Patent & IP news for October 9, 2014

A Major Drop in Patent Infringement Litigation? from patentlyo.com

New patent litigation (original complaint filing) is down 40% from this time last year. The chart below comes from LexMachina whose founder, Mark Lemley, offers the speculation that the drop is largely due to the ...

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French IP Professor Publishes Report on Transformative Works from ipkitten.blogspot.com


Professor Valérie-Laure Benabou, from the University of Versailles, has published this week her report on transformative works (the Report) which had been commissioned by the Conseil supérieur de la propriété littéraire et artistique (Copyright Superior ...

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Amgen Poised to Enter Biosimilars Market from www.patentdocs.org

By Kevin E. Noonan -- As reported in Fierce Biotech earlier today, Amgen announced the results of a Phase III clinical trial of its biosimilar drug (designated ABP 501) for moderate-to-sever plaque psoriasis conducted in comparison ...

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Protect Your Ideas – Top Ways To Guard Your Intellectual Property from www.ip-watch.org

With the ever-increasing ease in which information can spread, it is becoming harder to secure your intellectual property or product ideas and ensure they are not unfairly recreated or produced by someone else. Whether you ...

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Nagoya Protocol Enters Into Force, Will Be Tested In Months To Come from www.ip-watch.org

The Nagoya Protocol, a treaty expected to ensure greater access to genetic resources and a mandatory fair benefit-sharing of the benefits that could be derived from those resources, will enter into force on 12 October ...

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No Section 285 Fee Award Against “Hyper-Litigious Non-Practicing Entity” Absent Frivolous Claims from docketreport.blogspot.com

The court denied defendant's unopposed motion for attorneys’ fees under 35 U.S.C. § 285 after the court dismissed plaintiff's infringement action for failing to obtain new counsel and rejected defendant's argument ...

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IQPC’s Global Patent Strategies Summit from www.patentbaristas.com

Challenges abound with regards to litigation, outsourcing and monetization; and are currently increasing on a national and international level. It is essential to understand these issues in order to have an upper-hand in overcoming these ...

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Rockstar attack on Android to be adjudicated in Northern California, not East Texas: Fed. Cir. from www.fosspatents.com

Google and several major Android device makers (such as Samsung, HTC, LG, ZTE, and ASUS) scored a procedural win today in the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit against a patent assertion ...

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Google's Supreme Court petition in Oracle's case suggests sudden departure from previous strategy from www.fosspatents.com

Yesterday it became discoverable that Google had, as expected, filed its petition for writ of certiorari (request for the Supreme Court of the United States) in Oracle's Android-Java copyright case on Monday. Meanwhile the ...

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