Patent & IP news for August 20, 2014

Intellectual Property For Economic Development: a new book from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Intellectual Property For Economic Development is yet another title from the seemingly inexhaustible source of IP-related literature that is Edward Elgar Publishing.  This tome is edited by a three-person team consisting of Sanghoon Ahn (Fellow ...

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Apotex Inc. v. UCB, Inc. (Fed. Cir. 2014) from www.patentdocs.org

By Kevin E. Noonan -- Last week, the Federal Circuit affirmed a finding of inequitable conduct in Apotex v. USB, a relatively rare occurrence in the years after the Federal Circuit's decision in Therasense v ...

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Analysis: Monkey In The Middle Of Selfie Copyright Dispute from www.ip-watch.org

The recent case of a monkey selfie that went viral on the web raised thorny issues of ownership between a (human) photographer and Wikimedia. Two attorneys from Morrison & Foerster sort out the relevant copyright law.

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Zakaria plagiarism issue revived? from ipbiz.blogspot.com

Renewed charges of plagiarism against Zakaria made by Our Bad Media include lifting full paragraphs and copying a single sentence and copying facts and figures produced by the research of others.

In a post Columnist ...

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Irreparable Harm to Losing Plaintiff Justifies Injunction Against Defendant Pending Appeal from docketreport.blogspot.com

Following a bench trial in which the court found the asserted patent invalid, the court granted plaintiff's motion to enjoin defendant from marketing or selling its accused drug product pending plaintiff's appeal, on ...

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Court Finds Patent Invalid; Then Orders Defendant to Stop Infringing from patentlyo.com

By Dennis Crouch Following the Supreme Court’s equitable relief decision in eBay, many patentees have found it difficult to obtain injunctive relief to stop ongoing infringement – even after final judgment that the patent is ...

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Domestic Cat Genome Sequenced from www.patentdocs.org

By Kevin E. Noonan -- Earlier this month, an international effort* led by Stephen J. O'Brien at the Oceanographic Center, Nova Southeastern University, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida reported the complete genomic sequencing of the domestic cat ...

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