Patent & IP news for January 8, 2018

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post image A Merck-y appeal is remitted to the High Court from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Is that a silver lining or murky weather on the horizon?The longstanding dispute over the use of the MERCK trade mark around the world is set to continue for the foreseeable future as the ...

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post image Monday Miscellany from ipkitten.blogspot.com

The IPKat is back with its overview of IP-related events, opportunities and materials to fill up your brand new 2018 calendar!
Starting with New Year’s resolutions, INTA (International Trademark Association) published its 2018-2021 Strategic ...

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Conference <span class="amp">&amp;</span> CLE&nbsp;Calendar from www.patentdocs.org

January 9, 2018 - "After-Final Practice: Navigating PTO Options to Compact Patent Prosecution -- Utilizing After-Final Consideration Pilot 2.0, Pre-Appeal Conference and More" (Strafford) - 1:00 to 2:30 pm (EST) January 9, 2018 - "Sequence Listings ...

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Top Stories of 2017: #5 to&nbsp;#9 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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WHO’s Revised Work Programme: Evidence-Based Normative Work, Access To&nbsp;Medicines from www.ip-watch.org

In a couple of weeks, the World Health Organization will be holding its annual January Executive Board meeting. Delegates will consider the edited version of the draft 13th WHO general programme of work for 2019-2023 ...

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Fact Dispute as to Scope of Assignment Precludes Summary Judgment on Assignor&nbsp;Estoppel from docketreport.blogspot.com

The court denied plaintiff's motion for summary judgment that defendant's invalidity counterclaim was barred by assignor estoppel because defendant's founders were named inventors of the patent-in-suit and assigned plaintiff the right to ...

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Weak stock performance for leading PIPCOs in 2017; PIPX is&nbsp;suspended from ipcloseup.com

Shares of many of the leading PIPCOs (public IP licensing companies) significantly under-performed the leading markets indices in 2017, with only a couple showing gains. Despite annual increases of around 20% for the S&P ...

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Medicines Patent Pool Launches Search For Next&nbsp;Director from www.ip-watch.org

A negotiator and fundraiser with extensive experience with the pharmaceutical industry. Those are some of the qualities the next Medicines Patent Pool executive director might have, according to a just-posted job announcement.

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WTO Stalemate Concerns Include Non-Violation Complaints, E-Commerce; TRIPS Health Amendment&nbsp;Extended from www.ip-watch.org

A few weeks after the failure of the World Trade Organization ministerial meeting in Buenos Aires to cut deals advancing issues from fisheries to e-commerce, some governments and trade experts around the world are concerned ...

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The en banc Federal Circuit in Wi-Fi One reverses the panel decision of&nbsp;Achates from ipbiz.blogspot.com

The question presented to the CAFC for en banc review:


The question presented for en banc rehearing is:
Should this court overrule Achates Reference Publishing,
Inc. v. Apple Inc., 803 F.3d 652 (Fed. Cir ...

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DuPont prevails over Monsanto at CAFC in matter involving US&nbsp;7,790,953 from ipbiz.blogspot.com


Inherent anticipation arises in Monsanto v. DuPont :


It is well established that such reliance on extrinsic evidence
is proper in an inherency analysis. See Telemac, 247 F.3d
at 1328 (“[R]ecourse to extrinsic evidence ...

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