With New Lawsuits Against VW Greenwashing Focus Shifts to Consumers from www.greenpatentblog.com Previous posts (here and here) discussed the Volkswagen emissions scandal in which the German automaker intentionally programmed a number of its diesel vehicles to activate emissions controls only during testing. The vehicles’ software allowed the ...
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In Memoriam of Kay Chapman: sustainable development and IP from ipkitten.blogspot.com The IPKat is very much a community that shares both common joys and sorrows. The IPKat was saddened to learn
belatedly from Francesca Re Manning, IP and Legal Manager of
ICARDA, that Kay Chapman died ...
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Battles between the PTO and Courts from patentlyo.com The dispute between the University of Alabama, Paul Bryant Jr., and Houndstooth Mafia stems from the latter’s unlicensed use of a houndstooth pattern and other ‘marks’ that relate to the University and former legendary ...
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Do Non-Compete Agreements Really Impede Innovation? from writtendescription.blogspot.com I spent my entire practice career in California, representing clients who were, by and large, free to move from company to company due California's ban on covenants not to compete. At the time, the ...
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PTAB’s Finding of Unpatentability Supports Post-Trial JMOL of No Willful Infringement from docketreport.blogspot.com The court granted defendant's motion for relief from the jury's finding of willful infringement because defendant presented a substantial question of invalidity. "At trial, [defendant] presented evidence of invalidity due to obviousness as ...
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The Heavy Burden: Overcoming the Presumption Against Improper Inventorship from patentlyo.com An important change made in the America Invents Act of 2011 was to allow patent owners to file for patent protection as patent applicants rather than relying upon sometimes uncooperative inventors to do so.[1 ...
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Emojis on baseball bats to send messages from ipbiz.blogspot.com There is a certain issue arising with the bats of Bryce Harper, who has placed an emoji on the end:
For those of you who aren't hip with Millennials, it carries two meanings in ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook