Patent & IP news for February 9, 2017

Too big to pay? Employee-inventor compensation in the Court of Appeal from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Can an employer be 'too big to pay' employee-inventor compensation under s40(1) of the Patents Act?  The Court of Appeal has provided guidance on the relevance of this issue to the question of "outstanding ...

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Top Accused Infringers, Patentees, and Law Firms in 2016 from docketreport.blogspot.com

What is a Patent Accusation?A Patent Accusation is a more granular way to measure the volume of litigation activity than counting the number of cases or litigants. As used in this report, the term ...

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Venture Funding Normalizes in 2016 After Strong First Half from www.patentdocs.org

By Donald Zuhn -- Last month, the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), a trade association representing the U.S. venture capital industry, released the results of its Pitchbook-NVCA Venture Monitor report on venture funding for the ...

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When the IP community reaches out to the broader public: the story of IDIA in India from ipkitten.blogspot.com


The primary mission of IPKat is to report to its community about varied IP matters. As a community, however, IPKat will also from time to time report on notable activities by its members. What follows ...

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Eligibility: Explaining the IPO Legislative Proposal from patentlyo.com

by Dennis Crouch Following Bilski, Prof. Rob Merges and I published a paper titled “Operating Efficiently Post-Bilski by Ordering Patent Doctrine Decision-Making” arguing, inter alia, that eligibility decisions are largely out of the normal bailiwick ...

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WIPO Broadcasting Treaty: What Broadcasters Really Want to Protect Their Business From Piracy from www.ip-watch.org

In discussion for close to 16 years at the World Intellectual Property Organization, a treaty aimed at protecting broadcasting organisations’ intellectual property rights has not reached conclusion. Intellectual Property Watch sat down recently with the ...

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Patentability Of Some Biotech Inventions Uncertain In Europe As Examination, Opposition Suspended from www.ip-watch.org

The patentability of plants or animals that have been obtained by natural occurrence such as selection and crossing has been a recurrent issue discussed at the European Patent Office (EPO). A recent notice from the ...

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Patent for Changing the Physical Properties of a Structure Through Concurrently Applied Energies Not Ineligible Under 35 U.S.C. § 101 from docketreport.blogspot.com

Following a bench trial, the court found that plaintiff's patent for changing the physical properties of a structure by concurrently applying multiple energies did not encompass unpatentable subject matter because the asserted claims were ...

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Judgments Without Opinion Continue at the Federal Circuit from patentlyo.com

I had hoped that the Federal Circuit would quickly change its ways, but the court has now issued a new R.36 Judgment in a PTO Appeal: GreatBatch Ltd. v. AVX Corp. (Fed. Cir. 2017 ...

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First Rehearing Request Challenging No-Opinion Judgments from patentlyo.com

by Dennis Crouch LSI v. FLIR (Fed. Cir. 2017) (request for rehearing) [16-1299-leak-surveys-v-flir_combined-rehg] In its newly filed petition for rehearing, Leak Surveys has asked the Federal Circuit to withdraw its Judgment Without Opinion. Leak’s ...

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