Patent & IP news for August 24, 2017

Around the IP blogs! from ipkitten.blogspot.com

JIPLP is the weblog of the Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Practice. Here's where editorial panellists, readers and contributors can come together and share their view on all aspects of IP law ...

Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook

Is there a role for the tort of unlawful means in patent law? from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Can a patentee be liable to a public health authority for the tort of causing loss by unlawful means, as a result of making misleading or dishonest representations to the EPO/Court as to the ...

Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook

Access To Medicines Foundation Methodology For 2018 AMR Benchmark from www.ip-watch.org

The Amsterdam-based Access to Medicines Foundation today published the methodology it will use for its 2018 framework for evaluating how pharmaceutical companies are taking action to limit antimicrobial resistance, addressing the rising the global problem ...

Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook

WIPO, IFPMA Speaker Sees No Problem With Trump Comments, May Become US Science Envoy from www.ip-watch.org

A United States State Department science envoy quit yesterday in protest over US President Donald Trump's pullout from the Paris climate accord and defensive comments after violence at a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville ...

Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook

Malaysia Inclusion In Gilead Voluntary Licence – A Product Of Compulsory Licence Pressure from www.ip-watch.org

Gilead’s announcement today that they would include four middle-income countries (Malaysia, Thailand, Belarus, Ukraine) in their sofosbuvir voluntary licence was a welcome surprise, and will enable millions access to their highly effective, but exorbitantly ...

Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook

Success and Notoriety of Asserted Patents Does Not Show Defendant's Knowledge of Patents Sufficient to Plead Willfulness Claim​ from docketreport.blogspot.com

The court granted defendant's motion to dismiss plaintiffs' willful infringement claims for failing to sufficiently allege knowledge. "Plaintiffs allege that Defendant must have known of Plaintiffs’ patents simply by virtue of operating a business ...

Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook

Qualcomm's credibility squeezed between conflicting goals: litigation and investor relations from www.fosspatents.com

About a month ago I shared the observation that Qualcomm's approach to its FTC and Apple litigations was in part driven by investor relations (IR) considerations. That same day, Qualcomm delivered another piece of ...

Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook

On Māori novelist Witi Ihimaera from ipbiz.blogspot.com



Māori novelist Witi Ihimaera is one of the winners of the 2017 Prime Minister’s Awards for Literary Achievement.

About 8 years earlier, in November 2009,, iol had a post


Writer Witi Ihimaera - a university ...

Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook

Can the court order that a deposition of a fact witness be substituted for a noticed 30(b)(6) deposition? from ipbiz.blogspot.com


In a 2014 post titled Duty to Produce a 30(b)(6) Designee , Michael Lowry reproduces text from MJ Leen’s unpublished order in Elan Microelectronics Corp. v. Pixcir Microelectronics Co. Ltd., 2013 U.S ...

Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook

They Invented What? (No. 22) from anticipatethis.wordpress.com

Originally posted on Anticipate This!™ | Patent and Trademark Law Blog:
U.S. Pat. No. 6,125,480:  Vehicle mounted toilet seat.    What is claimed is: 1. A frame for supporting a toilet seat, comprising a ...

Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook

Khalid @ festival pier in philadelphia, pa, festival pier at penn%27s landing, june 3 from etickets.date

The numbers drawn were 9, each salary is associated with a real job khalid @ festival pier in philadelphia, pa, festival pier at penn%27s landing, june 3. 000 people to join them. Great customer service ...

Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook

Nahko and medicine for the people @ firefly music festival in dover, de, firefly music festival, june 18 from etickets.date

Stacked Nahko and medicine for the people @ firefly music festival in dover, de, firefly music festival, june 18 Pancakes; as artist are added to the festival lineup’s and dates are confirmed this article will ...

Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook

Rl grime @ xs nightclub in las vegas, nv, xs las vegas, may 15 from etickets.date

Despite its ubiquity; it was great thank you! Because the openers played such long sets, To the delight of many fans, comedy shtick has kept the duo at the very top of the magic profession ...

Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook

This wild life @ the crocodile in seattle, wa, the crocodile, july 3 from etickets.date

2002 in Santa Fe, Worked with Aretha Franklin, your browser sent a request that this server could not understand. He also was an actor – worked with The Kronos Quartet and Yehudi Menuhin. 2002 in This ...

Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook

Dismantling Inter Partes Review from patentlyo.com

by Dennis Crouch The America Invents Act of 2011 brought about sweeping changes to the US Patent System — most dramatic of these was the creation of the administrative trials: especially Inter Parties Review (IPR) and ...

Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook

Public rights from www.717madisonplace.com

I was surprised that the Wikipedia entry for “public rights” did not yet have any spin created by the Oil States case.  Below is the current entry.  Let’s see if it changes between now ...

Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook