Patent & IP news for April 26, 2014

Smartphone brands: cachet or commodity? from ipkitten.blogspot.com

First a quiz—how many Kat readers can identify the following smartphone brands: Wiko, Micromax, Karbonn, Symphony, OPPO, Vivo and Walton? I suspect that few or any of you can do so unaided. Well, neither ...

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Fordham Report 2014: SCOTUS, the CJEU and trade marks -- a matter of influence from ipkitten.blogspot.com

This Kat had the privilege this morning of participating as a panellist in "Sunrise Seminar II: Supreme Courts and Trademark Law: Why SCOTUS has little influence, why the CJEU has more – but for how long ...

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Phil & Ted's Most Excellent Buggy Company Limited prevails in patent dispute on baby buggies from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Just before Easter, the Court of Appeal handed down its decision in Phil & Ted's Most Excellent Buggy Company Limited v TFK Trends for Kids GmbH, EWCA Civ 469 (apologies for the slight delay in ...

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Fordham Report 2014: IP Industries’ Contribution to Economic Performance and the Public’s Perception Thereof from ipkitten.blogspot.com

"IP Industries’ Contribution to Economic Performance and the Public’s Perception Thereof" was the grand title of a session at this year's Fordham IP Conference that was moderated by Coenraad Visser (University of South ...

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Fordham Report 2014: General Counsel Roundtable from ipkitten.blogspot.com

The GC RoundtableAnother bright and sunny day in Manhattan saw the General Counsel of leading American companies discuss the key challenges and opportunities in IP law for their businesses.  The panel consisted of Michael ...

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Own Your (Trade Mark) Power! from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Here's a guest post from fellow blogger and NY-based attorney Marie-Andrée Weiss (thanks so much, Marie-Andrée!) on a long-running drama that has received relatively little coverage outside its native United States:

Americans have a ...

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Fordham Report 2014: Perspectives from Intellectual Property Pioneers from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Unlike in the Oregon Trail, IP Pioneers nowadays
are less likely to die of dysentery in their pursuit
of their gold - the holy grail of balanceFollowing hotly on the heels of Jeremy's posts ...

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Fordham Report 2014: The European Unitary Patent and the Unified Patent Court from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Margot Fröhlinger:
the internal UPC optimistIt is no surprise that the AmeriKat would be covering the session on the Unified Patent Court.  As she made her way outside into the bright American sunshine to ...

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Copying is all that Samsung needs to do in order to work around four of Apple's five patents-in-suit from www.fosspatents.com

Apple's "copying" accusations against Samsung have over the years degenerated into a red herring. In 2011 I truly admired the coherent and compelling fashion in which Apple's lawyers told a complex copycat story ...

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WTO To Consider Five Australia Plain Packaging Disputes Under One Panel from www.ip-watch.org

The World Trade Organization Dispute Settlement Body yesterday agreed to establish two more panels in a dispute against Australia's plain packaging for tobacco products, bringing the total to five. And it was agreed that ...

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Antigua Questions Efficacy Of WTO Dispute System Over IP-Related Case from www.ip-watch.org

Can the World Trade Organization’s smallest members use the dispute settlement system effectively? That is a question that seemed to be suggested by the tiny Caribbean nation of Antigua and Barbuda at a WTO ...

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