Patent & IP news for June 4, 2015

Copyright cases for the CJEU: have your say from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Following Tuesday's post, here's a couple more recent Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) copyright cases that are the subject of an invitation to comment, issued by the UK Intellectual Property ...

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PTAB plain meaning translation error foreign reference from allthingspros.blogspot.com

Takeaway: An Applicant argued on appeal that a German patent reference didn't disclose the claim limitation "helically extending" despite the presence of "setscrew," "grub screw," and "screwed in" in the English translation. According to ...

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Federal Circuit Distinguishes Teva v. Sandoz from www.grayonclaims.com

Shire Development, LLC v. Watson Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Fed. Cir. June 3, 2015)

In this case, the Federal Circuit had previously reversed the district court's construction of two claim terms in a 2014 decision.  After ...

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CAFC in Shire v. Watson: business as usual in claim construction after Teva from ipbiz.blogspot.com



The key line:


Because this case does not involve
factual findings to which we owe deference under
Teva, we again reverse the district court’s constructions of
the disputed claim terms and subsequent findings of ...

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The matter of unreliable assertions in the patent reform debate from ipbiz.blogspot.com


One might have thought a post titled The scariest number in the patent debate is also wrong was written by someone opposing bills such as the Innovation Act or the PATENT Act.

In fact, the ...

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Joule's US application 20150152438: Recombinant Synthesis of Alkanes from ipbiz.blogspot.com

The first published claim of -- Recombinant Synthesis of Alkanes --

An engineered microorganism, wherein said engineered microorganism comprises one or more recombinant nucleic acid sequences encoding one or more enzymes having enzyme activities which catalyze the ...

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AT&T's US 20150156604: LOCATING A DEVICE VIA A TEXT MESSAGE from ipbiz.blogspot.com

The abstract of -- LOCATING A DEVICE VIA A TEXT MESSAGE --

A first device may receive a location of a second device simply by sending a text message to the second device. The text message may ...

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A123's US 20150155596: MULTI-CELL LITHIUM-ION BATTERIES from ipbiz.blogspot.com

The first claim of A123's application:

A battery comprising: a container having a number of cell cavities; a number of electrochemical assemblies, each electrochemical assembly enfolded, one of said number of electrochemical assemblies disposed ...

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WIPO’s New Act for GIs: Not Much Ado About Place Names? from www.ip-watch.org

Recent negotiations at the World Intellectual Property Organization to create a new Act for the protection of geographical indications were intensive, with the outcome considered a landmark breakthrough by negotiators and a deep blow to ...

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Data Security Patent “Incidental or Complementary” to Financial Activity Subject to CBM Review from docketreport.blogspot.com

The Board granted institution of covered business method review of a data security patent and rejected the patent owner's argument that the challenged patent was not directed to a financial product or service. "Patent ...

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SeekingAlpha on Gevo: not thinking about patent issues in the analysis? from ipbiz.blogspot.com

In a post titled --Gevo: Increased Working Capital And Potentially Increased Economics --, Dallas Salazar observes
the following:

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GEVO has finally done something tangible worth a press release.

This is what I like to see - real ...

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Report: Patent Activity At A High But Decline In Scientific Research Could Show Innovation Slowing from www.ip-watch.org

Patent activity is currently at an all-time high, with statistics showing large growth across industry sectors in the volume of patents being filed. However, the production of scientific literature is declining, according to a new ...

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A marked-up PATENT Act leaves the Senate Judiciary Committee on 4 June 2015 from ipbiz.blogspot.com

The PATENT Act, introduced in the Senate by Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Charles Grassley, Iowa Republican, and ranking member Patrick Leahy, Vermont Democrat, and backed by Charles Schumer, moved out of the Judiciary Committee on ...

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