Patent & IP news for August 30, 2015

Acquired distinctiveness of product shape marks: AG Wathelet does not “rely” on the UK approach – but on what else? from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Not so very long ago the IPKat hosted this guest post from Roland Mallinson on the subject of Nestlé's  application to register its chocolate finger shape as a trade mark: has this application been ...

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Posting comments on the IPKat: a new policy from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Disguise is fine ...A few months ago, when Merpel's blogposts on the goings-on at the European Patent Office attracted a large number of comments, she instituted a rule that readers' comments would only be ...

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Sunday Morning on August 30, 2015 from ipbiz.blogspot.com



Martha Teichner did the cover story on New Orleans after
Katrina. Ended with a "then and now" on three
People.

August 30, 1901. Vacuum cleaner.Hubert Cecil Booth.
2002 vacuum cleaner collector convention with. Bill ...

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In Brief: Parties Pile-On Reasons to Reconsider Ariosa v. Sequenom from patentlyo.com

by Dennis Crouch Ariosa Diagnostics, Inc v. Sequenom, Inc. (Fed. Cir. 2015) (en banc petition 2015) This subject matter eligibility case revolves around an important scientific discovery that a pregnant woman’s blood plasma/serum ...

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In Brief: Amici Provide Reasons to Reconsider Ariosa v. Sequenom from patentlyo.com

[This post includes links to the 12 amicus briefs supporting Sequenom’s petition for en banc rehearing in this Subject Matter Eligibility Case.] by Dennis Crouch Ariosa Diagnostics, Inc v. Sequenom, Inc. (Fed. Cir. 2015 ...

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Conference & CLE Calendar from www.patentdocs.org

September 1, 2015 - "IP Agreements: Structuring Indemnification and Limitation of Liability Provisions to Allocate Infringement Risk" (Strafford) - 1:00 to 2:30 pm (EDT) September 2, 2015 - "Amgen v. Sandoz: What Now?" (Intellectual Property Owners ...

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