Design patent nonobviousness jurisprudence—going to the dogs? from patentlyo.com Guest post by Sarah Burstein, Associate Professor of Law at the University of Oklahoma College of Law MRC Innovations, Inc. v. Hunter Mfg., LLP (Fed. Cir. April 2, 2014) 13-1433.Opinion.3-31-2014.1 Panel: Prost ...
Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
Disney and Canadian DJ Spar Over U.S. Mouse-Head Design Trade Mark from ipkitten.blogspot.com Katfriend and occasional guest blogger Lucas Michels (Ironmark Law Group PLLC) has taken time out from his busy IP practice and blogging activities for the IP Exporter to do some serious mouse-watching for us. This ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
Stopping Bad Legislation -- The Innovation Alliance Speaks Out from www.patentdocs.org By Andrew Williams -- On the day before the Senate Judiciary Committee is scheduled to take up S. 1720 (The Patent Transparency and Improvements Act), the Innovation Alliance delivered a letter to Chairman Leahy and Ranking ...
Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
Book Presentation At WIPO Brings An Injection Of Optimism from www.ip-watch.org In a new book presented last week at the World Intellectual Property Organisation, an optimistic British economist suggests a shift in the way we think about global development by overcoming income as a unique indicator ...
Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
EU Wrestles With Procedure For Signing Marrakesh Treaty For Visually Impaired from www.ip-watch.org The Committee of Permanent Representatives of the European Union recently approved a compromise proposal by the Greek presidency, setting up a decision on the EU Council’s signing later this month of the Marrakesh Treaty ...
Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
February trade in intangibles from www.athenaalliance.org The trade deficit unexpectedly jumped up by $3 billion to $42.3 billion in February from $39.3 billion in January, according to BEA's data release this morning. February imports were up by $1 ...
Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
Intellectual Property Rights in Non-Genetically Engineered Plant Species from www.iposgoode.ca In the past, Monsanto has been successful in defending the company’s patents concerning the genes and modified cells present in genetically modified (GM) plants in both the United States and in Canada. Are Monsanto ...
Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
Court Rejects Class Action Settlement in Long-Standing Copyright Dispute Between Lawyers and Legal Publisher from www.iposgoode.ca An Ontario Superior Court has rejected a class action settlement between the publisher Thomson Reuters and a collection of Canadian lawyers and law firms, stating that the proposed settlement is not “fair, reasonable, or in ...
Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
The Academy Awards Selfie Rights Debate from www.iposgoode.ca Copyright ownership in Ellen Degeneres’ famous Oscar Twitter Selfie, which holds the record for most retweets, might be unclear, but for the average citizen sharing the picture, it doesn’t matter much. Canada’s fair ...
Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
Evidence of Pending Reexam Excluded, Along With Presumption of Validity from docketreport.blogspot.com The court granted plaintiff's motion in limine to exclude evidence of nonfinal reexamination proceedings, but precluded plaintiff from arguing a presumption of validity to the jury. "Telling the jury that the patent has been ...
Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
USTR Froman: ‘We Have Had Over 1,200 Meetings With Congress On TPP’ from www.ip-watch.org The United States Trade Representative's office has held over 1,200 meetings with the US Congress about the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement, USTR Michael Froman told a congressional committee hearing on the US trade ...
Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
Getting Profits From Patents: An Interview with Ed Fan and Loreto Grimaldi from www.iposgoode.ca The course Legal Values: Commercializing Intellectual Property is being offered for the first time at Osgoode Hall Law School this winter term. The IPilogue sat down with Adjunct Professors, Ed Fan (Torys LLP, Partner) and ...
Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
Patent Pricing: One Part Market Value; Two Parts Perceived Need from ipcloseup.wordpress.com Google’s recent sale of Motorola Mobility’s handset business to China’s Lenovo is an illustration of how what appeared to have been an over zealous acquisition in 2012 may be starting to make ...
Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
PTAB Roundtables Coming to a City Near You from www.iplawalert.com On March 25, 2014, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) announced that the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) would be hosting roundtables across the country to educate the public, and collect feedback ...
Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
USPTO Creates Office Of International Patent Cooperation from www.ip-watch.org The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) today announced the creation of a new Office of International Patent Cooperation (OIPC), aimed at implementation of US patent cooperation efforts and helping to harmonise patent systems ...
Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
Partnership for American Innovation from ipbiz.blogspot.com Of
Partnership for American Innovation , Forbes noted
The group's charter members are Apple (AAPL), DuPont (DD), Ford (F), General Electric (GE), IBM (IBM), Microsoft (MSFT), and Pfizer (PFE), and its "senior advisor" is Dave ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
Patent drafting tools that help broaden scope of patent protection from ocpatentlawyer.com In drafting patent applications, it may be useful to broaden the language by using words such as “preferred” and to use claim language such as “substantially” or words of similar import. Preferred connotes that the ...
Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
IP Law Europe Summit To Be Held In June from www.ip-watch.org marcus evans is pleased to announce the
IP Law Europe Summit taking place 2-3 June 2014 at Le Meridien Beach Plaza Monte Carlo in Monaco.In the era of the global knowledge economy, the subject ...
Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
Apple files motion, alleges false and prejudicial statements by Samsung's counsel at start of trial from www.fosspatents.com There's a first fallout from the opening statements made in Apple v. Samsung II yesterday: Apple just brought a "motion for permission to present evidence that Apple practices the '414, '172 and '959 patents ...
Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
Retailer Lawsuit May be Severed and Stayed Pending Outcome Against Manufacturer from patentlyo.com By Dennis Crouch In re Toyota Motor Corp (Fed. Cir. 2014) AVS – an Acacia company – sued Toyota for patent infringement in the Eastern District of Texas. As part of the litigation strategy, AVS included Gulf ...
Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
European Parliament Backs Net Neutrality from www.ip-watch.org The European Parliament today decided to clearly limit network operators' possibilities to treat selected services differently for purely economic reasons.
Related Articles: Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
Second Biosimilar Company Files Declaratory Judgment Action Before Filing FDA Application from www.orangebookblog.com Celltrion Healthcare v. Janssen Biotech, No. 14-11613 (D. Mass.) by Sandra A. Frantzen On March 31, Celltrion filed a Complaint for Declaratory Judgment in the District of Massachusetts against Janssen Biotech, seeking a declaration of ...
Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
A patent on all flying machines? from ipbiz.blogspot.com Digging within a post
#BeyondIP Blog Symposium about the Innovation Law Beyond IP conference at Yale, one can find text
In this article, Merges and Nelson explore the policy issue of patent scope. To use ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
Trademark Opposition of Deadmou5 vs. Disney from patentlawip.blogspot.com At the end of March, The Trademark Trial and Appeals Board granted Disney a 90 day extension to file an opposition against a pending trademark sought by Ronica Holdings, Limited, on behalf of the popular ...
Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
PTAB reverses anticipation rejection in Ex parte Neel; no picking and choosing within disclosure of cited reference from ipbiz.blogspot.com In re Arkley, 455 F.2d 586, 587-88 (CCPA 1972) is cited in
Ex parte Neel for the proposition: an anticipatory reference
must clearly and unequivocally disclose the claimed [product]or direct those skilled in ...
Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook