US budget crisis: how long will USPTO remain open? from ipkitten.blogspot.com It is all over the news, and it seems quite unrealistic from a European perspective. For the first time since President Clinton struggled to reach an agreement with Republicans in 1995, US have entered into ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
Supreme Court’s New Patent Cases from www.patentlyo.com By Dennis Crouch The Supreme Court today granted writs of certiorari in two patent-related cases appealed from the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and one copyright case out of the Ninth Circuit. Octane ...
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From Star Chamber to Star Trek Chamber: a new name and a competition from ipkitten.blogspot.com Today's the day the Patents County Court (PCC) in England and Wales is officially renamed the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court (IPEC). The change, ostensibly, is taking place in order to reflect the court’s ...
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Free Educational seminar: trademark law and the wine industry from www.lotempiolaw.com I am looking forward to taking a ride to wine trail country in Geneva, New York to talk about trademarks. Buffalo trademark attorney Barbara Piazza and I are scheduled to present a complementary educational seminar ...
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Trade Secrets and Confidential Information: Do They Apply to Sports? from ipkitten.blogspot.com Kat readers for whom American baseball is either uninteresting or impenetrable-- please bear with me. There is a method in my madness. This Kat has long suffered as a supporter of the Cleveland Indians baseball ...
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Rambus Inc. v. Rea (Fed. Cir. 2013) from www.patentdocs.org A Little Reminder to the PTO about Due Process and the Importance of Objective Evidence of Non-Obviousness By Alison Baldwin -- In its decision on September 24th, the Federal Circuit reminded the Patent Office that the ...
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Federal Circuit Finds LUNESTA Patent Infringement Based On ANDA Product Description Not Avoided By Other Certifications from www.pharmapatentsblog.com In Sunovion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc., the Federal Circuit reversed the district’s holding of no Lunesta® patent infringement that was based on a certification submitted to the court, and found infringement ...
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Overview of the impact of the U.S. government shutdown on smartphone patent disputes from www.fosspatents.com Congress could not agree on a budget extension by midnight Eastern Time, so the U.S. government will have to shut down CNN.com article). Here's a quick overview of what this means for ...
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WIPO Assemblies Put Industry, Creators, Policymakers In Touch; Enforcement Committee Gets Mandate from www.ip-watch.org Policymakers at the World Intellectual Property Organization annual General Assembly over the past week have had significant exposure to what industry and creators are up to. Meanwhile, WIPO members approved the mandate for the WIPO ...
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Hearing: War Against Whistleblowers, War Against Journalists, War Against Democracy from www.ip-watch.org Former US National Security Agency and British MI5 employees urged the European Parliament yesterday to push for better better democratic oversight over secret services and better protection of whistleblowers. Nothing less than the sovereignty of ...
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FTC Seeks Public Comments on Patent Trolls from inventivestep.net Last week, the Federal Trade Commission published a notice that it will obtain information and study how Patent Assertion Entities (PAEs) impact innovation and competition. Specifically, the FTC seeks to obtain information on a number ...
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Plurilateral Agreement on Geographical Indications On Its Way At WIPO from www.ip-watch.org Last week, WIPO members that are parties to a special agreement on the protection of appellations of origin agreed to convene a diplomatic conference in 2015 to adopt a revision of the 1958 Lisbon Agreement ...
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U.S. Government Shutdown Will Not Immediately Affect USPTO, Federal Courts from patlit.blogspot.com Due to the failure of the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate to pass either a budget or a continuing spending resolution before the start of the 2014 fiscal year, President Obama ...
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“Slightly More Convenient” Does Not Justify Transfer of Venue from docketreport.blogspot.com The court denied defendant's motion to transfer venue from the Eastern District of Texas to the Northern District of Illinois because most factors were neutral or only slightly favored transfer. "When viewed holistically, this ...
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Supreme Court to Hear Two More Patent Cases from inventivestep.net This morning, the Supreme Court issued orders granting certiorari in two more patent cases that it will hear during the October 2013 Term. Highmark, Inc. v. Allcare Health Management Systems, Inc. Section 285 of the ...
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What The US Government Shutdown Means For Patents from www.ip-watch.org The United States Congress' failure to pass a budget for the government by the end of the fiscal year on 30 September, which led to today's shutdown, will have a variety of effects on ...
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Obama Administration Proposes Cybersecurity Best Practices from www.iplawalert.com As practitioners are aware, in February 2013, President Obama issued an executive order directing federal agencies to create a set of voluntary cybersecurity standards and procedures for critical parts of the private sector. If followed ...
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WTO Public Forum On Innovation Opens With Hope For New Ideas from www.ip-watch.org Innovation holds a centre stage at the World Trade Organization Public Forum this year. During the opening plenary today, the WTO director general said the organisation needs updating. And some participants said international trade is ...
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WIPO “Theatre”: Supporters, Critics Of WIPO Administration Face Off from www.ip-watch.org The inner workings of United Nations agencies can be very complicated, with clashes of cultures and management styles and any number of pressures. The case of the UN World Intellectual Property Organization appears to be ...
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ALJ Pender Issues Order Regarding Respondent’s Jurisdiction Argument In Certain Dimmable Compact Fluorescent Lamps (337-TA-830) from www.itcblog.com On September 23, 2013, ALJ Thomas B. Pender issued Order No. 6 regarding Respondent MaxLite, Inc.’s (“MaxLite”) jurisdiction argument in Certain Dimmable Compact Fluorescent Lamps and Products Containing Same (Inv. No. 337-TA-830). By way ...
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Board reverses 101 rejection based on a server recited in the preamble from allthingspros.blogspot.com Posted by: Adam Ellsworth
Takeaway: In an appeal involving a computer-implemented method of matching mobile agents with location-based orders (such as assigning a taxi to a customer), the Board reversed the rejection under 35 U ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
USPTO Will Remain Open . . . for Now from www.patentdocs.org By Donald Zuhn -- With day one of the latest federal government shutdown nearly at an end, and with Washington bracing for a prolonged government shutdown, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued a notice ...
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