Which is the CJEU copyright case to look most forward to? Probably Art & Allposters from ipkitten.blogspot.com Sweet CJEU dreamsIf you were asked the typical summertime question/Buzzfeed-style quiz, ie which copyright case currently pending before the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) you are most looking forward to ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
Update on Patent Grant Rates from patentlyo.com I have updated my grant-rate chart from a prior post. For these figures, I obtained a set of 15,900 published patent applications and categorized each application according to its area of technology and also ...
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Strategic Patenting 4: A Case Study of Success from ipassetmaximizerblog.com The Takeaway: In the 4th post in this Strategic Patenting Series, a case study is presented of a company that created durable market-making patent protection for a successful consumer product innovation using a disciplined patenting ...
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Trade mark registrations for Nice class headings: IP TRANSLATOR top-up from ipkitten.blogspot.com In the fleeting world of the intellectual property blogosphere, few topics have demonstrated such staying-power as the troubled issue of the use of Nice class headings to indicate the range of goods and services for ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
Examination of Myriad-Mayo Guidance Comments -- International Bioindustry Associations from www.patentdocs.org By Donald Zuhn -- On March 4, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued a guidance memorandum, entitled "Guidance For Determining Subject Matter Eligibility Of Claims Reciting Or Involving Laws of Nature, Natural Phenomena, & Natural ...
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State of Vermont’s Demand Letter Case against MPHJ Continues from patentlyo.com State of Vermont v. MPHJ Technology (Fed. Cir. 2014) MPHJ has become the poster-child for bad patent trolling behavior and has been the subject of unfair-trade-practice action in several states. The basic idea is that ...
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Google Nest thermostats vulnerable to simple hack attack from ipbiz.blogspot.com Following up on an earlier IPBiz post [
Google/Nest v. Honeywell in the thermostat business ], note some interesting issues with Google Nest thermostats:
When Google bought Nest Labs for $3.2 billion seven months ago ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
Be Careful Identifying Your Licensed Patents and Products from www.iplawalert.com On Friday, the Federal Circuit issued an opinion in Wi-LAN USA, Inc. v. Ericsson, Inc., which highlights the importance of using care when granting rights to or under patents. The interesting facts in this case ...
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Researchers Say EPO/OHIM Study Is A Tale Without A Message from www.ip-watch.org A recent paper published by the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition criticises a joint study by the European patent and trademark offices as lacking insight about the economic effects of intellectual property.
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News from Abroad: The Regretful Patentee -- The Re-Emergence of File Wrapper Estoppel & Equivalence in the UK from www.patentdocs.org By Ralph Cox* and Simon Spink** -- Overview For the best part of 10 years, since the judgment of Lord Hoffmann in Kirin-Amgen v Hoescht Marion Roussel[1], it has been widely assumed that there is ...
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