Patent & IP news for March 12, 2014

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post image Adjournment in the UK for amendment in the EPO from patlit.blogspot.com

PatLit is pleased to welcome this guest post from Paul England (Senior Associate, Taylor Wessing, and an occasional guest blogger on the IPKat). Here Paul picks on an important procedural matter: the adjournment of national ...

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post image Doctrine of Equivalents not limited by foreseeability of the structure from ocpatentlawyer.com

Doctrine of Equivalents not limited by foreseeability of the structure In determining the scope of patent protection under a patent, the claims are construed literally to determine whether the accused product infringes the patent’s ...

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Utah Judge Denies Myriad's Preliminary Injunction Motion from www.patentdocs.org

By Kevin E. Noonan -- In a 106-page opinion, U.S. District Court Judge Robert J. Shelby on Monday denied Myriad Genetics motion for preliminary injunction in Myriad Genetics v. Ambry Genetics. Characteristic of its aggressive ...

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Apple files cross-appeal in first Samsung case: presumably keeps trying to obtain an injunction from www.fosspatents.com

Last week, Samsung appealed the final judgment in its first California litigation with Apple on the same day on which it was handed down, and about a month after Judge Koh had denied both parties ...

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Design Treaty, Country Names, Geographical Indications Next Week At WIPO from www.ip-watch.org

The World Intellectual Property Organization committee on trademarks will address three main issues next week. Among them, delegates will look to advance a draft treaty facilitating the international registration of industrial designs, and try to ...

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IPR Terminated Due to Indefiniteness of Challenged Claims from docketreport.blogspot.com

The Board terminated inter partes review because the challenged claims were indefinite. As a result, the Board was "unable to reach a determination of the alleged grounds of unpatentablilty over prior art." "[T]he scope ...

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A call for a new trade and competitiveness act from www.athenaalliance.org

Yesterday, the Center for American Progress (CAP) released a report on Progressive Pro-Growth Principles for Trade and Competitiveness. According to CAP, any new trade agreement needs to address five key areas: currency manipulation; state-owned and ...

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Footnote 11 in Pfaff from patentlyo.com

We recently discussed Pfaff v. Wells Electronics, 525 U.S. 55 (1998), in my Patent Law class.  In light of the Supreme Court’s more recent pronouncements in cases such as KSR, eBay, Bilski, etc ...

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PTAB Finds DNA Sequencing Patent Claims to be Invalid from www.iplawalert.com

As we have previously reported, Inter Partes Review (IPR) was introduced on September 11, 2012, under provisions of the America Invents Act (AIA) as one of new several tools for challenging the validity of granted ...

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Book Challenges ‘Neoliberal’ Approach In Global Public Health Policy from www.ip-watch.org

A recent book by a UK journalist and lecturer illustrates that recent reforms in global public health policy have ignored public health needs in favour of market-based ideologies.Related Articles:

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The Redesigned inovia.com is Here! from info.inovia.com

We are excited to announce the release of the redesigned inovia.com platform! The entire inovia team has been hard at work on the new site and we are thrilled with the results. The updated ...

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More Therasense at the CAFC from ipbiz.blogspot.com

The summary for  Therasense v. Becton, Dickinson



For the foregoing reasons, the district court’s decision to reinstate its award of attorney’s fees under § 285 and to deny Becton and Nova’s motion for ...

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CAFC reverses WD Wisconsin in E2Interactive on law of prosecution disclaimer from ipbiz.blogspot.com



As to prosecution disclaimer




We agree with Blackhawk that InComm’s statements to distinguish Weber clearly and unmistakably require using the terminal identifier to determine if a terminal is authorized to make the requested transaction ...

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ALJ Gildea Denies Motion To Strike Portions Of Expert Report In Certain Integrated Circuit Devices (337-TA-873) from www.itcblog.com

On March 10, 2014, ALJ E. James Gildea issued the public version of Order No. 43 (dated February 10, 2014) in Certain Integrated Circuit Devices and Products Containing the Same (Inv. No. 337-TA-873).  In the ...

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Should the Claim Construction Standard for PTAB Post-Grant Proceedings Be Changed? from patentlyo.com

Guest Post by Bernie Knight. Knight is a partner at McDermott Will & Emery LLP and was USPTO General Counsel from 2010-2013. Now that the new post-grant proceedings of the America Invents Act (AIA) have been ...

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EU Parliament Passes Call Against Surveillance And For Digital “New Deal”; TTIP Can Proceed from www.ip-watch.org

A huge majority of the European Parliament today called for a stop to mass surveillance and a digital "New Deal" to enpower European citizens and companies following a six-month inquiry into the US National Security ...

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ALJ Bullock Terminates Investigation As To Hong-Kong Tri-Ace Tire Co. In Certain Tires (337-TA-894) from www.itcblog.com

On March 4, 2014, Chief ALJ Charles E. Bullock issued Order No. 38 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 Gildea Grants-In-Part Complainant’s Motion To Compel In Certain Silicon Microphone Packages (337-TA-888) from www.itcblog.com

On March 6, 2014, ALJ E. James Gildea issued Order No. 26 (dated February 4, 2013) in Certain Silicon Microphone Packages and Products Containing Same (Inv. No. 337-TA-888). According to the Order, Complainant Knowles Electronics ...

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