Patent & IP news for August 23, 2014

Your IP PhD: things to do, things to avoid from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Over the years this Kat has examined a good many PhD theses -- but not many good ones. This blogpost lists and explains some of his admittedly subjective feelings about what PhD candidates should, or should ...

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Kidney-Shaped Bra Insert Patent Suit is Pushing Ahead from ipkitten.blogspot.com

On August 18, lingerie and accessories company Zephyrs filed a suit in New York Supreme Court (a court of first instance) against its former patent attorney Bernard Codd and his law firm McDermott, Will & Emery ...

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Friday fantasies from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Kat business 1: "Christopher Rennie-Smith talks to a Kat", our next IPKat event, takes place at the London office of Collyer Bristow on Thursday 4 September (doors open at 5 pm). Christopher is a recently-returned ...

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How Korea is conquering world pop culture--what can we learn? from ipkitten.blogspot.com

To what extent can commercially successful creative contents be managed? Whenever this question is raised, one cannot help but recall the iconic observation by the renowned novelist, playwright and screen writer William Goldman, here (think ...

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Not So Happy Trails As NYC Mural Artist Sues For Copyright Infringement from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Murals are definitely in the IP spotlight this summer: after the Castillo case, here are two other examples of an urban artist suing a corporation for copyright infringement.  
In two separate suits, filed on August ...

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Taking a selfie inside the National Gallery: a copyright infringement? from ipkitten.blogspot.com

From the National Gallery
permanent collection:
E. Manet, Woman with a Kat, ca 1880-82A few days ago a number of UK newspapers reported that, following similar moves by a number of other UK institutions ...

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Mformation Techs., Inc. v. Research in Motion Ltd.; RIM wins from ipbiz.blogspot.com

Research-in-Motion wins in Mformation Techs., Inc. v. Research in Motion Ltd. :


This appeal concerns Mformation’s challenges to the
district court’s grant of JMOL of no infringement





Because the district court correctly found that ...

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