Patent & IP news for August 7, 2017

Scottish court “vaporized” trade mark invalidity appeal from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Josey BrightThis guest post comes to us from Katfriend Josey Bright (Fox Williams LLP).  She looks at a recent appeal of a UK IPO invalidity decision.

Here's what Josey writes:

This appeal against the ...

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Section 101 as a Shortcut for Other Patentability Requirements from patentlyo.com

Guest Post by Saurabh Vishnubhakat, Associate Professor of Law and Associate Professor of Engineering, Texas A&M; University.  This post is based on a new paper forthcoming in the Seton Hall Law Review.  Read the ...

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

Originally posted on Anticipate This!™ | Patent and Trademark Law Blog:
PATENTLY GOOD IDEAS: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW FOR ENTREPRENEURS AND BUSINESS The Braintree Business Development Center is sponsoring a program on intellectual property protection, covering inventions ...

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PTAB Dicta Does Not Trigger IPR Estoppel​ from docketreport.blogspot.com

The court denied plaintiff's motion to exclude invalidity contentions on the ground that inter partes review estoppel precluded defendant from asserting two individual references after the PTAB instituted review on the combination of those ...

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Failure to Challenge Venue in First-Filed Motion to Dismiss Does Not Waive Venue If Defendant Supplements the Motion Prior to Decision​ 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 denied defendant's motion to dismiss plaintiff's patent infringement action for improper ...

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Patent as Credentials from patentlyo.com

By Jason Rantanen I’ve been taking a break from blogging for the past few months to focus on teaching, research and service at the University of Iowa.  That’s allowed me to experience new ...

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CAFC in Personal Audio: a third-party winning challenger at PTAB is not constitutionally excluded from appearing in court to defend the PTAB decision in its favor from ipbiz.blogspot.com



Of the standing issue in Personal Audio (Appeal from the United States
Patent and Trademark Office, Patent Trial and Appeal Board in
No. IPR2014-00070):



We asked the parties to brief the question of whether
EFF ...

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Enzo Biochem Inc. v. Applera Corp. (Fed. Cir. 2017) from www.patentdocs.org

By Donald Zuhn -- Last week, in Enzo Biochem Inc. v. Applera Corp., the Federal Circuit determined that the District Court for the District of Connecticut accurately interpreted the Federal Circuit's decision in Enzo Biochem ...

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