Patent & IP news for January 23, 2018

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post image They Invented What? (No. 32) from anticipatethis.wordpress.com

Originally posted on Anticipate This!™ | Patent and Trademark Law Blog:
U.S. Pat. No. 2,801,929:  Method of making canned chinese food.   Having thus described my invention, what I claim is:  A method of ...

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post image Never Too Late: if you missed the IPKat last week! from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Edition 178 of Never Too Late is here to recap last week’s highlights here on the IPKat (week ending 14th January)
A Merck-y appeal is remitted to the High CourtThe longstanding dispute ...

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Free Stream Media Corp. v. Alphonso Inc. (N.D. Cal. 2018) from www.patentdocs.org

Claims Directed to Television Survive Abstract Idea Challenge By Joseph Herndon -- In a recent decision from the U.S. District Court Northern District of California, involving Free Stream Media Corp. v. Alphonso Inc., claims of ...

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Evidence of Peer Group Influence on Patent Examiners from writtendescription.blogspot.com

Michael Frakes and Melissa Wasserman have gotten a lot of mileage out of their Patent PAIR data set. Prior work includes examination of grant incentives, agency funding, time availability, and user fees.

Their latest paper ...

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Access To Medicines, Assistive Technology In Three Draft Proposals At WHO from www.ip-watch.org

Three new draft proposals at the World Health Organization Executive Board this week underline the importance of access and affordability, whether it is vaccines and medicines, including antivenoms, or assistive technology. The draft resolutions call ...

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Complex situation at CNRS concerning Anne Peyroche and "data manipulation" from ipbiz.blogspot.com


"For Better Science" has a post Anne Peyroche removed as interim CNRS President as her publications are “questioned” which illustrates the complexity of the Peyroche matter, which is also discussed in an article by Ashley ...

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Night Vision Patents 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 night vision patents encompassed unpatentable subject matter because the asserted claims were not directed toward an abstract idea. "At a high ...

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Are patent examiners influenced by other patent examiners? from ipbiz.blogspot.com


Michael Risch at WrittenDescription has a post titled Evidence of Peer Group Influence on Patent Examiners about a paper by Michael Frakes and Melissa Wasserman in SSRN in which Risch writes:



I'll admit that ...

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Antimicrobial Benchmark For Industry Launched In Davos from www.ip-watch.org

Across the Alps from this week's World Health Organization Executive Board meeting, the first ever antimicrobial resistance benchmark was launched today at the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos.

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CAFC finds no 121 safe harbor for Janssen as to claims of U.S. Patent No. 6,284,471 from ipbiz.blogspot.com

In the Janssen case reported on 23 Jan 2018, the CAFC noted


Janssen Biotech, Inc., and New York University (collectively,
“Janssen”) appeal from a decision of the United
States Patent and Trademark Office (“PTO”), Patent ...

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Patent Games Cannot Save Blockbuster Remicade Patent from patentlyo.com

In re Janssen and NYU  (Johnson & Johnson) (Fed. Cir. 2018). In an ex parte reexamination of U.S. Patent No. 6,284,471, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board affirmed the examiner’s conclusions that ...

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