Using Trademarks to Avoid Country-of-Origin Issues from patentlyo.com JBLU v. CIT (Fed. Cir. 2016) Although not a patent case, the JBLU decision has important commercial implications. JBLU is an American company that sells jeans under the C’est Toi Jeans USA brand. Of ...
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Federal Circuit Now Receiving More Appeals Arising from the PTO than the District Courts from patentlyo.com By Jason Rantanen Appeals arising from district court patent infringement cases have historically made up about a third of the court’s docket. In 2011, for example, appeals from the district courts constituted 33% of ...
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Of stripes, positions, and shoes: the CJEU speaks (again) from ipkitten.blogspot.com Some issues recur in the narrative of IP case-law like literary topos in good, old, classic novels.
One of them is position trade marks on shoes and, among them, the long-standing and landmark-decision-creator saga of ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
Transweb, LLC v. 3M Innovative Properties Co. (Fed. Cir. 2016) from www.patentdocs.org Antitrust Violation Found in Patent Infringement Litigation, and (Trebled) Attorney Fees for Defending Infringement Awarded as Damages By Joseph Herndon -- On February 10, 2016, the Federal Circuit issued an opinion in a case captioned Transweb ...
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It's that time of year again from ipkitten.blogspot.com Don't worry, it's not 35 shopping days left until Christmas. However, April 26 is now clearly visible on the horizon and with it, World IP Day.
This year's theme is Digital Creativity ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
Email Address Directory Patent Invalid Under 35 U.S.C. § 101 from docketreport.blogspot.com The court granted defendant's motion for judgment on the pleadings that the asserted claims of plaintiff’s email system patent encompassed unpatentable subject matter and rejected plaintiff's argument that the claims were not ...
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Uganda In Clinical Trials For Ebola Vaccine from www.ip-watch.org KAMPALA, Uganda -- An Ebola vaccine trial is underway in Uganda, as the global search for an effective vaccine continues. The vaccine candidate was co-developed by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part ...
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TPP Is Obama’s Top Trade Priority For 2016 from www.ip-watch.org Passage of the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement is the Obama administration's top trade priority this year, the Office of the United States Trade Representative said in its annual trade agenda released today. The agenda highlights ...
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Malawi Awaits Reviewed Copyright Law from www.ip-watch.org Artists in Malawi are hopeful that the Copyright Bill, drafted four years ago, will be discussed when the parliament meets in the first quarter of this year, paving a way to plug unauthorised use of ...
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USTR Cuts Cheese IP Deal With Honduras from www.ip-watch.org The government of Honduras has committed to a work plan for protecting intellectual property rights that includes recognition of food names considered generic by the United States such as "parmesano" (parmesan), provolone and bologna, the ...
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Eon Corp. v. Silver Spring: Improperly Delegating Claim Construction to a Jury from patentlyo.com by Dennis Crouch Eon Corp. v. Silver Spring Networks (Fed. Cir. 2016) In a split decision, the Federal Circuit has again rejected a jury verdict – finding that “no reasonable jury” could have found that Silver ...
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EPO deal with trade union - not what it seems from ipkitten.blogspot.com The European Patent Office has just
announced a "landmark deal" in the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding with
FFPE-EPO, which is a trade union of EPO employees. It was
reported last week in The ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook