Patent & IP news for June 25, 2014

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post image Wednesday whimsies from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Hark!  On Tuesday 1 July hearings before the Court of Justice of the European Union take place in two key pieces of litigation regarding the future of patents in Europe. The are
Hearing is the ...

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post image Five stripes and you're out -- The GC on decorative marks from ipkitten.blogspot.com

5Stripes appear to be a big deal in the clothing field. In the landmark Adidasdecision [Case C-102/07, on which see the IPKat’s note here], the Court of Justice of the European ...

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post image 1Q 2014 GDP - and intangibles investments revised up, again from www.athenaalliance.org

Well, it is even worse than previous reported. GDP shrank by 2.9% in the first quarter of 2014, according to data released by the BEA this morning. The second estimate had shown a drop ...

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post image Sir Hugh Laddie Lecture: Professor Hugh Hansen warns of the culture of the public domain from ipkitten.blogspot.com

The AmeriKat, five years ago, when she really
was a tiny little kitten 
It has been five years since the first Sir Hugh Laddie lecture at UCL's Institute of Brand and Innovation Law. In ...

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post image Forget Jurassic Park -- here comes the Tyranno-Suar from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Uruguay soccer star Luis Suárez currently earns £200,000 a week as a Liverpool FC football player (that's US$339,000 or 249,000 uro). In addition, his sponsorship deals (most recently with 888 ...

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A New Dynamic Coalition on Platform Responsibility within the IGF from www.iposgoode.ca

  The re-posting of this analysis is part of a cross-posting collaboration with MediaLaws: Law and Policy of the Media in a Comparative Perspective.   Two weeks ago, the Secretariat of the United Nations’ Internet Governance Forum ...

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Court Report from www.patentdocs.org

By Sherri Oslick -- About Court Report: Each week we will report briefly on recently filed biotech and pharma cases. Cephalon Inc. v. Actavis Laboratories FL Inc. et al. 1:14-cv-00776; filed June 19, 2014 in ...

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Shire wins in DNJ in case over the hyperactivity drug Vyvanse from ipbiz.blogspot.com



Reuters noted that DNJ granted Shire's summary judgment motion in a lawsuit against five generic drug producers [ Actavis, Amneal, Mylan, Roxane and Novartis's Sandoz unit ], holding that patent claims protecting its medicine were ...

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Hindsight in 101 Jurisprudence: an early morning half-baked thought or an insight? from patentlyo.com

Dennis is on vacation and said I could post so I’m running with it! The analysis everyone suggests is right under 101 (recall I don’t think it’s an invalidity defense; not sure ...

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Nice Classification of Trade-marks – Perhaps Not So Nice for Canadians from www.iposgoode.ca

As discussed in Allison McLean’s “Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes coming to the Trade-marks Act” June 5, 2014 post, significant changes to the Canadian Trade-marks Act were introduced in Bill C-31, the 2014 budget bill.  While the most ...

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Carving Out State Protections in Patent Enforcement from www.iplawalert.com

We have previously posted on proposed federal and state legislation aimed at addressing the toll of patent troll litigation on the U.S. economy. To date, twenty-five states have passed or are considering legislation aimed ...

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ALJ Essex Denies Motion For Reconsideration, Motion For Leave To Supplement Production, And Motion For Respondent To Be Found In Default In Certain Windshield Wipers (337-TA-902) from www.itcblog.com

On June 24, 2014, ALJ Theodore R. Essex issued the public versions of Order No. 12 (dated May 30, 2014), Order No. 14 (dated June 5, 2014) and Order No. 16 (dated June 18, 2014 ...

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Sunlight Supply And IP Holdings File New 337 Complaint Regarding Certain Light Reflectors And Components from www.itcblog.com

On June 20, 2014, Sunlight Supply, Inc. (“Sunlight”) and IP Holdings, LLC (collectively, “Complainants”) filed a complaint requesting that the ITC commence an investigation pursuant to Section 337. The complaint alleges that the following entities ...

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Have Europeans Become Less Exhausted After Recent Copyright Decision? from www.iposgoode.ca

Last week, the big news in the video game blogosphere was the reported sale of the world’s largest video game collection, comprising over 11,000 games, for more than $750,000 at auction. While ...

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If you thought Alice v CLS Bank lacked a useful analytic structure from patentlyo.com

wait until you read Aereo. By Jason Rantanen American Broadcasting Cos., Inc. v. Aereo, Inc. (2014) Download ABC v Aereo This morning the Supreme Court issued the much-awaited opinion in American Broadcasting Cos. v. Aereo ...

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Breyer in Aereo from ipbiz.blogspot.com



Justice Breyer: "Rather than directly send the data to the subscriber, a server saves the data in a subscriber-specific folder on Aereo's hard drive. Aereo's system creates a subscriber-specific copy — that is, a ...

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PTO Issues Alice-based Examination Instructions from patentlyo.com

By Jason Rantanen Today, the patent office issued new instructions (download: PTO Alice Instructions) for patent examiners to follow when examining claims for compliance with Section 101.  This practice is similar to those  it followed ...

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US Supreme Court Aereo Ruling Could Create Confusion, Risks For Online Firms from www.ip-watch.org

Internet start-up Aereo suffered a major defeat today, when the US Supreme Court ruled that the company was guilty of copyright infringement. But Aereo may not be the only loser. The ruling could jeopardise a ...

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USPTO Issues Preliminary Examination Instructions Regarding Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank International from www.patentdocs.org

By Michael Borella -- The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) wasted no time providing guidance to its examining corps regarding the recent Supreme Court decision in Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank International. Just one ...

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