Around the IP Blogs from ipkitten.blogspot.com Here are some recent highlights from around the IP blogosphere:
1709 blog: Andy Warhol Foundation Asks SDNY to Declare Prince Series Not InfringingThe Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts filed a suit against ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
The popular China copyright monitoring website 101 from ipkitten.blogspot.com This Chinese Kat is always delighted to receive (increasingly frequent) requests from foreign friends asking details of specific IP developments in China.
A few days ago a friend located in the Middle East asked me ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
Toings and Froings: Kat Team Changes from ipkitten.blogspot.com It's that time of year again, when we announce a new litter of IPKat members.
Stephen JonesToings:
Mathilde Pavis
Stephen Jones joins as a GuestKat. Stephen has an IP pedigree to admire, including having ...
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No real consensus yet on CBM Sunsetting from patentlyo.com Once initiated, CBMs are identical to post-grant reviews (PGR) – allowing for patents to be challenged on any patentability grounds. As implemented, this includes 101 and 112 challenges in addition to the more traditional obviousness and ...
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Twitter prevails over Easyweb at CAFC from ipbiz.blogspot.com Easyweb lost under 35 USC 101:
EasyWeb appeals the district court’s grant of summary judgment of patent ineligibility under 35 U.S.C. § 101 and in the alternative, non-infringement. Because all asserted claims recite ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
Br*x*t and brands – out of the EU in 680 days from ipkitten.blogspot.com Don't even say the b-word ...What will happen to IP rights in a post-Brexit world? This is a question that has been daunting IP professionals for a few months now ... and to which no ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
Where are the women? Supreme Court hosts London launch of ChIPs with call to action to advance women in tech, law and policy from ipkitten.blogspot.com The AmeriKat supporting one of her
fellow women patent litigatorsFor those who know the AmeriKat, they know that one of her huge passions is championing and supporting women in patent law. Having often been ...
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PTAB Life Sciences Report 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. Mylan Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. Cosmo Technologies Ltd. PTAB Petition: IPR2017-01034; filed March ...
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“NPEs generate higher damages awards,” 2017 litigation study finds from ipcloseup.com The disparity in patent damages awards between non-practicing and practicing entities favors NPEs and is growing wider. These findings, counter-intuitive to some, are part of the useful, just-published report from PwC, 2017 Patent Litigation Study ...
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International IP Treaties Bring Tension in Africa’s Homegrown Knowledge Governance from www.ip-watch.org CAPE TOWN, South Africa -- The belief that intellectual property promotes foreign direct investment and international trade has brought tension in African countries’ ability to eliminate trade barriers, and to ensure local governments are able to ...
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How The CIA WikiLeaks Disclosure Diverts Attention From Big Picture from www.ip-watch.org The WikiLeaks publication of hacking tools and malware the CIA has allegedly used continues to stir the ire and fear of those concerned about the possible risk of the US government’s backdoor access to ...
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IPR Estoppel Applies to Non-Instituted Grounds Included in a Petition Unless the Decision Not to Institute was Purely Procedural from docketreport.blogspot.com The magistrate judge recommended partially granting plaintiff's motion for summary judgment that IPR estoppel barred defendant from asserting certain prior art references and rejected the argument that IPR estoppel applied only to defenses raised ...
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IPR Estoppel Applies to “Subsets” of Prior Art Groups That the Petitioner Raised or Could have Raised During IPR from docketreport.blogspot.com The magistrate judge recommended partially granting plaintiff's motion for summary judgment that IPR estoppel barred defendant from asserting certain "subsets" of prior art groups previously asserted as unpatentability grounds in the IPR. "[T]he ...
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EasyWeb => Easy 101 Invalidation from patentlyo.com EasyWeb v. Twitter (Fed. Cir. 2017) (nonprecedential opinion) In this case, the appellate court affirmed summary judgment that all of the asserted claims of five EasyWeb patents are ineligible under the Mayo/Alice interpretation of ...
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