Patent & IP news for November 10, 2017

Fact-Finding in Eligibility Analysis: Reviewed De Novo? from patentlyo.com

Prism Tech v. T-Mobile USA (Supreme Court 2017) [Prism Technologies Petition] The district court sided with the patentee – Prism Tech’s – finding the user-authentication claims eligible under section 101.  Important for the petition here, the ...

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Book Review: The New Intellectual Property of Health from ipkitten.blogspot.com

If reading is good for your health, then surely reading about the IP of health is even better. Enter Alberto Alemanno and Enrico Bonadio's edited volume, "The New Intellectual Property of Health: Beyond Plain ...

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Is TRIPS preventing vulnerable countries from accessing basic drugs? The case of South Africa from ipkitten.blogspot.com


Kat friend Shahid Nabi from Linkilaw has offered his thoughts on the affordability of drugs and the patent system, looking particularly at South Africa.

"When the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) was made ...

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Bayer Pharma AG v. Watson Laboratories, Inc. (Fed. Cir. 2017) from www.patentdocs.org

By Kevin E. Noonan -- The Federal Circuit reversed a finding of non-obviousness on Friday based on clear error by the District Court on factual underpinnings of its obviousness determination, in Bayer Pharma AG v. Watson ...

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Challenging Alice at the Supreme Court? from patentlyo.com

Recognicorp v. Nintendo (Supreme Court 2017) [RecogPetition] The new Supreme Court petition for writ of certiorari asks the following questions: In Alice Corp. Pty. Ltd. v. CLS Bank Int’l, 134 S. Ct. 2347 (2014 ...

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WIPO Vaccines Report Contestable, Advocate Says, With UN High-Level Panel Misquoted from www.ip-watch.org

The World Intellectual Property Organization this week held an event that delved into research, markets and access for vaccines with panels that showed unusual breadth of representation for the UN IP agency. But health advocates ...

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First Consultations Held On WHO Pandemic Flu Framework Options from www.ip-watch.org

The World Health Organization is consulting member states and stakeholders on the future of its mechanism to help prepare the world for the next influenza pandemic. It is particularly asking whether countries should submit not ...

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Old plagiarism incident at Vanderbilt Law re-surfaces from ipbiz.blogspot.com

A post at the Boston Globe titled State Street CEO-designate says law school plagiarism was a ‘very big mistake’ has an interesting account of plagiarism at the Vanderbilt Law School.

Within, one has text:


In ...

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