Patent and IP News

On Friday, the IPKat welcomed the appearance of a new EPO publication - the Handbook of Quality Procedures before the EPO. 

In the recently issued case of ClearValue, Inc. v. Pearl River Polymers, Inc., Judge Moore, writing for the Federal Circuit panel, distinguished the holding in the 2006 case of Atofina v. Great Lakes Chemical Corp. In ClearValue, Judge Moore ruled that ...

Karel De Gucht A ...

As some readers will know, this Kat is a fan ...

A Finnish Top Dog ... For those love of statistics ...

The International Indigenous Forum, in an unprecedented collective move, decided yesterday to withdraw from the discussions of the WIPO Committee on Genetic Resources taking place from 14-22 February. The move calls into question the legitimacy of the ...

Patent trolls may be effectively immune to the new post grant challenges of the USPTO.

Health.yahoo noted that the Supreme Court declined to review a decision of the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit that was adverse to J&J:The appeals court ruled the patent claims asserted by the J&J unit were invalid and the patent thus could ...

C.N.R. Rao, Scientific Adviser to the Prime Minister of India is involved in a matter involving copying of text FROM a paper published in 2010 INTO a 2011 paper co-authored by Rao. The authors of the COPIED text which appeared in 2010 in Applied Physics ...

In the trademark case of Coach v. Triumph, the CAFC concluded:For the foregoing reasons, and because we find that CSI’s remaining arguments are without merit, we affirm the Board’s decision dismissing CSI’s opposition on likeli- hood of confusion ...

The discussion was lively, perhaps even explosive. You could nearly see sparks fly when Chief Judge Rader continued to pepper Seth Waxman with question after question about his opinion on the propriety of parties lobbying the White House in order to ...

The student in question, Abigail Noel Fisher, did not get into law school at the University of Texas at Austin, but did enter LSU.In the vote by the Supreme Court agreeing to hear Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, Justice Elena Kagan didn’t ...

Precious little is known publicly about the details of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement being negotiated by the United States and other Pacific-bordering nations, but some sources say the agreement could contain some of the strongest language ...

Is it easier to license a cat for mobile telephony than ...

In a post Why Algal Biofuels May Never Hold the Key to the Future, Chris Rhodes raises the issue of the amount of phosphorous needed ...

In October 2010, the Bundesgerichtshof ("BGH"), Germany's highest court in civil law matters, decided in the 'AnyDVD' case (case reference ...

Readers of the 1709 Blog will already know of today's decision of Mr Justice Arnold (Chancery Division, England and Wales) in Dramatico Entertainment Ltd & ...

The troubling news starts with the fact that a technical amendments bill to the America Invents Act (AIA) that is working its way around Capitol Hill, and in true government by ambush fashion it could work its way into a bill at any time! What is the ...

In this, the final post in the second series of Katonomics, ...

In short, today’s smartphone patent wars are simply “back to the future” when it comes to how disruptive new industries are developed. Every major technological and industrial breakthrough in U.S. history — from the Industrial Revolution to the ...

This winter has seen a time of IP reflection ...

TechnoMarine is suing both Costco and Overstock.com for trademark infringement because neither is an authorized retailer ...

TechnoMarine is suing both Costco and Overstock.com for trademark infringement because neither is an authorized retailer ...

Last week the IPKat and many of his readers were busily involved ...

Some readers have commented that, with so many items ...

On the topic of neutrinos traveling faster than light.Recall claims for supraluminal propagation were made about 10 years ago (in New Jersey) and were discredited.

Although Wendy Scott-Carr failed to indict Will Gardner, the evidence goes to state disciplinary committee, with an interesting result.

A teaser for the first "60 Minutes" story on unemployment: A resume will become an obsolete tool in job search. Scott Pelley noted the persistence of the unemployment problem. There is something stubborn about the current unemployment. Four million ...

Chocolate bunnies are already on the menu of Europe's highest court -- and now the Luxembourg judges can look forward to another tasty treat in store, this time involving ...