Into copyright? Two event reminders from ipkitten.blogspot.com Summer Kat-fun is always copyright funIf you happen to be in London over the next few days, and fancy some copyright fun, here are two events for you:The temporary copies exception and the ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
Plaintiff's Pattern of Filing Serial Litigation and Voluntarily Dismissing Cases Involving § 101 Challenge Justifies Award of Attorney Fees from docketreport.blogspot.com Following a dismissal and covenant not to sue while defendant's 35 U.S.C. § 101 motion was pending, the court granted defendant's motion for attorney fees under 35 U.S.C. § 285 because ...
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WIPO, A Well-Funded UN Agency, Presents Its Next Budget To Members from www.ip-watch.org The finances of the World Intellectual Property Organization are healthy to say the least. The United Nations organisation, the only one able to feed its budget from user fees, shows a net result of over ...
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Walmart's Exceptional Litigation Conduct and Willful Trademark Infringement Warrant Award of $1.5M in Attorney Fees from docketreport.blogspot.com In a trademark case, the court awarded plaintiff $1,554,028.45 for attorney fees against a retail superstore defendant because defendant's litigation conduct and willful infringement made the case exceptional. "First, there has ...
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BRI: Even under Means Plus Function Claims Limited by Structure Recited in Specification from patentlyo.com by Dennis Crouch IPCom v. HTC (Fed. Cir. 2017) After IPCom sued HTC for infringing its U.S. Patent No. 6,879,830, HTC countered with its PTO request for inter partes reexamination of the ...
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News from Abroad -- EPO Lifts Stays of Proceedings Following Implementation of New Plant Patent-Eligibility Rules from www.patentdocs.org On 3 July, the European Patent Office (EPO) lifted its stays of proceedings on cases that had been held in abeyance pending new rules on the patent-eligibility of plant-related subject matter. Following an intervention by ...
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