Patent & IP news for December 31, 2014

Breaking down Australia's injunctive online copyright enforcement reforms from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Over the past several weeks, there have been several developments concerning Australia's recently-proposed online copyright enforcement reforms. Particularly, the Australian government is in the process of adopting reforms that would allow owners of copyright-protected ...

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Welcome our new guest Kats! from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Every six months we say goodbye to our three-strong squad of guest Kats and welcome their successors.  Goodbyes and our sincere thanks to go outgoing bloggers for 1 July to 31 December 2014: Rebecca Gulbul ...

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Wednesday whimsies from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Happy new year!  In the unlikely event that you haven't noticed, the IPKat and Merpel respectfully remind readers that we are moving from the calendar year 2014 to the next numbered year in the ...

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Hatch-Waxman Watch: Personal Jurisdiction Edition from www.patentdocs.org

By Andrew Williams -- Is the ability to obtain personal jurisdiction against an ANDA filer for a Hatch-Waxman-type litigation going to become exceedingly more difficult? In the past, jurisdiction against such a defendant was often predicated ...

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Deafening silence from software industry presents credibility problem for Google's Supreme Court petition from www.fosspatents.com

Google's petition for writ of certiorari (request for Supreme Court review) in Oracle's Android-Java copyright infringement case has been distributed to the offices of the Supreme Court justices for consideration at their January ...

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Guest Post by Prof. Chiang: A Response to Hrdy and Picozzi from patentlyo.com

Professor Tun-Jen Chiang is an Associate Professor of Law at the George Mason University School of Law.  Below, he responds to Camilla Hrdy and Ben Picozzi’s commentary on The Interpretation-Construction Distinction in Patent Law ...

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