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2010 Mazda MX-5 Renderings Leaked By EU Patent Office [2010 Mazda Miata MX-5]

Someone at the Office of Harmonization for the Internal Market, the EU agency responsible for registering trademarks, screwed up and let lose a series of photos of the facelifted replacement for the current ... (original story)

Book Docket: Looking for Law School Book Lists

I am looking for the booklists for a couple of law schools for Fall 2008: Northwestern University Law School and Stanford Law School. I'll pay $30 for each list of books for this upcoming term in the following format: Course... (original story)

Todd Dickinson To Take AIPLA Helm

The AIPLA recently announced that Q. Todd Dickinson will become the new Executive Director of the organization. Dickinson is widely considered the most popular PTO director in recent history. Dickinson is also an Obama supporter and would be a likely... (original story)

Open Source License Conditions Enforceable Through Copyright Law

Jacobson v. Katzer (Fed. Cir. 2008) In an interesting decision, the CAFC held that open source license conditions are enforceable under the copyright laws. Jacobson's open source license at issue here allowed anyone to use his software so long as... (original story)

One More Thing - CNET News

T-Mobile's Netherlands division is blaming the iPhone 3G's reception issues on Apple. In a company blog posting Tuesday morning spotted by a forum contributor at MacRumors , T-Mobile Netherlands threw the iPhone 3G under the bus, blaming Apple for ... (original story)

How Patent Law Changes Could Hurt Small Inventors - MSNBC

Regular readers of this column know I encourage new inventors to spend less time focusing on patents and more time concentrating on the business aspects of their inventions. Most of the time, this advice rings true. But because there's a debate ... (original story)

MONROVIA, CA - Dr. Ashraf Hanna, Vice President of Alliance...

Dr. Ashraf Hanna, Vice President of Alliance Management and Portfolio Planning at Genentech in San Francisco, CA will present at the Plenary Keynote session at GTCbio's 4th Modern Drug Discovery and Development ... (original story)

Patently-O Bits and Bytes No. 56

Patent Reform 2008: The "Duffy Provision" correcting the BPAI appointments problem has now been signed into law by President Bush. [LINK] Patent Reform 2008: The Duffy Provision is the only reform measure expected to pass before the November presidential elections.... (original story)

PTO Rains on Dell's 'Cloud Computing' Trademark

PTO Rains on Dell's 'Cloud Computing' Trademark Less than a week after the industry took note, the PTO puts the mark on hold. (original story)

Serendipity and Patentability

In 1966, the DC circuit court wrote about how "serendipity is consistent with patentability" and how patent law leaves room to reward luck. California Research Corp. v. Ladd, 356 F.2d 813 (1966). In some ways, serendipitous inventions are easier to... (original story)

USC Trumps USC in Legal Battle

The University of Southern California won a six-year logo conflict against the other USC, the University of South Carolina , the Los Angeles Time s reports. (original story)

No Inequitable Conduct if Examiner Finds Withheld Reference while Searching

Teva Pharm. Indus. v. Apotex, 2008 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 60418 (D.N.J. 2008) In 2007, Teva sued Apotex infringing its carvedilol patents. Apotex counterclaimed with charges of inequitable conduct – alleging that Teva had failed to disclose "any of the English... (original story)

US patent office tweaks rule amid court fight

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office said Thursday it would limit the retroactivity of a controversial new rule aimed at reducing the size of patent applications and cutting a backlog of patent requests. (original story)

Patently-O Bits and Bytes No. 55: IP Scholars Edition

A Debate on Patent Policy: Obama (representatives) vs. McCain (representatives). August 28 in Denver (on the last day of the Democratic convention). See Professors Sprigman and Rai defenda Obama against Reines and Gifford. [LINK] Stanford's IP Scholars Conference included lots... (original story)

Is Patent Law Legal Malpractice always a Federal Question?

Jurisdiction in Federal District Court...harks back to the first few weeks of law school. (original story)



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