Patent & IP news for November 9, 2017

Guest Post by Eric Sutton: Do You Know What your Provisional Application Did Last Summer? from patentlyo.com

Eric Sutton is a senior patent counsel at Oracle and an adjunct professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law. Any views or opinions expressed by him in this article are solely his own and do not ...

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Patent Examiners Suggestions for Improving the Patent Document from patentlyo.com

Patentees often blame the USPTO for low patent quality.  Examiners though often reflect upon the principle “garbage-in, garbage out.” As part of its patent quality initiative, the USPTO is considering the patent document could be ...

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Swiss Supreme Court weighs in on K = Na from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Entrance to the Swiss Federal Supreme CourtSince we are on the topic of K = Na, here a short update on the Swiss arm of the litigation.

The Swiss Federal Patent Court considered the prosecution ...

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K = Na. Is the genie out of the bottle? PART 2 from ipkitten.blogspot.com

This is part 2 of the report on "K = Na. Is the genie out of the bottle?" This report covers numerical limits in claims, relevance of the file history, harmonisation, and a vote as to ...

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PTAB Decision from This Week: CAD Modeling from patentlyo.com

Tough case for Livermore Software.  The PTAB just rejected its claims as abstract ideas.  Claim 1 is a bit long but is listed below as a method for joining mis-matched portions of an object’s ...

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Who is going to win the big EU Commission SEP licensing battle - "use-based" or "licence to all"? from ipkitten.blogspot.com

The SEP licensing debate in Europe gives
watching tennis a run for its money...Tomorrow is a big day for standard essential patents. The language of the hotly anticipated and contested European Commission Communication on ...

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The protection of vehicles using trade marks and registered designs - London Taxis vs Scooters from ipkitten.blogspot.com

The FairwayCity travel is a highly litigated area at the moment but this is not a post about Uber but rather the protection of two very different modes of London transport, the black cab and ...

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Geneva Buzzing With Ideas And Events For International Entrepreneurship Week from www.ip-watch.org

A weeklong event next week has been co-organised and sponsored by a number of Geneva actors, such as the World Intellectual Property Organization, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), and the University of Geneva ...

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South Centre: Clear Rules Needed On Biosimilars Equivalence To Help Market Entry, Lower Prices from www.ip-watch.org

As soon as 2022, biological drugs made from active protein substances are expected to make up 50 percent of the pharmaceutical market, as they are increasingly used to treat a number of illnesses such as ...

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WIPO Hosts Notably Wide-Ranging Discussion On Vaccine Innovation And Access from www.ip-watch.org

A well-represented set of experts this week held discussions on the current situation of access to vaccines, the market, the role of pharmaceutical companies, and partnerships. Vaccines were not a field much affected by patents ...

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Predictive Keyboard Patent Not Invalid Under 35 U.S.C. § 101 at Pleading Stage from docketreport.blogspot.com

The court denied defendant's motion to dismiss on the ground that plaintiff’s predictive keyboard application patent encompassed unpatentable subject matter because defendant failed to establish that the asserted claim was directed toward an ...

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