Patent & IP news for March 9, 2018

They Invented What? (No. 38) from anticipatethis.wordpress.com

Originally posted on Anticipate This!™ | Patent and Trademark Law Blog:
JW Note:  Sometimes I worry about the progress of science and the useful arts. U.S. Pat. No. 4,666,425:  Device for perfusing an ...

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AIPPI UK Event Report: Registration, notice and infringement - is certainty an illusion? from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Professor Bently kicks off his
talk last week with a "plan"Last Tuesday evening, brave (and frozen) IP professionals battled through the Beast of the East to Bristows’ Victoria Embankment offices in London for an ...

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German design law on the brink of change following yesterday's CJEU decision in DOCERAM v CeramTec from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Was Muffin's appearance solely dictated by
his technical function of squeezing into boxes?Yesterday, the CJEU issued it's decision on a referral from the Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court in a design right dispute ...

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Promega Corp. v. Life Technologies Corp. (Fed. Cir. 2017) from www.patentdocs.org

By Donald Zuhn –- At about this time last year, the Supreme Court reversed the Federal Circuit's determination that there are circumstances in which a party may be liable for infringement under 35 U.S ...

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Harvard University announces settlement of dispute with Micron over Gordon technology from ipbiz.blogspot.com

From a press release by Harvard on 2 March 2018:


Harvard and Micron have settled the litigation regarding the asserted Harvard-owned patents, on confidential terms. The patented technology, which was invented by Professor Roy G ...

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Clinical Activities Within § 271(e)(1) Safe Harbor Are Not “Acts of Infringement” For Determining Venue from docketreport.blogspot.com

The magistrate judge recommended granting defendants' motion for summary judgment of improper venue because there were no infringing acts in the district inasmuch as the accused activities fell under the safe harbor provision of 35 ...

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Eligible: Method of Measuring Body Temperature from patentlyo.com

by Dennis Crouch Exergen Corp. v. Kaz USA (Fed. Cir. 2018) Following trial, a jury sided with the patentee Exergen – finding the asserted body thermometer claims infringed and not-invalid.  Post trial, the District Court confirmed ...

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Sapna Kumar: The Fate Of "Innovation Nationalism" In The Age of Trump from writtendescription.blogspot.com

One of the biggest pieces of news last week was that President Trump will be imposing tariffs on foreign steel and aluminum because, he tweets, IF YOU DON'T HAVE STEEL, YOU DON'T HAVE ...

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