Patent & IP news for October 15, 2013

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post image Android: Building A Brand Around An Open Source Trade Mark from ipkitten.blogspot.com

The mobile wars are not only limited to getting hardware into the hands of consumers.  There are also battles for software dominance.  Apple’s iOS reigned supreme for years, based on the success of the ...

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Bioethicists "Urge Maximal Transparency" in Response to 23andMe Patent from www.patentdocs.org

By Donald Zuhn -- Last week, we discussed a patent, recently issued to 23andMe, Inc., that has created some controversy. The patent, U.S. Patent No. 8,543,339, is directed to a system for identifying ...

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District Court Upholds USPTO Patent Term Adjustment Deduction For Information Disclosure Statement from www.pharmapatentsblog.com

In Gilead Sciences, Inc. v. Rea, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia upheld the USPTO Patent Term Adjustment (PTA) rule that provides for a PTA deduction when an applicant files ...

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District Court Upholds USPTO Patent Term Adjustment Deduction For Information Disclosure Statement from www.pharmapatentsblog.com

In Gilead Sciences, Inc. v. Rea, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia upheld the USPTO Patent Term Adjustment (PTA) rule that provides for a PTA deduction when an applicant files ...

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Apple, Samsung fighting on three parallel fronts in the Northern District of California: roundup from www.fosspatents.com

This is my second catch-up post to cover events during my week off. The previous one related to the entry into force of an ITC exclusion order Apple won against Samsung. This one is longer ...

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Ocean Tomo and Patent Rankings from ipbiz.blogspot.com

Patently O on 14 Oct 2013 has a post titled Ocean Tomo versus PatentRatings about the litigation between Ocean Tomo and Jonathan Barney / PatentRatings LLC.

There had been a discussion in 2011 on the IAM ...

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Appellant wins "missing element" case in Ex parte DIMAGGIO from ipbiz.blogspot.com


Ex parte DIMAGGIO



Thus, as Appellants point out, the record before us does not appear to
address the step of making a determination if the intervention is clinical or
non-clinical. See Reply Br. 2-3.
The ...

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Appellant does win a missing element argument in Ex parte Christain from ipbiz.blogspot.com

The appellant did win one "missing element" argument in Ex parte Christian


The Examiner found with regard to claim 5 that Oyama’s “housing 4
has a rectangular shape (as shown in Fig. 1) with ...

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Another Rambus/Micron case; rehearing by PTAB leads to change from ipbiz.blogspot.com

Rambus patent owner; re-exam 95/001,105



Rambus seeks relief in its Patent Owner’s Request for Rehearing, see
37 C.F.R. § 41.79, from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board Decision (Dec. 7 ...

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First Decision by an Enterprise Judge to hit BAILII - IPEC in Action! from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Something is going very wrong with the universe, because your humble moggy almost never gets excited about trade mark cases sufficiently to blog about them, and yet here, lo and behold, he is posting twice ...

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Brazilian Patent Reform Report Launched from www.ip-watch.org

Infojustice.org reports: Last week, the report Brazilian Patent Reform: Innovation Towards Competitiveness was launched at an event at the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies.Related Articles:

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GAVI: Reducing Prices To Immunise 250 Million Children By 2015 from www.ip-watch.org

The GAVI Alliance launched a mid-term report this week showing that the public-private partnership is on track to immunise more than 250 million children by 2015 and prevent some four million deaths. GAVI’s CEO ...

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PTO Numbers – End of FY2013 from inventivestep.net

The following is a comparison of the PTO’s numbers from September 2013 with June 2013 (at my last numbers update).  Time to refer again to the PTO’s Data Visualization Center to see how ...

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ALJ Gildea Grants Motion to Enforce Order In Certain Microelectromechanical Systems (“MEMS Devices”) (337-TA-876) from www.itcblog.com

On September 30, 2013, ALJ E. James Gildea issued the public version of Order No. 28 (dated September 18, 2013) in Certain Microelectromechanical Systems (“MEMS Devices”) and Products Containing the Same (Inv. No. 337-TA-876).  In ...

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Limiting Prior Art References to One Per Patent Claim Was Clear Error from docketreport.blogspot.com

The court granted defendant's motion to reconsider an earlier order limiting defendant to 20 prior art references where plaintiff was allowed to assert 18 claims. "The court concludes that it committed clear error in ...

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Inovia Tops PCT Survey Once Again from info.inovia.com

In late September, Managing Intellectual Property magazine posted the results of their 2013 PCT Survey, which ranks the top Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) firms by their number of applications coming due for national stage entry ...

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Apple seeks to broaden U.S. import ban against Samsung through Federal Circuit appeal from www.fosspatents.com

The import ban Apple won in August against Samsung's Android-based devices infringing certain patents has just entered into force, and meanwhile Apple is trying to broaden its victory. I just found out (because I ...

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Invention Talk: Patent Drawings from www.patentbaristas.com

Unless your invention is similar to a chemical compound or other, non-visual composition, you will need to do patent drawings. These drawings are not only beneficial in documenting your invention; they are a necessity in ...

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Patentgate: Judge denies Samsung motions, finds disclosures "improper", cover-up "inexcusable" from www.fosspatents.com

Yesterday I wrote that Judge Koh appeared "underwhelmed" by a couple of Samsung motions designed to delay the investigation into the Patentgate scandal and predicted a denial of those motions. Indeed, the denial came down ...

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