Patent & IP news for January 17, 2018

Around the IP Blogs! from ipkitten.blogspot.com


 As the January blues have seriously started to kick in, the IP Kat is in search of some excitement around the IP blogland. Stay warm and cozy, Kat friends!
IP Kat doesn’t mind a ...

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Advanced Video Technologies LLC v. HTC Corp. (Fed. Cir. 2018) from www.patentdocs.org

By Kevin E. Noonan -- One of the most important (if not the most important) inquiries in performing due diligence involving acquisition of a patent portfolio is ensuring that the entity asserting ownership of the patents ...

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New presidency of the Council of the European Union ... new position on the EU copyright reform? from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Following the conclusion of the 6-month Estonian presidency, the presidency of the Council of the European Union is now Bulgarian, and will be so for the first semester of 2018.
The Council is one of ...

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En Banc Denied: Secret Sales Remain a Bar to Patentability under AIA from patentlyo.com

by Dennis Crouch Helsinn Healthcare v. Teva Pharmaceuticals (Fed. Cir. 2018). Without open dissent, the Federal Circuit has denied Helsinn’s petition for en banc rehearing on the definition of “on sale” under the AIA-amended ...

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Patent For Delivering Targeted Advertisements to Mobile Device Not Invalid Under 35 U.S.C. § 101 from docketreport.blogspot.com

The court denied defendant's motion to dismiss on the ground that plaintiff’s patent for delivering targeted advertisements to a mobile device encompassed unpatentable subject matter because the asserted claims were not directed toward ...

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Supplying Equipment For Use at Customers’ Facilities Does Not Create Regular and Established Place of Business from docketreport.blogspot.com

The court granted defendant's alternative motion to transfer for improper venue because defendant did not have a regular and established place of business through its provision of equipment to customers in the district. "⁠[Plaintiff ...

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Global Summit On IP And Access Discusses Impact Of TRIPS-Plus Measures On Public Health from www.ip-watch.org

A network of civil society organisations chose the birthplace of the World Trade Organization, Marrakesh, to hold a global summit on intellectual property and access to medicines this week. Part of the summit focused on ...

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Abstract Idea: What is Your Evidence of Longstanding Practice? from patentlyo.com

R+L Carriers, Inc. v. Intermec Technologies Corp. (Supreme Court 2018) In its newly filed petition, R+L asks the Supreme Court to add further depth to the abstract-idea analysis.  Namely, the the patentee asks ...

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