Patent & IP news for June 30, 2017

Book Review: The Law of Trade Secret Litigation Under the Uniform Trade Secrets Act from ipkitten.blogspot.com

It arrived in the dead of night, cloaked in appropriate secrecy and ensconced in a black and gold gloss binding. Or at least, that's how I imagined The Law of Trade Secret Litigation Under ...

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“Correction” of expiry dates for granted SPCs now finally possible in Italy...sometimes from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Feeling a bit sleepy this Friday?
Here is some SPC law to perk you upFor those IP lawyers who are craving a scoop of SPC news, you have Micaela Modiano (Modiano & Partners) to thank ...

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Chanel victorious in California court battle against Amazon sellers of counterfeit goods from ipkitten.blogspot.com


Last week Chanel settled a dispute with at least 24 Amazon sellers who had been selling counterfeit goods.

According to WWD, a "Californian judge decreed that the sellers would have to cease selling the counterfeit ...

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Unpatentability Under 35 U.S.C. § 101 Cannot be Determined Solely From Provisional Application​ from docketreport.blogspot.com

The court denied defendants' motion for summary judgment on the ground that plaintiff’s oxygen system patent encompassed unpatentable subject matter because defendants relied on a provisional application to establish that the asserted claims were ...

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Does the PTO have a Right to Intervene in IPR Appeals? from patentlyo.com

Knowles Electronics v. Matal (Fed. Cir. 2017) In an interesting sua sponte order, the Federal Circuit has demanded briefing on whether the USPTO has the right to intervene in an appeal from an inter partes ...

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HBR proposal: "a prelitigation review board " from ipbiz.blogspot.com

From the Harvard Business Review: We suggest a prelitigation review board that would examine infringement claims up front and provide preliminary assessments of their merits. The low-cost and efficient initial review would follow the case ...

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Congratulations to the Hon. Marshall Rothstein on His Appointment as a Companion of the #OrderofCanada! from www.iposgoode.ca

Our warmest congratulations to the Honourable Marshall Rothstein, CC, QC, who has been appointed a Companion of the Order of Canada in the honours list issued from Rideau Hall today. The citation is for “his ...

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D. Delaware finds Enzo's US 6,992,180 invalid for lack of enablement from ipbiz.blogspot.com


Genomeweb on 29 June 2017 posted:


Enzo Biochem said today [June 29] that one of its patents at the center of a long-running intellectual property dispute has been found invalid by a federal judge.

US ...

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Innovator Industries Claim Win In Canadian High Court Patent Ruling from www.ip-watch.org

The Canadian Supreme Court today upheld a pharmaceutical industry appeal against a tool used in certain cases to overturn patents on products that could be seen as not meriting a patent monopoly. The ruling could ...

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EU General Court finds bad faith in VENMO trade mark dispute from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Venmo is a mobile payment service which is now owned by PayPal. It allows users to transfer money between one another using a mobile phone app or web interface. It is fairly well known in ...

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