Patent & IP news for September 17, 2015

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post image Confidence, privacy and a question of fax: butler's claim can't be struck out from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Of note on account of the fact that it pitches one seasoned manipulator of the media against another is Paul Burrell v Max Clifford [2015] EWHC 2001 (Ch),  a High Court, Chancery Division, decision from ...

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post image Bear Deterrent from dunlapcodding.com

Ann Robl

The above image is Figure 1 from the patent publication for a “Pop-Up Device for Deterring an Attacking Animal Such as a Bear.” Sadly, now abandoned. The device can be carried in a ...

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post image Bear Deterrent from dunlapcodding.com

Ann Robl

The above image is Figure 1 from the patent publication for a “Pop-Up Device for Deterring an Attacking Animal Such as a Bear.” Sadly, now abandoned. The device can be carried in a ...

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Amicus Briefs in Support of Sequenom's Petition for Rehearing En Banc: BIO and PhRMA 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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Did WIPO Get Cool? UN IPR Agency Joins Creative Commons Initiative from www.ip-watch.org

The World Intellectual Property Organization exists to protect and promote intellectual property rights, including copyright. As a large international organisation, it is also a producer of a great amount of data and information that users ...

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Recent Developments in Patent Law – 2015 from patentlyo.com

By Jason Rantanen On October 24, 2015, I’ll be giving the “Patent Law Year in Review” talk at the American Intellectual Property Law Association’s annual meeting in Washington, D.C.  I hope to ...

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Samsung presents legal argument against 'manifest injustice' that would result from Apple's proposal from www.fosspatents.com

Apple and Samsung have agreed to try to resolve whatever little is left of their patent spat by means of mediation before Magistrate Judge Spero. But for now, they are fighting over whether or not ...

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Forehead Thermometer Patent Invalid Under 35 U.S.C. § 101 from docketreport.blogspot.com

The court granted defendant's motion for summary judgment that plaintiff's temporal artery thermometer patent was invalid for lack of patentable subject matter and found that the claims lacked an inventive concept. "[Plaintiff] argues ...

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Lemley & McKenna on IP Scope from patentlyo.com

The following is the abstract from the new article by Professors Mark Lemley & Mark McKenna’s on (The Problem With) Intellectual Property Scope: Intellectual property (IP) law doctrines fall into three basic categories: validity, infringement ...

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The Lexmark Litigation: Why Does Big Pharma Care So Much About Ink Cartridges? from www.ip-watch.org

The Federal Circuit will soon hear Lexmark v. Impression Products, a case about ink cartridges. Impression, a foreign buyer, refills spent Lexmark cartridges and resells them in the United States. Impression claims that Lexmark, having ...

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Federal Circuit Pushes Court to Stop Samsung’s Infringing Sales from patentlyo.com

Apple v. Samsung (Fed. Cir. 2015) This portion of the saga focuses on Judge Koh’s refusal to award a permanent injunction against Samsung to prevent that company from continuing to infringe Apple’s slide-to-unlock ...

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Chief judge disagrees with appellate ruling that would pave the way for Apple injunction against Samsung from www.fosspatents.com

At a hearing in March, Apple faced a skeptical court for its fourth or so attempt to obtain a U.S. patent injunction against Samsung. Today, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal ...

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Patent Office Creates New Automated Interview Request (AIR) Tool from www.patentbaristas.com

The USPTO AIR is a new online interview scheduling tool that allows Applicants to request an interview with an Examiner for their pending patent application. The USPTO AIR form is available here. This is the ...

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Amicus Briefs in Support of Sequenom's Petition for Rehearing En Banc: WARF, Marshfield Clinic, and MCIS, 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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