Patent & IP news for November 12, 2013

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post image Licences for Europe: another insider's report from the UGC WG from ipkitten.blogspot.com

EU copyright fans can't wait for the Final Plenary
of Licences for Europe
As fans of all things EU copyright will perfectly know, tomorrow will be the day when the final plenary meeting to ...

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post image A New Captain of the Enterprise: Richard Hacon officially announced as new IPEC judge from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Yet another IP judge called Richard :
Richard Hacon - the new IPEC judge
The rumors were true.   This morning, after months of speculation and gossip, it was officially announced that the Queen has appointed  Richard David ...

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post image The Internet never forgets? BGH allows the publication of the name and age of the underage child of a celebrity from ipkitten.blogspot.com

The underage adopted daughter “M” of the famous German TV presenter Günther Jauch has to tolerate press coverage about her person, including details of her first name and age, the German Federal Court of Justice ...

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post image Germany tops the pops in GIPI 4 assessment from patlit.blogspot.com

The fourth report of the Global Intellectual Property Index (GIPI 4), produced by the Z/Yen Group with support from the City of London Corporation, has just been launched at the London office of sponsoring ...

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post image Guest Post - PAEs under the Microscope: An Empirical Investigation of Patent Holders as Litigants from www.patentlyo.com

Guest Post by Christopher A. Cotropia, Professor of Law and Austin Owen Research Fellow, University of Richmond School of Law; Jay P. Kesan, Professor and H. Ross & Helen Workman Research Scholar, University of Illinois College ...

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post image Another "trade mark v design" case from the General Court from ipkitten.blogspot.com

The General Court recently decided on the invalidity of a registered Community design  (“RCD”) which is intended to be incorporated into cleaning devices (see below)  based on a likelihood of confusion with an 3D Community ...

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Substantial Evidence Rule Kills PTAB Appeals from www.patentlyo.com

by Dennis Crouch In re Haase (Fed. Cir. 2013) In a nonprecedential decision, the Federal Circuit has affirmed a PTO rejection of Richard Haase's pending water purification patent application No. 10/413,849. Although ...

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NIH Declines to Exercise March-in Rights over Abbott Laboratories' Norvir® from www.patentdocs.org

By Kevin E. Noonan -- Last week, the National Institutes of Health denied a petition from a coalition of "public interest" groups who petitioned the agency to exercise so-called "march-in rights" under provisions of the Bayh-Dole ...

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Significant Changes Under Patent Law Treaty Take Effect December 18, 2013 from www.pharmapatentsblog.com

As Congress continues to propose new legislation to “improve” the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (AIA), practitioners and stakeholders must not forget that significant law and rule changes implementing the Patent Law Treaty of 2000 (PLT ...

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Losing obviousness arguments: Graham factors, TSM, and articulated rationale from allthingspros.blogspot.com

Summary: When fighting an obviousness rejection, some Applicants argue the "formalities" of the rejection instead of, or in addition to, the merits of the rejection. The argument most readily identifiable as aimed at formalities and ...

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Significant Changes Under Patent Law Treaty Take Effect December 18, 2013 from www.pharmapatentsblog.com

As Congress continues to propose new legislation to “improve” the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (AIA), practitioners and stakeholders must not forget that significant law and rule changes implementing the Patent Law Treaty of 2000 (PLT ...

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IBM's US Patent 8,549,125 criticized from ipbiz.blogspot.com

The Register rips IBM over US Patent 8,549,125, stating


We think that means IBM will route workloads to nodes that offer the most energy-efficient processing opportunity. That's an idea sometimes described as ...

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GIPI 4 now published: UK regains top spot from Germans, but only just from ipkitten.blogspot.com

The fourth, largest and most complete report on the Global Intellectual Property Index, compiled by the Z/Yen Group in cooperation with the City of London Corporation, was launched this morning in the London premises ...

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McDonald's: “an obsession with Starbucks’ business model.” from ipbiz.blogspot.com

Within the post, one finds the text:


Of course, McDonald’s has undergone periods of strategic muddle in the past, namely when it belatedly recognized a decade ago that it was expanding too much in ...

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Senate Hearing on Patent Trolls from inventivestep.net

Last week, the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science & Transportation conducted a hearing on patent troll demand letters. The hearing was led by Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) who called patent assertion entities “bottom feeders.”  These entities ...

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The truth is neither the court nor the parties really wanted today's Apple-Samsung damages retrial from www.fosspatents.com

Déjà-vu. Today is Groundhog Day. Apple and Samsung square off in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California again, almost 15 months after their previous trial in the same court resulted ...

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No Attorneys’ Fee Award for Reexamination from docketreport.blogspot.com

The court denied defendant's motion for attorneys' fees under 35 U.S.C. § 285 for fees incurred during reexamination. "[Defendant] initiated the reexamination and obtained a stay of the litigation until the examiner’s ...

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“The Evil Will Be Punished”: Russia Establishes Federal Service For Copyright from www.ip-watch.org

This article provides an update on recent changes in the copyright legislative and regulatory framework in Russia, in particular, following up on the first decisions enforcing the recently introduced law against online video piracy and ...

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Winner case cited in Ex part Warnken from ipbiz.blogspot.com

The appellants lost in Ex parte Warnken


Note the text


Our reviewing court has recognized that a given course
of action often has simultaneous advantages and disadvantages, and this
does not necessarily obviate any or ...

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US Civil Society Demand To Know If They Were Spied On: ‘Core American Principles’ At Stake from www.ip-watch.org

Nearly 40 US civil society groups - including some household names in consumer protection - today sent a letter to the heads of the National Security Agency (NSA) and the Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR ...

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The Ever-Present Need for Canada’s ‘Digital Economy Strategy’ from www.iposgoode.ca

The 2013 Speech from the Throne seems like a distant memory. Ongoing allegations and revelations emanating from Canada’s Senate chamber have all but overshadowed the Government’s agenda, which Governor General David Johnston dutifully ...

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Article Distinguishes Green “Tech” IP and Green “Non-Tech” IP from www.greenpatentblog.com

A recent article written by Jonathan M.W.W. Chu and published in the Washington and Lee Journal of Energy, Climate, and the Environment takes another look at the role of intellectual property in green ...

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ITC Institutes Investigation (337-TA-900) Regarding Certain Navigation Products from www.itcblog.com

On November 8, 2013, the U.S. International Trade Commission issued a press release announcing their vote to institute an investigation of Certain Navigation Products, Including GPS Devices, Navigation and Display Systems, Radar Systems, Navigational ...

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ITC Institutes Investigation (337-TA-901) Regarding Certain Handheld Magnifiers from www.itcblog.com

On November 8, 2013, the U.S. International Trade Commission issued a press release announcing their vote to institute an investigation of Certain Handheld Magnifiers and Products Containing Same (Inv. No. 337-TA-901). The investigation is ...

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First Ever Judicial Interpretation of Biosimilar Patent Litigation Statute Results in Dismissal of DJ Action from www.orangebookblog.com

Sandoz v. Amgen and Hoffman-La Roche, No. 13-204 (N.D. Cal.) by Aaron F. Barkoff In what appears to be the first court decision interpreting the patent litigation provisions of the BPCIA (the "Biosimilar Act ...

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Canada’s IP Laws and the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA): Canada Got the Short End of the Proverbial Stick from www.iposgoode.ca

The outline of CETA has arrived – but its full text is still in transit. On what we know of the intellectual property aspects of CETA, Canada got the short end of the proverbial stick. The ...

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