Supreme Court on Patent Law from patentlyo.com Only four years in, the 2010s have seen more Supreme Court patent cases than any decade since the 1960s. And, by the end of 2015, I expect that 1960 mark will also be surpassed. The ...
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Never mind the detergent -- patents can also dissolve: an update on Unilever/P&G's Ariel warfare from ipkitten.blogspot.com Back at the beginning of last month, this weblog hosted a
guest piece, "Unilever's Ariel assault on P&G;: a victory/defeat in the Netherlands", by Denise Verdoold and Maarten Rijks (both of Dutch ...
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March employment from www.athenaalliance.org A rather lackluster employment report this morning. The unemployment rate stayed at 6.7% and payrolls grew by 192,000. This was somewhat below economists' expectations of 200,000 new jobs. The number of involuntary ...
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Presentation of UKIPO and OHIM mediation services (part 1) - an event report from ipkitten.blogspot.com Attracted... not by a silverspoon , but by an email sent out to ITMA members by the industrious Gillian Rogers, this Kat on Monday lunchtime attended an event at CIPA Hall relating to the OHIM and ...
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Don't look now, but did you contract away your right to publish online criticism? from ipkitten.blogspot.com Perhaps the ultimate cat-(or is that Kat?)-and-mouse game in the IP world is the attempt by one party to impose on another by contract that to which he may not be entitled by ...
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UPCA draft Rules of Procedure: issues that are still open from patlit.blogspot.com Professor Doctor Winfried Tilmann (Heidelberg University; Counsel to HoganLovells Düsseldorf) has been giving his close attention to some of the issues that still remain open for resolution following the publication of the 16th draft of ...
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Friday fantasies from ipkitten.blogspot.com Famous folk. This Kat learns that this year’s inductees into the IP Hall of Fame have now been selected. They are• Daniel Bereskin (a founding partner of Canadian law firm Bereskin & Parr and a ...
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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. Bristol-Myers Squibb Company v. Apotex Inc. et al. 1:14-cv-00351; filed March 19, 2014 in the ...
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Senate Judiciary Committee Tables Patent Reform, Again from www.patentdocs.org By Andrew Williams -- The Senate Committee on the Judiciary was set to consider the Patent Transparency and Improvements Act of 2013 (S. 1720) earlier today during an Executive Business Meeting. Instead, the Committee again tabled ...
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UNITAID Publishes Full Report On Implications Of TPP from www.ip-watch.org UNITAID has just published the full version of its report on “The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement: Implications for Access to Medicines and Public Health.”
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Judge Koh says no to Apple from ipbiz.blogspot.com In the Apple/Samsung matter, Judge Koh basically denied Apple's motion to present evidence it practices the patents at issue. The confusion is because of the difference between practicing patents vs. practicing claims. Apple ...
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MPP Drug Licencing Deal Brings Hope For Greater Access To HIV Treatments from www.ip-watch.org The Medicines Patent Pool (MPP) this week announced two new licencing agreements with the private sector joint venture ViiV Healthcare that will increase access to a new antiretroviral in countries hardest hit by HIV.
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University Of Geneva Internet L@w Summer School In June from www.ip-watch.org The University of Geneva is launching an Internet l@w summer school which will take place from June 16 to June 27, 2014.
The Internet l@w summer school offers the opportunity to learn and ...
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Magistrate Judge’s Order Declining Construction of All Disputed Terms Vacated from docketreport.blogspot.com The court sustained plaintiff's objection to the magistrate judge's claim construction order which did not construe all disputed terms. "[T]he Magistrate Judge did not construe all of the claim terms in dispute ...
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Apple now argues (and Samsung disputes) it practiced 3 asserted patent claims in the PAST from www.fosspatents.com It's an oddity that on the third day of the Apple v. Samsung II trial in California the debate is not about whether Google and Samsung infringe Apple's patents-in-suit but whether Apple itself ...
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Senate on Patent Reform from patentlyo.com By Dennis Crouch As the House of Representatives did, the Senate’s approach is clearly bipartisan. The Senate Judiciary Committee is moving forward with the Leahy-Lee patent bill. The whole focus of the Senate is ...
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Google Wins Domain Case Against “Googleglass” Website from www.ip-watch.org Google has successfully defended its Google Glass name in an internet domain dispute in Europe, reported by the World Intellectual Property Organization today.
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ITC Institutes Investigation (337-TA-913) Regarding Certain Hemostatic Products from www.itcblog.com On April 2, 2014, the U.S. International Trade Commission issued a press release announcing their vote to institute an investigation of Certain Hemostatic Products and Components Thereof (Inv. No. 337-TA-913). The investigation is based ...
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PLI Fundamentals of Patent Prosecution Seminar from www.patentdocs.org Practising Law Institute (PLI) will be holding its Fundamentals of Patent Prosecution 2014: A Boot Camp for Claim Drafting & Amendment Writing seminar on May 13-15, 2014 in Chicago, IL, on June 11-13, 2014 in New ...
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GW Law Symposium on Intellectual Property from www.patentdocs.org The George Washington University Law School (with Mayer Brown and Pillsbury) will be holding its annual GW Law Symposium on Intellectual Property on May 6, 2014 at The George Washington University Law School, 2000 H ...
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Webinar on Supreme Court's Medtronic Ruling from www.patentdocs.org Technology Transfer Tactics will be offering a webinar entitled "The Supreme Court’s Medtronic Ruling: Practical Guidance for Protecting University IP" on April 24, 2014, 2013 from 1:00 - 2:00 pm (Eastern). Brian D ...
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Webinar on Advanced AIA Issues for Patent Claim Construction from www.patentdocs.org Strafford will be offering a webinar/teleconference entitled "Advanced AIA Issues for Patent Claim Construction: Best Practices Absent Clear Court Guidance" on April 23, 2014 from 1:00 to 2:30 pm (EDT). Thomas L ...
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