Patent & IP news for April 18, 2015

Bundesgerichtshof on the legality of using short musical sequences as background loop for a rap song - "Goldrapper" from ipkitten.blogspot.com

The German Federal Court of Justice (Bundesgerichtshof) this week had to decide on the legality of using short musical sequences as background loop for a rap song (decision of 16 April 2015 - I ZR 225 ...

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Price and Rai on Biologic Secrecy from writtendescription.blogspot.com

Nicholson Price and Arti Rai just posted Manufacturing Barriers to Biologics Competition and Innovation, which is forthcoming in the Iowa Law Review. Here is the abstract:

As finding breakthrough small-molecule drugs gets harder, drug companies ...

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Article in the New York Times wrongly credits Bell Labs scientists as inventing the semiconductor! from ipbiz.blogspot.com



Sendhil Mullainathan, a professor of economics at Harvard, in a piece in the New York Times titled
Why a Harvard Professor Has Mixed Feelings When Students Take Jobs in Finance
wrote the following:
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People in ...

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PTAB affirms examiner in Ex parte Lockwood concerning US patent 7010508, reexam 90/012,671 from ipbiz.blogspot.com

Yes, this is the Lockwood of the case Lockwood v. American Airlines, 107 F.3d 1565 (CAFC 1997), and that case is mentioned in this PTAB decision.  Footnote 5 of the PTAB decision is of ...

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PTAB affirms examiner in Ex parte Mabey from ipbiz.blogspot.com

The PTAB affirmed the examiner in Ex parte Mabey.

The technical matter involved the addition of an intumescent agent in a latex based paint.

GrafGuard, a graphite intercalated with sulfuric acid/nitric acid arose in ...

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The position of Travis Stoliker on patent reform is questioned from ipbiz.blogspot.com

In a piece in the Lansing State Journal, Travis Stoliker of Liquid Web omits some
pertinent  details in the saga of Henry Ford and George Selden.

Attorney George Selden did not produce cars, but the ...

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USPTO Patent Quality Call for Papers from patentlyo.com

The USPTO has an outstanding request for comments on its patent quality initiatives and many participants in the patent system will be submitting comments and proposals for improving patent quality. I’ve been working with ...

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IPO Conference on Perception of IP in Europe from www.patentdocs.org

The Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) European Practice Committee will be hosting a one-day conference entitled "Never Been a Better Time (For IP) Than Right Now?" on May 20, 2015 in London, UK. The conference ...

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Webinar on Best Practices for PCT and EPO Filings from www.patentdocs.org

Technology Transfer Tactics will be offering a webinar entitled "Best Practices for Cost-Effective Filing of PCT and EPO Patent Applications" on May 19, 2015 from 1:00 to 2:00 pm (Eastern). Jeffrey M. Sears ...

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