EU certification mark: It's coming your way on October 1st from ipkitten.blogspot.com Former Guest Kat Valentina Torelli has carefully followed developments in the lead-up to the introduction on October 1st of a certification mark at the EU level. She shares her thoughts below on this and related ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
What’s Your Body Type: Broadest Reasonable Construction vs. Broadest Possible Construction from patentlyo.com In re Smith Int’l (Fed. Cir. 2017) The validity of Smith’s patent turns on proper definition of the claim term “body” as used in U.S. Patent No. 6,732,817. With the ...
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Mohawk Nation Exercises Sovereign Immunity in Inter Partes Review from www.patentdocs.org By Kevin E. Noonan -- Not unexpectedly, on Friday, the Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe (SRMT) filed a motion before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) to have inter partes review Nos. IPR2016-01127, IPR2016-01128, IPR2016-01129, IPR2016-01130 ...
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How does trade secrecy affect patenting? from writtendescription.blogspot.com As I mention in my
forthcoming book chapter on empirical methods in trade secret research, there's really a dearth of good empirical scholarship about the role of trade secrets in the economy. One scholar ...
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World Trade Organization Public Forum: Moving Beyond Friends Or Foes from www.ip-watch.org At a time when international trade might be perceived as creating more harm than good, the World Trade Organization is proposing to go “behind the headlines” and beyond the rhetoric, as the theme of its ...
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No Enhanced Damages for Willful Infringement Leading to HCV Cure from docketreport.blogspot.com Following a jury verdict of willful infringement, the court denied plaintiff's motion for enhanced damages because plaintiff failed to establish the need for a punitive sanction or deterrence. "While the Court does not, of ...
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Joe Matal: Patents for Humanity Awards Now Open for Applications from patentlyo.com The following comes from Joe Matal’s Director’s Forum Blog. Matal is acting as Director of the PTO (“Performing the Functions and Duties”) pending Senate Confirmation of Andrei Iancu. = = = Patents for Humanity, the USPTO ...
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US Firms Rush To File Patents Ahead Of Driverless Car Boom from www.ip-watch.org The socioeconomic impact driverless cars are expected to have is often compared to that of the internet, or going further back in time, to the industrial revolution. As fleets of vehicles that pilot themselves approach ...
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G7 ICT Ministers: Free Data Flows, More Access To Data, But IP Protection Nonetheless from www.ip-watch.org Openness, security and the support for innovation through the empowerment of small and medium companies are the three core points of the joint statement of the G7 ICT Ministers after their two-day meeting in Turin ...
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Guest Post -- The Emergent Microbiome: A Revolution for the Life Sciences Part XII: Taking Stock of Livestock from www.patentdocs.org By Nicholas Vincent* and Anthony D. Sabatelli** -- As we have discussed in previous installments of "The Emergent Microbiome," we have seen a distinct growth in the interest of the microbial communities found in our environment ...
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