Patent & IP news for October 22, 2017

Book review: Intellectual Property Rights and Climate Change: Interpreting the TRIPS Agreement for Environmentally Sound Technologies from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Climate change is devastating: “The UN General Assembly once recognized that climate change is ‘a common concern of mankind’ and should be dealt with effectively within a comprehensive global governance system.” It is widely acknowledged ...

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Waldemar Haffkine: Pioneer of plague vaccine and the "Little Dreyfus Affair" from ipkitten.blogspot.com


This Kat was recently reviewing a book on IP in India, here, during which he came across a reference to the Haffkine Institute located in Mumbai (Bombay). This sounded like a most non-Indian family ...

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Standard Patent Size from patentlyo.com

by Dennis Crouch The chart above might take a couple of minutes to digest, but the main point is that, while the median patent has remained relatively unchanged, patents are becoming more uniform in size ...

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Letter from AmeriKat: Trade secrets long arms, NDAs go bust and sharing of passwords from ipkitten.blogspot.com

The AmeriKat observing the extent to which
humans are creatures of routine.  It is a sunny fall morning in Manhattan.  The AmeriKat is squinting into the sun, as her neighbors make their morning coffee runs ...

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Another German decision warns against broad application of GS Media presumption for for-profit link providers from ipkitten.blogspot.com

           Visual map on linking after GS Media, available hereA few days ago this blog reportedon a recent decisionof the Regional Court of Hamburg that, similarly to another German judgment – this being the ...

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Why are you here? from www.717madisonplace.com

Back in June, Judge Newman took the USPTO to task for intervening in an appeal from an IPR proceeding in which the petitioner had withdrawn and the underlying district court case had been dismissed.  Judge ...

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