Patent & IP news for July 13, 2017

The Smoking Gun - Is IP research the next tobacco scandal? from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Making the rounds of the interwebs in the current news cycle is the revelation that Google has spent millions on funding academic research on areas such as IP, anti-trust and other relevant public policy topics ...

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Theo Savvides (1968-2017) from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Theo SavvidesIt is with huge sadness that the IPKat team reports the sudden death of Theo Savvides on Monday following a cycling accident on holiday in France.

Theo was a talented lawyer, kind friend ...

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Access To Medicines For All By 2030: New WHO Strategic Framework Sets Vision from www.ip-watch.org

Access to affordable and quality medicines for all is one of the major commitments of the World Health Organization, and its new medicines and health products strategic framework for the next 15 years calls for ...

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WIPO’s Gurry: Artificial Intelligence, Gene Editing Latest Winners In Innovation from www.ip-watch.org

The main winners of innovation are technologies that enable market application, with gene editing and artificial intelligence as two examples, Francis Gurry, director general of the World Intellectual Property Organization, told a panel discussion last ...

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UN Report On Connectivity Highlights Role Of E-Commerce, Big Data from www.ip-watch.org

Access to artificial intelligence, big data, FinTech, eHealth, and digital connectivity are increasingly providing individuals around the world with access to vital resources such as employment opportunities, online banking and healthcare, according to a United ...

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USPTO Elijah J. McCoy Detroit Office Grand Opening Gala. from anticipatethis.wordpress.com

Originally posted on Anticipate This!™ | Patent and Trademark Law Blog:
JW Note:  Attended the USPTO Elijah J. McCoy Detroit Office Grand Opening Gala yesterday evening at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, MI.  Met a ...

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Rule 12 Motion to Dismiss Under 35 U.S.C. § 101 Waives Venue Challenge Despite Purported Reservation of Right to Challenge Venue in Defendant’s Answer​ from docketreport.blogspot.com

The magistrate judge recommended denying defendant's motion to dismiss plaintiff's patent infringement action for improper venue and rejected defendant's argument that it preserved its venue challenge in its answer. "[Defendant] argues that ...

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Presenting at Ashland University on IP Law for Business and Entrepreneurs – August 8, 2017. from anticipatethis.wordpress.com

The Braintree Business Development Center is sponsoring a program on intellectual property protection, covering inventions, patents, trademarks, and copyrights on Tuesday, August 8, 2017 from 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM.  The seminar will ...

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Presenting at Tolloty Technology Incubator on IP Law for Business and Entrepreneurs – August 3, 2017. from anticipatethis.wordpress.com

PATENTLY GOOD IDEAS: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW FOR ENTREPRENEURS AND BUSINESS The Small Business Development Center at Kent State Tuscarawas will host a program on intellectual property protection, covering inventions, patents, trademarks and copyrights on Thursday ...

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Presenting to Muskegon Inventors Network on IP Law for Business and Entrepreneurs – July 26, 2017. from anticipatethis.wordpress.com

PATENTLY GOOD IDEAS: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW FOR ENTREPRENEURS AND BUSINESS The Muskegon Inventors Network (MIN) will host a program on intellectual property protection, covering inventions, patents, trademarks and copyrights on Wednesday, July 26, 2017 from ...

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Judge Dyk on the Supreme Court and Patent Law, with Responses from writtendescription.blogspot.com

Judge Timothy Dyk of the Federal Circuit has long welcomed the Supreme Court's involvement in patent law—see, e.g., essays in 2008 and 2014. In a new Chicago-Kent symposium essay, he states that ...

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Outsourcing as plagiarism? from ipbiz.blogspot.com


From a post about cheating at University College Cork (Ireland):


Students from the business information systems course are alleged to have “outsourced” key aspects of a final-year project which involved computer coding, according to college ...

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Intermediaries Could Be Made Liable In EU Copyright Legislation from www.ip-watch.org

Positions on the new draft European Union Copyright Directive lie so far apart in the European Parliament that compromise before an expected October vote seems nearly impossible. Critics of a new special copyright for press ...

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