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Stiglitz predicts Obama win, but did he get the Wright Brothers right?
Breitbart: Joseph Stiglitz, who won the 2001 Nobel prize for economics and who advised President Clinton, said on September 30 that the United States faces a long recession and predicted that Democrat Barack Obama will win November's presidential elections.
Stiglitz opposed the $700 billion bailout: “We’re turning risk investment funds into the hands of taxpayers”, he added pointing out that since no private investor wants to take responsibility for “risk investments, we’re simply wall papering them on to the taxpayer, this is monstrous”.
Stiglitz is not known for getting it right in the patent area: [Stiglitz] went on to discuss intellectual property rights, stating that if you don't get the laws governing IP rights correct, you get all the disadvantages of restricting knowledge, without any of the incentives that you were trying to get by having IP property. For example, the Wright brothers got a patent on airplane after Kitty Hawk, but so did Curtiss, and no private company making planes could afford to pay both parties the patent fees, so it wasn't until World War I when the government set in and said that this was too important for you to hold up development that the aircraft industry got its real start.
However, BioArts claim that the Roslin patents are "foundational" patents and that the SNU patent could only be an "improvement," which needs the rights to the underlying foundational technology to avoid infringement.
Although a massive amount of ink and electrons will be used to cover the legal battle between Start Licensing and RNL, it remains debatable whether dog cloning is a market worth fighting for.
Lou Hawthorne, the chief executive of BioArts, who believes the dog cloning industry could eventually be worth a ``few hundred million dollars,'' said the international dispute over the patent rights has brought larger uncertainties to the market.
BioArts is currently working to diversify its business, looking to strengthen its presence in the fields of genetic testing, molecular diagnostics and stem cell research.
false material information, and (2) intended to deceive the [PTO].” Cargill, Inc. v.
to a presumption of intent to deceive. See Kingsdown Med. Consultants, Ltd. v.
Hollister, Inc., 863 F.2d 867 (Fed. Cir. 1988); see also M. Eagles Tool Warehouse, Inc.
Sen. McCain, for all his past heroism, has insulted the nation and put it in political peril by choosing Gov. Palin to be the proverbial “one heartbeat away” and has done her possibly budding career a disservice by putting her in a position of potential embarrassment.
Sen. Obama, conversely, chose Sen. Biden who adds substance, who could assume the presidency seamlessly if necessary and who augments his own qualifications for that office.
Of the many comments that followed Godnick's letter, there was just one allusion to Biden's plagiarism, which again shows that most people don't find plagiarism that big a deal. If Biden's plagiarism isn't a major concern to most voters, one begins to understand how the Harvard Business Review could publish an article with a sub-heading "Plagiarize with Pride." Allison Routman (symbolically) died for nothing.
I'm sure that a ridiculous charge about college plagiarism will be up there in the headlines, along with the meltdown of Wall Street and the banks.
The plagiarism was in law school, and was not a "ridiculous charge" but something that happened.
years as governor of my state.
DID YOU GUESS??????? Scroll down to see the answer…..
I am Teddy Roosevelt in 1900 "
"My intent was not to deceive anyone," Mr. Biden wrote. "For if it were, I would not have been so blatant."
IBM's application on "identifying white space"
METHODOLOGIES AND ANALYTICS TOOLS FOR IDENTIFYING WHITE SPACE OPPORTUNITIES IN A GIVEN INDUSTRY published application 20080235220 (September 25, 2008) based on application 12/132561 filed on June 3, 2008.
identifying at least one white space in said second set of documents, said at least one white space including fewer than a specified number of documents.
This most interesting claim requires one of ordinary skill to create a mathematical model to practice the claim. In other words, one would have to invent something to practice the so-called invention.
If you want patent law in more pulp fiction packaging, try Mission: Impossible 2 where IMF member Ethan Hunt must stop the villainous Sean Ambrose, a former fellow-agent gone bad who’s trying to make billions of dollars by unleashing a deadly virus on society while holding the patent on the antidote.
In the end, this fictional plot was not unrelated to what was actually going on in the real anthrax scare.
In the only movie I can think of where the super-villain in a (so-called) patent troll, director John Woo delivers all the explosions, bullet fire, car crashes and adrenaline-fueled visuals without being bogged down with details like plot lines and dialog.
Of course, various intellectual property themes are to be found in many older movies.
Elvis Presley was a virtual professor of trademark law in his role as Vince Everett in Jailhouse Rock.
And, if one really wants to learn how bio/pharma research works, Arrowsmith remains a good starting point.
Wachovia taken over by Citigroup; the fear of the times?
#1. Regardless, Wachovia looks to be in substantially better shape than Washington Mutual before WaMu failed. Wachovia has a loyal and largely affluent banking clientele, and a sizable business of offering investment services to clients through financial advisors. WaMu, by contrast, was a saving-and-loan, and had far fewer business lines.
But a bank's being well capitalized, she said, "is no longer enough" to reassure nervous depositors.
And yet Wachovia's bread-and-butter retail banking business, by contrast, may be moving in the opposite direction of WaMu's, even as Wachovia's stock slides amid fear.
Wachovia added 226,000 retail checking accounts in the second quarter, a Wachovia spokeswoman said, and a brow-raising 745,000 since June - or nearly a million new checking customers since the second quarter began. Wachovia held average deposits of $435.5 billion in the second quarter.
"We are focused on managing our company and serving our customers with excellence," a spokeswoman for the company said. "We are aggressively addressing our challenges and are working to strategically strengthen and manage capital and liquidity in this challenging environment."
But Wachovia also holds more than $122 billion in so-called Pick-A-Pay or Option ARM mortgages, as of July 22. Pick-A-Pays are an unwieldy type of loan that have fast become notorious for producing high levels of losses, as well as high levels of risk for banks that wrote them.
Wachovia's Pick-A-Pay loans give some borrowers the option of deferring portions of their monthly interest payments, thereby increasing their loans' balance. While Wachovia has stopped writing the loans altogether, Pick-A-Pays have proved highly problematic for both WaMu and Wachovia since home prices have fallen around the nation even as many Pick-A-Pay loan balances have risen.
Wachovia famously acquired the Pick-A-Pay business in 2006, when it purchased West Coast lender Golden West, at the height of the housing boom, for $25.5 billion.
That deal quickly has quickly come to haunt Wachovia's franchise. Defenders of Golden West, a pioneer in offering Option ARM mortgages, say that Wachovia changed the product's underwriting standards, and issued the loans to riskier borrowers. But employees at Wachovia who marketed Pick-A-Pays say that the loans do not deserve to be lumped with other risky loans, including now-infamous subprime loans.
Under the deal, Citigroup will acquire most of Wachovia’s assets and liabilities, including $400 billion in deposits and will assume senior and subordinated debt of Wachovia, the F.D.I.C. said. Wachovia Corporation will continue to own the retail brokerage firm AG Edwards and the money management arm Evergreen.
Of course, there is no requirement in patent law that the inventor "make" the invention. The inventor has to describe it and enable it, but does not have to make it. Once the patent is issued the inventor can exclude others from making that which he claimed. If people want to act as if the law says something else, that's a problem. Part of the problem may have been magnified by the book by Jaffe and Lerner, which incorrectly portrayed so many aspects of the patent system.
For an additional story on the tough times for smaller chip guys, see patenthawk's story on transmeta.
HOWEVER elsewhere in the issue is an article with a subheading A decade after 26 members of the entering class of 1991 earned their Ph.D.s from Yale's elite molecular biophysics and biochemistry program, only one holds a tenured faculty position. Page 1625 gives a listing of "where they ended up," which includes Tori Willliams Reid, now of Right at Home (home care for seniors), Jennifer Holmes, a patent lawyer at Ropes & Gray, G. Koji Sonoda, library manager at Amgen, Albert Crescenzo, a consultant to Symyx (Iselin, NJ), and Michael Reifler, of Whole Foods.
The 19 Sept 08 issue of Science also has a "Perspectives" piece titled: Illuminating the Modern Dance of Climate and CO2 which notes "Currently, the amount of CO2 emitted as a result of human activities is about double the amount required to explain the rate of increase of atmospheric CO2." [Did Al Gore mention this?] Noting a historical correlation of 40 ppm CO2(volume)/K, the authors state: However, given the discrepancies between different temperature reconstructions, and the uncertainties associated with interpreting Northern Hemisphere climate proxies in terms of mean global temperature, we estimate a gradient of 20 to 60ppmv per kelvin of global warming.
Appreciating fluorine chemistry, LBE notes the article Fluorous tags unstick messy chemical biology problems which includes the text: "Recent innovations suggest a range of potential applications of fluorous tages could be realized in chemical biology..." One has the line: Fluorous tags behave more like molecular "Post-it notes. The article mentions benefits in mass spectrometry (but curiously not NMR): [in fluorous proteomics] the fluorous tags are not prone to fragmentation, so the spectra [sic: patterns] are less complicated.
In passing, note the article "Apoptosis [cell death] Turbocharges Epithelial Morphogenesis." p. 1641.
Plagiarism, self-plagiariam, and "idea salmon"
Mike Masnick talks about Scott Adams (Dilbert) in a post Self Plagiarism And The Creative Process.
If my paw misses its target, that salmon is gone for good. I don't dwell on it.
is a problem. And, re-cycled salmon tend to smell bad.
These parties have no manufacturing or research base, no intention to use the patents, and only seek to enforce their Intellectual Property Rights once another company or individual has independently come to the technology, and have committed themselves to the enterprise.
Of course, everything in these lines describing a "troll" applies to the University of Rochester in its unsuccessful infringement suit against Searle.
(c) automatically selecting one of the telecommunications carriers from the carriers submitting a bid, and initiating the telecommunication session through the selected telecommunication carrier.
Google's vision of tomorrow's wireless network is in stark contrast to how wireless operators do business today, setting the two sides on a possible collision course.
Earlier this week, the search giant filed a patent application with the U.S. Patent Office describing its vision of an open wireless network where smartphones aren't tied to any single cell phone network. In Google's open wireless world, phones and other wireless devices would search for the strongest, fastest connection at the most competitive price. Essentially, wireless operators' networks would be reduced to "dumb pipes."
Of course, CNET is wrong in writing: Earlier this week, the search giant filed a patent application with the U.S. Patent Office. The application was FILED last year, but published last week.
Google's patent filing describes "devices, systems and methods" that would automatically poll nearby wireless services to find the best price for a voice or a data connection for a "portable communications device." That connection might come via a cellphone carrier, a WiMax provider, or even a Wi-Fi hotspot. According to the patent, users can either manually select the bid they like best or they can allow the device to connect automatically with the lowest-cost provider.
The upshot? Just as advertisers know they're always getting the market price for keywords on Google's AdWords system, wireless users would always get the market price for wireless data service -- or phone calls. The system could potentially free users from cellphone contracts and locked phones that tie them to one service provider and allow them to switch from one carrier to another, seamlessly, based on which carrier had the lowest price at that moment.
"It is an interesting notion," says Neil Strother, mobile analyst for Jupiter Research. "The idea would be that the device or system is smart enough that the switching could be invisible and in the background and, if they could patent it, it could be very disruptive."
Of Microsoft's victory over Alcatel/Lucent, the Boston Globe had a quote: The ruling is "a victory for consumers of digital music and a triumph for common sense in the patent system," Tom Burt, deputy general counsel for Redmond, Wash.-based Microsoft said in an e-mail.
The CAFC merely affirmed the district ruling, in which one patent was found not infringed and the other validly licensed: The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit yesterday affirmed the lower court's decision that one of the two patents wasn't infringed and that Microsoft, the world's biggest software maker, had a valid license for the second one. The valid licensing came through licensing by a joint owner.
Of the joint ownership matter, AT&T entered into a "joint development agreement" [JDA] with Fraunhofer in 1988. The JDA explicitly stated "All New Work is treated as joint work." In 1997, Microsoft obtained a license from Fraunhofer for an mp3 decoder and incorporated the technology into Windows Media Player.
Various lawsuits developed. At one point in the district court proceedings, it was determined because certain patent claims arose from "New Work", Lucent lacked standing to sue without joining Fraunhofer. On appeal, Lucent challenged the finding that these claims arose from "New Work," and even if they did, the district court erred in finding that Fraunhofer was co-owner of the patents in question.
Of the first point, the CAFC stated: "We cannot adopt Lucent's strained interpretation of the JDA."
Of the second point, the CAFC noted: "According to Lucent, by law a patentee may only assign title to an entire patent; a transfer of less is only a license." The CAFC noted the issue in the Lucent case was determining ownership of the patent in the first instance.
The CAFC brought up the case of Israel Bio-Engineering, 475 F.3d 1256. In that case, there was a five year contract between Israel Bio-Engineering Project [IBEP] and Yeda. Yeda would apply for patents, but IBEP would be the owner of the patents. AFTER the contract ended, a patent issued, naming Yeda as assignee. One of the four inventors (Rubinstein) had joined the research project AFTER the contract ended. The subject matter of claims 2 and 3 of the patent arose from work by Rubinstein. Rubinstein had assigned his rights to Yeda. IBEP sued Amgen over claim 1. The question became: did IBEP have to join Yeda? The CAFC held that Rubinstein was a presumptive co-owner of the patent because he was an inventor of claims 2 and 3 (and was indeed listed as an inventor). Thus, IBEP lacked standing to sue in the absence of joining Yeda, even though the claim at issue in the litigation was covered by the five year contract.
The CAFC determined that Fraunhofer was co-owner of the patents in question, and Lucent lacked standing to sue without joining Fraunhofer.
The CAFC then stated in the Lucent case: Israel Bio-Engineering holds that an inventor of one or more claims of the patent is the owner of all claims in the patent.
One notes that the legal issue determined was that Lucent had no standing to sue because Lucent had not joined a co-owner of the patent. It is separately true that a co-owner of the patent has the right to license the patent.
"On Aspects of Barack Obama’s Technology Policy"
"Essentially the election is at equilibrium," said John Zogby, president of Zogby International. "This election will stay close until the end."
Zogby said he thinks the race will turn in the last weekend before Election Day and though the popular vote will be tight, the successful candidate will win in a landslide.
He likened this year's election to the contest in 1980, when Ronald Reagan defeated President Jimmy Carter.
Obama as a candidate was designed perfectly to strongly challenge, and ultimately defeat, Hillary Clinton WITHIN the Democratic party. Strategic execution was great. Obama has an interesting strategy for McCain (eg, Virginia) but one wonders how Ohio and Pennsylvania will play out. Will "blue collar guy" Joe Biden save a bad position in those states? How many stupid things can Joe Biden say, or does it even matter?
Of polling itself, the COMPLETE MELTDOWN of all polls in the New Jersey stem cell vote should not be forgotten, however much the pollsters don't like to talk about that one.
Stealing Harvard, or Harvard Stealing?
Recalling the 2002 movie Stealing Harvard (with Dennis Farina and Megan Mullally), and noting the recent episodes of Harvard plagiarism, one wonders if a coming attraction will be captioned, Harvard Stealing?
Covers intellectual property strategy around the world. By Duncan Bucknell.
It's interesting to be beaten by Patent Troll Tracker which hasn't had a post since March 25, and can be accessed only by invitation.
Offers an open forum for patent practitioners. Sponsored by Patent Hawk.
Covers copyright, creative commons, politics, telecom, good/bad code and good/bad laws. By Stanford University Law Professor Lawrence Lessig.
Features patents for adult-oriented products.
One of the first things taught to anyone – especially politicians – in addressing the media is not to answer the reporter’s question but to answer the question you want to answer. Sure, it is maddening to the viewers. Screams of “they’re not answering the questions” are hurled at the television. But there’s a reason for this. You can avoid the above.
In Biden's interview with Couric on Monday, Sept. 22, Biden confidently spoke of President Franklin Roosevelt appearing on television to discuss the stock market crash in 1929. Either Couric didn't perceive the factual problem, or she decided to overlook it.
Which is worse: not knowing something, but promising to get the information, or simply making something up?
As an aside, did Couric ask Biden for examples of of his own pushing for more bank regulation? Could he have given SPECIFIC examples? Would he have included counter-examples? Biden did look pretty good on "Meet the Press" in handling Brokaw's question about MBNA, but that was more because of Brokaw's ineptitude than Biden's skill. Brokaw did identify a specific bill (apparently from a Delaware newspaper), but Biden knew more about it than Brokaw did, and Biden did a masterful job of focussing on Biden's issues. Brokaw was left without anything to say, mainly because of Brokaw's lack of knowledge.
Perhaps only to illustrate that there are alternatives in patent reform, we now have Senator Kyl's "Patent Reform Act of 2008."
Section 5 concerns POST-GRANT REVIEW PROCEEDINGS, and basically substitutes "oppositions" (with two windows) for inter partes re-examinations.
review proceedings instituted under this chapter.
One notes that Rule 99 already allows third parties to submit prior art to the USPTO.
Section 8 pertains to venue, and limits venue to places meeting one of six conditions. Condition 4 is where the invention claimed in a patent in suit was conceived or actually reduced to practice.
Section 13 concerns patents on check imaging methods.
Section 14 deals with USPTO funding, and would create a USPTO Public Enterprise Fund, the funds of which are available to the Director without fiscal year limitation.
IPWatchdog noted the immediate praise from Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) President and CEO Jim Greenwood. One might say this was about timing, but the Sept. 08 news cycle is not going to be about patent reform.
IPBiz has noted that Joe Biden told Katie Couric on Monday, Sept. 22 that President Franklin Roosevelt made television appearances in 1929 about the stock market crash. Biden is 65 years old and probably remembers the beginnings of commercial television in his lifetime, and, as a University of Delaware graduate should know Herbert Hoover was president in 1929 and that Roosevelt was famous for his fireside chats on the radio.
Picking on Britney Spears is kind of like shooting Cheetos-eating fish in a barrel, but her cover of the made-famous-by Joan Jett song “I Love Rock ’N Roll” does exactly what it should: adds gratuitous scratching, unnecessary beats, kewpie-doll vocals, and the least rock arrangement ever. Britney, c’mon, you don’t love rock ’n’ roll — you probably don’t even know how to spell it! Bonus fact: Britney thought it was Pat Benatar who made the song famous. Classic!
The query: which confusion was worse, Biden's or Britney's?
Blog: Biden's blovia beginning to bother?
Disasters with Word's "track changes"
Further to an earlier post on IPBiz about Word's "Track Change" feature, IPBiz re-affirms that people, ESPECIALLY ATTORNEYS, need to be careful about using this feature.
IPBiz wonders if the section VCs were stupid about concerned intellectual property (or underlying technology).
Bellman bought the cell phones earlier this year at a university surplus sale with the intent of reselling them for parts. He paid $190 for 25 old cell phones, figuring he'd sell the parts for around $1,000. Turned out the information on the phones might be worth more than the hardware. No one at the university had deleted the text messages, e-mails and contact numbers from the phones.
The Tribune reported last week that among other things, one Sprint Treo previously used by basketball coach Mike Anderson still had text messages between Anderson, football coach Gary Pinkel and Athletics Director Mike Alden. It was nothing controversial — well wishes for upcoming games and congratulations after wins. Still, the university has caught some flak from several online sites for not being more careful with information that could fall into the wrong hands — someone affiliated with Kansas, Nebraska or some other Big 12 rival, for example.
Microsoft Word ‘Track Changes’ : The Track Changes feature received some updates in Word 2003; most notably in how the printing of Tracked Changes was handled. In Word 2003, the ability to view/hide tracked changes in a printed document is not saved with the document itself; instead it is a global setting which must be manually set by each individual user when viewing the file. The Editorial Manager PDF builder machines are set to always print tracked changes because of this new feature. If the PDF Builders were not set up this way, users would not be able to see any of the tracked changes within a PDF.
Special Note for users of 'Track Changes' or similar features: If you use the Track Changes feature of Microsoft Word, or another word processor, before submitting your manuscript document file you must accept or reject all of your changes and turn the change tracking option off for the manuscript document file. If our Editorial Office is prompted by software to accept or reject alterations when your file is handled, we will accept all changes, and the authors will be responsible for any errors this generates.
Choose menu option Tools/Track Changes/Highlight Changes… and check Track changes while editing. You can choose whether or not you want the tracked changes displayed on screen and on printed copies of the document by checking the appropriate box in the Highlight Changes dialog box.
Note: For the original author, inserted text and spelling errors are both shown in red and underlined, making it hard to distinguish between the two. One solution is to turn off change highlighting when you’re checking for spelling errors. Choose menu option Tools/Track Changes/Highlight Changes… and uncheck Highlight changes on screen. Now only spelling errors will be highlighted.
A feature in the word-processing software tracks changes to documents, who made those changes, and when they were made. These notations typically are invisible to someone reading a Word document. But as some lawyers, businesspeople and politicians have learned the hard way, Word can also display so-called metadata in the document--including the original version and all subsequent changes. This information is available by viewing the document under "original showing markup" or "final showing markup."
The presence of hidden text in the SCO document is just the latest example of this workplace issue. According to a study by market research firm Vanson Bourne titled "The Cost of Sharing," 90 percent of documents in circulation began as something else, but 57 percent of respondents were not aware that metadata may still exist in the their document. Microsoft addresses the issue on its Web site but adds that its 2003 version of Office provides a feature that lets users "permanently remove" the hidden text from Word.
In the case of SCO's lawsuit against DaimlerChrysler, the Word document identified Bank of America as a defendant until Feb. 18--at 11:10 a.m., to be exact. The location for filing the suit also was switched from Bank of America's principal operations in California to Michigan, DaimlerChrysler's home state, on Feb. 27.
• On Feb. 18 at 11:10 a.m. "Bank of America, a National Banking Association" was removed as a defendant and "DaimlerChrysler Corp." was inserted.
• Three minutes later, this comment was removed: "Are there any special jurisdiction or venue requirements for a NA bank?"
• At the end of the lawsuit, "February" was listed as the filing date, although no exact date was given. SCO previously had said that it expected to file a lawsuit against a Linux user by mid-February.
IPBiz noted on 21 Sept 08 the impending issue of an Australian patent to stem cell worker/fraudster Hwang Woo Suk. In the context of final deliberations, a most memorable quotation was issued: "There is no statutory basis to refuse to grant a patent on the basis that the scientific data in a patent application is a misrepresentation or fraudulently obtained."
In a statement released on Wednesday [24 Sept. 08], Mr Johnson [David Johnson, IP Australia] confirmed no opposition had been filed, and addressed the controversy surrounded Mr Hwang's research.
"There is no statutory basis to refuse to grant a patent on the basis that the scientific data in a patent application is a misrepresentation or fraudulently obtained," Mr Johnson said. "In accepting the application in question, IP Australia is not endorsing the research that underpins the application." He said only a court could revoke a patent.
IP Australia said earlier this week that Hwang Woo-suk's patent was to be "sealed" - or granted - on Thursday [25 Sept 08], but the acting commissioner of patents said the government agency has since backtracked on that deadline.
"IP Australia is investigating the matter and the sealing date is not known at this time," David Johnson said in a statement. IP Australia is responsible for administering patents, trade marks, designs and plant breeders' rights.
Separately, no word on this latest Hwang matter from californiastemreport, which is bogged down in the usual internecine squabbles of CRIM (aka CIRM).
Plagiarism is passing off a source's information, ideas, or words as your own by omitting to cite them, an act of lying, cheating, and stealing.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington on Sept. 24 upheld a lower court decision that Qualcomm infringed a Broadcom patent on the technology [QChat push- to-talk technology]. It affirmed an infringement finding on another Broadcom patent for a method used to allow mobile phones to operate on multiple wireless networks. The court also overturned a jury verdict against San Diego-based Qualcomm finding it infringed a patent for video compression.
"We have continued to develop workarounds related to the patents related to QChat," Qualcomm attorney Alex Rogers said, adding that the company is reviewing the ruling and has been seeking technology that would allow it to continue operations.
Qualcomm claimed it helped Sprint without knowing Broadcom had patented a feature that uses a phone's Internet connection to deliver quick voice messages without a dial tone. Verizon Wireless is also developing its own walkie-talkie feature.
Of course, in the patent infringement business, intent is not an element of the "crime." Infringement is strict liability. Separately, the Bloomberg piece did not get into elements of willful infringement or inducement to infringe. The Bloomberg piece did allude to an earlier CAFC decision in a different Qualcomm/Broadcom case, reviving a claim involving a patent for transmitting radiofrequency signals.
A Washington, D.C., federal appeals court on Wednesday upheld a permanent injunction that bars chipmaker Qualcomm Inc. (QCOM) from selling certain third-generation cellphone chips because they infringe two patents held by rival Broadcom Corp. (BRCM).
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled that Qualcomm's popular walkie-talkie feature infringed one Broadcom patent, and it found that Qualcomm also infringed a Broadcom patent involving technology that allows cellphones to participate on multiple wireless networks.
Qualcomm had said several times that it was optimistic that its appeals would prevail.
“Obviously, we're disappointed with the rulings that were upheld and pleased with one that was overturned,” Qualcomm attorney Alex Rogers said.
The effect of the decision is to keep in place a deadline that gives Qualcomm until the end of January to stop selling the QChat and multiple network technologies.
The infringement that was overturned was not part of the sunset period and has already been replaced Rogers said.
Returning to the opening sentence of this post, the outcome of this case is further evidence of how totally clueless Jaffe and Lerner are about the patent system. Innovation and its Discontents can be hazardous to your patent health.
Whether RPX is a copycat of Intellectual Ventures remains to be seen. Further, Intellectual Ventures, as a factual matter, has not litigated against anyone (yet).
"I now believe we are in for one hell of a deep downturn," Welch told the World Business Forum in New York on Sept. 24, adding that the first quarter of 2009 will likely be "brutal."
Until recently, Welch said, he had believed the U.S. economy could avoid recession, but he has changed his mind.
"I am now caving," he said. "Get ready for real tough times. They're coming. There is no credit available."
Of other enduring sagas, the CAFC ruled in Broadcom v. Qualcomm (see http://www.cafc.uscourts.gov/opinions/08-1199.pdf).
infringement of that patent and conclude that claim 3, as properly construed, is invalid.
Ventana Med. Sys., Inc. v. Biogenex Labs., Inc., 473 F.3d 1173, 1181 (Fed. Cir. 2006).
prior art reference.” Nystrom v. TREX Co., 424 F.3d 1136, 1149 (Fed. Cir. 2005).
filing date prior to that of the Burson reference. We disagree.
Packard Company v. Mustek Systems, Incorporated, 340 F.3d 1314, 1320-21 (Fed. Cir.
been negative.” 383 F.3d 1337, 1345 (Fed. Cir. 2004) (en banc).
the intent of an alleged infringer in the inducement context. We disagree.
theory. Qualcomm’s argument reflects a misunderstanding of our holding in DSU.
Corp. v. Vaughan Co., 449 F.3d 1209, 1219 (Fed. Cir. 2006) (internal citation omitted).
(citing Cont’l Paper Bag Co. v. E. Paper Bag Co., 210 U.S. 405, 424-30 (1908))).
meaningless absent the ability to enforce through injunctive relief”).
Inc. v. AMF, Inc., 782 F.2d 995, 1003 n.12 (Fed. Cir. 1986).
W.L. Gore & Associates Inc. was told to pay $371 million to C.R. Bard Inc., doubling a December 2007 verdict where a jury found Gore infringed a patent over tubes that reinforce blood vessels.
The case is Bard Peripheral Vascular v. W.L. Gore & Associates, 03cv597, U.S. District Court, District of Arizona (Phoenix).
Bloomberg reports: The decision by U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey to deny a request by Teva to throw out the case means the dispute will now go to trial, probably in January, London-based AstraZeneca said in a statement Sept. 24.
The ruling may postpone the introduction of cheaper copies of the Respules version of Pulmicort in the U.S. The brand brought in $1.45 billion for AstraZeneca last year, while U.S. sales of Respules gained 20 percent from 2006.
A Washington Post blog, in a post titled The Biden Paradox: Help or Hindrance?, lays out some of Biden's recent screw-ups. IPBiz notes that all of this was foreseeable, from the time Biden answered "Frank's" question with the memorable line that Biden had a higher IQ than Frank. This is the same Biden that would later talk about television appearances by President Franklin Roosevelt in 1929. What does the University of Delaware require in terms of degrees?
The Fix spoke with several unaligned Democratic strategists over the last 24 hours and several expressed serious concern about the impact Biden has had on the race in the last weeks.
...insurance corporation AIG. Biden said no, the same position as his old colleague John McCain took.
That would have been fine, except for the little bitty fact that Obama had already endorsed the bailout, saying that he would not "second-guess" the government's attempt to save AIG. This morning, "Today's" Matt Lauer called Obama out on the contradiction. Obama patiently but firmly suggested Biden should have waited to respond.
A few days later, Biden had audiences cringing when he acknowledged on ABC's "Good Morning America" that the wealthy would pay higher taxes if Obama was elected president and that doing so would be "patriotic." He repeated the remark again on the campaign trail, and soon after, the Republicans were out with a TV spot deriding Biden and Obama for being tax-and-spend Democrats.
And last night, in an interview with “CBS Evening News,” Biden misspoke when he told anchor Katie Couric that today's leaders should take a lesson from the history books and follow former President Franklin D. Roosevelt's response to a previous national financial crisis.
Just-a-patent-examiner takes a whack at Lemley, James W. Beard, and Quillen/Webster in a 22 Sept. 08 post titled: The 'Wearing Down Examiners' Fallacy.
Myth: "Examiners are only rewarded for the initial response to a patent application and for finally disposing of an application..."
Wrong. Every time an applicant files an RCE (or a straight continuation), the examiner receives a count for the express abandonment, and another count for the first action after RCE. If they are doing their job right, the examiner will get a count for every single action they write (excluding advisory actions), the abandonment count acting as a 'deferred' count for the final rejection.
Myth: "Disposing of an application requires granting a patent..."
Wrong. Abandonment and appeal will also dispose of an application.
But really, the debate should be limited to facts, and the tired old 'wearing down examiners' argument is pure fiction (to my experience).
It is true that Lemley did a 180 between footnote 22 of "Ending Abuse..." and "Rubber Stamp" without offering any explanation for dropping his outrageously wrong position of footnote 22. Quillen, however, never actually recanted, and considers the 97% number to be correct for the assumptions he made. The problem of course is that a footnote in Quillen/Webster acknowledged the assumptions to be wrong.
I want to forward this to Lemley and his acolytes, including Ms. Moore. I do wish that the people who proposed patent policy would have at least minimal patent prosecution experience, on either side of the table. Instead, we get academics who seem to have no idea about the realities of the practice. And for some reason, the political structure of the PTO listens to these folks, and ignores the examiners and the patent prosecutors.
Thousands of violent protesters recently forced Tata, the Indian conglomerate that owns Land Rover and Jaguar, to halt work on a plant being built to produce the world’s cheapest car, the £1,250 Nano. The move could result in £200 million in investment costs being written off.
the first one patented is infringed by the other.” 81 U.S. at 528.
the skilled-artisan, the standard of patent law.
alia, Elmer v. ICC Fabricating, Inc., 67 F.3d 1571 (Fed. Cir., 1995); Braun, Inc. v.
Roebuck & Co., 496 F. Supp. 476 (D. Minn. 1980)).
should no longer be used in the analysis of a claim of design patent infringement.
identify the non-functional aspects of the design as shown in the patent.”).
Mark Lemley, who is not a registered patent attorney, wrote in the Stanford Law Review that Gary Boone invented the integrated circuit. In the land of the blind, the man with one eye is king.
While the focus has been on Sarah Palin since she was announced as John McCain's running mate, Barack Obama's number two has had quite a run. Joe Biden told CBS he thought an Obama campaign ad mocking John McCain as a computer illiterate was "terrible." Later, after actually seeing the ad, Biden said it was OK.
Then, Biden spoke of President Franklin Roosevelt's having gone on television after the stock market crash of 1929. But Roosevelt was not president in 1929, and television was not present.
Biden also said neither he nor Obama supports clean coal technology in America. But Obama does support clean coal. Obama also said of Biden's instant criticism of the government's big loan to insurance to AIG, "I think Joe should have waited ..."
Earlier, Biden said Hillary Clinton may have been a better vice presidential pick than he and said that paying more taxes is the patriotic duty of the rich. And, he encouraged wheelchair-bound Missouri State Senator Chuck Graham to stand up at a campaign rally.
"When the stock market crashed, Franklin D. Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the, you know, the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened,'" Barack Obama's running mate recently told the "CBS Evening News."
Except, Republican Herbert Hoover was in office when the stock market crashed in October 1929. There also was no television at the time; TV wasn't introduced to the public until a decade later, at the 1939 World's Fair.
Katie Couric didn't call him on it.
So, was she a) being polite, b) in the tank for the Dems and didn't want to point it out or c) didn't even see a problem with anything he said, being as historically ignorant as he is?
I think it's either (b) or (c), which are pretty much mutually exclusive, and I'm not sure which is worse. And I think that (c) is the most likely.
After receiving a number of complaints against Dr Venkataramappa for plagiarism, under the guidance of Dr B C Mylarappa, who was then a Professor at Department of Sociology, Bangalore University, Governor T N Chaturvedi had constituted an inquiry committee headed by retired IAS officer K V Irniraya. His guide Dr Mylarappa was suspended from service as per the High Court order issued in 2007. Although Dr Venkataramappa was equally involved in the crime, his doctorate degree was not withdrawn.
Yes, it does seem to say the thesis advisor was suspended but the plagiarized thesis was NOT withdrawn.
The coffee patent wars heat up; Kraft to be the next Albie's?
Procter & Gamble claims that a new four-pound plastic container for Maxwell House violates patents on Folgers' containers. Procter & Gamble filed a similar suit in federal court in August 2007 when Maxwell House was introduced in a 39-ounce plastic container.
Of course, it would be more accurate to say that P&G asserts that Kraft's four pound plastic container for Maxwell House coffee falls within the scope of a claim (or claims) of patents of Procter & Gamble. There are no patents on "Folgers'" containers. There may be patents with claims that "cover" Folger's containers. The AP coverage was worse: P&G says Maxwell House's new four-pound plastic container infringes upon Folgers' lightweight plastic container that was introduced five years ago. RTT News was better: The lawsuit alleges that the new four-pound plastic container for Maxwell House coffee, now being introduced in the U.S., directly infringes key Procter & Gamble patents on Folgers Coffee.
Whether the following statement from P&G added light may be questioned: "They introduced a new canister using the same technology which infringes on the same patents so there is a new lawsuit," said Jen Becker, a Procter & Gamble spokeswoman.
Note the use of the word "valid" in the following: Kraft spokeswoman Susan Davison said in an e-mail that the firm hasn't yet reviewed the new suit. "But Kraft does not infringe the valid patent rights of others," she added. "We will vigorously defend ourselves in this matter."
P&G struck a deal earlier this year to sell its coffee operation to J.M. Smuckers. Remember Smuckers? They're the ones that sued Albie's over the infamous "peanut butter and jelly" sandwich patent!
Online WSJ noted: A U.S. International Trade Commission judge ruled late Monday [Sept. 22] against Tate & Lyle in a patent-infringement case related to sucralose, the generic version of Splenda, Tate & Lyle said.
Ford's 2009 Fiesta ECOnetic goes on sale in November. But here's the catch: Despite the car's potential to transform Ford's image and help it compete with Toyota Motor and Honda Motor in its home market, the company will sell the little fuel sipper only in Europe. "We know it's an awesome vehicle," says Ford America President Mark Fields. "But there are business reasons why we can't sell it in the U.S." The main one: The Fiesta ECOnetic runs on diesel.
Ariad plans appeal of loss in Amgen case in D. Del.
The Boston Globe noted: Ariad Pharmaceuticals Inc. of Cambridge said Sept. 22 that it plans to pursue the "appropriate legal action" after a federal judge ruled against it in a patent dispute.
Recall the article In the Matter of J. Hendrik Schon , published in Physics World about six years ago (1 Nov 02). The Beasley report has since vanished from the "Bell Labs" website.
However, there is a discussion on YouTube of Jan Hendrik Schon.
1 Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, 600 Mountain Avenue, Murray Hill, NJ 07974-0636, USA.
* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: hendrik@lucent.com.
Field-effect transistors based on two-component self-assembled monolayers of conjugated and insulating molecules have been prepared, the conductance through which can be varied by more than three orders of magnitude by changing the applied gate bias. Using very small ratios of conjugated to insulating molecules in the two-component monolayer, devices with only a few "electrically active" molecules can be achieved. At low temperatures the peak channel-conductance is quantized in units of 2e2/h. This behavior is indicative of transistor action in single molecules. Based on such single-molecule transistors inverter circuits with gain are demonstrated.
Note the book Crystal Fire: the birth of the information age by Michael Riordan and Lillian Hoddeson, Norton, 1997. Lilienfeld is discussed at pages 145 (showing Fig. 1 of US 1,745,175), 160, 176-77, 185 and 271.
The open atmosphere of Bell Labs is discussed at pages 84 and 128 (among other places).
In the appeal of the ED Texas case before the CAFC, one finds an amicus brief from Microsoft: Ruffin B. Cordell, Fish & Richardson P.C., of Washington, DC, for amicus curiae Microsoft Corporation. The CAFC uses the CSIRO case to give an exposition on the current law of obviousness, and does give Buffalo a chance on obviousness, because that portion of the ED Texas decision was vacated.
injunctive relief rather than remitting CSIRO to its legal remedy of an award of damages.
injunction constituted an abuse of discretion.
injunction against Buffalo, as requested.
factual issues in the course of deciding the cross-motions for summary judgment.
of a combination of elements, all of which are found in prior art references.
district court’s analysis of the summary judgment dispute was flawed.
inventors of the ’069 patent is a factual question that has been put into issue by Mr.
Bagby’s declaration and report and cannot be resolved on summary judgment.
Cross Medical Products v. Medtronic Sofamor Danek, Inc., 424 F.3d 1293 (Fed. Cir.
Advanced Display Systems v. Kent State University, 212 F.3d 1272 (Fed. Cir. 2000).
reference in another document for purposes of validity analysis.
The basic question remains: do we let corporations take the fruits of academic research for free or do we promote university patenting to provide payback for commercialization? Setting aside post hoc arguments, that was the question I was discussing. What's your answer?
As the CAFC noted: it is undisputed that the '850 patent does not disclose any compounds that can be used in its claimed methods. A method claim that requires the use of an undisclosed and untaught compound is invalid under patent law of 2000 or of 1790. Nevertheless, the University of Rochester, who had created nothing, sued Searle, who had brought such a compound to the marketplace without the help of Rochester. What "fruits of academic research" or commercialization is Kevin Noonan thinking of? In the short time since this thread developed, the University of Iowa sued Amgen AND Forbes ran a story on the "highest yielding" Bayh-Dole universities, which showed partnerships of universities with large corporations, not small ones.
Australia's Francis Gurry received the full vote of the general assembly of WIPO on Sept. 22, and will replace a scandal-plagued Kamal Idris on October 1, 2008 as WIPO director-general.
Idris' 1982 application [to WIPO] said he obtained a master's degree in international law from Ohio University in 1978. But Jessica Stark, spokeswoman for the university, told the AP Idris attended from Sept 12, 1977, to June 10, 1978, when he received a Master of Arts in African Studies.
If WIPO can't perform "prior art" searches on its own employees, how are they going to get patents right? Of course, the Trump organization screwed up on the resume of E. J. Ridings, but even Donald Trump himself had a recollection of Joe Biden's law school plagiarism. Sometimes, people remember what they want to remember.
The Australian patent lawyer beat rivals from Brazil, Pakistan and elswehere in the selection committee vote, which was formalised at a Monday general assembly meeting of WIPO's 184 member states. He will take over as WIPO director-general on Oct. 1.
Idris has denied any wrongdoing in the birth-date controversy, which stretches back to when he joined the United Nations agency 25 years ago and signed documents indicating he was nine years older than he actually was.
Separately, recall Allison Troutman, who was tossed off of Semester at Sea for "plagiarism" of wikipedia, was a student of Ohio University.

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