Patent & IP news for September 3, 2013

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6,161
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post image Can a confidentiality agreement protect me like a patent application? from ocpatentlawyer.com

Can a confidentiality agreement protect me like a patent applications? Good question.  The bottom line is that a contract (i.e., confidentiality agreement or non-disclosure agreement) and a patent application protect your interests in different ...

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post image Ex Parte Appeal Outcome by Assignee 2005-2013 from www.patentlyo.com

By Dennis Crouch The following table shows the decision outcome of ex parte appeal to the BPAI/PTAB for a number of patent owners, including the top-twenty-five owners of appealed applications as well as a ...

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post image Good for lust, fends off rust: it must be tiramisu from ipkitten.blogspot.com

There is even a Tiramisu hero, here Ever since Cat the Kat decided to take her blogging sabbatical, this weblog has been devoid of anything resembling a Food Correspondent. It is therefore with some trepidation ...

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post image The Dromedary effect: design by committee and the Unitary Patent Hump from ipkitten.blogspot.com

At the end of July, Katfriend Gary Moss (a solicitor and a partner in EIP when he's not producing tidbits for this weblog) was a speaker at the annual High Tech Summit which takes ...

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post image Microsoft-Nokia deal results in cost-effective combination of patent cross-license agreements from www.fosspatents.com

Here's a follow-up to my first reaction to the announcement of Microsoft's M&A; and patent license deal. In that post I published two slides from a "strategic rationale" document provided by Microsoft ...

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Conference & CLE Calendar from www.patentdocs.org

September 4, 2013 - Filing a Post-grant Proceeding with Concurrent Litigation: Strategic Considerations (Intellectual Property Owners Association) - 2:00 to 3:00 pm (ET) September 10, 2013 - Lessons from the Inaugral Year of New Post-Grant Patent ...

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USPTO Provides RCE Outreach Progress Update from www.patentdocs.org

By Donald Zuhn -- At last month's Patent Public Advisory Committee (PPAC) meeting, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office provided a progress update on the RCE Outreach program that was initiated last December with ...

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USPTO IP Awareness Assessment Tool from www.pharmapatentsblog.com

The USPTO website has an IP Awareness Assessment tool that was developed by the USPTO and National Institute of Standards and Technology/Manufacturing Extension Partnership (NIST/MEP) to permit businesses and inventors to assess their ...

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USPTO IP Awareness Assessment Tool from www.pharmapatentsblog.com

The USPTO website has an IP Awareness Assessment tool that was developed by the USPTO and National Institute of Standards and Technology/Manufacturing Extension Partnership (NIST/MEP) to permit businesses and inventors to assess their ...

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German appeals court lifts Google's bogus patent injunction over push email against Apple's iCloud from www.fosspatents.com

Google wasted a ton of money on Motorola's patents. As of today, it has zero -- I repeat, zero -- enforceable patent injunctions in place against Apple and Microsoft, after almost three years of litigation. By ...

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Institution of Reexam Instead of IPR Does Not Suggest Dilatory Motive from docketreport.blogspot.com

The court granted defendant's motion to stay pending ex parte reexamination and rejected plaintiff's claim of undue prejudice based on defendant's choice of ex parte reexamination instead of the new inter partes ...

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In love with one's brand: the risks and the relief from ipkitten.blogspot.com

It is generally understood that a bunch of fictional felines who run an IP weblog do not constitute a law firm, and that their posts are emphatically NOT legal advice. This is the way we ...

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Philips writes to ITC to defend MPEG LA AVC/H.264 reciprocal-licensing obligation from www.fosspatents.com

The grant-back (reciprocal licensing) obligation that licensees of MPEG LA's AVC/H.264 video codec patent pool must respect already came up in connection with Microsoft's enforcement of Google's (Motorola's) FRAND ...

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Patent Examiner Interviews from inventivestep.net

Oral communication is often more effective than written communication. Once I’ve been through a round of written responses with a patent examiner, if I feel that the examiner is not being receptive to my ...

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Patent Examiner Interviews from inventivestep.net

Oral communication is often more effective than written communication. Once I’ve been through a round of written responses with a patent examiner, if I feel that the examiner is not being receptive to my ...

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Generating Cool Energy from Low-Temp Geothermal Liquids from www.greenpatentblog.com

It’s rare these days that one reads about new geothermal technology (there have been only three geothermal posts in all of GPB history), so I like to highlight new developments when I see them ...

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Interpreting CLS Bank Int’l v. Alice from www.patentlyo.com

Guest Post by Professor Bernard Chao The issue of patentable subject matter eligibility has been in considerable flux. Currently, it's unclear whether adding computer limitations to an otherwise unpatentable concept somehow renders the concept ...

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