Patent & IP news for May 16, 2017

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post image Remarks By Director Michelle K. Lee at the George Washington University School of Law from patentlyo.com

The following is an excerpt from PTO Director Michelle Lee’s keynote address today, at George Washington University Law School. – DC How do we continue to incentivize … incredible innovations? First, we must ensure that the ...

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post image Never Too Late: If you missed the IPKat last week! from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Never miss out with Never Too LateToo busy to keep up with all the IPKat posts last week? No problem! Here is the 147th edition of Never Too Late to bring you up to ...

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post image AIPLA On Board with Statutory Reform of 101 from patentlyo.com

The AIPLA has now offered its legislative proposal for rewriting 35 U.S.C. § 101 that is quite close to that offered by the IPO: Inventions Patentable (a) Eligible Subject Matter.—Whoever invents or discovers ...

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USPTO Files Response Brief in In re Janssen Biotech, Inc. & New York University from www.patentdocs.org

By Grantland Drutchas -- The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has now filed its response brief in In re: Janssen Biotech, Inc., New York University, No. 2017-1257 (Fed. Cir.), the Federal Circuit appeal involving U ...

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Barcelona beckoning: Last call for registration for the 2017 INTA Annual Meeting from ipkitten.blogspot.com


This Kat reckons that a good number of Kat readers are preparing to make their way to Barcelona for the 2017 INTA Annual Meeting, which will begin this Saturday. INTA tells IPKat that the number ...

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IPR Petition Response => Claim Construction Disclaimer from patentlyo.com

Aylus Networks v. Apple (Fed. Cir. 2017) The court here holds that claim construction “prosecution disclaimer” applies to statements made by the patentee in a preliminary response to an IPR proceeding.  This holding makes sense ...

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Investor-State Provisions Mean EU Cannot Conclude Singapore Trade Deal Alone, EU Court Says from www.ip-watch.org

The European Union free trade agreement with Singapore cannot be concluded by the European Union alone, at least not in its current form, according to an opinion (2/2015, ECLI:EU:C:2016:992) handed ...

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IP-Watch Guide To 2017 World Health Assembly: Election, Budget, Antibiotics, Cancer, R&D And More from www.ip-watch.org

In a few days, the 70th World Health Assembly will open its doors in Geneva with a marathon agenda, and over 4,000 registered delegates. The election of a new director general, the approval of ...

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Moot the Dispute? Not from patentlyo.com

ArcelorMittal v. AK Steel Corp. (Fed. Cir. 2017) In a split decision, the Federal Circuit has affirmed a district court judgment invalidating ArcelorMittal’s U.S. Patent No. RE44,153 (claim 24 and 25).  The ...

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Intel supports FTC against Qualcomm, says antitrust investigations enabled its new deal with Apple from www.fosspatents.com

On Friday, the FTC opposed Qualcomm's motion to dismiss the pending antitrust litigation in the Northern District of California, and got support from several amici curiae, with Samsung stressing that it is harmed by ...

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Shore v. Lee from patentlyo.com

In Shore v. Lee, the Federal Circuit affirmed a PTAB finding without opinion.  Shore’s petition to the Supreme Court asks whether “the Federal Circuit’s affirmance without opinion of the PTO’s rejection of ...

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A 2-1 CAFC majority finds the absence of an "unconditional" covenent not to sue and thus, because no mootness, subject matter jurisdiction from ipbiz.blogspot.com



The decision of Judge Robinson of D. Del. in Arcelormittal vs. AK Steel was affirmed in a 2-1 vote:


Plaintiffs sued Defendants in 2010 for infringing U.S.
Patent No. 6,296,805.

After our ...

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Western tertiary education for Chinese and Indian nationals from ipbiz.blogspot.com

Wikipedia defines tertiary education in the following way: Tertiary education, also referred to as third stage, third level, and post-secondary education, is the educational level following the completion of a school providing a secondary education ...

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Valuing patents? from ipbiz.blogspot.com


The article in the NLJ does not explicitly mention patent citation analysis for valuation, but does state


Valuation sometimes requires something other than a generalized categorization of value. Valuing patents monetarily can often be difficult ...

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AIPLA Proposes Legislative Changes to 35 U.S.C. § 101 from www.patentdocs.org

By Kevin E. Noonan -- Like the Intellectual Property Owners (see "What to Do about Section 101? IPO Provides Its Answer") and the IP Law Section of the American Bar Association (see "ABA IP Law Section ...

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