Patent & IP news for July 21, 2017

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post image Never Too Late: If you missed the IPKat Last Week! from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Dear IPKat followers, if you could not make time for your small IP doses last week, you don’t have to worry! The 156th edition of Never Too Late is here to give you ...

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post image It may be use, but is it trade mark use? from ipkitten.blogspot.com


One of the most challenging issues in trademark revocation is the claim that while the mark is being used, it is not being used “in a trade mark sense”. Kat friend Anna Toh brings us ...

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post image The protection of TV formats: an Italian mock trial from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Milan's TriennaleEffective protection of TV formats has often proved a challenging topic, no matter the jurisdiction considered. But what is the situation like in Italy? A few weeks ago I had the pleasure ...

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The Trump Administration's Intellectual Property and Competition Objectives for NAFTA Renegotiation: What Was Wrong with the TPP? from www.patentdocs.org

By Josh Rich -- On July 17, 2017, the United States Trade Representative released the summary of its objectives for NAFTA renegotiation, including its objectives for the intellectual property and competition provisions of the agreement. As ...

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Rhetoric vs. Results – A Breakdown of Unified Patents Challenges from gametimeip.com

Two of my recent IPWire posts have addressed frequent patent challenger Unified Patents, and their self-appointed mission to profit from the destruction of intellectual property. The first post, in June, exposed Unified Patents IPR results ...

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Six Inconvenient Truths About NAFTA Renegotiations from www.ip-watch.org

The renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement’s (NAFTA’s) standards on patents is not good news for Canada. Any give by Canada will be costly not only to our health care system ...

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WHO Prequalifies First Generic Hepatitis C Drug, First HIV Self-Test from www.ip-watch.org

In the lead-up to this month's AIDS conference being held in Paris, the World Health Organization has announced the prequalification of the first generic version of sofosbuvir, a "critical" medicine for treating hepatitis C ...

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Denial of Venue Allegations in Answer Preserves Defendant's Venue Challenge​ from docketreport.blogspot.com

The court ordered additional briefing on defendant's motion for judgment on the pleadings of improper venue but found that defendant did not waive its venue defense. "Defendant sufficiently contested and preserved its objection to ...

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HBO's Confederate from ipbiz.blogspot.com



There is discussion of the HBO show Confederate, an alternate history, which places slavery as a present-day institution in America.


On November 22, 1960, MacKinlay Kantor published an alternate history in LOOK titled If the ...

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Comments on unherency in the Millennium decision [ 2017 U.S. App. LEXIS 12702 ] from ipbiz.blogspot.com


Dennis Crouch took issue with the inherency portion of the Millennium decision [ 2017 U.S. App. LEXIS 12702 ]:


The easy part of the decision for the district court focused-in on the motivation to combine boronate ...

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Judge Newman dissent on construction of claim terms with a plain and ordinary meaning from ipbiz.blogspot.com


In Nobelbiz, the CAFC reversed ED Texas on claim construction:


Global Connect, L.L.C. and T C N, Inc. (collectively,
the Defendants) appeal from a jury verdict finding they
infringed U.S. Patent Nos ...

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Ward Law Office at the USPTO – July 21, 2017. from anticipatethis.wordpress.com

Ward Law Office had the opportunity to visit the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) on July 21, 2017.  After some successful Examiner Interviews, had some spare time before the return flight.  So we ...

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