Patent & IP news for October 21, 2013

The Mordor the Merrier, or why your local pub can be hobbit-forming from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Wise after the event:
"You and your SatNav! I told you
the pub was in the other direction ..." Have you ever wondered where Europe's wisest professionals, our friends the patent attorneys, go when they ...

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The new Community trade mark top-up: a call for debate from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Class headings as viewed
by the European Commission If there were Oscars for sheer persistence in the face of apathy, indifference and downright hostility, Richard Ashmead would be in line for one following his sustained ...

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Monday miscellany from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Around the weblogs.  First, a couple of milestones: the SPC Blog, which focuses on the narrow if infinitely contentious topic of patent term extensions, has now topped the 1,800 mark for email subscribers.  And ...

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Green Off-Patent Report (Powered by CleanTech PatentEdge) from www.greenpatentblog.com

Our Green Off-Patent Report provides highlights of selected green patents that have completed their 20-year terms and recently expired or will complete their terms and expire within the next week or so (assuming the patentee ...

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It’s Back To The Future For The EPO Divisional Application Deadline Rules from www.pharmapatentsblog.com

The EPO has announced that it is changing the EPO divisional application deadline rules to eliminate the current 24-month deadline for filing divisional applications, and permit the filing of a divisional application as long as ...

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It’s Back To The Future For The EPO Divisional Application Deadline Rules from www.pharmapatentsblog.com

The EPO has announced that it is changing the EPO divisional application deadline rules to eliminate the current 24-month deadline for filing divisional applications, and permit the filing of a divisional application as long as ...

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Specification Requiring 3,000+ Hours of Experimentation Does Not Enable Claims from docketreport.blogspot.com

The court granted defendant's motion for summary judgment of invalidity as to plaintiff's online analytical processing cube ("OLAP") patents for lack of enablement. "Relying on [the inventor's] own representations, [defendant] calculates that ...

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Prior Art Searches from inventivestep.net

A question that is often asked by new inventors is:  should I do a prior art search before filing a patent application?  The answer, as in most areas of law and life in general, is ...

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Keurig can’t lock up single-use coffee cartridge market due to patent exhaustion from ocpatentlawyer.com

Judge rules that Keurig can’t lock up the single-use coffee cartridge market Keurig has  a number of patents directed to its single self serve coffee makers.  These patents cover the coffee maker and the ...

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Appellant wins at PTAB in WACHTFOGEL from ipbiz.blogspot.com

The appellant wins in Ex parte WACHTFOGEL


Appellants raise several arguments
in response to the rejection,
including that one of ordinary skill in
the art would not have been motivated
by Koza to modify the ...

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Unexpected results argument fails in Ex parte Taylor from ipbiz.blogspot.com

Ex parte Taylor

**As to teaching away


This argument is not persuasive. Wh
ile it is true that Anand states
that genetically modifying an antibody
to fuse it to an antigen overcomes
some disadvantages of ...

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Appellant AUBRUN-SONNEVILLE wins obviousness case from ipbiz.blogspot.com


Ex parte ODILE AUBRUN-SONNEVILLE

As to anticipation


To achieve a composition meeting all of the limitations of claim 1,
however, a skilled worker would have to
choose parleam oil from the list of
preferred oils ...

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EPO Confirm Changes to Divisional and Supplementary Search Rules from www.patentbaristas.com

Following our updates on the proposed change to the divisional deadline rule (Sept 2013 & Oct 2013), the EPO Administrative Council has now confirmed that this change will become law. From 1 April 2014, the new ...

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ITC Institutes Investigation (337-TA-896) Regarding Certain Thermal Support Devices For Infants from www.itcblog.com

On September 30, 2013, the U.S. International Trade Commission issued a press release announcing their vote to institute an investigation of Certain Thermal Support Devices For Infants, Infant Incubators, Infant Warmers, and Components Thereof ...

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Board reverse portion not entire from allthingspros.blogspot.com

Takeaway: The Applicant appealed claims to a bookbinding system. One of the limitations at issue was "locally heating the adhesive strip to selectively melt a portion of the adhesive on the adhesive strip." The Applicant ...

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Myriad Sues GeneDx on BRCA and Other Genetic Diagnostic Patents from www.patentdocs.org

By Kevin E. Noonan -- After a brief hiatus that saw Counsyl and Quest Diagnostics file declaratory judgment actions in alternate venues, Myriad has filed yet another lawsuit against a genetic diagnostics company that brought its ...

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