Patent & IP news for December 9, 2016

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

This kitten is delighted to bring you the 125th edition of Never Too Late!Busy week? Luckily is Friday!!!
"tronc"--the most bizarre rebranding of 2016?Neil Wilkof ruminates the most bizarre rebranding strategy: from ...

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In re Nuvasive (Fed. Cir. 2016) from www.patentdocs.org

By Kevin E. Noonan -- In a precedential decision the Federal Circuit vacated and remanded a Patent Trial and Appeal Board decision invalidating claims from Nuvasive's U.S. Patent No. 8,361,156 in an ...

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Open Source Software A Core Competency For Effective Tech M&A from www.ip-watch.org

Imagine your company just acquired its competitor for $100 million. Now imagine the company’s most important asset – its proprietary software – is subject to third-party license conditions that require the proprietary software to be distributed ...

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Subscriber Alert: UNAIDS Board Carries Forward Multi-Agency Work On IP Barriers To Medicines Access from www.ip-watch.org

An extended meeting of the Board of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) concluded today with a set of decisions (attached) showing that the Board went farther than just noting the UNAIDS ...

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PTO cites lack of evidence of “routine” and “conventional” to support PTAB’s confirmation of claims under §101 from www.717madisonplace.com

I have been listening to the oral argument of the Ameranth v. Apple case.  In the underlying PTAB decision, the PTAB granted CBM review  of some claims and denied CBM review of other claims.  Those ...

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