Patent & IP news for July 5, 2017

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

Been away and want to catch up with last week's IP news? No problem! As always, the IPKat is here to bring you a quick summary -- the 154th edition of Never Too Late.
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post image <span class="dquo">"</span>Big Box" not found generic or lacking distinctive character, but still&nbsp;.... from ipkitten.blogspot.com


A trademark invalidation proceeding based on lack of distinctiveness, genericness, and the like, is always challenging. Kat friend Jeremiah Chew from Ascendant Legal reports on a particularly interesting case from Singapore in this regard.

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Broad Venue Discovery Authorized to Determine Existence of Regular and Established Place of&nbsp;Business from docketreport.blogspot.com

​ Following the Supreme Court decision in TC Heartland LLC v. Kraft Foods Group Brands, LLC, (2017), the court partially granted plaintiff's motion to compel venue-related discovery as relevant and proportional to the needs of ...

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Newegg wins appeal at&nbsp;CAFC from ipbiz.blogspot.com


The outcome:


AdjustaCam sued Newegg and dozens of other defendants for patent infringement. Although AdjustaCam voluntarily dismissed most defendants early in the litigation, it continued to litigate against Newegg, including through a Markman order and ...

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Attorney Fee Award: District Court Erred in Not Awarding&nbsp;Fees from patentlyo.com

In another successful appeal by Prof. Mark Lemley, the Federal Circuit has reversed on fees – finding that the E.D. Texas Court (Judge Gilstrap) erred by not awarding fees to the successful defendant Newegg. AdjustaCam ...

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CAFC in Parallel Networks: mistaken premise by district court "clearly erroneous" and constitutes abuse of&nbsp;discretion from ipbiz.blogspot.com



The outcome:


This case returns to us from the United States District
Court for the Eastern District of Texas (district
court), where Parallel Networks, LLC (Parallel Networks)
asserted U.S. Patent No. 6,446,111 ...

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Patents on&nbsp;pot from ipbiz.blogspot.com



Craig Nard has an interesting post titled Pot with patents could plant the seeds of future lawsuits which includes text



As a professor who researches and teaches in the area of patent law, I have ...

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PTAB Life Sciences&nbsp;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. Myriad Genetics, Inc. v. Johns Hopkins University PTAB Petition: IPR2017-01102; filed March ...

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