Lyrica or generic pregabalin? An innovative court order from patlit.blogspot.com Warner-Lambert Company, LLC v Actavis Group PTC EHF and others [2015] EWHC 485 (Pat) is a Patents Court, England and Wales ruling of Mr Justice Arnold on 2 March which has already received substantial attention ...
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Australia, TRIPS and compulsory pharma licences for LDCs: reaching the endgame from ipkitten.blogspot.com A news item concerning Australia and TRIPS caught this Kat's eye last week and it seemed to him to be not merely interesting but also pretty significant -- particularly for any reader who happens to ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
"Are you sitting comfortably ...?" Norway's Comfyballs gets a rough ride in the US from ipkitten.blogspot.com "Comfyballs denied US trademark, asks public for help", reports marketing e-magazine The Drum,
here. The item, in relevant part, reads as follows:
"Comfyballs, a Norwegian underwear brand, has set up a poll asking the public ...
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EPLIT meets in Paris: will you be there? from patlit.blogspot.com PatLit has just been contacted by the working group within the European Patent Litigators Association (
EPLIT) which is responsible for organizing the association's annual meetings. Says the working group:
"As you may know, EPLIT ...
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Tuesday tiddlywinks from ipkitten.blogspot.com News-flash. The BBC website has reported the news ("Dutch ministers Opstelten and Teeven quit over payment to drug-trafficker") that the Dutch Minister of Justice Ivo Opstelten -- the man who famously intervened in the civil suit ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
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. Janssen Biotech, Inc. et al. v. Celltrion Healthcare Co., Ltd. et al. 1:15-cv-10698; filed March ...
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US patent 8,975,049 to James Liao/UC-Berkeley from ipbiz.blogspot.com From the summary
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The disclosure provides a recombinant microorganism that produces an alcohol selected from the group consisting of: (a) 1-propanol, (b) isobutanol and having a yield of about 0.12 to about 0.41 ...
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Google's 8,976,085: Wearable device with input and output structures from ipbiz.blogspot.com The abstract
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An electronic device includes a band configured to be worn on the head of a user. The band has a central portion and first and second temple portions extending therefrom. The central portion ...
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US 8,974,974: Class of solid-state electrolytes for rechargeable lithium batteries from ipbiz.blogspot.com The first claim
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A solid-state electrolyte for rechargeable lithium batteries comprising: (a) a large unsaturated aromatic anion selected from the group consisting of di-lithium phthalocyanine and di-lithium porphyrin, wherein one of the lithium ions of ...
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Congratulations to Director Michelle Lee from patentlyo.com by Dennis Crouch The U.S. Senate has now confirmed President Obama’s nomination of Michelle Lee as Undersecretary of Commerce and Director of the USPTO. Congratulations to Director Lee on this expected but long ...
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Patent attorney stealing trade secrets? from ipbiz.blogspot.com IPBiz discussed a joint venture gone bad in the Roquette/Solazyme matter, but questioned whether the purloined (and second) patent application would have gone anywhere. A different entity should not be able to get allowance ...
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Patent Misuse May Not Be Asserted As Stand-Alone Cause Of Action from docketreport.blogspot.com The court granted defendant's motion to dismiss plaintiff's patent misuse claim for failure to state a claim. "[C]ourts disagree on whether patent misuse can constitute a claim, not just a defense. . . . Some ...
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USPTO’s Six Proposals for Patent Quality from patentlyo.com As part of its patent quality initiative, the USPTO has offered six proposals for comment and discussion. These will serve as focal-points for the March 25-26 Patent Quality Summit hosted at the USPTO’s Arlington ...
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MVS Filewrapper® Blog: Michelle Lee Confirmed as USPTO Director from www.filewrapper.com The Senate on Monday confirmed the White House's nominee for the long-vacant director position at the USPTO. Director Lee had been serving as Deputy Director and acting Director for over a year, pending the ...
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Buzz on Apple's US application on METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FORMING A GOLD METAL MATRIX COMPOSITE from ipbiz.blogspot.com Apple's published US application
t20140361670 is getting some attention.
The first claim states
1. A gold metal matrix composite, comprising: a porous preform comprising a plurality of ceramic particles, the porous preform including spaces ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
Professor-to-Professor: You Are Wrong about Patent Reform from patentlyo.com Earlier this month I posted a letter to Congress from a group of 51 law professors and economists suggesting that the empirical evidence shows that patents are actually serving as a deterrent to innovation because ...
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How technology evolves: the violin from www.athenaalliance.org We often think of technology as engineered or designed as a fully conceived package. But in reality, technology often evolves in incremental steps. Think of the steam engine which was the product of successive tinkering ...
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Dueling Patent Reform Letters to Congress from writtendescription.blogspot.com We now have dueling patent reform letters to Congress by economists and legal scholars.
The
pro reform side. The
anti-major-reform side. My work - including the very same
article - is cited in the bibliography added to ...
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A Dose of Consistency: SCOTUS Settles the Controversy in Teva v Sandoz for Patent Litigation from www.iposgoode.ca In Teva Pharmaceuticals USA Inc v Sandoz Inc, a patent infringement case evolved into an opportunity for the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) to settle a decades-long controversy regarding how the Federal Circuit ...
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Who's the troll? Four Hewlett-Packard patents Alice'd in ServiceNow case. from ipbiz.blogspot.com Reuters noted:
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Hewlett-Packard last year accused its competitor, a Santa Clara, California-based software company, of infringing eight patents on software for managing computer networks. But the federal court in San Jose, California said four of ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook