Patent & IP news for March 19, 2016

Venue and Personal Jurisdiction Updates from patentlyo.com

The world continues to spin as we await a decision in the TC Holdings mandamus venue action. A group of Senators have introduced the VENUE Act (Venue Equity and Non-Uniformity Elimination Act of 2016). (S ...

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Ideas For Change To Global Health And IP System Proliferate from www.ip-watch.org

Public health advocates, academics, patients, governments and others this week presented further ideas to the United Nations Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel on Access to Medicines on ways to break the longstanding pattern of expensive medical ...

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Developments in the CRISPR patent interference: the March 2016 order sets out which motions may proceed from ipbiz.blogspot.com


Sharon Begley at STATNews covers the March 2016 order in the CRISPR interference and suggests a tilt toward Broad:


Handicappers had previously laid odds in favor of the University of California, partly because the onus ...

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Lea Shaver said: "The central mistake made by Howells and Katznelson is to treat judicial opinions and patent claims as reliable evidence of who really did what." from ipbiz.blogspot.com

IPBiz notes the humor within Lea Shaver's statement in 69 Wash & Lee L. Rev. 1891, 1922:



The central mistake made by Howells and Katznelson is to treat judicial opinions and patent claims as reliable ...

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Overuse of “printed matter” doctrine from www.717madisonplace.com

The associate solicitor for the USPTO ran into a buzz saw in the form of Judges Taranto and Hughes in the oral argument of In re Distefano.  The USPTO was fortunate as Chief Judge Prost ...

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