Patent & IP news for August 26, 2016

The branding and rebranding of infidelity from ipkitten.blogspot.com


How far can rebranding take a company after it has experienced a serious challenge to its brand, especially when your branded service is infidelity. If you are Avid Life Media, Inc., the answer may not ...

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Is hosting providers' safe harbour the real problem of copyright owners? A new article from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Finding a safe harbour?
A mission that can waitThe Ecommerce Directive envisages a number of immunities (known as safe harbours) that shield internet service providers (ISPs) from liability for third-party content that they transmit ...

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Patent for Storing and Retrieving Transaction Information Via Nonpredictable Barcode Not Invalid Under 35 U.S.C. § 101 from docketreport.blogspot.com

The court denied defendant's motion to dismiss on the ground that the asserted claims of plaintiff’s patent for storing and retrieving transaction information via a nonpredictable barcode encompassed unpatentable subject matter because there ...

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Virus Sharing Key Against Next Flu Pandemic: Global Database Hosts Genetic Data Of Flu Viruses from www.ip-watch.org

When a deadly influenza virus appears and threatens to become a pandemic, time is of the essence. The 1918 flu epidemic infected a large portion of the global population and killed millions of people. The ...

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Why do we have suddenly increasing drug prices? from ipbiz.blogspot.com

Timothy Holbrook has an interesting post The real reason the EpiPen and other off-patents are so expensive , which raises issues with the role of the FDA in pricing issues for drugs.



Interestingly, though, the patent ...

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