Patent & IP news for August 27, 2013

Coming soon: CIPA and IPAG's Big Events from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Citius, Altius, Fortius ...  CIPA Congress: of turtles and early birds.  The Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys' annual gathering of the clan, the CIPA Congress 2013, takes place on 3 and 4 October in the lovely ...

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October 4 Symposium and CLE on Resolving Patent Disputes from www.patentlyo.com

Dear readers – I want to invite you to join us here at the University of Missouri School of Law on October 4, 2013 for a Symposium focusing on "Resolving IP Disputes: Calling for an Alternative ...

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USPTO now allows full patent downloads from www.lotempiolaw.com

The USPTO announced on Friday that it has upgraded the Patent Full Text and Image Database to PDF-file formatted images instead of TIFF images. All I can say is that it’s about time. For ...

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Trouble for E-Bay’s Predictive Search Method from www.lotempiolaw.com

As many of you already know, many internet search engines utilize a search system which attempts to predict what you are searching for after you have only typed a few letters. For example, after typing ...

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"Don't pass it on ...": have the French got it right or wrong? from ipkitten.blogspot.com

"We'd better open them first,
just to make sure ..." Reading one of his favourite IP weblogs, Mark Anderson's IP Draughts, this Kat was both intrigued and startled by one of the items on ...

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Applied Biosystems Seeks PTA For 2007 Patent from www.pharmapatentsblog.com

On August 21, 2013, Life Technologies, Corp., Life Technologies, Ltd., Applied Biosystems LLC, and Molecular Probes, Inc. (collectively, “Plaintiffs”) brought suit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia seeking additional ...

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Motorola's initial demand letters to Microsoft -- ultimatum or "let’s get things started"? from www.fosspatents.com

The Microsoft v. Motorola FRAND breach trial that started yesterday in Seattle gets considerably less media attention than certain California trials (Oracle v. Google and Apple v. Samsung) received, but I'm glad that there ...

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Damages Expert Precluded From Testifying as to Royalty Rate Based on “50% of Defendant’s Gross Profit Margin” from docketreport.blogspot.com

The court granted defendant's motion to exclude the testimony of plaintiff's damages expert on a reasonable royalty rate because the expert improperly assumed that the starting point for a hypothetical negotiation would be ...

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Running An Unsecured WiFi Network Is Still Not Negligent from www.iposgoode.ca

Bleiberg Entertainment was unsuccessful in its arfument that running a WiFi network without password protection is negligent in tort law. Bleiberg was aiming to force disclosure of ISP subscriber information to launch copyright infringement actions ...

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IP Osgoode: Call For Applications (Fall 2013) from www.iposgoode.ca

We are pleased to announce a call for applications for a number of exciting opportunities with IP Osgoode. See below for more information. Call for IPilogue Editors Deadline: Monday, September 16, 2013; send application documents ...

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Nokia, HTC, Google propose schedule for build-up to May 2014 ITC patent trial over Android devices from www.fosspatents.com

While Nokia, HTC and Google are awaiting a preliminary ruling on Nokia's first ITC complaint against HTC, which is scheduled for next month, they are already preparing the ITC trial on Nokia's second ...

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Butamax Avoids Infringement of Two Gevo Patents on Summary Judgment from www.greenpatentblog.com

I’ve been covering the ongoing patent litigation between advanced biofuels company Gevo and BP-DuPont joint venture Butamax over a number of patents relating to methods of producing biobutanol. The lawsuit started in January 2011 ...

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Applied Biosystems Seeks PTA For 2007 Patent from www.pharmapatentsblog.com

On August 21, 2013, Life Technologies, Corp., Life Technologies, Ltd., Applied Biosystems LLC, and Molecular Probes, Inc. (collectively, “Plaintiffs”) brought suit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia seeking additional ...

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Amici Submit Brief in Support of Ambry Genetics and Gene by Gene from www.patentdocs.org

By Donald Zuhn -- Last week, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), ACLU of Utah Foundation, Inc., Public Patent Foundation (PUBPAT), Association for Molecular Pathology (AMP), Breast Cancer Action, and AARP submitted an amici curiae brief ...

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