Patent & IP news for March 23, 2017

Telstra loses big in keeping its information confidential in Australian patent dispute from ipkitten.blogspot.com

The AmeriKat is looking forward to  her first
sojourn to AustraliaThe AmeriKat has yet to set a paw in Australia.  This makes her unique amongst most of her English peers, almost all whom have ...

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«Printed by Jouve» it’s not from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Rly?If there ever was a first world problem, then this is it. But whenever (okay, not every single time) I walk to the printer in our office and pick up a freshly printed European ...

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Bayer CropScience AG and Bayer S.A.S. v. Dow Agrosciences LLC (Fed. Cir. 2017) from www.patentdocs.org

By Donald Zuhn -- Last week, in Bayer CropScience AG and Bayer S.A.S. v. Dow Agrosciences LLC, the Federal Circuit determined that the District Court for the District of Delaware did not abuse its ...

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EU Parliament: No Commercial Availability Or Compensation In Marrakesh Implementation from www.ip-watch.org

The European Parliament announced today that its Legal Affairs Committee approved new draft legislation to bring European Union law into line with an international treaty providing copyright exceptions for special format books for visually impaired ...

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Country Names As IP, Geographical Indications, Industrial Designs At WIPO Next Week from www.ip-watch.org

What can you do if you are a country and a private company has registered your name as a trademark, preventing even your own companies from using your name? The issue is expected to be ...

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Voting System Patent Invalid Under 35 U.S.C. § 101 from docketreport.blogspot.com

The court granted defendant's motion to dismiss because the asserted claims of plaintiff’s voting system patent lacked an inventive concept. "According to the complaint, the auto-verification voting system is made of generic computer ...

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Mining Is The New Reading from www.ip-watch.org

Representatives of the research and academic community applauded amendments by the rapporteur to the draft new European Union Copyright Directive in yet another hearing on the megaproject yesterday in Brussels. Especially welcomed was the rapporteur ...

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Will Brexit Block The European Unitary Patent? from www.ip-watch.org

European Patent Office President Benoît Battistelli today in Brussels expressed confidence that the first European Union unitary patent could be granted by the end of this year despite continued delays in the ratification process.But ...

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Supreme Court Preview -- TC Heartland LLC v. Kraft Foods Group Brands LLC from www.patentdocs.org

By Andrew Williams -- Next week, on Monday March 27, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in the TC Heartland LLC v. Kraft Foods Group Brands LLC case. This case involves the interpretation of the ...

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Max Planck loses its appeal for legal fees against the University of Utah from ipbiz.blogspot.com

This part of the University of Utah v. Max-Planck saga over the Tuschl RNAi patents
involved a denial of an appeal by Planck to get attorneys fees:


Defendants-Appellants (“Max Planck”) appeal a decision
of the ...

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