Copyright protection of minimalist furniture design from ipkitten.blogspot.com Cross Frame Chair (1952)In a recent decision, the Swiss Federal Supreme Court had the opportunity to clarify the requirements for the "individual character" of (super) minimalist furniture design.
The Swiss artist and industrial designer ...
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Book Review: Common Innovation from ipkitten.blogspot.com An emerging theme in economics of innovation is the recognition that our standard definition of innovation is restrictive and generally ignores innovation occurring outside the boundaries of businesses. Author G.M. Peter Swann seeks to ...
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EPO takes an ‘about turn’ on the patentability of products obtained by essentially biological processes from ipkitten.blogspot.com The IPKat faces down Broccoli At the end of June the EPO published a notice (see
here) stating from 1 July 2017 plants and animals exclusively obtained by means of an essentially biological process will ...
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Around the IP Blogs from ipkitten.blogspot.com This Kat has been surfing about the IP blogosphere and has returned with some very interesting articles for your digestion and rumination!
Snooping for some perspectives on copyright, The 1709 Blog reported on US litigation ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
Defendant Did Not Waive Venue Objection by Failing to Contest Venue Prior to TC Heartland from docketreport.blogspot.com Following the Supreme Court decision in
TC Heartland LLC v. Kraft Foods Group Brands LLC, 137 S. Ct. 1514 (2017), the court granted defendant's motion to amend its answer to contest venue and rejected ...
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CAFC in Soft Gel : An incentive to conduct a confirmatory study frequently exists even when one has every reason to expect success from ipbiz.blogspot.com Of interest:
First, Soft Gel contends that the Khan ’786 patent
teaches that it is difficult to dissolve CoQ10 in lemon oil.
But what the Khan ’786 patent states is that CoQ10 is
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Kuhn <span class="amp">&</span> Thompson on Measuring Patent Scope by Word Count from writtendescription.blogspot.com I've seen a number of recent papers that attempt to algorithmically measure patent scope by counting the number of words in the patent's first claim and comparing to other patents in the same ...
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Apple crushed by WARF in latest district court ruling from ipbiz.blogspot.com Back in October 2015, the Christian Science Monitor wrote of the WARF/Apple case:
What makes the case unusual was the party that sued: a computer science professor and three graduate students from the University ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook