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18 Jun 2021, 11:54 am by IPWatchdog
This week in Other Barks & Bites: Senators Tillis, Whitehouse, Graham and Blumenthal reintroduce bill to prevent cybercrime amid record year for ransomware attacks; Senators Crapo and Wyden introduce the FABS Act to create a 25% tax credit in domestic semiconductor manufacturing investment; the Federal Circuit affirms a Section 101 invalidation of digital camera patent claims over Judge Pauline Newman’s dissent that the claims cover a mechanical and electronic device; the Patent… [read post]
14 Jun 2021, 9:59 am by Ajay Sarma, Christiana Wayne
The subcommittee will hear testimony from Erica Barks-Ruggles, senior bureau official in the State Department's Bureau of International Organizations Affairs, and Jonathan Fritz, deputy assistant secretary of state for China, Mongolia and Taiwan coordination. [read post]
11 Jun 2021, 11:15 am by IPWatchdog
This week in Other Barks & Bites: the Innovation and Competition Act passes Senate by a vote of 68-32; the Federal Circuit rules that it lacks jurisdiction to decide Walker Process antitrust claims that are now transferred to the proper regional circuit; the European Parliament adopts a resolution proposing a waiver of international patent rights days after the European Commission presented an alternative proposal to improve COVID-19 vaccine access without a patent waiver;… [read post]
4 Jun 2021, 11:15 am by IPWatchdog
This week in Other Barks & Bites: Officials in the European Union are developing an alternative proposal to the waiver of international patent rights under TRIPS for COVID-19 vaccines; GM revises second quarter profit guidance upward after shifting production to truck models; the Federal Circuit holds that the defense of prosecution laches is available to the USPTO in Section 145 civil suits over patent claims; a Lex Machina IP litigation report shows that copyright and trademark… [read post]
28 May 2021, 11:15 am by IPWatchdog
This week in Other Barks & Bites: the USPTO promulgated a final rule aligning the agency’s code of conduct with the ABA’s Model Rules, as well as a notice of proposed rulemaking to allow high-capacity physical media submissions for certain patent applications; China’s drug patent linkage system, similar to the U.S. system enacted under the Hatch-Waxman Act, goes into effect next Tuesday; the EUIPO released a study showing that IP-intensive industries, although among… [read post]
21 May 2021, 12:15 pm by IPWatchdog
This week in Other Barks & Bites: the House Oversight Committee takes action against AbbVie’s patent practices regarding its blockbuster drug Humira; TSMC increases microcontroller output by 60% to address the global chip shortage; the Ninth Circuit affirms that USPTO communications with patent applicants are not information collections under the Paperwork Reduction Act; the U.S. [read post]
30 Apr 2021, 11:15 am by IPWatchdog
This week in Other Barks & Bites: the full Senate Judiciary Committee approves the IDEA Act, moving it towards a Senate floor vote; China’s IP administration issues statistics purporting to show that the country leads in global patent applications for 6G networking technologies; the Federal Circuit affirms an ITC ruling against Bio-Rad over that company’s arguments that it was a co-inventor of patents asserted by 10X Genomics; AG Pitruzzella tells the CJEU that PDO products… [read post]
23 Apr 2021, 12:15 pm by IPWatchdog
This week in Other Barks & Bites: the Federal Circuit announces that Judge Moore will move into the role of Chief Judge for the appellate court this May; the Ninth Circuit revives a case including claims of reverse trademark infringement against Dropbox; HPE, Facebook and Microsoft announce a Low-Carbon Patent Pledge to increase innovator access to patented climate change mitigation technologies; the App Association issues a press release supporting the Department of Justice’s… [read post]
9 Apr 2021, 10:15 am by IPWatchdog
This week in Other Barks & Bites: the Federal Circuit finds that Apple’s patent licensing agreement with Qualcomm eliminated standing to appeal IPRs from the PTAB; the Second Circuit hears oral arguments in copyright lawyer Richard Liebowitz’s sanctions appeal as well as an appeal of antitrust claims against Takeda over improper extensions of FDA exclusivity for Actos; the Supreme Court rules that Google’s copying of Oracle’s Java API was fair use; Brazil’s… [read post]
2 Apr 2021, 11:15 am by IPWatchdog
This week in Other Barks & Bites: Senators Tillis and Leahy urge the appointment of several key IP officials, including USPTO Director, before World IP Day; former USPTO Director Andrei Iancu rejoins his former firm Irell & Manella in their IP litigation practice; a trademark trends report published by Dechert LLP shows China accounting for 25% of the record number of U.S. trademark applications filed in 2020; TSMC announces plans to invest $100 billion over three years to… [read post]
26 Mar 2021, 11:15 am by IPWatchdog
This week in Other Barks & Bites: Stanford University suffers another Section 101 loss at the Federal Circuit for its haplotype phase determination patent claims; the EU’s highest court rules that the existence of a manufacturing process patent involving a pharmaceutical composition in the public domain is not an insurmountable barrier to competition; China’s IP administration announces a special enforcement campaign against entities engaging in malicious trademark… [read post]
19 Mar 2021, 11:15 am by IPWatchdog
This week in Other Barks & Bites: the Federal Circuit issues an order on motion finding that it has authority under the All Writs Act to issue mandamus relief for PTAB institution denials; China’s national IP agency announces plans to crack down on “irregular patent applications” filed for bad faith purposes; Sen. [read post]
19 Mar 2021, 6:52 am by Bob Kraft
You can insert an upset baby or barking dog into the audio and crank the volume. [read post]
15 Mar 2021, 2:22 pm by Kevin LaCroix
Of course, the dog that didn’t bark is always an imponderable, but it may be that these concerns acted as something of a check on plaintiffs’ lawyers’ willingness to file lawsuits related to the pandemic. [read post]
12 Mar 2021, 11:15 am by IPWatchdog
This week in Other Barks & Bites: Senator Thom Tillis announces he will co-chair the Senate Cybersecurity Caucus; a local business news outlet reports that the United States Patent and Trademark Office could be downsizing its office space footprint in Northern Virginia; a Lex Machina report shows that Judge Albright’s docket covered nearly 20% of all patent cases filed during 2020; Johnson & Johnson gets an important regulatory approval to sell its COVID-19 vaccine in the EU;… [read post]