Patent & IP news for April 12, 2014

Commission publishes responses to Public Consultation on the Review of EU Copyright Rules from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Getting ready for an intense weekend of ...
copyright reading?Would you fancy some reading this weekend? 

Of course, you will remember the Public Consultation on the Review of EU Copyright Rules [here], which the Commission ...

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The moose, loose in the non-use hoose from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Emerging from the busyness of hearing preparation, this Kat has now found a moment to tell you about a clever little loophole just closed by OHIM (the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market) which ...

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Patent exhaustion:"Patent-by-patent" or "claim-by-claim"? from ipkitten.blogspot.com

This Kat has long wondered why it is that so many basic legal issues with respect to third-party uses of an IP right are still unsettled. Let’s take patent exhaustion. True, the creation of ...

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BCP Customer Partnership Meeting from www.patentdocs.org

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office will be holding its next biotechnology/chemical/pharmaceutical (BCP) customer partnership meeting on Wednesday, April 16, 2014. The agenda for the meeting is as follows: Morning Session • Welcoming ...

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ACI Biosimilars Conference from www.patentdocs.org

American Conference Institute (ACI) will be holding a conference on Biosimilars on June 4-6, 2014 in New York, NY. ACI faculty will help attendees: • Understand the battles over naming and substitution on the federal and ...

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Google's Lockheimer as witness in Apple v. Samsung from ipbiz.blogspot.com



Within a New York Times account of Apple v. Samsung:


Samsung’s lawyers called Mr. Lockheimer as a witness so he could demonstrate how Android was already well into development before the iPhone was introduced ...

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Hoffmann-LaRoche loses appeal on Boniva at CAFC from ipbiz.blogspot.com

Hoffman-LaRoche and Genentech cases on Boniva

Hoffman-LaRoche lost its appeal at the CAFC:


Plaintiff Hoffmann-La Roche, Inc., (“Roche”) appeals
from the decision of the United States District Court for
the District of New Jersey granting ...

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They Invented What? (No. 238) from anticipatethis.wordpress.com

U.S. Patent No. 6,860,237: Bird perch. I claim: 1. A bird perch worn on a person’s upper arm comprising: a generally curved relatively rigid band; means for releasably securing said band ...

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Oral argument in Alice v. CLS Bank from www.717madisonplace.com

The Supreme Court heard oral argument in the case of Alice v. CLS Bank on March 31st. You can download/listen to the entire oral argument here: [Listen]. The transcript of the oral argument is ...

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Submarine Patents from www.717madisonplace.com

I was on vacation last week doing some scuba diving in the Caribbean.  But, I took some time off to try and better understand the phenomenon of “submarine patents.”  This little mini-submersible takes people down ...

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