Patent & IP news for January 12, 2018

Alibaba released the 2017 Annual Report on Intellectual Property Protection from ipkitten.blogspot.com

On Jan. 10, Alibaba released the 2017 Annual Report on Intellectual Property Protection (hereinafter referred to as the Report), which is the very first annual report from this e-commence giant in the area of IP ...

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Córdoba - The CJEU to re-visit the Right of Communication to the Public from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Alcázar de los Reyes CristianosReaders of this blog will be well-aware of the numerous decisions of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) on the right of communication to the public within ...

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Finjan, Inc. v. Blue Coat Systems, Inc. (Fed. Cir. 2018) from www.patentdocs.org

By Michael Borella -- The year's first substantive patent-eligibility decision from the Federal Circuit is a rare victory for the patentee. It is also further evidence that the outcome of an eligibility analysis may be ...

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Fox launches GDPR Check app from ipspotlight.com

Fox Rothschild LLP has launched a new mobile app to help businesses catalog their data management practices and determine necessary steps to comply with the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which will ...

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New Local Pharmaceutical Plant Expected To Enhance Access To Drugs In Kenya from www.ip-watch.org

Kenya’s pharmaceutical products manufacturing sector is hopeful it will experience significant growth after the Square Pharmaceuticals ltd (SPL) of Bangladesh commissioned a US$ 75 million plant in the East African nation this week. [Note ...

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Blockchain-Related Patents On Exponential Rise, Lawyer Says. Targets? China, US, UK from www.ip-watch.org

Patent applications related to blockchain technology are rising at exponential rate, according to a presentation given yesterday by a partner at United States law firm Rimon. Inventors are seeking intellectual property protection, bringing challenges into ...

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Threat of Litigation Against Customers Does Not Create Actual Controversy With Supplier from docketreport.blogspot.com

The court granted defendant's motion to dismiss plaintiff's declaratory relief action for lack of an actual case or controversy stemming from defendant's proposed license agreement or litigation against plaintiff's customers. "Even ...

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USTR Notorious Markets: Online Ads Still Funding IP Infringement; Alibaba Fires Back About Report from www.ip-watch.org

The Office of the United States Trade Representative today released its annual list of the worst outlaw online and physical markets around the world, citing a range of major sources of problems in every part ...

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More PTAB Decisions <span class="amp">&amp;</span>&nbsp;Resources from dunlapcodding.com

Ann Robl

Recently, the USPTO Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) designated two more decisions as Informative. Both involve 35 U.S.C. § 315(b) regarding the time bar to filing petitions for inter partes ...

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Administrative Agencies and Constitutional&nbsp;Issues from www.717madisonplace.com

After posting the previous post about the SEC Supreme Court matter, I got sidetracked into looking at some SEC cases that dealt with the constitutional issue of whether ALJ’s are appointed under the Appointments ...

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