Australian High Court to Rule on Obviousness
At 10.15am this coming Wednesday (2 September 2015) the Australian High Court will hand down its decision in the appeal by AstraZeneca AB against last year’s ruling, by a a special five-judge panel of...
View ArticleCase: Orion Corporation v Actavis Pty Ltd [2015] FCA 909 (21 August 2015)Judge: Rares JA combination of three known active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) called levodopa, carbidopa and entacapone,...
View ArticleAcquired distinctiveness of product shape marks: AG Wathelet does not “rely”...
Not so very long ago the IPKat hosted this guest post from Roland Mallinson on the subject of Nestlé's application to register its chocolate finger shape as a trade mark: has this application been...
View ArticlePosting comments on the IPKat: a new policy
Disguise is fine ...A few months ago, when Merpel's blogposts on the goings-on at the European Patent Office attracted a large number of comments, she instituted a rule that readers' comments would...
View ArticleAutonomous Vehicle Technologies Abroad: Toyota, Honda and Hyundai
We identified a total of 54 patented autonomous vehicle technologies in the holdings of the Toyota Motor Corp. (NYSE:TM), the largest foreign competitor among major auto manufacturers. These patents...
View ArticleComputer and Internet Weekly Updates for 2015-08-29
Computer and Internet Weekly Updates for 2015-08-22 http://t.co/hkfW47Zzbj -> Computer and Internet Weekly Updates for 2015-08-22: Computer and Internet Updates for 2015-08-15 htt…...
View ArticleEffective Date Set for Fine-Tuned Experimental Licensing Rules; Comment...
A month or two ago we reported on some fine-tuning of the FCC’s experimental licensing rules. This arose in the context of the Commission’s consideration of several petitions for reconsideration of...
View ArticleSunday Morning on August 30, 2015
Martha Teichner did the cover story on New Orleans afterKatrina. Ended with a "then and now" on threePeople.August 30, 1901. Vacuum cleaner.Hubert Cecil Booth.2002 vacuum cleaner collector convention...
View ArticleFederal Circuit Should Reconsider Ariosa v. Sequenom: The Panel Decision...
As the amici correctly argue, the panel’s decision striking down Sequenom’s noninvasive prenatal test strikes at the very heart of the patent system. Revolutionary diagnostic testing methods that cost...
View ArticleArmy searching for missile that fell from Apache helicopter in Upstate NY
The Army told Ars on Sunday it was still looking for a 100-pound dummy missile that fell from an Apache helicopter flying early Friday. The vehicle was traveling from Fort Drum in northern New York to...
View ArticleOut on a Limb on the Family Tree: Amateur Loses Claimed Great-Great-Uncle’s...
Surprisingly, the rights to some call signs turn on degrees of relatedness. Most of our postings here deal with grave concerns of policy and regulation. Once in a while, though, a not-so-grave item...
View ArticleWhite House eyes sanctions for China over cyber-theft of trade secrets
The Washington Post’s Ellen Nakashima reports that under the direction of the Obama administration, US government officials are planning “a package of unprecedented economic sanctions against Chinese...
View ArticleIndiana Trademark Litigation Update – Baby Trend v. Phil and Teds Most...
Plaintiff Baby Trend has used the registered NAVIGATOR trademark in connection with strollers and related products for over fifteen years. Defendant, a New Zealand limited company, is alleged to be...
View ArticleFacebook Admits it Might Have a Video Piracy Problem
Two months ago, advertising agency Ogilvy did a study of videos posted on peoples' Facebook pages and concluded that "73% of the most popular videos on Facebook had been ripped from other websites."...
View ArticleThe debate about the proposed IPR carve-out for pharma patents
Chris Versace (with a position at New Jersey City University (NJCU)) criticizes pharma industry proposals on IPRs, without mentioning the forays of Kyle Bass: According to a Politico report, “The drug...
View ArticleWhat us worry? Ashley Madison says it added over 100K users last week
Executives at Ashley Madison may have lost their founder and CEO after suffering a breach that leaked highly personal details for more than 30 million users, but they want to make one thing clear:...
View ArticleFRE 408 Does Not Prohibit Evidence of Settlement Offer to Show Lack of...
The court denied plaintiff's motion for a preliminary injunction to preclude defendant from selling its accused email products and determined that plaintiff failed to establish irreparable harm....
View ArticleDow loses "supplemental damages" claim against NOVA because of the...
The case --THE DOW CHEMICAL COMPANY v. NOVA CHEMICALSCORPORATION -- illustrates what can happen when there is anintervening change in law. In law school, one learns ofthe Schooner Peggy case in which...
View ArticleThe UK Orders Google to Remove Links to “Right to be Forgotten” Stories
By Juliya Ziskina The United Kingdom’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has ordered Google to remove search results linking to news stories about the removal of information under the 2014...
View ArticleCalling All Cosplayers: Project Secret Identity Returns to Dragon Con
Project Secret Identity is back. EFF is returning to Dragon Con, the science fiction and fantasy convention in Atlanta, Georgia, for a Labor Day weekend of cosplay activism. This year’s privacy...
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