Patent & IP news for October 10, 2013

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post image Gibbons Snags Ex-Roche Chief Patent Counsel For IP Practice from www.iplawalert.com

As reported in Law360 yesterday, George W. Johnston, most recently Vice President & Chief Patent Counsel at Hoffmann-La Roche Inc., has joined Gibbons P.C. as Counsel in the Intellectual Property Department, reinforcing the firm's ...

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post image GIs, trade mark and public policy issues over Mafiozo wine from ipkitten.blogspot.com

During MARQUES workshop on Geographical Indications (as reported on Class 46), the intersection of brands and GI’s was underlined as one of the next big challenges to be embraced by the IP community and ...

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post image Balancing IP and human rights: the case of medicines from ipkitten.blogspot.com

What is the correct balance between human rights and IP when it comes to medicines? This is the question posed by Suleman Ali (Holly IP) in this guest post. He reflects as follows:
"A recent ...

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Motorola Escapes Microsoft By Ducking Under ITC Domestic Industry Requirement from www.pharmapatentsblog.com

In Microsoft Corp. v. International Trade Commission, the Federal Circuit upheld the ITC’s determination that Microsoft had failed to establish that there was a “domestic industry” relating to three of four patents asserted to ...

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Motorola Escapes Microsoft By Ducking Under ITC Domestic Industry Requirement from www.pharmapatentsblog.com

In Microsoft Corp. v. International Trade Commission, the Federal Circuit upheld the ITC’s determination that Microsoft had failed to establish that there was a “domestic industry” relating to three of four patents asserted to ...

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No Man (or Government Entity) is Above the Law from www.iposgoode.ca

The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit recently released a combined opinion regarding the ability of government entities to register their official seal. The decision of In Re: City of Houston in ...

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OCED report on Knowledge-Based Capital (aka Intangible Assets) from www.athenaalliance.org

Today, the OECD released its new report on Supporting Investment in Knowledge Capital, Growth and Innovation. This final report of their project on New Sources of Growth: Knowledge-based Capital. (See also an OECD video describing ...

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Ex parte Pedlow illustrates the need to file proper appeal briefs from ipbiz.blogspot.com

Ex parte Pedlow

The consequences of not challenging rejections with specificity:



For the foregoing reasons, we sustain the Examiner’s rejection of independent claim 1 as being unpatentable over Krishnamoorthi, Fiatal, and Blinn. We will ...

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Board agrees with Applicant that "a common binder polymer for the core and the shell" means identical and not merely sharing some properties from allthingspros.blogspot.com

Takeaway: In a claim to toner ink for printers, the Applicant went to appeal on the issue of the meaning of
"a common binder polymer for the core and the shell." According to the Examiner ...

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Right To Benefits Of Science: Human Rights Meet IP Rights from www.ip-watch.org

A seminar on the right to enjoy the benefits of scientific progress and its applications was held at the United Nations last week with panellists exploring the intersection between intellectual property and human rights in ...

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Summary Judgment of Noninfringement Premature Prior to Close of Discovery from docketreport.blogspot.com

The court denied as premature under FRCP 56(d) plaintiff's motion for summary judgment that its accused products, other than three representative products in defendant's infringement contentions, did not infringe defendant's computer ...

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Filing a False Declaration Constitutes Inequitable Conduct from inventivestep.net

Earlier this week, the Federal Circuit affirmed a district court’s judgment that a patent was unenforceable due to inequitable conduct.  Intellect Wireless, Inc. v. HTC Corp. After the Federal Circuit’s opinion in Therasense ...

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Patent Invalid for Failure to Claim “What the Applicant Regards as His Invention” from www.patentlyo.com

by DennisCrouch Juxtacomm-Texas Software v. Tibco Software, et al. (Fed. Cir. 2013) In this case the Federal Circuit only offered one paragraph of substantive analysis: The decisions of the district court … , construing the relevant claim ...

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Step-By-Step Guide For Inventors Willing To Patent Their Invention from www.patentbaristas.com

Inventors should be well aware of the fact that no matter how innovative their invention is, unless they patent it anybody else can claim it’s their idea and that you have come up with ...

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Study Finds One in Three Jobs in Europe Generated by IP Industry from info.inovia.com

The EPO released a report on September 30th detailing the effect of Intellectual Property Rights on the economy in the European Union.  The publication looked at the impact of IPR in terms of GDP, employment ...

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Federal Circuit Affirms-In-Part, Reverses-In-Part, and Remands ITC’s Determination Of No Section 337 Violation In Microsoft Appeal (2012-1445, -1535) from www.itcblog.com

On October 3, 2013, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued a precedential opinion in Microsoft Corp. v. ITC (2012-1445, -1535).  This was an appeal from the International Trade Commission’s ...

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NCube v. Seachange from ipbiz.blogspot.com

NCube v. Seachange :



On
July 31, 2009, ARRIS Group, Inc. (“ARRIS”) 1
filed a motion to hold SeaChange
International Inc. (“SeaChange”) in contempt of
a permanent injunction order .
The United States District Court for the ...

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