Patent & IP news for October 9, 2017

Monday Miscellany from ipkitten.blogspot.com

EUIPO: The IP metro
The Intellectual Property Metro: the EUIPO has prepared a handy map to have a everything you need to know regarding the structure and content of the main IP rights right in ...

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Never Too Late: if you missed the IPKat Last Week! from ipkitten.blogspot.com

As the flavescent season starts, temperatures drop and cocoa per capita consumption skyrockets, the 164th edition of Never Too Late will accompany you through the transition!

The Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice (JIPLP) and ...

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Broadsoft, Inc. v. Callwave Communications, LLC (D. Del. 2017) from www.patentdocs.org

Telephone Call Processing Patent Claims Found Invalid under 35 U.S.C. § 101 By Joseph Herndon -- In the United States District Court for the District of Delaware, Plaintiff filed a declaratory judgment action on seeking ...

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Correa: Academics Disagree With Assumptions About IP, Innovation And Development from www.ip-watch.org

General assumptions saying that intellectual property protection leads to development through the promotion of innovation are not supported by academic research, a well-known professor said last week at the World Intellectual Property Organization. Only countries ...

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No Vaccines Before the Next Zika Outbreak?: A Case for IP Preparedness from patentlyo.com

The following is a guest post from Ana Santos Rutschman, the Jaharis Faculty Fellow in Health Law and IP at DePaul.  I invited Prof Santos Rutschman to write about her work on Vaccine Preparedness and ...

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WIPO Assembly Snapshot: Decisions Adopted; Budget, Traditional Knowledge, Designs Outstanding from www.ip-watch.org

With three days remaining at the annual World Intellectual Property Organization General Assembly, delegates are still seeking agreement on the 2018/2019 budget, the mandate of the committee on the protection of genetic resources and ...

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WIPO Upgrades Its Whistleblower Policy from www.ip-watch.org

The United Nations World Intellectual Property Organization has upgraded its whistleblower policy, coming more into line with best practices for protecting employees from retaliation for reporting alleged misconduct in the organisation. Time will tell if ...

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WIPO’s Program And Budget Stand-Off Highlights That Member States Must Act On WIPO’s Governance System from www.ip-watch.org

As the WIPO Annual Assemblies draw to a close this week, governments face a dramatic stand-off over the organisation’s biannual Program and Budget. Unless a series of its demands regarding the organisation’s financing ...

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Qualcomm forced to offer commitments in order to obtain EU clearance of NXP deal from www.fosspatents.com

There have been strong indications that the European Commission's Directorate-General for Competition (DG COMP) has serious concerns about the potentially anti-competitive effects of Qualcomm's proposed acquisition of NXP Semiconductors. By now, there can ...

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Patent Jobs and the Myth of the Employment Hypothesis from patentlyo.com

Prof. Ken Port along with Lucas Hjelle and Molly Rose Littman have an interesting new draft article titled: Patent Jobs and the Myth of the Employment Hypothesis. Although it is not as easy as it ...

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