Patent & IP news for November 7, 2013

Felines jumping from OHIM to General Court: puma and designs from ipkitten.blogspot.com

On 27 March 2007, Danuta Budziewska applied for the following Community design for “logos” in Class 32, which was registered on 2 May 2007.
On 26 February 2009, Puma AG Rudolf Dassler Sport filed an ...

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Patentability and the Issue of Obviousness from www.lotempiolaw.com

What exactly is obvious? Patent attorneys and independent inventors alike are aware of the standards of patentability; the invention must be (1) new, (2) useful, and (3) non-obvious. Common sense dictates the first two standards ...

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Attorney General Roundtable on Patent Trolls to be Held in NYC from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Did someone say "Patent Troll"? What (if anything) should be done about "patent trolls" from a regulatory and patent law perspective?  Much has been debated on this topic over the past year (including, among only ...

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Intangibles and 3Q2013 GDP from www.athenaalliance.org

Good economic news. This morning advance estimate of GDP for 3rd quarter 2013 from BEA show a healthy 2.8% growth rate. Economists had expected a slowdown from last quarter with only a 2% growth ...

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News from Abroad: Further Referral by UK Patents Court to CJEU on Interpretation of SPC Regulation for Combination Products from www.patentdocs.org

The UK Patents Court recently issued a judgement which referred four questions to the CJEU in the case Actavis Group v Boehringer Ingelheim that aim to clarify how the SPC Regulation ought to be interpreted ...

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Federal Circuit Holds Full Sequence Not Required For Invention Of DNA from www.pharmapatentsblog.com

In Sanofi-Aventis v. Pfizer, Inc., the Federal Circuit affirmed the USPTO’s determination that Pfizer had proven an earlier date of invention of the DNA sequence at issue, even though it did not have the ...

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Federal Circuit Holds Full Sequence Not Required For Invention Of DNA from www.pharmapatentsblog.com

In Sanofi-Aventis v. Pfizer, Inc., the Federal Circuit affirmed the USPTO’s determination that Pfizer had proven an earlier date of invention of the DNA sequence at issue, even though it did not have the ...

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Bits & Bytes from Jonathan Hummel from www.patentlyo.com

RECENTLY #1. Paradigm: Intellectual Property as an Asset? Our friends over at IPKat posted a great article about how the private sector might view intellectual property. The author compares a business centric definition of “asset ...

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Tortoise Innovation: The Problem with Corporations (and Their Inventors) Hiding in a Shell from sharpip.blogspot.com


Many large companies take a tortoise approach to innovation and stay as hidden within their shells as possible, even some who advocate open innovation. Tortoise companies may have creative R&D; staff, including many scientists ...

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The Landscape of Proposed Patent Law Amendments – A Comparative Look from www.patentlyo.com

Guest Post by Professor Jorge L. Contreras As Dennis Crouch has recently reported here, a plethora of bills has been introduced in Congress this term to address various perceived problems with the patent system and ...

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No Privilege for “Litigation Funding Agreement” from docketreport.blogspot.com

The court granted defendants' motion to compel the production of a litigation funding agreement and rejected plaintiff's claim that the agreement was privileged. "[Plaintiff] maintains that ownership of the [patent-in-suit] and who is funding ...

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Ownership Dispute Undermines Common Interest Privilege from docketreport.blogspot.com

The court granted in part defendant's motion to compel the production of documents withheld as privileged. "Plaintiffs maintain that communications between [an individual plaintiff and his brother] pertaining to litigation strategy or advice of ...

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The PTO’s Authority to Overrule Court Decisions from inventivestep.net

The Federal Circuit has denied a petition for rehearing en banc on the question of whether the PTO has the authority to overrule district court and Federal Circuit decisions.  Fresenius USA, Inc. v. Baxter Int ...

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When the Internet Has a Party, Everyone’s Invited: IP Law Issues at the Internet Governance Forum 2013 from www.iposgoode.ca

There is a little-known place in the world where you can approach absolutely anyone—a Brazilian federal minister or WIPO legal officer; a policy manager at Google or the world’s leading cybersecurity expert; an ...

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Senators appear determined to take measures against deceptive demand letters by patent trolls from www.fosspatents.com

The current U.S. patent reform debate involves many different proposals, but most of them aren't closely related to the specific problem of "patent trolls", which merely serve as a bogeyman and pretext in ...

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Expert: US ‘Benign Dictatorship’ Of The Net Is Over; Age Of Encryption Begins from www.ip-watch.org

Cypto-guru Bruce Schneier, who has analysed thousands of documents provided by Edward Snowden on the secret surveillance programmes of the US National Security Agency, has called on the technical community to add encryption to the ...

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US Chamber Event To Rally Support For Trade Deals, Patent Litigation Bill from www.ip-watch.org

A US Chamber of Commerce Global Intellectual Property Center (GIPC) event tomorrow will include efforts to bring industry forces closer together to get congressional support for the nearly completed Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement and for ...

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FSFE On Rockstar vs. Google: “Software Patents As A License For Privateering” from www.ip-watch.org

The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) today issued a warning about the rise of Rockstar, a consortium of large companies such as Microsoft, Apple and Sony, formed to assert former Nortel patents. The consortium recently ...

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Another Fun Statistical Squabble Over Book of Mormon Origins from sharpip.blogspot.com

Hot dog! An intriguing statistical squabble is underway in Mormondom. You can dig into the details in Benjamin L. McGuire's excellent article, "The Late War Against the Book of Mormon" over at one of ...

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ITC Institutes Investigation (337-TA-898) Regarding Certain Marine Sonar Imaging Devices from www.itcblog.com

On November 6, 2013, the U.S. International Trade Commission issued a press release announcing their vote to institute an investigation of Certain Marine Sonar Imaging Devices, Products Containing the Same, and Components Thereof (Inv ...

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Presenting TM5: An Interview With The Korean Director Of Trademark And Design from www.ip-watch.org

Seong-Joon Park is the director general of the Trademark & Design Examination Bureau at the Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO). He sat down this week with Intellectual Property Watch to present TM5, a joint global initiative ...

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