Patent & IP news for November 1, 2017

Wednesday Whimsies from ipkitten.blogspot.com

While recovering from all the Halloween candies, let's look at some papers and proposals published recently, as well as a few upcoming events!

Copyright reform
The Proposal for a new Directive on Copyright in ...

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Bioquark Seeks to Reverse Brain Death from www.patentdocs.org

By Donald Zuhn -- Last year, two biotech companies announced that they had received institutional review board (IRB) approval for a study focused on the clinical intervention of brain death in humans. The study, entitled "Non-randomized ...

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Group Of Nations Seeks To Boost Help For Small Companies At WTO from www.ip-watch.org

Micro, small and medium-sized enterprises represent the bulk of the global economic fabric, but they face many impediments to joining the global marketplace. An informal group of countries is bringing the conversation into the World ...

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Patent Infringement Blog from docketreport.blogspot.com

The court granted in part defendants' motion for expert fees for its four expert witnesses. "In this District, courts look to the preparation time in relation to the deposition time to determine whether the preparation ...

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CourtListener’s mapping feature from www.717madisonplace.com

The CourtListener site has an interesting mapping feature that I stumbled upon today.  I’m not entirely certain what it is showing me; but, some of you might enjoy experimenting with it.  I mapped the ...

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Oil States Amicus Briefs Seek to Stabilize IPR Constitutional Footing from patentlyo.com

by Dennis Crouch The final group of amicus briefs were filed this past week in Oil States v. Greene’s Energy — This round supporting the Government’s position that Inter Partes Review (IPR) proceedings are ...

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John Kelly, compromise, the Dred Scott decision, and the Corwin Amendment from ipbiz.blogspot.com

Within a post Actually, John Kelly, the failed ‘compromise’ to avoid Civil War would have enshrined slavery , Avi Selk writes of John Kelly's views on the Civil War:





The Washington Post has already written ...

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New WHO 5-Year Programme Is Out. In The Recipe? SDGs, Access To Medicines, Innovation, Better Health For All from www.ip-watch.org

The new leadership of the World Health Organization today issued its draft new programme of work for the next five years. The programme depicts new orientations for the global health actor, starting with the alignment ...

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The User Rights Database: Measuring The Impact Of Copyright Balance from www.ip-watch.org

By Sean Flynn and Michael Palmedo, PIJIP, American University Washington College of Law (CC-BY) PIJIP’s Copyright User Rights Database tracks changes to copyright user rights (aka limitations and exceptions) over time in a sample ...

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