Patent & IP news for October 20, 2016

Lundbeck v European Commission - a rotten decision or effective competition law enforcement? from ipkitten.blogspot.com

This GuestKat was entertained yesterday evening at Monckton Chamber's event at the Goldsmith Centre in London entitled "Recent key developments in competition law and regulation in the pharmaceutical sector". The main focus of the ...

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An Inflectra Update -- Pfizer Announces Launch of REMICADE® Biosimilar from www.patentdocs.org

By Andrew Williams -- On April 5, 2016, the FDA approved Celltrion's application to market a biosimilar to Janssen Biotech Inc.'s REMICADE® (infliximab) anti-TNF-α antibody (see "FDA Approves Inflectra - Celltrion's REMICADE® Biosimilar"). Presumably ...

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New measure of success challenges traditional brand valuations from ipcloseup.com

Measures of a brand’s power can differ dramatically, depending on performance criteria. A new success index believes that in an increasingly connected world, traditional measures of brand equity are outdated. Criteria like social media ...

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UNICEF Tender Allows Gavi To Supply Vaccines For Millions Of Children from www.ip-watch.org

Gavi, the vaccine alliance, announced yesterday that a UNICEF pentavalent vaccine tender will secure sufficient supplies for the next three years to protect millions of children in Gavi-supported and transitioning countries.

The post UNICEF Tender ...

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TC Heartland Law Professor Amicus Brief from patentlyo.com

In TC Heartland, the accused infringer has asked the Supreme Court to reset the law of venue and give effect to the statutory statement that infringement actions be brought either (1) “in the judicial district ...

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Zone Dependent Payout Gaming Patent Not Ineligible Under 35 U.S.C. § 101 from docketreport.blogspot.com

The court denied defendant's motion to dismiss on the ground that plaintiff’s zone dependent payout gaming management patent encompassed unpatentable subject matter because the asserted claim was not directed toward an abstract idea ...

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Computer Audio Communication Patent Not Ineligible Under 35 USC § 101 from docketreport.blogspot.com

The court denied defendant's motion to dismiss on the ground that plaintiff’s computer audio communication system patent encompassed unpatentable subject matter because the asserted claims were not directed toward an abstract idea. "The ...

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Special Report: IP And Competition Law – Opposing Forces Or Partners For Consumer Welfare? from www.ip-watch.org

Intellectual property and competition authorities should collaborate, speakers said at a United Nations meeting of experts this week, but other institutions should also have their say, such as health ministries. And guidelines should be provided ...

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Comments Received On South African IP Framework; Action Seen In Early 2017 from www.ip-watch.org

The invitation by the South African Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) to intellectual property stakeholders to comment on its recently released IP Consultative Framework has reignited calls for the department to come clean on ...

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IP and Climate Change from writtendescription.blogspot.com

My colleague and friend Josh Sarnoff (DePaul) sent me a review copy of the book he edited: Intellectual Property and Climate Change, even though I told him I wouldn't have much time to look ...

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Trump Silence On IP Policy Leaves Rights Owners Baffled from www.ip-watch.org

While US Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has published detailed positions on intellectual property, technology transfer and trade, Republican candidate Donald Trump has limited his comments to trade reform and alleged Chinese IP theft. The ...

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Launch of IP Pro Bono scheme from ipkitten.blogspot.com

This moggy was delighted to scamper across to Gray's Inn on Monday evening (actually from Court 4 where he had been watching the Brexit case, but of that perhaps more another time) to attend ...

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Citizens’ Summit Contra CETA: It’s Not Only Wallonia from www.ip-watch.org

With the vote on the European Union-Canada trade agreement (CETA) on the agenda once more at the upcoming EU Council meeting tomorrow the representatives of European and Canadian cities and regions gathered at Brussels today ...

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US, India Trade Ministers Agree List Of Enforcement Actions For India from www.ip-watch.org

United States Trade Representative Michael Froman and Indian Minister of Commerce and Industry Nirmala Sitharaman met in Delhi today and discussed various bilateral issues including intellectual property rights. Based on the release from the meeting ...

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The CAFC discusses 35 U.S.C. § 314(d) in Medtronic v. Bosch: institution decisions still final and nonappealable from ipbiz.blogspot.com



The bottom line outcome was "final and nonappealable" even after Cuozzo:


The original panel decision, following our decision in
GTNX, Inc. v. INTTRA, Inc., 789 F.3d 1309 (Fed. Cir.
2015), held that a determination ...

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Perdiemco, LLC. v. Industrack LLC (E.D. Tex. 2016) from www.patentdocs.org

By Joseph Herndon -- In the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, in a case captioned Perdiemco, LLC. v. Industrack LLC, the Court found some patents having method claims directed to "conveying ...

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