Patent & IP news for October 23, 2016

Around the IPKat’s Cousins Blogs from ipkitten.blogspot.com


This InternKat brings you some highlights of the IPKat’s cousins blogs!
Ben Challis reports on The 1709 Blog on a number of items, including the expected sentencing next month by the Liverpool Crown Court ...

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The new French law targeting "automated image referencing services": does EU law allow it? from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Image Search for IPKatAs reported by this blog [here, here and here], earlier this year France adopted a law [Loi No 2016-925 on freedom of creation, architecture and cultural heritage] which - among other things ...

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With free trade and globalization under attack, can IP licensing come to the rescue? from ipkitten.blogspot.com


Whatever one’s view about globalization and free trade (dislocation of jobs, social and economic inequality and loss of sovereignty, not to mention free movement and immigration), one cannot deny that more and more skepticism ...

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CBS Sunday Morning on 23 October 2016: treating genetic based diseases from ipbiz.blogspot.com

Martha Teichner did the cover story Fighting genetic disease with help from HIV virus, which highlighted the work of Dr. Alessandra Biffi, who is now the leader of the gene therapy program at Dana-Farber/Boston ...

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Ontario College of Teachers begins review of Spence plagiarism matter from ipbiz.blogspot.com

IPBiz covered the Toronto / Spence plagiarism matter in 2013,
(see http://ipbiz.blogspot.com/2013/01/director-of-toronto-public-school.html ). On October 21, 2016 the Toronto Sun ran a blistering followup in the post Ex top educator ...

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Conference & CLE Calendar from www.patentdocs.org

October 24, 2016 - "Decoding the Framework of Double Patenting: Legal Issues and Insights Uncovered!" (The Knowledge Group) - 3:00 to 5:00 pm (EST) October 27, 2016 - "Markman Hearing Strategies, Claim Construction in a Post-AIA ...

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Medtronic, Inc. v. Robert Bosch Healthcare Systems, Inc. (Fed. Cir. 2016) from www.patentdocs.org

Federal Circuit Denies Petition for Rehearing in Medtronic v. Robert Bosch Healthcare Systems By Kevin E. Noonan -- One of the aspects of inter partes review that differed from other post-grant review proceedings before the Board ...

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