Patent & IP news for September 13, 2015

Guest Post: Why the (Previously) Improving Economy Likely (Also) Reduced Patent Litigation Rates from patentlyo.com

Guest Post by Ted Sichelman, Professor of Law and Director of the Technology Entrepreneurship and Intellectual Property Clinic and Center for Intellectual Property Law & Markets at the University of San Diego School of Law, and ...

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"Fees, please!" say the Courts, but can IP owners preserve their cash? from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Money: a precious commodityThere have been dark and foreboding rumblings in England and Wales to the effect that the recent increase in court fees is a dire and dreadful thing, and something that will ...

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Sunday snippets from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Free guide to patent analytics, and patent landscape reports.  While many practitioners, and organizations provide, or use patent landscape reports, there are precious few resources for learning how to conduct patent analytics, or create patent ...

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CBS Sunday Morning on September 13, 2015: Jan Crawford interviews Justice Stephen Breyer from ipbiz.blogspot.com

Charles Osgood introduced the stories for September 13, 2015, beginning with the cover story by Lee Cowan on athletes not managing their finances well. A later pulse poll revealed 67% of the population think athletes ...

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Inventorship dispute at the University of Pittsburgh from ipbiz.blogspot.com


The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has an article about academic intrigue and patents, titled
Federal patent office rules against two Pitt doctors on vaccine application.

There was a patent application filed by Professors Jay Kolls and Mingquan ...

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"Invention companies that rely on patent-licensing fees are outnumbered and outgunned in lobbying by the companies selling products that are in high demand because of the valuable technologies inside them. " from ipbiz.blogspot.com



TheHill has commentary related in part to non-practising entities (NPEs):


Meanwhile, policy discussions have focused on theories, promoted by parties that would profit from lower patent licensing fees, of alleged patent hold-up and royalty stacking ...

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Conference & CLE Calendar from www.patentdocs.org

September 14, 2015 - Biotechnology/chemical/pharmaceutical (BCP) customer partnership meeting (U.S. Patent and Trademark Office) September 15-17, 2015 - World IP Forum (Intellectual Professionals LLP) - Bangkok, Thailand September 17, 2015 - "Professional Negligence: Real-Life Case Studies ...

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Court Report from www.patentdocs.org

By Sherri Oslick -- About Court Report: Each week we will report briefly on recently filed biotech and pharma cases. Senju Pharmaceutical Co. et al. v. Watson Laboratories, Inc. et al. 1:15-cv-05591; filed July 16 ...

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