Patent & IP news for June 26, 2014

Clean Tech in Court: Green Patent Complaint Update, Part I from www.greenpatentblog.com

A number of green patent complaints have been filed in the last several months in the areas of hybrid electric vehicles, ethanol production, LEDs, water treatment, and exhaust treatment catalysts.  This post covers new lawsuits ...

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Online Trust: Between Competences And Intentions from www.ip-watch.org

Jovan Kubalija writes: Trust (or the lack thereof) is a frequent theme in public debates. It is often seen as a monolithic concept. However, we trust different people for different reasons, and in different ways ...

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The Right To Be Forgotten: Balancing Conflicting Rights from www.ip-watch.org

In a widely publicised case last month, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) applied the “right to be forgotten,” requesting that internet search engines, under certain circumstances, delist links to personal data upon request. The ...

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Prejudice to NPE Weighs Against Stay Pending CBM Review from docketreport.blogspot.com

The court denied defendant's motion to stay pending CBM review and found that the NPE plaintiff would be unduly prejudiced by a stay. "Although it is true that [plaintiff] does not actively practice the ...

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End User’s Option To Choose Noninfringing Configuration Does Not Necessarily Negate Direction And Control from docketreport.blogspot.com

The court denied defendants' motion for summary judgment of noninfringement based on divided infringement and rejected the argument that steps performed by an end user could not be under defendants' control because the end user ...

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Federal Circuit Affirms Finding Of No Section 337 Violation In Industrial Technology Research Institute Appeal (2013-1480) from www.itcblog.com

On June 23, 2014, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued a non-precedential opinion in Indus. Tech. Research Inst. v. ITC (2013-1480).  This was an appeal from the International Trade Commission ...

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Docs @ BIO -- Federal District Court vs. the PTAB from www.patentdocs.org

By Andrew Williams -- Earlier today, BIO 2014 presented a session entitled "Navigating Patent Challenges Under the America Invents Act" during which the presenters analyzed the differences between patent challenges in Federal District Court and before ...

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MVS Filewrapper® Blog: Supreme Court Determines Internet Service Violates Copyrights from www.filewrapper.com

The Supreme Court has issued its much anticipated decision in American Broadcasting Co., Inc. v. Aereo, Inc.  The Court held that an internet service provided by Aereo—which allows subscribes to watch television programs over ...

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Aereo “Performs Publicly” and Therefore Illegally from www.iplawalert.com

We have previously posted our analysis of the oral arguments held before the Supreme Court in American Broadcasting Companies, Inc., et al., v. Aereo, Inc., No. 12-451, this past April. On June 25, 2014, the ...

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Some Random Thoughts on Alice v. CLS from www.717madisonplace.com

The Supreme Court’s recent opinion in Alice v. CLS has been covered by other blogs; so, there is no need to summarize it here.  Some random thoughts did occur to me, however. 1)  Most ...

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Teva v. Sandoz: Standard of Review for Claim Construction from patentlyo.com

By Jason Rantanen While many eyes will be on the Supreme Court on Monday when it releases its decision in Hobby Lobby v. Sebelius, the term is over for patent cases.  Over the past few ...

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