Patent & IP news for October 24, 2014

Friday fantasies from ipkitten.blogspot.com

The Blue-Spotted Australian MistFrancis Gurry Lecture 2014. "IP in transition: desperately seeking the Big Picture” is the title of this year's Francis Gurry Lecture, which is to be delivered, hot and spicy, by ...

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Broad Claims – supported if no indications to the contrary X ZR 19/11 from patlit.blogspot.com


The German Federal Court of Justice (BGH) had to decide on an appeal against the decision of the Federal German Patent Court to nullify a patent relating to stents having two interlacing meandering patterns as ...

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(NON-)BREAKING NEWS (and a mystery): video framing not copyright infringement from ipkitten.blogspot.com

What's the mystery behind BestWater?There are two forthcoming decisions of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) that this Kat has been keenly awaiting following the ambiguities cast by the decision ...

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In Eco-mark Examination USPTO Getting into Anti-Greenwashing from www.greenpatentblog.com

A recent article in the the New York Law Journal caught my attention for an interesting development in examination of eco-mark applications in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).  We’ve known for ...

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Amazon.com: in the beginning, there was Mudie ... from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Amazon.com—if you are a book reader, you probably worship the day that the company began to enable you to order books online; if you are/were a bookstore, probably less so. If you ...

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Examination of Myriad-Mayo Guidance Comments -- BIO Joint Comment 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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News from the EPO - Strike Ballot comes out in favour of a strike from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Merpel has been sunning herself again in the corridors of the EPO.  Readers may recall that just a few months ago the President of the European Patent Office refused a call for a ballot for ...

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Michelle Lee speaks to AIPLA on Oct. 23 about unified patent classifcation system from ipbiz.blogspot.com

The Bloomberg post Patent Offices Seek to Plug Global System's Black Holes contains several patent news items, including the goal of unifying patent classifcation systems among the world's patent offices. Michelle Lee, now ...

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New To Copyright: Canada’s Idea For Political Advertising Exception from www.ip-watch.org

The Canadian Conservative government is considering a new copyright exception for political advertising that would be unique in the world and address an issue already covered by Canada's constitutional rights, copyright experts said.

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Post-Fact Discovery Amendments to Infringement and Invalidity Contentions Stricken from docketreport.blogspot.com

The court granted defendant's motion to strike plaintiff's amended infringement and invalidity contentions served after the close of discovery. "[Plaintiff] cannot avoid the boundaries of its timely infringement contentions by not disclosing the ...

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What is Intellectual Property? A Student Guide and Definition. from www.patentbaristas.com

Innovate Product Design has created this infographic on “What is Intellectual Property? A Student Guide and Definition.” The infographic is intended to help people and students understand the importance of intellectual property and why it ...

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WHO Ebola Vaccine Meeting Draws Commitment From Pharma, Donors; MSF Sees Lack Of Concrete Actions from www.ip-watch.org

A high-level meeting convened by the World Health Organization yesterday on the issue of access to and financing of Ebola vaccines resulted in a set of commitments, though not with sufficient urgency for those working ...

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US Government Volunteers to Pay for Infringement by Japan Airlines from patentlyo.com

by Dennis Crouch The US Federal Government does not get a free-pass on patent infringement.  Rather, the Government’s unlicensed use of a privately held patent constitutes infringement and is actionable. However, Congress created a ...

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Here's a redacted version of Microsoft's Android/Chrome patent license agreement with Samsung from www.fosspatents.com

The Microsoft-Samsung contract dispute in the Southern District of New York over the implications of Microsoft's acquisition of Nokia's wireless device business for the parties' 2011 Android/Chrome patent license agreement has already ...

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Teva v. Sandoz Oral Argument Recording from www.717madisonplace.com

The Supreme Court has published the oral argument recording for the Teva v. Sandoz case.  You can listen/download the oral argument recording [here]. The transcript of the oral argument is available [here].

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Apple after jury verdict: GPNE is nothing more than a “patent troll” from ipbiz.blogspot.com

Bloomberg reported on Apple after a jury verdict against GPNE:


Kristin Huguet, a spokeswoman for Cupertino, California-based Apple, said in an e-mail after the verdict that GPNE is nothing more than a “patent troll” attempting ...

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