Patent & IP news for January 23, 2014

BREAKING NEWS: CJEU says that circumventing a protection system may be lawful (sometimes) from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Technological protection measures jokes
are simply the bestProbably there are just a few topics of conversation that are more charming and successful than videogames and technological protection measures. This said, today the Court of ...

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Functional Claim Language in Issued Patents from patentlyo.com

By Dennis Crouch In a prior post, I included a chart showing a recent rise in the use of the functional claim phrase “configured to.” See Crouch, What Does it Mean for a Device to ...

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Who bears the burden of proof in declaratory judgments of non-infringement? The patentee, answers the US Supreme Court from patlit.blogspot.com

On Wednesday, the US Supreme Court published its decision in the case of Medtronic Inc. v Mirowski Family Ventures LLC, ruling that, when a licensee brings an action for declaratory judgment of non-infringement of a ...

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I thought I saw an infringement of IP rights: Twitter users and copyright from ipkitten.blogspot.com

A former Kat puts
her IPKat boots back on
(btw - speaking of boots - 
do you remember
this charming song?)It is a truth universally acknowledged that Kats like birds very much, and especially birds that ...

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"Bimbo, get a (Thomson) Life!" from ipkitten.blogspot.com

With so much going on at the moments, and with so many members of the Kat team tied up in other ventures, it was good to know that we had a friend we could call ...

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Huawei settles with Rockstar Consortium, will pay for Android's infringement of ex-Nortel patents from www.fosspatents.com

The Google-led group of Android device makers sued on Halloween 2013 over former Nortel patents fails to present a united front to the Rockstar Consortium, a patent holding firm jointly owned by Apple, BlackBerry, Ericsson ...

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Medtronic, Inc. v. Mirowski Family Ventures, LCC (2014) from www.patentdocs.org

By Andrew Williams -- Earlier today, in Medtronic, Inc. v. Mirowski Family Ventures, LLC, the Supreme Court held that "when a licensee seeks a declaratory judgment against a patentee to establish that there is no infringement ...

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Bad news abounds for Google's patent lawsuits as Apple, SimpleAir and Vringo are winning from www.fosspatents.com

Things haven't been going too well for Google in the patent litigation arena recently. And there's potential for further bad news as an Intellectual Ventures v. Motorola Mobility trial started in Delaware on ...

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Global Health 2035 Report: Flawed Projections from www.ip-watch.org

Daniele Dionisio writes: Hopes that a comprehensive global health goal could be reached by 2035 are hardly credible with the load of unresolved issues still on the table. This article turns the spotlight on much-debated ...

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Economic mobility - is the past prologue? from www.athenaalliance.org

A new study on economic mobility is out that raises questions and issues about the dynamics of the U.S. economy. The study finds that the rate of economic mobility has been stable for the ...

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Unsupported Claim Construction Argument Warrants Partial Award of Attorneys’ Fees from docketreport.blogspot.com

The court granted in part defendant's motion for attorneys’ fees under 35 U.S.C. § 285 for a claim that was subject to a stipulated dismissal following claim construction. "[Plaintiff] relies on the complexity ...

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Year Ahead: Copyright Issues Top EU IP Policy In 2014 from www.ip-watch.org

Copyright tops the European Union intellectual property agenda this year, with completion of a collective rights management directive, and European Commission statements on IP rights enforcement and possible revisions to EU copyright rules, due this ...

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MVS Filewrapper® Blog: Federal Circuit Clarifies Patent Term Adjustment from www.filewrapper.com

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has issued an opinion that provides guidance for how Patent Term Adjustments should be calculated.

Between June 2009 and May 2011, Novartis filed four civil ...

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Renewable Energy Group acquires LS9, subject to meeting milestones from ipbiz.blogspot.com

Patents played a role in the acquisition. As noted by Daily Finance:



An impressive patent portfolio protects its {LS9's] single-step fermentation process and engineered microbes, which create immiscible products that naturally separate from the ...

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Application No. vs. Serial No. from www.717madisonplace.com

The Federal Circuit sometimes uses “serial number” in a different way than that used by the PTO.  The PTO identifies an “application number” by a “series code” and a “serial number.”  See, e.g., 37 ...

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ITC Institutes Investigation (337-TA-905) Regarding Certain Wireless Devices, Including Mobile Phones And Tablets II from www.itcblog.com

On January 17, 2014, the U.S. International Trade Commission issued a press release announcing their vote to institute an investigation of Certain Wireless Devices, Including Mobile Phones And Tablets II (Inv. No. 337-TA-905). The ...

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