Patent & IP news for September 15, 2015

Never Too Late ... a bit late: if you missed the IPKat last week from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Were you away last week and missed the IPKat? Do not worry because our lovely friend and colleague Alberto Bellan is here to rescue you with his 63rd Never Too Late feature, summarising the best ...

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Letter from AmeriKat: Remember fair use before issuing DMCA notices, warns Ninth Circuit from ipkitten.blogspot.com

The AmeriKat this evening...rescued
by Circuit Judge Tallman's opinion
in Lenz v UniversalWhile the AmeriKat was idling away the hours this evening waiting for a meeting that failed to materialize (as often ...

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Question on Quarterly Patent Filings from patentlyo.com

by Dennis Crouch I find the chart below interesting. It reflects the reported number of non-provisional patent applications filed each month at the USPTO. (Here, an RCE does not count as a new filing, but ...

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Amicus Briefs in Support of Sequenom's Petition for Rehearing En Banc: Coalition for 21st Century Medicine 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 ...

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European Patent Office threatens legal action against staff union leader: escalating conflict from www.fosspatents.com

Last week, the TechRights blog published a letter by the head of the EPO's investigative unit to Elizabeth Hardon, the chairwoman of the Munich chapter of the Staff Union of the European Patent Office ...

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Wall Street Journal opinion piece criticizes patent "reform" from ipbiz.blogspot.com

From the Wall Street Journal opinion piece:


Some big businesses appear to ignore patents owned by individuals and small businesses thinking their potential infringement won’t be challenged. They
are lobbying hard for the pending ...

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Settlement of two stem cell cases from ipbiz.blogspot.com

StreetInsider announced the settlement of two cases related to stem cell research:


StemCells, Inc. and StemCells California, Inc. v. Neuralstem, Inc., Karl K. Johe, and I. Richard Garr, U.S. District Court, District of Maryland ...

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Allegations of copying in UNevada/Reno Ph.D. thesis relate to material in background section from ipbiz.blogspot.com



There have been allegations of plagiarism related to an introductory chapter in a Ph.D. thesis at the University of Nevada. The author pointed out that the copied material had nothing to do with his ...

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National Law Review on issues with confidential information retained by departing employees from ipbiz.blogspot.com




Of strategies relating to departing employees:

http://www.natlawreview.com/article/employee-stole-your-trade-secrets-you-cannot-prove-it-now-what


The Utah case mentioned within is the Innosys matter, discussed earlier on IPBiz. From the National
Law Review on the Utah Supreme Court ...

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WIPO Continues Honing Its Audit And Oversight Functions from www.ip-watch.org

The UN World Intellectual Property Organization has been working in recent years to improve its audit and oversight functions under the watchful eye of its member states. On the opening day of its meeting this ...

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Under Rule 11, Counsel May be Jointly and Severally Liable for Entire Section 285 Fee Award from docketreport.blogspot.com

The court granted defendant's motion to sanction plaintiff's counsel under Rule 11, but sanctioned counsel $100,000 rather than finding them jointly and severally liable for the $1.1 million attorney fees award ...

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In Suprema v. ITC remand, Panel Expands on Inducement from patentlyo.com

Suprema v. ITC (Suprema III) (On remand from the en banc decision) (non-precedential) In August, 2015, the Federal Circuit released an en banc decision in Suprema v. International Trade Commission holding that the USITC has ...

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Leadership of European Patent Office pressures staff union to remove links to FOSS Patents blog from www.fosspatents.com

What's so outrageous about my two most recent posts on the EPO labor conflict (1, 2) that the Staff Union of the European Patent Office (SUEPO) had to remove its links to (and quotes ...

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Odd argument for Google to make in Suprema vs. ITC from ipbiz.blogspot.com



From the text of the opinion:


Suprema and amicus Google, Inc. (“Google”) argue
that a requirement to seek out every reference referred to in
a competitor’s patent would place too high a burden on ...

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Guest Post: UK Court Invalidates Enercon Patent, But is this the End? from www.greenpatentblog.com

A decision by the High Court of Justice in the UK has handed Enercon a blow in the enforcement of their patent related to power ramp down after the cut out wind speed (EP0847496). Enercon ...

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Amicus Briefs in Support of Sequenom's Petition for Rehearing En Banc: Amarantus Bioscience Holdings, Personalis, Inc., and Population Diagnostics, Inc. from www.patentdocs.org

By Kevin E. Noonan -- 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 ...

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