Patent & IP news for January 26, 2014

Patent Types: Method, Non-Method, or Both from patentlyo.com

By Dennis Crouch In reply to a prior post, one comment asked about the whether US patents tend to have claims directed to both an apparatus and to a method or instead are those types ...

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Nintendo ruling confirmed lex specialis nature of Software Directive:does this have implications for UsedSoft exhaustion? from ipkitten.blogspot.com


What to do on a rainy Sunday?
Put your new nail polish on ...Earlier this week the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) issued its decision in Case C-355/12 Nintendo v PC ...

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A touch of the Waldorfs: the International Patent Forum 2014 from ipkitten.blogspot.com

As the first publisher and founder-editor of Managing Intellectual Property magazine back in 1990, this Kat has always kept a benign and fatherly eye on its various activities and exploits. Over the years MIP has ...

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Letter from AmeriKat: Raging Bull, Brooklyn Nets, Cochlear Hearing Aids, Candy Crush and Hollandaise sauce from ipkitten.blogspot.com

The AmeriKat experiences the rush of true love with
Hollandaise sauceHollandaise sauce. Several months ago the AmeriKat had never tasted the golden, buttery, lemony silk that was laced over her grilled asparagus starter last ...

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Why Google Books is probably fair use but Android's hijacking of Java is clearly not from www.fosspatents.com

While the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit gave every indication at a December hearing that the grossly erroneous non-copyrightability holding in Oracle v. Google will be reversed, it's simply not ...

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Chisum Patent Academy Advanced Patent Law Seminar from www.patentbaristas.com

The Chisum Patent Academy announced that the next Advanced Patent Law Seminar will be held March 5-7, 2014 at the spectacular 21C Museum Hotel in easily-accessible Cincinnati, Ohio (more venue details below). Seminar Coverage On ...

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Samsung's patent deal with Google suggests concern about ability to settle with Apple soon from www.fosspatents.com

Late on Sunday, Samsung and Google announced a ten-year global patent license agreement. As the announcement notes, they already have a "long-term cooperative partnership" in place, so there was no immediate threat of litigation between ...

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