Patent & IP news for October 29, 2015

Ericsson says Apple motion from www.fosspatents.com

15-10-28 Ericsson Opposition to Apple Motion for Summary Judgment by Florian Mueller

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Court expert: I don't want to appear partial and oppose Oracle's motion, but I'm doing it anyway from www.fosspatents.com

Dr. James Kearl, the court-appointed damages expert in the Oracle v. Google Android-Java copyright infringement case, yesterday responded to Oracle's motion to disqualify him on the grounds that he is no longer impartial due ...

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IP Osgoode Speaks Series Video: John Weigelt from www.iposgoode.ca

IP Osgoode would like to thank everyone who attended John Weigelt’s lecture entitled “Adjusting to the Changed Frame of Reference of our Technology Enabled World” on September 30, 2015 at Osgoode Hall Law School ...

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Is There Hope For Better WIPO Administration-Staff Relations? from www.ip-watch.org

The president of the World Intellectual Property Organization staff association earlier this month raised profound concerns about ongoing practices involving staff at the UN institution. The WIPO director general then took the floor to address ...

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WIPO Seminar: Digitisation Boosts Production Of New Music, Movies, Books from www.ip-watch.org

The latest instalment of the World Intellectual Property Organization seminar series, “The Economics of Intellectual Property,” set out to answer the question of whether the process of digitisation has affected the supply of new creative ...

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Mobile Device Data Monitoring Patent Not Invalid Under 35 U.S.C. § 101 from docketreport.blogspot.com

The court denied defendant's motion for summary judgment that plaintiffs' mobile device data monitoring patent was invalid for lack of patentable subject matter because defendant did not establish that the claims were directed to ...

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Google-SAP cross-license agreement announced: is SAP once again critical of software patents? from www.fosspatents.com

Google has previously announced various patent cross-license agreements, with partners including (but not limited to) Samsung and Cisco. Not with Apple and Microsoft, though: those announcements merely related to the withdrawal of lawsuits, not to ...

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Impact of an Inter Partes Review Petition Denial on Willfulness from patentlyo.com

WARF v. Apple (W.D. Wisconsin 2015) Following a jury verdict on infringement and validity (October 10) and another verdict on damages awarding $230 million in reasonable royalty (October 19), Judge Conley (W.D.Wisc ...

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Court Orders USTR To Justify Industry Advisor Confidentiality In TPP from www.ip-watch.org

The Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) next week is expected to provide justification for withholding from a Freedom of Information Act request the communications with its industry advisors as confidential commercial or ...

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St. Jude's win over Atlas IP vacated by CAFC from ipbiz.blogspot.com

The win of ST. JUDE MEDICAL, of summary judgment of non-infringment in Southern District of Florida was vacated by the CAFC.

The CAFC noted its differences with the interpretation of the district court:


In Atlas ...

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Understanding the Role of Patents for Small Smartphone Companies from writtendescription.blogspot.com

When I think of smartphones and smartphone patents, I think of the big battles and players: Apple v. Samsung, Motorola v. Microsoft, NTP v. RIM, Nokia, Ericsson, Google, Sony, and other mega-companies. But what about ...

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Announcing the Winner of Canada’s IP Writing Challenge 2015 from www.iposgoode.ca

IP Osgoode and the Intellectual Property Institute of Canada (IPIC) are thrilled to announce the winner of the seventh annual edition of Canada’s IP Writing Challenge: 1. In the Law Student category, the judges ...

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Does the Law Permit a Seller to Assign Title Before Acquiring Title? from patentlyo.com

Alexander Shukh v. Seagate Tech. (Fed. Cir. 2015) (en banc petition) In an en banc petition, Shukh has challenged the Federal Circuit’s “automatic assignment” rule announced in its 1991 FilmTec decision.  The basic rule ...

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