Patent & IP news for October 8, 2015

The Concentrated Market of Patent Jurisdictions from patentlyo.com

The chart below shows the relative distribution of new patent lawsuit filings (complaints) over the past decade.  I included the top four most popular jurisdictions (E.D.Tex., D.Del., C.D.Cal., and N ...

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Viennese waltz may be the last dance for Board members from ipkitten.blogspot.com

For some it's a game,
for others a sad realityUp until very recently, the mooted new home for the European Patent Office (EPO) Boards of Appeal was Berlin, unwilling as its members might ...

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New CJEU reference on linking and copyright: is streaming unlawful content an infringement? from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Once again [see here for the latest installment], one might have thought that the story with hyperlinks and copyright was over. 
Of course it's not.
This time at issue there are questions such as ...

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As the CRO flies: when patent infringement litigation is not a Brundle of fun from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Merpel thinks people who write inspirational
messages have a lot to answer forCharacter traits that are admirable in one context can be quite a nuisance in another. One such virtue is persistence and a ...

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News from Abroad: Isolated Gene Sequences Suffer A Cruel Fate in the Hands of the High Court of Australia from www.patentdocs.org

D'Arcy v Myriad Genetics Inc [2015] HCA 35 By Bindhu Holavanahalli* and Gary Cox** -- The High Court of Australia has today handed down its decision in D'Arcy v Myriad Genetics Inc [2015] HCA ...

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News from Abroad: Isolated Nucleic Acids Not Patentable in Australia from www.patentdocs.org

D'Arcy v. Myriad Genetics Inc & Anor [2015] HCA 35 By Claire Gregg & Martin O'Brien -- The High Court of Australia today handed down its decision in D'Arcy v Myriad, deciding once and for ...

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Money to burn? When charities clash in court, there are no real winners from ipkitten.blogspot.com

This Kat has from time to time complained that cases have reached court which should have been settled long before they got there.  Here's one such case.  And don't think that this is ...

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Panels: WTO Could Play Crucial Role In Challenges Facing Global Digital Trade from www.ip-watch.org

Two panel discussions held at the recent World Trade Organisation (WTO) Public Forum addressed the challenge of modernising global trade rules for the digital age and the role the WTO could play in this process.

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At WIPO, A Singular Explanation Of A ‘Non-Unitary’ Budget from www.ip-watch.org

At the World Intellectual Property Organization annual General Assembly this week, the financing of the Lisbon system protecting appellations of origin is the subject of intensive discussions cutting across several agendas. Attempts are being made ...

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Containerized Data Patents Invalid Under 35 U.S.C. § 101 from docketreport.blogspot.com

The court granted defendant's motion to dismiss because the asserted claims of plaintiff’s containerized data patents encompassed unpatentable subject matter and found that the claims were directed toward an abstract idea. "[T]he ...

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Plant Treaty Governing Body To Examine Budget, Farmers Rights, Funding Strategy from www.ip-watch.org

The governing body of the international plant treaty is holding its annual meeting this week with a number of issues to go through, in particular the adoption of the next biennium budget, and the funding ...

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Decisions On WIPO Copyright, Trademark Committees Elusive, Consultations Ongoing from www.ip-watch.org

The World Intellectual Property Organization governing body started examining the work of its committees yesterday, with the hope of solving some issues that those committees were unable to solve during the year. This included the ...

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“No Human Right To Patent Protection”, UN Rapporteur On Cultural Rights Says from www.ip-watch.org

In a new report, the United Nations Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights examines the implications of patent policy for the right to science and culture. She gives a number of recommendations calling ...

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WIPO General Assembly Halfway Point – Many Issues Left Open from www.ip-watch.org

At mid-point of the annual World Intellectual Property Organization General Assembly, numerous items are unresolved, and several facilitators are in charge of finding consensus on draft decisions, in particular on norm-setting issues and the budget ...

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Trolls in the automotive business? from ipbiz.blogspot.com



An article in the National Law Review suggests the following entities might be trolls working the automotive sector:


American Vehicular Sciences, who has sued OEMs on a number of patents allegedly covering “heads up displays ...

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NBC News doing reports on drug costs from ipbiz.blogspot.com



On 7 October 2015, NBC Nightly News had a piece on drug pricing, which included the pricing of the Vertex drug Orkambi for cystic fibrosis:



Dr. Brian O'Sullivan, a cystic fibrosis specialist at University ...

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