Pitt revises handling of intellectual property rights deal
The University of Pittsburgh is revising its approach to a controversial intellectual property rights agreement it told employees they must sign and plans to offer more options about the timing of when those rights are assigned.
Pitt spokesman Ken Service said specifics won’t be available until Monday about proposed changes to the agreement. Some faculty had criticized the language of the agreement as a violation of their academic freedom.
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Wulian Fights Back, Says it Owns ‘ZigBee’ Trademark in China
Wulian (Nanjing IoT), a self-proclaimed giant in the OEM market for home automation products, says the ZigBee Alliance is wasting its time protecting trademarks and other nonsense. The OEM/ODM was called out by the Alliance for misrepresenting itself as the Chinese headquarters for ZigBee and for claiming falsely that its products are ZigBee-certified. They’re not.
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Eli Lilly’s Sales Hit Again by Patent Expirations
Eli Lilly & Co. said its sales and profit fell in the most recent period, reflecting patent expirations and generic competition.
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Changes in Law Help Bring Down ‘Patent Trolls’
For two decades, companies that buy software patents to sue technology giants have been the scourge of Silicon Valley. Reviled as patent trolls, they have attacked everything from Google’s online ads to Apple’s iPhone features, sometimes winning hundreds of millions of dollars.
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Federal suit alleges patent infringement by seismic venture
Wireless Seismic is facing lawsuits alleging that part of its system for linking seismic sensors without cables infringes on a rival firm’s patents.
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Apple Cries ‘Troll,’ Marvin Gaye: Intellectual Property
Apple Inc. (AAPL), barred from calling its opponent a “patent troll” during a trial, did exactly that less than an hour after jurors found in favor of the iPhone-maker and rejected claims for $93.7 million in damages.
GPNE Corp. claimed as many as nine Apple products, including the iPhone5, the iPad3 and iPad Mini, infringed its patents covering wireless data communications in pagers. The federal jury in San Jose, California, arrived at its decisions Sept. 22, in its second day of deliberations.
Saiba mais em: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-10-24/apple-cries-troll
Curb “patent privateers” to protect intellectual property
Effective intellectual property protections are imperative to maintaining a robust economy and promoting innovation—and patents are an important facet of this regime. Unfortunately, bad actors are exploiting loopholes for personal gain and threatening the health of the current system—one that is generally working well.
Saiba mais em: http://www.cityam.com/1414157800/curb-patent-privateers-protect
Crocodiles in New Zealand: defending trade marks against revocation for non-use
In a recent High Court decision in the long-running Court battle between Lacoste and Crocodile International Pte Ltd (“CIPL”) in New Zealand, Collins J allowed Lacoste’s appeal from an Intellectual Property Office of New Zealand decision to revoke the registration of a “Crocodile” and Crocodile Device Trade Mark on the grounds of non-use.
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Lucasfilm Objects to ‘Strikes Bock’ Beer Trademark
The prospect of Lucasfilm suing a small New York-based brewpub over potential marketplace confusion sounds like a joke, but it’s not: The Disney subsidiary has filed a notice of opposition against Syracuse’s Empire Brewing Co. over its attempts to trademark the name of one of its beers.
Saiba mais em: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/lucasfilm-objects
Apple wins lawsuit over expired pager patents, dubs opponent ‘patent troll’ in email
GPNE Corp, a Honolulu company that licenses technology patents, took Apple to court recently over a few patents the company claimed were violated in several of Apple’s iOS products. The technology in question was originally patented for pagers (remember those? yeah, me neither) and the patents have since expired.
Saiba mais em: http://9to5mac.com/2014/10/22/apple-wins-lawsuit-over-expired
U.S. court upholds patents on Pfizer’s cancer drug
A U.S. district court ruled in favor of Pfizer Inc in a patent lawsuit it filed against Mylan Inc alleging patent infringement on its cancer drug, Sutent, Pfizer said.
Saiba mais em: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/10/23/us-pfizer-mylan-canc
Lilly’s profits suffer as patents expire
US drugmaker Eli Lilly hasn’t been involved in the wave of M&A sweeping through the pharmaceutical industry this year, but its latest earnings help explain why it’s happening.
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Amgen seeks injunction to protect patents
The US biopharmaceutical company Amgen has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Sanofi and Regeneron in the US District Court of Delaware. The suit claims the companies are infringing Amgen’s patents on monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) to proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 9 (PCSK9).
Saiba mais em: http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/2014/10/amgen-seeks-injunction
$19.5M Judgment That Citrix GoTo Products Infringed Patents Upheld by Federal Circuit
SSL Services LLC generally walked away the winner after an Oct. 14 Federal Circuit decision that added to the court’s standards on a number of patent law issues and left in place a multimillion dollar judgment against Citrix Systems Inc.
Saiba mais em: http://www.bna.com/195m-judgment-citrix-n17179907032/
Apple Defeats Patent Suit Challenging Its Mobile Technology
Apple defeated a civil suit brought by a Honolulu company that was seeking $94 million in damages for allegedly infringing on its patents for pager technology.
Saiba mais em: http://recode.net/2014/10/22/apple-defeats-patent-suit-challenging
The Patent Prosecution Highway continues to be a phenomenal success in Canada
The Patent Prosecution Highway (“PPH”) program continues to be a phenomenal success in Canada. It has positioned the country as a highly cost-effective jurisdiction in which to procure patent protection with exceptional speed and efficacy. According to statistics maintained by the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (“CIPO”), applications examined under the PPH have far shorter wait times for examination, receive fewer office actions and are granted at a higher rate. Accordingly, the fast tracking of patent examination under the PPH can generate significant cost savings for applicants without sacrificing patent quality.
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Alice Ruling Not Enough to Stop Patent Trolls
Imagine this scenario: You’re an app developer, trying to create a small business in your free time. You push your app to the Apple iTunes store and the Android Marketplace and you start seeing some modest success. Then comes the patent troll threat: a dense 100-plus-page document, full of legalese and nearly impossible to understand, threatening a lawsuit for “patent infringement” in federal court if you don’t pay up, either in cash right away or by promising away a percentage of your future profits.
Saiba mais em: http://www.rollcall.com/news/alice_ruling_not_enough_to_stop_patent_trolls
ICC BASCAP calls for stronger intellectual property rights enforcement in ASEAN
The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) Business Action to Stop Counterfeiting and Piracy (BASCAP) group called today on the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and its 10 member states to do more to promote the value of intellectual property (IP) as a key driver for the region’s growth and economic development, and to step up intellectual property right (IPR) enforcement actions to stop counterfeiting and piracy and other IPR infringements that are hurting the region’s economies.
Saiba mais em: http://www.iccwbo.org/News/Articles/2014/ICC-BASCAP
Achtung! Patents Ahead
Wikileaks’ revelations of the TPP’s intellectual property chapter highlight a particularly insidious attempt by the United States to undermine India’s patent regime, thus undermining its efforts to keep medicines affordable
Saiba mais em: http://www.outlookindia.com/article/Achtung-Patents-Ahead/292311
Weak Trademark? You May Still Make The Practice Squad
The strength of a football player can be categorized in three groups. The strongest players make it on a NFL team’s roster as starters or backups. Weaker players are relegated to a team’s practice squad. The weakest players do not play in the NFL and pursue careers that require no athletic ability, like trademark law.
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Copyright: Europe explores its boundaries – new UK infringement exceptions – the ones that came back again
n June of this year, we sent out an alert about the anticipated new UK copyright infringement exceptions. These exceptions were to be introduced based on the recommendations of the Hargreaves Review. Surprisingly, some of the exceptions had been dramatically pulled from the legislative slate at the last minute.
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YouTube Has Paid $1 Billion to Copyright Holders Since 2007
YouTube has paid out a cool $1 billion to copyright holders since 2007, the company confirmed to NBC News. It’s all part of YouTube’s Content ID program, which, according to a Google spokesperson, scans 400 years’ worth of content every single day for potential copyright issues. What is Content ID? Back in the old days before Google purchased YouTube, major TV networks and record companies complained that the service was chock full of copyrighted programs.
Saiba mais em: http://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/youtube-has-paid-1-billion
Parody copyright laws set to come into effect
Changes to UK legislation are to come into force later this week allowing the parody of copyright works.
Under current rules, there has been a risk of being sued for breach of copyright if clips of films, TV shows or songs were used without consent.
Saiba mais em: http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-29408121