Patent & IP news for April 23, 2017

Should investment in innovation worry about geographic dispersion? Steve Case says "yes", but what about Pareto? from ipkitten.blogspot.com


Does it matter that most innovative activity, at least in the United States, is taking place in a small number of VC-funded locations? Steve Case seems to think so. For Kat readers who may not ...

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The Creative Power Of Musical Borrowing And Efforts To Control It from www.ip-watch.org

Duke Today writes: To borrow from Cole Porter, Tchaikovsky did it. Beethoven did it. Even Robert Johnson and Ray Charles did it. Creative masters all, they each appropriated music from others in their works and ...

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Coe v. U.S. from www.717madisonplace.com

I was researching an issue in the Chisum treatise the other day and stumbled upon the Coe v. U.S. case.  I thought it might be of historical interest to some.  It was a rare ...

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Was the CRISPR interference outcome foreseeable? from ipbiz.blogspot.com


A comment about the CRISPR patent interference battle appeared on Patent Docs on 20 April 2017:




The decisive lack of "Reasonable Expectation of Success" finding whereby inventive skill would have been required to transition the ...

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Conference & CLE Calendar from www.patentdocs.org

April 25, 2017 - "Having Your AIA Cake and Eating It Too: Recent Decisions Addressing the Scope of AIA Estoppel" (Federal Circuit Bar Association) - 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm (ET) April 26, 2017 - Post-argument ...

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Ali v. Carnegie Institution of Washington (Fed. Cir. 2017) from www.patentdocs.org

By Kevin E. Noonan -- It has been the experience of more than a few first-year law students taking Civil Procedure I that the only correct answer to a complex procedural problem is that there is ...

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