Patent & IP news for September 9, 2016

Changes to the Cider House Fight Club Patent Rules of Engagement the Game UK IPO from ipkitten.blogspot.com

A collection of rule changes at the UK IPO will be coming into effect via forthcoming amendments to the Patents Rules 2007. There are two batches of changes summarised below, with the first, bigger, batch ...

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EU General Data Protection Regulation – Part II from ipkitten.blogspot.com


In a previous blog post, here, former Guest Kat Valentina Torelli discussed the scope of protection of the new data protection regime and the new types of personal data introduced by Regulation no. 679/2016 ...

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Friday Fun from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Merpel has gazed into the future but
is keeping it a secretFuture of UK Patent Framework. This Westminster Policy Forum is taking place on February 2nd 2017, and will see the EPO's Dr ...

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Friday Fun – Lightsaber Training/Battle Simulator Patent Application from dunlapcodding.com

Jeremy McKinney

This spring, Disney officially broke ground on a 14-acre expansion that includes “Star Wars” themed lands. Among other features, a recently published patent application (U.S. Patent Application No. 20160201888) hints at an ...

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UCB, Inc. v. Yeda Research and Development Co. (Fed. Cir. 2016) from www.patentdocs.org

By Donald Zuhn -- Today, in UCB, Inc. v. Yeda Research and Development Co., the Federal Circuit affirmed the determination by the District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia that UCB's Cimzia® brand antibody ...

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ITU Capacity-Building Symposium Discusses Internet Governance, Collaboration from www.ip-watch.org

NAIROBI, Kenya -- Strong linkages and structured collaborative initiatives between the academia and industry in the information and communication technology (ICT) sector are key to enhancing capacity building in rapidly growing sector across the globe, a ...

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Cellular Network Messaging Patent Not Ineligible Under 35 U.S.C. § 101 from docketreport.blogspot.com

The court denied defendant's motion for summary judgment that the asserted claims of plaintiff’s cellular network messaging patent encompassed unpatentable subject matter because the asserted claims were not directed toward an abstract idea ...

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Global Brand Offers Window Into Africa’s Intellectual Property Rights from www.ip-watch.org

CAPE TOWN, South Africa -- For 30 years, Nandos, a South African, Portuguese-themed eatery, has made its brand, poking fun at politicians, laughing at the madcaps of society, throwing innuendos with joyful abandon and filling tummies ...

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Oracle files proposed notice of deposition of Google witnesses regarding discovery misconduct from www.fosspatents.com

On August 25, Oracle and Google filed sworn statements (and Oracle also filed an objection) regarding Oracle's motion for an Android-Java copyright re-retrial over alleged discovery misconduct and lies to the jury. Judge Alsup ...

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Oracle files proposed notice of deposition of Google witnesses regarding discovery misconduct from www.fosspatents.com

On August 25, Oracle and Google filed sworn statements (and Oracle also filed an objection) regarding Oracle's motion for an Android-Java copyright re-retrial over alleged discovery misconduct and lies to the jury. Judge Alsup ...

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