Category Archives: Patent

• Attacking Australian Patents – Re-examination & Revocation

  Posted on 二月 22, 2012 by adminsampsung in Patent

  by Mark Summerfield @ Patentology As many readers will be aware, Australia has a pre-grant opposition procedure which can be used to challenge a decision of the Australian Patent Office to issue a patent.  Opposition proceedings are conducted before the Patent Office, and are initiated by the opponent filing a Notice of Opposition. There is, however, [...]

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• Chinese Supreme Court brings about sea change for patent litigation in China

  Posted on 二月 15, 2012 by adminsampsung in Patent

  By HELEN CHENG @ Allen & Overy On December 16, 2011, without much fanfare, the Chinese Supreme People’s Court (“the SPC”) issued judicial guidelines for IP infringement adjudication entitled “Opinion on Several Issues Relating to Sufficient Utilization of IP Adjudication to Foster Development and Prosperity of Socialist Culture and to Promote Autonomous and Coordinated Economic Development” (the [...]

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• Texas Jury Strikes Down Patent Troll’s Claim to Own the Interactive Web

  Posted on 二月 10, 2012 by adminsampsung in Patent

  by Steven Musil  February 9, 2012 Web companies such as Google and Amazon won a closely watched patent-infringement lawsuit today when a jury ruled that a patent central to the complaint was invalid. A federal jury in Tyler, Texas, deliberated for just a few hours this afternoon before concluding that all of Eolas Technologies’ claims of ownership to [...]

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• “Why has America stopped inventing?” or “It’s not just Kats that rant”

  Posted on 二月 10, 2012 by adminsampsung in Patent

  Posted by Jeremy at IPKat Thursday, 9 February 2012 A very busy little book buzzed into this Kat’s life a few days ago.  It’s called Why Has America Stopped Inventing? and its author is an energetic, indeed frenetic patent attorney by the name of Darin Gibby (his own website is here; his web page with Kilpatrick Townsend is here). Darin is not one [...]

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• Reuters: EU Opens Antitrust Investigation into Samsung over Patents

  Posted on 二月 7, 2012 by adminsampsung in Patent

  Thomson Reuters | BRUSSELS | Tue Jan 31, 2012 5:51am EST Jan 31 (Reuters) – The European Commission opened an investigation into whether Samsung Electronics has distorted competition in the European mobile device market, breaking EU antitrust rules, the EU executive arm said in a statement on Tuesday. The Commission said that last year Samsung sought injunctions in various [...]

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