Patent & IP news for March 8, 2018

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post image Gutenberg.org loses to German publisher and is found liable for damages from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Every cat likes a good bookIn a year-long legal battle between the ‘not-for-profit-corporation’ Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, its CEO and the German publishing house S. Fischer Verlag GmbH, the District Court of Frankfurt ...

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post image Never Too Late: if you missed the IPKat last week! from ipkitten.blogspot.com

The 185th edition of Never Too Late is here with everything that happened on IPKat last week. The highlight of the week was IPKat's exclusive interview with the CEO of the Canadian ...

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post image If it's not on the internet, does it not exist? from ipbiz.blogspot.com


In a recent post titled "But nothing can ever truly be deleted on the Internet" , IPBiz questioned whether it was true that "nothing" can be deleted from the internet.

On the flip side, a certain ...

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Joe Newman reprised at the writtendescription blog from ipbiz.blogspot.com

Michael Risch has a post on the Newman saga titled The Quest to Patent Perpetual Motion .

I tried to write a comment, but because I had logged on from a machine (not my own) I ...

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Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership May Differ Significantly from TPP from www.patentdocs.org

By Kevin E. Noonan -- In the wake of President Trump's decision to withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (see "Why President Trump Is Wrong about Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement"), the other countries involved in negotiations (Australia ...

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Dismissed with Prejudice from patentlyo.com

Ottah v. Fiat (Fed. Cir. 2018) On appeal, the Federal Circuit has affirmed the lower court’s dismissal of Chikezie Ottah’s infringement claim against Fiat, Toyota, Nissan, GM, Ford, and other auto manufacturers — holding ...

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Inside Views: Fair Use/Fair Dealing Week 2018 Highlights Balance In The Copyright System from www.ip-watch.org

The fifth annual Fair Use/Fair Dealing Week took place February 26–March 2, 2018, growing to 153 participating organizations—as well as numerous individuals—celebrating the important and flexible doctrines of fair use and ...

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Inside Views: What We Know – And What We Don’t – About Counterfeit Goods And Small Parcels from www.ip-watch.org

Cross-border e-commerce is growing exponentially. Consumers can purchase products from all over the world and have them delivered straight to their doors with just the click of a button. In fact, the U.S. Postal ...

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The CAFC discusses 101 in Exergen v. Kaz from ipbiz.blogspot.com

Although Exergen v. Kaz is non-precedential, it tackles a variety of issues, including 101, right to jury trial,
and damages.

Of 101,


What the parties
dispute, however, is whether the additional claimed steps
beyond calculating ...

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En Banc Oral Argument: NantKwest v. Iancu from www.717madisonplace.com

The Federal Circuit sat en banc today and heard the oral argument in NantKwest v. Iancu.  The case concerns the issue of whether the USPTO can chill efforts by an applicant to seek review by ...

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‘Mede In China’: US Customs May Bring In Rights-Holders To Help Stop Counterfeits from www.ip-watch.org

The United States Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) this week said it is considering sharing more information with the intellectual property rights holders about possible counterfeit goods entering the US, in order to improve prevention ...

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US Generic-Named Food Industries Cry For US Government Help Against ‘Relentlessly Aggressive EU’ from www.ip-watch.org

Something that was unimaginable just a few years ago: What if Americans could not buy ordinary bologna, feta or parmesan cheese? Or worse, make them and export them under those names? The industry group in ...

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New TPP Still Most Advanced IP Trade Agreement Ever, Think Tank Says from www.ip-watch.org

The Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) is on track to offer "the most advanced and detailed standards on intellectual property in a trade agreement to date" despite revisions scaling back the IP ...

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