Patent & IP news for November 5, 2013

Rock'n’roll and a hard place: Can Kelly Van Halen register her name as a trade mark? from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Kelly Van Halen There may be just a few topics (of conversation) that are more enticing than trade marks and surnames. This is why the IPKat is happy to host a guest contribution from young ...

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Standards, FRAND, NPEs & Injunctions Conference: Part 1 from ipkitten.blogspot.com


Another conference held in the
comfy Denys Lecture Theatre This guest Kat is delighted to attend the two-day conference jointly organized by Taylor Wessing and IBIL and held in the Denys Holland lecture Theatre in ...

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Is counterfeiting a real problem -- or a fake one? Two more responses from ipkitten.blogspot.com

"Is counterfeiting a real problem -- or a fake one?" asked Ashley Roughton (Special IP Counsel with Pillsbury), here, back on 18 October: his piece was provoked by some of the usual arguments raised on the ...

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Standards, FRAND, NPE’s & Injunctions Conference. Part 2 from ipkitten.blogspot.com


Second part of this conference jointly held by Taylor Wessing and IBIL.
Unfortunately, this guestKat did not get the chance to attend the rest of the topics today. These were “Injunctions – The Industry view” and ...

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News from Abroad: The Patents Court Considers the Appropriate Scope for Cross-Undertakings from www.patentdocs.org

Actavis v Boehringer [2013] EWHC 2927 related to a dispute over the combination of telmisartan and hydrochlorothiazide, which was marketed by Boehringer and protected by an SPC. Actavis wanted to sell the combination product and ...

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Goodlatte Proposes An Obviousness Type Double Patenting Statute from www.pharmapatentsblog.com

Many thanks to my colleague Andrew Baluch for his contributions to this article. One of the provisions of the Innovation Act introduced by Congressman Goodlatte (R-VA) on October 23, 2014, purports to codify the doctrine ...

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Amicus Curiae Briefs in Medtronic v. Boston Scientific – Legal Scholars Support Medtronic; Tessera Supports Vacatur and Remand from www.patentdocs.org

By Andrew Williams -- The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Medtronic Inc. v. Boston Scientific Corp. on Tuesday, November 5, 2013. The sole issue to be determined is whether the burden of proof shifts ...

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Goodlatte Proposes An Obviousness Type Double Patenting Statute from www.pharmapatentsblog.com

Many thanks to my colleague Andrew Baluch for his contributions to this article. One of the provisions of the Innovation Act introduced by Congressman Goodlatte (R-VA) on October 23, 2014, purports to codify the doctrine ...

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Judge adopts Apple's proposed jury verdict form for next week's damages retrial in Samsung case from www.fosspatents.com

We're one week away from the limited damages retrial in the first Apple v. Samsung litigation in the Northern District of California. Yesterday Judge Lucy Koh, the federal judge presiding over this case (and ...

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“Hourly Rates, Total Hours, and Total Fees” May Not Be Submitted Under Seal from docketreport.blogspot.com

The court denied without prejudice defendant's motion to file under seal declarations in support of its motion for attorneys' fees. "The Court is unable to hold that good cause exists on the submitted papers ...

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Google accuses ITC of 'arbitrary and capricious' ruling on Motorola complaint against Microsoft from www.fosspatents.com

A few months after the Nortel patent auction, which Google lost, the search company acquired Motorola Mobility in hopes of gaining leverage from its patents. At this point, well over two years after the announcement ...

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Pride and Percentages: Copyright Term Limits and Payments to Authors in the Romantic Period from www.iposgoode.ca

In common law countries, the term of protection granted by copyright has been steadily growing ever since its advent in the eighteenth century, yet the benefits of these term extensions has been vigorously debated. A ...

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Apple joins Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Facebook, LinkedIn in opposing U.S. government 'gag orders' from www.fosspatents.com

I usually don't blog about data privacy issues, though I'm a native and resident of a country in which there's historically been a lot of interest in the topic. But I've ...

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ALJ Gildea Issues Public Version Of Initial Determination In Certain Wireless Consumer Electronics Devices (337-TA-853) from www.itcblog.com

On October 24, 2013, ALJ James E. Gildea issued the public versions (dated September 6, 2013) of his Initial Determination (“ID”) and Recommended Determination (“RD”) on remedy and bond in Certain Wireless Consumer Electronics Devices ...

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CBS Nightly News covers Ranbaxy fraud from ipbiz.blogspot.com


From CBS Evening News on Nov. 5, 2013:


In 2004, Ranbaxy executive Dinesh Thakur was asked by his boss to investigate allegations of fraud at the company. Thakur quickly uncovered disturbing problems with the data ...

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"The isolated protein of 6,268,480 " from ipbiz.blogspot.com


Appellee Pfizer wins interference against appeal by Sanofi


In accordance with the
applicable
law,
3
the
patent is
awarded to the first party to conceive and reduce
to
practice
the invention
represented by
the interference ...

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