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Rand Paul "plagiarism" issue recycled in "The Wilderness"
Many "high profile" accusations of plagiarism are politically motivated, and a recent post on Buzzfeed falls in this category.
Rand Paul’s Chief Strategist Was Writer Behind Senator’s Plagiarism.
This brings up the difference between plagiarism and violations of federal laws in copyright and trademark.
Dastar suggests that material in the public domain may be copied without proper attribution and possibly with misattribution.
**As a footnote, plagiarism in speeches, in a context in which footnoting is difficult and not expected, is a tough sell.
The Biden/Kinnock plagiarism business overshadowed the reality that the facts themselves were incorrect. And is Abraham Lincoln a plagiarist because of the "House Divided" speech; one thinks not.
The NFL and the USPTO: "there's so many frigging rules"
"I don't think I still quite fully understand that. Because their guy went down, they had no timeouts. And I don't know what the rule is. ... I thought when he went down there was a penalty on that team for having a delay of game. But I'll have to look at that this week. I don't know, there's so many frigging rules. There's so many rules now. We'll try to clarify it this week. But you're right, I was not aware that the clock would be running."
Brady mentioned a non-call in overtime.
Another non-call of note, in the Steelers-Seahawks game, would relate to Sherman pushing receiver 84, prior to Sherman's interception.
On television, one was wondering "how" Sherman was all alone, until the replay was shown.
Recall: Illegal contact is a penalty that results from a defensive player interfering with an offensive receiving player more than 5 yards from the line of scrimmage.
At least at the USPTO, one has IPRs.
Supreme Court will not hear appeal in ETHICON ENDO-SURGERY, INC. v. COVIDIEN, INC.
The US Supreme Court has declined to hear the Covidien case.
In refusing to hear the case, the high court left in place a December 2014 ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit that threw out a judge’s finding that Ethicon had infringed upon Covidien's patents for surgical cutting tools. Covidien is owned by Medtronic Plc.
Mixed CAFC decision in ETHICON ENDO-SURGERY, INC. v. COVIDIEN, INC.
Further to previous IPBiz posts on CRISPR (e.g., CRISPR is high profile in science, patents; competitor labeled a mere second comer), an article in GEN on work by Jason Moffat illustrates the value of CRISPR in cancer research, and in personalized medicine.
Because different cancers have different mutations, they tend to rely on different sets of genes to survive. By turning genes off in five different cancer cell lines, including brain, retinal, ovarian, and two kinds of colorectal cancer cells, Dr. Moffatt’s team learned that each tumor relies on a unique set of genes that can be targeted by specific drugs. Essentially, the team identified distinct sets of "smoking gun" genes for each of the tested cancers. Each set may prove to be susceptible to different drugs.
The authors also demonstrated that distinct genetic signatures can be used to predict differential drug response. Specifically, they found that metformin, a widely prescribed diabetes drug, successfully killed brain cancer cells and those of one form of colorectal cancer. The same drug, however, was useless against the other cancers studied.
Similarly, the antibiotics chloramphenicol and linezolid were effective against one form of colorectal cancer, but not against brain or other cancers studied. These data illustrate the clinical potential of the data in pointing to more precise treatments for the different cancers—and suggest the value of personalized medicine.
Coca Cola does "Secret Santa" and "Jolly Reindeer"
Throughout December, Coca‑Cola Freestyle in Taste It! will feature two new mixes: Secret Santa and Mistletoe Flow. Sprite Cranberry Zero is also back by popular demand for a third year, offering a refreshing blend of Sprite with its zero-calorie formula and a splash of sweet and tart cranberry notes. Both Sprite Cranberry and Sprite Cranberry Zero will be available in stores for a limited time this holiday season.
with the last tasting somewhat like a birch beer.
The display on the freestyle machine does not indicate any of the three names are trademarked.
Still, shedding light on patent missteps, especially given the high drug costs they enable, is a good thing. The efforts by Mr. Bass and Mr. Spangenberg to highlight problematic patents, whatever role they play in promoting their own investments, may also encourage others to make their own challenges.
The NYT post did not mention the challenges by Bass to patents related to multiple sclerosis [MS] drugs, including related to Ampyra and Tecfidera.
Headlines. Robert Louis Deer in Colorado Springs. Pope Francis in Central African Republic. Deaths blamed on stormy weather. Egypt on King Tut's tomb. Weather: rain, ice, snow.
Almanac. Nov. 29 1890: first Army-Navy football game. Contest almost died in 1894. Teddy Roosevelt got game back in 1899. Harry Truman came to games. Kennedy in 1962. In 1963, score 21-15, Navy [The 1963 game was played on December 7. Remember Roger Staubach and Rollie Stichweh and the ending: Army’s Ken Waldrop falls 2 yards short of the goal line with 18 seconds left in 1963 Army-Navy game, and the Cadets can’t get off another play in 21-15 loss. ] First instant replay used in the 1963 game. Results to date: Navy 59 wins Army 49.
Fact: Day after Thanksgiving is the busiest day for plumbers.
Luke Burbank on "tale of the squirrel" on cooking squirrel in Bentonville, Arkansas. "It just is. Tree to table." Sustainable use of wild game as table fare. Note: buying or selling wild game meat is illegal. Squirrel sliders. Squirrel bisque. Eating what you hunt, even if it's a rodent. How does squirrel taste? Squirrel desserts, including ice cream. Winner: squirrel empanadas.
Erin Moriarty on David Remnick, 17 years at the New Yorker. He chooses the covers. Satire is about not going far enough. Good humored brainiac. Legendary cartoons. "The New Yorker Festival." Lenin's Tomb. Remnick started at the Washington Post. Married in October 1987; went to Moscow. Hired by Tina Brown. Brown left to form "Talk." Remnick brought stability to the New Yorker. Spirit of collaboration. Wife: the pragmatics of it is in my hands. Week after 9/11, all cartoons removed from the New Yorker.
Paula Pondstone on screen devices. Addiction hampers judgment. Brain retains information better when read from paper than from a screen. Our children will need fully functioning brains for the future.
Text: The tech industry has profited from the "Every child must have a laptop in the classroom" push, but education hasn't. Research shows that the brain retains information better read from paper than from a screen, and students who take notes by hand are more successful on tests than those who type their notes on a computer.
Ben Tracey on Carey Mulligan. Born in London. Saw Kevin Bacon doing a one man show in New York. Mulligan received widespread recognition for her performance in the 2009 film An Education. Far from the Madding Crowd.
Next week on Sunday Morning: Frank Sinatra at 100.
With certain exceptions, nonprovisional utility and plant applications for patent filed on or after November 29, 2000 are published promptly after the expiration of a period of eighteen months from the earliest filing date for which a benefit is sought under title 35, United States Code (eighteen-month publication or pre-grant publication (PGPub)). See 35 U.S.C. 122(b).
This group is close to saying, yes I trashed the patent system, but it was good for my career. Once I get the full-professorship and the millions in the stock fund, I’ll reevaluate everything.
Unbelievable that people like this are hired by universities.
The Chien article particularly addresses the concerns that I had with WSJ essay, which is why I was surprised to see the completely different focus of that WSJ essay. I thought she had also changed course. According to Chien, the emphasis and framing in the WSJ essay were the result of heavy WSJ editing rather than any backtracking from her prior work.
In fact, the abstract of the Chien law review article, discussed in PatentlyO, is not about patent hold-out by small entities attacked by patent trolls, but rather about patent hold-out by large entities attacked by small entities. Whether these are "more nuanced" thoughts remains to be seen.
South Korea is set to indict 200 professors from several of the country’s universities for alleged copyright violations after they republished books by other authors under their own names, the Korea Herald newspaper reported Wednesday.
Professors from 50 universities, as well as four employees of a publishing company, are implicated in the scandal, Korean prosecutors said, with most of them having already confessing their involvement.
The professors’ actions were reportedly done in a bid to boost their academic standing before rehiring-related assessments. The Herald also reported that many of the original authors were also complicit in the scheme for fear of invoking the publishers’ displeasure over future book deals.
The New York Times does not ordinarily reprint material that has been previously published; Op-Ed contributors are asked to affirm that their work is original, and exclusive to The Times. Had The Times known that portions of the essay were copied from an earlier work, it would not have accepted the essay for publication.
In those few cases where a paper sought an opinion piece from me on anything, I insisted on seeing all edits before it was published. If the edits rendered the article no longer my opinion, I told the paper to remove my name.
Chien’s behavior strikes me as bizarre to say the least and possibly even risky to her as well as to those she represents.
CAFC in Straight Path IP Group addresses the meaning of the word "is"
Straight Path IP Group, Inc. owns U.S. Patent No.
language “is” calls for anything but present-status information.
Board, Sipnet relies entirely on the specification.
process over the computer network.
Not "computer implemented" but a computer program product!
not been litigated or adjudicated.
On December 18, 2015, in The Cleveland Clinic Foundation v. True Health Diagnostics, LLC, a district court judge in Ohio issued an order denying the Cleveland Clinic Foundation’s (“CCF’s”) Motion for Temporary Restraining Order and Preliminary Injunction after concluding that CCF had failed to establish a likelihood of success on the merits. In particular, the court found that CCF had “fail[ed] to make a clear showing that the patents-in-suit” are directed towards patent eligible subject matter. This is yet another example of the challenges facing the developers of diagnostic tests in the wake of Mayo v. Prometheus.
The patents at issue in the case, U.S. Patent No. 7,223,552 (“the ’552 patent”); U.S. Patent No. 7,459,286 (“the ’286 patent”); and U.S. Patent No. 8,349,581 (“the ’581 patent”), relate to methods of analyzing Myeloperoxidase (“MPO”) biomarkers in a patient’s blood sample to predict a patient’s potential for heart disease, by comparing the level of MPO found in the patient’s blood sample with levels of MPO in control subjects to see if the patient has elevated levels of MPO. MPO is an enzyme released by white blood cells when an artery wall is damaged or becomes inflamed, and its presence is thus an early symptom of many types of cardiovascular disease (“CVD”).
Colleen Chien on "doing nothing"
Before IPBiz could write a response to Colleen Chien's post The Best Way to Fight a Patent Demand May Be to Do Nothing, PatentlyO had already criticized the Chien work.
The best way to deal with a patent demand may be to take a deep breath—and then do nothing.
The prospect of a patent lawsuit can be terrifying for a startup. Entrepreneurs often imagine that legal action will empty company coffers, throw the business out of joint or scuttle a round of financing.
Out of that research, a surprising finding emerges: More than a fifth of survey responders resolved the threat by “doing nothing.” This means, for example, looking at the claim, determining a license isn’t needed—and then filing the letter away, rather than responding.
**As a first point, the "doing nothing" strategy has been suggested for some time, so that idea is not exactly new to people following the issue.
Kevin Cranman, General Counsel, Ericsson Television Inc.
Karen Kaiser, Chief Intellectual Property Counsel, Ingredion Inc.
Matthew Miller, Deputy General Counsel, Groupon, Inc.
Michael Shpizner, Vice President and General Counsel, Fujitsu America, Inc.
threatening letters from NPEs (aka PAEs).
Other times, patent holders aren’t looking for a quick settlement but seek high damages from a jury. In those cases, they will be more willing to pursue a claim. One approach is to plead poverty. There is evidence that patent trolls, like other patent holders seeking settlements, target firms with cash on hand. A company might want to share financial information confidentially to convince a troll it isn’t worth its time.
The threat of an injunction can be used to dissuade smaller entities from "doing nothing."
More than a fifth of survey responders resolved the threat by “doing nothing.” This means, for example, looking at the claim, determining a license isn’t needed—and then filing the letter away, rather than responding.
Of course, as to both PatentlyO and Chien, the determination of whether or not there is infringement (need for a license) is not easy to answer. Some NPR litigation turns on infringement, not on the underlying validity, of the claims of the NPE. Recall Selden's suit against Henry Ford. Selden's claims were NOT invalidated.
Sigma-Aldrich will be combined into Merck KGaA's EMD Millipore business unit, forming a new subsidiary that will be called MilliporeSigma.
The "Aldrich" name, so familiar to organic chemists, vanishes in the name of the new subsidiary.
One recalls some previous discussion of the difference between the US Merck and the German Merck, which separation arose as a result of World War I.
still submitting admission essays which are copied.
the number of plagiarizing applicants hasn't budged.
Charles Osgood, with a red handkerchief, introduces the food issue.
Mark Strassman does the cover story on homegrown food. A beautiful day in the agrahood.
Susan Spencer, then Jane Pauley. Story on the Red Rooster. (On the Menu). Seth Doane on Japan's fake food industry. Tracy Smith interviews Cloris Leachman, a vegetarian. Mo Rocca on going bananas, eaten as much as apples and oranges combined.
Headlines for Nov. 22. Up to 20 inches of snow in midwest. Jon Bel Edwards governor. Fire in Hancock Building. Weather: scattered showers in east.
Fact: nearly a quarter of Americans eat turkey only around Thanksgiving time.
The cover story by Mark Strassman begins with with Clay Johnson lives south of Atlanta. Serenbe development. A real working farm. Steve Nigren is the developer of Serende The agrahood. Ed McMahan studies the phenomenon. The Cannery; Prairie Crossing; Willisburg. Average home at Serenbe costs $700K. Ashley Rogers is farm manager at Serenbe.
Hanna Warner on "what's brewing". Gerard Tonti paints with coffee and tea. Green tea as a painting medium. Reds were difficult. Lives outside Pittsburgh.
Lee Cowan on LA cafeteria. Clifton's Cafeteria. Andrew Meyers. Brookdale Cafeteria. The cafeteria of the golden rule. A woodland escape. At the height, 15,000 served per day. Ray Bradbury was a regular. By 2010, considered closing. Andrew Myron. A 40 foot redwood tree in atrium. The Woodland Dining Room. Barbara Jacobs in charge of outreach.
Jane Pauley on Red Rooster Harlem of Marcus Samuelsson, born in Ethiopia, and ended up in Sweden. Culinary school at age 16. Aquavit. Note that the Red Rooster is located at 310 Malcolm X Blvd.
Tampa's Columbia Restaurant. Cuban sandwich. 9 inches long. Serve as many as 600 per day. Tampa uses salami.
Nancy Giles on juicing. Get your green on at Juice Generation in NYC. Kale is the new bacon. Roots Juices. Vitamix machine in 1949. Papa Barnard. Jody Berg is president of Vitamix of Cleveland. Clip of Ninja. Marjorie Knowland Cohn at Liquiteria.
Tracy Smith with Cloris Leachman. Nine Emmys. Raised five children. Cabbage salad with family secret dressing. Vegetarian. Horses in Young Frankenstein. Blucher means glue.
Mo Rocca on bananas. Unripe fruit shipped in boxes. Banana Distributors of New York. Big Banana. They arrive green and hard. Then a ripening room with ethylene gas added. Tony Commando is in charge of ripening. William Goldfield notes bananas introduced in 1876. Banana is cheapest fruit in store. The banana republics. Carmen Miranda. 99% of bananas are Cavendish bananas. Banana peel: Harpers in 1879. O. Henry used term banana republic in 1904.
Dean Reynolds in Rossi's in State St. in Chicago. A tavern opens its doors at sunrise. Dennis McCarthy. 25 years of neglect. Shawn Parnell did book on Chicago bars. Simon's Tavern. Mahogony bar built in 1933.
Spencer at Omni Parker House. Boston cream pie. Called a pie because baked in pie shells. Official state dessert as of 1996. Invented at this hotel. Malcolm X and Ho Chi Minh worked there. Of relevance to Christmas: Dickens first recited and performed "A Christmas Carol" for the Saturday Club at the Parker House. Of relevance to the Civil War, John Wilkes Booth stayed at the hotel April 5–6, 1865, eight days before assassinating Abraham Lincoln. Of relevance to trademarks, Dunfey Hotels bought Parker House in 1968, but on later buying Omni, phased out the Dunfey name and used the Omni. Sort of like Continental Airlines and United Airlines.
Next week on Sunday Morning. Interview with Carrie Mulligan.
Moment of nature. Jardiance. Wild turkeys near Stonewall, Texas.
An opinion piece in the Washington Post about venue titled A patent reform we can all agree on is authored by Colleen Chien and Michael Risch.
My Petition shows that the PAE Report contravenes the IQA because it expressly relies on third-party information that does not meet the IQA standards. The sources relied on by the PAE Report purport to document patent litigation rates, quantify the private and social costs of patent litigation, survey “victims” of PAE litigation, and show the purported adverse effects of PAE activities. This information includes studies that have undergone no peer review; that have relied on opaque or erroneous methods and surveys; that lack objectivity; and lack practical utility.
To achieve agency compliance with identifiable IQA standards, my Petition concludes with 21 specific requests for correction supported by evidence and arguments. My Petition provides a compendium of detailed analyses of fundamental flaws surrounding data and methods used in eight commonly cited studies purported to document PAE harms, upon which the PAE Report relies.
The effectiveness of those aiming to steer the conversation here away from the substance of my article is remarkable. Perhaps others should resist the deflection tactics and address the topic at hand. For example, should the 51 law professors adopt IQA-like standards before they publish or endorse substandard or erroneous empirical “studies”? Have these professors recently distanced themselves from their purported “increasing body of evidence” articles they cited in their letter to Congress? Why else would they remove the full letter (including the reference list) from SSRN and thereby frustrate one of their heavily-cited authors’ tweets at link to twitter.com ?
Colleen Chien and Michael Risch then finished off the series, suggesting that courts could possibly solve many of the problems facing the patent system by changing were lawsuits can be filed.
"We are pleased that the court found the patents invalid, as it affirms our assertion that the claims are without merit," Google spokesperson said Thursday.
A U.S. jury on Friday found Apple Inc did not infringe five antipiracy patents owned by a Pendrell Corp subsidiary at trial in a Texas federal court.
Of interest to the "troll" discussion, one notes the claims were found NOT to be infringed, but were NOT found invalid.
This is the same outcome as that in the Selden / Ford automobile case.
Trolls can actually employ patents with valid claims, albeit not covering the products of the accused infringer.
On Wednesday [18 Nov 2015], a motion hearing was held in the San Francisco courthouse of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California to discuss Oracle's motion to disqualify the court-appointed damages expert, Dr. James Kearl, who since his original appointment in this case has effectively defended Google's interests in connection with an Apple v. Samsung case.
The Court held that the merger doctrine was incorrectly applied by the district court, and that the district court did not focus on the options available to an original author. The Court explained that the merger doctrine is an exception to the “idea/expression dichotomy”—which does not extend copyright protection to any “idea, procedure, process, system, method of operation, concept, principle, or discovery.” Id. at 18 (quoting 17 U.S.C. § 102(b)). Instead, under the merger doctrine, if there are only a few ways to express an idea, the idea essentially “merges” with the expression and thus becomes unprotectable. In this case, the Court held that the merger doctrine was inapplicable because the Ninth Circuit had previously determined that the distinctive arrangement of a computer program does not merge with the process if alternate expressions are available. The Court recognized that the Android class names and methods could have been different from the names used by Java, and still could have worked. For example, “java.lang.Math.max” could have instead been named “Arith.larger.” If Java’s authors only had a limited number of ways to express the methods and classes, then the idea likely would have “merged” with the expression, making the packages unprotectable, but the Court held that they did not and, thus, the merger doctrine was inapplicable.
The Court also held that the district court erred in concluding that Oracle’s declaring codes were uncopyrightable because they were short phrases. Although, under 37 C.F.R. § 202.1(a), words and short phrases such as “names, titles and slogans” are unprotectable under copyright law, the relevant inquiry is whether the manner in which a short phrase is strung together and used is creative, the Court noted. The Court further noted that Oracle is not seeking protection for single phrases, but short phrases strung together. Because an original “combination” of words can be copyrightable, the Court held that the district court erred in finding that the programs were unprotectable short phrases.
In addressing additional points, the Federal Circuit acknowledged the four statutory factors to be considered when determining if a particular use is fair. At the lower court, the jury was hung on Google’s fair use defense and a new trial was denied. The Federal Circuit ultimately decided that the record contained insufficient facts on which it could base a de novo assessment of Google’s assertion of fair use; thus, the issue was remanded. The Court also affirmed the district court’s decision to grant Oracle’s motion for JMOL in regards to “eight decompiled Java files that Google copied into Android” and which contain security functions, and affirmed the district court’s decision to deny Google’s motion for JMOL in regards to nine lines of “rangeCheck” code because copying was “more than de minimis.” Id. at 62-66.
Understanding the relationship between patent cases in court and validity challenges at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board is essential for success in litigation today, according to a Nov. 12 Bloomberg BNA conference held at the offices of Wiley Rein LLP, Washington.
David E. Killough, assistant general counsel at Microsoft Corp., said PTAB issues are among the top issues in patent law today.
Panelists at the conference, co-chaired by James H. Wallace Jr. and Brian H. Pandya of Wiley Rein, zeroed in on the main take away for both challengers and patent owners: do everything you can upfront, because the PTAB's trial institution decision, which comes about six months after a petition is filed, is critical.
No doubt that BMC Resources and Muniauction would have been decided in favor of the patent owner had the present rules regarding method claims been in place then. Lemley’s effort the sabotage the law of direct infringement involving method claims has justifiably has been defeated.
ing of nonobviousness and remand.
Exhibit 1010 in the Petitions was not adequate.
rect ground suggested by the Board’s language.
LBE has a quibble with the title of the PatentlyO post AND, more importantly, with the decision.
a later-obtained experimental result based upon earlier science.
In this case, Lilly intended to claim the L-enantiomer, even though that is not what Lilly possessed. If Lilly had claimed the fermentation product, rather than a chemical formula, there might not be a problem. The invention is defined by the claims, not by the disclosure.
A related issue arose “In re ‘639 patent” as to prior art, which recited a synthetic pathway to a claimed compound [nabumetone] but which pathway contained an error [ironically because of reliance on a Lilly publication that was in error]. As another twist, the prior art disclosure actually produced [some] nabumetone.
As to –later advances in science–, and the text — In this case, the original patent filing included a structural diagram of the claimed daptomycin compound that was inaccurate because it misidentified a stereoisomer of asparagine. It was only after the patent issued that researchers discovered that the compound contained the D-isomer rather than the L-isomer. To be clear, when the patent issued, scientists thought that the compound actually had the L-isomer but then later learned that it had the D-isomer. — it’s not clear “why” there was an inference that the L-enantiomer of asp was present in the daptomycin obtained from fermentation. Certainly, the identity of the enantiomer of asp could have been determined at the time of filing. If the Lilly scientists “guessed wrong” and intentionally selected what turned out to be wrong, is this the type of mistake that should be corrected by a certificate of correction? As a hypo, if the the daptomycin with L-enantiomer of asp (which exists) turned out to be more effective than that with the D-enantiomer, what would Cubist be arguing?
though the specification may offer support for various claims, it is the issued claims that define the invention that may be enforced.
In re Zletz, 893 F.2d 319, 13 USPQ2d 1320 . There is no doubt that Lilly possessed the compound with the D-enantiomer, but they didn’t claim it, and didn’t bother to check which enantiomer they had. Is that a mistake that should be corrected by a certificate of correction?
What would Abraham Lincoln say about Goodlatte's "Innovation Act"?
Joseph Allen has a post titled Abraham Lincoln loved our patent system. Let’s not tear it down. which goes into some of the issues in patent reform.
If a patent cannot be effectively enforced, it has little value. Courts have made it almost impossible for patent owners to obtain the injunctions that can stop the sale of products that infringe upon their inventions. Giant corporations employ “efficient infringement” strategies knowing they can make big money pirating patents, even if they get caught. Because it is so hard to recover damages, lawyers are often unwilling to defend inventors on a normal contingency fee system, and instead insist upon being paid up front for the considerable costs of an infringement trial.
The patent reform bill that has made progress in the House, called the Innovation Act, would force patent owners to pay their opponents’ legal bills if their infringement suit proved unsuccessful. This gives big businesses a formidable tool with which to intimidate inventors from enforcing their patents, as there’s always a chance that any lawsuit will fail and the expense of paying the legal fees of a giant corporation would bankrupt most small companies.
the Eagles running offense predicted to go wild over the Dolphins porous running defense.
In fact, the Eagles lost the game and gained less than 100 yards running. Murray got 61 yards, with 2.8 yards per rush. Matthews got 18 yards, on 2.3 yards per carry.
Was this outcome foreseeable to the football practitioner of average skill?
House speaker Ryan is looking to get important things (like the budget) done without controversy.
Patent reform in November 2015 does not fit the bill. There has been increased opposition since the time the House last voted in favor of the Goodlatte bill.
Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) is on the mainstream conservative side, opposing the grab bag bill that died this Congress.
In recent weeks, a major concept has emerged in tax reform discussions: the establishment of a patent or innovation box.
The patent box is a mechanism that is used to encourage domestic innovation and the commercialization of innovative new products. Several major US trading partners already use patent or innovation boxes as part of their tax regimes.
Both Senator Hatch and House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) have indicated they are working closely with the Administration on tax reform and all share a deep concern that if they fail to act on business and especially international reform in this Congress, the US will see a vast number of American companies move their domiciles overseas to reduce their US tax burdens. In remarks at a private event, Chairman Hatch conceded that the patience of US multinationals has run its course; they will not wait beyond this year for Congress to act, and as a result, both he and Chairman Ryan need to find a way to “walk through the door” of business tax reform this year.
Charles Osgood opened the November 15 show by stating that the Eiffel Tower had been darkened in memory of those lost in Paris and that Elizabeth Palmer would report details.
The cover story is by Martha Teichner on photographer Joel Sartori. Lee Cowan on Sylvester Stallone. Anthony Mason on Jennifer Hudson in The Color Purple. Rita Braver on comic drawer Mort Walker (Beetle Bailey) and King Features. Tracy Smith on Sarah Palin. Georgia O'Keefe.
News. 129 dead/352 injured in Paris attack. 3 groups/8 people. Osgood appears to be reading from a written script.
Elizabeth Palmer reported from Paris. She showed a video of the concert at Bataclan at the time of the attack. Palmer indicated that French officials stated they had identified ALL of the terrorists.
The cover story is entitled Vanishing, with pictures of animals by Joel Sartori. Building a photographic ark with pictures of 5002 species. Tuffy the tree frog. Northern White Rhino. Columbia Basin Pygmy Rabbit. Horned Guan. Kathryn Wertman. Sartori's wife Kathy diagnosed with breast cancer; needed to stay home in Omaha, Nebraska. Pictures at Lincoln Zoo. There are 12,000 species in captivity. His photos have been projected onto the Empire State Building.
Rita Braver on the funnies. Blondie and Dagwood. Popeye. Dennis the Menace. Betty Boop. The King Features Syndicate.
Contessa Brewer on social media in the Paris shootings. Michael Morrell. Chaos caught on camera. Facebook Safety Check. WICKR. Encrypted messages. John Miller on messages designed to be unreadable by third parties.
Anthony Mason on Jennifer Hudson. Various clips from Chicago. Chi-raq.
Tracy Smith on Sarah Palin. Did you feel like a loser? It takes a team to win and a team to lose. We lost. The summer of 2008. Bristol was pregnant. Sept. 2008 with Katie Couric: what do you read for news? 2015: lost job as commentator for Fox. God of second chances. Book "Freedom". Too many people worry about being too divisive. Donald Trump has nothing to lose; he is his own man. You see a lot of silver linings.
Steve Hartman in Ft. Worth, Texas. Guy on mower pulling a train of dogs. Eugene and Walter Bostic.
Lee Cowan does Sunday Profile on Sylvester Stallone, now 69. The movie "Creed." Born in a clinic in Hell's Kitchen.
You weren't born with much of a brain. Saw movie Hercules with Steve Reeves. Had to sell dog. Prisoner of Second Avenue.
Turned to writing screen plays. After 29th birthday, Rocky. Would not sell script unless he played Rocky. Rambo: Rocky on caffeine. Stallone was 11th choice for Rambo. Keep punchin' Philly; I owe ya.
David Turracamo on Paris, a city of a thousand villages. Je suis Charlie. All of Paris is my village.
Pictures of world cities with landmarks illuminated in red, white, and blue.
Nov. 16 is the 100th anniversary of the patent for the design of the Coke bottle.
The design patent is US 48,160 to one A. [Alexander] Samuelsson [of the Root Glass Company; the patent application sketch was made without the signature embossed Coca-Cola script lettering. ].
The motivational issue was that competitor brands like Koka-Nola, Ma Coca-Co, Toka-Cola and even Koke copied or only slightly modified the spencerian script Coca Cola logo on generic bottles. The Trustees of the Coca-Cola Bottling Association sent a challenge to glass companies to create a “bottle so distinct that you would recognize if by feel in the dark or lying broken on the ground.” As inspiration for a distinctive bottle design, the container was said to have been modelled after a component of the Coca-Cola beverage: the Cocoa Bean Pod, which has a similar bulging middle.
The color of the bottle was to be German green, which later morphed to Georgia green.
Color trademarks were another 80 years away. But note on April 12th, 1961, the Coca-Cola bottle was recognized as a trademark, in part supported by the fact that a 1949 study showed that fewerthan 1% of Americans could not identify the bottle of Coke by shape alone.
Returning to Sunday Morning, note Nov. 22, 2015 is the "food issue" of Sunday Morning.
Charles Osgood, in a red blazer and green pants, introduced the stories for November 18, 2012, the "food issue" of CBS Sunday Morning. Eat, drink and be merry. Lee Cowan did "feeding frenzy," the cover story, with Wolfgang Puck. Second, Barry Peterson, marijuana as a food ingredient. Third, Michelle Miller with John Goodman doing food in New Orleans (easy does it). Fourth, Martha Teichner, food matches. Fifth, Bill Geist on "The Big Texan Steak Ranch."
Moment of nature. Field of sunflowers in the village of Lempaut in the south of France. This "moment" is a recycle from June 28, 2015: We leave you this Sunday in a field of sunflowers in Lempaut, in the south of France.
The US Patent Office has recently published the patent application (no. US 2015/0301039), which was filed by the MIPT in May this year and is titled "Biological Sensor and a Method of the Production of Biological Sensor." In Russia, this development is already protected by the patent No. 2527699 with a priority date of February 20, 2013. The key feature of the sensor is the use of a linking layer for biomolecule immobilization comprising a thin film of graphene or graphene oxide.
Gunter Falkner v. Inglis, 448 F.3d 1357, 1365–66 (Fed.
would understand the invention); Novozymes A/S v.
bounds of protection he will seek.”).
The Medicines Company is granted.
despite the absence of a transfer of title?
purposes of § 102(b) or an experimental use?
to the on-sale bar of 35 U.S.C. § 102(b)?
within 17 days from the date of this order.
Gregory M. Sleet; the CAFC affirmed D. Del.
Daptomycin was developed by Eli Lilly & Co. (“Lilly”).
(“the ’071 patent”), which is a reissue of U.S. Patent No.
treating bacterial infections. The next two are U.S.
are directed to the purification of daptomycin compositions.
consolidated with the initial lawsuit.
rather than the “D” stereoisomer.
substituting “D-Asn” for “L-Asn” in the diagram.
daptomycin, the certificate of correction was invalid.
case, no such showing has been made.
F.3d 1111, 1122 (Fed. Cir. 2003).
The problem is that "what was claimed" was not "what was possessed."
Do universities face a reputational cost in enforcing patent claims?
A post from Brookings investigates the role of universities as plaintiffs in patent infringement suits: Patent infringement suits have a reputational cost for universities .
This is not the first time this university has asserted its patents rights (UW sued Intel in 2008 for this exact same patent and reportedly settled for $110 million).
There was no mention of the stem cell cases, or the much earlier margarine business.
What if the text of Bayh-Dole had been originally composed to grant a conditional right to patents for federal research grantees? The condition could be stated like this: “This policy seeks to promote the commercialization of federally funded research and to this end it will use the patent system. Grantees may take title to patents if and only if other mechanisms for disseminating and developing those inventions into useful applications prove unsuccessful.” Under this imagined text, the universities could still take title to patents on their inventions if they or the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office were not aware that the technologies were being used in manufactures.
The reality that Bayh-Dole did not mandate such a contingent assignation of rights creates a contradiction between its aims and the means chosen to advance those aims for the subset of patents that were already in use by industry.
No, the Boyer-Cohen patent was not mentioned.
obviousness-type double patenting over U.S. Patent No.
art, and do not reach the issue of double patenting.
satisfy a long-felt but unmet need.
gastroenterologist with three years of experience.
Regents of Univ. of Wash., 334 F.3d 1264, 1270 (Fed. Cir.
Medicine, 363 New Eng. J. Med. 301, 301 (2010).
two drugs to treat rheumatoid arthritis. AbbVie, 764 F.3d.
common in diagnosing patients with IBS.
As to the outcome: A California federal judge refused Monday to sanction Philips and its counsel, Reed Smith LLP, for allegedly misusing confidential information obtained in its trade secret suit against Elec-Tech International Co. Ltd., saying there was no court order for Philips to violate.
But Philips argued that all of the information it used in its state court suit came from publicly available or permissible sources, calling the motion no more than an attempt to keep facts in the federal case from making it into the state case.
Plagiarism has consequences in higher education. This fall, failure to pass a quiz on plagiarism awareness has consequences at Bradley University.
The Peoria school is requiring this fall's incoming students — all 1,300 of them — to pass a plagiarism quiz before they can register for the spring semester.
Each quiz attempt will be recorded in a database and saved for the duration of a student’s time at Bradley.
The information can be accessed by the dean of each college and the VP for Student Affairs, as needed.
Parkinson's Disease. Second, Lee Cowan on photography.
"carved in stone." Jim Axelrod on Bernie Sanders.
News. 90% sure explosion caused by bomb. Trump hosted SNL.
surprise, missile from US Navy. Weather: 50s in NE.
Philadelphia designated as World Heritage City on Friday.
Cover story by L. Stahl on Aaron Latham, in boxing ring.
Parkinsons afflicts about one million Americans.
Rock Steady Boxing, from Indianapolis in 2006.
Gleason's in Brooklyn donates a ring three days a week.
on boxing therapy. Neuroprotective. Growth of neurons.
Patient Tom Kimberly. Aaron: it's slowing the symptoms.
Nov. 8, 1884. Herman Rohrschach born. Died in 1922.
Seth Doane on the forgotten war in Korea.
Tuesday is World Science Day.
Friday is odd day, 11/13/15.
Farmington. From NM 371 to road 7297.
Plagiarism issue at George Washington University?
There is an interesting story about plagiarism posted in the George Washington University Hatchet.
Jyothikumar copied materials for at least six of his own papers from sources like the United States Patent and Trademark Office and the National Institutes of Health, as well as research papers from peer-reviewed journals, without providing citations, according to documents reviewed by The Hatchet.
GW has an academic misconduct policy that requires anyone who finds research misconduct to report it to the research integrity office. According to the policy, all faculty, staff and students who are affiliated with GW are required to follow the policy preventing falsification and plagiarism in research.
Inc. v. Univ. of Ill. Found., 402 U.S. 313, 329-334 (1971)).
The pro se appellant Tse lost.
that the Board denied it procedural rights in the review.
using board 5 to prevent twisting.
Berk-Tek, 2014 WL 1253012, at *23 (emphasis in original).
is describing and attempting to protect.” EWP Corp. v.
692 F.3d 1289, 1298 (Fed. Cir. 2012).
prevent twisting of the core that would cause misalignment.
be achieved by using a third die in the method of JP ’910.
at different stages of the proceeding.
prima facie case of obviousness.
asserted” in an inter partes review of its patent, 5 U.S.C.
U.S. 281, 288 n.4 (1974); Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp.
both parties have a right to an oral hearing. § 316(a)(10).
the Board’s denial of Belden’s motion to exclude.

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