Interoperability and the W3C: Defending the Future from the Present
Imagine a new, disruptive company figured out a way to let hundreds of people watch a single purchased copy of a movie, even though the rightsholders who made that movie objected. The new company...
View ArticleThe Fourth Circuit goes One Worlder on us
Question: If Marty Schwimmer, John Welch, and LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION® all agree on something — besides Meet the Bloggers — how could it be wrong? Answer: If the Fourth Circuit says it’s wrong....
View ArticleNIH Pressured to Misuse Bayh-Dole to Control Drug Prices
Secretary Burwell and Director Collins are facing formidable pressure to reinterpret the Bayh-Dole Act for the compulsory licensing of costly drugs arising from federally supported research. And the...
View ArticleNIH Pressured to Misuse Bayh-Dole to Control Drug Prices
Secretary Burwell and Director Collins are facing formidable pressure to reinterpret the Bayh-Dole Act for the compulsory licensing of costly drugs arising from federally supported research. And the...
View ArticleM&A implications of recent Federal actions regarding corruption and bribery
Over the past decade, Canada has joined a growing coalition of governments from around the world in toughening its stance against the improper influencing of foreign and domestic government officials....
View ArticlePatent Lawsuits Should Not Be Shrouded in Secrecy
EFF Moves To Unseal Important Rulings Regarding Repeat Litigant Blue Spike The public has a First Amendment right to access court records, and that right is generally only curtailed when there is “good...
View ArticleFlo Rida Sued for Sending Entourage to Hollywood Charity Party in His Place
According to a suit filed on March 25, City Project Gala is seeking $390,000 for breach of contract after the rapper failed to show up to a black tie event at the Playboy Mansion and sent 23 members of...
View ArticleCJEU on taser, ahm, tacit prorogation of jurisdiction
This judgment of 17 March 2016 concerning a referral from Romania concerns primarily civil procedural law, but since it has arisen in the context of a trade mark assignment agreement, is worth...
View ArticleEmplean ultrasonido y microondas para obtener biocombustible
AUTOR: Felipe Sánchez FUENTE: AGENCIA INFORMATIVA CONACYT Saltillo, Coahuila. 22 de marzo de 2016 (Agencia Informativa Conacyt).- El Departamento de Biotecnología de la Facultad de Ciencias Químicas...
View ArticleImprovements in Measuring Patent Quality Metrics
Blog by Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO Michelle K. Lee Through the Enhanced Patent Quality Initiative (EPQI) which we announced in February 2015, the...
View ArticleMark Tarallo Teaching at IP & Entrepreneurship Clinic
Attorney Mark Tarallo will teach at the Intellectual Property & Entrepreneurship Clinic of Suffolk Law School tomorrow on the subject of Choice of Entity. Key topics that will be discussed: Choice...
View ArticlePatent Trial & Appeal Board Institutes 17 Inter Partes Reviews for TCL...
In Fiscal Year 2015, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“PTAB”) instituted inter partes reviews (“IPR”) on approximately 68% of petitions filed. Overcoming these odds, the PTAB recently instituted 17...
View ArticleTrump Campaign Sued for Copyright Infringement for Using Bald Eagle Photo
IPNews® - Wildlife photographers Wendy Shattil and Robert Rozinski are suing Donald Trump’s campaign for copyright infringement, after one of their photos was found on merchandise for the GOP...
View ArticleDesarrollan hilo para operaciones de glaucoma
AUTOR: Israel Pérez FUENTE: AGENCIA INFORMATIVA CONACYT Santiago de Querétaro, Querétaro. 23 de marzo de 2016 (Agencia Informativa Conacyt).- Con la finalidad de innovar en una tecnología que brinde...
View ArticleNulidad de un registro de marca por error o inadvertencia de la autoridad.
En posts anteriores habíamos desarrollado lo relacionado a la nulidad de un registro de marca por las causales consistentes en datos falsos y en uso previo. Ahora trataremos el tema de la nulidad de un...
View ArticleCloudFlare: 94 percent of the Tor traffic we see is “per se malicious”
(credit: Ben Salter) More than ever, websites are blocking users of the anonymizing Tor network or degrading the services they receive. Data published today by Web security company CloudFlare suggests...
View ArticleImpulsa la UABCS cultivo de mango orgánico
AUTOR: Joel Cosio FUENTE: AGENCIA INFORMATIVA CONACYT La Paz, Baja California Sur. 24 de marzo de 2016 (Agencia Informativa Conacyt).- El Departamento de Ciencias Agropecuarias de la Universidad...
View ArticleDell v. Acceleron – Fed Cir Says PTAB Wrong to Cancel Claim Based on Factual...
Now that inter partes review (IPR) has been around for a few years, more and more IPR decisions are making their way to the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (the “Fed Cir”). Ann Robl Now that...
View ArticleVictory: Court Orders Patent Bully Garfum To Pay Attorneys’ Fees
In a decision that could help other victims of abusive patent litigation, a court today ordered that Garfum.com Corporation must pay an EFF client’s attorneys’ fees. The court found that Garfum’s...
View ArticleIncentiva uso de estufas solares en regiones indígenas
AUTOR: Alejandro Durán FUENTE: AGENCIA INFORMATIVA CONACYT Morelia, Michoacán. 24 de marzo de 2016 (Agencia Informativa Conacyt).- El doctor en física Mauricio González Avilés, adscrito a la...
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