Patent & IP news for January 14, 2015

Wednesday whimsies 1 from ipkitten.blogspot.com

A chance to meet up.  This blogger will be at The Old Nick, Holborn, this coming Tuesday afternoon, between 5.00 pm and 6.30 pm, where he will be having a pleasant chat with ...

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An Enterprising Victory, with Arnold J in the driving seat from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Before "cut and paste", IP
judgments were shorter ...This Kat welcomes a couple of his favourites back to the blog.  The first is long-time reader and occasional guest contributor Aaron Wood (Swindell & Pearson Ltd), whose ...

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Willfulness Interplays Between Patent and Copyright from patentlyo.com

by Dennis Crouch As with patent law, willful copyright infringement also leads to enhanced damages. In Seagate (Fed. Cir. 2007), the en banc Federal Circuit drew an analogy to copyright doctrine in determining that willfulness ...

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Wednesday Whimsies 2 from ipkitten.blogspot.com

This being a very whimsical Wednesday, the IPKat is pleased to present you with a second batch of Whimsies, to complement those posted earlier here,


Mark your diaries.  On 24 February the IPKat weblog and ...

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Promega Corp. v. Life Technologies Corp. (Fed. Cir. 2014) from www.patentdocs.org

By Donald Zuhn -- Last month, in Promega Corp. v. Life Technologies Corp., the Federal Circuit determined that U.S. Patent Nos. 5,843,660; 6,221,598; 6,479,235; and 7,008,771, which ...

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Granting of Apple Patent makes GoPro share price drop from patlit.blogspot.com

There has been some dispute on how the news that a company is sued for patent infringement influences the share price (in particular in the context where the plaintiff is a so-called troll, see here ...

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Apply Today for Osgoode’s IP Intensive Program! from www.iposgoode.ca

Welcome back everyone to another new and exciting year with IP Osgoode!  We would like to start the new year by showcasing one of our core programs, Osgoode’s Intellectual Property Law and Technology Intensive ...

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Plaintiff's Counsel Jointly Liable for Attorneys’ Fees and Costs Under § 1927 Due to Inferred Knowledge of Inventor's False Statements from docketreport.blogspot.com

The court granted in part defendants' motion to sanction plaintiff's counsel under 28 U.S.C § 1927 after counsel failed to produce discovery regarding the inventor's multiple false statements about his reduction to ...

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WHO Executive Board To Address Reform, R&D Financing, Ebola, Budget from www.ip-watch.org

The upcoming World Health Organization Executive Board annual January meeting will be 10 days. Included in the list of issues to be addressed are the engagement of the organisation with lobbyists and donors, antimicrobial resistance ...

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By Jason Rantanen Three upcoming conferences that may be of interest to readers: This Friday and Saturday, January 16 and 17, the University of San Diego School of Law’s Center for Intellectual Property Law & Markets is holding its 5th Annual Patent Law Conference.  This year’s topic is “Patent Invalidity after the America Invents Act.”  […] from patentlyo.com

By Jason Rantanen Three upcoming conferences that may be of interest to readers: This Friday and Saturday, January 16 and 17, the University of San Diego School of Law’s Center for Intellectual Property Law ...

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Key Hepatitis C Patent Rejected In India For Lack Of Novelty, Inventive Step from www.ip-watch.org

Today's rejection by the Patent Office Controller of India of a patent application by Gilead company for a key drug against hepatitis C is being hailed by advocates as a path to dramatically lower ...

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