Patent & IP news for May 23, 2015

F1 ends up in hot water - no similarity to F1H2O from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Among the trade mark cases of this week, in case T-55/13 the General Court dealt with another dispute (following Case C‑196/11 P, reported by Jeremy here) involving several trade marks of ‘the ...

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USPTO Updates Patent Eligibility Guidance Web Page from www.717madisonplace.com

The PTO has updated its Patent Eligibility Guidance page with Abstract Idea Workshop Materials for use with the previously published Abstract Idea Examples.  Also provided is the USPTO’s case law summary.  What appears below ...

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Garfum drops case against BytePhoto from ipbiz.blogspot.com


Infozine reported of the dropped patent infringement case:


But after all the briefing had been completed and just one day after the court scheduled a hearing on the motion to dismiss, Garfum capitulated: it dropped ...

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Apple's US patent application 20150141083 titled HOTSPOT DEVICE from ipbiz.blogspot.com

The first published claim of Apple's application titled --HOTSPOT DEVICE -- is


A wireless device for communicating with a portable computing device comprising: a first portion including: a main logic board; an antenna electromagnetically connected ...

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