Patent & IP news for April 24, 2014

Fordham Report 2014: Multilateral and FTA Law & Policy from ipkitten.blogspot.com

On a bright but chilly Thursday morning the Fordham Intellectual Property Law Institute and the Emily C. & John E. Hansen Intellectual Property Institute opened their doors to the 22nd Annual Intellectual Property Law & Policy Conference ...

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Fordham Report 2014: Trade Mark Law and the CJEU from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Katfriend James Nurton (editor, Managing Intellectual Property) chaired the keenly-awaited session on trade marks and the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), which was opened by Allan Rosas -- a judge of the CJEU ...

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Fordham Report 2014: Multilateral developments from ipkitten.blogspot.com

The final session of the first day of this year's Fordham IP Conference attended by this Kat was dedicated to multilateral developments -- a bland and boring title for an important and difficult subject. This ...

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Spanish Napster defeats music majors from ipkitten.blogspot.com


What an effervescent start to 2014 for intellectual property in Spain! Among law reforms, seminal rulings on ISP liability and catastrophic surveys on online piracy, Katfriend Carlos Garcia Berned (right) just brought to the IPKat ...

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Wednesday whimsies from ipkitten.blogspot.com

World IP Day 1. This Kat has heard from his friends at Edward Elgar Publishing that, in honour of World Intellectual Property Day on 26 April, they are offering a 35% discount on books published ...

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“Quentin, come here!” -- a plea for Tarantino’s copyright litigation in Europe from ipkitten.blogspot.com


Feeling depressed for copyright infringement?Many people may know the sad story of Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Hateful Eight’. For those who don’t, ‘Hateful Eight’ is [or might have been] the American director’s next ...

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BREAKING NEWS: AGCOM issues the first fastissimo administrative blocking injunction from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Less than one month has lapsed since the Italian Communication Authority (‘AGCOM’)’s Regulation on Online Copyright Enforcement [on which see the IPKat’s notes here, here and here, along with this Kat’s keynote ...

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Fordham Report 2014: IP Leaders from ipkitten.blogspot.com

"IP offices cannot solve
every problem ..."The second session at Fordham's annual IP conference focused on "Intellectual Property Leaders", indeed starring quite a few of them. Katfriend António Campinos (President of the Office for ...

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The EPO Rules on Strikes Revealed to Merpel from ipkitten.blogspot.com

This year, Merpel decided to take a combined Passover and Easter vacation touring round the sites of the European Patent Office.  On her travels, she happened across a copy of the EPO Service Regulations and ...

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Fordham Report 2014: Enforcement issues from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Following a hearty lunch, this year's Fordham IP Conference split into streams. Eleonora raced off to the copyright session, while Annsley the AmeriKat committed herself to patents, leaving this Kat to pick up the ...

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Court Report - Part II from www.patentdocs.org

By Sherri Oslick -- About Court Report: Each week we will report briefly on recently filed biotech and pharma cases. Helsinn Healthcare S.A. et al. v. Cipla Ltd. et al. 1:14-cv-00427; filed April 7 ...

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One Year On At The Medicines Patent Pool: Interview With Greg Perry from www.ip-watch.org

Greg Perry has been executive director of the Medicines Patent Pool (MPP) for over a year now, since January 2013. Under his guidance, MPP shares that it has launched a “series of new licensing agreements ...

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Failure to Establish Comparability of Prior Settlement Agreements Warrants Exclusion of Reasonable Royalty Opinion from docketreport.blogspot.com

The court granted defendant's motion in limine to exclude the opinions of plaintiff's reasonable royalty expert because the expert based his opinion on an arbitrary baseline rate. "[Plaintiff's expert] does not even ...

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Transfer on Mandamus from patentlyo.com

By Dennis Crouch Since its 2008 TS Tech decision, the Federal Circuit has repeatedly received Mandamus requests to force transfer of patent infringement lawsuits – usually out of the Eastern District of Texas and – into other ...

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WIPO Copyright Committee To Consider Broadcasting Treaty, Exceptions For Libraries from www.ip-watch.org

World Intellectual Property Organization delegates next week are expected to pore over a draft treaty text offering protection to broadcasters. Some issues, such as what the protection should cover, remain in the way of consensual ...

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Tentative verdict form for Apple v. Samsung II trial contains patent-product matrix for damages from www.fosspatents.com

Late on Wednesday, Judge Lucy Koh published her tentative verdict form for the ongoing Apple v. Samsung II jury trial, in which the final jury instructions will be given on Monday. The parties have been ...

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CAFC examines 35 USC 141 in VAILLANCOURT v. Becton Dickinson from ipbiz.blogspot.com

The CAFC easily disposed of the issue in VAILLANCOURT v. Becton Dickinson :


Though the parties in this case have argued about “standing,” the Supreme Court recently clarified that some issues often discussed in “standing” terms ...

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ITC Issues Public Version Of Opinion In Certain Digital Models, Digital Data, And Treatments Plans For Use, In Making Incremental Dental Positioning Adjustment Appliances Made Therefrom (337-TA-833) from www.itcblog.com

Further to our April 7, 2014 post, on April 10, 2014, the International Trade Commission (the “Commission”) issued the public version of its opinion finding a violation of Section 337 in Certain Digital Models, Digital ...

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Preempting Patent Reform from patentlyo.com

By Dennis Crouch Despite his support for gun control laws, President Obama has been a major driver of American gun sales. The theory is that folks have been buying guns them now before the President ...

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Tang vs. Bourbon from www.717madisonplace.com

There was a humorous moment recently during oral argument at the Federal Circuit when Judge Plager suggested that the advocate for the appellant might want to replace Tang with bourbon in the analogy being posited ...

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I just found Kelly Hyndman’s patent law site Jurinspired.com. In 2014, Hyndman has been creating a weekly patent law video – each segment begins with a 10-15 minute patent law focused discussion. Check it out: http://www.jurinspired.com/category/video-2/ from patentlyo.com

I just found Kelly Hyndman’s patent law site Jurinspired.com. In 2014, Hyndman has been creating a weekly patent law video – each segment begins with a 10-15 minute patent law focused discussion. Check it ...

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US, Japan Agree To “Inject New Momentum” Into TPP Talks from www.ip-watch.org

Japan and the United States today announced their renewed commitment to an ambitious Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement. The statement from the bilateral leaders’ meeting followed reports that bilateral talks toward the TPP were stalling. The ...

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NetMundial Outcome Document Now Available from www.ip-watch.org

The final outcome document of the two-day NetMundial internet governance meeting in Sao Paolo has been posted. The meeting took place on 23-24 April. The document is available here. The 11-page “statement” document contains different ...

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