Patent & IP news for March 24, 2014

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post image IFPI stresses importance of website blocking while waiting for CJEU Telekabel decision this week from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Last week the International Federation of Phonographic Industry (IFPI) released its annual Digital Music Report, ie "[a] comprehensive overview of developments in digital music, detailing how record companies have transformed their business models for the ...

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ALJ Lord Issues Public Version Of Enforcement Initial Determination In Certain Two-Way Global Satellite Communication Devices (337-TA-854) from www.itcblog.com

Further to our March 14, 2014 post, on March 19, 2014, ALJ Dee Lord issued the public version of the Enforcement Initial Determination (“EID”) (dated March 7, 2014) in Certain Two-Way Global Satellite Communication Devices ...

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Wasting Human Capital from www.athenaalliance.org

Alan Krueger, Judd Cramer and David Cho have written a devastating analysis of the long term unemployment problem Are the Long-Term Unemployed on the Margins of the Labor Market? (full paper available here and the ...

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Daubert Objection Procedure: Loser Pays With Trial Time from docketreport.blogspot.com

The court denied without prejudice the parties' various motions to strike expert reports and exclude expert testimony. "The approximate 500 pages of paper constituting these motions, responses, sur-responses, and sur-sur-responses is an indication that the ...

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Knowledge That Products Will be Sold in Texas Insufficient to Confer Personal Jurisdiction from docketreport.blogspot.com

The court granted defendant's renewed motion to dismiss plaintiff's infringement action for lack of personal jurisdiction. "[Defendant] knows, with reasonable certainty, that its chips will end up in the United States marketplace, including ...

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WIPO In Marathon Two Weeks To Advance On Protection Of TK and Folklore from www.ip-watch.org

World Intellectual Property Organization members today launched a marathon meeting to advance work on a potential legal instrument to protect traditional knowledge and folklore from misappropriation and exploitation. The committee, which has been convening for ...

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Silicon Valley Execs Collude to Steal from Engineers, says Pando Daily from ipcloseup.wordpress.com

Confidential internal Google and Apple memos, buried within piles of court dockets and reviewed by and reported in PandoDaily, clearly show that what began as a secret cartel agreement between Apple’s Steve Jobs and ...

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Analysis Shows Mixed Results On Big Pharma R&D Efforts For TB from www.ip-watch.org

In time for World TB Day today, an analysis has been published of research and development being carried out for tuberculosis by the 20 largest pharmaceutical companies.Related Articles:

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US Corporate IP Counsel Hear Latest Updates On Patent System from www.ip-watch.org

NEW YORK - “This is a very, very exciting time be in patent law,” Drew Hirshfeld, deputy commissioner for patent examination policy at the US Patent and Trademark Office, told a group of intellectual property lawyers ...

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WIPO TK Committee Chair Adjourns Session Abruptly, Demands Clear Positions from www.ip-watch.org

The World Intellectual Property Organization meeting on traditional knowledge and folklore meeting this week was abruptly adjourned by the chair this afternoon, to reconvene tomorrow morning, with a head-on challenge to governments.Related Articles:

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ITC Institutes Investigation (337-TA-910) Regarding Certain Television Sets from www.itcblog.com

On February 27, 2014, the U.S. International Trade Commission issued a press release announcing their vote to institute an investigation of Certain Television Sets, Television Receivers, Television Tuners, and Components Thereof (Inv. No. 337-TA-910 ...

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ALJ Lord Issues Notice Of Initial Determination In Certain Integrated Circuit Chips (337-TA-859) from www.itcblog.com

On March 21, 2014, ALJ Dee Lord issued a notice regarding the Initial Determination (“ID”) in Certain Integrated Circuit Chips and Products Containing the Same (Inv. No. 337-TA-859). By way of background, the investigation is ...

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ITC Institutes Investigation (337-TA-911) Regarding Certain Lithium Silicate Materials from www.itcblog.com

On March 21, 2014, the U.S. International Trade Commission issued a press release announcing their vote to institute an investigation of Certain Lithium Silicate Materials and Products Containing the Same (Inv. No. 337-TA-911). The ...

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Licensing Executives Society International Conference: Make the World Better through Licensing from www.patentbaristas.com

The Licensing Executives Society International will hold its 2014 annual conference in Moscow, Russia. Session The main program will be 18-21 May 2014. Conference Program The conference program will include 6 General sessions and 23 ...

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#BeyondIP Blog Symposium: Burstein & Murray, Masur, Lobel, Pasquale, and Zarsky from writtendescription.blogspot.com

Since my prior two updates, we have five new posts in the Innovation Law Beyond IP blog symposium. First, Michael Burstein and Fiona Murray described their new paper on Governing Innovation Prizes. They note that ...

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Microsoft remembering Bobby Fischer from ipbiz.blogspot.com

Note that Microsoft's US 8,070,606  cites the Bobby Fischer patent, US 4,,884,255, "Digital Chess Clock."

The first claim of the Microsoft patent [Progressive stall timer ]:


A method of operating an ...

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IPR Update -- The First Biotech IPR Decisions from www.patentdocs.org

By Andrew Williams -- Earlier this month, on March 6, 2014, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board ("Board") issued three related inter partes review opinions, marking the first set of opinions related to either the Biotech ...

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