IP and Legal Filings

OCTOBER 28, 2022

While NFT platforms are not yet specifically regulated, they are subject to the provisions on Electronic System Providers (“ESPs”) contained in several regulations, as follows: • Law No. 11 of 2008, dated April 21, 2008, regarding Electronic Information and Transactions, as amended by Law No 19 of 2016, dated November 25, 2016.•

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IPilogue

JUNE 29, 2022

Sir Hugh Laddie was born in 1946 and studied law at St Catherine’s College, Cambridge. Since his passing in 2008, the Institute of Brand and Innovation Law (IBIL) at the University College London (UCL) Faculty of Laws has organized and delivered Annual Sir Hugh Laddie lectures , in honour of Justice Laddie, the founder of IBIL.

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Patently-O

OCTOBER 21, 2021

The first time the Federal Circuit ever granted mandamus to overturn a transfer denial was in 2008, in a case called In re TS Tech , which arose from the Eastern District of Texas. The figure below shows the outcomes of decisions on mandamus petitions challenging § 1404(a) transfer denials decided by the Federal Circuit each year since 2008.

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LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Arnold LJ is the preeminent patent law specialist on the Court of Appeal. He was elevated to the Court of Appeal in 2019, after being appointed to the High Court in 2008, and as Judge in Charge of the Patents Court in April 2013.

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Patently-O

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Personal Jurisdiction as Not Patent Law Specific. The Federal Circuit has for many years applied its own law to personal jurisdiction questions even though the doctrine is procedural in nature. On the other hand, for convenient venue questions the court applies the law of the regional circuit court of appeals.

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

The second ruling was issued by the Higher Regional Court of Frankfurt am Main, in 2008. Here, the German court first introduced what has become a basic concept of EU design law: the informed user is placed between the average consumer from trade mark law and the person skilled in the art from patent law.

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Patently-O

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

” In design patent law, the test for infringement is whether an ordinary observer would find the accused design substantially similar to the claimed design, such that they would be deceived into purchasing the accused design believing it to be the claimed design. 2008) (en banc). Egyptian Goddess, Inc. Swisa, Inc. ,

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Connolly acknowledged that at least one district court held that, unlike in patent cases, “‘[t]he ability to avoid damages by rewriting a computer program, or a song, or reproducing a painting, should not be considered [in a copyright infringement case] because it would not implicate the originality of the expression being protected.’”

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 12, 2021

This ruling is significant in the realm of design patent law because it changes course from decades of prior practice at the PTO. 3] Of the 1,513 AIA petitions filed in fiscal year 2020, just 20 were directed to design patents, and only 14% of such petitions were instituted. 2008) (en banc). § 289. [2]

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IP Intelligence

OCTOBER 12, 2021

This ruling is significant in the realm of design patent law because it changes course from decades of prior practice at the PTO. 3] Of the 1,513 AIA petitions filed in fiscal year 2020, just 20 were directed to design patents, and only 14% of such petitions were instituted. 2008) (en banc). 2] In re Finch, 535 F.2d

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Patently-O

JANUARY 19, 2024

Although it did not state directly, the court appears to have based its contract interpretation on federal patent law as it has done in prior cases. 2008) (treating as a matter of federal law “the question of whether a patent assignment clause creates an automatic assignment or merely an obligation to assign”).

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SpicyIP

MARCH 21, 2024

Pre-Grant Opposition The first proposal relates to amending the pre-grant opposition mechanism, which allows patent applications to be opposed before the Patent Office officially “grants” the patent. In 2008, a patient group took up this issue to the Madras High Court in a case involving a patent application for an AIDS drug.

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Patently-O

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

The Federal Circuit’s pair of decisions provide guidance on how logos factor into the design patent infringement inquiry, and begin to tease-out differences in policy concerns underlying design patent law versus trademark law. See Egyptian Goddess, Inc. Swisa, Inc., 3d 665(Fed.

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Patently-O

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

In 2005 HTC released the world’s first Windows 3G smartphone (the clamshell HTC Universal) and followed in 2008 with the first smartphone running Google’s Android operating system (branded as the T-Mobile G1). Ericsson and HTC entered into three such licensing agreements in 2003, 2008 and 2014. Judge Higginson disagreed. concurring).

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Patently-O

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

So these studies can’t tell us much about what’s going on in the Federal Circuit era, unless one assumes—unreasonably—that the Federal Circuit didn’t meaningfully change design patent law. Defending Design Patents. For the period of 2008–2020, district courts making validity determinations about design patents upheld them (i.e.,

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The IPKat

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Between 2008-2015, the technology was upscaled to 70 percent of the Burkinabe cotton areal. Exhaustion To the extent that today’s OAPI patent law is actually implemented, cotton-producing countries will have to work with OAPI to establish a proper exhaustion regime. But they cannot be allowed to do so twice.

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IP and Legal Filings

MARCH 27, 2024

The share of “DTS-i Technology” had a notable surge from 2003 to 2008, suggesting that the product protected by the Applicant’s patent had gained considerable popularity in the market.

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 31, 2021

Ericsson made submissions to ETSI committing to grant licenses to patents that cover those standards on fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory terms (FRAND). Ericsson and HTC had entered cross-license agreements in 2003, 2008 and 2014. HTC also owns 2G, 3G and 4G SEPs. per mobile device based on HTC’s actual sales. .”

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LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Patent law that reads, in relative part: The specification shall contain a written description of the invention, and of the manner and process of making and using it, in such full, clear, concise, and exact terms as to enable any person skilled which it pertains, or with which it is most nearly connected, to make and use the same.

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

She was an initial member and Deputy Director of SIBLE, the Sheffield Institute of Biotechnology, Law and Ethics, a leading interdisciplinary research group working on the implications of the genetic revolution. She served as Dean to the School of Law (2004-2008) and for 4 months as Acting Head of School (2008-2009).

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

JANUARY 3, 2023

Sara’s IP litigation experience includes both patent litigation and trade secret misappropriation litigation, which often also include various associated breach of contract and business torts. from the University of Georgia School of Law and was the senior notes editor of the Journal of Intellectual Property Law. in English.

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Indeed, Merpel is struck by the comment about the " UK court is not here to police European patents across Europe ". Merpel wonders how that squares with the quasi-policing of non-UK patents in other areas of patent law, such as in the determination of global FRAND licences. Purr-haps a good topic for a dissertation.

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Patently-O

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

2022) raises a number of important design patent law questions, including an issue of first-impression of the scope of “comparison prior art” available for the ordinary observer infringement analysis under Egyptian Goddess, Inc. 2008) (en banc) and its key predecessor Smith v. 2008) (en banc). 2021-2299 (Fed.

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Patently-O

AUGUST 14, 2022

Schor, The Reissue Recapture Doctrine: Its Place Among the Patent Laws , 22 Cardozo Arts & Ent. 451, 456 (2004) (the doctrine applies “if a patent applicant narrowed the scope of the claims during the prosecution of an application to overcome art of record (i.e., Vascular Sols., LLC, 408 F. 3d 996, 1005 (D.

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

JUNE 11, 2021

LGBTQ attorneys have also made significant contributions to patent law and policy. Patent and Trademark Office. patent law. Despite these successes, little is known about the overall state of LGBTQ representation in STEM and patent law. Department of Commerce and commissioner of the U.S.

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Crucially, a patent granted in the absence of compliance with the duty of disclosure is considered fraudulently obtained, and therefore unenforceable. Inequitable conduct has been called the "atomic bomb of patent law" ( Aventis v. Amphastar (Fed. Beckton , Fed.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 27, 2023

No, according to various patent offices and patent laws around the world. Patent law, the term “inventor” is defined as an “individual” or “individuals” who “invented or discovered the subject matter of the invention.” Patent law requires at least one human inventor.

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The IPKat

AUGUST 6, 2023

Here's what Bill writes: Book review: ‘Developments and Directions in Intellectual Property Law: 20 Years of the IPKat’ by Bill Patry The IPKat blog inspired my own copyright blog which I started in 2005, 2 years after the first meow from London. My blog ended ignominiously in 2008, whilst the Feline lives forever.

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