Impact of the 15-year Design Patent Term from patentlyo.com If I were preparing to file a design patent around early May 2015, I might have held-off a bit on the filing to pass the May 13, 2015 threshold. Design patents stemming from applications filed ...
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Thursday Thingies from ipkitten.blogspot.com The Asian Pacific Copyright Association Conference will take place from 29 to 31 October 2017 at the Faculty of Law of the University of Technology Sydney in Australia. The topic of this year is “What ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
Book Review Times Two: GI at the Crossroads of Trade, Development, and Culture and GI - Global and Local perspectives from ipkitten.blogspot.com From KatFriend
Josey Bright we have a double review of recent books on Geographical Indications:
The old adage we often apply to buses was called to mind when this reviewer received not one but two ...
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They Invented What? (No. 21) from anticipatethis.wordpress.com Originally posted on
Anticipate This!™ | Patent and Trademark Law Blog:
JW Note: In light of the upcoming Halloween, I considered this an appropriate “TIW?”. Enjoy! U.S. Pat. No. 6,725,510: Inclining coffin. What ...
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Colloquial Reference to Facility Location Does not Establish "Physical Presence by Estoppel" from docketreport.blogspot.com The court granted defendant's alternative motion to transfer for improper venue and rejected plaintiff's request to transfer its action from the Middle District of Tennessee to the Western District of Tennessee because defendant ...
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Regeneron v. Merus: En Banc Chances Rise from patentlyo.com by Dennis Crouch Prof. Hricik and I have both previously written about the Regeneron inequitable conduct decision. The following short summary comes from Hricik: [The] district court … held that people substantively involved in prosecution of ...
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Oral Argument of the Day: Intellectual Ventures I, LLC v. Motorola Mobility LLC from www.717madisonplace.com The oral argument of the day is from INTELLECTUAL VENTURES I LLC v. MOTOROLA MOBILITY LLC, No. 2016-1795 (Fed. Cir. Sept. 13, 2017). The oral argument will be of interest to those who follow Centillion ...
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The CAFC addresses Grammatical Ambiguity in Organik Khimya from ipbiz.blogspot.com
Grammatical Ambiguity
Organik also argues that the ’435 specification provides an open-ended definition of “swelling agent,” and that the Board improperly adopted the narrower of two possible constructions of a “grammatically ambiguous passage.” Organik Br ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
Owens Corning wins at CAFC from ipbiz.blogspot.com
Fast Felt Corporation owns U.S. Patent No. 8,137,757, which describes and claims methods for printing nail tabs or reinforcement strips on roofing or building cover material. Fast Felt sued Owens Corning for ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
“Inadvertent repetition of biographical boilerplate was not an egregious theft intentionally performed?”. from ipbiz.blogspot.com A post at the Guardian on the Bialosky matter begins:
More than 70 authors, including Pulitzer prize winners Jennifer Egan and Louise Glück, have come to the defence of the editor and poet Jill Bialosky ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
Biogen and Roche on MS drug Ocrevus [ocrelizumab ] from ipbiz.blogspot.com From a post at Reuters :
U.S.-based Biogen is entitled to between 13.5 and 24 percent of U.S. sales and 3 percent of sales elsewhere from Roche’s new multiple sclerosis drug ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
Ward Law Office LLC from anticipatethis.wordpress.com Ward Law Office LLC is a boutique law firm specializing in the practice of patent and trademark law. We are committed to providing inventors, entrepreneurs, and businesses with personal and professional services. To learn more ...
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