Patent & IP news for November 2, 2017

How far to take user rights into consideration? Repair? from ipkitten.blogspot.com


Mention user’s rights to an IP person, and she is most likely to think of exceptions to copyright. An aggressive approach to such rights was set out by Professor Niva Elkin-Koren in the Abstract ...

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British Invasion in DC from patentlyo.com

The University College of London (UCL) Institute of Brand and Innovation Law and George Washington University’s Faculty of Law are holding their 3rd Conference on Patents in Telecoms and the Internet of Things, November ...

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More Instances of Tribal Sovereign Immunity Shielding Patents from PTAB Invalidation from www.patentdocs.org

By Kevin E. Noonan -- Late this summer, Allergan entered into an agreement with the St. Regis Mohawk Nation to assign its rights in several Orange Book-listed patents involved in inter partes review proceedings, with the ...

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UNION-IP event: "IP - Past, Present and Future" from ipkitten.blogspot.com


Now that November has arrived, we are fast approaching the Christmas season. Our friends at UNION-IP would like to inform IPKat readers about their forthcoming seasonal event, which sounds like a very jolly affair indeed ...

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Copying, False Statements, and Multiple Years of Infringement Warrant Award of Enhanced Damages from docketreport.blogspot.com

The court granted plaintiff's motion for enhanced damages because defendant's copying, lack of a good faith belief in its defenses, litigation conduct, duration of misconduct, motivation for harm weighed in favor of a ...

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Eligibilty: Novelty and Nonobviousness Evidence is Irrelevant to the Inventive Concept Question from patentlyo.com

by Dennis Crouch Two-Way Media v. Comcast (Fed. Cir. 2017) Most internet communications involve unicast communications – one point to one point.  Although Patently-O is accessed by many thousands each day, each HTTP request is treated ...

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WIPO Trademark Committee Agrees On Work Programme For GIs, Action On Country Names from www.ip-watch.org

Statements were praiseful at the close of the World Intellectual Property Organization committee on trademarks, industrial designs, and geographical indications meeting this week. After a number of unsuccessful past sessions, delegates agreed on a work ...

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