Patent & IP news for May 4, 2017

PTAB Life Sciences Report -- Part III from www.patentdocs.org

By John Cravero -- About the PTAB Life Sciences Report: Each month we will report on developments at the PTAB involving life sciences patents. InnoPharma Licensing, LLC v AstraZeneca AB PTAB Petition: IPR2017-00900; filed February 17 ...

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New book: tech elites’ disregard for privacy & IP must be managed from ipcloseup.com

Can Internet monopolies – adept at providing at providing information and communications – be prevented from violating the rights of individuals, businesses and IP holders, and impeding innovation? You regulate them like utilities, says Jonathan Taplin in ...

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YouTube And Others Hide Behind Safe Harbours, Bigger Threat Than Piracy, Music Industry Says from www.ip-watch.org

If piracy is still very much a concern of the music industry, the growing shadow of free online streaming platforms, in particular YouTube, has now become a bigger stinger, according to speakers from the industry ...

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USPTO: Statuts of the PTO from patentlyo.com

The USPTO’s Patent Public Advisory Committee (PPAC) meets today (May 4) for its quarterly meeting.  Livestream available [LINK] One of the interesting bits of information is presented below as part of the USPTO’s ...

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WHO Project To Prequalify Biosimilar Cancer Medicines Aims At Increased Affordability from www.ip-watch.org

The World Health Organization announced today that it will launch a pilot project in 2017 for prequalifying cancer biosimilar medicines, with the intent of lowering prices on some of the most expensive cancer treatments.

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WHO Members Urged To Support Resolution Delinking Cancer Drug Prices From R&D Costs from www.ip-watch.org

A group of civil society organisations and health experts have sent a letter to delegates to this month’s annual World Health Assembly urging support for a study on the delinkage of the costs of ...

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No Exclusion of Expert’s Infringement Theory Plausibly Supported by Vague Infringement Contentions from docketreport.blogspot.com

The court denied defendant's motion to strike portions of the report of plaintiff's technical expert that contained previously undisclosed infringement theories. "[Plaintiff] has pointed to words, sentences, and figures in its contentions that ...

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Step one: Find the Gist (Do not Construe) from patentlyo.com

In Blue Spike v. Google, the patentee has asked the Supreme Court to further elucidate its test for eligibility under Mayo, Alice, and Myriad with the following three questions presented. May patentable subject matter under ...

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Pro se appellant Qiang Wang loses to appellees Nir Zuk and Fengmin Gong at CAFC from ipbiz.blogspot.com





Appellant Qiang Wang appeals the district court’s denial
of his motion to vacate a settlement agreement
reached between Mr. Wang and appellees Palo Alto
Networks, Inc., Nir Zuk, and Fengmin Gong (collectively,
“PAN”). Mr ...

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Plant Patent Infringement from www.717madisonplace.com

The Docket Report site highlighted the recent summary judgment order in Regents of the University of California v. California Berry Cultivars.  The case offers a trifecta of fun topics:  plant patent infringement, extraterritoriality, and strawberries ...

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