Commissioned research opportunity - exhaustion of rights from ipkitten.blogspot.com End-of-term exhaustion of academic KatsThe UK Intellectual Property Office (IPO) has kindly informed us that they are looking to commission research around exhaustion of rights. As readers are no doubt aware, exhaustion of rights ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
You snooze (for 40 years) you lose – HABITAT mark (un)enforced in bad faith from ipkitten.blogspot.com Judicial reliance on the principle of bad faith in connection with trademarks can take many forms. A particularly unusual application of the principle recently occurred in a case in Israel, as reported by Kat friend ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
Genetic Assessment of Squash Genomes in Related Species from www.patentdocs.org By Kevin E. Noonan -- One of the characteristics of autumn is a harvest of vegetables in the squash family, including the ubiquitous pumpkin (equally famous for pumpkin pie and infamous for pumpkin spiced varieties of ...
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When Natural Laws are Wrong from patentlyo.com by Dennis Crouch René Descartes may have been the first expressly identify the physical operation of our universe as “laws of nature” (although published in French) – spelling out specifically his three immutable laws of nature ...
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EU Parliament Justice Committee Ponders Regulation Of Copyright And Liability In 3D Printing from www.ip-watch.org Should the European Parliament consider regulation on 3D printing with regard to intellectual property protection and civil liability? Members of the Justice Committee (JURI) today at their session in Brussels were divided with representatives from ...
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Asserted Claims of Email Transmission Patent Invalid Under 35 U.S.C. § 101 from docketreport.blogspot.com The court granted defendant's motion to dismiss because the asserted claims of plaintiff’s email transmission patent encompassed unpatentable subject matter and found that the claims were directed toward an abstract idea. "The Court ...
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Lost Profits for Infringement Abroad from patentlyo.com In WesternGeco v. ION Geophysical, the Supreme Court is being asked to decide Whether the court of appeals erred in holding that lost profits arising from prohibited combinations occurring outside of the United States are ...
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Perry Mason does patents from ipbiz.blogspot.com In "The Case of the Irate Inventor" (first broadcast 28 May 1960), "Perry Mason" brushes with patent law.
Thirty-nine years before Pfaff, the idea of whether or not an invention was "ready for patenting" arose ...
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CAFC addresses obviousness, marking, damages in Arctic Cat from ipbiz.blogspot.com In the technical area of thrust steering
systems for personal watercraft (“PWC”) propelled by jet
stream, Arctic Cat sued BRP for infringement.
BRP did not do well before the jury, and sought JNOV:
At trial ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook