Patent & IP news for October 4, 2016

Introducing our new InternKats! from ipkitten.blogspot.com


Following on from last week's team news, the IPKat is delighted to announce the arrival of a brand new, freshly minted pack of InternKats.  The new InternKat team is as follows:

Hayleigh Bosher (InternKat ...

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Compared to Svensson, GS Media is not that bad after all from ipkitten.blogspot.com

The GS Media decision [see here and here] is under crossed fire. Those who complained that the Court of Justice of the EU's (CJEU) decision in Svensson [here and here] was too liberal think ...

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Free Trade Agreements Should Promote Generic Competition, Speakers Say At WTO from www.ip-watch.org

The emphasis placed on the protection and enforcement of intellectual property for medicines in trade negotiations is ignoring the distorting effects of this emphasis, such as the lack of competition incentives which are key to ...

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“We Are Here Today To Be Optimistic”: Stories And Advice From Women In IP from www.ip-watch.org

Under the banner of “inclusive trade,” last week’s World Trade Organization Public Forum hosted an array of sessions to discuss how a wider range of individuals and businesses can participate in the trading system ...

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Eligibility Challenge to Marketing Systems Patents Premature Prior to Claim Construction from docketreport.blogspot.com

The court denied without prejudice defendants' motion to dismiss on the ground that plaintiff's marketing system patents encompassed unpatentable subject matter because claim construction had not yet occurred. "Defendants argue that the claims at ...

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Eligibility Challenge to Intoxication Monitoring Patent Premature Prior to Claim Construction from docketreport.blogspot.com

The court denied without prejudice defendant's motion to dismiss on the ground that plaintiff's intoxication monitoring patent encompassed unpatentable subject matter because claim construction had not occurred. "Defendant moves to dismiss Plaintiff’s ...

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UNITAID-FIND Partnership To Scale Up Hepatitis C Diagnostics from www.ip-watch.org

Initiating a new partnership today, global health initiative UNITAID and the non-profit FIND began a project that will work towards the improvement, affordability and availability of diagnostics and treatments for the hepatitis C virus (HCV).

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Infringement Complaint Must Provide Factual Allegations at the Claim-Element-by-Claim-Element Level from patentlyo.com

by Dennis Crouch Lyda v. CBS (Fed. Cir. 2016) Although at first glance, Lyda appears as a narrow decision against an individual-inventor plaintiff, the decision is important because it establishes that a patent infringement complaint ...

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A Comprehensive Study of Trade Secret Damages from writtendescription.blogspot.com

Elizabeth Rowe (Florida) has shared a draft of "Unpacking Trade Secret Damages" on SSRN. The paper is an ambitious one, examining all of the federal trade secret verdicts she could find (which she believes is ...

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