Patent & IP news for December 25, 2014

Out of the frying pan, into the fire: patent infringement by numbers is not allowed from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Percy the non-stick cat tries out a frying pan
for size, comfort and snuggle-ability ...At a time of the year when office parties proliferate, the spirit of the Saturnalia prevails and the thoughts of even ...

Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook

Endoscope and remedial scope: inside view of an application for summary judgment from ipkitten.blogspot.com

"They don't like it up'em!" was the famous line delivered by Corporal Jones (right) in the popular BBC television comedy Dad's Army (here and here).  Jonesy's refrain was referring to bayonets ...

Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook

Nintendo not guilty of patent infringement; prevails in D. Wash. case over UltimatePointer from ipbiz.blogspot.com


From a press release by Nintendo on 23 December 2014:


On Dec. 22, Nintendo won a patent case in a federal court in Seattle. Judge Robert S. Lasnik found that Nintendo’s Wii system does ...

Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook

PTAB reverses examiner in Ex parte Kogan; missing element in 102(e) case from ipbiz.blogspot.com

In Ex parte Kogan, the Examiner relied upon a figure to justify a 102(e) rejection; this was overturned by PTAB:



We note that Appellants' specification differentiates between contact or group names and attributes.Supra ...

Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook

PTAB in Ex parte Stralin: the name of the game is the claim from ipbiz.blogspot.com

From Ex parte Stralin



We note that
"[i]t is a bedrock principle of patent law
that the claims of a patent define the
invention to which the patentee is
entitled the right to exclude ...

Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook

Nevada "plagiarism" issue fades into the sunset from ipbiz.blogspot.com

On December 24, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported that Nevada Board of Regents leaders would not be looking further into allegations of plagiarism arising from the use of text by a government official derived from ...

Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook

Patently Inconsistent from www.717madisonplace.com

I was listening to the oral argument recording of B&B; Hardware v. Hargis and was struck by the opening lines of the argument: The Lanham Act contains only one concept of likelihood of confusion ...

Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook