Patent & IP news for July 7, 2017

BREAKING: Eli Lilly success as UK Supreme Court finds Actavis products directly and indirectly infringe pemetrexed patent from ipkitten.blogspot.com

The Eli Lilly Kat experiencing that Friday feeling....As reported on the IPKat (multiple times), the on-going saga between Eli Lilly and Actavis regarding Lilly's pemetrexed disodium product has kept the English courts busy ...

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The Judicial Oath from www.717madisonplace.com

We often see pictures of judges or justices being sworn-in; but, we rarely have a chance to observe the words of the judicial oath.  Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §453: Each justice or judge ...

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Health: Report Calls For Increased Efforts On TB; WHO Warns About Antibiotic-Resistant Sexually Transmitted Disease from www.ip-watch.org

Tuberculosis is still a deadly killer, and a new report by two humanitarian organisations raises alarm on poor progress on the disease diagnosis and treatment. The report calls for governments to increase efforts to fight ...

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Defendants' Ongoing Participation in Litigation Process Waives Venue Objection​ from docketreport.blogspot.com

Following the Supreme Court decision in TC Heartland LLC v. Kraft Foods Group Brands LLC, 137 S. Ct. 1514 (2017), the magistrate judge recommended denying defendants' motion to dismiss plaintiffs' patent infringement action for improper ...

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Defendants' Motion for Judgment on the Pleadings Under 35 U.S.C. § 101 Waives Venue Objection from docketreport.blogspot.com

Following the Supreme Court decision in TC Heartland LLC v. Kraft Foods Grp. Brands LLC, 137 S. Ct. 1514 (2017), the court denied defendants' motion to dismiss plaintiff's patent infringement action for improper venue ...

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Qualcomm seeking U.S. import ban against iPhones with Intel (or other non-Qualcomm) chips from www.fosspatents.com

Yesterday evening, Qualcomm did something it had already indicated a couple of months ago and finally announced the filing of an ITC complaint (request for an exclusion order, i.e., import ban by the United ...

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G20: Agreement At Least Against Terrorism, But Appears To Target Encryption from www.ip-watch.org

At the G20 meeting in Hamburg today, the German hosts chose a retreat over the fight against terrorism as a warm-up, before turning to the controversial topics of free trade and climate change. Governments were ...

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CAFC explicates "means plus function" in IPCom / HTC case from ipbiz.blogspot.com





IPCom GmbH & Co. (IPCom) is the owner of U.S. Patent
No. 6,879,830 (’830 patent), which describes and
claims a method and system for handing over a mobile
phone call from one base ...

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At Knowtechie: it seems that modern educators prefer professionality and brevity to creativity and students’ own point of view from ipbiz.blogspot.com

There is an interesting post at knowtechie.com titled The conflicting demands of essay writing.

Of interest, the writer (a student) states her professor accused her of plagiarism in the first paper she submitted, but ...

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Lipoic acid and secondary progressive multiple sclerosis from ipbiz.blogspot.com


There are various reports on work by Dr. Rebecca Spain (leading an Oregon Health & Science University research team) on the use of lipoic acid [LA] on patients with secondary progressive multiple sclerosis. The paper is ...

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