Patent & IP news for January 19, 2018

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post image Prosecution history - as relevant as any inventor evidence? from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Readers interested in patent law will be familiar with last summer's decision of the UK Supreme Court in Actavis v Eli Lilly [2017] UKSC 48 This has raised a number of issues, including whether ...

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post image Teaching IP to kids with Ed Shearling, Kitty Perry and friends from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Ducks can come up with great logos in a matter of minutesMany people have puzzled over how to educate the public about intellectual property.  This task is even harder when trying to educate children.  The ...

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More Aqua Products Fallout -- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. v. Godo Kaisha IP Bridge from www.patentdocs.org

By Andrew Williams -- In November, Chief Judge David P. Ruschke of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's Patent Trial and Appeal Board issued a memorandum entitled "Guidance on Motions to Amend in view ...

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Antimicrobial Resistance The “Scariest” Public Health Issue, Needs Financial R&D Incentives, Industry Says from www.ip-watch.org

Days before the World Health Organization Executive Board meeting, an alliance of pharmaceutical industries launched its first report on efforts made to curb antimicrobial resistance. The alliance also organised a conference on the report and ...

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People: Moving Landscape In The Intellectual Property World – Organisations, Industry, Law Firms from www.ip-watch.org

The end of 2017 and start of 2018 brought a lot of changes in the global intellectual property arena. The World Health Organization underwent major changes in its leadership following a new head elected in ...

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Lack of Market Share Undermines Claim of Irreparable Harm for Preliminary Injunction from docketreport.blogspot.com

The court denied plaintiff's motion for a preliminary injunction to preclude the sales of the accused fracking system because plaintiff failed to establish irreparable harm through loss of market share or reputation. "⁠[Plaintiff] currently ...

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Removing Unnecessary Rules at the PTO from patentlyo.com

As required by the Trump White House, the USPTO has continued its process of removing regulations that are “potentially outdated, unnecessary, ineffective, costly, or unduly burdensome to both government and private sector operations.”  Executive Order ...

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Development in European patents in CRISPR area from ipbiz.blogspot.com


In September 2016, IPBiz discussed an issue between Marraffini/Rockefeller and Zhang/Broad related to US filings in the
CRISPR area. See CRISPR patent confusion over lawyer representation .

Kelly Servick at Science has a post ...

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CAFC affirms ED Texas in Flexuspine matter from ipbiz.blogspot.com


From the decision:


Globus Medical, Inc., appeals the district court’s decision
denying its Rule 59(e) motion and denying as moot
its Rule 50(b) motion. Flexuspine, Inc., cross-appeals
from the district court’s ...

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USPTO Broadcast: Appropriations Status Update from patentlyo.com

The following message comes from Wilbur Ross, Secretary of Commerce.  The main point is that USPTO will remain in operation even if there is a government ‘shutdown.’: As many of you are aware, annual funding ...

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Where’s the beef! from www.717madisonplace.com

The Patently-O blog recently reported on the new petition for writ of certiorari in R&L; Carriers, Inc. v. Intermec Technologies Corp. [Link]. The question presented asks: Do Fed. R. Civ. P. 56(c), Anderson ...

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