Patent & IP news for March 13, 2015

The EU patent package: a dangerous precedent? A call for sanity from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Taken by itself and out of context, the question "Is it acceptable that the European Union abandons its powers in favour of the Member States?" might attract a variety of possible answers. Yet this question ...

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Friday fantasies from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Take a punt on an a forthcoming event:
you won't regret it ...Forthcoming events. As usual, the IPKat urges readers to take a look at his Forthcoming Events page and see if there are ...

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The First Biosimilar Application Has Been Approved -- But What About the Patent Issues? from www.patentdocs.org

By Andrew Williams -- As we reported earlier this week, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ("FDA") approved the first biosimilar application -- an application by Sandoz to market a biosimilar version of Amgen's NEUPOGEN ...

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On appeal, Samsung is challenging everything Apple won at last year's California patent trial from www.fosspatents.com

The mixed verdict Apple got at last year's trial in the second California case against Samsung was a disappointment especially with respect to damages: while $119 million would make a lot of companies extremely ...

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Report on possible amendments to UK law to accommodate new Unified Patent Court: little to report from patlit.blogspot.com

It's a rather technical document, but it's quite short and it's definitely about patent litigation: published by the United Kingdom's Intellectual Property Office, it's called Technical Review and Call for ...

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The matter of patent infringement suits against small businesses from ipbiz.blogspot.com

From within a piece by David Pridham in TheHill:

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The patent licensing community itself is also working to curb bad actors within its ranks. The Licensing Executive Society of the U.S. and Canada, the ...

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Are Generics Companies Using Inter Partes Review To Overturn Patent Court Cases? from www.ip-watch.org

NEW YORK - Will generics companies use a win under the new inter partes review mechanism in the United States to overturn pharmaceutical patents in court? A top attorney for a pharmaceutical innovator company says they ...

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$5.3 Million Fee Award Not Excessive In Light of Plaintiff’s Financial Condition from docketreport.blogspot.com

The court awarded defendant more than $5.3 million in attorneys' fees under 35 U.S.C. § 285 and rejected plaintiff's argument that an award could bankrupt plaintiff. "[Plaintiff], which instituted this action with ...

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Are Patent Fees Effective at Weeding out Low-quality Patents? from writtendescription.blogspot.com

Gaétan de Rassenfosse & Adam B. Jaffe have posted Are Patent Fees Effective at Weeding out Low-quality Patents? (sorry, behind NBER paywall, though many universities have subscriptions). The abstract is here:

The paper investigates whether patent ...

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Copying in the music business from ipbiz.blogspot.com

Following up on the Blurred Lines copying matter, Billboard discusses
some previous music copying cases:

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http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/list/6501950/songs-accused-plagiarism-no-1-hot-100-blurred-lines



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Yes, the George Harrison "My Sweet Lord" matter is mentioned.

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CAFC reverses PTAB in Vicor case from ipbiz.blogspot.com

In Vicor v. Synqor , the CAFC reverses/vacates a decision of the PTAB (2014-00173) , which decision had reversed an Examiner's rejections. The more frequent outcome is PTAB affirming the Examiner, and the CAFC affirming ...

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Work at KTH Royal Institute on making biobutanol from ipbiz.blogspot.com

Phys.org discusses work by the KTH Royal a Institute:

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The building blocks of blue-green algae – sunlight, carbon dioxide and bacteria – are being used by researchers at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm to ...

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REVEALED - the Administrative Council prepares procedure for removal from office of members of the Boards of Appeal from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Merpel posted recently minutes of the December 2014 meeting of the Administrative Council of the EPO  (here and here) and, in the comments, there were discussed the two means by which a member of the ...

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IP dispute over business plan for a cruise line from ipbiz.blogspot.com


DestnyConnect mentions an ip dispute involving Richard Branson

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According to Veich, he had drawn up a business plan for a new cruise line and presented it to the Virgin Group in 2011 and the agreement ...

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