Rep. Goodlatte Introduces “Innovation Act” from inventivestep.net After introducing several “discussion drafts” of his bill to curb abusive patent litigation tactics, Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) has now introduced the innocuously titled “Innovation Act,” H.R. 3309. This is his revision to the ...
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IP as an Asset: Really? from ipkitten.blogspot.com IP, like most everything else, has been prone to changes in public fashion. This Kat is (sadly) able to remember the status of IP prior before the 1980s, during which it was treated as a ...
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Apple wins patent lawsuit over WiLAN from www.lotempiolaw.com A federal jury in a patent-infringement trial, ruled Apple Inc. didn’t infringe Wi-Lan Inc patents. There were two patents at issue: no. RE37,802 that covers CDMA and HSPA data transmission, and no. 5 ...
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New Patent Laws (AIA) have been bad for independent inventors and start-ups from ocpatentlawyer.com New Patent Laws (AIA) have been bad for independent inventors and start-ups The America Invents Act (AIA) signed by President Obama in my opinion is not better for independent inventors. Here’s why. Under the ...
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Federal Circuit Finds Patent Exhaustion From Sale Of Keurig Coffee Machines from www.pharmapatentsblog.com In Keurig, Inc. v. Sturm Foods, Inc., the Federal Circuit upheld the district court’s decision that Keurig’s patent rights were exhausted by the sale of its machines, and so not infringed by the ...
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German court postpones Microsoft patent trial over Google Maps until March 2014 from www.fosspatents.com I just learned from a spokeswoman for the Munich I Regional Court that a Microsoft v. Google and Motorola Mobility patent retrial over Google Maps (the service as well as the Android client app) was ...
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Apple brings summary judgment motion against Google's Motorola regarding Qualcomm chips from www.fosspatents.com Yesterday Apple filed a summary judgment motion with the United States District Court for the Southern District of California (where Qualcomm is based) that is a major threat to Google's (Motorola Mobility's) ability ...
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Federal Circuit Finds Patent Exhaustion From Sale Of Keurig Coffee Machines from www.pharmapatentsblog.com In Keurig, Inc. v. Sturm Foods, Inc., the Federal Circuit upheld the district court’s decision that Keurig’s patent rights were exhausted by the sale of its machines, and so not infringed by the ...
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The Ambiguous Nature of Copyright Users’ Rights from www.iposgoode.ca Featured here is a summary of Pascale Chapdelaine’s paper, which was selected through blind peer review for the competitive 6th Annual Junior Scholars in Intellectual Property Workshop (Michigan State University, October 2013) where established ...
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Rehearing attempt in ALBRECHT fails from ipbiz.blogspot.com Ex parte ALBRECHTThe gist of appellants' arguments:
Appellants request rehearing, alleging first that
while Appellants do not dispute th
at the terms “wetting agent”
and “surfactant” can be synony
ms, Appellants do dispute that ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
Turmeric in Ayurvedic medicine as prior art from ipbiz.blogspot.com From
Ex parte Berkson
According to the Examiner, it would have been obvious to a person of
ordinary skill in the art at the time the
invention was made to have combined
curcumin and nitroglycerin ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
PTAB discusses declarations comprising legal conclusions in Ex parte KLINGEMANN from ipbiz.blogspot.com As in Wu, PTAB in
Ex parte Klingemann discusses declarations.
Of legal assertions in declarations, note
We note Appellant’s reliance
on the Klingemann Declaration, 6
which states that “there is no teaching, suggestion, or ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
The Incredible, Vanishing Internet (and the DMCA) from www.iposgoode.ca In the time that it takes you to read this paragraph Google will have removed eight sites from its search engine indexes. Sorry, make that forty. Having analyzed the numbers from Google’s latest Transparency ...
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Survey of Customer Usage of Accused Products Excluded as Unreliable from docketreport.blogspot.com The court granted defendant's motion to exclude the testimony of plaintiff's expert as to a survey "regarding consumer use of the accused . . . products." "[The expert's] survey was not constructed in a reliable ...
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Upcoming Fee Changes from www.patentlyo.com A new set of fees will become effective on January 1, 2014. Issue Fee Decrease: Issue fee: from $1,780 to $960 Reissue Fee: from $1,780 to $960 Design Issue Fee: from $1,020 ...
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Challenging the PTO’s NonAppealable Decisions to Grant or Deny Petitions for Inter Partes Review from www.patentlyo.com By Dennis Crouch In re MCM Portfolios LLC (Fed. Cir. 2013) In a recent post, I wrote briefly about statutory bar against appealing PTO decisions to grant or deny a request for inter partes review ...
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Next step in Patentgate proceedings: court review of select material Samsung withheld from Apple from www.fosspatents.com Ahead of the "Patentgate" hearing on Tuesday (on improper disclosures of secret Apple license agreements with Nokia, Ericsson, Sharp, and Philips) I had summarized the parties' positions. Media reports from the hearing were consistent with ...
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ITC Decides To Review Initial Determination In Certain Audiovisual Components (337-TA-837) from www.itcblog.com On October 17, 2013, the International Trade Commission (the “Commission”) issued a notice determining to review in its entirety the Initial Determination (“ID”) issued by ALJ David P. Shaw on July 18, 2013 finding a ...
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