Never too late: if you missed the IPKat last week from ipkitten.blogspot.com Not just Eiffel 65,
but also Never Too Late 65If last week Jeremy took the opportunity to link our dear friend Alberto Bellan's invariably helpful Never Too Late feature to Beatles song When ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
Willfulness avoided provided that reasonable defense is raised from ocpatentlawyer.com Bottom line: Proving willful infringement is becoming increasingly difficult. Even if the accused infringer is ultimately found liable, and even if it ignores a patent and/or volitionally infringes the patent, the infringer can be ...
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Guest Post -- On Ariosa and Natural Products from www.patentdocs.org By Leslie Fischer* -- Recently, I had the privilege of speaking at the annual meeting of the American Society of Pharmacognosy in Colorado. Members of this scientific association are dedicated to identifying and isolating natural products ...
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Monday Miscellany from ipkitten.blogspot.com In time honoured fashion, this Kat presents you, dear readers, with a few nuggets of recent news.
Nagoya Protocol NewsBack in March, this Kat
wrote about the draft EU Implementing Regulation (as well as ...
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USPTO Introduces Expedited Appeal Pilot for Small Entities from ipspotlight.com After a summer hiatus, IP Spotlight is back. This week we will review some of the more significant business-related developments in intellectual property law over the last few months. First up: On September 15, 2015 ...
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Industry Holds Closed-Door Conference With Governments On Access And Benefit-Sharing from www.ip-watch.org A conference involving European governments and industry on how to comply with the new European Union rules on access and benefit sharing, organised by the International Chamber of Commerce and sponsored by the agriculture industry ...
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WTO Public Forum: Trade Works – Taking Stock After 20 Years from www.ip-watch.org This week, the World Trade Organization is holding its yearly public forum with a focus on the contribution of the organisation to global trade since its inception 20 years ago. Some 90 sessions are planned ...
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India: Poor Man’s Intellectual Property Is Hijacked from www.ip-watch.org It is a healthy trend that the awareness on GI is on the rise in India. However, the misuse of GI legislation also is rampant. Recent past has witnessed many instances of inappropriate GI Registrations ...
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Expert’s Use of Market Share as a Proxy or Bargaining Strength Does Not Render Testimony Unreliable from docketreport.blogspot.com The court denied defendants' motion to exclude the testimony of plaintiff's damages expert regarding a reasonable royalty as unreliable because she used market shares as a proxy for the parties’ relative bargaining strength. "Defendants ...
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Magistrate Judge Finds Drug Method of Treatment Claim Patent Ineligible in Endo Pharmaceuticals v. Actavis from holmansbiotechipblog.blogspot.com In 2009, I filed an amici brief on behalf of myself and several other law professors inPrometheus v. Mayo, which was the first time the Federal Circuit heard the case. In the decision below ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
Maximizing Bankruptcy Protection in Software and SaaS Agreements from www.iplawalert.com In today’s digital age, cloud computing has lowered the barrier of entry into many marketplaces by providing network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources. Cloud services allow business to forego upfront ...
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Fractures, Fault Lines, and the MPEP from patentlyo.com By Jason Rantanen As part of my standard preparation for teaching a given doctrine in my patent law class, I like to review the relevant section of the Manual of Patent Examination and Procedure (MPEP ...
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How Authors Can Get Their Rights Back from www.iposgoode.ca The commercial lives of the overwhelming majority of books are remarkably short, particularly when you compare the commercial lives of books to the very long duration of copyright terms. When books are no longer making ...
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Joule's US Patent 8,986,964 from ipbiz.blogspot.com Further to the March 2015 post on IPBiz [Bold predictions for biofuel production by Joule Unlimited published in BiofuelsDigest on 23 March 2015 ], note that Joule's US Patent 8,986,964 cites as a ...
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CAFC addresses patent issues related to Vermont's Consumer Protection Act from ipbiz.blogspot.com The background:
On May 8, 2013, Plaintiff-Appellee State of Vermont
(“Vermont” or “the State”) filed a state court action
against Defendant-Appellant MPHJ Technology Investments
LLC (“MPHJ”) alleging violations of the Vermont
Consumer Protection Act, 9 ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
Copying issue with the movie "The Martian"? from ipbiz.blogspot.com See the post at CinemaBlend including the text:
Gorgadze said that Raskhodnikov wrote the script back in 2008 and shopped it around to a number of studios. The lawyer also said that Raskhodnikov is positive ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
Obama To UN: Real Measure Of A Nation’s Strength Is Its People’s Knowledge, Innovation from www.ip-watch.org US President Obama told world leaders at the United Nations today that a nation that tries to repress its people is doomed to failure, and that the new measure of the strength of nations is ...
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Federal Circuit Sends Bad-Faith-Patent-Assertion Case back to State Court from patentlyo.com Vermont v. MPHJ Tech (Fed. Cir. 2015) In an interesting opinion, the Federal Circuit has rejected MPHJ’s plea to get into Federal Court. The State of Vermont sued the patent holder for violations of ...
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