Patent & IP news for November 20, 2015

AIA Patents: 20% of Newly Issued Patents from patentlyo.com

By Dennis Crouch The percentage of AIA-patents continues to rise. The chart below shows the percentage of newly issued patents that are AIA utility patents – with about 36,000 AIA utility patents issued so far ...

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The best coffee brand that you never heard off: COFIX as the brand of the year from ipkitten.blogspot.com

A number of years ago, this Kat was sharing a drink in Geneva with a veteran member of the WIPO staff, who had spent much of his time in patent-related activities. I don’t recall ...

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Be the Change! from dunlapcodding.com

Michelle Briggs

“Be the change you want to see in the world,” says the Dalai Lama.  Well, as far a copyright law goes, here is our chance.

The U.S. Copyright Office has released a ...

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When does a broadcasting organisation not communicate works to the public? CJEU has its say, speaking of "copyrighted" works but not much of "new" public from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Last year this very blog reported on a sexy new reference for a preliminary ruling to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), SBS Belgium v SABAM C-325/14. This case concerned the ...

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Oracle apparently facing an unfair judge and a tainted expert in its copyright case against Google from www.fosspatents.com

On Wednesday, a motion hearing was held in the San Francisco courthouse of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California to discuss Oracle's motion to disqualify the court-appointed damages expert ...

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Rehearing En Banc Granted in The Medicines Company v. Hospira, Inc. from www.patentdocs.org

Will The "No Supplier Exception" to the On-Sale Bar Fall? By Andrew Williams -- On November 13, 2015, the Federal Circuit granted a petition for rehearing en banc filed in The Medicines Company v. Hospira, Inc ...

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Friday fantasies from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Survey in need of respondents: can you help? The European Observatory on Infringements of Intellectual Property has let it be known that it is currently undertaking a project that is designed to assess the cost ...

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Call Routing Patent Invalid Under 35 U.S.C. § 101 from docketreport.blogspot.com

The court granted defendant's motion for summary judgment that plaintiff's call routing patent was invalid for lack of patentable subject matter and found that the claims lacked an inventive concept. "[The patent-in-suit] does ...

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ECJ: Topographic Maps, Geographical Information And The Interpretation Of “Independent Material” from www.ip-watch.org

The Court of Justice of the European Union gave a preliminary ruling on 29 October related to the definition of a “database,” more especially of the “independent material” constituting a database.

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Romanian Parliament Eyes National Scientific Works Register To Combat IP Violations from www.ip-watch.org

Romanian members of Parliament have submitted a draft bill to establish a national scientific works register to combat intellectual property violations and plagiarism. These are to include theses, dissertations, articles, papers and reports. The draft ...

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Read it for yourself: Enlarged Board decision Art 23 1/15 from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Merpel hopes that readers who don't follow the goings-on in Eponia will forgive her for a final posting in what has been a busy week. She knows however that some of her readers are ...

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Oracle v. Google and the district court judge from ipbiz.blogspot.com


Foss patents has an interesting post on Friday, November 20, 2015 about the Oracle America, Inc. v. Google Inc. case, which includes the text:


On Wednesday [18 Nov 2015], a motion hearing was held in ...

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USPTO Prepares to Launch "Clarity of the Record" Pilot from www.grayonclaims.com

In a recent blog post, PTO Director Lee announced that the USPTO is preparing to launch a "Clarity of the Record Pilot."  As part of this pilot "examiners will include as part of the prosecution ...

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