Patent & IP news for August 10, 2015

USPTO Issues Update on Patent Subject Matter Eligibility Guidance from dunlapcodding.com

Ann Robl

On July 30, 2015, the Patent Office issued an update (“the July Update”) to its December 2014 Interim Guidance on Subject Matter Eligibility for patents (“the Guidance”). Notification of the July Update and ...

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Monday miscellany from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Great idea: shame about the dog ...Readers' comments: a reminder. Readers are invited and indeed welcome to post their comments on the blogposts that appear on this weblog.  But remember: this blog moderates these comments ...

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USPTO Allowance Rate from patentlyo.com

The chart below provides a new look at the USPTO Allowance rate and is calculated by dividing the number of issued patents  in a given month by the number completed cases (where the application either ...

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When does a fundamental deficiency not lead to remittal? Decision from the EPO Board of Appeal from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Merpel can be a little unreasonable sometimes tooEstablished case law of the Boards of Appeal of the European Patent Office indicates that an unreasoned decision by a first instance department constitutes a substantial procedural ...

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Never too late: if you missed the IPKat last week ... from ipkitten.blogspot.com

With regular updater Alberto Bellan taking a well-earned break, this week's round-up of the previous week's substantive Katposts comes from IPKat blogmeister Jeremy. Last week was a pretty active one for the IP ...

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CAFC defines competitive injury for false patent marking from ocpatentlawyer.com

In order to unfairly deter competition, companies would falsely mark a product as “patent pending” or even place a patent number on the product when no patent application or patent existed. Sometimes companies would make ...

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USPTO News Briefs from www.patentdocs.org

By Donald Zuhn -- USPTO to Replace EFS-Web and PAIR In an article posted on the Director's Forum blog, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Deputy Director Russ Slifer announced that the Office would begin ...

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District Courts Adopting Middle Ground in Fashioning Statutory Damages Awards in Trademark Counterfeiting Cases from www.iplawalert.com

Two recent opinions, one from the Northern District of Illinois and another from the Southern District of New York, offer guidance to those electing statutory damages in lieu of actual damages and profits in trademark ...

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Digital Rights Patents Not Invalid Under 35 USC §101 from docketreport.blogspot.com

The court denied defendants' renewed motion for judgment as a matter of law that plaintiff's digital content patents were invalid for lack of patentable subject matter because the patents were not directed toward an ...

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TXED Rejects 73% of 35 USC § 101 Pretrial Challenges in 2015 from docketreport.blogspot.com

Since the Supreme Court decided Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank International, 134 S. Ct. 2347 (June 19, 2014), U.S. district courts have addressed 35 USC § 101 challenges in potentially dispositive pretrial motions (motions to ...

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Washington Examiner discusses Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and sovereign patent funds (SPFs) from ipbiz.blogspot.com

The typo in the final paragraph is of interest:


SPFs that are focused on research and pooling knowledge rather than on lobbing lawsuits
can serve to improve access and spurn [sic: !] innovation.
They can be ...

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Buckyballs and diffuse interstellar bands from ipbiz.blogspot.com



The article titled Buckyballs in space solve 100-year-old riddle notes:


In 1919, Mary Lea Heger, a graduate student at the University of California’s Lick Observatory on Mount Hamilton, saw that particular wavelengths of light ...

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Automation: Labor augmenting or substituting? Yes. from www.athenaalliance.org

One of the biggest questions concerning automation/robots/artificial intelligence is whether it augments human labor or is a substitute. A recent "Open Letter on the Digital Economy" outlined a research agenda that called for ...

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En Banc Federal Circuit: USITC Has power to Stop Non-Infringing Imports if used to Induce Infringement in the US from patentlyo.com

In Suprema, Inc. v. USITC and Cross Match Technologies (en banc), the Federal Circuit sitting en banc has overturned the prior-panel decision – now holding that the US International Trade Commission (USITC) has the power to ...

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Disheartening article on patent reform in Fortune from ipbiz.blogspot.com

The title of the Fortune piece was promising Hey lawmakers, patents and innovation aren't the same – here's a reminder but the content was sadly pathetic.

A commenter got to some of the problems ...

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Fortune, the Economist texts on patent reform criticized at PatentlyO from ipbiz.blogspot.com

The title of the Fortune piece was promising Hey lawmakers, patents and innovation aren't the same – here's a reminder but the content was sadly pathetic.

Most patents are NOT innovations. The continual disclosure ...

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