European Patent Office: announcement from ipkitten.blogspot.com This moggy has received some information concerning today's meeting of Board 28 and the future of the European Patent Office Boards of Appeal (on which see her earlier blogpost
here). At this time of ...
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Bayer feels the pain: branded Naproxen can't invoke the territoriality principle from ipkitten.blogspot.com This weblog has been existence for getting on for 12 years and many people erroneously assume that it was the first intellectual property weblog. That is far from the case and, in particular, it was ...
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You Own Devices Act (‘YODA’) of 2015 from patentlyo.com Reps Farenthold and Polis today reintroduced the You Own Devices Act (‘YODA’) that I discussed in September 2014. The provision attempts a statutory end run against end-user-license-agreements (EULA) for computer software. The current and growing ...
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Italian baked goods sound and taste great: but can they be branded in foreign markets? from ipkitten.blogspot.com When it comes to the names of food, there is no doubt in this Kat’s mind: Italian names win out every time. Tasty as schnitzel or strudel might be, food
just seems more delectable ...
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The Logic of Innovation and IP in Europe from ipkitten.blogspot.com The Logic of Innovation: Intellectual Property, and What the User Found There, published by Ashgate in its Intellectual Property, Theory, Culture series, is an engaging and imaginative piece of writing from emeritus Kat and eminent ...
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Wednesday whimsies from ipkitten.blogspot.com Nowhere is too remote for WIPO's Roving Seminar squadRoving. This Kat has heard today from his friends in the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) that the next round of its popular Roving Seminars ...
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Game Over for Myriad from www.patentdocs.org (Or, and then there was one) By Kevin E. Noonan -- As discussed at the end of January, Myriad has given up its Quixotic quest to validate its BRCA gene testing franchise and has abandoned its ...
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From hepatitis B virus antigens to wine and canapés: Biogen v Medeva revisited from patlit.blogspot.com The "Biogen v Medeva 20 Years On" event,
organised by London-based law firm Rouse last year and cruelly postponed on account of a strike call by one of the London Underground unions, was finally held ...
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Life360: “It is a huge stretch to say we are infringing” from ipcloseup.wordpress.com The comment that follows is from Life360 CEO Chris Hulls in response to the 2/9/15 IP CloseUp post, “Family App Developer Says it’s the Victim of a Patent ‘Troll’ — Research Indicates Otherwise ...
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Conservative split on Innovation Act? from ipbiz.blogspot.com Of the re-introduced Innovation Act, the Daily Caller wrote:
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The bill is certain to face political hurdles, though, because many conservatives remain suspicious that it is largely consistent with the type of patent reform President ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
United States, Japan To Join International Design System At WIPO from www.ip-watch.org On 13 February, the United States and Japan will deposit their instruments of accession to the Geneva Act of July 2, 1999 (the Geneva Act) of the WIPO’s Hague Agreement Concerning the International Registration ...
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Plagiarism issue in "green jobs" matter in Oregon from ipbiz.blogspot.com Golocalpdx has a a post titled
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Cylvia Hayes Plagiarized Portions of Her Consulting Report--
Which delves into issues of "who owns" state-sponsored studies.
From the post
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Because the state owns the OED report, it is ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
Absent Stipulation, §101 Challenge Must Address Individual Claims, Not Representative Examples from docketreport.blogspot.com The court denied without prejudice defendants' motion for judgment on the pleadings that plaintiff's reimbursement system patents were invalid for lack of patentable subject matter because defendants' arguments were based on a unilaterally designated ...
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Patently-O Bits and Bytes from patentlyo.com by Dennis Crouch Doug Nemec says “Couzzo is a rubber stamp of the best possible kind.” At 1pm EST the House Subcommittee on IP will hold its first patent hearing of the year. USPTO’s ...
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Brian Williams switching with Jon Stewart? from ipbiz.blogspot.com Of recent events relating to Brian Williams and Jon Stewart, the New. York daily News wrote:
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Last Friday, while Williams was still trying to swim through the quicksand, Rush Limbaugh was on the radio predicting ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
Duty to Disclosure Inquiry from patentlyo.com USPTO Policy is that “no patent will be granted on an application in connection with which fraud on the Office was practiced or attempted or the duty of disclosure was violated through bad faith or ...
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European Parliament Calls For Renewal Of Mandate For Internet Governance Forum from www.ip-watch.org The European Parliament today adopted a resolution calling on the UN General Assembly to renew the mandate of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF), while strengthening its resources and the multi-stakeholder model of internet governance.
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GEN mentions withdrawal of patent applications in STAP controversy from ipbiz.blogspot.com From an article in GEN, talking about measures taken by RIKEN against those involved in the STAP misrepresentation:
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This measures, which encompass both principals in the scandal as well as their supervisors, and which even ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
UK Defence Science And Tech Lab To Offer IP Royalty-Free Licences from www.ip-watch.org The Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) has announced it will participate in a plan for sharing some of its intellectual property for research royalty-free, making it the first United Kingdom government agency to do ...
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Forbes post gets it wrong on CAFC Cuozzo decision from ipbiz.blogspot.com A comment to Forbes on the article
Patent Review Decision Brings Some Certainty To A Fast-Changing World:
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As to the text --serves as a ray of hope that a unified effort to right the patent ...
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2015 Innovation Act to be copy of 2013 bill? from ipbiz.blogspot.com The Hill notes Congr. Issa will be resistant to language changes in the re-submitted Innocation Act:
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"I want it to be understood clearly," Issa said during a speech Wednesday. "I inherited a bill with broad ...
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