Third Quarter Venture Funding Remains Strong from www.patentdocs.org By Donald Zuhn -- PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and CB Insight recently released the results of its US MoneyTreeTM Report on U.S. venture funding for the third quarter of 2017. The report indicates that venture capitalists invested ...
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How long does it take to get a patent or trademark registration? (2017 update) from ipspotlight.com At the end of each fiscal year, the USPTO releases a Performance and Accountability Report, with statistics about patent and trademark allowance rates, average pendency, and other details. The USPTO recently released its Performance and ...
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Governments Must Provide More Transparency In Trade Negotiations, Coalition Says At IGF from www.ip-watch.org The Internet Governance Forum Dynamic Coalition on Trade and the Internet, a group formed in 2016, held its formal inaugural meeting today and adopted a resolution on transparency in trade negotiations, in particular on trade ...
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Internet Governance Forum Opening: Wish List For An Open, Trustworthy, Accessible Internet from www.ip-watch.org The Internet Governance Forum opened yesterday at the United Nations in Geneva, coming back to its origins, and as the opening ceremony resounded with Swiss alphorn, speakers insisted on the urgency to find fresh solutions ...
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Asserted Claims of Patent For Measuring Physician Efficiency Invalid Under 35 U.S.C. § 101 from docketreport.blogspot.com The court granted defendant's motion for summary judgment because the asserted claims of plaintiff’s physician efficiency software patent encompassed unpatentable subject matter and found that the claims lacked an inventive concept. "[Plaintiff] argues ...
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US Decision On Net Neutrality Will Not Impact ICANN’s Work, ICANN CEO Says from www.ip-watch.org Internet is almost an experiment, the CEO of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers said today at the Internet Governance Forum. No one has ever built an internet before, he said, adding that ...
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Divided Infringement: Expanding the Scope of Direct Infringement from patentlyo.com Travel Sentry v. Tropp (Fed. Cir. 2017) Today’s opinion is the Federal Circuit’s third in this dispute between Travel Sentry and David Tropp over Tropp’s luggage inspection system. The basic idea is ...
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US Court Strikes Down Bar On Scandalous Trademarks from www.ip-watch.org Yet another part of US trademark law is dead. On Friday, a US appellate court struck down a statutory provision that prohibited the registration of immoral or scandalous marks. The decision was almost inevitable, after ...
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The Artificial Intelligence Awakening: From Summits to Frameworks for Action from www.iposgoode.ca The potential applications of artificial intelligence (AI) have been delighting and frightening the popular imagination for generations. From benevolent androids and talking cars to unwavering cyborgs and omnipotent neural networks, AI has captured a place ...
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A Digital Geneva Convention – Nobel Prize-Worthy Or Dangerous? from www.ip-watch.org Microsoft today presented its Digital Geneva Convention during the 12th Internet Governance Forum in Geneva. With cybersecurity being one of the top issues at the forum, the company received a lot of interest for the ...
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Appellant Tropp prevails at CAFC in Travel Sentry case from ipbiz.blogspot.com The appellant Tropp prevailed, causing a summary judgment decision to be vacated:
Accordingly, we vacate the district court’s entry
of summary judgment of noninfringement in favor of
Travel Sentry and its licensees and remand ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
Senator John Kennedy and the Daubert standard from ipbiz.blogspot.com There is a posting of a video related to questioning of (now withdrawn) judicial candidate Matthew Petersen.
One of the exchanges:
Senator KENNEDY: As a trial judge, you’re obviously going to have witnesses. Can ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
How Do We Know What's Government Speech? Ask the Listeners (with Daniel Hemel) from writtendescription.blogspot.com Note: This post is co-authored with Daniel Hemel, an assistant professor of law at the University of Chicago Law School, and cross-posted at Whatever Source Derived. Follow him on Twitter: @DanielJHemel. This project may be ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook