Patent & IP news for July 9, 2015

Failure to Generate REAL Patent Protection: Keurig’s Story (Part 1) from ipassetmaximizerblog.com

Innovators–be they individuals or corporations–frequently view patent protection as the key to capturing value from the time and money invested in creating a successful product. Indeed, conventional wisdom dictates that a patent covering ...

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EU Parliament rejects restrictions on freedom of panorama and ancillary right over news content from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Commissioner Oettinger was very active
 on Twitter this morning ...This morning the plenary of the European Parliament voted on the draft Report on the implementation of the InfoSoc Directive, as originally drafted [here] by MEP ...

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Barcelona makes special fast-track provision for MWC-related litigation from patlit.blogspot.com

From our friend Ignacio Marqués Jarque (Abogado. IP/IT Baker & McKenzie Barcelona, S.L.P.) comes news of a fascinating development from Barcelona -- a special fast-track procedure that covers patents and the protection of confidential ...

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Off to Court We Go - 9th Circuit Opens Question of Trademark Infringement in Search Result Listings from dunlapcodding.com

Michelle Briggs

The intersection of trademark law and technology just got a lot more interesting.  On June 6th, 2015, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9^th Circuit issued an opinion reversing a ...

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Ops and Robbers? Amazon's trade mark travails in the US from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Whatever your feelings about the doctrine of initial interest confusion [Mr Justice Arnold was in favour here and here; "no, no, no" said the Court of Appeal for England and Wales], it's a fascinating ...

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Paper: Commons Approach To European Knowledge Policy Could Yield Better Outcomes from www.ip-watch.org

A new paper released earlier this month finds that the commons perspective, which embraces knowledge as a shared resource and its management a joint responsibility, could contribute to EU policy discussions and yield better policy ...

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$532.9 Million Jury Verdict Set Aside Due to Correct, but Inapplicable, Jury Instruction on Entire Market Value Rule from docketreport.blogspot.com

The court set aside the jury's $532.9 million verdict and ordered a new trial on damages because the jury received an instruction on the entire market value rule that was inapplicable inasmuch as ...

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3D Printing And Public Policy from www.ip-watch.org

John Hornick writes: Although legal principles apply to 3D printing the same as they apply to any other technology, 3D printing has the unique potential to upset the legal status quo. It is the potential ...

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EU Parliament Adopts Reda Report On Copyright Reform from www.ip-watch.org

The European Parliament during its last plenary meeting before the summer break today adopted a non-legislative report on copyright reform prepared by Pirate Party Member Julia Reda. The report calls for an adaptation of the ...

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Versata v. SAP: Federal Circuit Claims Broad Review of CBM Decisions from patentlyo.com

by Dennis Crouch Versata v. SAP and the USPTO (Fed. Cir. 2015) This an important decision stemming from the first Covered Business Method (CBM) Review Proceeding, the Federal Circuit has affirmed the PTAB properly cancelled ...

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CAFC addresses "business method" patent issues in Versata v. SAP from ipbiz.blogspot.com

The outcome of the Versata case:


With regard to the issues in the case, we conclude:

• On appeal in a § 18 case to this court of a
final written decision by the PTAB,
as a ...

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More Cuozzo at CAFC from ipbiz.blogspot.com

Further to earlier posts on IPBiz (e.g., Judge Newman in Cuozzo was correct on Congressional intent on claim construction standard ) note the CAFC opinion of 8 July 2015 in the Cuozzo case located at ...

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PTAB renders decision related to dispute between San Francisco-based Square Inc. and Washington University prof Robert Morley Jr. from ipbiz.blogspot.com

St. Louis Today summarized the recent activity:



San Francisco-based Square Inc. and St. Louisan Jim McKelvey, a Square co-founder along with Square co-founder and CEO Jack Dorsey, sued Washington University associate professor Robert Morley Jr ...

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JEB Bush said: "workforce participation has to rise from its all-time modern lows" from ipbiz.blogspot.com

Further to the IPBiz post The "new normal" in jobs predicted long ago by William Bridges , there has been some discussion of comments by JEB Bush, specifically the Bush text:


"My aspiration for the country ...

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The Circuit Court Appointment Process, Post Senate Confirmation from www.717madisonplace.com

The Congressional Research Service explains the appointment process for circuit court nominees, after Senate confirmation, as follows [Link]: After Confirmation of a Nomination Reconsideration Senate Rule XXXI provides that, after the Senate has confirmed a ...

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