Patent & IP news for April 13, 2016

If you need to prove use as part of your opposition, this is for you from ipkitten.blogspot.com

The following post from former Guest Kat Valentina Torelli explores the question of having to prove use as part of an opposition proceding and the differences of opinion between the courts in ruing on this ...

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Mr Justice Arnold finds American Science's mobile X-ray scanner patent valid from ipkitten.blogspot.com

On Tuesday, the latest decision from Mr Justice Arnold in American Science & Engineering Inc v Rapiscan Systems Limited [2016] EWHC 756 was handed down.  Mr Justice Arnold upheld the patentee's invention relating to a ...

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Generic Drug Manufacturers Subject to Personal Jurisdiction Nationwide from dunlapcodding.com

Alyssa Novak

Back in September, I discussed the uncertainty surrounding personal jurisdiction in Hatch-Waxman litigation created by the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Daimler AG.¹ Specifically, district courts were not consistent in ...

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Global Cash Access, Inc. v. NRT Technology Corp. (D. Nev. 2016) from www.patentdocs.org

U.S. District Court Disagrees with PTAB By Joseph Herndon -- On March 25, 2016, the U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada issued an Order in a case captioned Global Cash Access, Inc ...

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Ideologies Fly In Discussion Of WIPO Pharma Report Calling For Less Ideology from www.ip-watch.org

A study commissioned by the World Intellectual Property Organization to analyse which essential medicines on the 2013 World Health Organization Essential Medicines List were under patent found that over 90 percent of medicines on the ...

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Judge Dyk’s Concurrence in the Denial of Rehearing En Banc in Sequenom from patentlyo.com

By Jason Rantanen In preparing for a talk on recent developments in patent law that I’m giving in a few days at the Salishan Patent Conference, I went back and reread Judge Dyk’s ...

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WIPO Scrutinised For Development Dimension, Involvement In UN Panel On Medicines from www.ip-watch.org

New text-based government efforts to recommend to the World Intellectual Property Organization General Assembly which committees should report on their development activities have been unsuccessful so far this week. Separately, WIPO was asked by members ...

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Network Security Patents Not Invalid Under 35 U.S.C. § 101 from docketreport.blogspot.com

The court denied defendant's motion for summary judgment that the asserted claims of plaintiff’s network security patents encompassed unpatentable subject matter and found that the claims were not directed toward an abstract idea ...

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There is no "world-wide" patent from ipbiz.blogspot.com


The NY Times has an interesting piece titled Lifting the Patent Barrier to New Drugs and Energy Sources.

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The Obama administration, spurred by the drug industry, insisted that patent protections should ...

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