Stewing from www.patenthawk.com Over a third of district court patent decisions are overturned, at least in part, on appeal. That's a lot of mulligan stew. Claim construction, requiring a rather intricate reading of ingredients, seems particularly vexing ...
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Elevated from www.patenthawk.com An 11th-hour confirmation in the lame duck 111th Congressional session: Northern District of Ohio Judge Kate O'Malley fills a vacant slot on the CAFC. Her honor is the only district court judge in U ...
Fine Print from www.patenthawk.com Lazare Kaplan International owns patents claiming laser microinscribing of gemstones. Two of them, 6,476,351 and descendant 7,010,938, were asserted against PhotoScribe and others. Claim construction resulted in a summary judgment of ...
You know what “PHONECASTING” is don’t you? I have to admit that I didn’t have a clue what “PHONECASTING” was until I listened to the oral argument of In re Sharp. Never having ...
The Commonwealth Senate’s Community Affairs committee tabled its report into the patenting of genes towards the end of last month.
After commenting on the still continuing cases (in both the USA and here), the ...
(Apparently) unlike its Australian counterpart, the High Court in England has reportedly found copyright in newspaper headlines (here and here).
In a variation on the theme, the Court of Appeal has referred a number of ...
Back in May, the Copyright Tribunal bumped up the fee payable for using recorded music in gym classes to $15 a class or $1 per attendee.
The Full Court has an allowed an “appeal” from ...
IPwars has headed off for the summer sun.
Thank you for reading during the year, I hope you found something interesting and informative.
In the meantime, I wish you the compliments of the season and ...
This week I got the impression that high tech companies -- especially if they're in the smartphone business -- now send each other patent suits instead of Christmas cards. Yesterday (23 December 2010) was particularly eventful ...