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I was already like this before you got here: prior use as an exception to patent infringement

Garrigues Blog

In addition, a third party’s use of an invention before its registration by another is also relevant to assess patent infringement. The right of prior use is set forth in article 63 of the current Patents Law of 2015, the wording of which is practically identical to that of article 54 of the earlier Patents Law of 1986.

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False Patent Marking as False Advertising: Overcoming Dastar

Patently-O

This case began back in 2006 when Crocs sued Double Diamond and others for patent infringement of Crocs’s design patents. Therefore, Dastar ‘s unaccredited copying did not constitute a false designation of origin actionable under § 43(a) of the Lanham Act. 1125(a)(1)(B) (Section 43 of the Lanham Act).

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[GuestPost] Lord Justice Birss deals with the kitchen sink and the Formstein defence in Facebook v Voxer

The IPKat

Brussels-based trainee patent attorney, Henry Yang , summarizes the key points. iv) persistent storage, outgoing message The outgoing data was only stored either in the short-term buffer in RAM or as a temporary copy in the tmp directory which was in non-volatile memory.