Patent & IP news for November 23, 2017

Thursday Thingies from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Lecturer/Senior Lecturer vacancy. The Faculty of Law of the University of East Anglia is looking for a Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Competition Law and Intellectual Property. Applicants for Senior Lecturer should hold a Ph ...

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Sir Robin Jacob calls for System 2 thinking for patent law from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Sir Robin at the University of Hong Kong
(photo credit: Danny Friedmann) Earlier this week Sir Robin Jacob delivered a thought-provoking lecture at the University of Hong Kong. The topic? Patents and medicine.
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In re Micron Technology, Inc. (Fed. Cir. 2017) from www.patentdocs.org

By Kevin E. Noonan -- Last Friday, the Federal Circuit granted a writ of mandamus to Micron Technology, Inc. involving their motion challenging venue in a patent infringement lawsuit brought by The President and Fellows of ...

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Breeders Group Calls For New Plant Varieties To Be Patentable from www.ip-watch.org

A new “position paper” by a plant breeders industry group revives the argument that plant-related inventions should be patentable. New plant breeding techniques modifying the plant genome are not essentially biological processes, thus should be ...

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Happy Thanksgiving -- and some information about my iOS trivia game app from www.fosspatents.com

I wish you all a Happy Thanksgiving! Hope you're having a great time now with family members and/or friends.

In recent years I've mentioned on various occasions that I was working on ...

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