Patent & IP news for January 12, 2016

International jurisdiction in online EU trade mark infringement cases: where is the place of infringement located? from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Oh, tell me more
about jurisdiction
in IP infringement casesOver the past couple of years the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has been busy addressing the question of jurisdiction [also an ...

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Selfie Alert: Ruling on Copyright Battle over Monkey Selfies from dunlapcodding.com

Can a monkey acquire intellectual property rights in a selfie? Alyssa Novak

Can a monkey acquire intellectual property rights in a selfie? On Wednesday, a federal judge answered this question in the negative, ruling that ...

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Cash Me Out - some more on CMOs from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Following an earlier post on Collective Management Organisations (CMOs, the bodies responsible for copyright licensing), a number of discussions on the relationship between publishers and creators, and in particular Dennis Collopy's research, arose.  Dennis ...

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Trade Commissioner Malmstroem Promotes TTIP, Warns Against Intolerance from www.ip-watch.org

MUNICH -- At a New Year's reception of the Regional Chamber of Commerce in Karlsruhe, Germany today, European Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmstroem promoted the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) and warned against "extreme views ...

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Motio, Inc. v. BSP Software LLC (E.D. Tex. 2016) from www.patentdocs.org

By Michael Borella -- The fallout from the Supreme Court's Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank Int'l case continues to reshape the landscape of patent-eligibility. Despite guidance from the USPTO, patentees still struggle with what ...

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Kenya Takes First Steps To Enhance Intellectual Property Awareness from www.ip-watch.org

NAIROBI, Kenya -- The government of Kenya has inaugurated a board to steer the Kenya National Innovation Agency (KNIA), which is charged with increasing awareness of intellectual property rights among investors, universities, research institutions and the ...

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Local Rooibos Tea Growers Take Charge In Effort To Gain GI Protection from www.ip-watch.org

CAPE TOWN, South Africa -- Small growers of Rooibos tea, in a remote region of South Africa, have taken up the charge in pursuing a geographic indication certification to protect their unique red tea against misuse ...

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Expert Analysis and Conclusions Concerning 35 U.S.C. § 101 Eligibility Inadmissible from docketreport.blogspot.com

The court granted defendants' motion to strike the report of plaintiff's validity expert regarding patentable subject matter because the testimony was unhelpful. "[T]he issue of subject matter eligibility under § 101 will not be ...

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Pending Supreme Court Patent Cases 2016 (January 12 Update) from patentlyo.com

by Dennis Crouch As of January 12, the Supreme Court has granted two petitions for certiorari for this term. Both Halo and Stryker cover the same topic of enhanced damages, a.k.a. willfulness. Another ...

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IP Intensive: Supporting Innovation and Entrepreneurship – A Semester at ventureLAB from www.iposgoode.ca

Before I participated in Osgoode’s Intellectual Property Law and Technology Intensive Program, I thought legal pro bono work only pertained to human rights, criminal, and refugee matters. However, after completing my internship with ventureLAB ...

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IP Intensive: A Semester at TEVA Canada from www.iposgoode.ca

This past fall, I had an opportunity to work with the patent strategy group at Teva Canada as part of Osgoode’s Intellectual Property Law Intensive Program. Teva Canada is the Canadian branch of Teva ...

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IP Intensive: Ottawa – The Best of Both Worlds from www.iposgoode.ca

Living and working in Ottawa is a unique, and often dual, experience. Every morning as I head to work at the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO), I cross the border from Ontario into Quebec. Conversations ...

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Interference declared in CRISPR patent dispute from ipbiz.blogspot.com

Among several news sources, the journal NATURE has noted that an interference has been declared in the CRISPR gene editing area.

See Bitter fight over CRISPR patent heats up. Unusual battle among academic institutions holds ...

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IP Intensive: Stranger in a Strange Land – Or, How a Semester at CodeX made me Comfortable With “Think [Like a Lawyer, but] Different” from www.iposgoode.ca

Grok means to understand so thoroughly that the observer becomes a part of the observed—to merge, blend, intermarry, lose identity in group experience. It means almost everything that we mean by religion, philosophy, and ...

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IP Intensive: A Semester at Innovation, Science and Economic Development (formerly known as Industry Canada) from www.iposgoode.ca

As the title of this blog alludes too, I joined the Copyright and Trademark Directorate (CTPD) at Industry Canada (IC) later transforming into the Department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development (DISED or ISED? the ...

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