Name your non-registered trade mark -- The GC on Ronaldinho's 'R10' CTM from ipkitten.blogspot.com A few hours before the World Cup’s kick-off match, the General Court wrote another Chapter of the “R10” saga, concerning a trade mark related to one of the funniest Brazilian football players ever [Case ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
Written description requirement for writing a patent application from ocpatentlawyer.com A patent application is a well-crafted document which has many different requirements for it to be effective. One of the requirements is the written description requirement. The Manual of Patent Examining Procedure states that “to ...
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BREAKING - Copyright exhaustion does not apply to digital goods other than software, Hamm Court of Appeal says from ipkitten.blogspot.com A peculiar building in Hamm
Good news for digital content providers come from a German Court of Appeal ruling that excluded exhaustion of the distribution right for digital subject-matter other than software. As readers will ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
Braintree Laboratories, Inc. v. Novel Laboratories, Inc. (Fed. Cir. 2014) from www.patentdocs.org Whither the Meaning of "a" as a Claim Term By Kevin E. Noonan -- Every once in a while a Federal Circuit panel construes a common claim term contrary to how it has been construed in ...
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Friday fantasies from ipkitten.blogspot.com Readers of this weblog will instantly recall this Kat's
blogpost of 21 January on
Société Des Produits Nestlé SA v Cadbury UK Ltd [2014] EWHC 16 (Ch), in which Mr Justice Arnold referred the ...
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Snapshot of 101 Patent Eligible Subject Matter Decisions in May 2014 from allthingspros.blogspot.com Posted by: Adam EllsworthAs the PTAB recently admitted, "the case law regarding 101 continues to evolve" (Ex parte Fickle, Appeal No. 2011-007587).I thought it might be helpful to look at cases decided by ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
The Proper Role for the Presumption of Validity from patentlyo.com Guest Post by Derek Dahlgren In 2011, the Supreme Court addressed the presumption of validity in Microsoft Corp. v. i4i Limited Partnership, 131 S. Ct. 2238 (2011). It confirmed that the standard of proof for ...
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UPC ratifications: how many so far? from patlit.blogspot.com This blogger is getting a bit confused. On 26 May the European Commission
announced that
Once the Danish Parliament ratifies the Agreement, Denmark will be the fifth Member State to ratify it (after Austria, Belgium ...
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New Report Pinpoints Challenges To Open, Sustainable Internet For All from www.ip-watch.org While in 2015 nearly 3 billion internet users will be connected across the world, their experiences once they are online will vary considerably according to their country. To find ways to bring everyone up to ...
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Does the lack of estoppel from third-party IPRs weigh against staying parallel litigation? from docketreport.blogspot.com NoThe court granted defendants' motion to stay pending inter partes review and rejected plaintiff's proposal to condition the stay on defendants' agreement to be estopped from raising the same arguments as the IPR ...
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Stay Pending Third Party IPR Conditioned on Defendant’s Agreement to Estoppel from docketreport.blogspot.com The court granted defendant's motion to stay pending
inter partes review, but conditioned the stay on defendant agreement to be bound by estoppel. "Typically, the benefit of a stay pending IPR is contingent in ...
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WIPO Report Indicates Unprecedented Rise in Renewable Energy Tech Innovation from www.ip-watch.org A new report commissioned by the World Intellectual Property Organization shows a huge increase in patent filings related to renewable energy technologies relative averages. The patent landscape in this area indicates that innovation is taking ...
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ITC Issues $6.2 Million Dollar Civil Penalty For Consent Order Violation In Certain Two-Way Global Satellite Communication Devices (337-TA-854) from www.itcblog.com On June 9, 2014, the International Trade Commission (“the Commission”) issued a notice and order in Certain Two-Way Global Satellite Communication Devices, System and Components Thereof (Inv. No. 337-TA-854) determining to impose a civil penalty ...
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Fundamental Change to Trade-mark Law Opposed by Business and Trade-mark Professionals from www.iposgoode.ca Bill C-31, the Economic Action Plan 2014 Act No. 1, which will legislate into law the federal government’s recent budget, includes amendments to a number of statutes. Of particular interest are the amendments to ...
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New Paper On Common Issues In WIPO TK, Genetic Resources Talks from www.ip-watch.org The chair of the World Intellectual Property Organization traditional knowledge and genetic resources committee has circulated a draft paper on common issues in the negotiations, in hopes of bringing parties closer together ahead of the ...
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ITC Issues Article Regarding Section 337 Investigation Statistics from www.itcblog.com On June 10, 2014, the International Trade Commission (“ITC” or the “Commission”) issued an article regarding statistical facts and trends relating to certain aspects of Section 337 investigations. According to the article, the number of ...
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MVS Filewrapper® Blog: Federal Circuit Holds Common Sense Cannot Establish Presence of an Element from www.filewrapper.com The Federal Circuit's recent decision in K/S HIMPP v. Hear-Wear Technologies presents an interesting development in the law of obviousness. In affirming a finding of non-obviousness by the PTO Board of Patent Appeals ...
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CLE on Limelight Networks, Inc. v. Akamai Technologies, Inc. from www.patentdocs.org Law Seminars International (LSI) will be offering a one-hour telebriefing on "Limelight Networks, Inc. v. Akamai Technologies, Inc. -- Implications of the Landmark Patent Decision" on June 16, 2014 from 2:00 to 3:00 pm ...
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