The next celebrity zoo animal? Ploar bear Knut's little half-brother is looking for a name... from ipkitten.blogspot.com This Kat is spending her part of her coveted lunch time to write on one of her dearest topics (see earlier IPKat posts
here): the late polar bear Knut - arguably the "first celebrity zoo animal ...
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Groundless threats to sue for IP infringement: the end of an era? from ipkitten.blogspot.com According to a UK government media release yesterday,
How cats respond to threats
(per Charles Darwin, here)
The UK Government will improve protection to make sure businesses are not exposed to unnecessary and baseless accusations ...
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Blind faith not enough when proving bad faith: a case of Colourblindness from ipkitten.blogspot.com If the COLOURBLIND case (Pangyrus Ltd v OHIM, RSVP Design Ltd, Case T-257/11) had been a movie, it would have secured a nomination for its intricate screenplay, in the spirit of the recent Academy ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
Are smartphone patent wars in China on the horizon? from ipkitten.blogspot.com For those Kat readers who look favourably at the smartphone wars of the last few years, you may be heartened to know that similar patent wars may erupt as well in the Chinese mobile industry ...
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Updated 4Q GDP from www.athenaalliance.org This morning BEA came out with its second estimate of 4Q GDP. As expected, the growth rate of the economy was revised downward slightly to 2.2% from the earlier advanced estimate of 2.6 ...
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PTAB Update -- Biopharmaceutical Edition from www.patentdocs.org By Andrew Williams -- Earlier this week, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board ("PTAB" or "Board") handed down what is thought to be the first set of inter partes review ("IPR") Final Written Decisions ("FWDs") in ...
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Ebola Crisis Has Severe Impact On AIDS Response In Sierra Leone, UNDP Report Says from www.ip-watch.org According to an internal report of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Global Fund Partnership team, the Ebola epidemic has virtually halted national HIV efforts in Sierra Leone. In particular, patients stopped their treatments and ...
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100th patent application for the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center from ipbiz.blogspot.com The Badger-herald reports
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The Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center recently filed its 100th patent application, a milestone for the center.
Tim Donohue, director for the GLBRC, said the mission of the research center is to ...
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South Africa Awaits Patent Reforms With Hope, Concern from www.ip-watch.org CAPE TOWN - South Africa’s new policy on patents could go to the Cabinet for approval soon, says Doctors without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières, MSF), one of the organisations spearheading the Fix the Patent Laws ...
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Non-Europeans dominate European patent landscape from ipbiz.blogspot.com The Financial Times noted non-Europeans are dominating the European landscape:
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In 2014, filings from the US, Japan and China accounted for 53 per cent of the 274,000 new patents in Europe, according to data ...
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Concerning Robin Thicke from ipbiz.blogspot.com ET Canada noted of the Robin Thicke copyright trial
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Mind you, Robin's defense team unveiled an unusual strategy to help present its case. While on the witness stand, the 37-year-old singer performed a piano ...
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Why The Request By Least Developed Countries For An Extension Of The Transitional Period For Granting And Enforcing Medicines Patents Needs To Be Supported from www.ip-watch.org On 24 February 2015 Bangladesh on behalf of the 34 Least Developed Country members (LDCs) of the World Trade Organization (WTO) submitted a request for an extension of the transitional period under article 66.1 ...
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Foreign Plaintiffs Not Required to Post Bond for Defendant’s Fees and Costs from docketreport.blogspot.com In connection with plaintiff's motion to strike plaintiff's infringement contentions, the court denied without prejudice defendant's motion to require plaintiffs' to post a bond of $750,000 for defendant's anticipated 35 ...
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Ericsson goes after Apple in ED Texas and at ITC from ipbiz.blogspot.com PCWorld notes
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The Swedish telecommunications equipment vendor filed nine lawsuits against Apple on Thursday, seven in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas and two in the U.S. International Trade ...
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At EPO, Patent Oppositions To High-Priced Gilead Hepatitis C Drug Pile Up from www.ip-watch.org According to a public health advocacy group, there are now as many as 10 oppositions filed at the European Patent Office against the Gilead company's patent on sofosbuvir, a treatment for hepatitis C. One ...
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Smartflash v. Apple: Is the Invention an Abstract Idea? from patentlyo.com by Dennis Crouch In the upcoming $500 million Apple v. Smartflash appeal, a central question will be whether the Smartflash patents properly claim eligible subject matter under 35 U.S.C. 101 as interpreted by ...
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PTO Day from www.patentdocs.org The Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) and U.S. Patent and Trademark Office will be co-sponsoring the 25th Annual Conference on USPTO Law and Practice (PTO Day) on March 10, 2015 in Washington, D.C ...
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ACI M&A and Strategic Alliances in the Life Sciences Industries Conference from www.patentdocs.org American Conference Institute (ACI) will be holding its 6th Advanced Forum on M&A; and Strategic Alliances in the Life Sciences Industries from April 27-29, 2015 in New York, NY. The conference will allow attendees ...
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AIPLA Webinar on Securing Allowance Using Evidence from www.patentdocs.org The American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA) will be offering a webinar entitled "Best Practices to Secure Allowance of Patent Application Claims Using Evidence" on March 3, 2015 from 12:30 - 2:00 pm (ET ...
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IPO Webinar on Hatch-Waxman and Biologic Strategies at the PTAB from www.patentdocs.org The Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) will offer a one-hour webinar entitled "Hatch-Waxman and Biologic Strategies at the PTAB" on March 3, 2015 beginning at 2:00 pm (ET). Cynthia Hardman of Goodwin Procter, LLP ...
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EFF brief on Commil case from ipbiz.blogspot.com EFF submitted a brief in the Commil case:
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In our brief, we argue that inducement requires intent to infringe and if you think you’re not infringing (because either the patent is invalid or because ...
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Don’t Be Put Off by the Strength of Bands from inventivestep.net We hear about resistance bands and their benefits from every side nowadays, but one question remains: do we need to be strong to use resistance tubes? Despite your apprehensions and doubts, the answer is no ...
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