Patent & IP news for June 20, 2016

Conference & CLE Calendar from www.patentdocs.org

June 15-17, 2016 - Fundamentals of Patent Prosecution 2016: A Boot Camp for Claim Drafting & Amendment Writing (Practising Law Institute) - New York, NY July 6-8, 2016 - Fundamentals of Patent Prosecution 2016: A Boot Camp for Claim ...

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Amicus Briefs in Support of Sequenom's Petition for Certiorari: Dr. Chakrabarty, A Scientist's View from www.patentdocs.org

By Donald Zuhn -- In March, following the Federal Circuit's denial of Sequenom's petition for rehearing en banc, Sequenom filed a petition for certiorari for Supreme Court review of the Federal Circuit's decision ...

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USTR Froman: IP-Related Biologics Still Key Sticking Point For TPP Passage from www.ip-watch.org

United States Trade Representative Michael Froman today said biologics remain the biggest unresolved issue in getting the Trans-Pacific Partnership passed in the US Congress. He called biologics an intellectual property rights issue and said the ...

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Read Factors Justify Enhanced Damages Award from docketreport.blogspot.com

Following a jury verdict of willful infringement and a damages award of $1.5 million, the court awarded plaintiff an additional $1 million in enhanced damages because defendant's copying, lack of a good faith ...

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Supreme Court Affirms Cuozzo – Siding with Patent Office on BRI and No-Appeal from patentlyo.com

By Dennis Crouch The Supreme Court has upheld the AIA provision barring challenges to the Patent Office’s decision to institute inter partes review. 35 U. S. C. §314(d).  In addition, Justice Breyer’s ...

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US Supreme Court on Cuozzo from ipbiz.blogspot.com


The Supreme Court had no trouble with the USPTO utilizing the BRI standard.

The concurring opinion by Justice Thomas discussed issues with Chevron, and stated:


The Court avoids those constitutional concerns today because the provision ...

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Cuozzo: So Right, Yet So Wrong from writtendescription.blogspot.com

The Supreme Court issued its basically unanimous opinion in Cuozzo today. I won't give a lot of background here; anyone taking the time to read this likely understands the issues. The gist of the ...

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Is This What it Sounds Like when Doves Cry: The PRINCE Act and Canadian Privacy Law from www.iposgoode.ca

The once proposed PRINCE Act [the Act] has now been set aside after being rushed through the Minnesota state senate. The Act sought to create a new property right in a person’s persona. Canada ...

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Cuozzo Speed Technologies LLC v. Lee (2016) from www.patentdocs.org

By Kevin E. Noonan -- In its first pronouncement regarding the post-grant reviewing proceedings established by the America Invents Act ("AIA"), the Supreme Court ruled that the Patent and Trademark Office's positions on two of ...

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