Patent & IP news for March 31, 2015

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post image A Kat revisits Broccoli & Tomatoes, part deux - what does it all mean? from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Fellow Kat David posted last week on the recent pair of Board of Appeal decisions G2/12 Tomatoes II and G3/12 Broccoli II (still not available in the online list of G decisions, but ...

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post image Brown epilators? There may still be one in Albania from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Don't even think it ...Some people are embarrassed at having excess hair, or at any rate at having hair where they would rather not be seen to displaying it. This is why epilators are ...

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post image Making available does not mean communication: still on the C More decision from ipkitten.blogspot.com

A smiling TV 2 Norway
(new owner of C More) CEO
possibly pictured before the CJEU ruling
Last week this blog reported on the latest decision of the Court of Justice of the European Union ...

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post image Wednesday whimsies from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Open Up Copyright 1. "“Fair copyright for all across Europe” rallying call from libraries, archives and charities" is the strident call from the Chartered Institute of Library & Information Professionals (CILIP), according to a media release ...

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In post-Alice world, weaker software copyright would harm the U.S. economy: Oracle v. Google from www.fosspatents.com

The three branches of the U.S. government--legislative, executive, judiciary--have all become aware in recent years of the negative effects of overprotection of software-related intellectual property. When too much leverage is given to right holders ...

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US 8,993,303 to South Dakota State University: Genetically engineered cyanobacteria from ipbiz.blogspot.com


The first claim of US 8,993,303:

A composition comprising an Anabaena spp. genetically engineered with at least one recombinant polynucleotide expression construct, wherein the at least one recombinant polynucleotide expression construct comprises a ...

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Apple's US 8,996,376: Intelligent text-to-speech conversion from ipbiz.blogspot.com



The first claim of Apple's US Patent 8,996,376 :

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A computer-implemented method of converting text to speech, the method comprising: selecting a document to be converted to speech, the selected document including base ...

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Samsung's US Patent 8,994,827 : Wearable electronic device from ipbiz.blogspot.com



The first claim of US 8,994,827 :

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A device comprising: a device body comprising: a touch-sensitive display; and a processor; a band coupled to the device body; a first optical sensor in or on ...

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US 8,993,113 titled Graphene Aerogels from ipbiz.blogspot.com



The first claim of US 8,993,113 contains an element about covalent bonding:

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A composition comprising at least one graphene aerogel comprising a three-dimensional structure of graphene sheets, wherein the graphene sheets are directly ...

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US Patent 8,993,290 with Tony Melis as first inventor, titled Continuous diffusion based method of cultivating photosynthetic microorganisms in a sealed photobioreactor to obtain volatile hydrocarbons from ipbiz.blogspot.com


The first claim of US 8,993,290 :




A continous method of cultivating photosynthetic microorganisms in a sealed photobioreactor to obtain a volatile hydrocarbon product of photosynthesis generated by the microorganisms, the method comprising (i ...

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Kimble v. Marvel to be argued at the US Supreme Court on 31 March 2015 from ipbiz.blogspot.com


The US Supreme Court confronts the previous case of Brulotte v. Thys in today's Kimble v. Marvel.

Judge Richard Posner had written of Brulotte when discussing the 7th Circuit case Scheiber v. Dolby Laboratories ...

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“Big Pharma is running low on innovation?" from ipbiz.blogspot.com



Heather Behanna, analyst for Wedbush Securities, noted of recent pharma acquisitions, including Teva buying Auspex:


“Interest rates being so low makes it easy for larger companies to get money for acquisitions. And some innovative small ...

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USITC to investigate Apple concerning Ericsson patents from ipbiz.blogspot.com



After renewal of licensing agreements between Apple and Ericsson went no where, the United States International Trade Commission (ITC) agreed to launch an investigation into claims that Apple infringed on as many as 41 of ...

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Software patent-eligibility after Alice: where are we now? from ipspotlight.com

Since the June 2014 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Alice Corporation Pty Ltd. v. CLS Bank Int’l, the vast majority of district court decisions, Federal Circuit decisions, and Patent Trial and Appeals Board ...

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Panel: Open Data, Open Access, And Open Education – Key To Open Innovation? from www.ip-watch.org

Intellectual property stimulates creativity but at the same time holds back innovation, speakers said at a recent event on open innovation and alternative business models. The roundtable looked a range of models, such as open ...

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Estimating Individual Inventor Returns to Patenting from writtendescription.blogspot.com

How much individual inventors earn from patenting is hotly debated today, in an age where enforcement is often outsourced to third-party enforcers. But what about returns to inventors who work for companies? They usually assign ...

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Real-Time Auction Patent Invalid Under Alice from docketreport.blogspot.com

The court granted defendant's motion for judgment on the pleadings that plaintiff's real-time auction patent was invalid for lack of patentable subject matter and found the claims did not contain an inventive concept ...

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"The Long Road Back" from ipbiz.blogspot.com

IPBiz touched on the matter of H1B visas, and their impact on unemployment of Americans, in the post
titled Schumer to put his imprint on patent reform, immigration matters? .

About six years ago, on April ...

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Patent Infringement can be Unanticipated from www.iposgoode.ca

On March 16, 2015, Justice Barnes held that AstraZeneca’s Patent No 1,292,693 (“’693 Patent”), a formulation patent for omeprazole, was valid and infringed by Apotex (2015 FC 322). This decision represents the ...

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Activiites by Congressman Bob Goodlatte from ipbiz.blogspot.com


Those concerned with patent reform 2015 are familiar with the Innovation Act of Congtessman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA). In the previous session, the bill sailed through the House, but was stalled in the Senate, presumably by ...

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PTAB affirms indefiniteness when CRM claim recites human action ("subscribe") from allthingspros.blogspot.com


Takeaway: In an application for a computerized valuation platform, the Examiner rejected a computer-readable medium claim as indefinite. The Examiner took issue with the phrase "subscribing to the web-based valuation service," asserting that the word ...

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Things getting hot for DuPont shareholders from ipbiz.blogspot.com


DuPont shareholders have been getting mailings in the last week.

As pointed out in the New York Times in Jan. 2015:


DuPont is about to face one of the biggest challenges in its two centuries ...

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Oral Arguments in Commil v. Cisco from patentlyo.com

by Dennis Crouch Today, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the pending patent dispute Commil v. Cisco, Case No. 13-896.  The Patent Act creates a cause of action for actively inducing infringement of a ...

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