Patent & IP news for October 29, 2014

How you can rent your own orphan, and why there are 91 million of them from ipkitten.blogspot.com

When it comes to media releases this Kat is a sitting target, which may account for the reason why he received the following missive not once but four times over:

UK OPENS ACCESS TO 91 ...

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More Engineers => More Patents from patentlyo.com

In a new article, Economist John Winters (OSU) looked at the link between collegiate STEM training (university degree) and innovation-intensity (per capita patenting). The findings are not surprising — locations with more STEM graduates have a ...

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IP: the "no-patents round-up for non-techie people" Session 1 from ipkitten.blogspot.com

IP: the "no-patents round-up for non-techie people" -- today's conference organised by CLT and hosted in London's Grange Fitzrovia Hotel -- was opened by James Tumbridge (Pillsbury), speaking on trade mark and trade dress protection ...

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IP: the "no-patents round-up for non-techie people" Session 4 from ipkitten.blogspot.com

The final session of today's experimental conference, IP: the "no-patents round-up for non-techie people", starred Edward Smith, an accredited mediator as well as being a Hearing Officer with the UK Intellectual Property Office (IPO ...

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Security for costs: a sensible approach from patlit.blogspot.com

Guardian Barriers IP Ltd v Global Vessel Security, decided by Judge Hacon on 22 September in the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court (IPEC), England and Wales, is a useful little decision on security for costs. Again ...

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IP: the "no-patents round-up for non-techie people" Session 3 from ipkitten.blogspot.com

First to speak after lunch was former guest Kat Darren Meale, on the wonderful world of designs. Designs are usually easy and cheap to register when compared with trade marks, he reminded us, and you ...

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Rise of Computer Patents from patentlyo.com

          It is fairly difficult to nail-down which patents are “software” patents.  For the chart below, I parsed through all utility patents issued since 1976 and looked for any of the following keywords within an independent ...

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IP: the "no-patents round-up for non-techie people" Session 2 from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Following morning coffee, deep in the bowels of the Grange Fitzrovia Hotel, Christopher Sharp (Herbert Smith Freehills) took up cudgels on behalf of the neglected, unloved subject of database right under the Database Directive. After ...

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Examination of Myriad-Mayo Guidance Comments -- University Community 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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First Innovation Fair Hosted At WTO, Draws Diverse Projects With IP In Mind from www.ip-watch.org

The World Trade Organization hosted an Innovation Fair on 28 October, gathering inventors, supporting agencies, and patent offices. A number of inventions were displayed and explained, from concrete walls to motorisation for bicycles.

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UK Opens Access To 91 Million Orphan Works, UKIPO Says from www.ip-watch.org

The United Kingdom today launched a new licensing scheme aimed at opening access to more than 91 million creative works whose owners or copyright holders are not known or not found. The UKIPO (Department for ...

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Correction of Obvious Error Saves Patent Claim From Indefiniteness from docketreport.blogspot.com

The court denied defendant's motion for summary judgment that plaintiff's wireless communication patent was invalid as indefinite and granted plaintiff's motion to correct an obvious error in the patent. "During prosecution of ...

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European Commission Holds Consultation On Patents And Standards from www.ip-watch.org

The European Commission Directorate General for Enterprise and Industry is gathering stakeholder input on standardisation and intellectual property rights, in order to assess the current framework on patents and standard and look at how it ...

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What Documents are Needed When Filing an Application for a Patent from www.legalteamusa.net

Magazines, books, comics, clothing, and a ton of other products have specialized trademarks on them. These trademarks are used to acknowledge the source of the products. For written works, art, and...

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