Patent & IP news for February 24, 2018

Repair or reconstruction: Where do you draw the line for exhaustion under patent law? from ipkitten.blogspot.com



What can the buyer of a patented product do with the product in question under the doctrine of exhaustion? Stated otherwise: when does the use of a patented invention fall outside the scope of what ...

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They Invented What? (No. 36) from anticipatethis.wordpress.com

Originally posted on Anticipate This!™ | Patent and Trademark Law Blog:
U.S. Pat. No. 4,639,236:  Toy vehicle and launcher.   Background: This invention relates to a toy in general and in specific to a ...

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Battle about plagiarism on Facebook; Francine Prose speaks for earlier work, now copied. from ipbiz.blogspot.com


From the Guardian:


Not different enough, according to a series of barbed Facebook posts by the novelist and critic Francine Prose. That “debt”, she wrote, “is a scene by scene, plot-turn by plot-turn, gesture by ...

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At. Regis Mohawk/Allergan lose at PTAB from ipbiz.blogspot.com


in DECISION, Denying the Tribe’s Motion to Terminate, 37 C.F.R. §§ 42.5, 42.72 (23 Feb 2018), PTAB stated:



Upon consideration of the record, and for the reasons discussed
below, we determine ...

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