Patent & IP news for April 21, 2015

When three is company: trilogue happy with proposed EU trade mark reforms from ipkitten.blogspot.com

The European family of trade mark owners, practitioners, consumers, judges and administrators has been waiting patiently to find out what might be the fate of the European Commission's proposals for trade mark reform ...

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Politico leaks draft Digital Single Market strategy tackling geo-blocking, civil enforcement and role of ISPs from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Yesterday Politico leaked copies of the draft Digital Single Market (DSM) Strategy and its supporting Evidence, which the EU Commission is officially due to release on 6 May 2015.
The Strategy starts by stressing the ...

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The EU patent package: a motion, a response and now a rejoinder from ipkitten.blogspot.com

How some folk see it ...Just over five weeks ago, the IPKat posted “The EU patent package: a dangerous precedent? A call for sanity” here. This was a motion supported by more than 50 academics ...

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More on the Millions - A Wag the Dog tale? from www.1201tuesday.com

My last post on Patent No. 9,000,000 generated some buzz in a few circles, including some places that are historically not so friendly to the patent system. But while it seems indiputable that ...

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Legislation Introduced in House to Eliminate Uncertainty Regarding AIA Grace Period from www.patentdocs.org

By Donald Zuhn -- Last week, legislation was introduced in the House of Representatives that would amend 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) "to correct the drafting problem in the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act relating to ...

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Big companies trying to feed castor oil to little companies on patent reform? from ipbiz.blogspot.com

The Washington Post covered a meeting run by Technet the 1776 campus.  Text included:

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“Every entrepreneur is competing with large companies for the top tech talent, so we absolutely must reform high-skill immigration,” said Polese ...

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Gevo's US 9,012,189 from ipbiz.blogspot.com

The first claim of the '189 patent is to a modified ADH:

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1. A modified alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) comprising one or more modifications at positions corresponding to amino acids selected from the group consisting of ...

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Google's US 9,014,905: Cyclist hand signal detection by an autonomous vehicle from ipbiz.blogspot.com

The first claim of Google's issued patent titled - Cyclist hand signal detection by an autonomous vehicle - is

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1. A method, comprising: a computing device receiving a plurality of data points corresponding to an environment ...

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Intel's US 9,013,861: Charge storage device, method of making same, method of making an electrically conductive structure for same, mobile electronic device using same, and microelectronic device containing same from ipbiz.blogspot.com

The first claim of Intel's patent titled -Charge storage device, method of making same, method of making an electrically conductive structure for same, mobile electronic device using same, and microelectronic device containing same - reads ...

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Singer Lulu is back; is there a copying issue? from ipbiz.blogspot.com

From an interview with singer Lulu:

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If you could go back in time, where would you go?
To the 60s, when I was 16, at the Marquee in Soho, and Eric Clapton asked what I ...

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The New York Times on the color green from ipbiz.blogspot.com


Within a New York Times article titled "Our Ever Green World" one finds the text

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Green was changeable, capricious, as uncontrollable as fate, no more to be trusted than a green-skinned goblin or sprite. “From ...

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WHO Reviews Its Essential Medicines List; Some New Candidates Under Patent from www.ip-watch.org

The World Health Organization is reviewing its list of essential medicines this week. Over 70 candidate medicines are expected to be assessed by an Expert Committee. Some of those medicines are under patent and highly ...

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What is “patent misuse”? from ipspotlight.com

“Patent misuse” is perhaps one of the most “misused” phrases in patent law. When faced with a patent lawsuit or even just a cease-and-desist letter, accused infringers who disagree with the patent holder’s actions ...

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Ericsson's pseudo-sale of patents to Unwired Planet and the rampant problem of privateering from www.fosspatents.com

In the first half of this decade, the biggest and most divisive issue in the information and communications technology (ICT) was FRAND: fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory licensing of standard-essential patents (SEPs). That issue hasn't ...

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PH.D. Thesis plagiarism flap brews in Little Rock from ipbiz.blogspot.com

There is a plagiarism flap in Little Rock, Arkansas involving the PH.D. thesis of Dexter Suggs at Indiana Wesleyan University.  Some of the copying was alleged to be from a 2005 thesis at the ...

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Case Highlight: California District Court Refuses to Stay Civil Case Pending Resolution of Potential Criminal Prosecution from www.iplawalert.com

In Sanrio, Inc. v. Ronnie Home Textile Inc., the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California recently refused to stay a civil case pending completion of a parallel criminal counterfeiting investigation. In ...

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MVS Filewrapper® Blog: Additional Patent Reform Legislation Proposed in the House and Senate from www.filewrapper.com

Post by Dan Lorentzen

 

 

In an ongoing trend of alternative patent reform legislation being introduced in Congress, new legislation was introduced in both the U.S House of Representatives and the Senate.  The legislation, called ...

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Jury to Decide Subjective Willfulness Despite Court’s Determination of No Objective Willfulness from docketreport.blogspot.com

The court denied defendant's motion in limine to preclude evidence of willful infringement even though the court determined that defendant did not willfully infringe. "[T]he court finds that [defendant's] invalidity defense under ...

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CleanTech PatentEdge Annual Report Shows Green Patenting Grew in 2014 from www.greenpatentblog.com

Berkeley-based IP Checkups recently published its 2014 Annual Report on cleantech patenting trends.  Based on the firm’s proprietary green patent database -  Cleantech PatentEdge™ - the report contains much interesting analysis driven by this powerful data ...

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Social Networks and Fundamental Rights: Last Developments In The Cyberspace from www.iposgoode.ca

The re-posting of this analysis is part of a cross-posting collaboration with MediaLaws: Law and Policy of the Media in a Comparative Perspective. “Dear User, your Facebook account has been temporary deactivated”. This statement represents ...

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Yale/IP-Watch Effort To Open TPP Updated from www.ip-watch.org

Intellectual Property Watch has been working for several years to obtain more details about the intellectual property aspects of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement negotiations through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, and a ...

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Of Printer Cartridges and Patent Exhaustion: The En Banc Federal Circuit is Poised to Clarify Quanta from patentlyo.com

Guest post by Samuel F. Ernst, Assistant Professor of Law at the Chapman University Dale E. Fowler School of Law. Lexmark International, Inc. sells its patented printer cartridges directly to customers and indirectly through authorized ...

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