Patent & IP news for October 22, 2015

IP in the Fashion Industry 2015: Part 3 from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Our first after-lunch speaker at today's IP in the Fashion Industry 2015 conference at Holborn Bars, London, was Annabelle Gauberti (Crefovi, President of the IALCI).  Annabelle explained that fashion and luxury law was underpinned ...

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BGW: a pointless reference over a meaningless word? from ipkitten.blogspot.com

The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has given its ruling today in Case C-20/14 BGW Marketing- & Management-Service GmbH v Bodo Scholz, following a request by the German Bundespatentgericht for a preliminary ...

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Arbitrariness is not fair - T0595/11 – underpayment of appeal fee from patlit.blogspot.com

What may we legitimately expect from the
formalities officers in this building?We have all experienced that judgments appear sometimes unfair, in particular for the underlying party. In my experience, this entirely subjective impression is ...

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IP in the Fashion Industry 2015: Part 2 from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Next to speak at today's IP in the Fashion Industry 2015 conference was solicitor Rosie Burbidge, updating us on copyright and design developments in the fashion field. Rosie began with a paean of well ...

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Unsearchable: Can National Courts Control Worldwide Search Engines? from dunlapcodding.com

Alyssa Novak

In an unprecedented ruling this summer, the British Columbia Court of Appeal (BCCA) ordered Google Inc. to block certain websites – not just from its Canadian search engine but from its worldwide search engine ...

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IP in the Fashion Industry 2015: Part 1 from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Opening today's IP in the Fashion Industry conference at London's Holborn Bars, fellow Kat Nicola gave an account of the economics of IP in that sector. Starting with the social contract theory, giving ...

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Ariosa Diagnostics Responds to Sequenom's Petition for Rehearing En Banc from www.patentdocs.org

By Donald Zuhn -- On Monday, Appellee Ariosa Diagnostics, Inc. filed its response to the petition for rehearing en banc filed by Appellants Sequenom, Inc. and Sequenom Center for Molecular Medicine, LLC in August (see "Sequenom ...

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Error in Describing Chain of Priority, Addressed Via Certificate of Correction, Does Not Render Asserted Patents Invalid from docketreport.blogspot.com

The court denied defendant's motion to dismiss plaintiff's claims for infringement of five patents-in-suit due to errors in the chain of priority addressed with a certificate of correction. "[Defendant] moves to dismiss [plaintiff ...

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Updated List of Patent Subject Matter Eligibility Decisions from www.717madisonplace.com

The USPTO updated its list of subject matter eligibility decisions in September.  The link is available [here]. One curious feature of the list is that the USPTO relies upon Rule 36 decisions from the Federal ...

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Special Report: WHO Advisory Group On Flu Preparedness Hears Comments, Addresses New Genetics Issue from www.ip-watch.org

World Health Organization members and stakeholders were invited to provide comments this month on the organisation’s framework to spur preparedness for future influenza pandemics and ensure treatments will reach developing countries. The framework is ...

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Book Review: How ‘Dialogue Of The Deaf’ Produced A Sound Tool For Policy-Making from www.ip-watch.org

International trade agreements are sometimes demonised as the Grand Plan imposed by major powers in cahoots with multinational corporations. Intellectual property rights is a particular target, as is the case currently with the Trans-Pacific Partnership ...

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Stay Pending Petition Consideration. from patentlyo.com

Interesting set of motions in an E.D. Texas case that I’ve been following where one of my former students – Adam Baumli – is representing NexusCard who is asserting United States Patent No. 5,924 ...

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The "ice cream patent wars" of the 1920's: insights into software patents, or not? from ipbiz.blogspot.com

Charles Duan (director of the Patent Reform Project at Public Knowledge ) has a post at Slate titled Ice Cream Patent Headache: What the history of Eskimo Pies tells us about software patents today.

This is ...

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“Silence Is Too Often The Only Safe Option Left” – UN Report On Sources And Whistleblowers from www.ip-watch.org

Governments and international organizations are failing to ensure adequate protections to whistleblowers and sources of information, according to a new report* by the UN special rapporteur on freedom of expression, David Kaye.

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WSIS+10 Explained: Interview With Constance Bommelaer, Internet Society from www.ip-watch.org

On 15-16 December 2015, government officials from more than 190 countries will meet in New York to discuss the future of the internet. They will review progress made in achieving the goals set forth 10 ...

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The CAFC on contract law in Integrated Technology v. Rudolph from ipbiz.blogspot.com


From Integrated Technology v. Rudolph :




Rudolph argues that, if we affirm the exceptionality
finding, Rudolph should not be held to the stipulation it
drafted prior to the first appeal regarding the amount of
attorneys’ fees ...

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Oral Argument of the Week: CMG Financial Services v. Pacific Trust Bank from www.717madisonplace.com

In Microsoft Corp. v. i4i Ltd. Partnership, 131 S. Ct. 2238, 564 U.S., 180 L. Ed. 2d 131 (2011) the Supreme Court of the United States stated: Under §282 of the Patent Act of ...

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