Patent & IP news for November 30, 2017

Where is that Anticipation Rejection? Isn’t it Obvious! from patentlyo.com

by Dennis Crouch The USPTO released a new data set of office action rejections, including an action-by-action breakdown of the basis for each rejection and the prior art relied upon. The first chart below shows ...

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INTA Brand Authenticity Conference (Report 2): Building brand value via ethical and sustainable credentials from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Some tea, possibly Darjeeling, yesterdayAfter the first report from INTA's Brand Authenticity Conference, Alex Woolgar (Allen & Overy) is back with further updates from today's Berlin event.
Here's what Alex writes:
"The ...

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UK House of Commons committee progresses final stages of UPC ratification from ipkitten.blogspot.com

IP Minister Jo Johnson proposes  motion on
UPC (Immunities and Privileges) Order 2017Meanwhile, in a room somewhere in Westminster, Kat friend Alex Robinson (Dehns) was observing the latest goings-ons on the Unified Patent Court ...

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Now available!: English translation of Dutch Supreme Court decision in MSD v Teva highlights UK Supreme Court's Actavis decision from ipkitten.blogspot.com

The AmeriKat is no longer in the dark about what
the Dutch Supreme Court were saying in
MSD v TevaThanks to a wonderful Kat friend, readers can now benefit from the translation of the ...

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Claim of joint authorship fails in the Florence Foster Jenkins case from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Florence Foster Jenkins - the filmLast week, the High Court settled the dispute between script writer Nicholas Martin and opera singer Julia Kogan over the authorship of the script used to produce the film Florence ...

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INTA Brand Authenticity Conference (Report 1): Building brand value via ethical and sustainable credentials from ipkitten.blogspot.com

For those of us freezing away in London today, there were those a couple of degrees colder in Berlin at INTA's Brand Authenticity Conference.   No idea what that conference is? Don't worry, the ...

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Alice and TRIPS Compliance from patentlyo.com

I asked Prof. Daniel H. Brean for this guest post that stems from his new paper on international patent law issues titled Business Methods, Technology, and Discrimination.  Brean is an assistant professor at Akron School ...

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Retransmissions Of TV Shows From Cloud Services Need Copyright Owner’s Consent, EU High Court Rules from www.ip-watch.org

VCAST, a UK company that makes available to its customers internet retransmissions of Italian television programmes stored in the cloud, must obtain right holders’ consent first, the Court of Justice of European Union (CJEU) ruled ...

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WTO General Council Agrees To 2-Year Extension For TRIPS Health Amendment Acceptance from www.ip-watch.org

The World Trade Organization General Council today agreed to a two-year extension for countries to adopt an amendment to the agency’s intellectual property agreement intended to help small economies get affordable medical products. But ...

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In re Cray Does Not Address Whether Place of Affiliate, Alter Ego, or Agent May be Attributed to Defendant in Determining Venue from docketreport.blogspot.com

The court granted in part plaintiff's motion for additional venue discovery. "In my view, [In re Cray Inc., 871 F.3d 1355 (Fed. Cir. 2017)] does not address whether a physical place of a ...

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Spotlight on Prof. Daithí Mac Síthigh’s New Book “Medium Law” from www.iposgoode.ca

According to Daithí Mac Síthigh, Professor of Law and Innovation at Queen’s University Belfast, making distinctions between media technologies matters a lot for regulation and law. During a talk at Osgoode Hall Law School ...

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ARIPO Adopts Plant Variety Regulations, As Farmers Advocacy Groups Raise Concern from www.ip-watch.org

KAMPALA, Uganda — The Forty-first Session of the Administrative Council of African Regional Intellectual Property Organization (ARIPO) held this month adopted the Regulations for the Implementation of the Arusha Protocol for the Protection of New Varieties ...

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Do I Need a Patent? from blawgit.com

The question of whether you need a patent is more of a business decision than a legal decision. While a patent attorney can help you make that decision, by providing you with information regarding the ...

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The MS drug ALKS 8700 from ipbiz.blogspot.com



There has been some recent buzz in the multiple sclerosis community over ALKS 8700 :





ALKS 8700 is currently in Phase 3 development for MS. Alkermes plans to seek approval of ALKS 8700 under the 505 ...

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Inside Views: EU-MERCOSUR FTA Puts At Risk Access To Medicines In Brazil, New Impact Assessment Study Finds from www.ip-watch.org

The European Union (EU) is currently negotiating a free trade agreement (FTA) with the four founding members of Mercosur (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay), which comprises a chapter on intellectual property rights (IPR). A new ...

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