Patent & IP news for February 19, 2014

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post image Wednesday whimsies from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Around the weblogs. "Stock Market Reactions to Patent Litigation: Can You Help?" is a rallying call for information that student Nam Nguyen (TU Darmstadt, Germany) can use in a dissertation: further details are on IP ...

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post image Inventions using publicly available stem cell lines involving destruction of human embryos found unpatentable under the EPC from patlit.blogspot.com

In a decision of 4 February 2014, the Board of Appeal of the European Patent Office examined the patentability of inventions which make use of publicly available human embryonic stem (HES) cell lines, initially derived ...

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post image Trials and appeals: no dress rehearsal or island-hopping, warns judge from ipkitten.blogspot.com

In '"No whey" as Chobani feels the strain in Greek yoghurt appeal', here, this Kat reviewed the most recent, and possibly the most outspoken, statements of a British court with regard to the ever-evolving tort ...

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post image Assessing the new European patent package: Newport, here we come! from patlit.blogspot.com

Not everything to do with the new European patent package revolves round London and other major conurbations in which patent litigators tend to congregate -- and here's the proof.  "The Unitary Patent and Unified Patent ...

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post image Buffalo State Physics Student aspires to become Patent Litigator from www.lotempiolaw.com

If one hundred students were asked what their most significant accomplishment over the last year was, capturing the curvature of the Earth on an HD camera would most certainly be an aberration. But that is ...

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post image Disjunction in IP Litigation: Patent Courts are not Copyright Courts from patentlyo.com

By Dennis Crouch In the fourth quarter of 2012 about 4,000 intellectual property lawsuits were filed in federal courts. Of these, about 2,000 were patent cases along with 1,000 copyright and 1 ...

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post image (When) a tweet is not enough .. to establish unregistered trade mark rights from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Social media and IP: a field of novel arguments and legal creativity. Have you ever wondered whether a tweet may provide sufficient evidence of unregistered trade mark rights -- for the purposes of Paragraph 4(a ...

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post image Fur salutes silk: three new IP barristers become QCs from ipkitten.blogspot.com

CharlotteAndrewThe IPKat, Merpel and all the team are delighted to congratulate not one, not two, but three new intellectual property Queens' Counsel whose appointments have just been announced in the latest Silk Round ...

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The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit hands Gevo a big loss in the Butamax/Gevo patent wars from ipbiz.blogspot.com

As was quite foreseeable in 2012 (see IPBiz Claim construction in Butamax/Gevo case by Judge Robinson (D. Del.) questioned by CAFC ), the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on February 18, 2014 basically ...

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3D Printing Will Cost The World $100 Billion, Says Study from www.ip-watch.org

A recent report predicts the loss of at least $100 billion per year in intellectual property globally by 2018 as a result of 3D printing.Related Articles:

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35 U.S.C. § 315(b) IPR Time Bar Not Limited to Concurrent Litigation from docketreport.blogspot.com

The Board denied the petitioner's request for rehearing of an earlier decision not to institute inter partes review because "the Petition . . . was not filed timely within the statutory period of 35 U.S.C ...

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South African Traditional Knowledge Protection Bill Amends IP Laws from www.ip-watch.org

The much-debated Intellectual Property Laws Amendment Bill in South Africa, aimed at boosting protection for traditional knowledge, was signed by President Jacob Zuma without much fanfare and promotion. What happens now?Related Articles:

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ALJ Shaw Rules On Motions For Summary Determination In Certain Crawler Cranes (337-TA-887) from www.itcblog.com

On February 12, 2014, ALJ David P. Shaw issued Order No. 17 and No. 18 in Certain Crawler Cranes and Components Thereof (Inv. No. 337-TA-887). According to Order No. 17, Complainant Manitowoc Cranes, LLC (“Manitowoc ...

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CAFC analyzes improper application of the doctrine of claim vitiation in Ring & Pinion Service v. Arb from ipbiz.blogspot.com

In Ring & Pinion v. Arb , there is discussion of foreseeability in the context of the doctrine of equivalents:



In ruling on the parties’ summary judgment motions, the district court held that “foreseeability at the time ...

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ALJ Essex Rules On Motions For Summary Determination In Certain Wireless Devices With 3G And/Or 4G Capabilities (337-TA-868) from www.itcblog.com

On February 11, 2014, ALJ Theodore R. Essex issued the public versions of Order Nos. 91, 92 and 93 (dated January 24, January 30 and January 30, 2014, respectively) in Certain Wireless Devices with 3G ...

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Liberty Media's TruePosition acquires Skyhook, touts its patents: implications for Google lawsuit? from www.fosspatents.com

Skyhook Wireless, a company that has been suing Google for more than three years over various location-positioning patents, with a trial likely to take place (finally) this year, has just been acquired by Liberty Media ...

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Tobacco Packaging, Green Tech, University IP On Plate Of WTO IP Committee from www.ip-watch.org

Technology transfer for green technologies, and the compliance with international trade rules of plain packaging for tobacco products will once again be on the agenda of the World Trade Organization committee on intellectual property next ...

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What will be the next en banc issue? from www.717madisonplace.com

It has been quite some time since the Federal Circuit accepted a new case for en banc review.  The court is currently reviewing en banc the Lighting Ballast Control v. Phillips Electronics case in order ...

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