Patent & IP news for March 16, 2017

Missouri’s Theatrical Trial Society from patentlyo.com

Although not patent related, I thought I would highlight one of the more interesting aspects of the University of Missouri School of Law — our theater troop: Every year, the law school’s Historical and Theatrical ...

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Thursday Thingies from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Forthcoming IP events! Who is ready?
Going for Gold: 3D Printing, Jewellery and the Future of Intellectual Property Law will be taking place on 24 March 2017 at Bournemouth University. The event will explore the ...

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Judge Bryson Rules That Jury Need Not Be Apprised of Presumption of Validity Standard for Granted Claims from www.patentdocs.org

By Kevin E. Noonan -- This is a time when the eternal verities are routinely called into question, particularly in patent law. For example, Judge Linn can state in a concurrence that, while there is no ...

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Computer Virus Protection Patent Not Invalid Under 35 U.S.C. § 101 from docketreport.blogspot.com

Following a jury trial, the court denied defendant's motion for partial judgment that plaintiff’s malware monitoring patent encompassed unpatentable subject matter because the asserted claims did not lack an inventive concept. "[T]he ...

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Are Trump’s Trademarks Impeachable Intellectual Property? from www.greenpatentblog.com

Followers of this blog may have recognized through the years an implicit belief in a connection between the sometimes intricate rules of intellectual property and larger, high-level issues, principally climate change, but also business, competition ...

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WIPO: China Soon To Overtake US In Patent Filings; Cybersquatting Climbs To New Record from www.ip-watch.org

It’s a question of when, not if, that China will overtake the United Sates as the largest user of international patent systems, says the World Intellectual Property Association, which has also announced a record ...

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Do US Patent Incentives Need To Change To Get The ‘Cancer Moonshot’ Off The Ground? from www.ip-watch.org

In December, the United States Congress passed a bill with a monumental goal: engaging the private sector to work with each other, and with the government, to develop new treatments for cancer. The mechanics of ...

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The text "presumption of validity" can be excluded from patent trial proceedings [!] from ipbiz.blogspot.com



From the decision of Judge Bryson (sitting by designation in ED Texas in Uropep v. Lilly) as to excluding use of the term "presumption of validity" before a patent jury [note text: Lilly contends that ...

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CAFC addresses multiple issues in Mentor Graphics vs. Eve-USA from ipbiz.blogspot.com

The Mentor v. Eve-USA decision by the CAFC encompassed many issues:


We hold there was substantial evidence to support the
jury’s infringement verdict regarding the ’376 patent and
affirm the district court’s denial ...

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Mentor Graphics v. Synopsys: Covering All the Bases from patentlyo.com

Mentor Graphics v. Eve-USA (Synopsys) (Fed. Cir. 2017) [synopsysmentor] The appeal here is somewhat complicated – as reflected by the Federal Circuit’s 42-page opinion.  The complications begin with the founding of EVE, and emulation software ...

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Samsung files petition for Supreme Court review of 2nd Apple case weeks ahead of deadline from www.fosspatents.com

Stalling is something else: even though the Chief Justice of the United States had granted Samsung an extension until March 29 for a petition for writ of certiorari (request for Supreme Court review) relating to ...

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