A Kat visits #INTA15: Monday's mewsings from ipkitten.blogspot.com Being a creature of habit, this Kat knows pretty well each year what his game plan is for the Monday of the International Trademark Association (INTA)
Annual Meeting. He starts the day by wandering off ...
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Soc it to ‘em! Judge Vajda on IP, competition and life at the CJEU from ipkitten.blogspot.com Christopher Vajda indicating the
number of cases he had
to decide last year?
Possibly not ...Last Thursday IPSoc, the society for junior IP professionals, had the pleasure of hosting Christopher Vajda, the UK judge at ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
The Skype's the limit: Sky ousts rival brand from ipkitten.blogspot.com The Court of Justice of the European Union gave judgment today in Cases
T-423/12,
T-183/13 and
T-184/13 Skype Ultd v OHIM. These decisions, which were not yet available online when this Kat ...
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BREAKING NEWS: CJEU rejects Spain's objections to the Unitary Patent Package from ipkitten.blogspot.com All Europe has been waiting with eager anticipation the handing down today of the decision of the CJEU in respect of the two challenges by Spain (C-146/13 and C-147/13) to the legality of ...
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March trade in intangibles from www.athenaalliance.org The U.S. trade deficit took a big jump in March, according to the latest data from the BEA. The March deficit rose by $15.5 billion to $51.4 billion. February's revised deficit ...
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WIPO Members Demand Full Participation In GI Negotiations At WIPO from www.ip-watch.org As the World Intellectual Property Organization prepares to host high-level negotiations next week to amend an agreement protecting appellations of origins to include geographical indications, a number of WIPO member states are asking that the ...
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Q&A With The EU On The Benefits Of Amending The Lisbon Agreement from www.ip-watch.org Next week, the 28 members of the Lisbon Agreement for the Protection of Appellations of Origin and their International Registration administered by the World Intellectual Property Organization are expected to conduct a high-level negotiating meeting ...
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US 9,024,766 to The Invention Science Fund, LLC (Bellevue, WA) (aka IV) titled Beverage containers with detection capability from ipbiz.blogspot.com From the specification:
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In one aspect, a system includes, but is not limited to, a beverage container including a vessel body configured to hold a beverage, and at least one sensor associated with the vessel ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
Are Specific Information-Processing Claims Abstract Ideas? from patentlyo.com Guest Post by Jeffrey A. Lefstin, Professor of Law at the University of California, Hastings College of Law. The Supreme Court’s decision in Alice v. CLS Bank resolved the easy cases: claims that merely ...
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IPR Institutions Denied for Petitioners’ Failure to Show Support for § 102(e) Reference in Earlier Provisional Applications from docketreport.blogspot.com The Board declined to institute
inter partes review of a telephone communications patent as anticipated because the petition did not show how the asserted reference was prior art to the challenged claims under 35 U ...
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No, its not a "services" index from www.athenaalliance.org Contrary to what you will read in the press this morning, the Institute of Supply Management (ISM) did not release data this morning on a services index. ISM publishes a manufacturing report and indices and ...
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CJEU refuses to throw España in the works – part I from ipkitten.blogspot.com As reported by fellow Kat Darren this morning, the CJEU has
rejected both of Spain’s challenges to the legality of the Unitary Patent Package. This post will summarise the first of these decisions,
C-146 ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
EU High Court Rejects Spain’s Challenge To Unitary Patent from www.ip-watch.org The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) today announced it has dismissed challenges by Spain against the European Union unitary patent package, ostensibly clearing the way for an EU patent to go into ...
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EU Trade Commissioner New Paper On Investor-State Disputes In TTIP from www.ip-watch.org EU Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmstroem today published a concept paper on investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) mechanisms to be included in the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). The Commissioner offers additional measures to appease the ...
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CJEU refuses to throw España in the works – part II from ipkitten.blogspot.com As discussed in
Part I of this two-part series, the Court of Justice of the European Union today dismissed two challenges filed by Spain against the legislative framework put in place to create the European ...
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