Patent & IP news for February 7, 2018

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post image Event Report: IP inclusive - Inappropriate Behaviour from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Last week's IP inclusive event was a reminder that the IP industry is not free from the abuses of power so prevalent in other industries. Merpel reports on the issues discussed.

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Arthrex, Inc. v. Smith <span class="amp">&amp;</span> Nephew, Inc. (Fed. Cir.&nbsp;2018) from www.patentdocs.org

By Kevin E. Noonan -- Although having built up a track record for several years and several thousand petitions and "trials," inter partes review proceedings under the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act are still relatively new. As ...

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China’s Patent System Entering Middle&nbsp;Age from patentlyo.com

by Dennis Crouch Following up on Renjun Bian’s recent Patently-O post, I wanted to highlight Texas A&M; Professor Peter Yu’s new article on Chinese Intellectual Property Scholarship titled “A Half-Century of Scholarship ...

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Inside Views: A Brief Sketch Of Privilegio In The Venetian&nbsp;Renaissance from www.ip-watch.org

Gavin Keeney writes: As a type of historical morality tale, especially given arguments currently before the European Commission regarding copyright reform and “neighboring rights,” this short treatise addresses the origins of copyright in the Venetian ...

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New Open Source Drug Discovery Initiative Takes Aim At “Devastating”&nbsp;Disease from www.ip-watch.org

A consortium including the Drugs for Neglected Disease initiative has launched a groundbreaking open source drug discovery project as way to find new drugs to treat mycetoma, a "devastating disease for which current treatments are ...

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Auto Dealership Facilities Do Not Qualify as Regular and Established Place of Business of Vehicle Manufacturer or&nbsp;Distributor from docketreport.blogspot.com

The court granted defendants' alternative motion to transfer plaintiff's patent infringement action for improper venue because defendants did not have a regular and established place of business through their dealerships in the district. "Defendants ...

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Brand Finance 500 … What’s the value of music&nbsp;IP? from ipkitten.blogspot.com

The IPKat is happy to host the following analysis by David Serras Pereira (SPAutores) of the recent Brands Finance Global 500 2018 Report.Here’s what David writes:“On 2 February 2018, Brand Finance published ...

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WHO Director General Presents The Press With Progress Report, Answers Tough&nbsp;Questions from www.ip-watch.org

Following a promise made at the beginning of his tenure to meet with the press regularly, World Health Organization Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (Dr Tedros) held a press conference today to paint a picture ...

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They shall overcome: Classic song’s copyright is invalidated by non-IP&nbsp;attorneys from ipcloseup.com

The iconic protest song, “We Shall Overcome,” is now in the public domain after a small team of primarily non-IP lawyers succeeded in having its copyright invalidated.   The settlement with publisher Ludlow Music, according to ...

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Judge Koh sets aside sanctions order against Apple in FTC v. Qualcomm antitrust&nbsp;case from www.fosspatents.com

This is a quick follow-up to last week's post on an amicus curiae brief by Lawyers for Civil Justice:

Judge Lucy Koh of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California ...

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