Patent & IP news for July 14, 2015

Traditional knowledge and cultural genocide: a letter from Canada’s West Coast from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Traditional knowledge is one of those subjects that fits uncomfortably both within the scheme of conventional intellectual property law and within the accelerated, technology-driven social revolution that has seen social, cultural and commercial norms in ...

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Allergan Fights Back, Files Complaint Against Venture Fund That Filed IPR Petition from www.patentdocs.org

By Donald Zuhn -- Last month, Allergan, Inc. and Allergan Sales, LLC filed suit against Ferrum Ferro Capital, LLC and Kevin Barnes ("FFC") in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, alleging ...

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Learning From Ebola from www.ip-watch.org

In 1976, Yambuku village school headmaster Mabalo Lokela felt sick when he returned from a trip to northern Zaire near the Central African Republic border. He had a high fever, diarrhea, and bleeding. Because he ...

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Federal Circuit Issues Contentious Order Not to Review En Banc PTAB’s Claim Construction Standard For IPR Proceedings from www.iplawalert.com

On Wednesday, July 8, 2015, the Federal Circuit in a contentious 6-5 vote denied en banc review of its first opinion in connection with PTAB decision in an IPR proceeding, In re Cuozzo Speed Technologies ...

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Distributed Processing Patents Invalid Under 35 USC § 101 from docketreport.blogspot.com

The court granted defendant's motion for judgment on the pleadings that plaintiff's distributed processing patents were invalid for lack of patentable subject matter and found that the claims were directed to abstract ideas ...

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Mass Transit Payment Processing Patents Invalid Under 35 USC § 101 from docketreport.blogspot.com

The court granted defendants' motion for judgment on the pleadings that four of plaintiff's five mass transit payment system patents were invalid for lack of patentable subject matter and found that the claims were ...

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USPTO News from patentlyo.com

Ex Parte Appeals: PTO Deputy Director Russ Slifer writes on the new expedited appeal program. Slifer writes that the “current average pendency of an ex parte appeal at the PTAB is approximately 30 months” while ...

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Leadership of European Patent Office blocks examiners' access to directory of potential prior art from www.fosspatents.com

Somehow the leadership of the European Patent Office manages to demonstrate at least once per month in one or more contexts that it is far more concerned about public debate and the consequences it could ...

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