Patent & IP news for November 11, 2015

Video conferencing: a golden opportunity to reduce costs in patent proceedings from ipkitten.blogspot.com

In a recently published decision of a European Patent Office (EPO) Board of Appeal (BoA) on an appeal against a decision of the Examination Division, T 2068/14, the applicant's professional representatives argued that ...

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Deciphering Huawei vs. ZTE: A Paper from patlit.blogspot.com

The intervention of Nicolas Petit at the Training course for technical judges atthe UPC organized by the CEIPI had been discussed here some time ago. Nicolas has now published his observations on the decision Huawei ...

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Vive la différence? No need for Pregabalin(e) injunction, say the French from ipkitten.blogspot.com

In the era before the IP Enforcement Directive
getting a preliminary injunction was a real battleOne of the lovely things about contributing to an international IP weblog is that you learn so much from ...

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MacroPoint, LLC v. FourKites, Inc. (N.D. Ohio 2015) from www.patentdocs.org

By Michael Borella -- In a previous article on the USPTO's publication of its 2014 Interim Guidance on Patent Subject Matter Eligibility, we wrote: Despite the Interim Guidance offering a reasonably fair and thorough overview ...

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New Copyright Office rule permits modification of vehicle software for diagnosis and repair, other exemptions to DMCA anti-circumvention rules from ipspotlight.com

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”) prohibits circumvention of technical measures that control access to copyrighted works. The DMCA’s anti-circumvention requirement permits copyright holders to control how users can access digital works, and also ...

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Panel Looks At Patentability Criteria In Public Health from www.ip-watch.org

A recent workshop on patentability criteria illustrated how countries are using the policy space provided by international trade rules to calibrate their patent law. In particular, incremental innovation remains a trying issue for national legislators ...

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Thank you and goodbye from www.athenaalliance.org

It is time to say goodbye. I have taken a new position as Senior Program Officer at the National Academy of Engineering for their Manufacturing, Design and Innovation (MDI) program (see program website). As a ...

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No Deference for Misquoting your Sources from patentlyo.com

By Dennis Crouch I already wrote about the holding in yesterday’s ClearCorrect decision – transmission of an electronic communication cannot be considered importation of an “article” and thus is not within the USITCs Section 337 ...

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Illinois Court Refuses to Release Frozen Funds or Enlarge Bond Amount in Trademark Counterfeiting Case from www.iplawalert.com

A federal district court in the Northern District of Illinois has refused a request by the defendants accused of trademark counterfeiting to release funds frozen in PayPal accounts and to increase the amount of a ...

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Governments, Industry Offer Mixed Hope For Multilateral IP Policymaking from www.ip-watch.org

WASHINGTON, DC -- The sun may be setting on multilateral policymaking in intellectual property in the eyes of industry, but leading United States and European Union representatives insist on its continued vital role in trade and ...

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The User-Generated Content Exception: Moving Away from a Non-Commercial Requirement from www.iposgoode.ca

Introduction In December 2006, Time magazine celebrated “You” as the person of the year.[1]  In the article, Lev Grossman stated that our history is no longer shaped by a few famous men but by ...

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Court Dismisses “Disaffected” Professor’s Attempt to Change Inventorship on Johns Hopkins Patent from holmansbiotechipblog.blogspot.com


Peter Pedersen, a professor in the Department of Biological Chemistry at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine is one of three named inventors on US Patent Nos. 7,547,673 and 8,119,116 ...

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