Patent & IP news for October 31, 2015

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Federal Circuit Looks for Briefing on Automatic Assignment En Banc Challenge from patentlyo.com

Following up on the Shukh v. Seagate petition for en banc rehearing, the Federal Circuit has now taken an important first step of asking Seagate for its response to the petition, due by November 13 ...

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Treatise on the Law of Patents Section 170 from patentlyo.com

The following section from the Curtis Treatise on the Law of Patents is interesting in my estimation. Section 170 The statutes however which authorize the assignment of an invention before the patent has been obtained ...

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New Comments on July 2015 Updated Guidance on Subject Matter Eligibility from www.717madisonplace.com

The USPTO has begun adding to its patent eligibility page comments received with respect to the July 2015 Updated Guidance on Subject Matter Eligibility. The AIPLA comments have a nice flow chart that explains how ...

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An exercise in foreseeability: Morgan Robertson "predicts" Titanic sinking in 1898 from ipbiz.blogspot.com

After KSR, there is much discussion of foreseeability in the obviousness analysis.

An interesting, and eerie, example of foreseeability is found in the novella by Morgan Robertson titled: Futility.


The ship in the 1898 novella ...

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Judge Newman dissents in attorney sanction case, Tesco from ipbiz.blogspot.com


From the Tesco case:


The Attorneys argue that there remains an Article III case or controversy because the statements made in the district court’s opinion constitute a sanction against the Attorneys, and the subsequent ...

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