Patent & IP news for June 12, 2015

"Three aspects of information: Current issues in trade secrets, client confidentiality and privilege": a report from ipkitten.blogspot.com

"Three aspects of information: Current issues in trade secrets, client confidentiality and privilege", a CIPA-IPKat seminar, took place yesterday at the CIPA headquarters in Chancery Lane, in the heart of Charles Dickens' legal London. The ...

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Friday fantasies from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Hors de combit?  Case C-223/15 combit Software is yet another reference to the Court of Justice of the European Union.  The referring court is the Oberlandesgericht Düsseldorf (a German Court which is often called ...

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Is connectivity a human right? Filling a gap between uncertainty and opportunity from ipkitten.blogspot.com

This Kat has recently come across an intriguing white paper, released by Mark Zuckerberg last year, in which a provocative question is posed: "Is connectivity a human right?" -- a question that addresses the prospect of ...

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News from Abroad: Pravastatin Sodium Case, Japan Product-by-Process Claiming Practice: Supreme Court Overrules the Grand Panel of the IP High Court from www.patentdocs.org

By Dr. Shoichi Okuyama* -- Product-by-process claim drafting and interpretation practice were greatly modified by the Pravastatin Sodium Case decisions (Japan Supreme Court, June 5, 2015, Second Petty Bench, case Nos. 2012(ju)1204 and 2012 ...

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IPR Challenging 3 of 22 Asserted Claims Justifies Stay of Entire Case from docketreport.blogspot.com

The court granted defendant's motion to stay a recently transferred case pending inter partes review and rejected plaintiff's argument that defendant was hijacking the litigation because only 2 of 11 patents-in-suit and 3 ...

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WIPO Marrakesh Treaty For Blind Readers In Force In Early 2016? Now Part Of Bigger UN Process from www.ip-watch.org

The 2013 World Intellectual Property Organization treaty on access to published works for print-disabled readers may go into effect by early 2016. And the treaty has become part of a bigger process at the United ...

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Federal Circuit Decides Ariosa, and Its Not Good News for Innovation in the Life Sciences from holmansbiotechipblog.blogspot.com


On November 1, 2013, I reported on the district court decision in Aria Diagnostics v. Sequenom that invalidated diagnostic method claims under the Mayo v. Prometheus test for patent eligibility.  In that post, I predicted ...

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World Summit On Information Society (WSIS) Review Roadmap Taking Shape from www.ip-watch.org

The United Nations is leading a mandated review of the 2003-2005 World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) this year, culminating in a high-level meeting in December. This week, UN member states discussed the roadmap ...

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Sequenom loses at CAFC from ipbiz.blogspot.com




This appeal is from a grant of summary judgment of
invalidity of the asserted claims of U.S. Patent No.
6,258,540 (“the ’540 patent”). The United States District
Court for the Northern District ...

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OIP Technologies, Inc. v. Amazon.com, Inc. (Fed. Cir. 2015) from www.patentdocs.org

By Michael Borella -- In its first substantive application of Alice v. CLS Bank in 2015, the Federal Circuit has once again shot down claims for not meeting the patent-eligibility requirements of 35 U.S.C ...

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Concerns on patent reform from ipbiz.blogspot.com


The Daily CCaller on patent reform:

“The Innovation Act, like its Senate counterpart the PATENT Act, is another big government overhaul that would undermine our patent system and reward a few large, multi-national tech giants ...

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