Patent & IP news for January 29, 2016

Rather a double life: 26 extra years of copyright for Beatrix Potter from ipkitten.blogspot.com

This Kat would like to thank his solicitor colleague Tristan Sherliker for this interesting copyright mewsing. 

In a real-world fairytale story this week, the discovery was announced of a previously unpublished work by beloved mycologist ...

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So you are at the museum: has that painting been preserved, restored or maybe even replicated? from ipkitten.blogspot.com


This Kat had the luxury of doing a first degree in Medieval History before he set out to find a field that might gainfully employ him. As a result of his studies, he developed a ...

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A Summary of the December Changes to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure from dunlapcodding.com

Julie Langdon

On December 1, 2015, amendments to certain rules of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure went into effect. 

For a better understanding of the new amendments, I have set forth a breakdown of ...

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We've got five years, that's all we've got from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Earlier today, the IPKat mentioned the late, lamented David Bowie and a somewhat tenuous connection to patents (see Friday Fantasies). In the interests of equality for trade mark practitioners, the IPKat notes an equally tenuous ...

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CRISPR Interference Declared from www.patentdocs.org

By Kevin E. Noonan -- CRISPR (an acronym for Clustered Regularly lnterspaced Short Palindromic Repeats), which is part of a system for altering chromosomal sequences in situ in a cell in combination with a bacterially derived ...

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Friday fantasies from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Following the sad news of  David Keltie's passing, the IPKat has now learnt the details of the celebration of David's life: it will take place in Southwark Cathedral at 3:30pm on Thursday ...

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WHO Members Commit To SDGs For 2030, Despite Some Differences from www.ip-watch.org

During the Executive Board meeting at the World Health Organization this week, member states agreed on committing to the health-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for 2030. The consensus reached by member states was that direct ...

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Rethinking Patent Citations from writtendescription.blogspot.com

Patent citations are one of the coins of the economic analysis realm. Many studies have used which patents cite which others to determine value, technological relatedness, or other opaque information about a batch of patents ...

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WHO Discusses Polio, Hepatitis C, Vaccines, Affordability from www.ip-watch.org

The World Health Organization Executive Board this week noted a number of reports on communicable diseases, such as poliomyelitis, and vaccines. Developing countries underlined the affordability and accessibility of treatments. The board also agreed on ...

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Section 112 Does Not Contain Conciseness Requirement Independent of Enablement from docketreport.blogspot.com

The court denied defendant's motion for summary judgment that plaintiff's internet gateway patents were invalid for lack of conciseness. "It is basic hornbook law that Section 112 contains three requirements for an inventor ...

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Blog favorite alice 101 from allthingspros.blogspot.com

I work primarily in the computer and electronics arts, so I deal a lot with § 101 rejections in the wake of Alice v . CLS Bank. I haven't found any magic bullets for overcoming these ...

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Recommended blog reading for Alice and 101 from allthingspros.blogspot.com

I work primarily in the computer and electronics arts, so I deal a lot with § 101 rejections in the wake of Alice v . CLS Bank. I haven't found any magic bullets for overcoming these ...

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Planning a patent citation study? Read this first. from writtendescription.blogspot.com

Michael's post this morning about how patent citation data has changed over time reminded me of a nice review of the patent citation literature I saw recently by economists Adam Jaffe and Gaétan de ...

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Akzo v. Dow, appeals denied from ipbiz.blogspot.com

In Akzo v. Dow, the final result was that the appeals were denied: For the reasons set forth above, we affirm the judgment of the district court.

Yes, Teva was cited:


Evaluation of summary judgment ...

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Judge Mayer’s Dissent on “Panel Stacking” from in In re Alappat from www.717madisonplace.com

Back in 1991, three years before I began practicing patent law, the Federal Circuit dealt with the contentious issue of “panel stacking” by the Commissioner in the case of In re Alappat.  The en banc ...

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