Patent & IP news for January 19, 2014

Online streaming and copyright infringement: Aero heads for Supreme ruling from ipkitten.blogspot.com

The IPKat and Merpel do their best to follow events, but they rely very much on the eyes and ears of their friends and relations in order to supplement their own efforts.  This is because ...

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Old knowledge, new science ... from ipkitten.blogspot.com

What is CGIAR?  Apart from being an apparent typo for "cigar", CGIAR is the streamlined modern name for the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research. This is a global partnership that unites various organisations that ...

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Jury Trials in Patent Cases from www.patentlyo.com

In his recent work-in-progress article, Professor Mark Lemley focuses on the question of whether the Seventh Amendment protects the right to a jury determination of invalidity. His answer (and I paraphrase): Its complicated, but there ...

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Plagiarism and dialogue from ipbiz.blogspot.com


Note text in How plagiarism hurts knowledge-building: Obligations of scientists (part 4)



But this comparison often involves a dialogue as well. As part of the knowledge-building project, from the earliest planning of their experiments to ...

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Showdown at the FC Corral: Preemption vs. Mental-Steps-Plus-Computer from www.717madisonplace.com

Justice Breyer’s concurring opinion in Bilski v. Kappos, 130 S. Ct. 3218, 3258 (2010) stated that the Court has long held that “[p]henomena of nature, though just discovered, mental processes, and abstract intellectual ...

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Does the 7th Amendment require jury trials on patent invalidity? from ipbiz.blogspot.com

Related to the Lemley draft Why Do Juries Decide if Patents Are Valid? discussed in PatentlyO

from EX PARTE WOOD & BRUNDAGE


Nor are there any public mischiefs which will result from the view which the ...

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