Patent & IP news for May 8, 2016

AG's opinion on period of compensation for trademark violation from ipkitten.blogspot.com


Former Guest Kat Valentina Torelli continues to share her insights with Kat readers on a variety of topics. This time, she discusses theinteresting opinion of Advocate General Wathelet on the interrelationship between EU legislation ...

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Oracle v. Google copyright retrial won't bring clarification on application programming interfaces (APIs) from www.fosspatents.com

Tomorrow, the Oracle v. Google Android-Java copyright retrial is scheduled to begin. Almost six years have passed since the filing of this lawsuit, and about four years since the first trial, which could have been ...

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CBS Sunday Morning on 8 May 2016 from ipbiz.blogspot.com

Charles Osgood introduced the stories for Mothers Day, May 8, 2016. The cover story was "never say never" by Serena Altschul on mothers over 40 years of age. John Blackstone on Keith Urban. Lee Cowan ...

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Plagiarism matter in Alachua County, Florida from ipbiz.blogspot.com

The school superintendent [Owen Roberts] self-published a book which apparently contained copied material not fully
attributed to source. One issue: is a self-published book to be held to academic norms?

From the Gainesville Sun:


Yet ...

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Jotwell Post: Is It Time To Overrule the Trademark Classification Scheme? from writtendescription.blogspot.com

As I've noted before, Jotwell is a great way to keep up with interesting recent scholarship in IP and other areas of law. My latest Jotwell review, of Jake Linford's Are Trademarks Ever ...

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Automatic Assignment of Future Inventions: A Serious Error of Federal Law that Requires Supreme Court Review from patentlyo.com

Guest post by Dr. Shubha Ghosh, Crandall Melvin Professor of Law and Director of the Technology Commercialization Law Program at Syracuse University College of Law In Stanford v Roche, 563 U.S. 776 (2011), the ...

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Conference & CLE Calendar from www.patentdocs.org

May 10, 2016 - "Patent Eligibility, Prior Art and Obviousness 2016: Current Trends in Sections 101, 102 and 103" (Practising Law Institute) - New York, NY May 10-12, 2016 - Fundamentals of Patent Prosecution 2016: A Boot Camp ...

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