Patent & IP news for September 4, 2015

IPEC puts its Sensitive Touch on joint authorship claim in a musical work from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Nedim MalovicA few months ago the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court (IPEC) issued a very interesting decision regarding post-punk bands, copyright and joint authorship in musical works. The case is Minder Music & Another v Sharples ...

Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook

Criminal Copyright: Should Copyright Protection not be Given to Works by Criminals? from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Crime doesn't pay, or so they say even when some (nearly) dash away with millions of pounds worth of jewellery in broad daylight in London. No matter what your crime has been, be it ...

Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook

New Logo in the Works for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics after Plagiarism Allegations Surface from dunlapcodding.com

Lewis Craft

As reported by the BBC, the 2020 Olympic committee scrapped the Tokyo 2020 Olympics logo shown above on the left due to allegations that the logo’s designer, Kenjiro Sano, used other images ...

Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook

August employment in tangible and intangible industries from www.athenaalliance.org

Today's employment numbers from BLS is somewhat mixed news. The unemployment rate dropped slightly to 5.1% in August but payrolls increased by only 173,000. Economists had expected an increase of 217,000 ...

Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook

Amicus Briefs in Support of Sequenom's Petition for Rehearing En Banc: 23 Law Professors from www.patentdocs.org

By Donald Zuhn -- Earlier this summer, in Ariosa Diagnostics, Inc. v. Sequenom, Inc., the Federal Circuit affirmed a decision by the District Court for the Northern District of California granting summary judgment of invalidity of ...

Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook

Your “Reality” Must Be Original To Win Copyright Protection from www.ip-watch.org

Since the debut of Candid Camera in the late 1940s, unscripted television of varying genres (from game shows to documentaries) has been a staple of American television. Not until the worldwide success of shows such ...

Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook

Signal Transmission Patent Invalid Under 35 U.S.C. § 101 from docketreport.blogspot.com

The court granted defendants' motion for judgment on the pleadings that plaintiff's signal transmission patent was invalid for lack of patentable subject matter and found that the patent was directed toward the abstract concept ...

Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook

Nothing is Patentable from writtendescription.blogspot.com

I signed onto two amicus briefs last week, both related to the tightening noose of patentable subject matter. Those familiar with my article Everything is Patentable will know that I generally favor looser subject matter ...

Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook

Wall Street Journal post questions legal reasoning of PTAB in not instituting Tecfidera IPR from ipbiz.blogspot.com

In a story by Joseph Walker posted Sept. 3, 2015 6:56 p.m. ET, there are questions about the legal analysis of PTAB
in the decision not to institute an IPR over claims of ...

Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook