Patent & IP news for October 10, 2017

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post image Freedom of panorama: would it hurt architects? Survey among Italian-based architects says NO from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Contemporary architecture in Rome:
the stunning MAXXI museum by Zaha Hadid
The (until fairly recently little-known) copyright exception in Article 5(3)(h) of the InfoSoc Directive allowing Member States to authorize the "use of ...

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post image The Need for Legislative Reform: The Berkeley Section 101 Workshop from patentlyo.com

Assessing the Need for Legislative Reform of Patent Eligibility in the Mayo/Alice Era: Final Report of the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology Section 101 Workshop [Read the Full Report] By Jeffrey A. Lefstin, Peter ...

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post image Book review--Create, Copy, Disrupt: India’s Intellectual Property Dilemmas from ipkitten.blogspot.com


This reviewer’s first encounter with IP India occurred in December 1996, as a member of the Israeli delegation to the WIPO Diplomatic Conference
on Certain Copyright and Neighboring Rights in Geneva, which led to ...

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post image The new unjustified threats bill – do's and don’ts from ipkitten.blogspot.com

ThreateningUnjustified threats? Things have just changed in the UK, as former IPKat contributor Ellie Wilson explains. Ellie Wilson is a former InternKat, currently a research assistant at the Law Commission and visiting tutor of ...

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Mechanism To Access Trade Agreements Needed, UN Forum On Access To Medicines Hears from www.ip-watch.org

A mechanism to systematically assess trade agreements from a public health perspective, including accession agreements of the World Trade Organization and European Patent Office’s validation agreements is needed, says Ellen ´t Hoen, senior researcher ...

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WIPO Lisbon System: Fee Schedule, Common Regulations, Contributions To Quell Deficit from www.ip-watch.org

In a quest to address the projected deficit of a World Intellectual Property Organization treaty protecting geographical indications, treaty members have been gathering funds to try to eliminate the deficit. Separately last week, the treaty ...

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In re Stepan Co. (Fed. Cir. 2017) from www.patentdocs.org

By Kevin E. Noonan -- The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) gets most of its attention (judicial and otherwise) regarding its decisions in inter partes review and covered business method proceedings. But the Board also ...

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WHO Establishes High-Level Commission On Noncommunicable Diseases from www.ip-watch.org

The UN World Health Organization today announced it has established a new high-level global commission on noncommunicable diseases, to be chaired by former WHO director general candidate Sania Nishtar of Pakistan.

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New Draft Text On Mandate For WIPO Committee On Genetic Resources, TK from www.ip-watch.org

Delegates rushing against time to find agreement on the next mandate of the Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore (IGC) are considering a third draft decision, issued this morning.

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Clock Ticking For WIPO Assembly To Agree On Budget, Design, Genetic Resources from www.ip-watch.org

This morning no breakthroughs were reported by delegates chairing informal meetings to reach consensus before the end of the annual World Intellectual Property Organization General Assembly tomorrow. Agreement still has to be reached on the ...

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Undeveloped Expert Report Calls For Deposition Before Production of Opposing Report from docketreport.blogspot.com

The court denied plaintiffs' motion to strike the report of defendants' expert for including a previously undisclosed obviousness theory because defendants' contentions sufficiently supported the expert report, but allowed plaintiffs to take the expert's ...

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Patent Attorney DIY: ModustrialMaker from patentlyo.com

I really enjoy Patent Attorney Mike Clifford’s high quality YouTube channel modustrialmaker – highlighting his “modern industrial DIY projects.” The channel now has more than 30,000 subscribers and 1 million views. YouTube Channel Clifford ...

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Automakers and tech giants are locked in a strange patent race from ipcloseup.com

At time when patent certainty and value are under attack, global automobile manufacturers are competing with major technology companies for IP rights to the future, especially driverless cars.  The race is reminiscent of the competition ...

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