Patent & IP news for May 1, 2014

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post image How to assess ASSOS: General Court tells all from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Case T 647/11 Asos plc v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM), Roger Maier, a decision of the General Court of the European Union (Seventh Chamber) this past ...

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post image Patent litigation: some recent literature from patlit.blogspot.com

"The Transitional Period of the Agreement on a Unified Patent Court", by leading German scholar and Hogan Lovells counsel Winfried Tilmann, has just been published online in the Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice (JIPLP ...

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post image The right of adaptation has not been generally harmonised at the EU level: true or false? from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Gigi is very adaptable
when it comes
to where to sleep,
but is this what the
adaptation right is about?
Calling all students who are revising for their spring exams! What is the right answer ...

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post image Inventiveness and incontinence: a barrage of cross-purpose expert evidence from ipkitten.blogspot.com

The substance of Environmental Health Systems Limited ("EDS") v Synergy Health plc and Another ("Synergy") & Gravits (International) Limited & Others ("Gravitas") [2014] EWHC 1306 (IPEC) concerns obviousness of EDS's European Patent No 2 393 989 ...

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Software Sector Leads First Quarter Venture Funding to Thirteen Year High; Biotech Sector Finishes Second (Again) from www.patentdocs.org

By Donald Zuhn -- Earlier this month, the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), a trade association representing the U.S. venture capital industry, released the results of its MoneyTree Report on venture funding for the first ...

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At WIPO, Authors, Civil Society Watchful Of Rights For Broadcasters from www.ip-watch.org

Nongovernmental organisations attending the World Intellectual Property Organization copyright committee meeting which this week sought to breach differences on what a treaty protecting broadcasters should cover, expressed their views with some unusual coherence.

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Online Retailer Alibaba ‘Stocks Up’ on U.S. Patents Pre-IPO from ipcloseup.wordpress.com

In the days preceding what could be the largest U.S. IPO ever, Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce giant, has been buying patents as well as filing them in an attempt to establish a stronger IP ...

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Opportunity Lost: Economic Analysis in Apple v. Motorola from patentlyo.com

This is a Guest Post from Professor David McGowan of the University of San Diego School of Law. McGowan is the Director of USD’s Center for Intellectual Property Law & Markets Two years ago Judge ...

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Pending Motion for Attorneys’ Fees Requires Additional Briefing to Address Highmark and Octane Fitness from docketreport.blogspot.com

The court ordered the parties to submit supplemental simultaneous briefing regarding defendants' motion for attorneys' fees following the recent Supreme Court decisions in Highmark Inc. v. Allcare Health Management System, Inc., No. 12-1163 (Apr. 29 ...

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Upcoming Gibbons Institute Event – “USPTO Patent Post-Issuance Proceedings Under the America Invents Act” – May 6 from www.iplawalert.com

On Tuesday, May 6, the Gibbons Institute of Law, Science & Technology will host, "USPTO Patent Post-Issuance Proceedings Under the America Invents Act: Considerations Impacting the Healthcare and Technology Sectors," at 5:00 pm in the ...

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GDP, GAAP and R&D from www.athenaalliance.org

As noted in past postings, the GDP data now treats R&D; spending as an investment rather than an expense. The most recent Survey of Current Business includes a "BEA Briefing: Treatment of Research and ...

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Soft Law Presented At WIPO As A Solution In International Copyright Law from www.ip-watch.org

A presentation of the Tunis Model Law this week at a World Intellectual Property Organization side event addressed how it could be updated and used as a tool to help developing countries implement new developments ...

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UNCTAD Review Of Bangladesh Calls For Drug Market Opening; Government Cautious from www.ip-watch.org

An investment policy review undertaken by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) found that Bangladesh needs to attract foreign direct investment to sustain its development and suggests that the country loosen its ...

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Ten Answers From NETmundial from www.ip-watch.org

In a previous Inside Views article, 10 questions were raised with the hope that they would be answered in the "Global Multisectoral Meeting on the Future of Internet Governance,” also known as NETmundial. After the ...

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Quick hypothetical: Assume that a patent owner has licensed its patent to a manufacturer. Subsequently, a third party buys the patent through a bona fide purchase and without any notice of the prior license and with a promise from the prior owner that the patent has not been licensed. Question: Is the patent still subject […] from patentlyo.com

Quick hypothetical: Assume that a patent owner has licensed its patent to a manufacturer. Subsequently, a third party buys the patent through a bona fide purchase and without any notice of the prior license and ...

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Spansion Files New 337 Complaint Regarding Certain Non-Volatile Memory Chips from www.itcblog.com

On April 29, 2014, Spansion LLC of Sunnyvale, California (“Spansion”) filed a complaint requesting that the ITC commence an investigation pursuant to Section 337. The complaint alleges that the following entities (collectively, the “Proposed Respondents ...

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Tick tock from www.717madisonplace.com

Hard to believe that the Whitehouse.gov site celebrated this photo as the “Photo of the Day” back on November 19, 2013. That date was roughly a year after David Kappos announced he would be ...

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Attorney Fees Awarded Following Consent Decree from patentlyo.com

Cartner v. Alamo Group (Fed. Cir. 2014) Note – this decision by the Federal Circuit was released prior to the Supreme Court’s recent decisions in Octane Fitness and Highmark. Cartner sued the road-maintenance equipment maker ...

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