Patent & IP news for December 9, 2014

Pay it again scam from ipkitten.blogspot.com

This morning's Tuesday Tiddlywinks post included an example of a renewal scam letter of the kind which savvy applicants and their advisors are all too aware, but which are targeted at smaller and less ...

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Restriction requirement and potential responses to them from ocpatentlawyer.com

A restriction requirement is an assertion by the examiner that the claims of a patent application are directed to two or more independent and distinct inventions. See MPEP Section 803 for more information. A common ...

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When Trademarks Overlap With Other IP Rights: conference report 7 from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Apologies: I couldn't make detailed notes on this session: a combination of screen-freezes and poor internet connection proved too great a challenge ...

"Fortunately we no longer live in Feudal times", said Professor Anselm Kamperman ...

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The chorus swells - another entreaty to the AC about Battistelli from ipkitten.blogspot.com


Last night, Merpel reported the unprecedented complaint from the EPO's Enlarged Board of Appeal to the governing Administrative Council (AC) regarding the behaviour of Benoit Battistelli, EPO President, asking the AC to impose “a ...

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When Trademarks Overlap With Other IP Rights: conference report 8 from ipkitten.blogspot.com

The final session before a very, very late lunch saw something of a novelty act: an interview by INTA stalwart Ronald van Tuijl (JT International) with Christoph Ernst (Ministerialdirigent, German Federal Ministry of Justice, left ...

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When Trademarks Overlap With Other IP Rights: conference report 9 from ipkitten.blogspot.com

After another ample and delicious lunch, the assembled registrants reconvened for the final stretch of Day Two of INTA's European winter conference, the topic being "Trademarks and the Right of Publicity", moderated by Kenneth ...

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When Trademarks Overlap With Other IP Rights: conference report 10 from ipkitten.blogspot.com

The final session of the INTA's two-day conference marathon continued the theme of the previous session, but looked at the trade mark/publicity overlap from the perspective of some trade mark owners which rely ...

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Commil v. Cisco and the Tort of Patent Infringement from writtendescription.blogspot.com

Guest post by Saurabh Vishnubhakat, Postdoctoral Associate at Duke Law School. Vishnubhakat is also an expert legal advisor in the USPTO's Office of Chief Economist. His scholarship is available on SSRN, and you can ...

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DDR Holdings, LLC v. Hotels.com, L.P. (Fed. Cir. 2014) from www.patentdocs.org

By Michael Borella -- DDR Holdings ("DDR") sued Hotels.com and several other defendants in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, alleging infringement of U.S. Patent Nos. 6,993,572 ...

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When Trademarks Overlap With Other IP Rights: conference report 6 from ipkitten.blogspot.com

If you missed yesterday's blog posts reporting on "When Trademarks Overlap with Other IP Rights", you can access them as follows:

• Session One (Welcome and Jeremy's keynote address) here
• Session Two (Trademarks and ...

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Oracle effectively says Google jumped gun with Supreme Court petition in Android-Java copyright case from www.fosspatents.com

James Niccolai of the IDG News Service was first to obtain a copy of Oracle's response to Google's petition for writ of certiorari (request for Supreme Court review) in the Android-Java copyright case ...

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UN Office Of Drugs And Crime Enters Debate Over Fake Medicines And IP from www.ip-watch.org

The Vienna-based United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has been working for several years to fight “fraudulent” medicines in the global supply chain. But an alleged new draft model legislation it is developing ...

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Attorneys’ Fee Motion Filed 55 Days After Mandate Untimely from docketreport.blogspot.com

Following plaintiff's unsuccessful appeal of a stipulated judgment prompted by the court's claim construction, the magistrate judge recommended denying defendant's motion for attorneys’ fees as untimely. "Plaintiff argues that final judgment occurred ...

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The Patent Office wins in CAFC case, JAPANESE FOUNDATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH vs. Lee from ipbiz.blogspot.com

JAPANESE FOUNDATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH vs. Lee is an appeal by the USPTO of a decision by the ED Va that
the PTO acted arbitrarily and capriciously, and abused its discretion, when it refused to ...

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Supreme Court Sanctions for Faulty Brief from patentlyo.com

Anyone who read Sigram Schindler’s petition for writ of certiorari would have walked away confused.  To say that the petition makes little sense is perhaps over stating its value.  The question presented by Schindler ...

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Director Michelle Lee: Confirmation Hearing from patentlyo.com

For the past year, USPTO Deputy Director Michelle Lee’s status has been in-limbo.  Although she has been acting as director of the USPTO, the law did not allow her to be identified as the ...

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