Patent & IP news for June 17, 2014

Rights of representation before the Unified Patent Court - Get your response in! from ipkitten.blogspot.com

This Kat has been following with great interest (and indeed some personal stake) the question of who will be entitled to represent before the Unified Patent Court (see for example previous post here).  Well, he ...

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New Governance Model Presented By UNEP-Industry Partnership from www.ip-watch.org

A corporate sustainability-centred model of governance is the subject of a new report issued by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Finance Initiative, a UN-private sector initiative.

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Judge Rader to Retire From the Federal Circuit from inventivestep.net

In a rather bizarre series of events, Randall Rader has gone from chief judge of the Federal Circuit to former judge of the Federal Circuit in just a few weeks. Prior to his appointment to ...

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Authorized Foreign Sale Exhausts Patent Rights Where License Includes Right to Import from docketreport.blogspot.com

The court granted in part plaintiff's motion for summary judgment that defendant's infringement claims for three of its data storage patents were barred by patent exhaustion even though the sales from defendant's ...

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Winners of the Gowlings Best Blog in IP Law and Technology Prize from www.iposgoode.ca

IP Osgoode would like to congratulate the winners of the Gowlings Best Blog in IP Law and Technology Prize for 2013-2014.  Four prizes in total are awarded each year to Osgoode students and the winning ...

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Indefiniteness “Can Be” Difficult under Nautilus from patentlyo.com

Ex parte Breed, Appeal No. 2012-003990 (PTAB 2014) On June 2, 2014, the Supreme Court decided Nautilus, Inc. v. Biosig Instruments, Inc., 134 S.Ct. 2120 (2014) lowering the standard for negating patentability due to ...

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NJ District Courts Bar Defendants’ Indefiniteness Argument During Claim Construction Because Not Alleged in Invalidity Contentions from www.iplawalert.com

We previously reported that New Jersey District Court Judges will limit a patent infringement defendant’s discovery to the claims and defenses identified in its Invalidity Contentions served under Local Patent Rule 3.3. For ...

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President Obama Designates New ITC Chairman and Vice Chairman from www.itcblog.com

On June 17, 2014, the ITC issued two press releases announcing that President Barack Obama has designated (1) Meredith Broadbent as Chairman of the U.S. International Trade Commission, and (2) Dean Pinkert as Vice ...

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