Patent & IP news for June 7, 2016

Tuesday Tiddlywinks from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Copyright & Blackbeard's pirate ship: 
Rick Allen, a photographer who spent years creating images and video footage of the pirate Blackbeard's sunken flagship (The Queen Anne's Revenge), is pursuing a copyright infringement claim ...

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The state of patent valuation: Europe moves up the agenda as US patent values decline from ipkitten.blogspot.com


Joff Wild, the editor of IAM (Intellectual Asset Management), is one of the most astute observers of intellectual property as business assets. IPKat is delighted that Joff has offered to share his thoughts on the ...

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Design patent absurdity on display as Samsung points Supreme Court to Microsoft suit over tiny arrow from www.fosspatents.com

Last week I provided an overview of the key issues in Samsung v. Apple, Samsung's appeal to the Supreme Court of Apple's design patent damages win. Thanks to CNET, Samsung's opening brief ...

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Innovación y acceso: ¿Fisión o fusión? Entrevista a Tim Wilsdon, vicepresidente de CRA 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, esta serie de artículos patrocinados invita a expertos en la materia a expresar sus puntos ...

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Innovación y acceso: ¿fisión o fusión? Entrevista a la Dra. Kristina M. Lybecker, profesora asociada de Economía del Colorado College 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, esta serie de artículos patrocinados invita a expertos en la materia a expresar sus puntos ...

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Digital Trademark and Design Patent Infringement from patentlyo.com

Guest post by Lucas S. Osborn, Associate Professor of Law at Campbell University School of Law. He will be visiting at Denver University School of Law for 2016-17. Digital technology continues its collision with intellectual ...

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“Mozart 4.0” Program Seeks A Global IP And Innovation Culture from www.ip-watch.org

Cultural mindset plays a key role in determining how entrepreneurial a region will be and how effectively its intellectual property will be used, Ludovit Garzik, managing director of the Austrian Council for Research and Technology ...

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Piecemeal Approach to Document Production Warrants Sua Sponte Sanctions Award from docketreport.blogspot.com

The court sua sponte sanctioned defendant for failing to adequately respond to plaintiff's document requests. "Rather than conduct a complete search of all corporate files, defendant and counsel for defendant have instead taken a ...

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The EPO's plans to restrict post-service employment from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Merpel wrote recently about the latest plans of the European Patent Office to reform the Boards of Appeal of the EPO.  One aspect present in the earlier proposals of CA/16/15 (see IPKat here ...

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European Unitary Patents and Possible Brexit from ipspotlight.com

In recent weeks I’ve had several clients ask me whether they should alter their European filing strategies in view of a potential split between the UK and the European Union. Julia D’Arcy of ...

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Does Europe Have Patent Trolls? from writtendescription.blogspot.com

There have been countless articles—including in the popular press—about the problems (or lack thereof) with "patent trolls" or "non-practicing entities" (NPEs) or "patent-assertion entities" (PAEs) in the United States. Are PAEs and NPEs ...

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Is the journal SCIENCE correct on the employment of scientists? from ipbiz.blogspot.com

The May 20, 2016 issue of the journal Science has a story entitled " 'Employment Crisis' for New Ph.D.s is an illusion".
Within the story, author Jeffrey Mervis mentions the NSF's "survey of ...

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Facebook wins at the CAFC in the Indacon case from ipbiz.blogspot.com


The outcome


Following the district court’s claim construction order,
Indacon, Inc. and Facebook, Inc. stipulated to noninfringement,
and the district court entered final judgment
in favor of Facebook. Indacon appeals, disputing the
district court ...

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Conmil v. Cisco does not change NuVasive result from ipbiz.blogspot.com





This case returns to this court on vacatur and remand
from the Supreme Court, “for further consideration in
light of Commil USA, LLC v. Cisco Systems, Inc., [135 S.
Ct. 1920 (2015)].” Medtronic Sofamor Danek ...

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Is the CAFC decision in RUCKUS WIRELESS a gamechanger? from ipbiz.blogspot.com


Tony Dutra in the post THE PATENT SPECIFICATION IS THE NAME OF THE GAME NOW argues for a change in focus in "what is important" in the patent application based on the CAFC decision in ...

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