Patent & IP news for January 26, 2016

INGRES conference on developments in European IP law - copyright, trade marks, designs from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Victor Hugo, founder of ALAIContinuing the marathon of presentations at the INGRES conference on Monday after the lunch break was IPKat's own Eleonora Rosati, who presented on developments in copyright law. Referring to ...

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LCII Half-Day Conference: Regulating Patent “Hold-Up”? from patlit.blogspot.com

Readers who share this blogger's view that the CJEU decision in the matter Huawei ./. ZTE (see e.g. here)  still leaves room for discussion will be pleased to learn that the LCII wants to ...

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INGRES conference on developments in European IP law 2015 - patents from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Yesterday, the Institute for Industrial Property (INGRES), a Swiss association of IP enthusiasts, held its annual conference on developments in European IP law at the Sorrell hotel in Zurich. The esteemed speakers included Klaus Grabinski ...

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Hydraulic-Fracturing-Related Patent Determined to Be Unenforceable Due to Inequitable Conduct from dunlapcodding.com

. A decision last week in the United States District Court for the District of North Dakota could affect the use of certain fracking methods. Evan Talley

Between declining gas prices and the controversy over the ...

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Voxaton LLC v. Alpine Electronics of America, Inc. (E.D. Tex. 2016) from www.patentdocs.org

By Michael Borella -- Voxathon sued Alpine, and a number of defendants that manufacture automobiles, for infringement of U.S. Patent No. 6,442,261. According to the Court, the patent "relates to computer-implemented systems and ...

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Section 285 Does Not Support Deterrence Based Fee Enhancement; Next Stop Rule 11 Sanctions from patentlyo.com

This is the second post on the attorney-fee-case of Lumen View v. FindTheBest.com.  The original post focused on the Federal Circuit’s holding that (1) the exceptional case finding was appropriate but (2) it ...

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

The Board denied institution of covered business method review of an ATM patent under 35 U.S.C. § 101. "Petitioner does not identify directly 'the abstract ideas' to which the claims are purportedly directed. . . . [but ...

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WHO To Study Effect Of Nagoya Protocol On Sharing Of Genetic Materials from www.ip-watch.org

The implementation of a protocol ensuring access to genetic resources and the fair and equitable benefit-sharing of commercial benefits might affect the sharing of pathogens samples between countries, said the United Kingdom and the Netherlands ...

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Edison as a patent troll, re-visited in 2016 from ipbiz.blogspot.com

In 2006, LBE published the article Edison as a Patent Troll, or Where is California Going in Stem Cell Research? . At the time, the Wall Street Journal had recently asserted:


[that U.S. patent law ...

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Acorda Therapeutics Inc. and Par Pharmaceutical Inc. settle over Ampyra drug dispute from ipbiz.blogspot.com

BNA reported:


Under a consent judgment entered in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware Jan. 21, Par agreed that the four Acorda patents at issue were valid and enforceable and that ...

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Orville Wright documents to be auctioned from ipbiz.blogspot.com

Fox News covered the coming auction of letters of relevance to the aviation invention of the Wright Brothers.


A 1916 patent transfer document for Wright’s invention of the airplane and one in which the ...

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