Patent & IP news for September 25, 2015

Splitting trial between IPO and court "unsatisfactory and wasteful" from patlit.blogspot.com

Angle Ring Ltd v ASD Westok Ltd is an extempore ruling of Judge Richard Hacon, sitting earlier this week in the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court (IPEC), England and Wales. The decision is briefly noted on ...

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Friday fantasies from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Forthcoming events. Please do remember to check out the IPKat's Forthcoming Events page. We're always adding new conferences, seminars, talks and the like.  Maybe one of the IPKat's blogging team will be ...

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Are we Hustlin’ or Shufflin’? from dunlapcodding.com

Julie Langdon

According to a current lawsuit, that means – are we selling drugs and making money or are we partying and dancing?  In 2013, William L. Roberts, a rap artist that goes by the stage ...

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The "Happy Birthday" saga: when it may have been better not to have sued? from ipkitten.blogspot.com

This Kat, like many other Kat readers, read with a sense of relief Merpel’s report that the copyright claim byWarner-Chappell Music in the song—Happy Birthday- has been rejected on the technical but legally ...

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CEIPI Training Program for Future Technical Judges of the UPC from patlit.blogspot.com

CEIPI Training Program for Future Technical Judges of the UPC is currently taking place in Strasbourg with an completely incredible lineup of speakers including the Who-is-Who of the UPC experts.

This blogger is most impressed ...

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TTIP Could Lead To Jobs, Access To Better Drugs, Says Pharma from www.ip-watch.org

The trade negotiation between Europe and the United States relating to a wide range of trade and investment policies could lead to greater job creation and access to innovative medicines, according to senior European and ...

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Iowa Intellectual Property Law Association Annual Conference at the Iowa College of Law from patentlyo.com

By Jason Rantanen Next Friday, October 2, the Iowa Intellectual Property Law Association will hold its annual conference.  This year’s conference is being held at the Boyd Law Building at the University of Iowa ...

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Paging Carrier Transmission Patent Not Invalid Under 35 U.S.C. § 101 from docketreport.blogspot.com

The court denied defendants' motion for judgment on the pleadings that plaintiff's paging carrier transmission patent was invalid for lack of patentable subject matter and found that the patent was not directed toward an ...

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WIPO Decides Domain Case In Ashley Madison Leak from www.ip-watch.org

Following the scandalous July leak of private information about millions of users of the secret dating website Ashley Madison, a website appeared ostensibly offering people to dialogue about the leak. And Ashley Madison used intellectual ...

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New Geneva Delegates For Canada, Panama from www.ip-watch.org

New delegates have arrived to Geneva just in time for the annual Assemblies of the World Intellectual Property Organization and the World Trade Organization trade ministerial. Geneva Delegates Zoraida Rodríguez, Deputy Permanent Representative to the ...

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“Happy Birthday” is an orphan copyright, not yet public domain from ipcloseup.wordpress.com

U.S. District Judge George H. King’s ruling earlier this week means that “Happy Birthday to You” is now what’s known as an “orphan work” — a copyrighted work that’s so old that ...

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