Patent & IP news for August 28, 2013

CIPA Congress and IPAG Conference: a reminder from patlit.blogspot.com

The Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys' CIPA Congress 2013 takes place on 3 and 4 October at the Lancaster London Hotel. There's a full and challenging programme, as well as the President's Dinner ...

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Insta-Backlash: A Brand Protection Strategy "Don't" from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Instagram recently created waves of animosity among developers who have launched apps using Instagram’s API.  Now owned by Facebook, Instagram is a photo- and video-sharing service that connects with users’ social media profiles.  It ...

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R U YBS? OKC is 4 U! from dunlapcodding.com

     We’re proud to be headquartered in Oklahoma City for many reasons, and you can expect to hear more from us on this topic.  Here’s one of the quirkier reasons:  Our city is ranked ...

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ALJ Essex Sets Procedural Schedule In Certain Portable Electronic Communications Devices, Including Mobile Phones (337-TA-885) from www.itcblog.com

On August 27, 2013, ALJ Theodore R. Essex issued Order No. 9 in Certain Portable Electronic Communications Devices, Including Mobile Phones and Components Thereof (Inv. No. 337-TA-885). By way of background, this investigation is based ...

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New Zealand Parliament adopts UK approach to software patents, allows broad swaths of them from www.fosspatents.com

I just learned on Twitter, from a patent attorney supporting software patents who is very happy about this outcome, that the New Zealand Parliament has adopted a patent reform bill containing a compromise wording on ...

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Patents firm Intellectual Ventures accuses Google's Motorola Mobility of "transparent attempt to stall" from www.fosspatents.com

Google's Motorola Mobility has to defend its Android-based devices against two Intellectual Ventures lawsuits, one filed in the District of Delaware in 2011 and one filed in the Southern District of Florida about two ...

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Algorithmic Economy from www.athenaalliance.org

Hezekiah Agwara, Philip Auerswald, and Brian Higginbotham at George Mason University recently published an important new paper on "Algorithms and the Changing Frontier". Given at an NBER conference on The Changing Frontier: Rethinking Science and ...

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Availability of Patent Pilot Program Does Not Factor Into Venue Analysis from docketreport.blogspot.com

The court granted defendant's motion to transfer plaintiff's infringement action from the Northern District of Illinois to the Western District of Washington and rejected plaintiff's argument that the patent pilot program made ...

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Ethanol as automobile fuel: the new is actually old from ipbiz.blogspot.com

A post titled Biofuel Industry Responds To Attack Ad includes the text:


[ POET CEO Jeff ] Lautt says that the biofuels industry now has ten percent of the market and that number could reach as high ...

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Judge Rader’s Obviousness Tutorial: Including the Conclusion that Older Prior Art is Less Credible and a Restatement that Objective Indicia of Nonobviousness Play a Critical Role from www.patentlyo.com

By Dennis Crouch Leo Pharmaceutical Products, Ltd. v. Rea, 2013 WL 4054937 (Fed. Cir. 2013) In a pre-AIA filing, Galderma challenged Leo's U.S. Patent No. 6,753,013 in an inter partes reexamination ...

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ALJ Gildea Grants-In-Part Motion To Compel In Certain Wireless Communication Equipment (337-TA-866) from www.itcblog.com

On August 14, 2013, ALJ James E. Gildea issued the public version of Order No. 37 (dated July 29, 2013) in Certain Wireless Communications Equipment and Articles Therein (Inv. No. 337-TA-866). According to the Order ...

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How not to write the background section of a patent application? from ocpatentlawyer.com

How not to write the background section of a patent application? The background section of a patent application is supposed to describe the current state of the art.  The background section might describe the problem ...

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Chinese Intellectual Property News – August 2013 from info.inovia.com

Hello all! Once again, our friends at AFD China have released their monthly newsletter.  Below, we have included some of the highlights from the August 2013 edition for your consideration: Between January and June of ...

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ALJ Gildea Sets Procedural Schedule In Certain Silicon Microphone Packages (337-TA-888) from www.itcblog.com

Further to our July 24, 2013 post, on August 27, 2013, ALJ E. James Gildea issued Order No. 3 in Certain Silicon Microphone Packages and Products Containing Same (Inv. No. 337-TA-888). In the Order, ALJ ...

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Myriad Moves to Dismiss Ambry's Antitrust Counterclaims on Noerr-Pennington Doctrine from www.patentdocs.org

By Kevin E. Noonan -- The Supreme Court, in Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly, 550 U.S. 544, 570 (2007), and Ashcroft v. Iqbal, 556 U.S. 662 (2009), has in recent years focused the requirements ...

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Old Prior Art and Obviousness from www.717madisonplace.com

The Patently-O blog covered the Leo Pharmaceutical Products, Ltd. v. Rea, 2013 WL 4054937 (Fed. Cir. 2013) case today.  One of the observations in that post was Chief Judge Rader’s comment that: The elapsed ...

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Announcing the 2013 IP Intensive Program from www.iposgoode.ca

We are pleased to announce details of the 2013 Intellectual Property Law and Technology Intensive Program.  The tremendously successful program is currently in its third year, but it is continuing to grow. We are excited ...

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