Patent & IP news for December 12, 2017

Never Too Late: If you missed the IPKat Last Week! from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Missed out on the IPKat’s latest a couple of weeks ago? Not to worry, the 172nd edition of Never Too Late is out to help you catch up!

[Week ending 26 November]

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INTA calling: The 2018 Ladas Memorial Award competition for paper on a trademark subject from ipkitten.blogspot.com


For Kat readers with an academic bent, the following public announcement about the 2018 Ladas Memorial Award competition may well be of interest.

“The International Trademark Association (INTA) is currently accepting submissions of original papers ...

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EU guidelines on standard-essential patents favor product-centric businesses large and small from www.fosspatents.com

Given that I'm working hard on my personal "Flexit," I'm the exact opposite of your average "EU über alles" kind of claquEUr. But when the EU does something right, I'll acknowledge it ...

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More Views on Venue -- Federal Circuit Addresses In re Micron Fallout from www.patentdocs.org

By Andrew Williams -- Last Spring, the Supreme Court in TC Heartland LLC v. Kraft Foods Group Brands LLC held that the word "resides" in the patent venue statute, 28 U.S.C. § 1400(b), "refers ...

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Medicines Patent Pool Expands Its Patent Database To Cancer Treatments from www.ip-watch.org

The Medicines Patent Pool (MPP) announced today that MedsPaL, its database of information on the patent and licensing status of selected HIV, hepatitis C, and tuberculosis medicines, now extends to patented treatments on the World ...

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R 0003/15: surprising interpretation of feature violates right to be heard from ipkitten.blogspot.com

In R 0003/15 of 28 November 2017 the EPO's Enlarged Board of Appeal found the right to be heard of the patentee violated, annulled the Technical Board's decision and sent the case ...

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Patents And Health Under Discussion At WIPO This Week: What Role For the UN IP Agency? from www.ip-watch.org

Patents are often involved in public health policy discussions, and are considered by some as playing a major role in the escalating prices of new medicines, creating access issues. The World Intellectual Property Organization committee ...

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Ongoing Royalty Applies Only to Accused Products Identified at Trial from docketreport.blogspot.com

Following a jury verdict of willful infringement, the court granted plaintiff's motion for an ongoing royalty, but only as to the accused products at trial. "⁠[Plaintiff] argues that it is 'entitled to an ongoing ...

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Bank of America is granted (another) blockchain-type patent from ipcloseup.com

Bank of America was granted last week a patent on a “cryptocurrency transformation system” that comprises a platform to manage exchange rates between various currencies, transfer requests, and customer accounts. The timing could not be ...

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European Parliament Wants To Write The Rules For Digital Trade from www.ip-watch.org

The European Parliament today adopted a report that lays out a European digital trade strategy. Adopted by a margin of 510 to 95 in Strasbourg, the report obliges the Commission to make digital trade an ...

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