Patent & IP news for December 6, 2013

Friday fantasies from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Not everything the Kats find themselves reading can ever be described as enjoyable, but this Kat still chortles over some of the entries in the multi-talented and always charming Colm MacKernan's International Technology Law ...

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A closer look at the public consultation on the review of EU copyright rules from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Wait a moment:
Another consultation on copyright?!As the IPKat announced, yesterday the EU Commission launched a Public Consultation on the Review of EU Copyright Rules.
The stated objective of this consultation is to see ...

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November employment from www.athenaalliance.org

November looks like has been a relatively good month for the US labor market. This morning, the BLS announced that total nonfarm payroll employment grew by 203,000 and the unemployment rate dropped by 0 ...

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Causal nexus required to show irreparable injury for an injunction from ocpatentlawyer.com

Causal nexus required to show irreparable injury for an injunction In Apple v. Samsung (Fed. Cir. Nov. 18, 2013), the Federal Circuit upheld most of the lower court’s decision that Apple failed to show ...

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Innovation, invention, or tasty breakfast treat? from ipspotlight.com

This week Wall Street Journal columnist Dennis Berman posed an interesting question:  ”Is Peanut Butter Pop-Tart an ‘Innovation’?”  In the article, Berman described the skyrocketing use – and likely overuse — of the word “innovation” by many ...

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IP Academics as Lobbyists: Just So? from ipkitten.blogspot.com

The end of November was not only marked in the U.S. by Thanksgiving, Black Friday and Cyber Monday. As many Kat readers probably took note, on 25 November a group of 60 law IP ...

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Capturing the Consumer Surplus through Downstream licensing and Infringement Lawsuits from www.patentlyo.com

by Dennis Crouch Downstream users have been increasingly subject to patent infringement lawsuits even when the product manufacturer would seemingly have been a more natural and focused target. Many assign nefarious intent to these downstream ...

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Innovation Act Passed by House -- A Closer Examination from www.patentdocs.org

By Andrew Williams -- As we reported earlier today, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 3309, the Innovation Act, by a 325 - 91 vote. There was support for the bill from both parties, with 195 ...

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Google's Motorola defends choice of Federal Circuit as appellate forum for FRAND appeal from www.fosspatents.com

Last month Judge James Robart of the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington certified Microsoft's FRAND contract win over Google's Motorola Mobility, which Google immediately appealed to the Federal ...

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Apple demands $15 million in legal fees from Samsung, spent over $60M on California case from www.fosspatents.com

In the U.S. patent reform context, "loser pays"-type fee-shifting is a hot topic (see this Bloomberg article on "Three Issues to Watch as the Senate Targets Patent Trolls", which contains a quote from ...

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Innovation Act Passes House from inventivestep.net

Yesterday, the House of Representatives passed the Innovation Act, H.R. 3309, by a vote of 325-91.  The bill now heads to the Senate where a similar bill, the Patent Transparency and Improvements Act, S ...

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Friday Foreign Filing Roundup from info.inovia.com

Good morning.  Below, we have included the latest updates in foreign patent filing news for the week of December 2nd: Google is quickly amassing a large numbers of tech patents, as this year they are ...

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Failure to Apportion Royalty Base to Infringing Features Warrants Exclusion of Expert Report and Testimony from docketreport.blogspot.com

The court granted defendant's motion to exclude the report and testimony of plaintiff's damages expert for failing to apportion defendant's revenue to the two features causing the alleged infringement. "Of course, the ...

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Detailed analysis of Federal Circuit hearing in Oracle v. Google: copyrightability out of question from www.fosspatents.com

This week's -- actually, this year's -- most important development on the smartphone IP front was the reversal of fortunes in the Oracle v. Google Android-Java copyright litigation. Independent reporters who attended the hearing agreed ...

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An Interview with James Williams and Michael Power: Putting Privacy and Data Protection Under the Lens from www.iposgoode.ca

The course Comparative Law: Privacy and Data Protection is offered this coming term at Osgoode Law School. IP Osgoode interviewed the course co-professors, James Williams (Osgoode site, personal site) and Michael Power (Osgoode site, personal ...

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NJIPLA to Host the 27th Annual Pharmaceutical / Chemical Patent Practice Update from www.iplawalert.com

On Wednesday, December 11, the New Jersey Intellectual Property Association will host the 27th Annual Pharmaceutical / Chemical Patent Practice Update at the Woodbridge Hilton in Iselin, NJ. This seminar will cover a range of important ...

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Is Software Patentable?: Supreme Court to Decide from www.patentlyo.com

By Dennis Crouch 50-years on, we still don't have the answer as to whether computer programs are patentable. The Supreme Court has granted a writ of certiorari in the software patent case of ALICE ...

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On the Present and Future of Green Patent Litigation from www.greenpatentblog.com

Law360 recently published an article assessing the state of renewable energy patent litigation.  Entitled “Clean Energy Patent Boom Sets Stage For IP Wars,” the gist of the piece is that there has been little patent ...

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Candidates From Australia, Africa, Latin America, Europe To Vie For WIPO Director Seat from www.ip-watch.org

The names are in: four candidates will compete to be the next director general of the UN World Intellectual Property Organization. In addition to Australia’s nomination of incumbent Francis Gurry to lead for a ...

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Supreme Court Grants Cert. in Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank Intl. from www.patentdocs.org

By Michael Borella -- Today the Supreme Court granted certiorari in Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank Intl., opening the door once again for the Justices to further carve out the landscape of patent-eligible software and business ...

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Experts At WHO Select Eight Projects To Boost Medical R&D For Developing Countries from www.ip-watch.org

A group of experts summoned to select projects presenting innovative ways to foster research and development of medical products for diseases primarily affecting developing countries at the World Health Organization this week finished their work ...

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