Patent & IP news for November 8, 2017

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post image Beware the special requirements of software protection in Brazil from ipkitten.blogspot.com


IPKat has long observed that IP law in Brazil will sometimes adopt a sui generis approach to an issue, especially at the administrative level, which makes it imperative that IP practitioners be fully aware of ...

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post image K = Na. Is the genie out of the bottle? PART 1 from ipkitten.blogspot.com

On a dark October evening, this GuestKat travelled into the depths of UCL for what could, possibly, be the patent event of 2017 – the UCL IBIL panel discussion on the doctrine of equivalents following the ...

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post image Next Step: Pushing for Global Increases and Uniformity in Trade Secret Protections from patentlyo.com

by Dennis Crouch Over the past several decades, the US has been at the forefront of a global campaign to raise the levels of intellectual property protections.  Intellectual property protections is now a key aspect ...

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USPTO Issues Final Rule Establishing Patent Agent Privilege from www.patentdocs.org

By Josh Rich -- Earlier today, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's Patent Trial and Appeal Board ("PTAB") published its Final Rule establishing the attorney-client privilege for application in PTAB proceedings.[1] Before the ...

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Too Good to be True? Problems with the Allergan-Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe Deal from dunlapcodding.com

Alyssa Grooms

After their initial shock, lawmakers are fighting back against pharmaceutical company Allergan’s novel plan to protect the validity of its patents by bypassing the Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s (“PTAB”) scrutiny ...

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Five Work-at-Home Employees Do Not Create Regular and Established Place of Business for Venue from docketreport.blogspot.com

The court granted defendant's motion to dismiss plaintiff's patent infringement action for improper venue because defendant did not have a regular and established place of business in the forum based on its five ...

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<span class="dquo">"</span>CBS Sunday Morning" on 5 November 2017 does Ta-Nehisi&nbsp;Coates from ipbiz.blogspot.com


CBS Sunday Morning on 5 November 2017 included an upbeat discussion of Ta-Nehisi Coates [See Ta-Nehisi Coates wants readers to be "haunted" by his work : "Critically-acclaimed author Ta-Nehisi Coates has earned a huge following, along ...

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From Joe Matal: The Importance of Independent Inventors to America – and America’s&nbsp;Economy from patentlyo.com

Blog by Joe Matal, Performing the Duties and Functions of the Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO (Originally Posted at the USPTO Director’s Blog) Throughout history, independent inventors ...

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80/20 Rule: 80% of IPRs challenge patents already asserted in district&nbsp;court from patentlyo.com

Pedram Sameni at Patexia has an interesting new post titled Eighty Percent of IPR Filings are for Defensive Purposes.   As the title suggests, their study of the 6,580 IPR challenges filed 2012-2017, 80% challenge ...

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Justice Souter (ret.) on the inestimable moral value of&nbsp;jurors from www.717madisonplace.com

With Oil States coming up for oral argument in a few weeks, it is interesting that five of the current Justices of the Supreme Court were recently present to hear Justice Souter’s comments about ...

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