Patent & IP news for November 11, 2014

Toy marks under scrutiny: is there a rift between OHIM Appeal Boards? from ipkitten.blogspot.com

What could be more appropriate, for a European Kat who is away in the Antipodes, than for him to post this guest item on Community trade mark law from a genuine Aussie who is now ...

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Toy marks under scrutiny: is there a rift between OHIM Appeal Boards? from ipkitten.blogspot.com

What could be more appropriate, for a European Kat who is away in the Antipodes, than for him to post this guest item on Community trade mark law from a genuine Aussie who is now ...

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In re Cuozzo Speed Technologies LLC Federal Circuit Argument -- The Patent Office Asks to Have Its Cake and Eat It Too from www.patentdocs.org

By Andrew Williams -- Last week, the Federal Circuit heard the first oral argument for the first appeal of an inter partes review ("IPR") final written decision for the first IPR ever filed (IPR2012-00001). The IPR ...

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Congressional Oversight of the USPTO from patentlyo.com

by Dennis Crouch With the America Invents Act of 2011 (AIA), Congress handed the USPTO a central role in implementing major legislative patent reforms. Those include both designing the structure and procedure for post-issuance review ...

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Neither Baritsu Nor the Supreme Court Can Stop Sherlock Holmes from Falling Into the Public Domain from www.iplawalert.com

We previously reported on the failed attempts by the Conan Doyle Estate, Ltd., to extend the umbrella of United States copyright protection for Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s pre-1923 Sherlock Holmes-related works. After suffering a ...

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China’s First Intellectual Property Court Makes Its Debut, Two More To Follow from www.ip-watch.org

The following is a contributed summary of recent news in China from various sources. The Beijing Intellectual Property Court, China’s first specialised IP court, came into being on 6 November, for which a ceremony ...

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CELS Recap Part 1: Laboratory Experiment on the Effect of Competition on Innovation from writtendescription.blogspot.com

This past weekend I was a discussant at the 9th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies (CELS) at Berkeley. There were two IP sessions with three papers selected for each, and over the coming days ...

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Board swear behind 1.131 no explanation from allthingspros.blogspot.com


Takeaway: The Applicant attempted to remove a reference with a § 1.131 (swear-behind) declaration. The two-page declaration referred to an Appendix A included in the provisional application but did not comment or explain on the ...

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Intellectual Property: A Threat from Within from www.legalteamusa.net

The most costly data breaches are usually those that are created by a malicious insider. These people normally have access to things external hackers generally don’t have access to, like intellectual...

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USPTO vs Hyatt: When an Applicant has Too Many Patent Applications from patentlyo.com

Hyatt v. USPTO, Case No. 14-1300 (E.D.Va. 2014) Earlier this year, Gilbert Hyatt sued the USPTO for unreasonably delaying examination of 80 of his pending patent applications — many of which have been pending ...

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"Desperately seeking the Big Picture": live and on stream ... from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Today (for those of you who are in Australia, at any rate) IPKat blogmeister Jeremy will be delivering this year's Francis Gurry Lecture on Intellectual Property -- the sixth in the series -- under the title ...

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