(Belatedly) remembering Raymond Niro, the most influential person in patent litigation whom you may have never heard of from ipkitten.blogspot.com In August, 2016, one of the most influential persons in modern patent litigation, Raymond Niro, passed away at the age of 73. It has taken IPKat some time to properly recall
Mr. Niro, but as ...
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BREAKING: Unanimous Supreme Court in Samsung v Apple finds that damages may be based on a component, not whole product from ipkitten.blogspot.com Has a bite been taken out of Apple's damages
or is it too soon to tell?The AmeriKat has perhaps become cynical over the course of 2016. When asked recently what she thought motivates ...
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Genuine use of three dimensional EU trade marks - heated arguments over ovens from ipkitten.blogspot.com Registered markIn 2004, the German company Bullerjan GmbH applied for the shape depicted on the right as EU trade mark (or Community trade mark, as it was then) for ovens (stoves). In 2005, the ...
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Wild Boys Sometimes Lose It: Duran Duran fail to reclaim their US copyright from ipkitten.blogspot.com A few weeks after his eighteenth birthday, Duran Duran co-founder Nick Rhodes signed a music publishing agreement assigning his existing and future copyrights to a publisher, as did the other band members. None of them ...
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Supreme Court Preview -- Life Technologies Corp. v. Promega Corp. from www.patentdocs.org By Andrew Williams -- On Tuesday, December 6, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments regarding the interpretation of 35 U.S.C. § 271(f)(1), with the pertinent section highlighted: Whoever without authority supplies or ...
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Professors and Leading Scholars Respond to the IPO’s Request for Views on Modernising the European Copyright Framework from www.iposgoode.ca On September 14, the European Commission published draft legislation aimed at modernising the European copyright framework. To ensure the draft legislation delivers the best outcomes for all those affected by it, the Intellectual Property Office ...
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US Patent Office 2016 Humanity Awards Go To Health-Related Inventions from www.ip-watch.org The winners of the 2016 Patents for Humanity Award of the United States Patent and Trademark Office this year are recognised for providing global disease solutions. The inventions relate to malaria, vaccines, a life-threatening pregnancy ...
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Patenting the Online Peer Review Process? from www.iposgoode.ca Yes, it is apparently possible – Elsevier just did it. Elsevier is one of the largest science and medical publishers in the world. Prestigious journals, such as Cell and The Lancet, are amongst its products. Over ...
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Bringing Biologics in from the Cold: Does Canada’s IP Regime Need a Booster? from www.iposgoode.ca As ratification stutters for the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), the much-maligned free-trade deal between Canada and the European Union, debate continues as to whether the Canadian intellectual property (IP) regime will provide adequate ...
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Russia To Establish New IP Register For Military Equipment, Weapons from www.ip-watch.org A new register of intellectual property in the field of military and defence will soon be established in Russia in accordance with a recent decision of the national government, according to the state press service.
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Announcing the 9th Annual Canada’s IP Writing Challenge from www.iposgoode.ca The Intellectual Property Institute of Canada (IPIC) and IP Osgoode are delighted to announce our 2017 Canadian writing challenge in intellectual property law. Our goal is to further enhance thoughtful and well-researched intellectual property public ...
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TPP May Be Dead – But Its Impact Lingers from www.ip-watch.org Despite the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) being - to all-intents-and-purposes - dead in the water, pursuit of some of the most egregious objectives of the corporate interests driving the TPP agenda rolls on. Pharma is persisting in its ...
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Support IP-Watch: An Appeal To Readers from www.ip-watch.org Intellectual Property Watch needs your financial support. As one of our readers, you know that IP-Watch plays a vital role in international policymaking on intellectual property and innovation through its independent, reliable, balanced and dedicated ...
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Real Estate Search Patent Invalid Under 35 U.S.C. § 101 from docketreport.blogspot.com The court granted plaintiff's motion for summary judgment because the asserted claims of defendants' real estate search patent encompassed unpatentable subject matter and found that the claims were directed toward an abstract idea. "[T ...
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Samsung v. Apple: Design Patent Damages May be Limited to Components from patentlyo.com by Dennis Crouch Samsung v. Apple (Supreme Court 2016) In a unanimous opinion authored by Justice Sotomayor, the Supreme Court has reversed the Federal Circuit in this important design patent damages case. Although the case ...
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Samsung v. Apple: Drilling Down on the Profit Calculations from writtendescription.blogspot.com The Supreme Court unanimously ruled in
Samsung v. Apple today. The opinion was short and straightforward: an article of manufacture under 35 USC 289 (allowing all the profits for an infringing article of manufacture as ...
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Supreme Court agrees with Samsung: Federal Circuit got design patent damages ($399 million for Apple) wrong from www.fosspatents.com It has taken the Supreme Court of the United States less than two months since a mid-October hearing and less than ten pages (counting only the opinion per se, not the two-page syllabus) to determine ...
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They Invented What? (No. 11) from anticipatethis.wordpress.com Originally posted on
Anticipate This!™ | Patent and Trademark Law Blog:
U.S. Pat. No. 6,004,596: Sealed crustless sandwich. Abstract: A sealed crustless sandwich for providing a convenient sandwich without an outer crust which ...
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LifeTech v. Promega Oral Arguments: What is a ‘Substantial Portion’ of the Components from patentlyo.com by Dennis Crouch Life Technologies Corp. v. Promega Corp. (Supreme Court 2016) [LifeTechTranscript] Today the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in LifeTech v. Promega. The case focuses on the statutory interpretation of 35 U.S ...
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