Symposium: Patents 101: Eligibility from Computer Code to Genetic Codes from www.patentbaristas.com The 2013-2014 JETLaw Symposium, Patents 101: Eligibility from Computer Code to Genetic Codes, examines the interaction of Section 101 and patent eligibility of software and DNA, as well as the implication of current jurisprudence on ...
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Explanation of technology can impact result of patent suit from ocpatentlawyer.com Explanation of technology can impact result of patent suit In Motorola Mobility v. ITC (Fed. Cir. 2013), the defendant (Motorola) initially argued that they were not infringing on Microsoft’s patent. They also argued that ...
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High and dry with Hyundai, too much poo in Peugeot? from ipkitten.blogspot.com Have you ever wondered how to pronounce "Hyundai"? This Kat has always pronounced it to rhyme with "high and dry" but without the "r" of "dry", on which basis he has modestly congratulated himself on ...
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Guest Post: Matthew Rimmer on Fossil Free Patent Law from www.greenpatentblog.com Patent law has a dirty history. A legal mechanism refined in the industrial revolution, patent law has sought to encourage manufacturing and industry – the ‘Progress of Science and the Useful Arts’. Patent law has provided ...
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Top Japanese IP judge comes to town from patlit.blogspot.com On Wednesday 19 February our friends at IBIL, the Institute of Brand and Innovation Law at University College London, are offering a fascinating insight into how patent litigation -- and indeed all IP litigation --works in ...
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What does it mean for a device to be "configured to" perform a particular function? from www.patentlyo.com By Dennis Crouch Chief Judge Rader recently argued that no patentable weight should be given to claim terms focusing on how a device is "configured to" perform a particular task. See Superior Industries v. Masaba ...
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"Are moral rights human rights?": come and find out! from ipkitten.blogspot.com "Never mind the eggs,
where are the canapes?"Blaca, formerly known as the British Literary and Artistic Copyright Association, is exceptionally delighted to announce a special joint meeting with the IPKat on
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Patent Profile: National Tsing Hua University Receives Patent for Method for Early Diagnosis of Liver Cancer from www.patentdocs.org By Josh Bosman -- Last week, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued U.S. Patent No. 8,628,920, which is entitled "Method for early diagnosis of liver cancer and prediction of metastasis." The ...
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First Quarter FY2014 PTO Numbers from inventivestep.net The following is a comparison of the PTO’s numbers from September 2013 with June 2013 (at my last numbers update). Time to refer again to the PTO’s Data Visualization Center to see how ...
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Patent Sale Supporting Damages Expert’s Analysis Need Not be “Economically Comparable” from docketreport.blogspot.com The court denied plaintiff's motion to exclude the testimony of defendant's damages expert because the expert relied in part on the sale of a technologically comparable patent. "[Plaintiff's] issue with the use ...
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ALJ Shaw Denies Summary Determination Of Invalidity In Certain Digital Media Devices (337-TA-882) from www.itcblog.com On January 15, 2014, ALJ David P. Shaw issued the public versions of Order No. 36 (dated January 14, 2014) and Order No. 37 (dated January 14, 2014) in Certain Digital Media Devices, Including Televisions ...
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Former Roche Senior Counsel Joins Gibbons Intellectual Property Department from www.iplawalert.com Joining Gibbons P.C. as Counsel in the Intellectual Property Department is Samuel H. Megerditchian, who recently served as Senior Counsel at Hoffmann-La Roche Inc. and is the former chief chemist at a major multinational ...
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Event on OECD knowledge-based capital report - video available from www.athenaalliance.org Last week I was pleased to be on a panel at ITIF on "The Role of Intangible, Knowledge-based Capital in Economic Growth" -- video of the event is now available for those of you who missed ...
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EU Launches Consultation On Investor-State Dispute Mechanism In TTIP from www.ip-watch.org European Union Trade Commissioner Karel de Gucht today announced a three-month public consultation on investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) mechanisms in the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership.
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Going the Way of the Doha? The TPP and Contested Intellectual Property and International Trade Linkages from www.iposgoode.ca It has been nearly twenty years since the Uruguay Round of World Trade Organization (WTO) trade talks that created the Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) Agreement. In the intervening decades, multilateral trade ...
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IP Intensive Progam: Apotex – The Best Way to Begin Your Third Year at Osgoode from www.iposgoode.ca I couldn’t think of a better way to begin third year of law school than by participating in the Intellectual Property Law & Technology Intensive Program. Rather than spending my semester in a series of ...
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Vaccines In Middle-Income Countries, Noncommunicable Diseases Discussed At WHO from www.ip-watch.org Availability and accessibility of vaccines in middle-income countries was raised today at the World Health Organization as member states are ploughing through a heavy agenda. Noncommunicable diseases were also discussed and delegates sitting on the ...
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Will Kit Kat shape monopoly last forever? Another Arnoldian reference for the CJEU from ipkitten.blogspot.com On 1 July last year, the IPKat
carried a note, "When groovy fingers don't make for good trade marks", by young barrister Katherine Moggridge (a pupil at 3 New Square) on a decision of ...
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U.S. court finds Samsung to infringe one Apple patent, declares one Samsung patent invalid from www.fosspatents.com In a summary judgment order entered late on Tuesday (January 21, 2014), Judge Lucy Koh, the federal judge presiding over two Apple v. Samsung patent cases in the Northern District of California, found Samsung's ...
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