Patent & IP news for August 15, 2014

The start-up accelerator: love that mentor but what about those trade secrets? from ipkitten.blogspot.com

This Kat recently considered whether the “lean start-up” approach to entrepreneurship might have the unanticipated consequence of serving as a disincentive for inventive activity of the patent kind, here. But what about trade secrets? Might ...

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Call of Duty: Black Ooops! Can lapsed dictator scoop video game profits? from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Video games are becoming increasingly realistic and many include real-life people. Manuel Noriega, the former dictator of Panama, was featured in Call of Duty: Black Ops II. This game, released in 2012, features a character ...

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Friday fantasies from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Some great events are going "cheep" ...Registration discounts reminder. Many of the events listed on the IPKat's Forthcoming Events page (which you can access here) have registration fee discounts -- sometimes quite substantial -- for readers ...

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Uploading goal videos online? A copyright breach, says FAPL. Is it? from ipkitten.blogspot.com

This morning BBC Newsbeat reported an interesting piece of news: the Football Association Premier League (FAPL), which runs the Premier League, ie the leading professional football league competition for football clubs in England, has said ...

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Denmark tidies up its Brussels commitment following patent court referendum vote from patlit.blogspot.com

Under the Agreement between the European Union and the Kingdom of Denmark on jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of judgments in civil and commercial matters of 13 August, Denmark has told the European Commission ...

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If a patent can’t cover an “abstract idea,” can it be a trade secret? from ipspotlight.com

Should I patent my invention or keep it a trade secret?  Inventors often ask me this question.  And after recent a court decision and USPTO actions that raise the bar for patenting software inventions, the ...

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Student Writing Competitions from writtendescription.blogspot.com

Guest post by Professor Michael Risch (Villanova University).

I’d like to thank Lisa and Camilla for the opportunity to write a short guest post. Ostensibly, this post is about the importance of writing competitions ...

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Litigation Counsel Not Barred from Participating in IPR as to Overlapping Issues from docketreport.blogspot.com

The court granted in part plaintiff's motion to allow its litigation counsel to participate in inter partes review filed by defendants involving the same claims and defenses, but litigation counsel could not participate in ...

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Searching for Prior Art from inventivestep.net

A question that is often asked by new inventors is:  should I do a prior art search before filing a patent application?  The answer, as in most areas of law and life in general, is ...

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Non-Patent Friday from patentlyo.com

By Dennis Crouch UChicago Law Professors Adam Chilton and Eric Posner have a new article out that looks at political bias in legal scholarship. The basic finding is a correlation between a professor’s donation ...

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Judge Mayer Raises 101 When Not In Issue: Other Panelists Don’t from patentlyo.com

I am sure Dennis will do his usual full and grand treatment, but this one is sort of the counter-punch to Ultramercial. In I/P Engine, Inc. v. AOL Inc. (Fed. Cir. Aug. 15, 2014 ...

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Homer Simpson sued for patent infringement? from ipbiz.blogspot.com

Use of a 3D representation of Homer Simpson at this year's Comic-Con convention in San Diego has produced a patent infringment suit by Alki David's Hologram USA .

link: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq ...

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Webinar on Post-AIA Section 102 and Prior Art from www.patentdocs.org

Strafford will be offering a webinar/teleconference entitled "Post-AIA Section 102 and Prior Art: Navigating the Expanded Scope of Prior Art and AIA Exceptions" on September 11, 2014 from 1:00 to 2:30 pm ...

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Webinar on Section 103 and Obviousness from www.patentdocs.org

Strafford will be offering a webinar/teleconference entitled "Section 103 and Obviousness: Capitalizing on CCPA and Early Federal Circuit Precedent -- Strategies for Withstanding Obviousness Rejections and Attacks on Patent Validity and Patentability" on September 16 ...

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DuPont & Widener University School of Law IP CLE Seminar from www.patentdocs.org

DuPont and the Widener University School of Law will be holding the 2014 Intellectual Property Continuing Legal Education Seminar on September 30, 2014 at The DuPont Country Club in Wilmington, Delaware. Among the presentations being ...

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