Houston, we have an IP problem: when the elite media gets it wrong
This Kat begins by recalling once again Jeremy Phillip’s valedictory admonition about the inability of the media to understand IP. The media is the gatekeeper by which IP reaches the public. All of us...
View ArticleShow # 244 — Prof. Andrea Matwyshyn on the DMCA and security researchers —...
This has been a crazy semester. Thus, I am delinquent in posting shows from this quarter. I am about to update the record. Let’s start with Show # 244, October 2, my interview with Prof. Andrea...
View ArticleAustralian Appeals Court Kills Another Patent on a Computer-Implemented...
On 11 December 2015, a Full Bench of the Federal Court of Australia handed down a unanimous judgment in Commissioner of Patents v RPL Central Pty Ltd [2015] FCAFC 177, overturning the decision of the...
View ArticleWebinar on PTAB Appeals Before the Federal Circuit
Strafford will be offering a webinar/teleconference entitled "Preparing for and Navigating PTAB Appeals Before the Federal Circuit -- Conducting PTAB Trials With Eye to Appeal, Determining Errors for...
View ArticleWebinar on Written Description and Functional Claiming
The American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA) will be offering a webinar entitled "STRANGLEHOLD! Written Description and Functional Claiming in the Chemical and Biotech Arts" on January 7,...
View ArticleWebinar on Top Patent Law Stories of 2015
McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP will be offering a live webinar on the "Top Patent Law Stories of 2015" on January 21, 2016 from 10:00 am to 11:15 am (CT). For the past eight years, the...
View ArticleUSPTO Notice of Allowance Post-Alice Does Not Prevent Finding of...
In holding claims directed to a computer search system patent-ineligible under 35 U.S.C. § 101, Delaware Magistrate Judge Thynge rejected an argument that the patent should survive Alice scrutiny...
View ArticleComputer and Internet Weekly Updates for 2015-12-12
Computer and Internet Weekly Updates for 2015-12-05 https://t.co/5l5ik30uBq -> Computer and Internet Weekly Updates for 2015-12-05: Trans-Pacific Trade and the Intellectual Property Challen…...
View ArticleOnly ‘Expenses’ Not ‘Attorney Fees’ Should Be Awarded Under Section 21(b) of...
Section 1071(b)(3) does not expressly or implicitly permit the award of “attorney fees” to the PTO. Specifically, Section 1071(b)(3) states simply that all the expenses of the proceeding shall be paid...
View ArticleOnly ‘Expenses’ Not ‘Attorney Fees’ Should Be Awarded Under Section 21(b) of...
Section 1071(b)(3) does not expressly or implicitly permit the award of “attorney fees” to the PTO. Specifically, Section 1071(b)(3) states simply that all the expenses of the proceeding shall be paid...
View ArticleCBS Sunday Morning on December 13, 2015
Charles Osgood introduced the stories for December 13, 2015. The cover story is by Rita Braver on Amy Cuddy, In Good Standing. Second, Tracy Smith on Will Smith. Third John Blackstone on Michael Lewis...
View ArticlePatents, a system that works – On the record with Bruce Kisliuk
Bruce Kisliuk: "I think over time that pendulum will swing back. I think the nature of the business is that it’s likely going to come by successive case law decisions, I think we’re going slowly see...
View ArticlePatents, a system that works – On the record with Bruce Kisliuk
Bruce Kisliuk: "I think over time that pendulum will swing back. I think the nature of the business is that it’s likely going to come by successive case law decisions, I think we’re going slowly see...
View ArticleExpanding the Framework for Enhanced Patent Damages
So far this term, the Supreme Court has agreed to hear only one patent issue – enhanced damages, a.k.a. willfulness. Two separate lawsuits have been joined together for the Supreme Court hearing:...
View ArticleU.S. Copyright Office Updates Their “Fair Use” Database
This past April the U.S. Copyright Office launched the U.S. Copyright Office’s Fair Use Index, designed to provide the public with searchable summaries of major fair use decisions. They just updated...
View ArticleSumner Redstone's Ex Points to Mogul's "Forged" Signature
Manuela Herzer also states that a declaration from Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman was "riddled with falsehoods."read more
View ArticleMerger of Dow and DuPont set to make huge waves in agriculture, materials and...
No one should get too used to seeing the name DowDuPont, however. Company executives plan on splitting DowDuPont into three separate companies, each with a specific industry focus. One will be a $19...
View ArticleMerger of Dow and DuPont set to make huge waves in agriculture, materials and...
No one should get too used to seeing the name DowDuPont, however. Company executives plan on splitting DowDuPont into three separate companies, each with a specific industry focus. One will be a $19...
View ArticlePatentan en EU hologramas médicos 3D, inventados en México
Por Antimio Cruz Dos solicitudes de patente fueron presentadas en Estados Unidos en marzo y agosto de este año para proteger un invento mexicano que permite mirar los órganos internos del cuerpo humano...
View ArticleApoyan innovación aeroespacial en México
Por Antimio Cruz La aceleradora de negocios de base tecnológica TechBA, de la Fundación México-Estados Unidos para la Ciencia (FUMEC), se reunió entre el 30 de noviembre y el 4 de diciembre de 2015...
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