Trader keeps the [good] faith in a spare part in trademark doublebill from ipkitten.blogspot.com Disputes involving the IP rights of spare parts dealers have challenged courts and registries for decades. An interesting instance with respect to the use and rightful proprietorship of a registered trademark occurred recently in Singapore ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
Never too late from ipkitten.blogspot.com Been away and want to catch up on last week's IP news? No problem! As always, the IPKat is here to bring you a quick summary -- the 135th edition of Never Too Late. * Playing ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
Life Technologies Corp. v. Promega Corp. (2017) from www.patentdocs.org By Donald Zuhn -- Earlier today, in Life Technologies Corp. v. Promega Corp., the Supreme Court reversed a determination by the Federal Circuit that there are circumstances in which a party may be liable under § 271 ...
Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
Split Over DMCA Safe Harbour Continues To Roil US Copyright Office Reform Efforts from www.ip-watch.org Internet service providers and copyright owners remain deeply divided over the effectiveness of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act safe harbour provisions, they said in additional submissions to a US Copyright Office inquiry.
Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
PTAB: A written decision on “every claim challenged” from patentlyo.com SAS Institute v. Lee (Supreme Court 2017) New petition for writ of certiorari from SAS asks the following question: Does 35 U.S.C. § 318(a), which provides that the Patent Trial and Appeal Board ...
Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
New WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement Seen Benefiting Developing Nations, Global Trade from www.ip-watch.org Multilateral institutions have received a lift with the realization of the World Trade Organization’s Trade Facilitation Agreement that is expected to provide a boost to sluggish international commerce by cutting out clogging regulations. Rwanda ...
Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
Side Event On UN High-Level Panel On Access To Medicines Next Week At WTO from www.ip-watch.org As the World Trade Organization intellectual property committee meeting next week is expected to discuss the report of the United Nations Secretary General’s High-Level Panel on Access to Medicines next week, a group of ...
Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
US Business, Government Work To Bring Down ‘Dangerous’ UN Panel Report On Access To Medicines – And Change The Debate In Geneva from www.ip-watch.org Calling it flawed and narrow and seemingly threatened by its contents, the leading United States business group and US government IP specialists are working to limit the impact of a recent United Nations report that ...
Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
Longer License Term Does Not Support Expert’s Increase in Royalty Rate from docketreport.blogspot.com The court granted defendant's motion to exclude the testimony of plaintiff's damages expert regarding a royalty rate as unreliable for double-counting the duration of the rate. "[The expert] adjusts the hypothetical royalty rate ...
Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
Ex Parte Schulhauser from www.717madisonplace.com The IPO has scheduled for March 1, 2017 what looks to be an interesting seminar on the PTAB’s recent precedential decision in Ex Parte Schulhauser: [Link] Here is a list of the PTAB’s ...
Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
Osgoode’s Oxford IP Moot Team Visits the SCC from www.iposgoode.ca Osgoode’s Oxford International Intellectual Property Moot team recently met with Madam Justice Rosalie Abella at the Supreme Court of Canada on February 22, 2017. During the meeting, Madam Justice Abella (named Global Jurist of ...
Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
German-Backed Report Lays Out Strategy For R&D Into New Antibiotics from www.ip-watch.org In the face of the lack of attractiveness of investing in research for new antibiotics for the pharmaceutical industry, and the general lack of funding for research and development for novel antibiotics, a new report ...
Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
Osgoode and CIGI Announce New Partnership in Fostering Innovation from www.iposgoode.ca Re-posted below is a media release from York University. TORONTO, February 23, 2017 – IP Osgoode, the celebrated intellectual property law and technology program at York University’s Osgoode Hall Law School, and the International Law ...
Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
Burneko discusses plagiarism at SB Nation from ipbiz.blogspot.com Albert Burneko commented on a plagiarism issue at SB Nation, in which an "unpaid" provider to SB Nation copied text from somewhere else.
See if you can follow the logic, here, such as it is ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook