Patent & IP news for February 12, 2015

If Innocent is innocent, who then is at fault? A tale of Dudes and Smoothies from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Innocent until proven ... innocent. Fresh Trading Limited v Deepend Fresh Recovery Limited and Andrew Thomas Robert Chappell [2015] EWHC 52 (Ch), a Chancery Division, England and Wales, decision of Robert Engelhart QC, is a fascinating ...

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Come to Bournemouth! Free public lecture on the unitary patent and the UPC from patlit.blogspot.com

Next week, on Thursday, 19 February, there's a public lecture that should appeal to anyone who is interested in patent litigation and is not too far from England's south coast. The title is ...

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ZTE fails in bid to reopen patent trial post-judgment but before judge seals order from patlit.blogspot.com

Vringo Infrastructure Inc v ZTE (UK) Ltd [2015] EWHC 214 (Pat) is a 30 January decision of Mr Justice Birss, sitting in the Patents Court, England and Wales.  It's far from being the first ...

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European trade mark judges: it's time to join the Circle from ipkitten.blogspot.com

What are Europe's trade mark
judges cooking up now ...?Late last year this Kat got to hear about an organisation which, if not exactly clandestine, was certainly unknown to him. Judging by its online ...

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Morocco Decides to Recognize EP Applications and Patents from www.patentdocs.org

By Kevin E. Noonan -- The President of the EPO and the Minister of Industry, Trade, Investment and the Digital Economy of Morocco announced on January 19th that Morocco would permit EP applications and granted EP ...

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"Many patents are never turned into products" from ipbiz.blogspot.com



From quartz.com


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Quartz has reached out to Google to ask whether the company would ever in a million years actually manufacture a thing like this. We will update this post with any response.
Many ...

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Possible plagiarism at Mic from ipbiz.blogspot.com

From within an article at politico about possible plagiarism by Jared Keller:


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It’s the latest rough patch for Keller, who has had a tumultuous couple of years. In 2013 he was fired from Bloomberg ...

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Petitioner’s Failure to Identify Real Party in Interest Requires Termination of IPR from docketreport.blogspot.com

The Board vacated earlier decisions instituting IPR because the petitioner failed to identify a real party in interest. "[W]e determine that [the] Petitions do not identify all RPIs. Thus the Petitions are incomplete pursuant ...

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Stakeholders Give Opposing Views On GIs In EU-US Trade Agreement from www.ip-watch.org

Geographical indications – product names deriving from geographical origin or certain characteristics – are increasingly on the table when trade negotiations include Europeans, who are trying to recover names long used around the world. In a recent ...

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Roy Curtiss of Arizona State honored for biofuel work from ipbiz.blogspot.com

Biomass Magazine has a clip and photo of Roy Curtiss.

The text:

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Several of Arizona State University’s faculty members were recently appointed university professors, including Roy Curtiss, a professor in the School of Life ...

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CAFC mentions Teva v. Sandoz in affirming ED Texas in Fenner v. Cellco from ipbiz.blogspot.com

In affirming ED Texas in Fenner v. Cellco, the CAFC shows that Teva v. Sandoz is not going to be a large obstacle in claim construction review. The CAFC will find the intrinsic evidence sufficient ...

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Fee Shifting Provision in the Innovation Act from patentlyo.com

by Dennis Crouch In his discussion of the Fee Shifting provision in the Innovation Act, Chairman Goodlatte argues that the law would not create any presumptive shifting of fees but instead, the that law simply ...

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Recumbent Exercise Bikes vs. Treadmills– Which Are Better? from inventivestep.net

Everyone wants to give their body a thorough workout otherwise the time taken on an exercise period is a waste.  Effective work outs don’t need to be too hard but it needs to be ...

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The USPTO does not investigate allegations of fraudulent patent applications from ipbiz.blogspot.com

Relevant to a post at PatentlyO about 37 CFR 1.56 [“no patent will be granted on an application in connection with which fraud on the Office was practiced or attempted or the duty of ...

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US Congressional Leaders Blast WIPO Lisbon Treaty Negotiations from www.ip-watch.org

The top bipartisan members of the United States Senate and House of Representatives responsible for trade, legal and intellectual property issues today sent a strongly worded letter to World Intellectual Property Organization Director General Francis ...

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