The Red Bull colours: no trade mark registration for indeterminate colour combination from ipkitten.blogspot.com Trade mark enthusiasts will be certainly aware that a few days ago bad news reached Red Bull.Katfriend Darren Meale (Simmons&Simmons;) explains it all.Here's what Darren writes:"Red Bull, the energy drink ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
Why is it so difficult to the make the case against counterfeiting (or does it just seem so)? from ipkitten.blogspot.com With the recent
Black Friday sales seemingly have become an international
marketing device to jump-start the holiday shopping season, this Kat, perhaps feeling a bit perverse (he hates shopping!) asked himself: Why do there seem ...
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Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc. v. Oxford Nanopore Technologies, Inc. (D. Del. 2017) from www.patentdocs.org By Donald Zuhn -- Last month, in Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc. v. Oxford Nanopore Technologies, Inc., District Judge Richard G. Andrews of the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware denied a motion ...
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Conference <span class="amp">&</span> CLE Calendar from www.patentdocs.org December 5, 2017 - "University Technology Transfer and Licensing Agreements -- Determining Type of Transfer Agreement, Structuring Key Provisions, Overcoming Unique Challenges" (Strafford) - 1:00 to 2:30 pm (EST) December 5, 2017 - "University Technology Transfer and ...
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Nature Versus Nurture in the Propensity to Innovate from writtendescription.blogspot.com A colleague pointed me to a paper today that I wanted to share. NBER researchers have managed to tie patent inventor data to tax returns to test scores in order to show who is likely ...
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Copyright company filing is a “mini” IPO aimed at monetizing future music royalties from ipcloseup.com A business designed to acquire and monetize royalty streams “of the world’s biggest artists,” Royalty Flow, went public last week with a “mini” IPO, or registration under Regulation A+ crowdfunding initiative. A new type ...
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US Perspectives: Must All Foreigners Online Comply With US Copyright Law? (Part 2 of 2) from www.ip-watch.org A case now before the DC Circuit Court of Appeals, Spanski Enterprises v. Telewizja Polska, creates a legal dilemma. The court needs to find Telewizja liable for copyright infringement, or else the court will create ...
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New UNCTAD, GIZ Toolbox: How To Achieve Policy Coherence For Local Production And Access To Medicines from www.ip-watch.org What do investment, trade, intellectual property, health financing, R&D;, industrial and medicines regulation policy have in common? They are all important building blocks for the successful promotion of local pharmaceutical manufacturing. As more and ...
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Venue For Hatch-Waxman Claim is District of ANDA Filing, Not Where Filer Intends to Market the Accused Product from docketreport.blogspot.com The court granted defendant's motion to dismiss plaintiffs' ANDA infringement action for improper venue because defendant did not file its ANDA in the district. "[T]he plain language of the patent venue statute provides ...
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Definite Dysfunction: Latest On Functional Claiming from patentlyo.com from IPO: Tune in to the IP Chat Channel™ tomorrow, 6 December at 2:00p.m. ET, to earn CLE and hear a sophisticated discussion of Functional Claiming After Mastermine v. Microsoft, a recent Federal ...
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Reviewing Partial-Institution Decisions from patentlyo.com CRFD Research v. Matal (Fed. Cir. 2017) (Iron Dome) CRFD Research v. DISH Network (Fed. Cir. 2017) Hulu, Netflix, and Spotify v. CRFD Research (Fed. Cir. 2017) CRFD’s U.S. Patent No. 7,191 ...
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