Patent & IP news for March 11, 2015

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post image Wednesday whimsies 1 from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Does the Baroness have
have the magic touch?
Baroness to fly.  The IPKat learned yesterday that the United Kingdom's Minister for Intellectual Property, Baroness Neville-Rolfe, is to visit that sadly-troubled entity, the European Patent ...

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post image Wednesday whimsies 2 from ipkitten.blogspot.com

CAT = computer assisted technology,
 and we're here to assist ...
Get involved 1. Our reader Marcin tells us that his ambition is to be a patent attorney and that right now he is trying to ...

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post image Win for Winfrey, as trade mark soap-Oprah powers down from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Normally the IPKat is happy to leave recently-departed guest Kats to their own devices after they have had a six-month stint on this weblog, to give them a chance to recover, but one of the ...

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Deputy Director's PTO Day Keynote from www.patentdocs.org

By Donald Zuhn -- One day after the U.S. Senate confirmed her nomination as Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Deputy Director Michelle Lee provided the luncheon address at the 25th Annual ...

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CAFC reverses ED Texas: claims not indefinite after all from ipbiz.blogspot.com

Euros Display v. Au Optronics presents the interesting situation wherein the trial court found the claims at issue insolubly ambiguous but the CAFC found them not ambiguous under Nautilus v. Biosig.

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Robin Thicke loses Blurred Lines copying case from ipbiz.blogspot.com

From the AP


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A jury has determined that singers Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams copied R&B; legend Marvin Gaye's "Got to Give it Up" with their 2013 megahit "Blurred Lines." Thicke and Williams ...

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No, Democracy is Not Excess Baggage from www.ip-watch.org

There was quite some controversy at the 3-4 March 2015 UNESCO Connecting the Dots Conference regarding whether or not the term “democracy” should be included in the conference’s outcome statement to make it clear ...

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WIPO Encourages Participation Of Women In Intellectual Property System from www.ip-watch.org

As the United Nations celebrated Women Day on 8 March, the World Intellectual Property Organization had an ongoing initiative to encourage women’s participation in a WIPO social media platform on technology and innovation.Kaori ...

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Inventor’s Change of Testimony at Trial Warrants Attorney Fee Award Under § 285 from docketreport.blogspot.com

The court granted in part defendant's motion for attorney fees under 35 U.S.C. § 285 following a jury trial because of plaintiff's litigation misconduct after the inventor changed his testimony regarding conception ...

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CRISPR is high profile in science, patents from ipbiz.blogspot.com


The Scientist discusses CRISPR

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CRISPR (clustered, regularly interspaced, short palindromic repeats) is named for particular DNA loci that are found in many archaea and bacteria. CRISPR works with associated nucleases, including Cas9, to protect the ...

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Rohrabacher criticizes Goodlatte Innovation Act from ipbiz.blogspot.com


TheHill discusses comments by Congr. Rohrabacher on the Goodlatte bill, HR 9:

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That should be the end of the story.  However, the push to pass HR 9 has not abated – because the “troll” narrative was ...

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Most Cited Supreme Court Cases (2005-2015) from patentlyo.com

by Dennis Crouch The list below considers all of the U.S. Supreme Court patent cases decided during the past decade (Since January 2005) and ranks them according to the number of citations.  Citation offers ...

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Federal Circuit Limits Patent Exhaustion from www.iplawalert.com

A recent decision by the Federal Circuit, Helferich Patent Licensing LLC v. The New York Times Co., has held that the applicability of the patent exhaustion defense may be limited to a claim-by-claim determination depending ...

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The "good and bad" of patent reform from ipbiz.blogspot.com

In "My Back Pages," Bob Dylan wrote


Good and bad, I define these terms
Quite clear, no doubt, somehow



In a recent piece on TheHill, Congressman Dana Rohrabacher noted of the current push for HR ...

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UN Human Rights Council Debates Report Criticising Copyright from www.ip-watch.org

Copyright might run counter to human rights, says a new report from the United Nations Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights. In the report, she provides a number of recommendations, including encouraging UN ...

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Announcing the Gowlings IPilogue Prize 2014-2015 from www.iposgoode.ca

Since 2007, IP Osgoode awards prizes every year to students of Osgoode Hall Law School for their contributions to our website. These prizes are generously sponsored by the law firm of Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP ...

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More on the Feldman/Lemley argument about licensing from ipbiz.blogspot.com


A paper by Vivek Wadhwa cheer leads work by Feldman and. Lemley.

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A new paper, Does Patent Licensing Mean Innovation, by Robin Feldman, of the University of California-Hastings Law School, and my colleague Mark Lemley ...

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Split between first gen and second gen biofuel producers? from ipbiz.blogspot.com





Advanced Biofuels Association President Michael McAdams suggested a possible split among biofuel producers.


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But with his remarks Wednesday, McAdams signaled that the advanced biofuel sector believes its best hope for preserving a federal mandate for ...

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An image for copyists: passing off rayon as silk? from ipbiz.blogspot.com



A comment after the verdict in the Blurred Lines matter:

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Pharrell has readily admitted that Marvin Gaye is one of his idols, but it's silk and rayon," King said. "If this is the way ...

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