Patent & IP news for February 3, 2016

Trends in IP Data from ipkitten.blogspot.com

You can't touch IP, most litigation devotes significant energy to even defining a right, and, by definition, any particular right is unique. So, how do you measure IP? Data on IP is scarce; inaccessible ...

Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook

NRT Technology Corp. v. Everi Payments, Inc. (PTAB 2016) from www.patentdocs.org

Business Method Patent Survives PTAB Review By Joseph Herndon -- On January 22, 2016, the U.S. Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) issued a decision denying institution of a covered business method (CBM) patent review ...

Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook

Expert’s Royalty Base Apportionment Analysis Insufficient from docketreport.blogspot.com

The court deferred ruling on defendant's motion to exclude the testimony of plaintiff's damages expert regarding a reasonable royalty for unreliable apportionment and ordered plaintiff to produce a supplemental report curing the expert ...

Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook

WHO Preps For 2018 UN Review Of Cardiovascular Diseases, Cancers, Respiratory Diseases, Diabetes from www.ip-watch.org

World Health Organization Director-General Margaret Chan submitted a report to last week’s Executive Board meeting detailing progress made in establishing a framework for the implementation of a global action plan for prevention and control ...

Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook

Pending Supreme Court Patent Cases 2016 (February 3 Update) from patentlyo.com

by Dennis Crouch With Washington DC snowed-in, action within the Supreme Court has also been somewhat slow.  Briefing is now complete in ePlus v. Lawson. In that case, a district court originally held an adjudged ...

Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook

European Data Protection Officers On Privacy Shield Announcement: Please Send Text! from www.ip-watch.org

A day after the European Commission announced an agreement with US authorities for a “Privacy Shield” as a follow-up mechanism for the invalidated Safe Harbour Agreement, the Article 29 Working Party of European Union data ...

Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook

Wired – UNICEF Invests $9m In ‘Open Source’ Tech To Save Children’s Lives from www.ip-watch.org

The United Nations will fund 60 startups to create open source technologies to improve the lives of children in developing countries. Unicef, the children's charity run by the UN, will channel more than $9 ...

Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook

More on the Myth of the Solo Inventor from ipbiz.blogspot.com


Following up on the discussion of Edison, it is hard to fathom anyone placing the Edison circa 1880 as anything like a solo inventor. He had a big team working on the light bulb (and ...

Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook

Claim Construction Leads to Nonsensical Result and thus Indefiniteness Holding from patentlyo.com

Columbia University v. Symantec Corp (Fed. Cir. 2015) Back in 2013, the NPE known as Columbia University sued Symantec for infringing at least six of its data-analytics patents covering the process of detecting and blocking ...

Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook