A Kat visits #INTA15: the Aftermath, and a trip to Ralph's from ipkitten.blogspot.com Retirement home
for old business cardsAs regular readers will know, the 137th Meeting of the International Trademark Association ended with a flourish on Wednesday night, as reported
here. But in a very real sense ...
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The Digital Single Market Strategy: too many (strategic?) omissions from ipkitten.blogspot.com As expected, following the leak of a full draft version [here], yesterday the EU Commission unveiled its Digital Single Market Strategy (DSMS). As EU Commission President, Jean-Claude Juncker, explained last year, this would include what ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
A Kat visits #INTA15: Wednesday wind-up from ipkitten.blogspot.com Photo commissioned from unknown Convention Center staff member by Okan Çan (Deriş)Wednesday is traditionally the final day of the INTA's marathon Meeting
[on which topic click here, here and here for background and ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
Amgen Wins Injunction against Neupogen® Biosimilar Pending Appeal from www.patentdocs.org By Kevin E. Noonan -- The Federal Circuit has granted Amgen’s emergency motion for an injunction against Sandoz, preventing that company from marketing, selling, offering for sale, or importing into the United States its FDA-approved ...
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Takeda v. Hikma: a tour of Hatch-Waxman? from ipbiz.blogspot.com The CAFC case Takeda v. Hikma is an interesting discussion of induced infringement in a Hatch-Waxman context, with the Grokster copyright case arising.
The affliction in question is gout and the relevant drug is colchicine ...
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US 20150126758 to Genifuel/Batelle: SYSTEM AND PROCESS FOR EFFICIENT SEPARATION OF BIOCRUDES AND WATER IN A HYDROTHERMAL LIQUEFACTION SYSTEM from ipbiz.blogspot.com The first published claim of the '758 application:
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1. A process for clean separation of a biocrude from a water by-product present in a hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL) product mixture derived from an HTL feedstock, comprising ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
United States Hopeful Lisbon Members Will Open Diplomatic Conference To All from www.ip-watch.org During a press briefing today the United States said they still have hope that the 28 members of a World Intellectual Property Organization-administered treaty will let the whole WIPO membership participate in next week's ...
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Diplomatic Conference On Inclusion Of GIs In WIPO Treaty Kicks Off Next Week from www.ip-watch.org Geographical indications might gain stronger international protection through the amendment of a 28-member World Intellectual Property Organization-administered treaty protecting appellations of origin. The high-level negotiating meeting taking place next week will consider pending issues in ...
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Rule 11 Violation Warrants Disgorgement of Plaintiff’s Counsel’s Profits Plus 50% from docketreport.blogspot.com Following remand, the court granted in part defendants' motion for Rule 11 sanctions and sanctioned plaintiff's counsel $450,000, calculated from a disgorgement of counsel's profits plus 50%. "If the worst result that ...
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Spain's challenge to the EU patent package: the Curia summary from patlit.blogspot.com As most readers of this weblog will now know, the Court of Justice of the European Union has given judgment this week in Cases
C-146/13 Spain v Parliament and Council and
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Biogen loses appeal at CAFC related to Interference No. 105,939 (Walter Fiers: U.S. Patent Application No. 08/253,843 ) from ipbiz.blogspot.com The bottom line in Biogen vs. Japanese Foundation (2014-1525):
We conclude that as a result of the transfer we have
jurisdiction under pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. § 141 to hear Biogen’s
appeal. This is ...
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Not all smooth sailing for the PATENT Act? from ipbiz.blogspot.com TheHill suggests that there are some concerns with the PATENT Act proposal for patent reform:
Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), ahead of the hearing, announced he was signing onto a pared back patent proposal sponsored by ...
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‘Bound By Law’, 26 Lisbon Members Say No To Fully Open Diplomatic Conference On GIs from www.ip-watch.org The ambassadors of all but two members of a 28-member World Intellectual Property Organization-administered treaty protecting appellations of origin said in a letter yesterday that international law requires that only treaty members participate in next ...
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