They Invented What? (No. 39) from anticipatethis.wordpress.com U.S. Pat. No.6,702,582: Device and method for solving circles. JW Note: In honor of Pi Day. We hope you celebrated on time (3/14 at 1:59 PM . . . Einstein’s Birthday ...
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Irish Government proposes introduction of Irish text and data mining exception from ipkitten.blogspot.com Readers may recall that back in 2013 the Irish Review Committee released a very interesting report, aimed at Modernising Copyright in this EU Member State [see here, here, here, here, here].
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Examples of Linguistic (In)definiteness from patentlyo.com After reading his recent law review note on indefiniteness, I asked Michigan Law student Gary Fox to apply his framework to the new Federal Circuit decision of Capital Security Systems, Inc. v. NCR Corp. – DC ...
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US Copyright Royalty Board Boosts Songwriters’ Streaming Pay Nearly 50% from www.ip-watch.org Variety reports: The [US] Copyright Royalty Board has ruled to increase songwriter rates for interactive streaming by nearly 50% over the next five years, in a ruling issued early Saturday. Equally important, the CRB simplified ...
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Sir John Sulston, Human Genome Project Leader, Remembered For Words On IP And Health R&D from www.ip-watch.org Nobel Prize winner Sir John Sulston passed away on 6 March at the age of 75, and was widely remembered in the press and scientific circles, celebrating his research, his wisdom, and his leadership of ...
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Post-Trial Amendment of Pleadings Permitted to Assert Alter-Ego Claim Against Bankrupt Defendant’s Individual Owners from docketreport.blogspot.com Following a $30 million jury verdict and defendant's filing for bankruptcy, the court granted plaintiff's motion to amend its complaint to add defendant's co-owners as defendants along with alter ego and veil-piercing ...
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UN Member States Briefed On Innovation And Access To Health Technologies: Part 1 from www.ip-watch.org NEW YORK -- A major event on innovation and access to health technologies took place at the United Nations in New York last week, in which UN member states were briefed on ideas and efforts to ...
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For Predictable Arts: Written Description of Genus Satisfied by Single Species Disclosure and Fact that Other Members of Genus are Well Known in the Art from patentlyo.com by Dennis Crouch 35 U.S.C. 112(a) requires that a patent specification include a “written description of the invention, and of the manner and process of making and using it, in such full ...
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Hologic loses appeal at CAFC on Pi Day 2018 from ipbiz.blogspot.com The outcome
Appellant Hologic, Inc. initiated an inter partes reexamination of U.S. Patent No. 8,061,359, which is owned by Appellees Smith & Nephew, Inc. and Covidien LP (together, “S&N;”). S&N;’s ... Share via E–mail | Twitter | Facebook
The USPTO and access to experts from www.717madisonplace.com I thought it was interesting that during the recent en banc oral argument of NantKwest v. Iancu that the PTO acknowledged that it had access to experts for purposes of a §145 action in US ...
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Senators Introduce Bill to Abrogate Tribal Sovereign Immunity from www.patentdocs.org By Kevin E. Noonan -- In a development that could moot (once and for all) the controversy over tribal sovereign immunity occasioned by the St. Regis Mohawk Tribe's ownership of patents relating to Allergan's ...
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