Patent & IP news for December 14, 2017

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post image UPC - update from UK on statutory instruments from ipkitten.blogspot.com


The saltireA quick update from the UK on the outstanding legislation that will enable the UK to ratify the UPC Agreement: yesterday the Privy Council made an Order approving the draft Scottish statutory instrument ...

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post image Around the IP Blogs! from ipkitten.blogspot.com

JIPLP (The weblog of the Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Practice)
The JIPLP “is thrilled to announce that Sir Richard Arnold (High Court of England and Wales - Chancery Division) has accepted the invitation to ...

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¿Does Secret Prior Art Apply to the Obviousness Analysis? from patentlyo.com

by Dennis Crouch It is not clear from ,u reading the AIA revisions that “secret prior art” (102(b)(2) prior art) continues to qualify as prior art for the obviousness analysis.  The obviousness provision ...

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More on Venue -- Plexxikon v. Novartis Pharmaceutical Corp. (N.D. Cal. 2017) from www.patentdocs.org

By Kevin E. Noonan -- The sequel to the original summer blockbuster movie, Jaws, had as a tagline "Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water." This sentiment can describe much ...

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Greg Perry Resigns As Director Of Medicines Patent Pool from www.ip-watch.org

After nearly five years as the executive director of the Medicines Patent Pool, Greg Perry has stepped down. The announcement came with little notice, just a day after the Medicines Patent Pool announced an expansion ...

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WIPO Delegates Told Patent Information Essential, Given Revealing Data On Medicines Access and Trade from www.ip-watch.org

World Intellectual Property Organization patent law committee delegates heard a number of presentations this week on the relationship between patents and health, and access to medicines. The importance of patent information and accurate, up-to-date databases ...

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WTO Ministerial Unable To Cut Deals; Members Set Up Plurilateral Groups On E-Commerce, Other Issues from www.ip-watch.org

The 11th Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (MC11) ended without a joint ministerial declaration and without progress in some of the important agenda points on the table. Instead several groups of “friends” announced ...

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Third Party Services and Pre-Filing Events Excluded From Scope of Venue Discovery from docketreport.blogspot.com

The court granted in part defendant's motion for a protective order to limit the topics of plaintiff's venue-related deposition. "Whether [defendant] has owned or leased a place of business in the district is ...

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Amgen on Remand: BPCIA Preempts State Unfair Competition and Conversion Law from patentlyo.com

by Dennis Crouch Amgen v. Sandoz (Fed. Cir. 2017) [AmgenSandoz Fed Cir Decision Dec 2017] The BPCIA (Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act of 2009) is designed to promote innovation in biologic drug treatments while ...

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Developing Countries’ Call To Review WIPO’s Legislative Assistance Beaten Back from www.ip-watch.org

The World Intellectual Property Organization provides legislative assistance to countries upon request. This week during the meeting of the Standing Committee on the Law of Patents, the secretariat explained how WIPO provides this legislative assistance ...

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Inside Views: Obviousness In The Wake Of Arendi from www.ip-watch.org

Since the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued its opinion in Arendi S.A.R.L. v. Apple Inc. last August,[1] many patent commentators have asserted that the decision marked ...

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