Patent & IP news for August 5, 2016

Friday Fun from ipkitten.blogspot.com

MIP European Patent Reform Forum. Managing IP's upcoming European Patent Reform Forum will be taking place in Munich on September 6 and in Paris on September 8. There will be plenty to discuss this ...

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When its comes to "deadwood", leave it in the State of South Dakota and out of Trademark Office policy from ipkitten.blogspot.com


This Kat has been engaged in trademarks for 30 years and he is usually pretty relaxed about developments in the field. When it comes to the alleged problem of deadwood on the trademark registry, however ...

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Hudson Institute Report Refutes UN Panel Stance on Impact of Patents on Access to Medicines from www.patentdocs.org

By Donald Zuhn –- In June, the Hudson Institute released a research report that analyzes several positions taken by the United Nations (UN) High Level Panel on Access to Medicines (HLP) on the impact of patents ...

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Federal Circuit Overturns Supplemental Jurisdiction Over Claims of Breach of Fiduciary Duty from www.iplawalert.com

In a recent decision from the Federal Circuit in AngioScore, Inc. v. TriREME Medical LLC et al. the court found that a plaintiff’s claim for patent infringement and breach of fiduciary duty did not ...

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Motion-Triggered Multimedia Indexing Patent Not Directed to Ineligible Subject Matter Under 35 U.S.C. § 101 from docketreport.blogspot.com

The court denied defendant's motion to dismiss on the ground that plaintiff’s patent for real-time indexing of multimedia data in response to detecting motion encompassed unpatentable subject matter because the asserted claims were ...

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