Patent & IP news for August 18, 2016

Olympic Swimmer’s Defamation Lawsuit Sinks in Court from dunlapcodding.com

Alyssa Novak

At the 2016 Rio Olympic Games, over 10,000 athletes are in the midst of competition for a chance at a singular moment of athletic glory. All of that pressure creates the temptation ...

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Olympic Swimmer’s Defamation Lawsuit Sinks in Court from dunlapcodding.com

Alyssa Novak

At the 2016 Rio Olympic Games, over 10,000 athletes are in the midst of competition for a chance at a singular moment of athletic glory. All of that pressure creates the temptation ...

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Bad and Good News for Bio-Pharmaceutical Patenting in the United States from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Two recent developments in U.S. patent law mean mixed news for the bio-pharmaceutical industry.  First, the bad news -- the U.S. Supreme Court declined to accept for review the closely-watched Ariosa Diagnostics v. Sequenom ...

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Reporter: Patent system failed heart valve inventer from ipcloseup.wordpress.com

One of the biggest obstacle to inventors today may the system created to protect them. Research cardiologist Tory Norred thinks so.   In a recent post on IP Watchdog, excerpted below, I summarize how investigative reporter ...

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Thailand: New Law Promotes IP As Loan Collateral; Amended Trademark Law Raises Penalty For Deception from www.ip-watch.org

BANGKOK - Thailand has enforced a new law to promote using intellectual property as loan collateral, an effort likely to make intellectual property a more valuable asset for its holders. But experts caution that the country ...

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Bontekoe Is New Legal Counsel At WIPO; Kwakwa Heads Global Challenges, Traditional Knowledge from www.ip-watch.org

The World Intellectual Property Organization quietly changed legal counsel this month after more than a decade, with veteran Edward Kwakwa moving to a new senior post in the United Nations organisation and Frits Bontekoe moving ...

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Stop Gaming the System, Gamers: Twitch Sues Over Fake Viewer Bots from www.iposgoode.ca

As the New Yorker caption goes, “On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog.” Update that for 2016: on the Internet, nobody knows you’re a bot. Twitch, a video streaming platform that primarily ...

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A Look Back on the Development of Software IP Law from www.iposgoode.ca

Aviv Gaon on Mr. David L. Hayes’ opening session presentation at the 20th Annual BCLT/BTLJ Symposium, Berkeley, California Setting the Stage for the Future Last April, I had the pleasure of participating in the ...

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The Downfall of Invention: A Broken Patent System from www.ip-watch.org

The cost of dozens of brand-name drugs have nearly doubled in just the past five years. Public outrage over drug prices extends from Capitol Hill to the presidential candidates to patients. In response, pharmaceutical executives ...

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TenSec prevails at CAFC in appeal against Adobe from ipbiz.blogspot.com


From the decision


TecSec, Inc. (“TecSec”) challenges certain claim
construction rulings and appeals from a grant of summary
judgment of non-infringement by Adobe Systems, Inc.
(“Adobe”) of TecSec’s U.S. Patents Numbers 5,369 ...

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Apotex Inc. v. Wyeth LLC (Fed. Cir. 2016) from www.patentdocs.org

By Kevin E. Noonan -- Perhaps the most significant Supreme Court decision in the past quarter century for the working patent practitioner is Dickinson v. Zurko, which strictly speaking is less a patent case than an ...

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