Patent & IP news for October 25, 2016

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post image Charlie Chaplin won't come back from the dead, neither will Montis' copyright in the Chaplin chair from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Montis' Chaplin chairIn the early 1980s, Mr Gerard van den Berg designed two chairs he named "Charly" and "Chaplin" (see images, but only briefly, otherwise you eyes might start to bleed). In 1988, he ...

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post image AG Szpunar says that the notion of "places accessible to the public against payment of an entrance fee" does not apply to hotel rooms from ipkitten.blogspot.com

AG SzpunarUnder the Rental and Lending Rights Directive, among other things, broadcasting organisations have the exclusive right to authorise or prohibit the communication to the public of their broadcasts in places accessible to the ...

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post image Meet the Trade Mark Judges (Part two) from ipkitten.blogspot.com

London Taxi CTMFollowing on from Meet the Trade Mark Judges (Part One) is the inevitable sequel.

The questions continued...

The shape of a London taxi was found not registrable on the basis that the ...

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Intellectual Ventures I LLC v. Symantec Corp. -- Judge Mayer on the First Amendment from www.patentdocs.org

By Michael Borella and George Lyons III -- Decided September 30th, this Federal Circuit case is already making waves. The majority opinion seems to be at tension with the Court's outcome in BASCOM Glob. Internet ...

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Procedural fairness and the Penalties Regulation: R(Roche) v Secretary of State for Health from ipkitten.blogspot.com

This is the second report covering Monckton Chambers' seminar last Wednesday (see previous report on the Lundbeck decision here).

The latter part of the presentation covered recent cases on medicines regulation, focussing on R(Roche ...

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Will your patent assignment document satisfy new European Patent Office requirements? from ipspotlight.com

Effective November 1, 2016, new European Patent Office (EPO) Examination Guidelines governing the transfer of European patent applications will take effect. The new Guidelines make two changes that transacting parties need to know: the assignment ...

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Farm-Saved Seeds Sow Discord; Breeders, Users, Seek Clear Definition At UPOV from www.ip-watch.org

When a harvested material from a protected plant variety, such as seeds, is used for further sowing and cultivating, royalties need to be paid to the breeder of this protected variety. However, according to breeders ...

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WHO, WTO, WIPO Put Their Collective Minds To Antibiotic Resistance Calamity from www.ip-watch.org

Resistance to antibiotics by bacteria has been steadily growing and is now considered as a major threat to global public health, with some catastrophic projections of millions of death and billions of dollars in economic ...

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Delivery Notification Patent Ineligible Under 35 U.S.C. § 101 from docketreport.blogspot.com

The court denied plaintiff's motion to reconsider an earlier order granting defendant's motion for judgment on the pleadings that plaintiff’s delivery notification system patent encompassed unpatentable subject matter. "[Plaintiff] argues that the ...

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Bloomberg quotes former judge Davis on ED Texas and the "troll problem" from ipbiz.blogspot.com

Although the Reuters article on Spears / Timberlake spoke disparagingly of ED Texas, note the text
at Bloomberg published about at the same time:


“The district has been the poster child for the ‘troll problem,”’ said ...

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In re Aqua: Amending Claims Post Grant in an IPR from patentlyo.com

The only pending en banc patent case before the Federal Circuit is In re Aqua Products (Appeal No. 15-1177) involving claim amendments during inter partes review.  The Patent Statute contemplates claim amendments as a possibility ...

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology v. Shire Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Fed. Cir. 2016) from www.patentdocs.org

By Kevin E. Noonan -- The Federal Circuit recently affirmed a district court's claim construction and determination that claim terms were not indefinite in Massachusetts Institute of Technology v. Shire Pharmaceuticals, Inc. The case involved ...

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