Patent & IP news for December 10, 2013

Unforeseeable exception denied barring application of Doctrine of Equivalents from ocpatentlawyer.com

Unforeseeable exception denied barring application of Doctrine of Equivalents Integrated Technology Corporation (ITC) v. Rudolph (Fed. Cir. November 4, 2013) is a straightforward application of the  rule from the Festo case and its exceptions. Under ...

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Ideal Home v Ideal Home: built on shaky foundations? from ipkitten.blogspot.com

The English cat's ideal
home is his castle ...That which is ideal is often contrasted in laudatory terms with that which is merely real or practical.  However, there are times when the ideal is ...

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BREAKING NEWS: TPP postponed to next year from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Just a few days have passed since Wikileaks published the draft (secret) text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP, here), and even less since the IPKat and its friends provided an analysis of it (here ...

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Cut and run: avoiding categorisation and commonplace ideas in the medium of papercutting from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Dorothea ThompsonCan you infringe copyright in a papercut? Apparently the answer is yes, as Katfriend and young IP enthusiast Dorothea Thompson (Davenport Lyons) explains:
"A well-placed paper cut can be one of the more ...

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House of Representatives passes the Innovation Act from ipkitten.blogspot.com

The United States has been discussing reducing the activities of NPEs/PAEs/trolls through new legislation for a long time now. The SHIELD Act was already addressing this topic, and now the Innovation Act is ...

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Supreme Court: The Right to a Jury Trial on Obviousness from www.patentlyo.com

By Dennis Crouch Soverain v. Newegg (on petition for writ of certiorari) After a trial on the merits, Judge Davis (E.D.Tex.) found that the accused infringer (Newegg) had presented insufficient evidence of obviousness ...

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Reaction to the Passage of the Innovation Act (H.R. 3309) from www.patentdocs.org

By Andrew Williams -- As we reported last week, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 3309, the Innovation Act, by on overwhelming margin. A copy of the final bill can be found here. The next ...

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Statement From TPP Ministers Shows Agreement Near from www.ip-watch.org

Trade ministers of the 12 countries negotiating a Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement (TPP) today issued a statement signalling a breakthrough on the treaty. Early reports say agreement has been tentatively reached on the intellectual property chapter ...

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ALJ Bullock Finds Respondents In Default And Denies Motion To Terminate In Certain Tires (337-TA-894) from www.itcblog.com

On December 6, 2013, Chief ALJ Charles E. Bullock issued Order No. 15 and Order No. 17 in Certain Tires and Products Containing Same (Inv. No. 337-TA-894). According to Order No. 15, Complainants Toyo Tire ...

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Rule 11 No Substitute for Summary Judgment from docketreport.blogspot.com

The court denied without prejudice defendant's motion for Rule 11 sanctions. "[I]t is apparent that the Court would, in fact, need 'to get mired in a conflict over terms' to decide the present ...

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IPRs An Issue In Latest HIV Treatment Monitoring Test, Group Says from www.ip-watch.org

CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA - Intellectual property rights represent a hurdle to lower-priced, high quality tests of HIV treatment monitoring in developing countries, public health group Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF, Doctors without Borders) said today.Related ...

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WIPO GREEN Launches Interactive Marketplace for Green Technologies from www.greenpatentblog.com

A previous post, written by guest blogger Tim Stirrup, discussed the World Intellectual Property Organisation’s (WIPO) WIPO GREEN platform, an initiative that recently launched after operating for a while in pilot and test mode ...

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Top National Stage Entry Countries for 2013 from info.inovia.com

With the New Year fast approaching, it’s time once again to look at the top national stage filing destinations for our clients from the past year. In 2013, we retained our status as the ...

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Crowdfunding ‘Operation Ninja STAR’ Arms Small Business Against Patent ‘Trolls’ from www.ip-watch.org

Small businesses form the backbone of the American economy, but many see patent assertion entities (PAEs), or, “patent trolls” and troll lawsuits as serious wrenches thrown into these economic engines of innovation and ideas.So ...

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Concerns Raised To Global Fund Over Panel On Tiered Medicines Pricing from www.ip-watch.org

CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA - Public groups this week urged Mark Dybul, head of the Geneva-based Global Fund for HIV, Tuberculosis and Malaria, to reconsider the establishment of a panel to look at tiered pricing for ...

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Chisum on Patents: Abstract Ideas from www.patentlyo.com

Don Chisum on the CLS Bank case: The Supreme Court often intervenes to resolve splits among the various courts of appeal. Here a split exists within a circuit that the circuit itself is unable to ...

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WIPO Agrees To 2014-2015 Programme and Budget After Deal On External Offices from www.ip-watch.org

In the nick of time, the World Intellectual Property Organization has agreed on a budget for the new biennium - which starts in three weeks.Related Articles:

• Members Concerned Over WIPO 2014/2015 Programme, Budget; New ...

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