Patent & IP news for November 16, 2015

Night Watch, Why Not? The art of trade mark application from ipkitten.blogspot.com

The Benelux Office for Intellectual Property (BOIP) came up with an imaginative marketing campaign to get people filing trade marks: the promise was that everyone who filed a Benelux trade mark application between 13 September ...

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Conference & CLE Calendar from www.patentdocs.org

November 16-17, 2015 - Patent Litigation 2015 (Practising Law Institute) - New York, NY November 17, 2015 - Efficient patent prosecution (U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's Silicon Valley Office) - San Jose, CA November 19, 2015 - "Demonstrating ...

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Court Report from www.patentdocs.org

By Sherri Oslick -- About Court Report: Each week we will report briefly on recently filed biotech and pharma cases. Vivus, Inc. v. Actavis Laboratories FL, Inc. 2:15-cv-06256; filed August 17, 2015 in the District ...

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WIPO Innovation Panel: Low Economic Growth Not The ‘New Normal’ For Long from www.ip-watch.org

Consensus emerged among a panel of top economists last week at the World Intellectual Property Organization that as economies become increasingly intangible they are more susceptible to repercussions on growth caused by a financial crisis ...

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WIPO Committee On Development And IP Agrees On Work Programme from www.ip-watch.org

Delegates at the World Intellectual Property Organization Committee on Development and IP (CDIP) ended a weeklong session agreeing on a programme of work for the next session including two future projects to be reconsidered. But ...

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Internet Governance Forum: Ten Years After from www.ip-watch.org

Ten years after feeble beginnings, the Internet Governance Forum, once the baby of the United Nations World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), stood in Joao Pessoa. But in all these years, did it also ...

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Evidence of "General Association" Insufficient to Justify Real Party in Interest Discovery from docketreport.blogspot.com

The Board denied the patent owner's motion for additional discovery regarding whether the petitioner failed to name a real party in interest. "We deny Patent Owner’s request because Patent Owner’s request amounts ...

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The Alice Chronicles Continue: In this chapter - East Moves Closer to West from dunlapcodding.com

Ann Robl

 In June of this year, we noted that the Eastern District of Texas began requiring a showing of good cause and leave from the Court if a defendant wanted to file a dispositive ...

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The Alice Chronicles Continue: In this chapter - East Moves Closer to West from dunlapcodding.com

Ann Robl

 In June of this year, we noted that the Eastern District of Texas began requiring a showing of good cause and leave from the Court if a defendant wanted to file a dispositive ...

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Federal Circuit Finally Sends Akamai Back to District Court with Order’s to Finish It from patentlyo.com

Akamai v. Limelight (Fed. Cir. 2015) When it sat en banc in this case, the Federal Circuit found sufficient evidence to find Limelight liable as a direct infringer under 35 U.S.C. § 271(a ...

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Announcing the 8th Annual Canada’s IP Writing Challenge from www.iposgoode.ca

The Intellectual Property Institute of Canada (IPIC) and IP Osgoode are delighted to announce our 2016 Canadian writing challenge in intellectual property law. We are excited to be running our eighth annual writing challenge.  Our ...

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The TPP and Patents: Expensive Drugs, Questionable Returns from www.iposgoode.ca

Modern multi-lateral trade treaties do not habitually soften IP protection. The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), signed October 5th, is no exception. With prescription drug costs increasingly weighing on Western nations, does the TPP strike the best ...

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What would Abraham Lincoln say about Goodlatte's "Innovation Act"? from ipbiz.blogspot.com

Joseph Allen has a post titled Abraham Lincoln loved our patent system. Let’s not tear it down. which goes into some of the issues in patent reform.

Allen does mention "efficient infringement":


If a ...

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Patentlyo Bits and Bytes by Anthony McCain from patentlyo.com

Laurie Self: Misleading Patent Troll Narrative Driven By Anecdote, Not Facts Kevin E. Noonan: Prometheus Labs v. Roxane Labs Patent Information Users Group James Bessen, Michael Meurer, & Jennifer Ford: The Private And Social Costs Of ...

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The significance of Cubist Pharma v. Hospira (Fed. Cir. 2015) from ipbiz.blogspot.com


Concerning the PatentlyO post on Cubist v. Hospira titled:
Correcting your Patent Based upon Later Advances in Science,

LBE has a quibble with the title of the PatentlyO post AND, more importantly, with the decision ...

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CAFC tackles evidentiary issues in IPRs in Ariosa case from ipbiz.blogspot.com


In ARIOSA DIAGNOSTICS v, VERINATA HEALTH, INC., the IPR petitioner-appellant ARIOSA DIAGNOSTICS convinced the CAFC to vacate a decision of PTAB, costing the patentee a finding of nonobviousness:


For the foregoing reasons, we vacate the ...

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CAFC sends Akamai back again from ipbiz.blogspot.com


The 16 Nov 2015 installment of Akamai v. Limelight is available:

http://www.cafc.uscourts.gov/sites/default/files/opinions-orders/9-1372.Opinion.11-12-2015.1.PDF

Ned Heller commented at PatentlyO:


No doubt that BMC Resources ...

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