Patent & IP news for May 30, 2016

Never Too Late: If you missed the IPKat last week from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Were you away and missed the last week of IPKat? Well, here's Never Too Late, number 98, and bang up to date!


* Are academic publishers liable for ginormous damages?
If a US academic author ...

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The Nominative Fair Use "Defense" in Trademark Law: Confusion in the US Circuit Courts of Appeal from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Applied inconsistently and confusingly, the nominative fair use analysis has been adopted in some U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeal.  This confusion is exemplified in the recent Second Circuit's International Information Systems Security Certification ...

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Innovación y acceso: ¿fisión o fusión? Entrevista a David Taylor, profesor de Políticas Farmacéuticas y de Salud Pública del University College de Londres from www.ip-watch.org

Tomando como referencia el trabajo del Grupo de Alto Nivel de las Naciones Unidas sobre el Acceso a los Medicamentos (UN High-Level Panel on Access to Medicines), esta serie de artículos patrocinados invita a expertos ...

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Innovation et accès : fission ou fusion ? Entretien avec David Taylor, Professeur en Politique Pharmaceutique et de Santé Publique à l’UCL (University College London) au Royaume-Uni from www.ip-watch.org

Dans le sillage du Groupe de Haut Niveau des Nations Unies sur l’accès aux médicaments (UN High-Level Panel on Access to Medicines) cette série d’articles sponsorisés convie des experts à donner leur point ...

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WHA Gets First UN Framework Managing Non-State Actors; Countries Satisfied, Actors Concerned from www.ip-watch.org

The first agreement on how to manage relationships between a United Nations organisation and non-governmental actors, such as industry, philanthropic organisations and public interest groups, was adopted on 28 May by the World Health Assembly ...

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Caltech sues Apple! from ipbiz.blogspot.com

See the post pat Appleinsider: Caltech sues Apple & Broadcom over alleged Wi-Fi patent infringements

link: http://appleinsider.com/articles/16/05/30/caltech-sues-apple-broadcom-over-alleged-wi-fi-patent-infringements

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WIPO Delegates Seek Convergence On Protection Of Genetic Resources This Week from www.ip-watch.org

The protection of genetic resources from misappropriation through patents, for example without the consent of the resource owners, and in particular indigenous communities, or benefit-sharing when commercial benefits arise from the use of those resources ...

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Mahamedi IP v. Paradice & LI: DTSA Between Patent Lawyers from patentlyo.com

by Dennis Crouch Many aspects of trade-secret & non-compete law do not apply cleanly when a lawyer leaves the firm. Confidentiality outside the firm is already required by the rules of professional conduct and client-secrets are ...

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Conference & CLE Calendar from www.patentdocs.org

June 2, 2016 - "Conflicts in Patent Prosecution: Avoiding the Ethical Pitfalls -- Minimizing Risks of Malpractice Liability and Ethics Sanctions" (Strafford) - 1:00 to 2:30 pm (EDT) June 6-9, 2016 - BIO International Convention (Biotechnology Innovation ...

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Court Report from www.patentdocs.org

By Sherri Oslick -- About Court Report: Each week we will report briefly on recently filed biotech and pharma cases. Allergan, Inc. et al. v. Somerset Therapeutics, LLC 1:16-cv-00392; filed May 26, 2016 in the ...

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