Abbott’s HIV/AIDS Drug Patents Challenged by PUBPAT
IPWatchdog.com | Patents &   Gene Quinn   •  3 days ago  •   rank: 0.6
I am skeptical about the prospects for invalidating patents on drugs, particularly important or blockbuster drugs. I also question whether anti-patent do-gooders in the biotech and pharma space are...
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vontauber
The Legal Satyricon   Tatiana   •  6 days ago  •   rank: 0.4
By Tatiana von Tauber Georgia Republican, Jack Kingston, deserves applause.   Why?  Because Kingston is exercising logic: he supports lowering the drinking age for military service members. ...
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arizonaplatt
The Legal Satyricon   Charles Platt   •  6 days ago  •   rank: 0.3
A widely quoted Harris poll claims that 57% of sampled Republicans think that Barack Obama is a muslim. This has been a great gift for liberal commentators who are predisposed to fear and loathe the...
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broken penis
The Legal Satyricon   marcorandazza   •  7 days ago  •   rank: 0.3
By Marc J. Randazza As office workers, few attorneys have the opportunity to contemplate what workplace injuries can mean to their clients. Honestly, what’s the worst injury you can get on the job...
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BGH on enablement: disclosure may be enabling without being novelty des
The IPKat   Mark Schweizer   •  3 days ago  •   rank: 0.2
The American Ethicon, Inc. (part of the Johnson & Johnson group of companies) sued an unnamed defendant based on the German part of EP 337 612 before the Landgericht Düsseldorf. The patent in suit...
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Innovation and Trolling
The IPKat   Matt   •  2 days ago  •   rank: 0.2
This particular Kat is strongly of the opinion (although it has to be said with little in the way of solid empirical evidence with which to backup this assertion) that innovation is a good thing....
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Plagiarism: do we know what it means, do we know why we need it?
The IPKat   Neil Wilkof   •  6 days ago  •   rank: 0.2
There are certain terms, frequently used in connection with IP matters, the meaning of which is utimately unclear. In my mind, no term better meets this description than "plagiarism" or "plagiarist"....
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The infringement that never has to say “likelihood of confusion”
LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION®   Ron Coleman   •  3 days ago  •   rank: 0.1
Originally posted 2006-02-21 10:40:47. Republished by Blog Post PromoterProfessor Eric Goldman writes about the latest unfortunate development in the extension of “initial interest confusion,”...
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Microsoft Files Another Reexam Against $290 Million i4i Patent
IPWatchdog.com | Patents &   Scott M. Daniels   •  5 days ago  •   rank: 0.1
I don’t know why Microsoft didn’t present all the prior art in the Texas case sooner, and I can't explain why they might have wanted to wait until after asking the Supreme Court to take the appeal ...
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marcorandazza
The Legal Satyricon   marcorandazza   •  6 days ago  •   rank: 0.1
Way back when, they said “go to the best law school you can get into.” I say bullshit. You want a law degree? Go to the CHEAPEST school you can get into. Here’s an infographic on how student...
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Looking Ahead to TiVo v. Dish at the Federal Circuit
IPWatchdog.com | Patents &   Gene Quinn   •  2 days ago  •   rank: 0.0
Putting aside my disdain for the Supreme Court stepping into patent matters of any kind, what does seem clear is that the Supreme Court wants to pretend that patents are the same as any other area of...
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Blawg Review #280
LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION®   Ron Coleman   •  3 days ago  •   rank: 0.0
Rosh Hashanah, the beginning of the Jewish New Year, begins this Wednesday night.  And what could be a more appropriate occasion for Blawg Review—for us to pass judgment on a world of law blogging...
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More on plagiarism
The IPKat   Jeremy   •  6 days ago  •   rank: 0.0
Further to IPKat team member Neil's post earlier today (here), and seeing as the weekend is almost upon us, here are some enjoyable themes for readers to contemplate. 1. Tom Lehrer's classic song...
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Exclusive Interview: Former USPTO Director Todd Dickinson
IPWatchdog.com | Patents &   Gene Quinn   •  1 day ago  •   rank: 0.0
As you will read in Part 1 of the interview (see below) Dickinson was not only the first Director of the USPTO, but he was the last Commissioner. The American Inventors Protection Act shuffled the...
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Pom Wonderful avoids unclean hands dismissal
Rebecca Tushnet's 43(B   Rebecca Tushnet   •  3 days ago  •   rank: 0.0
POM Wonderful LLC v. Welch Foods, Inc., 2010 WL 3368430 (C.D.Cal.) Pom sued Welch for false advertising over Welch’s sales of mixed fruit drinks prominently labeled as containing pomegranate juice,...
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Monday miscellany
The IPKat   Jeremy   •  3 days ago  •   rank: 0.0
If you are sending the IPKat any documents that you are hoping he will use, can you please help him by making them as easily accessible as possible by not including them in copy-protected files from...
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What's an inducement letter?
Dear Rich: Nolo’s Patent   •  1 day ago  •   rank: 0.0
Dear Rich: Can you tell me what an inducement letter for a recording contract is?  Inducement letters are a sort of legal hocus-pocus that increase the chances of recovering damages from a wayward...
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Maia Davis Mixes Music Biz Morality and Economics
IP Osgoode   Stuart Freen (IPilogu   •  1 day ago  •   rank: 0.0
Stuart Freen is a JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School The Montreal Gazette recently published an op-ed piece by musician Maia Davis discussing the music industry and lost profits due to file...
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Bureau of Consumer Protection launches business center, blog
Rebecca Tushnet's 43(B   Rebecca Tushnet   •  2 days ago  •   rank: 0.0
The FTC's BCP has a new site, including a blog, with many useful resources for businesses, including videos they encourage people to use in their own training materials (two in Spanish as well as...
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USPTO's Data Visualization Center and Patent Dashboard
Patent Law Blog (Patently-   Dennis Crouch   •  2 days ago  •   rank: 0.0
The USPTO has publicly released its data visualization center and patent dashboard. The site does an excellent job of providing a visual overview of the current USPTO state-of-affairs in terms of...
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