Raptures over Rapkay, garlands for Gallo, as transitory attack of common sense smites European Parliament from ipkitten.blogspot.com Sic transit gloria mundiToday was a red-letter day for the 15 organisations (listed
here on the MARQUES Class 46 weblog) which have been campaigning long and hard for an end to the cruel, inconvenient ...
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Reform of Spanish IP law: what is it all about? from ipkitten.blogspot.com Fidel PorcunaA few days ago this Kat posted an item discussing proposed introduction into Spanish law of an ancillary right over news content, similarly to what happened in Germany and is currently being also ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
No, you can't be served with any more pleadings, judge tells defendants from patlit.blogspot.com Last Friday Mr Justice Mann, sitting in the Patents Court, England and Wales, gave a ruling in a hearing relating to the service of further pleadings in a patent infringement action. The case,
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On Green Patenting, Sewage Sludge, and EPA Rulings and Regulations from www.greenpatentblog.com Environmental regulations can, of course, impact the development and implementation of green technologies. This can happen on an industry level, for example, when automobile fuel efficiency technology is improved in response to rising CAFE standards ...
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Innovation, not litigation! Google, Samsung and Apple backed industry coalition call for UPC Preparatory Committee to act (again) from ipkitten.blogspot.com Last September, a coalition of patent power players, including Google, Apple and Samsung published an open letter to the Preparatory Committee on the Unified Patent Court highlighting two main concerns of the the latest (15th ...
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Coexistence of Trade Mercks? An expert writes ... from ipkitten.blogspot.com Many Kats prefer Merc to Merck ...On Monday, in "Preliminary hearing to rule on Merck-y past", a blogpost on an interim ruling in a trade mark infringement trial before the courts of England and Wales ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
White House Seeks to Promote Transparency Concerning Patent Ownership from www.patentdocs.org By Donald Zuhn -- Last week, the Obama Administration announced "major progress on a series of initiatives designed to combat patent trolls and further strengthen our patent system and foster innovation" (see "The White House Releases ...
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Oral Argument of the Week: Datcard Systems v. Pacsgear from www.717madisonplace.com The oral argument in Datcard Systems v. Pacsgear will interest some practitioners. The issues on appeal were how the words “data” and “automatically” should be construed. I always find it interesting when somebody coins a ...
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CLS Bank v. Alice is not about 'the death of software patents': it's more like Bilski Reloaded from www.fosspatents.com Four years ago people advocating the abolition of software patents made a lot of noise, including a movie named Patent Absurdity, about a case pending then before the Supreme Court of the United States: Bilski ...
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Year Ahead: Biotech, IP Promise to Create Controversy From Farms To Big Pharma In 2014 from www.ip-watch.org The intersection of biotechnology and intellectual property continues to be a hot topic across the globe. From the patenting of certain plant varieties to human genes, to biodiversity and food security, to genetic resources, countries ...
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Court Holds Only Reverse Payment of Money Requires Actavis Antitrust Scrutiny from www.iplawalert.com Recent years have seen a significant number of antitrust challenges to so-called “reverse payment” pharmaceutical patent litigation settlements between brand name manufacturers and their generic competitors. The Supreme Court’s decision in FTC v. Actavis ...
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Indemnity Agreement May be Offered to Show Willfulness from docketreport.blogspot.com The court denied defendant's motion in limine to exclude "all testimony, argument and reference to the alleged indemnification of defendant." "Plaintiffs want to use Defendant’s indemnification by its manufacturer as proof of Defendant ...
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Federal Circuit: Patent Case May be Transferred to Court with No Personal Jurisdiction over Plaintiff from patentlyo.com By Dennis Crouch elcommerce.com v. SAP (Fed. Cir. 2014) In a prior post, I discussed the important means-plus-function issues arising from this case. Here, I focus on the separate issues of jurisdiction and venue ...
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Debate Over Goods In Transit, Harmonisation Delay EU Trademark Reform from www.ip-watch.org Efforts to update European Union trademark law have slowed amid political differences and squabbles over some provisions of the reform package, representatives from the European Commission (EC), European Parliament and trademark community say. Contrary to ...
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Patent Plaintiffs May Welcome More Fee Shifting from patentlyo.com By Dennis Crouch Semcon Tech LLC v. Micron Tech (D. Del. 2014) A few days ago Judge Richard Andrews wrote the following order in this case: The request for oral arguments is denied. Micron’s ...
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Novel Legal Attack On Patent Trolls Falters In US from www.ip-watch.org It began last May, when a tiny state in the United States launched a novel legal attack against a notorious patent troll. Other states and the federal government soon followed, all asserting that the troll ...
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Industry Updates from WIPO’s PCT Newsletter from info.inovia.com Next month, WIPO's PCT Newsletter will celebrate its 20th anniversary. They invite readers to send thoughts and reflections on the past 20 years to pct.legal@wipo.int, where you can expect certain excerpts ...
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ALJ Essex Rules On Motion For Partial Summary Determination in Certain Wireless Devices With 3G And/Or 4G Capabilities (337-TA-868) from www.itcblog.com On February 19, 2014, ALJ Theodore R. Essex issued the public version of Order No. 96 (dated February 5, 20140, an initial determination granting-in-party and denying-in-part respondent Samsung’s motion for summary determination that it ...
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