Patent & IP news for December 22, 2015

Tuesday Tiddlywinks from ipkitten.blogspot.com

IPKat is delighted to learn that the 5th edition of the authoritative (did one hear "iconic"?) work, Performers' Rights, by Sir Richard Arnold, Patents Court, England and Wales, has now been published by Sweet & Maxwell ...

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IP Hairballs from ipkitten.blogspot.com

With Boris Johnson and Donal Trump leading the way, statement hair is a powerful symbolic asset for those in the public eye. This Kat has always admired the surprisingly luxuriant tresses in the IP community ...

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Due Care and Annuity Reminders from patlit.blogspot.com

The decision T942/12, which has been discussed by the IPKat here, relates to the “due care required by the circumstances to be proven when requesting restitutio in integrum.

While in the good old times ...

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Government Can’t Prohibit the Registration of Disparaging Trademarks, Federal Circuit Rules from dunlapcodding.com

The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (the “Federal Circuit”) ruled today that the statutory prohibition against the registration of “disparaging” trademarks violates the First Amendment. The Alyssa Novak

The Court of Appeals for ...

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Costs be Damned: Dallas Buyers Club's Case Fails in Australia from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Many have awaited the developments regarding the Dallas Buyers Club case in Australia [Katpost here], and they have finally been given some degree of closure just in time for Christmas. Due to the case's ...

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USPTO Seeks Topics for Quality Case Study Pilot Program from www.patentdocs.org

By Donald Zuhn -- In a notice published in the Federal Register earlier today (80 Fed. Reg. 79277), the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office invites stakeholders to submit patent quality-related topics that they believe should ...

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Jury Verdict Awarding $30 Million Reasonable Royalty Includes Damages for Ongoing Infringement from docketreport.blogspot.com

Following a jury verdict of $30 million the court denied plaintiff's motion for an ongoing royalty and accounting. "[T]he jury instructions were clear in providing [plaintiff] with complete relief from infringement. . . . The jury ...

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EU Trade Secrets Deal Wins Wary Support from Industry, Free Speech Advocates from www.ip-watch.org

Industry and public interest groups have welcomed the provisional deal by the European Parliament and EU Council on protection of business know-how and trade secrets but say some of its provisions, particularly on protection of ...

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Burk: Is Dolly patentable subject matter in light of Alice? from writtendescription.blogspot.com

Dan Burk's work should already be familiar to those who follow patentable subject matter debates (see, e.g., here, here, and here). In a new essay, Dolly and Alice, he questions whether the Federal ...

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Free Speech: Prohibition on Registering Disparaging Marks is Unconstitutional, Federal Circuit Rules from patentlyo.com

By Dennis Crouch In re Tam (Federal Circuit 2015) (en banc) Big trademark case from the Federal Circuit. Judge Kimberly Moore filed the majority opinion holding that the statutory prohibition against registration of “disparaging marks ...

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