Patent & IP news for October 17, 2017

AIPPI Congress Report 8: Innovator v Innovator - injunctions from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Innovator v Innovator - does this matter where
 injunctions are concerned? The AmeriKat is not
so convinced....The wonderful AusKat Clare Cunliffe continues her reports from AIPPI's World Congress in Sydney with news from the ...

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AIPPI Report 6: The business of IP – venturing with IP from ipkitten.blogspot.com

The IPKat's view of venturing extends as far as the bottom
of his lawnThe AmeriKat has just flown from Sydney to Washington D.C. for the ChIPs Annual Global Summit.  After a mere ...

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Book Review: EU Intellectual Property Law and Policy from ipkitten.blogspot.com

The second edition of Catherine Seville's EU Intellectual Property Law and Policy promises an updated account of key topics and considerations of the EU's law and policy in the digital realm. Part of ...

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AIPPI Report 7: Medical devices and patents from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Come near the AmeriKat with a medical device and
this is the look you will encounterWarwick Rothnie was back in AIPPI's Pharma Day sessions to report on the proceedings for the IPKat's ...

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Percent of US-Originated Patents That Claim Priority to a Provisional Application from patentlyo.com

For the chart above shows the percentage of US-originated utility patents that claim priority to one or more provisional findings, grouped by year of issuance.   You’ll note the steady upward trend – each year more ...

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A Deep Dive on NPE Outcomes from writtendescription.blogspot.com

I glibly commented on a friend's Facebook post last week that "patent troll" academic articles are so passe, despite the growing number of articles that use that term as compared to, say, 2012. Now ...

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WIPO-Pharma Patent Database Started With Industry In Early 2017 from www.ip-watch.org

A newly announced partnership between the UN World Intellectual Property Organization and the international pharmaceutical industry to set up a database of medicines patents announced this month to the surprise of governments and civil society ...

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Litigation Counsel's Involvement in Subpoena-Based Survey Renders Results Unreliable from docketreport.blogspot.com

The court granted defendant's motion to exclude the testimony of plaintiff's expert regarding his subpoena-based survey of 170 customers because counsel's involvement in the survey rendered the results unreliable. "Defendants argue that ...

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Do you get the Gist: Tracking Mail is an Abstract Idea from patentlyo.com

Secured Mail v. Universal Wilde (Fed. Cir. 2017) The district court dismissed this case for failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted – R.12(b)(6) – after finding that the claims ...

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Judge John J. Mulrooney on DRUG DIVERSION ADMINISTRATIVE REVOCATION from ipbiz.blogspot.com


An upcoming law review article in the Marquette law journal by Judge John J. Mulrooney had the distinction of being cited by "60 Minutes" on Sunday, 15 October 2017.

Judge Mulrooney had previously published a ...

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CAFC affirms PTAB's inter partes review decisions in Boundary Solutions from ipbiz.blogspot.com


Within Boundary Solutions v. CoreLogic, 2017 U.S. App. LEXIS 20214 (CAFC) :


Rather than look to whether individual elements of the Asserted Claims are present in the prior art, the actual question we must address ...

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CAFC affirms 101 patent ineligibility in SECURED MAIL SOLUTIONS LLC from ipbiz.blogspot.com

A decision of CD Cal was affirmed by the CAFC in Secured Mail Solutions, 2017 U.S. App. LEXIS 20105.

Alice is cited:


In Alice, the Supreme Court applied a two-step framework for analyzing whether ...

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COACH prevails in SD Texas from ipbiz.blogspot.com


In Coach v. Trendy Texas, 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 171103 :



Pending before the court is a motion for default judgment and permanent injunction against

defendant Trendy Texas, Inc. ("Trendy"). Dkt. 20. Trendy has not ...

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Financial Times to "the Patent Troll Narrative" -- Much Ado About Nothing from www.patentdocs.org

By Kevin E. Noonan -- Yesterday, the Financial Times (London) published an article by Rana Foroohar entitled "Big Tech vs. Big Pharma: the battle over US patent protection." If the article can be encapsulated in a ...

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