Patent & IP news for November 12, 2015

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post image My detergent product is green, but don't tell anyone from ipkitten.blogspot.com

People usually like to flash badges and the like, to let the world know when they enjoy some special status. Presumably, the same should hold true for products. If my product has a certifiably desirable ...

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post image Talk Talk Fashion Baby from ipkitten.blogspot.com

"How many of you are wearing underwear... ... made in Africa?" was posed to an audience last week.  The question came from fashion designer and IP lawyer Romaine Abbey Quartery at the launch and panel discussion ...

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post image African Ministerial Conference in IP: The Dakar Rally from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Last week, WIPO, the African Union, the governments of Japan and the Republic of Senegal, hosted the African Ministerial Conference 2015 in Dakar. The theme of the conference was IP for an Emerging Africa #AfricaInnovates ...

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post image Breaking news: Reprobel ruling out at last from ipkitten.blogspot.com

When they heard about
InsoSocks, the Kats knew
that something was afoot ...
Regular readers of this blog will recall that Case C‑572/13, Hewlett-Packard Belgium SPRL v Reprobel SCRL, Epson Europe BV intervening, has ...

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Ex parte Jung (PTAB 2015) from www.patentdocs.org

Computer-Readable Medium Claims vs. Printed Matter By Joseph Herndon -- Most software or computer-related patent applications today include a number of different types of claims, such as method claims, device claims, and computer-readable medium (CRM) claims ...

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The Divide between a Covenant and a License from patentlyo.com

A few weeks ago, I wrote about the pending Supreme Court petition in Meso Scale v. Roche that asks the question of whether a covenant … not to sue for the infringement of a federal patent ...

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Image Scanning Patent Not Invalid Under 35 U.S.C. § 101 from docketreport.blogspot.com

The court denied defendant's motion for summary judgment that plaintiffs' image scanning patent was invalid for lack of patentable subject matter and found that the claims were not directed toward a patent-ineligible concept. "[Defendant ...

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District Court Issues Opinion on “Fair Use” of Viral Videos from www.iplawalert.com

In Equals Three, LLC v. Jukin Media, Inc., the United States District Court for the Central District of California presented an informative “fair use” analysis in a dispute between two media companies over viral videos ...

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Judge Stoll’s First Patent Opinion from www.717madisonplace.com

Those who were curious about Judge Stoll’s perspective’s on patent law might want to take note of the decision in ADVANCED STEEL RECOVERY, LLC v. X-BODY EQUIPMENT, INC. I believe it is the ...

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Erika Lietzan on the Myths of Data Exclusivity from writtendescription.blogspot.com

Erika Lietzan joined the Missouri Law faculty last fall after a distinguished career practicing FDA law, which included making partner at Covington & Burling and serving as Assistant General Counsel for PhRMA (the pharmaceutical lobbying organization ...

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CAFC affirms D. Del. in Cubist case from ipbiz.blogspot.com

In Cubist v. Hospira, appeals were made from
the United States District Court for the
District of Delaware in No. 1:12-cv-00367-GMS, Judge
Gregory M. Sleet; the CAFC affirmed D. Del.

Some background on the ...

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Correcting your Patent Based upon Later Advances in Science from patentlyo.com

Cubist Pharma v. Hospira (Fed. Cir. 2015) An interesting aspect of this Hatch-Waxman decision involves the question of whether the PTO properly issued a certificate of correction. Justification for a Certificate of Correction: The Patent ...

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WIPO IP Report: 3D Printing, Nanotechnology, Robotics – Next Ticket To Global Expansion? from www.ip-watch.org

Nanotechnologies, 3D printing and robotics are areas of potential breakthrough technologies, and mostly happening in the most developed countries, with China catching up, a World Intellectual Property Organization report has found. Knowledge-sharing is an important ...

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WHO Director Questions IP Rights, Drug Prices, Industry Influence from www.ip-watch.org

Saying she could speak more freely outside of the World Health Organization, WHO Director General Margaret Chan today told a gathering of think tank representatives at the Graduate Institute of Geneva that intellectual property rights ...

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Review Of WIPO Technical Assistance, Four Years After Release, Still Stirs Up Development Committee from www.ip-watch.org

Intense negotiations are going on this week at the World Intellectual Property Organization over an external review of how the World Intellectual Property Organization delivers technical assistance on intellectual property to developing and least-developed countries ...

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IGF Brazil: Creative Commons Licences For International Organisations, Like WIPO from www.ip-watch.org

From the Internet Governance Forum: Remixing WIPO - soon it could be possible that the World Intellectual Property Organization is moving to Creative Commons licences. But could the CC-licensed WIPO material be blocked by new provisions ...

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