EFF discusses dispute over meaning of the word "integer"
Within the post Our Broken Patent System at Work: Patent Owner Insists the “Integers” Do Not Include the Number One , EFF notesIn patent litigation, patent owners and alleged infringers often disagree...
View ArticleMore on CRISPR: Zhang on a class 2 CRISPR effector
The Boston Globe mentions newly published work by Feng Zhang of MIT:In a study published on Friday, scientists led by Feng Zhang of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology report that they discovered...
View ArticleIP in 2015 – Where we are vs. Where I thought we’d be
A couple of weeks ago our dear blogmeister Jeremy addressed the British Group of the Union of European Practitioners in Intellectual Property in the convivial setting of The Royal Overseas League on...
View ArticleAustralian workplace bullying case hinged on a Facebook unfriending
Australian real estate supervisor Lisa Bird was told by Australia's Fair Work Commission that she "drew a line" in the workplace by unfriending one of her subordinates on Facebook. That meant the...
View ArticleAmerica’s most secretive court invites its first outsider
(credit: Wikimedia) A well-known Washington, DC lawyer has been appointed to be the first of a total of five amici curae—friends of the court—who will act as a sort of ombudsman or public advocate at...
View ArticleNotice and Notice Failure at BU, panel 7
Mark Lemley – Ready for Patenting Patent’s problematic approach to what we want to encourage when we grant a patent. Long struggle with what you are giving us is simply an idea/conception or an actual...
View ArticleNotice and Notice Failure at BU, panel 8
Robert Bone – Notice Failure and Defenses in Trademark Law Bone’s basic argument: Principal notice issue in TM is uncertainty about scope, and principal problem is chilling effects. Bone finds an...
View ArticleRelativity Reveals First Proposed Movie Sale in Bankruptcy: Thriller...
The Nicholas Hoult chase film could be sold back to IM Global for $200,000 as a court hearing and auction loom for Ryan Kavanaugh's troubled studioread more
View ArticleWestern U.S. drought sparks innovation in irrigation management, desalination
A push for innovation to solve the water crisis has been kickstarted this summer in some part due to an executive order from California Governor Jerry Brown that initiated a drought technology program...
View ArticleWestern U.S. drought sparks innovation in irrigation management, desalination
A push for innovation to solve the water crisis has been kickstarted this summer in some part due to an executive order from California Governor Jerry Brown that initiated a drought technology program...
View ArticleAnalysis: China-US hacking accord is tall on rhetoric, short on substance
(credit: https://www.whitehouse.gov) It's always a good thing when governments, especially superpowers, strike agreements toward the goal of peace and prosperity. The accord President Barack Obama and...
View ArticleComputer and Internet Weekly Updates for 2015-09-26
NZ lawyers spent 29,334 hours and $3M-plus trying to prosecute Kim Dotcom http://t.co/zWCb1h9Z1Z -> YMCA's Willis triumphs again on costs claim http://t.co/aSV5262hE6 -> Big Tech Has Become Way...
View ArticlePTAB Wonderland: Statistics show Alice PTAB interpretation not favorable to...
The United States Supreme Court is commonly known to resolve difficult issues of law. Yet, Alice v. CLS Bank[ii], last year’s unanimous Supreme Court decision, has caused confusion about whether...
View ArticlePTAB Wonderland: Statistics show Alice PTAB interpretation not favorable to...
The United States Supreme Court is commonly known to resolve difficult issues of law. Yet, Alice v. CLS Bank[ii], last year’s unanimous Supreme Court decision, has caused confusion about whether...
View ArticleIt could only happen in America: PETA litigates over macaque selfie
This Kat was quite content when all the news items concerning Ella the selfie-taking black macaque had gone quiet [on which see earlier Katpost here]. For one thing, he thinks that even relatively...
View ArticleSquaring the Cercle: a Kat takes a look at this year's IP Summit
IP on a plate: the Cumberland Sausageis not a thing to be trifled with ...Winter 2015 is a great time for 10th anniversaries in the intellectual property world. Not all such anniversaries are marked,...
View ArticleOnly 1 in 20,631 ex parte appeals designated precedential by PTAB
PTAB decisions are predominately given one of three classifications: precedential, informative or routine. Only precedential decisions are to serve as binding authority. Informative decisions may serve...
View ArticleOnly 1 in 20,631 ex parte appeals designated precedential by PTAB
PTAB decisions are predominately given one of three classifications: precedential, informative or routine. Only precedential decisions are to serve as binding authority. Informative decisions may serve...
View ArticleNigerian Digital Music Summit Starts Tomorrow
The Copyright Society of Nigeria (COSON) is set to host stakeholders in the Nigerian music industry at the Nigerian Digital Music Summit. The theme of the Summit is “Establishing the Basic Rules of...
View ArticleAlice Roundup, Late Summer 2015 – Part 1: Patent-Ineligibility under 35...
District courts have been busy considering, and invalidating, patents under 35 U.S.C. § 101 and Alice Corporation Pty. Ltd. v. CLS Bank International. My next post will discuss cases — and there are...
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