Around the IP Blogs! from ipkitten.blogspot.com It is time for the IPKat's tour of IP around the web! [Week 5-11 February]
Let's first focus on copyright. Can You Copyright a Pose? In the past, this question has already been ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
Listing of agencies with the most Administrative Law Judges from www.717madisonplace.com The US government’s office of personnel management keeps a list of how many administrative law judges are employed by each administrative agency. The OPM does not include the USPTO’s administrative patent judges on ...
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Who's in Charge Here? Or Is the PTAB Bound by USPTO Guidances? from www.patentdocs.org By Kevin E. Noonan -- In a decision from an appeal before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board following rejection of claims to an isolated nucleic acid apparently (to applicants) falling within the scope of U ...
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Isolating and Measuring a Natural Phenomenon from patentlyo.com by Dennis Crouch Ex Parte Simons, APPEAL 2016-002684 (Patent Tr. & App. Bd. Jan. 31, 2018) (Decision on Rehearing) In this case pending before the USPTO, Australian company Haplomic Technologies is seeking to patent a method ...
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New Chair’s Text On WIPO Broadcasting Treaty Reflects Country Proposals from www.ip-watch.org The chair of the World Intellectual Property Organization committee on copyright issued revised language last week on core articles of a potential treaty protecting broadcasting organisations against signal piracy. The document shows a trimmer set ...
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Data on the firs tyear of the Defend Trade Secrets Act from writtendescription.blogspot.com In preparing for the
Evil Twin Debate on the DTSA, David Levine (Elon) and Chris Seaman (Washington & Lee) were kind enough to share a draft of their empirical study of cases arising under the first ...
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Meritless Invalidity and Unenforceability Claim Justifies Award of Attorney Fees from docketreport.blogspot.com Following dismissal of plaintiff's invalidity and unenforceability claims for lack of standing and failure to state a claim, the court granted defendants' motion for attorney fees under 35 U.S.C. § 285 because plaintiff ...
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E-cigarettes is the fastest growing patent classification; followed by 3-D printing and machine learning from ipcloseup.com Vaping may not be a turn-on for everyone, but the fastest growing United States Patent and Trademark Office category over the past five years is e-cigarettes, with a compound annual growth rate of 45%. Much ...
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USPTO Anticipates Slight Decline In Patent Filings, Including For PCT from www.ip-watch.org The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is predicting a slight decline in some patent filings for 2018 and 2019, including through the international Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) managed by the World Intellectual Property ...
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Extra-record evidence and the Supreme Court from www.717madisonplace.com A couple of the Justices got a little bit exercised during the oral argument of City of Hays, Kansas v. Vogt, at the U.S. Supreme Court today. Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Breyer had ...
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