Court Report - Part III from www.patentdocs.org By Sherri Oslick -- About Court Report: Each week we will report briefly on recently filed biotech and pharma cases. Eli Lilly and Company et al. v. Apotex Corp. et al. 1:14-cv-00586; filed April 16 ...
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Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GmbH v. Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Inc. (Fed. Cir. 2014) from www.patentdocs.org By Michael Greenfield -- On April 21, 2014, a Federal Circuit panel reiterated its interpretation and application to the chemical arts of the KSR obviousness standard. Although applicable more broadly than the chemical arts, the opinion ...
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UN Climate Change Report Assesses Options For Technology And IP Policy from www.ip-watch.org The latest United Nations report on climate change offers advice for international and national intellectual property policies relating to climate change mitigation technology. Although strong IP rights may foster green technology development and transfer in ...
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Fifth Circuit Affirms Summary Judgment of No Malpractice Liability from patentlyo.com By Dennis Crouch Sanders v. Flanders (5th Cir. 2014) This case is an attorney malpractice lawsuit that Eric Sanders is pursuing against his Texas-based patent attorney Harold Flanders. Although the case is based on a ...
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My cheatsheet on reviews of "Capital in the Twenty-First Century" from www.athenaalliance.org As you probably know, Thomas Piketty's "Capital in the Twenty-First Century" has taken the intelligentsia by storm. The massive study of wealth and inequality is already a sold-out Amazon best seller with used copies ...
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Denial of IPR Petition Not Excluded from Trial Evidence from docketreport.blogspot.com The court denied defendant's motion in limine to preclude evidence regarding the PTO's rejection of defendant's petition for
inter partes review of one of the patents-in-suit. "Defendant argues that introducing evidence of ...
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Appeals court deals Apple's current case against Samsung a massive blow: patent to be dropped? from www.fosspatents.com There's an amazing development with respect to the ongoing Apple v. Samsung trial that suggest to me the court should drop Apple's '647 "quick links" patent from the verdict form before jury deliberations ...
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World Bank paper on IP monetization from www.athenaalliance.org Today we are getting back to the theme of our short posting earlier this week on IP monetization. Specifically, let us look at a new briefing paper from the World Bank/OECD's Innovation Policy ...
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ALJ Pender Sets 15-Month Target Date In Certain Earpiece Devices Having Positioning And Retaining Structure (337-TA-912) from www.itcblog.com On April 23, 2014, ALJ Thomas B. Pender issued Order No. 3 in Certain Earpiece Devices Having Positioning And Retaining Structure and Components Thereof (Inv. No. 337-TA-912). By way of background, the investigation is based ...
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World Intellectual Property Day 2014 from www.iposgoode.ca Happy World IP Day! Wow, how many times have you said something like that before? World Intellectual Property Day? Yes, IP has come a long way. Since 2000, member states (currently 187 member states) of ...
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Congratulations to the Winners of the Giles S. Rich Patent Moot Court Competition from patentlyo.com Congratulations to our team from the Iowa College of Law, Joshua Galgano and Michelle Wallace, and their coaches, Prof. Christina Bohannan and Damon Andrews, for winning the national finals of the 41st Annual Giles S ...
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