Patent & IP news for November 17, 2013

TPP leak: a peep at the General Provisions from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Not so secret.  Our first assessment of the Wikileaked text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership covered copyright.  Now the IPKat is pleased to welcome another guest, Alberto Bellan, who will be covering two aspects of the ...

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PTAB Backlog from www.patentlyo.com

By Dennis Crouch After an examiner twice-rejects a patent application, the applicant can then appeal that case to the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). The appeal process has a number of problems, one of ...

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Guest Post by Prof. Risch: Functionality and Graphical User Interface Design Patents from www.patentlyo.com

Guest Post by Michael Risch, Professor of Law, Villanova University School of Law Read the whole draft here, forthcoming in the Stanford Tech. L. Rev. Before I was a patent guy, I was a copyright ...

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A closer look at the Google Books Library Project decision from ipkitten.blogspot.com

As was promptly announced by the IPKat, last Thursday Judge Denny Chin of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York [yep, the same one who rejected the proposed settlement agreement in ...

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Written Description Woes from www.717madisonplace.com

In the recent  oral argument of Finn v. Rea, App. No. 2012-1635 (Fed. Cir. Oct. 16, 2013) a panel of the Federal Circuit once again dealt with a written description issue.  The panel confronted the ...

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Conference & CLE Calendar from www.patentdocs.org

November 17-20, 2013 - Creating and Leveraging Intellectual Property in Developing Countries: A Power Tool for Social and Economic Growth*** (Companies and IP Commission and National IP Management Office of South Africa) - Durban, South Africa November ...

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