Patent & IP news for November 16, 2016

Entitlement to priority: Does Gilead confirm that it is a matter of substance over form? from ipkitten.blogspot.com

It is so important, but this is generally
what happens when someone talks
about priority in front of the AmeriKat
outside of work....Following from the Court of Appeal's decision in Gilead last week ...

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Never Too Late: If you missed the IPKat last week! from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Prepare to boost your mood with the 122th edition of Never Too Late!
It’s Wednesday and you love it!Is depositing better than sequencing?Mark Schweizer attended the workshop “IP Protection of Biological Inventions ...

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BREAKING: CJEU follows AG and holds French law on out-of-print books contrary to EU law from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Is a national law that provides ab initio that a collecting society - rather than the author of a work - has the right to authorise the reproduction and communication to the public of such work compatible ...

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Biotechnology Innovation Organization's Amicus Brief for In re Aqua Products, Inc. from www.patentdocs.org

By Andrew Williams -- On Friday, December 9, 2016, the Federal Circuit will hear oral arguments en banc in the In re Aqua Products, Inc. case to consider two questions related to the PTAB's treatment ...

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Panel Explores Relation Between Plant Breeders’ Convention And Plant Treaty from www.ip-watch.org

When countries belong to several international instruments, some aspects of those instruments may run contradictory to one another. A symposium held recently by the International Convention for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV ...

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New Alliance to Hold UN And Others Accountable For Antimicrobial Resistance Commitments from www.ip-watch.org

A new international alliance to support the United Nations Resolution on Antimicrobial Resistance was launched this week. The Conscience of Antimicrobial Resistance Accountability (CARA) aims to bring together organisations committing to reporting on mutually agreed ...

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WIPO To Use Creative Commons Licences For All Of Its Publications from www.ip-watch.org

The UN World Intellectual Property Organization, the foremost international body for intellectual property rights, today announced that it will make all of its publications available under Creative Commons licences - which said it helped to develop ...

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Message To WIPO: Here’s The Assistance We African Inventors Really Need from www.ip-watch.org

NAIROBI, Kenya -- Patent protection is a challenge to many an inventor in developing countries. Inventors in most African countries, for instance, are compelled to surmount huge obstacles to protect their inventions. In order to remedy ...

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Patent for Securing a Server by Filtering Unauthorized Communications Not Ineligible at Pleading Stage from docketreport.blogspot.com

The court denied defendant's motion to dismiss on the ground that plaintiff’s patent for securing a server by filtering unauthorized communications encompassed unpatentable subject matter because defendant did not establish that the asserted ...

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Cleantech in Court: Green Patent Complaint Update from www.greenpatentblog.com

A number of new green patent complaints were filed in September and October in the fields of battery chargers, green cleaning products, LEDs, smart grid, solar mounting systems, and water conservation.   Battery Chargers VoltStar Technologies ...

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