Patent & IP news for April 4, 2015

Have a niche time! New inductees to the IP Hall of Fame 2015 from ipkitten.blogspot.com

The names of this year's five inductees to the IP Hall of Fame have now been announced.  If they were truly famous, readers would all of heard of them already and they'd need ...

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Apple hits IP snag in Switzerland over Apple Watch from ipbiz.blogspot.com



from CNET:


The launch of Apple Watch could be delayed in Switzerland, known as the birthplace of luxury watches, due to a patent owned by watch brand Leonard, which bars the tech titan from using ...

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As to inventions: "what if someone’s beat you to the punch?" from ipbiz.blogspot.com



In an "infomercial" on patent searching, entrepreneur has the following text



But what if someone’s beat you to the punch? What if someone’s already hatched a similar product or process and patented it ...

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Rice University work: using waste water to grow algae from ipbiz.blogspot.com


In a post titled How to Make Biofuel: Feeding Algae with Wastewater , ScienceTimes discusses recent work by workers at Rice University to treat wastewater employing algae.

The relevant paper is Low algal diversity systems are ...

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Issues in IP for start-ups from ipbiz.blogspot.com

In an article in the National Law Review,
Christopher J. McKenna of Foley & Lardner identifies three potential
issues in obtaining IP for startups:

1. An inventor had existing obligations to assign his or her rights ...

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Oral Argument Recording of Commil v. Cisco from www.717madisonplace.com

The Supreme Court heard oral argument in two patent cases this past Tuesday. You can listen to the oral argument in Commil v. Cisco: [here]. You can listen to the oral argument in Kimble v ...

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