Patent & IP news for March 4, 2014

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post image Chinese Eco-mark Lawsuit Ends Well for Tesla from www.greenpatentblog.com

A previous post reported on Tesla’s Chinese trademark problem.  Apparently, a businessman named Zhan Baosheng had registered the TESLA (or “Te Si La” transliterated) trademark in China, blocking  the American automaker from using the ...

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post image Deep fat fryer patent almost gets its chips from ipkitten.blogspot.com

What better way is there for any intellectual property enthusiast to celebrate a birthday than to share some chips with his friends -- or at least to sit down and write something on patent infringement as ...

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post image Monday miscellany from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Thinks: "is this the best they can do for me?"Kats are far too modest to blow their own trumpets, so it is left to this Kat to let readers know that Annsley the AmeriKat ...

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post image Horned animal, insect or tiger with floppy ears? Trunki loses out in the Court of Appeal from ipkitten.blogspot.com


This one is about registered community designs (RCDs), and the different overall impression created by one piece of child ride-on luggage and another.The loser is Dragon’s den reject and great British success story ...

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post image Examining Eligibility: USPTO Guidelines on Products of Nature, Laws of Nature, and Natural Phenomena from patentlyo.com

by Dennis Crouch One difficulty with the US patent system is that the same rules of patentability are sometimes determined by a judge, other times by a jury, and, of course, most often by a ...

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post image Copyright-related question right from the Oscars night: who owns DeGeneres's selfie? from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Now that the Oscars have been awarded, there is something left to reflect upon besides why Leonardo DiCaprio seems unable to bring home one those precious little statues.
No need to say that it is ...

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post image World Cup 2018: a dilemma for some sponsors? from ipkitten.blogspot.com

The FIFA 2018 map.  Hmm, wonders Merpel, just how did Kaliningrad manage to get into Russia ...?One would have to be fairly well insulated from the conventional and social media in order to have missed ...

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Cyberfone Systems, LLC v. CNN Interactive Group, Inc. (Fed. Cir. 2014) from www.patentdocs.org

By Michael Borella -- In 2011, Cyberfone sued CNN and 80 other defendants in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware for infringement of U.S. Patent No. 8,019,060. On the ...

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Privatize, Don’t Internationalise, Internet Oversight, Academics Say from www.ip-watch.org

The Snowden revelations have spurred yet another discussion on how to internationalise or globalise the oversight over the management of core infrastructures of the internet, namely the so-called IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority) functions. Why ...

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Parallel WIPO Initiative On Access for Visually Impaired Community Steps Up from www.ip-watch.org

A growing number of countries are signing the new World Intellectual Property Organization treaty on copyright exceptions aimed at boosting access to special format books for visually impaired persons. Parallel to the treaty and pre-dating ...

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Stay Pending IPR Conditioned on Non-Petitioner’s Agreement to “Weaker” Estoppel from docketreport.blogspot.com

The court conditionally granted a non-petitioner defendant's motion to stay pending inter partes review contingent upon defendants' agreement to be subject to "weaker" statutory estoppel due to the defendant's non-involvement with the IPR ...

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Global IP Outsourcing & AUTM 2014 Conferences Prove Valuable from info.inovia.com

The Legal Process Outsourcing (LPO) industry is growing rapidly. Last week, Susanne Kennedy and Chris Karel attended the Global Outsourcing Association of Lawyers (GOAL) conference in San Francisco. One of the sessions, “Debunking Perceived Obstacles ...

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Apple Loses on Claim Construction and Indefiniteness from patentlyo.com

by Dennis Crouch Ancora Tech. v. Apple Inc. (Fed. Cir. 2014) Ancora’s patent covers a verification system to ensure that the software running on a computer are properly licensed.  U.S. Patent No. 6 ...

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Results of MIP’s 2014 Patent Survey from info.inovia.com

Managing Intellectual Property magazine recently published the results of its 2014 "Patent Survey", which ranks the top firms for prosecution and contentious work in more than 70 countries.  As a testament to the quality of ...

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Potential For Harm: Indemnity Agreements and Willfulness Determinations from www.iplawalert.com

Patent indemnification agreements, common in asset purchases, mergers and acquisitions, manufacturing, and patent licensing agreements, reduce the possibility of liability should a third party later assert its patent against the asset purchaser or licensee. However ...

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AFP makes an error in reporting on an error by the New York Times from ipbiz.blogspot.com

In a story about a correction by the New York Times of a spelling of Solomon Northup's name 161 years ago AFP made its own error in the text:



Washington — Some 161 years later ...

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ALJ Lord Grants Motion For Summary Determination Of No Copyright Infringement In Certain TV Programs (337-TA-886) from www.itcblog.com

On February 20, 2014, ALJ Dee Lord issued the public version of Order No. 18 (dated February 6, 2014) granting Thunderbird Films, Inc., Mindset Television, Inc., and The Walt Disney Company’s (collectively, “Respondents’”) motion ...

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ALJ Bullock Grants-In-Part Summary Determination Motion On Domestic Industry In Certain Windshield Wiper Devices (337-TA-881) from www.itcblog.com

On February 24, 2014, Chief ALJ Charles E. Bullock issued the public version of Order No. 33 (dated January 27, 2014) in Certain Windshield Wiper Devices and Components Thereof (Inv. No. 337-TA-881). According to the ...

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ALJ Shaw Grants Motion To Terminate Investigation In Certain Multiple Mode Outdoor Grills (337-TA-895) from www.itcblog.com

On February 19, 2014, ALJ David P. Shaw issued the public version of Order No. 21 (dated February 6, 2014) in Certain Multiple Mode Outdoor Grills and Components Thereof (Inv. No. 337-TA-895). According to the ...

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ALJ Bullock Terminates Investigation In Certain Tires (337-TA-894) from www.itcblog.com

On February 24, 2014, Chief ALJ Charles E. Bullock issued Order No. 35 in Certain Tires and Products Containing Same (Inv. No. 337-TA-894). According to the Order, ALJ Bullock granted a motion filed by Complainants ...

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ALJ Lord Terminates Investigation In Certain Portable Electronic Communications Devices, Including Mobile Phones (337-TA-885) from www.itcblog.com

On February 25, 2014, ALJ Dee Lord issued Order No. 23 in Certain Portable Electronic Communications Devices, Including Mobile Phones and Components Thereof (Inv. No. 337-TA-885). By way of background, this investigation is based on ...

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Do We Need More IP To Promote Commercialization? from writtendescription.blogspot.com

The patent system already protects inventors' exclusive rights in their "novel" and "nonobvious" inventions. But do we also need intellectual property rights to promote commercialization? In their influential article Intellectual Property for Market ExperimentationMichael ...

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