Patent & IP news for March 30, 2014

Special courts to gain IP expertise in Serbia from patlit.blogspot.com

"Concentration of IP cases in Belgrade courts: a step towards specialised IP courts" is the title of a piece by Gordana Pavlovic (Cabinet Pavlovic, Belgrade and Brussels), posted on World Trademark Review, 25 March 2014 ...

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CBS Sunday Morning on March 30, 2014 from ipbiz.blogspot.com

Charles Osgood introduced the stories for March 30, 2014. 46 years ago tomorrow, LBJ announced he was not running for President. David Martin on Bryan Cranston as LBJ. LBJ went against the norm. Triumph and ...

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Revised Text On TK Protection On Its Way To WIPO Assembly from www.ip-watch.org

Just like the draft text on the protection of genetic resources last month, a set of draft articles on the protection of traditional knowledge have cleared a hurdle and will be forwarded to the World ...

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Should you be able to tax an abstract idea? from www.717madisonplace.com

I have been trying to think about how the definition ultimately given to an “abstract idea” might affect other areas of the law.  For example, if software is deemed an abstract idea, it seems inevitable ...

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Assume there are two co-owners to a patent that has never been licensed and one co-owner “waives all right, title, and interest” in the patent, what result? The remaining co-owner now has full exclusive rights to assert the patent; or The patent will be deemed granted to the public and therefore unenforceable. from patentlyo.com

Assume there are two co-owners to a patent that has never been licensed and one co-owner “waives all right, title, and interest” in the patent, what result? The remaining co-owner now has full exclusive rights ...

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60 Minutes on March 30, 2014 from ipbiz.blogspot.com

Michael Lewis, author of Flash a boys, tells Steve Kroft
the stock market is rigged.

High frequency traders and front running. In 208, Kotsuyama noted
Problems in buying stock. Spread Networks. Ronan Ryan.
Beat speed ...

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Conference & CLE Calendar from www.patentdocs.org

March 31, 2014 - Post argument discussion of Alice Corporation Pty. Ltd. v. CLS Bank International (American University Washington College of Law Program on Information Justice & Intellectual Property) - 4:00 to 5:45 pm (Eastern) March ...

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Preclusion in Patent Litigation from patentlyo.com

By Dennis Crouch Brain Life, LLC v. Elekta (Fed. Cir. 2014) Res Judicata: Patent litigation preclusion doctrines are – at times – confusing. The doctrine of claim preclusion is linguistically challenging in patent cases because the precluded ...

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Over Samsung's objection, judge allows video showing Apple products in patentability context from www.fosspatents.com

I wasn't going to comment on the new Apple v. Samsung trial until after the parties' opening argument, but I've changed plans because Judge Koh made a decision I really wouldn't have ...

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New York Times Op-Ed Argues Law Takes Misguided Approach to Software Patents from www.patentdocs.org

By Michael Borella -- On March 28, Professor Robin Feldman of the University of California Hastings College of Law wrote an op-ed piece in the New York Times entitled "Slowing the Patent Trolls". Unfortunately, like so ...

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