Patent & IP news for June 30, 2016

In Memoriam of David Goldring from ipkitten.blogspot.com


IPKat has received the sad news that David Goldring has passed away at the age of 61. David was a highly respected trade mark practitioner in London and this Kat was proud to have met ...

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WIPO Treaty On Copyright Exceptions For Visually Impaired Enters In Force from www.ip-watch.org

The World Intellectual Property Organization treaty to facilitate access to books in special formats for visually impaired people will enter into effect, as the 20th member state acceded to the treaty today.

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Electronic Inventory Management Patent Unpatentable Under 35 U.S.C. § 101 from docketreport.blogspot.com

In a final written decision, the Board found the challenged claims of a electronic inventory tracking patent to be unpatentable under 35 U.S.C. § 101 and that the claims were directed to the abstract ...

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US published application 20160183695: Crib With Embedded Smart Sensors from ipbiz.blogspot.com


The first claim:

A baby crib, comprising: a horizontal support platform; a base structure disposed below and physically supporting the horizontal support platform; a plurality of vertical surfaces connected to the horizontal support platform and ...

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European Music Industry Presses Brussels To Solve “Value Gap” From User Uploads from www.ip-watch.org

More than 1,000 recording artists and songwriters from Europe, and artists who regularly perform there, have urged the European Commission to stop the “value gap” created by user upload services such as Google's ...

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WIPO Patent Law Committee Adopts Work Programme; Good Omen, Some Say from www.ip-watch.org

World Intellectual Property Organization members attending this week’s patent law committee meeting agreed on a work programme, reflecting divergent views on patents and health, exceptions and limitations, and patent quality.

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Coffelt v. NVIDIA Corp. (C.D. Cal. 2016) from www.patentdocs.org

Mathematical Algorithm Found to be Unpatentable By Joseph Herndon -- On June 21, 2016, the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California issued an order granting a motion to dismiss pursuant to Rule ...

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