Patent & IP news for January 28, 2014

Bottling out? Customs authorities can rule on infringement -- if the law lets them, says AG Cruz Villalón from ipkitten.blogspot.com

This morning Advocate General Cruz Villalón delivered his Opinion in Case C‑583/12 Sintax Trading OÜ v Maksu- ja Tolliameti Põhja maksu- ja tollikeskus, a request to the Court of Justice of the European ...

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"No whey" as Chobani feels the strain in Greek yoghurt appeal from ipkitten.blogspot.com

This morning the Court of Appeal, England and Wales, handed down its keenly-awaited decision in Fage UK Ltd & Another v Chobani UK Ltd & Another [2014] EWCA Civ 5, on appeal from the decision of Mr ...

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Broken chain of priority invalidates patent from ocpatentlawyer.com

Broken chain of priority invalidates patent The filing of a continuing patent application (i.e., continuation, divisional or continuation in part application) may have significant benefits for the patent owner.  For example, these follow-on patent ...

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Overview of appeals: the world according to the EPC from patlit.blogspot.com

Overview of the appeal proceedings according to the EPC is the title of a new book by Hugo Meinders, Ingo Beckedorf and Gérard Weiss, published by the Dutch Publishers H. Tel, from Haarlem. Actually, it ...

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First Austria and now, it seems, Malta. Who's next? from patlit.blogspot.com

Thanks to Ingve Stjerna I've had a chance to take note of this short piece on Keltie LLP's IPCopy weblog, "Has Malta ratified the Unified Patent Court Agreement?" by Emily Weal. According to ...

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A formula for happiness? Online copyright enforcement and a new IPKat event from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Is happiness a state of mind, ponders
Percy, or a state of absence of mind ...?What is the meaning of life?  This important question greatly preoccupies most of a cat's day, which is why ...

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Medtronic CoreValve, LLC v. Edwards Lifesciences Corp. (Fed. Cir. 2014) from www.patentdocs.org

By Nicole Reifman -- The Federal Circuit's decision in Medtronic CoreValve, LLC v. Edwards Lifesciences Corp. provides a warning for patent practitioners seeking to claim priority to earlier filed patent applications: failure to specifically reference ...

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CAFC in Chaganti: We read this as a statement that common sense would have provided a reason to combine these references. from ipbiz.blogspot.com

IN RE NAREN CHAGANTI


The Board found that a person of ordi- nary skill would have had a reason to use “the online print service of Manolis to provide licensed access to copyrighted images in ...

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REALTIME DATA, LLC (doing business as IXO) loses at CAFC from ipbiz.blogspot.com

Note the various cases involving plaintiff-appellant REALTIME DATA, LLC (doing business as IXO)


Realtime Data, LLC (“Realtime”) appeals from multi- ple decisions of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York ...

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Medtronic v. Mirowski Family Ventures: Supreme Court decision affects patent license disputes from ipspotlight.com

A recent Supreme Court decision may prompt patent holders to review license agreements and build in extra protections against actions filed by their licensees. In the case, Medtronic Inv. v. Mirowski Family Ventures, the Court ...

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Customer Suit Stayed Provided Customers Agree to Invalidity Estoppel from docketreport.blogspot.com

The court granted defendants' motion to stay plaintiff's infringement actions pending a nonparty manufacturer's declaratory relief action against plaintiff, but only as to the defendants who agreed to be bound by any invalidity ...

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Lodsys Victim Survey for app developers who received demand letters from the infamous troll from www.fosspatents.com

I haven't blogged in a while about Lodsys and the demand letters it sent to (and lawsuits it filed against) app developers, but it was a topic I covered extensively in 2011, and many ...

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IP Intensive Program: “Intellectual Property Policy is All IC” Reflecting on a Semester at Industry Canada from www.iposgoode.ca

My time at Industry Canada as an IP Intensive student intern last fall was spent working within the Strategic Policy Sector (SPS), and more specifically a sub-group within the SPS called the Copyright and Trade-mark ...

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ALJ Shaw Denies Motion To Quash Subpoena In Certain Point-To-Point Network Communication Devices (337-TA-892) from www.itcblog.com

On January 9, 2014, ALJ David P. Shaw issued Order No. 16 in Certain Point-to-Point Network Communication Devices and Products Containing the Same (Inv. No. 337-TA-892). According to the Order, non-party Netflix, Inc. (“Netflix”) filed ...

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IP Intensive Program: Learning Around The Globe from www.iposgoode.ca

As a part of the IP Osgoode Intensive Program I had the unique opportunity to work with in-house counsel for Canada’s most authoritative national newspaper. As much as I cherish a grueling law school ...

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