Patent & IP news for January 26, 2015

They think it's all over -- but the Comptroller can intervene from patlit.blogspot.com

Kennametal Inc v Pramet Tools SRO, Associated Production Tools Ltd and Comptroller-General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks, a Court of Appeal, England and Wales, ruling last Wednesday, is noted on subscription service Lawtel. It ...

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Monday miscellany from ipkitten.blogspot.com

With just six days to go, the IPKat's sidebar poll on IP and the International Women's Leadership Forum has attracted a wide array of opinions and little apparent consensus. Do please feel welcome ...

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Women in IP leadership roles: MIP responds from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Last week, in "A woman's place is in ... the lead: thoughts on an upcoming IP Forum", here, the IPKat reviewed a forthcoming International Women's Leadership Forum on Intellectual Property and asked some fairly ...

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Court Report from www.patentdocs.org

By Sherri Oslick -- About Court Report: Each week we will report briefly on recently filed biotech and pharma cases. Tris Pharma Inc. v. Par Pharmaceutical Inc. et al. 1:15-cv-00068; filed January 21, 2015 in ...

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Never too late: if you missed the IPKat last week ... from ipkitten.blogspot.com

The IPKat weblog was exceptionally busy last week.  Our page counter recorded no fewer than 39,271 site visits, making it our second best week on record.  Even so, it's possible that, amid ...

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Delano Farms v. California Table Grape Commission (Fed. Cir. 2015) from patentlyo.com

by Dennis Crouch Like their utility and design patent brethren, plant patents must also satisfy the patentability requirements of Section 102 and 103 of the Patent Act. In Delano Farms v. California Table Grape Commission ...

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Ebola, Reform High On WHO Executive Board Agenda This Week from www.ip-watch.org

The World Health Organization Executive Board yesterday adopted a resolution on Ebola, one the eve of today’s opening of its 10-day meeting addressing a broad range of health issues, including several of relevance to ...

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Patent Employing Mathematical Formula for Real-Time Traffic Tracking Not Invalid Under Alice from docketreport.blogspot.com

The court denied without prejudice plaintiff's motion for a preliminary injunction precluding the sales of defendant's traffic sensor products, but rejected defendant's argument regarding lack of patentable subject matter. "Claiming the [patent-in-suit ...

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MVS Filewrapper® Blog: Teva Decision Clarifies Standard of Review for Claim Construction from www.filewrapper.com

Post by Paul S. Mazzola

 

In Markman v. Westview Instruments, Inc., decided in 1996, the Supreme Court held that the construction of a patent should be decided by a judge and treated as a question ...

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Haber & Werfel on Trolls from writtendescription.blogspot.com

Stephen Haber and Seth Werfel (Stanford Political Science) have posted Why Do Inventors Sell to Patent Trolls? Experimental Evidence for the Asymmetry Hypothesis. Here is the abstract:

Why do individual patent holders assign their patents ...

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Next Up: Lighting Ballast from patentlyo.com

In Teva v Sandoz, the Supreme Court held that a district court’s factual conclusion supporting a claim construction determination should be reviewed de novo on appeal.  In the expected follow-up, the Supreme Court has ...

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University of Maryland does patent law from ipbiz.blogspot.com

From. CBSBaltimore via AP:

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BALTIMORE (AP) — The University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law has expanded its new master of science in law program to include specializations in patent law and cybersecurity, bringing ...

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