Patent & IP news for October 31, 2017

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post image PTAB Designates Inter Partes Review Decisions as Precedential/Informative from dunlapcodding.com

Ann Robl

Recently, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) designated one inter partes review decision as precedential and three inter partes review decisions as informative.

The precedential decision is General Plastic Industrial Co., Ltd ...

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post image AIPPI Congress Report 14: GUI Goo for Chewy Chewing from ipkitten.blogspot.com

The AmeriKat chewing over
the GUI resolution
If the title of the post does not ring a bell, then you are not a Dr Seuss fan.  In any event, Tom Reid (Accenture and AusKat) is ...

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post image Does the doctrine of equivalents apply to novelty? from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Patent practitioners have been speculating in recent weeks about what the Actavis v Eli Lilly Supreme Court judgment means in practice and how that decision might be applied.  One issue is how far the doctrine ...

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post image The Relevant Public and Likelihood of Confusion in Respect of Chinese Character Trademarks from ipkitten.blogspot.com


Kat friend Matej Michalec, from V4 Legal in Slovkia, has shared a thoughtful blog post about the challenges of registering a EUTM when the mark contains characters in a pictorial language, such as Chinese.

"Guangzhou ...

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Internet and Digital Media Law conference returns to London from ipkitten.blogspot.com

The internet has been posing a number of challenges, including with regard to exploitation and use of protected content, and enforcement of relevant rights.

The IPKat friends at Informa wish to let readers know that ...

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Using Experts to Prove Software Copyright Infringement from writtendescription.blogspot.com

I ran across an interesting cert. petition today that I thought I would share and discuss. The case is Antonick v. Electronic Arts, 841 F.3d 1062 (2016), and the petition (filed by David Nimmer ...

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Happy Halloween 2017 from Ward Law Office! from anticipatethis.wordpress.com

We have made a number of Halloween “They Invented What?” posts at the AT! blog over the years.  Who knew patents can be scary, right? These various Halloween TIW? posts can be seen here.  Enjoy ...

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E-Commerce Needs Special Rules, WTO The Place For It, Officials Say from www.ip-watch.org

Electronic commerce is flourishing, but countries are not benefitting equally from this windfall. An event held this week at the World Trade Organization looked at the role of the WTO in the establishment of global ...

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Plaintiff's Misrepresentation of Rights to Asserted Patents Justifies Discovery to Support Possible Sanctions from docketreport.blogspot.com

The court partially granted defendant's motion to sanction plaintiff under FRCP 37 and the court's inherent authority because plaintiff misrepresented that it was the owner of three patents-in-suit but in fact lacked standing ...

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Claiming Active Systems but Distinguishing IPXL from patentlyo.com

MasterMine v. Microsoft (Fed. Cir. 2017) On appeal here, the Federal Circuit has reversed a lower court indefiniteness finding — holding that the claims were not improperly simultaneously directed to both an apparatus and a method ...

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Announcing the Winner of Canada’s IP Writing Challenge 2017 from www.iposgoode.ca

IP Osgoode and the Intellectual Property Institute of Canada (IPIC) are thrilled to announce the winner of the ninth annual edition of Canada’s IP Writing Challenge: 1. In the Law Student category, Sarah Confer ...

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Most Cited Federal Circuit Decisions 2014-2017 from patentlyo.com

DDR Holdings, LLC v. Hotels.com, L.P., 2014 773 F.3d 1245 (Fed. Cir. 2014) (eligibility) Ultramercial, Inc. v. Hulu, LLC, 2014 772 F.3d 709 (Fed. Cir. 2014) (eligibility) Content Extraction and Transmission ...

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