Patent & IP news for July 14, 2017

Freedom of panorama in Italy: does it exist? from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Arnaldo Pomodoro's Sfera Grande,
located in Pesaro (Marche)Until recently the exception in the InfoSoc Directive (Article 5(3)(h)) allowing so called ‘freedom of panorama’ was an obscure and little discussed - if not ...

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The special world of pesticide products, counterfeits and parallel imports from ipkitten.blogspot.com


Counterfeit products that threaten public health and safety are a particular concern. Kat Friend Dr. Marina Perraki discusses the regulation of counterfeit pesticides, and how the matter was dealt with by the Greek courts.

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Event Report: Can Crowdsourcing Solve the Orphan Works Problem? from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Crowdsourcing is one of the great innovations of the 21st century, but can it help address the issue of diligent search in the use of orphan works? The challenge of unlocking access to copyright works ...

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New CJEU reference ... asking whether InfoSoc Directive envisages digital exhaustion from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Yes, at last the question that has been daunting copyright enthusiasts for a long time - at least since the 2012 decision of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in UsedSoft, C-128/11 ...

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RWS Inovia Releases 2017 Report on Global Patent Trends from www.patentdocs.org

By Donald Zuhn -- Patent services provider RWS inovia recently released its eighth annual report on global patent and IP trends. In compiling "The 2017 U.S. Global Patent & IP Trends Indicator," RWS inovia, which produces ...

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Preparation of Consolidated Financial Statements Does Not Demonstrate That Profits of Subsidiary Inexorably Flow to Parent Patentee​ from docketreport.blogspot.com

The court granted defendant's motion for summary judgment that plaintiff was not entitled to damages based on its subsidiary's lost profits and rejected plaintiff's inexorable flow argument. "The Federal Circuit has not ...

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The CAFC does colons and semicolons in Securus from ipbiz.blogspot.com

From the decision:


Securus contends that the Board erred in construing
the access attempt limitation because (1) the limitation is
followed by a colon and only the prompting step follows
that colon, while the other ...

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Countdown to Aqua Products from www.717madisonplace.com

The Federal Circuit’s en banc decision in In re Aqua Products should be out soon.  Aqua challenges the Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s amendment procedures, which require the patentee to demonstrate that amended ...

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Grady asks: Does the world need any public intellectuals who are lawyers? from ipbiz.blogspot.com


In a post titled How To Insult AI And Recognize Its Strength, All In One Breath , Ken Grady disparages the idea that legal academics are intellectuals:


Many outside the legal profession believe that lawyers, particularly ...

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Chelsea Clinton sued for copyright infringement from ipbiz.blogspot.com



The Daily Mail reported that Christopher Kimberley has filed a federal copyright infringement lawsuit in New York claiming Chelsea Clinton and Penguin Random House derived the idea for "She Persisted" from a previous submission by ...

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