Patent & IP news for August 16, 2017

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post image Data on Federal Circuit Decisions – updated from patentlyo.com

By Jason Rantanen One of my current projects is to create a transparent and user-friendly database of information about Federal Circuit decisions–particularly, its patent law decisions–with a structure that’s useful for empirical ...

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post image BPCIA: Patent Dance Steps Becoming a Bit Clearer from patentlyo.com

Amgen v. Hospira (Fed. Cir. 2017) The dispute here falls under the Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act of 2009 (BPCIA), which can be loosely described the Hatch-Waxman equivalent for large-molecule biologics. Particularly, BPCIA creates ...

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Cache Data Types: Patent Eligibility from patentlyo.com

Visual Memory v. NVIDIA (Fed. Cir. 2017) In a split opinion, the Federal Circuit has sided with the patentee and reversed a the district court judgment that Visual Memory’s patent claims improperly encompass an ...

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Clinton Pastor Plagiarized, but victim notes: “The last thing the world needs right now is two pastors having a public dispute over a blog,” from ipbiz.blogspot.com


From time to time, IPBiz has discussed pastors who plagiarize (e.g., Plagiarizing pastors, revisited ) and sermons which have been copied (e.g.,
The issue of copying sermons, re-visited
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Related to a book by United ...

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Court-Appointed Expert Required to Determine Scope of IPR Estoppel​ from docketreport.blogspot.com

The court ordered the parties to choose an expert to help determine whether defendant reasonably could have raised certain prior art in its petition for inter partes review. "In its [prior] opinion, the Court did ...

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TC Heartland Applies to Unincorporated Associations, Such as LLCs​ from docketreport.blogspot.com

The court transferred plaintiff's patent infringement action for improper venue and rejected plaintiff's argument that TC Heartland did not apply to limited liability companies like defendant. "The Supreme Court explicitly limited its analysis ...

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Georgetown Rail prevails over Holland at the CAFC. Analysis of the preamble. from ipbiz.blogspot.com


An issue in the case was the position of the accused infringer that an element in the preamble (“mounted on a vehicle for movement along the railroad track”) was a limitation of the claim. The ...

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Broken Promises: Utility Standards and Patent Applications in Canada from www.iposgoode.ca

The last day of June saw the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) quash the controversial Promise Doctrine. The issue at hand in AstraZeneca Canada Inc v Apotex Inc was whether the Promise Doctrine should be ...

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