Patent & IP news for September 9, 2013

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post image How to respond to an Office Action without limiting your protection? from ocpatentlawyer.com

How to respond to an Office Action? The bottom line answer is to respond in a careful calculated manner so that you don’t limit your protection in any way and if you must limit ...

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post image Summer Sales -- but not for all products from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Hurry, while stocks last! Surtec International GmbH v A-Tech Chemicals UK Ltd, a Chancery Division, England and Wales, decision of Mr Justice Sales last week, is (like most extempore rulings) not available on BAILII and ...

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post image Monday miscellany from ipkitten.blogspot.com

"Meet the Bloggers!"  The annual International Trademark Association Meeting provides an excuse for intellectual property bloggers from all round the world, and even beyond, to come together for the purposes of (i) saying hello to ...

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post image On Environmental Crimes and Greenwashing 2.0 from www.greenpatentblog.com

Incidents of greenwashing continue apace, increasingly in the realm of what I call Greenwashing 2.0, i.e., misrepresentations in business dealings relating to commercial clean tech equipment and services as opposed to marketing consumer ...

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Contract Dispute: When Paying to Settle a Case Counts as Revenue from www.patentlyo.com

Jang v. Boston Scientific (Third Circuit 2013) Dr. Jang is an inventor on BSC's stent patent no. 5,922,021. Jang's contract requires BSC share 10% of royalty revenue with Jang, including "any ...

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Bargain for Suntory as Lucozade, Ribena brands change hands from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Once upon a time you could buy a bottle of Lucozade or Ribena for a matter of pence -- old pence, that is, before the United Kingdom went over to decimal currency on D-Day, 15 February ...

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Myriad Preliminary Injunction Hearing To Be Held September 11, 2013 from www.pharmapatentsblog.com

The hearing on Myriad’s motion for a preliminary injunction against Ambry Genetics is scheduled for September 11, 2013, before Judge Robert A. Shelby at the U.S. District Court for the Central District of ...

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Myriad Preliminary Injunction Hearing To Be Held September 11, 2013 from www.pharmapatentsblog.com

The hearing on Myriad’s motion for a preliminary injunction against Ambry Genetics is scheduled for September 11, 2013, before Judge Robert A. Shelby at the U.S. District Court for the Central District of ...

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Counsel’s Explanation of NPE Business Model to Jury Not Improper from docketreport.blogspot.com

The court denied defendant's motion for a new trial and rejected its argument that plaintiff's counsel engaged in improper conduct that confused the jury in a trial that bifurcated liability from damages. "[Defendant ...

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Microsoft-Google appellate hearings in Germany over H.264 patents postponed indefinitely from www.fosspatents.com

Google's Motorola Mobility nearly had to fight a two-front FRAND war in appeals courts in the U.S. and Germany on this week's Wednesday (September 11, 2013). The United States Court of Appeals ...

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Radio campaign against patent trolls funded by tech companies with questionable agenda from www.fosspatents.com

Last week I read a headline saying that "US shops and restaurants fight patent trolls" with print and radio ads in more than a dozen states. I looked up the campaign site and saw that ...

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Coach Loses Design Mark Battle Against E&D Trading, Inc. from www.iplawalert.com

Coach Services, Inc., of the design house offering handbags, footwear and other luxury goods, recently lost a design mark battle challenging registerability of E&D; Trading, Inc.’s (“E&D;”) mark for DP in stylized ...

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ITC Institutes Investigation (337-TA-892) Regarding Certain Point-To-Point Network Communication Devices from www.itcblog.com

On September 4, 2013, the U.S. International Trade Commission issued a press release announcing their vote to institute an investigation of Certain Point-To-Point Network Communication Devices and Products Containing Same (Inv. No. 337-TA-892). The ...

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ITC Institutes Investigation (337-TA-893) Regarding Certain Flash Memory Chips from www.itcblog.com

On September 4, 2013, the U.S. International Trade Commission issued a press release announcing their vote to institute an investigation of Certain Flash Memory Chips and Products Containing Same (Inv. No. 337-TA-893). The investigation ...

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ALJ Bullock Sets Procedural Schedule In Certain TV Programs, Literary Works For TV Production And Episode Guides (337-TA-886) from www.itcblog.com

Further to our July 12, 2013 and August 21, 2013 posts, on September 5, 2013, Chief ALJ Charles E. Bullock issued Order No. 8 in Certain TV Programs, Literary Works For TV Production And Episode ...

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Accenture v Guidewire : another chapter in the saga of eligible subject matter from patlit.blogspot.com


Following in the footsteps of Bilski, CLS Bank, and Ultramercial, another case on subject matter eligibility was decided by the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit last Thursday. The court's opinion, delivered ...

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Court Report from www.patentdocs.org

By Sherri Oslick -- About Court Report: Each week we will report briefly on recently filed biotech and pharma cases. Senju Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. et al. v. Akorn, Inc. 1:13-cv-06080; filed August 28, 2013 in ...

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BIO Urges Rehearing En Banc in Fresenius v. Baxter Int'l. from www.patentdocs.org

By Kevin E. Noonan -- In a case that raises important issues of perhaps Constitutional dimensions (at least in Circuit Court Judge Newman's view), the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) urged the Federal Circuit to rehear ...

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