Patent & IP news for April 8, 2015

USPTO Issues Performance and Accountability Report for FY 2014 from www.patentdocs.org

By Donald Zuhn -- The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office recently released its Performance and Accountability Report for Fiscal Year (FY) 2014. In contrast with last year's report, the 2014 report notes that the ...

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WIPO Seminar Displays National Efforts To Protect TK, Folklore from www.ip-watch.org

A recent seminar convened by the World Intellectual Property Organization shed light on national and regional legislations protecting traditional knowledge, folklore and genetic resources, and provided examples of misappropriation. WIPO has a committee dealing with ...

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Lessons in licensing: the definitions matter from ipspotlight.com

When drafting and negotiating a license agreement, it’s tempting for the parties to simply use definitions and so-called “standard” paragraphs that are taken from previous agreements. This can be risky. Even paragraphs that might ...

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Bass goes after third drug company from ipbiz.blogspot.com

The Wall Street Journal reports:


His latest challenge seeks to employ a relatively new and inexpensive petition process to invalidate a Jazz Pharmaceuticals PLC patent for Xyrem, a narcolepsy drug with sales of $779 million ...

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Association with Standards Setting Organization May Provide Knowledge Sufficient to Support Induced and Willful Infringement Claims from docketreport.blogspot.com

The court denied defendants' motion to dismiss plaintiff's induced and willful infringement claims for failure to sufficiently allege knowledge of the patents-in-suit. "From Plaintiff’s allegations involving 3GPP and ETSI, one can infer that ...

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Judge Gilstrap Sitting by Designation from www.717madisonplace.com

US District Judge Rodney Gilstrap of the Eastern District of Texas is sitting by designation with the Federal Circuit this month.  This marks two months in a row that the Federal Circuit has hosted visiting ...

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Questioning the Federal Circuit’s Reduced Flow of Information from patentlyo.com

by Dennis Crouch In a letter mailed on April 7, 2015, I joined with the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) in calling on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit to re-institute free ...

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“Notice and Notice” and Video Streaming – Are You Breaking Bad? from www.iposgoode.ca

Video streaming, we all do it (or have done it at some point). It’s difficult not to in this day and age when entertainment is so easily transportable and amenable to on-the-go enjoyment, the ...

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Western Kentucky University finds no intentional plagiarism by Annette Parker from ipbiz.blogspot.com



The Star-Tribune noted on April 8, 2015 about plagiarism charges against Annette Parker:





A preliminary review has cleared Annette Parker, the president of South Central College, of allegations that she plagiarized parts of her dissertation ...

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Is public disclosure of technical information a from ipbiz.blogspot.com



from 96 JPTOS 486 :



While the exclusivity afforded by patent protection is critical to the rights holder, an important secondary function of patents in fostering innovation is public disclosure of technical information. n1 The traditional ...

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A note titled " DON'T FORGET ABOUT THE LITTLE GUYS: TROLLS, STARTUPS, AND FEE SHIFTING" from ipbiz.blogspot.com

See paper by Neal Vickery titled -- DON'T FORGET ABOUT THE LITTLE GUYS: TROLLS, STARTUPS, AND FEE SHIFTING -- including text:


Post-judgment fee shifting will do little to protect small startups from predatory litigation from patent ...

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