a German stamp  On appeal from the Higher Regional Court of Cologne, the German Federal Court of Justice (Bundesgerichtshof, or short: BGH) recently decided that third parties (here: a super ...

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post image Austria tidies up appeals against office decisions from patlit.blogspot.com

Austria has recently introduced a system of new provincial administrative courts which, it is said, will affect administrative provisions in several intellectual property statutes, including Austria's Patent Act and Act on Utility Models. The ...

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post image Current Patent Lawyer magazine from patlit.blogspot.com

Looking for something to read? The July/August issue of The Patent Lawyer magazine has plenty of easy-read material, even though there's not a great deal in this specific issue to rivet the attention ...

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post image USPTO Upgrades Patent Full Text and Image Database from www.patentabilityblog.com

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has upgraded the USPTO Full Text and Image Database.  This upgrade, which the patent community has been requesting for years, uses PDF images instead of TIFF images ...

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post image Report from US Government Accountability Office on patent litigation does not bring much about NPE. from ipkitten.blogspot.com


As mentioned by blogmeister Jeremy recently, it can be hard to find an interesting IP topic during the month of August. With very few court decisions and the absence of legislative activity, it seems that ...

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Is There Supreme Court Exclusive Jurisdiction Over Patent Inventorship Disputes Between State Universities? Federal Circuit Says No from www.pharmapatentsblog.com

In University Of Utah V. Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, the Federal Circuit was faced with deciding whether a patent inventorship dispute between two different state universities is a “dispute between two states” that falls under the Supreme Court ...

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Is There Supreme Court Exclusive Jurisdiction Over Patent Inventorship Disputes Between State Universities? Federal Circuit Says No from www.pharmapatentsblog.com

In University Of Utah V. Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, the Federal Circuit was faced with deciding whether a patent inventorship dispute between two different state universities is a “dispute between two states” that falls under the Supreme Court ...

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MVS Filewrapper® Blog: New and Useful - August 26, 2013 from www.filewrapper.com

·         In University of Utah v. Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, the Federal Circuit held that a patent lawsuit between a state university and the officers of another state university is not a controversy between two states.  The case began ...

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Cancellation of Claims by USPTO During Reexam is Binding in Pending District Court Infringement Litigation from www.iplawalert.com

Last month, the Federal Circuit addressed the question of “whether, under the reexamination statute, the cancellation of claims by the PTO is binding in pending district court infringement litigation.” Fresenius USA, Inc. v. Baxter Int ...

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Judge allows but restricts references to FRAND rate-setting decision in Microsoft-Google jury trial from www.fosspatents.com

The Microsoft v. Motorola breach-of-FRAND-contract jury trial will start today in Seattle (Western District of Washington). On Sunday, Judge James Robart ruled on the parties' right to refer to his famous 207-page Findings of Fact ...

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GAO Report Finds Patent Trolls are Not the Problem With Litigation from inventivestep.net

Last week, the General Accounting Office (GAO) provided a report that was requested by Congress on patent litigation in the US. The report found that the number of patent lawsuits was fairly steady from 2000 ...

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ITC Institutes Investigation (337-TA-891) Regarding Certain Laundry And Household Cleaning Products from www.itcblog.com

On August 23, 2013, the U.S. International Trade Commission issued a press release announcing their vote to institute an investigation of Certain Laundry And Household Cleaning Products and Related Packaging (Inv. No. 337-TA-891). The ...

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Samsung says Ericsson is "seeking billions more" than under previous patent license agreements from www.fosspatents.com

The Microsoft v. Motorola FRAND trial in the Western District of Washington has just started (parties' counsel are questioning potential jurors as I start to write this post), but FRAND disputes are going on in ...

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Petzilla vs. the trademark registration: beware the improper assignment trap from ipspotlight.com

Intent-to-use (ITU) trademark applications can give companies the opportunity to reserve valuable trademark rights before actually using the mark in commerce. However, ITU applications do have certain limitations – including restrictions on assignment. In many cases ...

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Board reveses obviousness of cardiac operation when Examiner relies on statements in reference about suitability of device for operation from allthingspros.blogspot.com

Takeaway: The Applicant appealed a claim to a "method for performing operation on a cardiac valve of a heart while the heart is beating." The Applicant argued that the operations disclosed in both references were ...

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White Paper Asserts That Existing Trade Agreements Provide No Data Exclusivity for Biologics from www.patentdocs.org

By Donald Zuhn -- In a white paper released earlier this month, Professor Brook Baker of the Northeastern University School of Law argues that current trade agreements do not provide data exclusivity for biologics, and therefore ...

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