Costs of intermediary injunctions: Sir Richard Arnold's review of a recent publication from ipkitten.blogspot.com Sir Richard ArnoldA few days ago The IPKat reporteddetails of the hearing at the UK Supreme Court in the Cartier case. As readers know, this round focuses on allocation of costs of injunctions ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
Blackcurrant, public interest and the first ever compulsory licensing application at the Community Plant Variety Office? from ipkitten.blogspot.com Compulsory licensing has traditionally been perceived as a way, under certain preconditions, to counterbalance the exclusive rights of the IP rightholder. Resorting to a compulsory license in the field of patent law is wellknown though ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
Climate Change is an Abstract Idea? from patentlyo.com By Dennis Crouch GlucoVista’s patent application claims a method of determining glucose concentration in a body (i.e., physical matter) by changing the body’s surface temperature and measuring the change in infrared (IR ...
Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
Alternative ways for financing and incentivizing research: a Nobel laureate and his colleagues state their case from ipkitten.blogspot.com Is the current patent system the best way to encourage meaningful research? From the vantage of economics, views both pro and con have
been expressed. Does societal welfare in the aggregate benefit from the grant ...
Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
Move, Inc. v. Real Estate Alliance Ltd. (Fed. Cir. 2018) from www.patentdocs.org By Michael Borella -- One of the more frustrating aspects of the current judicial patent eligibility framework is the propensity for courts, even the Federal Circuit, to carry out the two-part test from Alice Corp. v ...
Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
Conference <span class="amp">&</span> CLE Calendar from www.patentdocs.org February 8, 2018 - "Exhaustion Tamed? Early Reports and New Ideas after Lexmark" (Intellectual Property Owners Association) - 2:00 to 3:00 pm (ET) February 8, 2018 - "There Will Be Blood (and Beer): A Brief Panel ...
Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
Study finds that black, hispanic and women inventors lack opportunity and role models from ipcloseup.com Economic hardship and lack of exposure to innovation are preventing minorities, low-income backgrounds and women from becoming inventors. Those are the findings of “Lost Einsteins: Innovation and Opportunity in American,” conducted by the Equality of ...
Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
Inside Views: Analysis Of The Working Group On Enhanced Cooperation On Public Policy Issues Pertaining To The Internet from www.ip-watch.org Richard Hill writes: The Tunis Agenda calls for enhanced cooperation to address issues related to the Internet and its governance. However, there was no clear agreement on how to implement enhanced cooperation, so a Working ...
Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
Biosimilar Industry Launches Information Campaign For Better Acceptance from www.ip-watch.org The International Generic and Biosimilar medicines Association has launched an information campaign on biosimilar medicines in order to raise worldwide understanding and acceptance of biosimilar medicines.
Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
WHO Executive Board Adopts Draft Resolution On TB, Stresses Importance Of Resistant TB In Overall Fight Against AMR from www.ip-watch.org Mirza Alas of the intergovernmental South Centre has published an analysis of the World Health Organization Executive Board approval of a draft resolution on actions toward ending tuberculosis and how it relates to antimicrobial resistance ...
Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
Samsung asks U.S. court to bar Huawei from enforcing a Chinese standard-essential patent injunction from www.fosspatents.com So far, Huawei v. Samsung hasn't been given much attention (not even on this blog), though it definitely is a major dispute when the two largest Android device makers--or, from another perspective, the largest ...
Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
Gavi Study Shows Vaccines Will Save Tens Of Millions From Poverty Due To High Costs from www.ip-watch.org Vaccination will help prevent some 24 million people from falling into poverty by 2030 in addition to saving millions of lives, shows a new study co-authored by Harvard University and Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance.
Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
Denial of Summary Judgment No Basis for Attorney Fees Award Under 35 U.S.C. § 285 from docketreport.blogspot.com The court denied plaintiff's motion for attorney fees under 35 U.S.C. § 285 for defendant's unsuccessful motion for summary judgment under the on-sale bar. "Plaintiff requests attorney fees and costs, asserting that ...
Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
Mapping the Patent Office Intervenor Power from patentlyo.com Guest post by Saurabh Vishnubhakat, Associate Professor at the Texas A&M; University School of Law and the Texas A&M; College of Engineering. Although Prof. Vishnubhakat was an advisor at the USPTO until June ...
Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
Around the IP Blogs! from ipkitten.blogspot.com A lot has happened across the IP blogs in the past week. IP Kat is here to guide you through this maze and help you catch up on the highlights. Please join a séance of ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
MedImmune prevails over Abbvie at CAFC in a Humira case from ipbiz.blogspot.com In a case related to Humica, the CAFC affirmed ED Va:
AbbVie, Inc., and AbbVie Biotechnology Ltd.
(“AbbVie”) filed suit in the Eastern District of Virginia
against MedImmune Limited (“MedImmune”), seeking a
declaratory judgment that ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
Welcome Andrei Iancu, USPTO Director from patentlyo.com Without dissent (94-0), the U.S. Senate has confirmed Mr. Andrei Iancu as Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and Undersecretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property. In addition to administering the 10 ...
Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook