Patent & IP news for July 19, 2017

Effects of New Technology on Modern Conveniences of Life from www.tangible-ip.com

No doubt, as technology improves, societies can change dramatically with the implementation of such technological advances. In order to fully understand the impact that these improvements have on everyday life, one only needs to look ...

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Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. Sandoz Inc. (Fed. Cir. 2017) from www.patentdocs.org

By Kevin E. Noonan -- In multiple ANDA litigations against multiple defendants, Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc. had several of its asserted claims held invalid for obviousness at the district court. The Federal Circuit reversed these decisions earlier ...

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Apple and its contract manufacturers present united, ever stronger front against Qualcomm from www.fosspatents.com

On Monday, four of its contract manufacturers (the ones Qualcomm is suing in the Southern District of California) impleaded Apple into Qualcomm's breach-of-contract suit. Before midnight on Tuesday, Apple and its contract manufacturers (the ...

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To Print Or Not To Print: Innovation And IP Issues In 3D Printing from www.ip-watch.org

3D printing used to be an expensive product design tool, but it is quickly becoming an affordable and accessible technology. First emerging in the 1980s, the availability of low-cost, high-performance 3D printers has put the ...

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Qualcomm now suing Apple in Munich and Mannheim over energy-efficiency patents from www.fosspatents.com

This here is the latest development relating to Qualcomm's dispute with (not only, but most prominently) Apple. A few hours ago I just blogged about multiple U.S. court filings by Apple and four ...

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Server Bandwidth Allocation Patent Not Invalid Under 35 U.S.C. § 101​ from docketreport.blogspot.com

The magistrate judge recommended denying defendant's motion to dismiss on the ground that plaintiff’s bandwith allocation patent encompassed unpatentable subject matter because the asserted claims were not directed toward an abstract idea. "Defendants ...

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Please Define What you Mean by Ordinary Meaning from patentlyo.com

by Dennis Crouch In NobelBiz v. Global Connect, a jury sided with the patentee-finding that global connect infringed the caller ID modifying patents.[1] On appeal however the Federal Circuit has reversed on claim construction ...

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Liscow <span class="amp">&amp;</span> Karpilow on Innovation Snowballing and Climate&nbsp;Law from writtendescription.blogspot.com

Patent scholars are often skeptical of the government "picking winners," but in Innovation Snowballing and Climate Law, Zach Liscow and Quentin Karpilow (Yale Law) argue that the government should target specific technologies to address social ...

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