Patent & IP news for February 24, 2017

Swedish Patent and Market Court of Appeal orders block of The Pirate Bay and Swefilmer from ipkitten.blogspot.com

The Pirate Bay blocked in Sweden? Yes, this is indeed what the Swedish Patent and Market Court of Appeal has ordered a major Swedish access provider to do in a recent decision.
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The Enforcement Directive permits punitive damages - or does it? from ipkitten.blogspot.com

The common reading of the ECJ's (yes) recent judgment in case C-367/15 - OTK is that the Enforcement Directive (Directive 2004/48) does not compel Member States to introduce punitive damages for infringement of ...

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Fitbit, Inc. v. AliphCom (N.D. Cal. 2017) from www.patentdocs.org

Software Patent Directed to Pairing Activity Trackers to a Device Considered Patent-Eligible By Joseph Herndon -- In the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California (San Jose Division), Fitbit, Inc., sued Aliphcom (d ...

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Samsung is now taking the second Apple v. Samsung patent case to the Supreme Court from www.fosspatents.com

The first Apple v. Samsung case went all the way up to the Supreme Court and has meanwhile gone all the way back to the Northern District of California to take a new look at ...

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More Transparency In Medical Product Prices Discussed At Event from www.ip-watch.org

The lack of access to medical products has spread from being a developing country problem to a global one as prices are now too high even for developed country patients and health systems for some ...

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Does the Supreme Court Understand Patent Law? from writtendescription.blogspot.com

It's been a busy semester, but I thought I would note briefly a provocative essay that just came across my feed by Greg Reilly (Chicago Kent): How Can the Supreme Court Not "Understand" Patent ...

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WIPO Committee On Protection Of Folklore: Shall We Dance? from www.ip-watch.org

It is generally held that traditional cultural expressions reflect communities’ cultural and social background and include elements of their heritage. For indigenous and local communities, those expressions of their traditional culture are vital. Next week ...

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It’s a Good Idea to Actually Own the Patents you Sue on from patentlyo.com

The following is a guest post by Bryan Wheelock, Principal at Harness, Dickey & Pierce.  He originally published it on the HDP Blog. – Dennis In National Oilwell Varco, L.P. v. Omron Oilfield and Marine, Inc ...

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PMC Signal Processing Patents Not Ineligible Under 35 U.S.C. § 101 from docketreport.blogspot.com

The magistrate judge recommended denying defendant's motion to dismiss on the ground that plaintiff’s signal processing patents encompassed unpatentable subject matter because the asserted claims were not directed toward an abstract idea. "[Defendant ...

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