Patent & IP news for February 22, 2018

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post image More than Just a Game (Report 2): Music, video games, GDPR <span class="amp">&amp;</span> technical protective&nbsp;measures from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Finding it impossible to participate in real-life sports,
the AmeriKat, and her tiny paws, found solace in the world
of video games
Now in its fourth year, the More than Just a Game conference organized ...

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post image Around the IP&nbsp;Blogs! from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Another IP-busy week has gone by, giving plenty of inspiration to the IPKat! Let’s peep at what other IP-friendly blogs have said.

Trade MarksThis can’t be comfortableSolo IPinvites its readers ...

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post image More than Just a Game (Report 3): Loot boxes and&nbsp;gambling from ipkitten.blogspot.com

A box full of kitten loot - not to be confused with "loot boxes"
in the video game context
Now in its fourth year, the More than Just a Game conference organized by Queen Mary University ...

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post image Top 10 issues from submissions before UK Supreme Court in Warner-Lambert v Actavis second medical use&nbsp;battle from ipkitten.blogspot.com

The IPKat and team watching last week's Supreme
Court hearing...
Like many across the IP world, the IPKat was glued to his computer screen last week watching the drama unfold in the UK Supreme ...

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post image UK IPO publishes consultation on implementing Trade Mark Directive 2015 into UK&nbsp;law from ipkitten.blogspot.com

UK IPO - loving the public consultations on European
directives at the moment....
Monday was a blockbuster day for the UK Intellectual Property Office (UK IPO) in publishing consultations on implementing EU legislation into national law ...

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USPTO News&nbsp;Briefs from www.patentdocs.org

By Donald Zuhn –- USPTO and EAPO Establish PPH Pilot Program In a notice issued in the Official Gazette (1446 OG 52) last month, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office announced that it was implementing ...

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Patenting Artificial Intelligence Might Hamper Progress, EFF&nbsp;Says from www.ip-watch.org

The Electronic Frontier Foundation launched a project last year to measure progress in artificial intelligence innovations and understand the legal, political, and technical issues potentially raised by those inventions. Some eight months later, the project ...

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Rising Patent Applications – And Challenges – For New Technologies, Artificial&nbsp;Intelligence from www.ip-watch.org

The steady increase in innovations relating to new digital technologies, in particular technologies using artificial intelligence, is matched by an upward patenting trend. The European Patent Office recently issued a study on the subject and ...

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“We Count On The US To Maintain Its Commitment” – Gavi On US Budget&nbsp;Cut from www.ip-watch.org

Some international organisations are having to gear up to address proposed cuts to their budgets announced this month by the United States, in many cases the major funder. Geneva-based Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, this week ...

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Aesthetic-Functionality Test Does Not Apply to Design&nbsp;Patents from docketreport.blogspot.com

The court denied plaintiff's motion for summary judgment that defendant's auto body part design patents were invalid and rejected plaintiff's argument that the aesthetic-functionality test should apply to design patents. "For at ...

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Contigiani, Barankay <span class="amp">&amp;</span> Hsu on the Innovation Costs of Inevitable Disclosure&nbsp;Doctrine from writtendescription.blogspot.com

For those looking on more trade secret empirics after Michael's post on Tuesday: Researchers at the Wharton School—Andrea Contigiani, Iwan Barankay, and David Hsu—have an interesting empirical study of the inevitable disclosure ...

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Google loses appeal in AT HOME BONDHOLDERS' case; CAFC observes: Silence is not a&nbsp;genus. from ipbiz.blogspot.com


Google lost its appeal of adverse IPR decisions at the CAFC


Google LLC (“Google”) appeals from two final written
decisions of the United States Patent and Trademark
Office Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“the Board ...

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Eligibility: A Factual Dispute Requires you to Allege&nbsp;Facts from patentlyo.com

The recent non-precedential opinion of Automated Tracking Solutions v. Coca Cola provides something of a backstop to AATRIX and Berkheimer.   The ATS panel includes Judges Moore and Stoll – the two leading judges pushing for more ...

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Is the PTAB bound by USPTO&nbsp;guidance? from ipbiz.blogspot.com


The discussion at Patent Docs on Ex parte Lukyanov, U.S. Appl. Ser. No. 11/607,828 at
Who's in Charge Here? Or Is the PTAB Bound by USPTO Guidances?

Note text:


It seems ...

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Overlap and Redundancy in the IP System: Is it indeed ‘too much of the&nbsp;same’? from www.iposgoode.ca

As a lawyer, I perceived overlapping legal rights to be a reasonable attempt of the legislators to cover the numerous nuances of the empirical reality. However, prior to my attendance at IP Osgoode’s symposium ...

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Panelists Share Thoughts on Users’ Rights in the Fields of Patents, Trademarks and&nbsp;Copyrights from www.iposgoode.ca

On Monday November 20th, 2017 scholars, students, practitioners and IP enthusiasts alike gathered at Osgoode Hall Law School for a symposium in honour of Prof. David Vaver’s appointment to the Order of Canada. The ...

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Patent Eligibility: Handling Disputed Issues of Material&nbsp;Fact from patentlyo.com

Following the Federal Circuit’s decisions in Berkheimer, AATRIX, and ATS, the role of evidence and factual conclusions in the eligibility analysis is in a somewhat confused state. That setup makes Cleveland Clinic’s recent ...

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Motions to Amend at the PTAB -- Does Anyone Have the Burden (And Will That&nbsp;Change)? from www.patentdocs.org

By Andrew Williams -- Last year, the Federal Circuit decided the Aqua Products, Inc. v. Matal case en banc in what could be considered the epitome of a fractured decision. After 148 pages and five separate ...

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