Patent & IP news for December 26, 2013

Banking on IP? Apparently not, UK Intellectual Property Office study finds from ipkitten.blogspot.com

The AmeriKat getting her teeth into some bankingIn November the UK Intellectual Property Office (IPO) published a study entitled "Banking on IP? The role of intellectual property and intangible assets in facilitating business finance ...

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Fix Copyright! group set up to ask you how to review EU copyright from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Burt could not wait to open
 his Christmas presentVia a most precious Katfriend comes the news that a new interest group - called Fix Copyright! and composed of a large number of interest groups from ...

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Thursday thingies from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Alice Cooper: with
friends like this ...Weatherley in Westminster.  The IPKat has learned from a US-based PR agency that British Member of Parliament Mike Weatherley just had an article published in the latest WIPO Magazine ...

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How long does patent and trademark prosecution take? (2013 edition) from ipspotlight.com

Each year, the USPTO releases a Performance and Accountability Report with useful statistics about allowance rates, average pendency, and other details in patent and trademark prosecution matters.  Last week, the USPTO released its Performance and ...

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Claim Construction of Patents-in-Suit in Prior Litigation Precludes Further Construction Absent Convincing Argument from docketreport.blogspot.com

The court ordered the parties to submit additional briefing addressing whether claim construction of the patents-in-suit in a prior lawsuit precluded further construction of those claims. "[B]oth [patents-in-suit] were the subject of a previous ...

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Guest Post: So what if a True Invention Uses a Computer! from www.patentlyo.com

Guest Post by Martin Goetz In the Alice vs. CLS Bank case that is before the Supreme Court the question by Alice is "Whether claims to computer-implemented inventions – including claims to systems and machines, processes ...

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ALJ Essex Sets 15-Month Target Date In Certain Windshield Wipers (337-TA-902) from www.itcblog.com

Further to our November 25, 2013 post, on December 23, 2013, ALJ Theodore R. Essex issued Order No. 4 in Certain Windshield Wipers and Components Thereof (Inv. No. 337-TA-902). According to the Order, ALJ Essex ...

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