Patent & IP news for March 23, 2015

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post image Monday miscellany from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Forthcoming events. The IPKat reminds readers that there's always plenty of choice when it comes to conferences, seminars, lectures and courses that might grab a person's fancy. In the past week the Kat ...

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post image Never too late: if you missed the IPKat last week from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Were you away last week or just too busy to read all IPKat posts (especially if you are not that much into patents)? Do not despair because, as usual, fellow IPKat contributor Alberto is here ...

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post image Patent exhaustion not implicated in licensing different aspects from ocpatentlawyer.com

Bottom line: Claim sets that include independent claims directed to different types of entities (e.g., manufacturer v. end user, receiver v. transmitter, method v. apparatus) may enable the patent owner to license its patents ...

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post image No new substance, no admissibility - T2077/11 from patlit.blogspot.com

The decision T2077/11  of the EPO's technical board of appeal is a warning for all those who appreciate the art of copy & paste in appeal proceedings.

The appellant had filed a voluminous writ ...

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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. Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. v. Mylan Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 1:15-cv-00049; filed March 19, 2015 in the Northern ...

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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. Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. v. Mylan Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 1:15-cv-00049; filed March 19, 2015 in the Northern ...

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John Legend comments on the Blurred Lines matter from ipbiz.blogspot.com

From hub.contactmusic quoting John Legend:

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The singer tells the Associated Press, "You have to be careful when it comes to copyrights, whether just sounding like or feeling like something is enough to say you ...

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Trade secrets and fracking on federal lands from ipbiz.blogspot.com


Newsweek gets into the issue of disclosure of the components of fracking fluids, with some new regs appearing on Friday, March 20:

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The rules only sightly modify companies' practice of withholding chemical identities under the ...

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TPP’s Copyright Term Benefits US, Burdens Others from www.ip-watch.org

The US got its way. The Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement (TPP) will require all member nations to have a minimum copyright term of life plus 70 years. As a result, Japan, Canada, New Zealand, and three ...

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Comparing the Innovation Act and the STRONG Patents Act: competing proposals for patent reform from ipspotlight.com

2015 could be a pivotal year for U.S. patent reform, with two significant — and very distinct — patent reform bills pending before Congress.  This article compares the two bills, the Innovation Act and the STRONG ...

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Determining §101 Validity at the Pleading Stage Warranted Only in “Narrow Circumstances” from docketreport.blogspot.com

The magistrate judge recommended denying defendant's motion to dismiss and rejected the argument that the validity of the asserted patient monitoring patent under §101 could be determined at the pleading stage. "While handling the ...

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Scott Kieff speaks at UPenn from ipbiz.blogspot.com

From a press release

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On March 19, the Penn Intellectual Property Group featured a symposium on design patents and the convergence of existing intellectual property regimes. The event kicked off with keynote speaker Commissioner F ...

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Patents and Antitrust: Hovenkamp on the Rule of Reason and the Scope of the Patent from writtendescription.blogspot.com

For anyone teaching or writing on patents and antitrust, I highly recommend Herbert Hovenkamp's new article forthcoming in the San Diego Law Review, The Rule of Reason and the Scope of the Patent. In ...

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Buzz surrounding Boeing's US 8,981,261 from ipbiz.blogspot.com


CNET notes:

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The patent is for a shockwave attenuation system, which consists of a sensor capable of detecting a shockwave-generating explosion and an arc generator that receives the signal from the sensor to ionise a ...

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Report: Harmonising African Seed Laws Would Destroy Continent’s Seed Systems from www.ip-watch.org

Harmonisation of Africa’s seed laws: death knell for African seed systems The African Centre for Biosafety (ACB) has released its new report titled, ‘Harmonisation of Africa’s seed laws: a recipe for disaster- Players ...

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South African Government Draws Many Views On Draft New National IP Policy from www.ip-watch.org

CAPE TOWN – The much-anticipated process of gathering public submissions on the draft South Africa National Intellectual Property Policy has come to a close. The country’s trade minister says the office is busy collating some ...

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Lawyers copying other lawyers: plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose from ipbiz.blogspot.com

More than ten years ago, in the context of defending Professor Laurence Tribe against charges of plagiarism, Professor Alan Dershowitz made his famous "cultural difference" observation.  As recounted on Dean Velvel's blog in September ...

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Willfulness: Federal Circuit Denies En Banc Review in Halo v. Pulse from patentlyo.com

By Jason Rantanen Halo Electronics, Inc. v. Pulse Electronics, Inc. (Fed. Cir. 2015) (denial of rehearing en banc) Halo Order The Federal Circuit denied Halo’s petition for rehearing en banc today over the dissent ...

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CAFC invokes first Seagate prong to reverse WD Mich in Stryker v. Zimmer from ipbiz.blogspot.com


The outcome in Stryker v. Zimmer:


Zimmer, Inc., Zimmer Surgical, Inc., and Zimmer Orthopaedic Surgical
Products (collectively “Zimmer”) appeal
from the final judgment of the United States District
Court for the Western District of Michigan ...

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CAFC affirms D. Del. in Cadence v. Exela in case related to acetaminophen from ipbiz.blogspot.com

Teva v. Sandoz is mentioned in Cadence v. Exela:


In reviewing questions of claim construction
and obviousness,
we review underlying factual determinations for
clear error and ultimate determinations
de novo. Teva Pharm. USA, Inc. v ...

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University of Buckingham handling of 10% plagiarism rate in the course "Legal Skills and Procedure" found improper from ipbiz.blogspot.com

The Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA) issued a report on "how" the University of Buckingham handled the plagiarism in the "legal skills" class.

Link: http://www.buckinghamtoday.co.uk/news/more-news/uni-tightens-procedures-after-plagiarism-inquiry-1-6649227

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Bold predictions for biofuel production by Joule Unlimited published in BiofuelsDigest on 23 March 2015 from ipbiz.blogspot.com

BiofuelsDigest ran a story on 23 March 2015 titled Joule says “will go commercial in 2017″: solar fuels on the way.

With the story is the text


The company has previously indicated that it could ...

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