Patent & IP news for April 26, 2017

Fordham 25 (Report 9): FRAND, SEPs & PAE's from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Following on from the Pharma, IP and Competition panel, we stick with competition law issues, but change focus to the tech industry for a session on the latest developments in the perennially controversial area (or ...

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Varsity Brands v Star Atheltica - A Closer Look from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Varsity Brands' registered copyright worksIn March the IPKat reported the breaking news that the long awaited US Supreme Court decision in Star Athletica v Varsity Brands had finally come out.

Now, in the words, of ...

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BREAKING: CJEU in Filmspeler rules that the sale of a multimedia player is a ‘communication to the public’ from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Did you think that the story with copyright, linking, and the right of communication to the public was over? 
Of course not.
Today the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) issued its long-awaited ...

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Biosimilars at the Supreme Court: Argument Preview from writtendescription.blogspot.com

This is a guest post by Katie Mladinich, a J.D. student at Stanford Law School. She received her Ph.D. in microbiology from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

The Supreme Court will hear arguments ...

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CBM Review: Must the Claims Be Expressly Limited to Financial Services? from patentlyo.com

Secure Axcess v. PNC (Fed. Cir. 2017) (en banc petition) In an important February 2017 decision, the Federal Circuit limited the scope of Covered Business Method Review (CBM) — requiring that the claimed invention be focused ...

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#WorldIPDay – IP Osgoode’s Innovation Clinic in the Spotlight from www.iposgoode.ca

This year’s World Intellectual Property Day theme is focused on the role that IP rights play in encouraging innovation and creativity and how the IP system supports innovation. At Osgoode Hall Law School, one ...

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E-Commerce Serving Mostly Rich Economies; UNCTAD Launches Online Platform For Inclusivity from www.ip-watch.org

Electronic commerce is booming but mostly for high income economies, speakers said at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), which is holding a weeklong event on digital trade. Technical assistance is needed ...

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‘Make Sure The Trademark Lawyer Is There’ At The Beginning Says Top Brand Creator from www.ip-watch.org

For World Intellectual Property Day this year, the World Intellectual Property Organization held a discussion on “Innovation in Communication: A State of Mind,” with a creator designer, a brand consultant and a writer as the ...

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Winners Of Ideas4Change For UN Sustainable Development Goals from www.ip-watch.org

Inventions to contribute to the 2030 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals have been rewarded. A reactor which converts carbon dioxide into ethanol, a method for the detection of pesticides and contaminants in food, and renewable ...

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Meritless Claim for Declaration of ANDA Infringement by Possible Future Drug Formulation Justifies Award of Attorney Fees under 35 U.S.C. § 285 from docketreport.blogspot.com

The court granted defendants' motion for attorney fees under 35 U.S.C. § 285 because plaintiffs' infringement claim against defendant's operative ANDA and plaintiff's claim for a declaration of infringement by possible future ...

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Happy World IP Day! from ipkitten.blogspot.com

The AmeriKat is currently writing this post at 37,000 feet somewhere off the east coast of the US. As eye-rolling as this may sound, she loves these moments where she can look towards the ...

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PTAB Must Justify Each of its Obviousness Conclusions from patentlyo.com

Securus Tech v. Global Tel*Link (Fed. Cir. 2017) In this nonprecedential decision by Judge Chen, the Federal Circuit has partially-vacated and remanded – finding that the Board (PTAB) had failed to explain its obviousness decision ...

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US Government Grants Exclusive Licence On Zika Patent Over Objection Of Civil Society from www.ip-watch.org

The United States Department of Defense has announced that it intends to grant Sanofi Pasteur, a French pharmaceutical corporation, exclusive rights to develop a vaccine for the Zika virus. The decision follows outcry from the ...

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WTO IP Division Director’s Thoughts On World IP Day from www.ip-watch.org

Antony Taubman, director of the World Trade Organization Intellectual Property Division, has been in a good position to view the world and intellectual property for some time. Today, designated as World IP Day, we caught ...

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On-line paraphrasing software and "word salads" from ipbiz.blogspot.com



In the short blip about "plagiarism" by then-Judge Gorsuch, one issue was that the
Judge cited fundamental references, rather than later references which cited
the fundamental references.

A more recent post on the problem of ...

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They Invented What? (No. 13) from anticipatethis.wordpress.com

Originally posted on Anticipate This!™ | Patent and Trademark Law Blog:
U.S. Pat. No.6,637,447:  Beerbrella.   We claim: 1. A combined beverage container and shading apparatus, comprising: a beverage container, for containing a ...

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What is IP For? Experiments in Lay and Expert Perceptions from patentlyo.com

I just read an interesting short article from Prof Gregory Mandel (Temple) titled What is IP For? Experiments in Lay and Expert Perceptions [available here].  Part of the papers includes survey results from both lay ...

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