Patent & IP news for January 4, 2017

Top Stories of 2016: #11 to #15 from www.patentdocs.org

By Donald Zuhn –- After reflecting upon the events of the past twelve months, Patent Docs presents its tenth annual list of top patent stories. For 2016, we identified twenty stories that were covered on Patent ...

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Electromagnetic Identification Patents Invalid Under 35 U.S.C. § 101 from docketreport.blogspot.com

The court granted defendant's motion for judgment on the pleadings because the asserted claims of plaintiff’s electromagnetic user identification patents encompassed unpatentable subject matter and found that the claims were directed toward an ...

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Do later citations to an earlier patent prove monetary value? from ipbiz.blogspot.com


In November 2016, the Hon. Jan E. DuBois of ED Pa wrote of patent citation analysis:


However, the forward citation method of analysis has been recognized in the academic literature
as reliable since the 1990s ...

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Judge Robinson denies motion of Sanofi and Regeneron in Praluent/cholesterol case from ipbiz.blogspot.com

Reuters reported that Judge Sue Robinson denied a motion made by Sanofi and Regeneron
to overturn an unfavorable verdict.

link: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-sanofi-fr-amgen-idUSKBN14N1VD

In the realm of the miscellaneous, note the post ...

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TC Heartland from www.717madisonplace.com

With certiorari having been granted in the TC Heartland case, I was interested to learn that spreading the Eastern District of Texas’ workload across more inexperienced judges in other districts might actually result in more ...

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