Patent & IP news for March 15, 2018

Infighting at Nigeria’s main collecting society – Powers of the sector regulator from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Katfriend and AfroIP blogger Chijioke Ifeoma Okorie returns on a topic that has been increasingly at the centre of attention recently: collective rights management and collecting societies in Nigeria.
Here’s what Chijioke Ifeoma writes ...

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Spanish Supreme Court puts an end to a “sui generis” case concerning database “sui generis” right from ipkitten.blogspot.com

(Probably) *Not* a
database right-inspired bandThe Database Directive has been around for a while, yet it is arguable that one of its crucial aspects, this being the sui generis (database) right, has remained somewhat ...

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General Court confirms that ‘La Mafia se sienta a la mesa’ cannot be a trade mark on public policy grounds from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Can ‘La Mafia se sienta a la mesa’ [‘se sienta a la mesa’ means ‘takes a seat at the table’] be registered as a figurative EU trade mark (EUTM) [see right] for a variety of ...

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Does ‘Glen’ make you think of Scottish whisky? Advocate General Saugmandsgaard Øe does not think so from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Scotch or not?‘Glen Buchenbach’ is the name of a whisky that is produced by the Waldhorn distillery in Berglen, situated in the Buchenbach valley in Swabia (Baden-Württemberg, Germany). The Scotch Whisky Association from ...

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Blogs: The Newest Form of Communication from patentlyo.com

Although the point of the new ABA Formal Ethics Opinion is important–“don’t reveal information relating to the representation”–its first paragraph appears at least a decade behind.  The article begins: Lawyers comment on ...

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Previously Undisclosed Market Share Apportionment Theory Stricken From Expert Report from docketreport.blogspot.com

The court overruled plaintiff's objections to the magistrate judge's order partially striking the report of plaintiff's damages expert. "⁠[Plaintiff] contends . . . all of the information [the expert] relied upon in forming his market ...

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Key Drug Innovations Often Don’t See Market Rewards, Academic Says from www.ip-watch.org

There is little evidence that more innovative or therapeutically valuable pharmaceutical products are rewarded, or that patents are the best way to do so, Economics Professor Margaret Kyle of the Centre d’économie industrielle of ...

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Intellectual Ventures [IV] loses at CAFC in appeal of decision by Judge Stark in SYMANTEC CORP case from ipbiz.blogspot.com


From the case at D. Delaware, IV v. SYMANTEC CORP :


We have considered IV’s other arguments and find
them without merit. For the foregoing reasons, and for
those expressed in more detail in the ...

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CAFC reverses ED Pa in DOMINION ENERGY case; expert witness skewered from ipbiz.blogspot.com


The appellant Alstom prevailed.


This is an appeal from a final judgment following a
jury trial in a patent infringement case. Alstom Grid LLC
(“Alstom Grid”) appeals the district court’s (1) denial of
judgment ...

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Hrdy: A Response to ‘Innovation Kills Jobs’ from patentlyo.com

Last week I posted a discussion of Prof. Hrdy’s intriguing new article on Technological Un/employment.  Prof. Hrdy has now provided a short response that basically explains how I took a portion of her ...

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PTAB Releases Orange Book-Listed Patent Study from www.patentdocs.org

By Andrew Williams -- Pharmaceutical patent owners have been one of the more vocal groups decrying the creation and existence of inter partes reviews and other PTAB post-issuance proceedings. And for good reason. Congress enacted the ...

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