Patent & IP news for September 29, 2015

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post image A decade of JIPLP: an IP event -- and a chance to celebrate from ipkitten.blogspot.com

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It's no secret that the association between the IPKat weblog and the Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice (JIPLP) has been a long and fruitful one, no ...

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post image Compensation or punishment: A lot of questions about Article 13 Enforcement Directive from ipkitten.blogspot.com

"Punitive damages" is one of those topics that sharply divide the community of European lawyers. Some cannot fail to see the economic logic that when the rate of detection of IP infringement is below 100 ...

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post image More RIN Fraud Greenwashers Head to Prison from www.greenpatentblog.com

It was just a few months ago that a blog post reported a criminal defendant pleaded guilty to selling fraudulent renewable identification numbers (RINs). It has happened again, with recent prison sentences for four individuals ...

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post image Method Patent Claims from patentlyo.com

by Dennis Crouch The Patent Act opens the door to patenting of “any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter.” In recent years, the patenting of processes in particular (or at least ...

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post image IFRRO calls European Copyright Society's Opinion in Reprobel "unsubstantiated" from ipkitten.blogspot.com

A few weeks ago this blog reported on the latest Opinion of the European Copyright Society (ECS), this time regarding a case currently pending before the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU): HP ...

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post image USPTO “Streamlined, Expedited Patent Appeal Pilot Program for Small Entities” from dunlapcodding.com

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The USPTO Patent Trial and Appeal Board has started another pilot program to reduce the backlog of ex parte appeals waiting to be heard by the Board. The program expedites appeals for small ...

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Amicus Briefs in Support of Sequenom's Petition for Rehearing En Banc: NYIPLA 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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Judge sends Apple, Samsung to mediation with Nov. 15 deadline -- #1 problem: Apple's self-righteousness from www.fosspatents.com

On Monday, Judge Lucy Koh of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California received a joint ADR (Alternative Dispute Resolution) statement from Apple and Samsung, which is not publicly accessible. Further ...

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Data Transmission Patents Not Invalid Under 35 U.S.C. § 101 from docketreport.blogspot.com

The court denied defendant's motion for summary judgment that plaintiff's data transmission patents were invalid for lack of patentable subject matter and found that the claims were not directed toward an abstract idea ...

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Russian Court Order vKontakte To Stop Infringement, IFPI Says from www.ip-watch.org

The London-based International Federation for the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) today announced that a Russian court has ordered popular Russian social network vKontakte to use technology to effectively block infringement of two record companies.

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CEIPI Launches Training Program For Technical Judges Of Unified Patent Court from www.ip-watch.org

One of the major imminent changes in the international patent system is the establishment of the Unified Patent Court. The agreement to create this tribunal was signed by 25 European Union States in 2013, and ...

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Design Patent Damages from patentlyo.com

By Dennis Crouch Nordock v. Systems Inc (PowerAmp) (Fed. Cir. 2015) Nordock’s asserted design patent covers the ornamental design of a lip and hinge plate for a dock leveler. (U.S. Patent No. D579 ...

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IFRRO Comments On European Copyright Society Opinion In Reprobel Case from www.ip-watch.org

IFRRO, the International Federation of Reproduction Rights Organisations, has issued comments on the recent opinion offered by the European Copyright Society on European Court of Justice Case C-572/13, Hewlett-Packard Belgium v. Reprobel.

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IANA Transition: Trapped Between Demands For Detail, Simplicity from www.ip-watch.org

Later this week (30 September) the original deadline for the so-called IANA transition runs out. But despite stern warnings from US Assistant Commerce Secretary Lawrence Strickling and former Clinton aide Ira Magaziner that further delays ...

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US Court Adds Confusion To #Trademarks from www.ip-watch.org

Once, hashtags (like #cute_cat) merely identified topics on Twitter, Facebook, and other social media. No longer. A rapidly growing number of companies are using hashtags (like #HowDoYouKFC) as trademarks. There is one problem, however. A ...

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Amicus Briefs in Support of Sequenom's Petition for Rehearing En Banc: JYANT Technologies, 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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