Patent & IP news for November 14, 2016

Monday Miscellany from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Having survived the Opening of the Carnaval in Maastricht this weekend, this InternKat now calmly brings you some sober highlights of IP news. 
Carnaval... too, too much dazzling colours...
* The next Roving Seminar hosted by ...

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What Would Eliminating Chevron Deference mean for Patent Law from patentlyo.com

By Dennis Crouch In the landmark case of Chevron U.S.A., Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. the US Supreme Court laid-out the process for determining whether to grant deference to a federal ...

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Gilead triumphant as Court of Appeal upholds Arnold J in Idenix's Sovaldi appeal from ipkitten.blogspot.com


If you cannot find the AmeriKat, try checking
under a blanket...The AmeriKat has been preoccupied of late with a treasure trove of litigation fun, as well as other events of perhaps more international significance ...

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The "four amigos of patent reform" are back! from ipbiz.blogspot.com


Back in 2008, IPBiz posted on "the four amigos of patent reform" (below).

Well, they are back, although one of the four gave a rather curious pose:

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An earlier picture of turkey buzzard on IPBiz ...

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Conference & CLE Calendar from www.patentdocs.org

November 15, 2016 - "Covered Business Method (CBM) Patent Review: Another Way to Kill Software Patents?" (McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP) - 10:00 am to 11:15 am (CT) November 15, 2016 - "That's a Fact ...

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USPTO Seeks Comments on New Sequence Standard from www.patentdocs.org

By Donald Zuhn -- In a notice published last month in the Federal Register (81 Fed. Reg. 74775), the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has requested comments from the public on WIPO Standard ST.26 ...

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Licensing deal with IP rights group ends YouTube blackout in Germany – “no more red faces” from ipcloseup.com

Tens of thousands of recording artists and musicians in Germany will be receiving payment for their content under the terms of agreement struck last week between YouTube and GEMA, Germany’s leading royalty collection group ...

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Trade Secret Use Increases; Stringent Protection Seen Encouraging Innovation from www.ip-watch.org

Trade secrets have gained the favour of a growing number of companies, according to speakers at a side event held in the margins of last week’s World Trade Organization intellectual property committee meeting. Organised ...

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WTO ‘Paragraph 6’ System For Affordable Medicines: Time For Change? from www.ip-watch.org

A range of practitioners and representatives in the manufacture of medicines, intergovernmental officials, academics and civil society representatives last week gave diverse views on the effectiveness of a waiver to international trade rules intended to ...

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Protection of Broadcasters, Copyright Limitations And Exceptions This Week At WIPO from www.ip-watch.org

World Intellectual Property Organization members this week are expected to move toward common ground on a treaty protecting broadcasters against piracy. Some members are showing signs of impatience and are pushing for a swift resolution ...

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Access To Medicine Index Finds Progress In Pharma’s Efforts from www.ip-watch.org

The Access to Medicine Index 2016 was published today, analysing the top 20 research-based pharmaceutical companies. The index looks at how those companies make medicines, vaccines and diagnostics more accessible in low- and middle-income countries ...

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Procedural Conduct Previously Sanctioned is No Basis for Award of Attorney Fees from docketreport.blogspot.com

Following a stipulation of infringement and a bench trial on damages, the court denied plaintiffs' motion for attorney fees under 35 U.S.C. § 285 because the totality of the circumstances were not exceptional. "With ...

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DU Photocopy Case: Fair Dealing or Raw Dealing? from www.iposgoode.ca

It is fascinating to observe how one common law judicial decision can have a ripple effect in another jurisdiction, especially one eleven thousand kilometres away. The Supreme Court of Canada’s (SCC) decision in Alberta ...

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Supreme Court Patent Cases: Post Sale Exhaustion from patentlyo.com

by Dennis Crouch Substantive Patent Law: Newly filed petition in Merck & Cie v. Watson Labs raises a core substantive patent issue – does the on sale bar apply to secret sales? The defendant asks: Whether the ...

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Christian Faith beats Adidas at CAFC on "use in commerce" issue; TTAB reversed from ipbiz.blogspot.com


The outcome of the case before the CAFC, Christian Faith Fellowship beats Adidas:



Christian Faith Fellowship Church appeals a final judgment of the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board that, in response to a petition filed ...

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Foreseeability and predictions from ipbiz.blogspot.com



Leaving aside the media predictions of the winner of the Presidential election of 2016, recall also that Strat-O-Matic
predicted the Cleveland Indians to win Game 6 by a score of 7-2:


That's right, Strat ...

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Ski at Snowmass: January 4-8, 2017 (and Talk Law) from patentlyo.com

I’m looking forward to speaking again at the National CLE Conference (SKI CLE) – this year in Snowmass Colorado, January 4-8 2017. [http://nationalcleconference.com/]. Obviously, the skiing is great, but the I am looking ...

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