Patent & IP news for December 11, 2017

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post image Wind in the sails for atypical trade marks in the EU - graphical representation following the recent EUTM reforms from ipkitten.blogspot.com

New approaches to graphical representation
call for some creative thinking -
Ed Devlin's Singing Tree at theV&A;The following is a guest post from Roberto A. Jacchia and Giulia Beneduci (De Berti Jacchia Franchini ...

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post image Monday Miscellany from ipkitten.blogspot.com


Free OxFirst Webinar: Tuesday 12th December 2017: 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM GMTJohn E. Dubiansky, an attorney advisor in the Federal Trade Commission’s Office of Policy Planning, will talk on the subject ...

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post image Coty, distribution agreements and luxury brands from ipkitten.blogspot.com

A few days ago the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) issued the much-awaited decision Coty Germany GmbH v Parfümerie Akzente GmbH, C-230/16
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Here is a short summary of the dispute ...

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post image Germany: Bundespatentgericht annuls Nespresso capsule shape mark from ipkitten.blogspot.com

IR 763 699According to a press release from Friday, 8 December 2017, the German Federal Patent Court found Nestlé's German shape mark in the form of a "Nespresso" capsule invalid for coffee based ...

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WIPO Committee On Development and IP Agrees On Future Work, Keeps Several Issues Open from www.ip-watch.org

The World Intellectual Property Organization Committee on Development and Intellectual Property in its latest meeting agreed on a list of items to be discussed at its next session. No consensus was found on a potential ...

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EPO Study Shows Rise In Patents On Next Generation Technologies from www.ip-watch.org

The European Patent Office (EPO) today announced a study that showed "European patent applications related to smart connected objects are rising rapidly, achieving a growth rate of 54% in the last three years."

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Analysis: As Biosimilar Of Key Cancer Drug Spreads, Where Is The Price Reduction? from www.ip-watch.org

The first biosimilar of the blockbuster breast cancer drug trastuzumab is being prepared for launch in United States, following a decision by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to approve it earlier this month. The ...

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Venue Statute Does Not Require Nexus Between Infringing Activity and Regular and Established Place of Business from docketreport.blogspot.com

The court denied defendant's motion to dismiss or transfer for improper venue and rejected defendant's argument that there must be a nexus between its action of infringement and its regular and established place ...

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Damages Opinion Based on Composite Royalty Rate Excluded as Unreliable from docketreport.blogspot.com

The court granted in part defendants' motion to exclude the testimony of plaintiffs' damages expert because his royalty base was based on a composite rate. "Defendants explain that to reach his damages calculation, [the expert ...

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Big Patent Data from Google from writtendescription.blogspot.com

Getting patent data should be easier, but it's not. It is public information, but gathering, organizing, and cleaning it takes time. Combining data sets also takes time. Companies charging a fee do a good ...

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WTO Ministerial: Challenging Start Despite Latin American Declaration For Multilateral Trade System from www.ip-watch.org

According to delegates speaking at the first plenary of the 11th Ministerial Meeting of the World Trade Organization in Buenos Aires today, member states face the risk of leaving with no joint agreement at all ...

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Federal Circuit Ducks Major Prior Art Analysis: Affirms Weird PTAB Prior Art Holding from patentlyo.com

by Dennis Crouch Ariosa (Roche) v. Illumina (Fed. Cir. 2017) Interesting decision here on two different fronts: Reviewability of Ex Parte Reexamination Termination Decision; and Priority Prior Art Date for Patent Applications. The dispute focuses ...

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