Patent & IP news for April 10, 2016

Note from AmeriKat: Senate passes Defend Trade Secrets Act, while patent legislation lingers in Congress from ipkitten.blogspot.com

The AmeriKat's surprised face in reaction to the
Senate actually achieving something by passing the
Defend Trade Secrets ActLast Monday, the US Senate unanimously passed S.1890, the Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA ...

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IPSOC Event Report: Kirin Amgen - the most difficult case Lord Neuberger ever had to decide from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Lord Neuberger gets treated to the
Mr Justice Carr cross-examinationWhile the AmeriKat was nose down in some European legislation, the Society for Junior IP Practitioners, IPSOC, held its first educational event of 2016 last ...

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Book Review: Tourism and Culture in the Age of Innovation from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Look, I figured out
how to use GIF!Putting the international in 'interdisciplinary,' "Tourism and Culture in the Age of Innovation" provides an interdisciplinary look at "tourism as a key driver of growth, the ...

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CBS Sunday Morning on April 10, 2016 from ipbiz.blogspot.com

Anthony Mason was the host for the money issue on April 10.

The bank meltdown in Iceland.

A story on the Thiel Foundation by John Blackstone included criticism:



"It breaks my heart when some of ...

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Flashback to 1970: We can't have all Brandeises, Frankfurters and Cardozos from ipbiz.blogspot.com



Related to some discussion about the next Supreme Court pick [link below], IPBiz recalls a quote from 1970:


"Even if he were mediocre, there are a lot of mediocre judges and people and lawyers. They ...

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From what groups do patent citations come from? from ipbiz.blogspot.com



There is a communication relating to patent value, based on work by ADAM R. CASTOR , now about to get a Ph.D. at Penn and formerly at the University of Wyoming, with a B.S ...

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Conference & CLE Calendar from www.patentdocs.org

April 12, 2016 - "A Federal Trade Secrets Act? The Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016" (McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP) - 10:00 am to 11:15 am (CDT) April 13, 2016 - "Protecting Your IP Overseas ...

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