Patent & IP news for January 13, 2014

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post image Outsourcing your patent enforcement activities to a Non-Practicing Entity from ocpatentlawyer.com

Outsourcing your patent enforcement activities to a Non-Practicing Entity In Futurewei Tech. Inc. v. Acacia Research Corp (Fed. Cir. 2013), Access Co. Ltd. which owns a number of patents outsourced its patent enforcement activities to ...

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post image The EU Commission publishes the 4th Monitoring Report on Patent Settlements in the pharmaceutical sector: all is going well! from patlit.blogspot.com

On 9 December 2013, the EU Commission published its 4th Report on the Monitoring of Patent Settlements in the pharmaceutical sector. The Commission started its monitoring activity in 2009, following the Pharmaceutical Sector Inquiry, launched ...

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post image The Top Green IP Stories of 2013 from www.greenpatentblog.com

Before we turn to new green IP issues as they unfold in 2014, here is a look back at some of the top stories from 2013.   No. 7:  Green Patent PR Clean tech is competitive ...

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post image Imitation Without Knowledge: A Problem for Innovation and Potato Peelers from sharpip.blogspot.com

Pictured to the right is my potato peeler/fruit peeler which I purchased in Shanghai. It is dutifully based on the design of typical peelers long sold by Western companies. But I suspect this imitation ...

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post image Will pork rinds prove fatal for Redskins? from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Although she officially hung up her blogging katboots a week or so ago, there is no evidence of any diminution in recent guest Kat Miri Frankel's dedication -- or in her enthusiasm in pursuing the ...

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post image Square Pegs, Round Holes: Guest Post by Mark Janis and Jason Du Mont from www.patentlyo.com

Guest Post by Jason J. Du Mont, Microsoft IP Fellow at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law and Mark D. Janis, Robert A. Lucas Chair of Law at the Indiana University Maurer School of ...

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post image Guest Post on Pacific Coast Marine by Prof. Sarah Burstein from www.patentlyo.com

By Sarah Burstein, Associate Professor of Law at the University of Oklahoma College of Law Pacific Coast Marine Windshields, Ltd. v. Malibu Boats, LLC (Fed. Cir. 2014) Panel: Dyk (author), Chen, Mayer In this case ...

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post image Apple, Samsung fighting over question of continued infringement after August ITC ruling from www.fosspatents.com

Not only have Apple and Samsung appealed certain unfavorable parts of last year's ITC rulings on their complaints against each other (Apple is seeking a broader import ban while Samsung is still pursuing claims ...

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post image While AC says BC, CD beats AB: no interim order to stop fatal termination of IP licence from ipkitten.blogspot.com

When announcing the composition of the blogging team for the coming six months, the IPKat discreetly mentioned that we'd be getting some support from Paul England, particularly with anything a bit patent-y. Well, here ...

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First of two Google appeals of ITC dismissal of Motorola's patent complaint against Apple fails from www.fosspatents.com

On Friday (January 10, 2014), the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit rejected Google's (Motorola Mobility's) September 2012 appeal of an August 2012 ITC decision to toss all patents, except ...

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Monday miscellany from ipkitten.blogspot.com

A little "thank-you". We were thrilled with the response to last week's post, "The IPKat and his blogging friends: a 2014 update", here, in which we listed various IP-flavoured blogs with which members of ...

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No prima facie case of anticipation in Ex parte Ryan from ipbiz.blogspot.com

The appellants won reversal in Ex parte Ryan


We agree with Appellants that the Examiner has not set forth a prima facie case of anticipation. “It is well settled that a claim is anticipated if ...

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Playtex loses in re-exam of US 6,890,324 from ipbiz.blogspot.com

The PTAB decision in the appeal of re-exam 95/001,654 of the Playtex patent US 6,890,324 was mixed:


For the above reasons, we REVERSE the Examiner's decision to
reject claims 14 ...

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"The quality of a technology company’s patents, rather than volume, is the most important issue " from ipbiz.blogspot.com



From the Financial Times article titled Google catches up in technology patent wars :




Patent experts warn that the quality of a technology company’s patents, rather than volume, is the most important issue affecting its ...

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IP Intensive Program: Experiential Learning at Actavis from www.iposgoode.ca

My 10 week internship at Actavis’ Canadian arm (formerly known as Cobalt), through Osgoode’s IP Intensive Program coincided with a very exciting time for the company. The company recently expanded through a number of ...

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Event: The 6th Annual Corporate IP Counsel Forum from www.ip-watch.org

March 19-20, 2014 – Affinia Manhattan – New York City – www.worldcongress.com/corporateIPOptimize your IP portfolio. In this cross-industry event, the most timely and critical issues will be discussed and analyzed by senior counsel from ...

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Cases Implicating Section 101 for Computer-Implemented Inventions Stayed Pending Alice Corp. from docketreport.blogspot.com

The court sua sponte stayed five of plaintiff's actions pending the Supreme Court's review of a case regarding patentable subject matter. "[Defendant] alleges the [patent-in-suit] is directed to an abstract idea -- using a ...

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Samsung tells U.S. court Apple-Nokia patent license deal covers period to December 31, 2016 from www.fosspatents.com

Hardly anything is known about the terms of the June 2011 Apple-Nokia settlement agreement. There's been plenty of speculation, but the deal terms remained confidential, except that a certain breach (or series of breaches ...

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Samsung opposes Apple's renewed motion for a permanent U.S. injunction -- but will it matter? from www.fosspatents.com

Last month, Apple filed a renewed (post-appeal) motion for a U.S. permanent injunction against Samsung devices infringing any or all of three multitouch software patents. A few days later, Samsung asked for permission to ...

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Google emphasizes inequitable-conduct defense against Rockstar's search engine patents-in-suit from www.fosspatents.com

Late on Friday, Google filed its answer to one of the Rockstar "Halloween patent lawsuits": the one targeting Google's search engine core business. (Google is also a recently-added co-defendant in a case targeting Samsung ...

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" But one thing is clear: before attempting to create something new, it is vital to have a good appreciation of everything that already exists in this field. " from ipbiz.blogspot.com

Mikhail Kalashnikov : But one thing is clear: before attempting to create something new, it is vital to have a good appreciation of everything that already exists in this field.

from wikipedia AK-47

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Landis paper related to biofuel policy from ipbiz.blogspot.com



From paper by Douglas Landis et al.


Our study suggests that bioenergy policy that supports coordinated land use can diversify agricultural landscapes and sustain multiple critical ecosystem services.



link: http://www.pnas.org/content/early ...

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Court delays question of whether software patent should be upheld or overturned from ipspotlight.com

In what may be the first of several software patent litigation matters that are placed in a holding pattern this year, the District of Delaware has stayed a group of patent infringement cases involving software ...

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