Patent & IP news for April 15, 2016

Reissues from patentlyo.com

Reissue applications have resumed their somewhat steady-state following the pre-AIA rise associated that had been associated with a counter strategy against third-party reexamination filings. For those issued thus far in 2016, the average reissue pendency ...

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Innocuous Innovation - The Rise of the Maintainers from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Combine the Global Financial Crisis, Occupy Wall Street, and now the Panama Papers, and there is a revolution at foot in economic thought.  In the last decade, we have seen the failure of macroeconomic models ...

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Will a virtual body be granting the future Unitary SPCs? from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Somewhere under this umbrella, the AmeriKat
is thinking about Unitary SPCs....On a bleak Friday afternoon in London, with the rain soaking into her paws and the wind messing with her perfectly coiffured fur coat ...

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Royal Charter for Institute of Trade Mark Attorneys from ipkitten.blogspot.com

The IPKat' smile of delight at the
news of ITMA's Royal CharterOn Wednesday the IPKat heard the exciting news that the Institute of Trade Mark Attorneys (ITMA) had been granted a Royal Charter ...

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Study Finds Gaps In Africa-EU Health Research And Innovation Links from www.ip-watch.org

CAPE TOWN, South Africa - Health research collaborations between Africa and Europe do not match up with Africa’s own stated funding intentions, says a report published by a European Union-funded project.

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WIPO Members Flirt With Agreement On WIPO Technical Assistance from www.ip-watch.org

Technical assistance provided by the World Intellectual Property Organization and the United Nations agency's technology transfer-related activities were discussed at length by WIPO member governments this week. At press time on the final day ...

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Website Feedback Patent Ineligible for CBM Review from docketreport.blogspot.com

The Board denied institution of covered business method review of a patent directed to soliciting feedback from website users under 35 U.S.C. § 101, because the petition did not establish that the ’805 patent ...

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CBM Institution Decisions Addressing Financial Product or Service from docketreport.blogspot.com

Since inception, the PTAB has issued 345 institution decisions in CBM review proceedings, 283 of which specifically addressed whether the challenged patent was eligible for CBM review as containing at least one claim directed to ...

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Inescapable Priority Trap - T 1983/14 from patlit.blogspot.com

In the case T 1983/14, the patentee hat gotten into an inescapable trap situation by adding a limitation to the claim which had been disclosed in the EP application as originally filed but not ...

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