Patent & IP news for July 3, 2015

Sofa, so good? How to lose both your two trade marks and still come out on top ... from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Sitting comfortably?  The Sofa Workshop Ltd v Sofaworks Ltd [2015] EWHC 1773 (IPEC), a 29 June decision of Judge Richard Hacon in the increasingly impressive and cost-effective Intellectual Property Enterprise Court, England and Wales, is ...

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Inventive step: is 'long felt want' still worth arguing? from patlit.blogspot.com

VPG Systems UK Ltd v Air-Weigh Europe Ltd [2015] EWHC 1862 (IPEC), is a tidy little decision of Judge Richard Hacon, sitting in the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court, England and Wales, on 1 July, where ...

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Friday fantasies from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Good day for maple leaf growers? Well, maybe not quite, but the IPKat's friends at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) have just told him in UPOV Notification 117 that Canada has ratified ...

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Implicit disclosure in prior art - a matter of fact? - "Coenzym Q10" from patlit.blogspot.com

Skilled person reproducing the prior artAppeal proceedings in German nullity actions are limited to the examination of errors of law. The Supreme Court is therefore bound by the facts established by the court of first ...

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Why Finland is not Silicon Valley: farewell Matti Makkonen, the "father of SMS" from ipkitten.blogspot.com

We are a society that worships innovation and idolize those who commercially capitalize on it. Mark Zuckerberg, the late Steve Jobs, Sergey Brin and Larry Page are (or were) all larger than life personalities. Indeed ...

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News from Abroad: Ariosa Diagnostics V Sequenom and Isis Innovation -- A European View from www.patentdocs.org

By Paul Cole* -- The June 12, 2015 decision of the Federal Circuit in the above case has been discussed by Kevin Noonan in his posting of 22 June, but it is believed that the factual ...

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Janet Freilich vs. Ted Sichelman on Patent Searching from writtendescription.blogspot.com

Over at New Private Law Blog, Janet Freilich and Ted Sichelman are having a fun exchange about patent searches. Here's an excerpt from Freilich's original post:

Since there is no easy way to ...

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Constitutional Challenges to IPR Continue from patentlyo.com

by Dennis Crouch Respect for property rights has always been a core American principle.  That respect generally means that a government grant of a property rights cannot be cancelled or annulled outside of judicial action ...

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What happens to the UPC if the UK leaves the EU? from patlit.blogspot.com

From the most recent Rouse newsletter comes some highly pertinent information and some thoughtful comment on a question that this blogger is frequently asked:

What will happen to the UPC [that's the Unified Patent ...

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PLI Advanced Patent Prosecution Seminar from www.patentdocs.org

Practising Law Institute (PLI) will be holding a two-day seminar entitled: "Advanced Patent Prosecution Seminar 2015: Claim Drafting & Amendment Writing" on July 16-17, 2015 in New York, NY, on August 10-11, 2015 in San Francisco ...

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Webinar on Non-Obviousness Post-AIA from www.patentdocs.org

Strafford will be offering a webinar/teleconference entitled "Section 103 and Non-Obviousness Post-AIA -- Navigating Timing Changes, Federal Court Treatment, and Secondary Considerations to Meet Patent Validity Requirements" on July 23, 2015 from 1:00 to ...

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