Patent & IP news for January 6, 2015

Building 1000 or Aviation House? Have your say on London's UPC location from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Entrance of Aviation House in London - snow not
guaranteed So far during her English legal career, the AmeriKat has worked in Soho, Gray's Inn and Liverpool Street.  Of the three locations, from a purely ...

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Keeping in trim? Ford wheel of fortune spins as CJEU faces spare part questions from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Case C-500/14 Ford Motor Company is a reference made by the Tribunale ordinario di Torino, Italy, for a preliminary ruling by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) on a matter that ...

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Content Extraction and Transmission, LLC vs. Wells Fargo Bank (Fed. Cir. 2014) from www.patentdocs.org

By Michael Borella -- Patentee Content Extraction and Transmission (CET) owns U.S. Patent Nos. 5,258,855 (the '855 patent), 5,369,508 (the '508 patent), 5,625,465 (the '465 patent), and 5,768 ...

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Developments at the European Patent Office - Parliamentary oversight and lack of it from ipkitten.blogspot.com

On Christmas Eve according to the Gregorian Calendar, Merpel posted a round-up and summary of what has been going on at the EPO.  Now that we have come to Christmas Eve according to the Julian ...

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Cancelled Independent Claim Must Be Considered in Determining § 101 Patentability of Dependent Claim from docketreport.blogspot.com

The court denied defendants' motion for summary judgment that plaintiff's casino patents were invalid for lack of patentable subject matter because defendants failed to consider independent and dependent claim terms as a whole. "The ...

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Federal Circuit: A hole is not “water-permeable” from patentlyo.com

by Dennis Crouch In Teashot v. Green Mountain Coffee, the Federal Circuit has affirmed the lower court determination that tea-filled K-Cups do not infringe T-Shot’s Patent No. 5,895,672. K-Cups originally included only ...

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The Federal Circuit and Judicial Transparency from patentlyo.com

By Jason Rantanen As a general matter, I tend to favor the existence of the Federal Circuit and believe that the judges who sit on that court are largely just folks who are trying to ...

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MVS Filewrapper® Blog: Trade Secret Symposium from www.filewrapper.com

Post by Jill Link

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is hosting a Trade Secret Symposium on Thursday, January 8, 2015 at its headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia. This symposium is the first of ...

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Top Stories of 2014: #6 to #4 from www.patentdocs.org

By Donald Zuhn -- After reflecting upon the events of the past twelve months, Patent Docs presents its eighth annual list of top patent stories. For 2014, we identified eighteen stories that were covered on Patent ...

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