• Patent Law

    The patent law specifies the subject matter for which a patent may be obtained and the conditions for patentability.Lexmark printer products for sale at an Office Max in San Diego.PCKIP intellectual property IP is a Canadian firm which provides patent and trademark services.Questions about the process …

     
  • Patent Law

    Although many object to anyone having a monopoly on an idea or invention, such rights have always been a fundamental part of the patent system.Intellectual property education: are Canadian law schools doing enough to support innovation.Patents are temporary monopolies granted to inventors by …

     
  • Sganga and Scalzini on Abuse of Right

    As I have noted several times previously, in recent years courts in some countries have invoked the civil law doctrine of “abuse of right” as a basis for denying the owner of a FRAND-committed SEP an injunction against a willing would-be licensee. (Cases on point have arisen in Japan and... Continue reading

     
  • No Rehearing on Inequitable Conduct

    The original panel majority decision affirmed the lower court’s finding of inequitable conduct based not on prosecution counsel’s proven deceptive intent, but on an adverse inference drawn as a sanction for litigation counsel’s discovery misconduct (IP Update, Vol. 20, No. 8). The dissent argued that the …

     
  • Drugmaker AbbVie makes ‘jaw dropping’ forecast on tax boon

    Honeywell, the US industrial conglomerate, and Norfolk Southern, the railway group, are among the companies that have also said they expect their tax rates to fall this year, but they will save significantly less than AbbVie, underscoring how the new law benefits those companies with overseas IP.

     
  • Canadian Patent Appeal Board Adopts a New Approach to Attack Patents for Lack of Utility

    Canadian Patent Appeal Board Adopts a New Approach to Attack Patents for Lack of Utility  Lexology Full coverage

     
  • Illumina Awarded $26.7M in NIPT Patent Suit Against Ariosa

    Illumina Awarded $26.7M in NIPT Patent Suit Against Ariosa  GenomeWeb Illumina awarded $26.7M in Harmony patent infringement suit  Seeking Alpha Illumina Awarded $26.7M in Patent Suit Against Ariosa Diagnostics, Inc.  Business Wire (press release) Full coverage

     
  • CRISPR European patent cancellation highlights procedural IP pitfalls

    CRISPR European patent cancellation highlights procedural IP pitfalls  IAM (blog) The continuing CRISPR patent battle: the Broad Institute loses a key European patent  Lexology UK: Article 123(2) And (3) EPC: Avoiding The “Inescapable Trap”  Mondaq News Alerts Full coverage

     
  • BRIEF-Beijing VRV Software receives patent license

    BRIEF-Beijing VRV Software receives patent license  Reuters Full coverage

     
  • Patent Exhaustion Connects Common Law to Equity: Impression Products, ” by Kumiko Kitaoka

    Recommended Citation. Kumiko Kitaoka, Patent Exhaustion Connects Common Law to Equity: Impression Products, Inc. v. Lexmark International, Inc., 17 Chi. -Kent J. Intell. Prop. 96 (2018). Available at: https://scholarship.kentlaw.iit.edu/ckjip/vol17/iss1/4. Download …