Patent & IP news for May 5, 2017

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post image Movement afoot in the patent scene in Argentina from ipkitten.blogspot.com


Kat Friend Carlos Castrillo of Castrillo & Castrillo has brought to our attention a promising development with respect to IP practice in Argentina, which should be of interest to all patent practitioners.
Until now, a typical ...

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post image ‘Right to be forgotten’ may potentially apply to all top-level domains, says Swedish Data Protection Authority from ipkitten.blogspot.com

The right to be forgotten (or forgiven) ...Readers with an interest in data protection and privacy will be certainly familiar with the seminal 2014 decision of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU ...

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post image In IN RE: AFFINITY LABS OF TEXAS, LLC, case, CAFC emphasizes that estoppel provisions of pre-AIA section 317(b) are CLAIM-CENTRIC from ipbiz.blogspot.com



The CAFC decision related to cases merged from different patent challenges at the PTAB level:


This appeal arises from two inter partes reexaminations
and an ex parte reexamination of U.S. Patent No.
7,324 ...

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U.S. Trade Representative Issues 2017 Special 301 Report from www.patentdocs.org

By Kevin E. Noonan -- On April 28th, Ambassador Robert Lighthizer, U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), issued the 2017 Special 301 Report. According to the USTR website, "[t]he 2017 Special 301 Report underscores the Administration ...

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Plain Packaging For Tobacco Products: WTO Dispute Settlement Body Allegedly Backs Australia from www.ip-watch.org

According to many media this morning, citing anonymous sources, the World Trade Organization Dispute Settlement Body has reached a decision in a dispute challenging Australia's tobacco product plain packaging law. Australia appears to have ...

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Paper: National Laws, UPOV, Should Be Revised To Ensure Farmers Rights from www.ip-watch.org

The right of farmers to use, exchange and sell farm-saved seeds should be ensured through national laws and a revision of the International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV), so the ...

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Interplay Between Inter Partes Reviews (IPRs) And ITC Section 337 Proceedings from www.ip-watch.org

Since the passage of the America Invents Act (“AIA”) in 2011, Inter Partes Reviews (“IPRs”) before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“PTAB”) have assumed growing importance in patent litigation in federal district courts. Until ...

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Growing Music Streaming Industry Leaves Performers By The Wayside, Speakers Say from www.ip-watch.org

There is growing worry and resentment among music performers around the world about the low level of their remuneration and the fact that they are mostly missing their share of the internet music streaming pie ...

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3D Camera Exposure 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 3D camera exposure patent encompassed unpatentable subject matter. "A patent claim that recites a solution to a problem but not ...

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Court-Agency Allocations of Power and the Limits of Cuozzo from patentlyo.com

Guest post by Saurabh Vishnubhakat, Associate Professor at the Texas A&M; University School of Law and the Texas A&M; College of Engineering.  Although Prof. Vishnubhakat was an advisor at the USPTO until June ...

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