Patent & IP news for May 8, 2015

How Quality Translations Speed IP Protection While Reducing Both Risk and Costs from www.patentbaristas.com

Protecting your intellectual property, whether domestically or internationally, is traditionally a complex and costly process. On an international scale, that cost is largely due to translations, with the largest patent filers often budgeting millions of ...

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A day late and a dollar short: EQE appeal outcome favours the brave from ipkitten.blogspot.com

A respectable cohort of this blog's readership is made up of those who are training to qualify as European Patent Attorneys, while many more readers are qualified attorneys with a deep interest in the ...

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Norms of the sector and three-dimentional marks' distinctiveness: a complicated relationship. from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Another controversial case entailing a community trade mark consisting of the shape of a product has kept first the General Court, and then the Court of Justice, busy.
This latter gave its judgment in case ...

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April employment in tangible and intangible industries from www.athenaalliance.org

April's employment data from BLS shows steady growth of 223,000 job with the unemployment rate ticking down slightly to 5.4%. This is about what economists had forecast (an increase of 228,000 ...

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Grounds vor Revocation in Art. 138 EPC are Nessesary but not Sufficient Conditions - BGH Wundbehandlungsvorrichtung from patlit.blogspot.com

Art. 138 EPC sets the conditions under which national courts may revoke national parts of European Patents: Article 138
Revocation of European patents(1) Subject to Article 139, a European patent may be revoked with ...

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USPTO Places Limits on PAIR Downloads from www.patentdocs.org

By Donald Zuhn -- A colleague pointed out today that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has apparently begun to restrict the ability of users to make bulk downloads from Public PAIR. While we have ...

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EU Parliament Considers Extension Of GI Protection To Non-Agricultural Products from www.ip-watch.org

Just days before the start of the Diplomatic Conference for the Adoption of a new Act of the Lisbon Agreement for the Protection of Appellations of Origins and their International Registration, several committees of the ...

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Gonzalez post: The US Army’s Serial Plagiarists from ipbiz.blogspot.com

An article by Roberto Gonzalez at CounterPunch begins


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Over the past decade, the Pentagon has taken a renewed interest in cultural knowledge. This has manifested itself in many ways, including the creation of culture training ...

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IPCom v HTC in Patents Court: judge hands first round to HTC from ipkitten.blogspot.com

This Kat does not really like electronics cases, being a feline of chemical inclination, so he is enormously grateful to his colleague Daniel Richards for penning this piece about the recent decision relating to a ...

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At WIPO Event, Music Creators Tell Of Desperate Economic Times from www.ip-watch.org

NEW YORK - Musicians, songwriters, and producers recently gathered at a World Intellectual Property Organization event here and gave a stark depiction of a broken system that is not working for them financially, putting the very ...

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Plaintiff’s Apportionment of Royalty Rate Instead of Royalty Base Warrants Summary Judgment Against Damages Theory from docketreport.blogspot.com

The court granted defendant's motion for summary judgment that plaintiff's royalty apportionment theory was invalid under the entire market value rule and rejected plaintiff's argument that it didn't need to apportion ...

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In ‘Huge’ Move, WHO Adds Key Hepatitis C, Cancer, TB Drugs To Essential Medicines List from www.ip-watch.org

The World Health Organization today published its updated Model List of Essential Medicines, including extremely high-priced new treatments for hepatitis C, cancers and multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) that were quickly applauded by the public health ...

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Preparatory Committee launches consultation on the UPC Rules from ipkitten.blogspot.com

The Preparatory Committee has today launched a Consultation on the proposed fee structure for the Unified Patent Court.  The consultation document (pdf) provides two proposals for the basic structure of the Court fees (Rule 370 ...

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Eon v. AT&T and the role of “Pure Functional Claiming” from patentlyo.com

by Dennis Crouch In a major 2014 decision, the Supreme Court raised the standard of definiteness under 35 U.S.C. 102(b) – now requiring that the scope of patent claims be “reasonably certain” to ...

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Publishing Design Patent Applications: Time to Act from patentlyo.com

Guest Post by Gary L. Griswold.  Mr. Griswold is a Consultant residing in Hudson, WI and was formerly President and Chief Intellectual Property Counsel for 3M Innovative Properties Company. The paper reflects the views of ...

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Ratification Of Marrakesh Treaty For The Blind Postponed In Europe? from www.ip-watch.org

The German Blind Union today sounded the alarm over another dispute about the “Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works for Persons Who Are Blind, Visually Impaired or Otherwise Print Disabled”. The German and ...

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Q&A With US On Concerns About Lisbon GI Treaty Negotiation 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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David Kappos on patents from ipbiz.blogspot.com

From a post in a Fortune by David Kappos:

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Patents play a vital dual role in fostering open innovation: they simultaneously protect, and disclose, the inventor’s contribution to the knowledge pool. As public documents ...

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