A ‘Heads-Up’ for Selected Patent Applicants: IP Australia Trialling Pre-Exam...
From 25 January 2016 IP Australia has commenced a trial of a pre-examination notification process. Under this process, which will initially be applied to 900 pending patent applications, a...
View ArticleSurviving Alice: Signs that the patent market has weathered the Alice storm,...
Alice certainly has dealt a huge blow to patent market, reversing the growth momentum of most market players, big or small. However, the decline in patent sales revenue has significantly decelerated to...
View ArticleComputer and Internet Weekly Updates for 2016-02-06
Google crosses borders. The tax collectors should too | Jonathan Freedland https://t.co/bqlOn020x5 -> FCA reverses decision on recovery of T24 royalties Rogers v. SOCAN https://t.co/N5LEjxbqZN ->...
View ArticleSurviving Alice: Signs that the patent market has weathered the Alice storm,...
Alice certainly has dealt a huge blow to patent market, reversing the growth momentum of most market players, big or small. However, the decline in patent sales revenue has significantly decelerated to...
View ArticleJosé Luis López, juventud y creatividad en ciencia
Por Roxana de León Agencia Informativa CONACYT San Luis Potosí, San Luis Potosí. 4 de febrero de 2016 (Agencia Informativa Conacyt).- José Luis López Ruiz, estudiante de ingeniería ambiental en el...
View ArticleDoes the TPP Protect Canadian Cultural Policy?
This is a guest post by Peter Grant. Peter S. Grant is Counsel at McCarthy Tétrault LLP. He is an expert on communications and cultural policy, and the co-author of Blockbusters and Trade Wars:...
View ArticleThe USPTO harms the economy with over-aggressive, haphazard Alice-based 101...
It is poor patent policy to have broad areas of technology deemed patent-ineligible entirely, or ineligible without the high cost of attorney time to argue, and likely appeal, amorphous Alice-type...
View ArticleThe USPTO harms the economy with over-aggressive, haphazard Alice-based 101...
It is poor patent policy to have broad areas of technology deemed patent-ineligible entirely, or ineligible without the high cost of attorney time to argue, and likely appeal, amorphous Alice-type...
View ArticleNinth Circuit Resolves Two of the Facebook Sponsored Stories Lawsuits
The litigation over Facebook’s sponsored stories occurred what seems like eons ago. Recently, the last of it wrapped up (although the latest ruling is the subject of a petition for rehearing en banc)....
View ArticleIRAP (-)
Der Begriff „IRAP“ ist mangels Unterscheidungskraft für Waren und Dienstleistungen der Klassen 1, 5, 10, 42 und 44 nicht eintragungsfähig. Der im vorliegenden Fall allein relevante Fachverkehr versteht...
View ArticlePresentation: Rights and Restrictions of Photography
Photo by Kristin Boyd Join Photo Attorney®, Carolyn E. Wright, for a presentation on the rights and restrictions of photography at the Carson City Library in Carson City, Nevada, at 6 p.m., on...
View ArticleIBM loses appeal at CAFC against Intellectual Ventures on IPR2014-00180
KENNETH R. ADAMO of Kirkland & Ellis LLP argued for IBM.link: http://www.cafc.uscourts.gov/sites/default/files/opinions-orders/15-1837.Rule_36_Judgment.2-5-2016.1.PDFThe IPR related to U.S. Patent...
View ArticleClient’s scathing Yelp reviews net divorce attorney $350,000 in damages
(credit: Chris Potter) A Florida appeals court has upheld a $350,000 (£240,000) damages award to a divorce attorney whose client posted defamatory reviews about the lawyer on Yelp and online legal site...
View ArticleBook Review: Indigenous Intellectual Property
Almighty tomes occasionally cross this Kat's desk for review, and she was very excited to receive her copy of Edward Elgar's Indigenous Intellectual Property. Part of the publisher's series of research...
View ArticleEthicon: What Powers Can the Director Delegate to the Patent Trial &...
By Dennis Crouch This is my second post[1] on the Federal Circuit’s 2016 decision Ethicon.[2] The case focuses on the institution and later proceedings of inter partes reviews (IPRs). The first stage...
View ArticleThe Battle for the Web: Five Years After Egypt's #Jan25 Uprising
Behind the Western-supported government of President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi’s lies a troubling trend threatening free speech in Egypt. CPJ’s latest figures list Egypt as the second highest jailer of...
View ArticleUK, Dutch police may use attack eagles to take down drones
As tensions mount over civilian usage of drones in the UK, London's Metropolitan Police is considering using eagles to snatch illicit quadcopters out of the sky. Last week, a Dutch security...
View ArticleFederal Circuit Limits Attorneys’ Fees in Exceptional Cases
Two weeks ago, the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals limited the factors a district court may consider in determining the amount of attorneys’ fees to award in an “exceptional” patent infringement case....
View ArticleWhy Trump’s love of eminent domain should concern patent owners
Donald Trump argued at the New Hampshire debate that our nation’s infrastructure would not happen without eminent domain. While economic development as a justification for eminent domain has been...
View ArticleSamsung patent counterstrike against Nvidia falls flat
(credit: Nvidia) In 2014, Nvidia filed its first-ever patent lawsuit. The target was Korean smartphone giant Samsung. Predictably, Samsung struck back—but a jury's verdict that came out on Friday shows...
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