Patent & IP news for October 5, 2017

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post image Cheek Responds: The Whole Story from patentlyo.com

I previously wrote about Alfred Pirri’s federal complaint against Lori Cheek and her company Cheek’d.  The story looked like an odd-ball law professor exam question:  Mild mannered Pirri had a great idea for ...

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post image Carani on Design Rights: International Functionality and Scope from patentlyo.com

The past week I have included a few design patent law updates on Patently-O.  While on the topic, I should mention the new book edited by (and substantially authored by) Christopher Carani titled Design Rights ...

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Aqua Products, Inc. v. Matal (Fed. Cir. 2017) from www.patentdocs.org

More Than a Mere Academic Exercise By Andrew Williams -- Today, in Aqua Products, Inc. v. Matal, a highly fractured en banc Federal Circuit determined that the PTAB can no longer place the burden of establishing ...

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Quality Of Medicines A Key Focus Of Antimicrobial Resistance Fight from www.ip-watch.org

Assuring the quality of medicines all the way to the consumer is a key component of the global antimicrobial resistance action plan now beginning to be implemented around the world, a panel of experts said ...

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Medicines Law <span class="amp">&amp;</span> Policy Expert Wins Prescrire Prize For ‘Major Reference Work’ On Access To&nbsp;Medicines from www.ip-watch.org

PARIS -- La Revue Prescrire, a French journal for healthcare professionals, has chosen “Private Patents and Public Health” — a 2016 book written by Ellen ’t Hoen — as one of four winners of its 2017 Prescrire Prize ...

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US Firm On WIPO Budget Demands: Lisbon Must Find Funds, WIPO Financial System Must&nbsp;Change from www.ip-watch.org

World Intellectual Property Organization members this week are trying to find a compromise in order to adopt the budget for the years 2018/2019. The United States has posed conditions on approval, particularly that they ...

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New US/Japan Proposal On Mandate For WIPO Traditional Knowledge&nbsp;Committee from www.ip-watch.org

The United States and Japan have submitted a joint proposal for the next mandate of the World Intellectual Property Organization committee on the protection of genetic resources and traditional knowledge, whose mandate must be decided ...

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DoJ backs Apple, says Supreme Court should deny Samsung's most recent cert&nbsp;petition from www.fosspatents.com

Just this week, the Wall Street Journal reported on the high-volume business Apple is doing with Samsung, a key supplier of components for various products including the new flagship iPhone, the iPhone X, on which ...

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Not your typical&nbsp;analogy from www.717madisonplace.com

There are analogies and then there are analogies that make you sit up and take notice. Judge O’Malley was discussing contingent threats with an advocate during the oral argument of FIRST DATA CORPORATION v ...

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En banc CAFC in Aqua: very little but cogitations and academic&nbsp;exercises? from ipbiz.blogspot.com



The en banc CAFC in Aqua v. Matal noted:


Upon review of the statutory scheme, we believe that
§ 316(e) unambiguously requires the petitioner to prove
all propositions of unpatentability, including for amended
claims. This ...

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CAFC in Amgen v.&nbsp;Sanofi from ipbiz.blogspot.com





Appellants Sanofi, Aventisub LLC, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals
Inc., and Sanofi-Aventis U.S., LLC (collectively,
“Appellants”) appeal from a final judgment of the
district court holding U.S. Patent Nos. 8,829,165 (“’165
patent”) and 8 ...

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