Patent & IP news for June 3, 2014

US Supreme Court "Definitely" At It Again from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Yesterday was a patent double bill from the US Supreme Court.  As our dear blogmeister Jeremy has just posted, it was confirmed that for there to be inducement of infringement, there has to be a ...

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US Supreme Court in the Limelight, casts shadow over patent inducement liability from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Forget for a minute topics as such quality patents, mechanisms for examination and grant, patent prosecution highways and all that stuff: it's the quality of relief for patent infringement which is the motor that ...

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Danes vote to ratify the Unified Patent Court agreement from patlit.blogspot.com

But 5-0 is not enough ...Via a European Commission media release comes news that the Danes have voted in a referendum in favour of joining the Unified Patent Court (UPC).  This decision empowers the Danish ...

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Limelight Networks, Inc. v. Akamai Technologies, Inc. (2014) from www.patentdocs.org

By Donald Zuhn -- Today, in Limelight Networks, Inc. v. Akamai Technologies, Inc., the Supreme Court determined that a defendant is not liable for inducing infringement of a patent under 35 U. S. C. § 271(b ...

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Industry group presents another theory for slashing Apple's $929 million award in Samsung case from www.fosspatents.com

A few days ago I blogged about an amicus curiae brief submitted by 27 law professors in support of Samsung's appeal of the $929 million aggregate damages award in the first California Apple v ...

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Innovation Occurs In Informal Economy, Needs Policy Framework, Panellists Say from www.ip-watch.org

Findings of a World Intellectual Property Organization Committee on Development and Intellectual Property (CDIP) project show that innovation occurs in the informal sector, and generates employment and development. Panellists at a recent side event to ...

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No Patent Office Director – 486 Days Later from patentlyo.com

By Dennis Crouch David Kappos has been an instrumental leader in patent reform over the past several years. In the lead-up to the America Invents Act of 2011, it was Kappos – acting then in his ...

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Supreme Court reverts to stricter standard for finding induced patent infringement from ipspotlight.com

Continuing its string of reversals of Federal Circuit patent decisions, the United States Supreme Court has done it again.  In  Limelight Technologies, Inc. v. Akamai Technologies, Inc., the Court ruled that a defendant can be ...

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Patent Reform 2014: Removing Non-Practicing Entities from the USITC’s Jurisdiction from patentlyo.com

This is a Guest Post from attorney Ben Snitkoff who originally posted it on the blog Technically Legal. Technically Legal is a blog and podcast run by three technology-focused lawyers and their technology expert: David ...

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Is the Federal Circuit Really Worse Than the Cubs? from patentlyo.com

By Jason Rantanen Yesterday, following the Supreme Court’s unanimous reversal of the Federal Circuit in Nautilus and Akamai, Vera Ranieri of the Electronic Frontier Foundation observed that: These rulings mean that the Federal Circuit ...

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Judicial Error and Justice Alito’s Hypothetical in Limelight from patentlyo.com

By Jason Rantanen As I read yesterday’s two Supreme Court opinions, I was struck by the sense that even as it grants certiorari on an extraordinary number of patent cases, the Court’s actual ...

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A look at a new book on Creating a Learning Society from www.athenaalliance.org

It is hard to tell whether "Pikettymania" (including the little dust up over data) has peaked now that he has been on the Colbert Report (see my earlier post on the best reviews of his ...

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ITC Institutes Investigation (337-TA-916) Regarding Certain Non-Volatile Memory Chips from www.itcblog.com

On May 29, 2014, the U.S. International Trade Commission issued a press release announcing their vote to institute an investigation of Certain Non-Volatile Memory Chips and Products Containing the Same (Inv. No. 337-TA-916). The ...

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MVS Filewrapper® Blog: Supreme Court Holds Induced Infringement Requires Direct Infringement from www.filewrapper.com

This week the U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision in Limelight Networks, Inc. v. Akamai Technologies, concluding that an act of direct patent infringement must be present for a claim of inducement of infringement ...

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ALJ Pender Sets Date For Markman Hearing In Certain Earpiece Devices Having Positioning And Retaining Structure (337-TA-912) from www.itcblog.com

On May 30, 2014, ALJ Thomas B. Pender issued Order No. 5 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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