Patent & IP news for November 6, 2013

Do the Joinder Provisions of the AIA Encourage a Race for Early Claim Construction? from www.grayonclaims.com

After the America Invents Act ("AIA") went into effect, plaintiffs could no longer join multiple unrelated defendants in a single patent litigation on the sole basis that each defendant allegedly infringed in the patent-in-suit.  See ...

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Standards, FRAND, NPEs & Injunctions Conference: Final part from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Here's a report on the second day of the IBIL/Taylor Wessing conference about Standards, FRAND, NPEs & Injunctions (click here and here to read the notes on Parts 1 and 2). 

Due to a ...

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Wednesday whimsies from ipkitten.blogspot.com

It's not just judges who have
to struggle to keep a straight face ... Some applicants just don't appeal to women ... A couple of weeks ago, in "I'll be back!" But he never ...

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Nokia's rights not exhausted - and neither is the IPKat from ipkitten.blogspot.com

This Kat was travelling last week when Mr Justice Arnold handed down the decision in HTC Corporation v Nokia ([2013] EWHC 3247 (Pat)), and has only now had a chance to read it.  It is ...

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Pharmacists and personalized medicines: the Italian Supreme Court on the 'galenical exception' from patlit.blogspot.com

The Corte di Cassazione
© Agostino Scudieri With a decision of 23 September 2013, the Italian Supreme Court (Corte di Cassazione) examined the 'galenical exception' (also known as 'galenical exemption'), which allows pharmacists to manufacture and ...

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Twitter: Patent Infringement and Genericide in 140 Characters from ipkitten.blogspot.com

 Merpel is more interested in Twitter's
mascot than the service itself... As Twitter prepares to go public this week through an IPO, it faces two IP challenges: defense of a patent infringement claim and ...

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Patent Eligible Subject Matter in the District Courts: Ariosa Genetics v. Sequenom (N.D. Cal. 2013) from www.patentdocs.org

By Kevin E. Noonan -- Last Wednesday, Judge Susan Illston of the Northern District of California granted summary judgment to declaratory judgment plaintiff Ariosa Diagnostics Inc. in Ariosa Diagnostics v. Sequenom. The legal basis of the ...

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Patent Eligible Subject Matter in the District Courts: Ariosa Genetics v. Sequenom (N.D. Cal. 2013) from www.patentdocs.org

By Kevin E. Noonan -- Last Wednesday, Judge Susan Illston of the Northern District of California granted summary judgment to declaratory judgment plaintiff Ariosa Diagnostics Inc. in Ariosa Diagnostics v. Sequenom. The legal basis of the ...

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Exhausting Method Claims from www.patentlyo.com

By Dennis Crouch LifeScan v. Shasta Tech (Fed. Cir. 2013) The doctrine of patent exhaustion is something of a mess following the Supreme Court case of Quanta Computer, Inc. v. LG Electronics, Inc., 553 U ...

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Dell, Ford, Google and HP file submissions to up the ante for patent trolls at the ITC from www.fosspatents.com

Google, HP, Ford and Dell have filed statements (which are not themselves publicly accessible, but which are referenced by a public filing by Nokia, Huawei and ZTE) in connection with an ITC investigation of a ...

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ITU Gets Involved In Intellectual Property Protection from www.ip-watch.org

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has announced a workshop in Ukraine next year aimed at fighting counterfeit technology products, representing a notable foray into intellectual property rights protection by the UN agency.Related Articles:

• ITU ...

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CETA: A Very Reasonable Canadian-esque Compromise on Pharmaceutical Intellectual Property Law Changes from www.iposgoode.ca

At long last, the Canadian Federal Government and the European Commission announced in October that a political agreement has been reached regarding the much anticipated Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA). Although the full-text of ...

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A Moral Right to Graffiti? from www.iposgoode.ca

A group of high-profile New York aerosol artists is attempting to invoke a seldom-used US statutory provision to prevent the destruction of a collection of buildings containing its works of graffiti. The buildings known as ...

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Summary of Oral Argument in Medtronic v. Boston Scientific by Prof. La Belle from www.patentlyo.com

Guest Post by Megan M. La Belle, Assistant Professor at Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law Yesterday, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in Medtronic v. Boston Scientific, the first patent case of ...

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WHO Gathers R&D Projects For Developing Countries Ahead Of December Meeting from www.ip-watch.org

Years-old efforts by members of the World Health Organization to come up with viable ways to boost research and development of medical products for diseases primarily affecting poor populations are coming to head, with a ...

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Modernising (Irish) Copyright Katseries #3: fair use, Irish-style from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Following last week's katposts on proposed innovation exception (here) and provisions on linking and marshalling (here), it is now the turn of the proposal for a fair use exception contained in the recent Report ...

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Inovia Founder Recognized for Achievements in Entrepreneurism by the Pearcey Foundation from info.inovia.com

Justin Simpson recently received the special recognition award for his contributions to entrepreneurism and the technology community in New South Wales. We are proud to announce that inovia company founder, patent attorney Justin Simpson, has ...

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UGC under Canadian Copyright Law Symposium Videos from www.iposgoode.ca

IP Osgoode would like to thank everyone who participated in our “User Generated Content under Canadian Copyright Law Symposium” on October 10, 2013 at Osgoode Hall Law School.  The symposium discussed the new UGC copyright ...

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ALJ Gildea Sets Procedural Schedule In Certain Flash Memory Chips (337-TA-893) from www.itcblog.com

Further to our September 9, 2013 and September 11, 2013 posts, on November 5, 2013, ALJ E. James Gildea issued Order No. 5 in Certain Flash Memory Chips and Products Containing Same (Inv. No. 337-TA-893 ...

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Review: Prisoners of Hope: How engineers and Others Get Lift for Innovating from sharpip.blogspot.com

Prisoners of Hope: How Engineers and Others Get Lift for Innovating by Larry Vincent is an unusual book on innovation that I found to be a refreshing guide to strengthening innovation with great practical value ...

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