Patent & IP news for August 9, 2017

Around the IP Blogs from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Let's take a virtual walk down the internet's IP boulevard to discover this past week's headlines!
On copyrightstreet, we start off with a punch as Former Professional Wrestler Sues Van Morrison ...

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Athena Diagnostics, Inc. v. Mayo Collaborative Services, LLC (D. Mass. 2017) from www.patentdocs.org

District Court Finds Diagnostic Claims to Be Directed to Patent Ineligible Subject Matter By Donald Zuhn -- Last week, in Athena Diagnostics, Inc. v. Mayo Collaborative Services, LLC, District Judge Indira Talwani of the U.S ...

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Personal Residence of CEO Does Not Establish Corporate Defendant’s Regular and Established Place of Business from docketreport.blogspot.com

​ The court granted defendant's motion to dismiss plaintiff's patent infringement action for improper venue because a CEO's residence was insufficient to establish defendant had a regular and established place of business in ...

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Just Laugh It Off: Trademark Parody and the Expansion of User Rights from www.iposgoode.ca

I was invited to attend the Canadian Bar Association Intellectual Property section’s IP Day 2017 and Judges’ Dinner, on May 11, 2017 in Ottawa. It was an honour to be invited as the winner ...

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Federal Circuit Fails its Civil Procedure Test on Standing from patentlyo.com

Personal Audio v. Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) (Fed. Cir. 2017) On appeal, the Federal Circuit has sided with the USPTO — affirming the IPR final judgment of unpatentability of Personal Audio’s US Patent No. 8 ...

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