Patent & IP news for February 13, 2018

2017 Canadian trademark cases: progressive and regressive from ipkitten.blogspot.com


Insufficient attention is sometimes paid to Canadian trade mark judgments. Kat friend (and inductee into the IP Hall of Fame) Dan Bereskin has kindly provided us with a summary of 2017 developments.

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Trump’s Budget Proposal for USPTO Flat for FY 2019 from patentlyo.com

The Trump proposed budget for FY2019 appears to be essentially flat as compared with FY2018.  The proposed budget would permit the USPTO to spend up to $3.459 billion in FY 2019 (year beginning October ...

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Isgrò and Waters, problem erased from ipkitten.blogspot.com

A happy end has been reached between Roger Waters and Emilio Isgrò, or as we would say in Italian, the dispute ended a tarallucci e vino(literally to cookies and wine, in a friendly way ...

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Ex parte Kotanko (PTAB 2018) from www.patentdocs.org

By Donald Zuhn –- In an interesting decision issued last year, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board reversed the final rejection of claims 1-5 and 9 in U.S. Application No. 12/959,017. The claims ...

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Reversing vs. Vacating PTAB Decisions from patentlyo.com

By Dennis Crouch In re Hodges (Fed. Cir. 2018) In a split opinion, the Federal Circuit has rejected the PTAB’s anticipation and obviousness decisions – finding that the Board erred in holding that the key ...

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How Does Country Consolidation Affect Patenting? from writtendescription.blogspot.com

Just a short entry today about an interesting new NBER paper by Bronwyn Hall (Berkeley Economics) and Christian Helmers (Santa Clara Business) (behind a paywall, sorry, though most academics can download for free). The question ...

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Trump Budget Would Slash Funding For Health, International Organisations from www.ip-watch.org

The Trump administration this week proposed drastic cuts in funding for international activities including foreign policy and global health in 2019, while further building up military and big business activities. Programs on international activities will ...

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Contractual and Fiduciary Duty of Loyalty May Estop Defendant From Asserting Invalidity Defense from docketreport.blogspot.com

The court denied defendant's motion to dismiss on the ground that plaintiff’s synthetic gem investment product patent encompassed unpatentable subject matter because there were genuine disputes of fact whether an individual defendant was ...

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Quotes for the day from www.717madisonplace.com

Software can make non-abstract improvements to computer technology just as hardware improvements can, and sometimes the improvements can be accomplished through either route. We thus see no reason to conclude that all claims directed to ...

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Announcing the 10th Annual Canada’s IP Writing Challenge from www.iposgoode.ca

The Intellectual Property Institute of Canada (IPIC) and IP Osgoode are delighted to announce our 2018 Canadian writing challenge in intellectual property law. Our goal is to further enhance thoughtful and well-researched intellectual property public ...

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