Patent & IP news for March 9, 2014

USITC Asks En Banc Federal Circuit for Power to Block Imports Whose Distribution Induce Infringement in the US from patentlyo.com

by Dennis Crouch Suprema, Inc. and Mentalix v. US International Trade Commission and Cross Match Tech. (Fed. Cir. 2013/2014) The US International Trade Commission (USITC) is a branch of the US Government that offers ...

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Mediation of IP disputes: a forthcoming event from patlit.blogspot.com

Here's a link to OHIM's IP Mediation Conference website, which has just been published and which contains a link to the conference programme. The conference itself is described like this:

OHIM will hold ...

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Monday miscellany from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Merck v Merck: what you think ... so far.  With only a few days to go, responses to the IPKat's sidebar poll on how best to resolve the problem of there being two different pharmaceutical ...

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Does India Follow “First to File” or “First to Invent” Rule in Patent Filing? from patlit.blogspot.com

PatLit is pleased to welcome the following guest post from fellow blogger Sai Deepak (of The Demanding Mistress, here). Here Sai addresses a fundamental issue, that of entitlement to a patent. This is what he ...

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In Memoriam: IP, Innovation, and Environmental Scholar Sarah Tran from www.greenpatentblog.com

I am very sad to report that Sarah Tran, a professor at SMU’s Dedman School of Law, passed away on February 28th from complications from leukemia.  She was 34 years old. Sarah was an ...

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"60 Minutes" on March 9, 2014 from ipbiz.blogspot.com

First,"The data Brokers" who sell data as a commodity, by Steve Croft. FTC a Commissioner Julie Brill talks about dossiers on individuals. Sat alum, Acxiom.
Statlidtics, paramount. Program Disconnect.
Companies collect web browsing history ...

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Court Report from www.patentdocs.org

By Sherri Oslick -- About Court Report: Each week we will report briefly on recently filed biotech and pharma cases. Allergan, Inc. v. Actavis plc et al. 2:14-cv-00188; filed March 6, 2014 in the Eastern ...

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Conference & CLE Calendar from www.patentdocs.org

March 12-13, 2014 - FDA Boot Camp*** (American Conference Institute) - New York, NY March 13, 2014 - "Patent Term Adjustments and Extensions: Leveraging Exelixis, Novartis, Other Decisions, and USPTO Rule Changes" (Strafford) - 1:00 to 2:30 ...

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