Book Review: Copyright User Rights, Contracts and The Erosion of Property from ipkitten.blogspot.com As some readers may be aware, this Kat proudly formed part of the team that created the online copyright education resource: www.CopyrightUser.org. The website aims to make UK copyright law accessible to copyright ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
Never Too Late: if you missed the IPKat last week! from ipkitten.blogspot.com The IPKat has survived the low temperatures of a stormy February and offers you a treat - the 184th edition of Never Too Late. Enjoy the latest and greatest of the IP world during the ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
Cutting Down Prior Appropriation: How Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Water Knife Warns Us About Water Rights in the West from patentlyo.com This is the second guest post coming from Michigan Law Professor Nicholson Price‘s seminar merging science fiction and legal analysis. The author here – Kamie Cashette points her sights on the 2015 novel by American ...
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USPTO Issues Memo Clarifying Written Description Guidance from www.patentdocs.org By Donald Zuhn –- In a memorandum distributed last week to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office patent examining corps, Robert Bahr, the Deputy Commissioner for Patent Examination Policy, sought to clarify the Office's ...
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USPTO Rejects Use Of Tribal Sovereign Immunity In Allergan Patent Deal from www.ip-watch.org Native American tribes’ sovereign immunity can’t be used to avoid inter partes review (IPR) of patent validity, the US Patent and Trademark Office Patent and Appeal Board (PTAB) has ruled in a first-of-its-kind case.
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Startup Patent Strategy: US Patent Non-Publication from ipassetmaximizerblog.com The Takeaway: For startups whose development efforts lag behind a looming US utility application filing deadline, use of the “Request for Non-Publication” in US patent filing can allow them to preserve the option of shoring ...
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Video Gaming Industry Issues Attack On WHO’s Proposed Gaming Disorder Classification from www.ip-watch.org Teens’ (and others’) life-altering obsession with video gaming is well-known to almost any parent in most countries around the world, and the World Health Organization recently identified it as an addiction called “gaming disorder.” Today ...
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EU Commission’s Proposed Measures Against Illegal Online Content Include IP Infringement from www.ip-watch.org The European Commission today recommended a set of operational measures against a wide range of online content considered illegal, lumping intellectual property rights-infringing material in with that of terrorists, child sexual abusers, hate speech, and ...
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‘Claiming’ Third at the International Patent Drafting Competition from www.iposgoode.ca How many ways can you describe a lawn sign? A few months ago, we could have maybe thought of a handful. Today, after 2 months of preparing for the International Patent Drafting Competition, we have ...
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Vibration Attenuation Patent Invalid Under 35 U.S.C. § 101 from docketreport.blogspot.com The court granted defendant's motion for summary judgment of invalidity because the asserted claims of plaintiff’s vibration attenuating patent encompassed unpatentable subject matter and found that the claims were directed to a law ...
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A Celebratory Book Launch for Professor Pascale Chapdelaine from www.iposgoode.ca On January 19, 2018, IP Osgoode and the Windsor Law’s LTec LAB co-hosted a book launch for Prof. Pascale Chapdelaine’s new book, Copyright User Rights, Contracts, and the Erosion of Property. The event ...
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PTAB Reconstruing Claims: Estoppel? from patentlyo.com Knowles Electronics v. Cirrus Logic (Fed. Cir. 2018) [Knowles Case] Construing Claims: In a 2011 decision, the Federal Circuit construed the claims of Knowles Electronics’ U.S. Patent No. 6,781,231, including the claim ...
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Study: TRIPS Flexibilities Widely Used By Countries, Contrary To Reports from www.ip-watch.org Despite the widespread view that the flexibilities included in international trade rules are not being used very often, a new study found that countries make extensive use of those flexibilities.
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St. Regis Mohawk Tribe and Allergan Appeal Denial of Motion to Dismiss on Sovereign Immunity Grounds from www.patentdocs.org By Kevin E. Noonan -- Clearly wishing to maintain the momentum and initiative in its inter partes review proceedings before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, the St ...
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