Patent & IP news for June 1, 2016

Opinion of AG Wathelet in C-567/14: it's okay to pay for peace of mind, as long as you can change your mind from ipkitten.blogspot.com

The opinion of AG Wathelet in the case C-567/14 Genentech vs. Hoechst, Sanofi Aventis is admittedly a couple of months old but does not seem to have been covered on IPKat before. While it ...

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Series trade marks are a bundle of separate trade marks, Court of Appeal declares in Fox's latest Glee challenge from ipkitten.blogspot.com

A very gleeful AmeriKat after reading the
latest decision from Lord Justice Kitchin on
the long-running Glee sagaThe long running dispute between Twentieth Century Fox Corporation (Fox) and Comic Enterprises Limited (CEL) finally came ...

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Busy tomorow evening? Tomorrow's AIPPI "look-a-like" event may be like no other from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Yes, they looked alike, but who did
that harm?Are you free tomorrow evening?  If so, from the AmeriKat's friend Sarah Ashby (Redd), comes a reminder about an exciting event tomorrow organized by AIPPI ...

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WHO-Led Study: Hepatitis C Treatment Unaffordable Globally, Threatens Health Systems from www.ip-watch.org

According to a new study by experts at the World Health Organization, prices of hepatitis C treatments are unaffordable globally and put a major strain on national health systems. Hepatitis C can cause liver cirrhosis ...

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European Commission Eyes Update Of EU Standards-Setting Policy from www.ip-watch.org

As standardisation increasingly takes place at the global level, Europe needs a speedier, more streamlined way to set the technical specifications that define requirements for products, production processes, services and test methods, the European Commission ...

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Portable Data Storage Device Patent Unpatentable Under 35 U.S.C. § 101 from docketreport.blogspot.com

In a final written decision, the Board found claims of a patent directed to a portable data storage device unpatentable under 35 U.S.C. § 101. "Petitioner argues that claims 13 and 14 are directed ...

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New Potential Treaty Text In WIPO Committee On Genetic Resources from www.ip-watch.org

A revised version of what is hoped by a large number of World Intellectual Property Organization members to become a treaty protecting genetic resources from misappropriation was issued today.

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Everyready loses appeal to CAFC of inter partes re-exam 95/001,683 (CAFC docket 015-1824) from ipbiz.blogspot.com

The outcome of the CAFC case was unfavorable to Eveready.



The technology


The ’360 patent is directed to a lithium/iron disulfide
(“Li/FeS2”) electrochemical cell or battery. Li/FeS2 cells
were well known when ...

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Doran, TIME get the Wright/Curtiss story wrong from ipbiz.blogspot.com



Peter Doran wrote in TIME:


Since the Wright brothers were the pioneers of a new technology, they claimed that U.S. patent law gave them a sweeping monopoly over every possible design for airplanes, even ...

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Reasonable Royalty for Industry Standard Patents from patentlyo.com

by Dennis Crouch The Australian governmental research agency CSIRO has been the plaintiff in a number of E.D. Texas patent cases over the past decade — repeatedly enforcing its wireless local-area-network (LAN) U.S. Patent ...

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Google et al. lose claim construction issue in HBAC case at CAFC from ipbiz.blogspot.com



The outcome was adverse to Google, and the other defendants
[ YOUTUBE, LLC, ESPN, INC.,
YAHOO! INC., BRAVO MEDIA LLC, NBC
ENTERTAINMENT, UNIVERSAL TELEVISION
NETWORKS, CBS INTERACTIVE, INC., DISNEY
ONLINE, AMERICAN BROADCASTING
COMPANIES, INC., VEVO LLC ...

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BIO International Convention 2016 Preview from www.patentdocs.org

BIO and Biosimilars By Andrew Williams -- The 2016 BIO International Convention begins next week in San Francisco. This convention has become an important destination for all organizations working in the biotechnology space, but the large ...

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