Patent & IP news for July 6, 2017

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post image Claim Construction: Sweeping Reasonableness Under the Rug from patentlyo.com

by Dennis Crouch Hitachi Metals v. Alliance of Rare-Earth Permanent Magnet Industry (Fed. Cir. 2017) (nonprecedential decision) Rare-earth magnets are the strongest commercially available permanent magnets.  Hitachi’s U.S. Patent Nos. 6,491,765 ...

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post image Changes to the Singapore copyright system: an update on the recent public consultations from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Singapore viewLast year The IPKat reported that Singapore Government had launched a public consultation regarding a forthcoming review of its copyright law.
How have things developed ever since? Katfriend Edoardo Di Maggio (J.D ...

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post image Bundesgerichtshof's landmark ruling to hook extra-territorial patent infringement in Germany from ipkitten.blogspot.com

The AmeriKat's pondering, contemplative
face after a fevered sleep
After a restless night's sleep laced with vivid nightmares, including about how to correctly describe the Bundesgerichtshof for non-German readers, the AmeriKat has managed ...

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WIPO Patent Law Committee Looks At Health, Quality from www.ip-watch.org

Discussions carried out at the World Intellectual Property Organization patent law committee this week reflect strong interest for the subjects but from different angles. Topics such as how patents may affect access to medicines are ...

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Discussion of Barnicle's false tweet of the death of Pete Frates from ipbiz.blogspot.com


A post titled Reimer: After Pete Frates flub, it's time for a retelling of Mike Barnicle's big plagiarism scandal discusses the recent matter of Mike Barnicle's erroneous tweet that Pete Frates was ...

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KEI Recommends WIPO Study On Running Royalties As Limitation On Remedies from www.ip-watch.org

Nonprofit group Knowledge Ecology International (KEI) has requested a study by the World Intellectual Property Organization on the case law of the non-voluntary use of patents as a limitation on remedies, Andrew Goldman, counsel for ...

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Multimedia Network System 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 multimedia network system patent encompassed unpatentable subject matter and found that the claims lacked an inventive concept. "Considered individually, each ...

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CAFC gives mixed decision in Hitachi v. Alliance from ipbiz.blogspot.com


The outcome



Hitachi Metals, Ltd. (“Hitachi”) appeals from final
written decisions of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
(“the PTO”) Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“the Board”)
in two inter partes reviews (“IPRs”), concluding ...

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ITU Launches Cybersecurity Index 2017 from www.ip-watch.org

The UN International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has published the Global Cybersecurity Index 2017 (GCI-2017). The GCI-2017, the second in this index series, measures the commitments of the 193 member states of the ITU to cybersecurity ...

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EU Parliament Adopts Marrakesh Treaty; Blind Union Prepared To Fight Publisher ‘Compensation’ from www.ip-watch.org

The European Parliament today with over 600 votes adopted the legal instruments to ratify the Marrakesh Treaty on access to reading material for the visually impaired. The treaty, adopted by the members of the World ...

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Apple's published US application 20170193282, Presence Sensing from ipbiz.blogspot.com


The one published claim:

A method of operating a computing device to provide presence based functionality, comprising:
receiving at least one image at the computing device from an image capture device associated with the computing ...

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#ISHTIP 2017 – Intellectual Property as Circulation and Control from www.iposgoode.ca

The International Society for the History and Theory of Intellectual Property (ISHTIP) will be holding its annual workshop in Toronto, July 12th-14th, 2017. Organized by the Centre for Innovation law and Policy at the University ...

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WIPO Patent Law Committee Agrees On Future Work: Exceptions, Quality, Health, Confidentiality, Tech Transfer from www.ip-watch.org

General satisfaction was expressed today at the World Intellectual Property Organization as members of the patent law committee agreed on a future work programme. That is an exercise that they could not complete in December ...

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G20: Security, Trade, Climate, Trump Diplomacy Overshadow Health, IT, Innovation from www.ip-watch.org

On the eve of the G20 meeting in Hamburg, Germany, German politicians described positions on free trade and climate as the most difficult issues. Expectations from civil society groups in the G20 results are modest ...

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