Top Stories of 2017: #15 to #19 from www.patentdocs.org By Donald Zuhn –- After reflecting upon the events of the past twelve months, Patent Docs presents its 11th annual list of top patent stories. For 2017, we identified nineteen stories that were covered on Patent ...
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AIPPI Event Report: Unjustified threats - are you threatening me? from ipkitten.blogspot.com One of the final events of the IP calendar this year was AIPPI's panel session on unjustified threats and the new changes brought by the Intellectual Property Unjustified Threats Act 2017.
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IP CloseUp visits up 26% in 2017; page views up 31%; readers drawn from 134 nations and territories from ipcloseup.com IP CloseUp, the blog of IP perspective, research, and people, grew in 2017 to more than 56,000 views and 44,000 visits, up 26% and 31% respectively from 2016. Now I n its seventh ...
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District Court Split Excuses Pre- In re Micron Delay Asserting Venue Challenge from docketreport.blogspot.com The court transferred plaintiff's patent infringement action in response to defendant's motion to dismiss and rejected plaintiff's argument that defendant's venue challenge was untimely. "[Defendant] concedes that its motion came six ...
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Inside Views: What Could Have Entered The Public Domain On January 1, 2018? from www.ip-watch.org Current US law extends copyright for 70 years after the date of the author's death, and corporate “works-for-hire” are copyrighted for 95 years after publication. But prior to the 1976 Copyright Act (which became ...
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Defending the DTSA from writtendescription.blogspot.com I'm excited to be a participant in the annual
Evil Twin debate, coming this Friday in San Diego in connection with the AALS conference. The debate is sponsored by the University of Richmond Law ...
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Federal Circuit Allows Registration of Immoral and Scandalous Trademarks from blawgit.com NSFW Disclaimer: This post contains strong language that may not be suitable for work. The Law Up until a few weeks ago, the law was that you could not register a trademark with the Patent ...
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Regeneron v. Merus: Sui Generis or a Regener-ating Fact Pattern? from patentlyo.com Guest Post by Brian Landry and Justin Crotty of Saul Ewing in Boston On December 26, 2017, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued an order denying Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc.’s ...
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