CAMBRIDGE, MASS. – Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc., a leading RNAi therapeutics company, announced in a press release that the Japanese Patent Office has granted claims in a second patent application (JP Application Number 2006-317758) for the Tuschl II paten… (source: AG IP News) – RSS and News widget on Feedzilla.com

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Earlier this week, the Court of Justice of the European Union (the “ECJ”) ruled that the operation of the AdWords system by Google in itself was not a breach of EU trade mark law, but that the content of some advertisements that are linked by Google keywords may well be in breach depending upon the particular facts of the case.

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LONDON, UK – Telnic Limited, the Registry Operator for the award-winning communications-focused .tel Top-Level Domain (TLD), announced in a press release that the date for the upcoming launch of Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) in sixteen languages wo… (source: AG IP News) – RSS news feeds and Widgets on Feedzilla.com

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SAN JOSE, CA. and SINGAPORE – Avago Technologies, a leading supplier of analog interface components for wired and wireless communications, industrial and consumer applications, announced in a press release that on March 15, 2010 Avago filed a patent infrin… (source: AG IP News) – RSS feeds and Feed widget on Feedzilla.com

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MARINA DEL REY, CA – The Independent Review Panel issued on February 19, 2010 its Declaration in the Independent Review filed by ICM Registry challenging the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)’s denial of ICM’s application for the … (source: AG IP News) – RSS feeds and Feed widget on Feedzilla.com

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DOHA – The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced that Qatar has received approval to have its internet domains written in Arabic, one of the first countries in the world to receive approval to use non-Latin language scripts … (source: AG IP News) – RSS widgets and RSS feeds on Feedzilla.com

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The growth of action sports has largely been fueled by fans under 18, and on-line marketing companies targeting that audience have followed.

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This is a four-month issue of the Patent and Trademark Bulletin for the District of Massachusetts following a hiatus for the 2009/2010 holiday season.

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In a recent Federal Circuit decision, the court held that a defendant that acted with deliberate disregard to an overt risk that a device it copied might be associated with a patent was liable for induced infringement.

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In “Therasense, Inc. v. Becton, Dickinson and Co.”, the Federal Circuit held that an applicant’s characterization of its own prior art reference in proceedings with the EPO that directly contradicts statements made to the USPTO by the applicant regarding the same reference is material to patentability and can serve as the basis of a finding of inequitable conduct.

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In an effort to improve patent quality and accelerate patent examination, the European Patent Office (EPO) adopted a number of rule changes that are set to take effect on April 1, 2010. This article summarizes some of the more-significant changes.

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Intellectual property rights broadly encompass patents, trade secrets, know-how, proprietary data, registered designs, copyrights and trademarks, among other things.

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On March 22, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, sitting en banc, confirmed that the “written description” requirement is separate from the “enablement” requirement under 35 U.S.C. § 112. Relying on principles of statutory construction, the Court held that § 112, first paragraph, contains two separate description requirements: a “written description [i] of the invention, and [ii] of the manner and process of making and using [the invention].” Ariad Pharms., Inc. v. Eli Lilly & Co., No.

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Since 1889, the law has accepted the view that licensing rates agreed to as part of settling a patent infringement action do not provide competent evidence of the value of a patent for determining a royalty rate to apply in later cases.

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Since 1889, the law has accepted the view that licensing rates agreed to as part of settling a patent infringement action do not provide competent evidence of the value of a patent for determining a royalty rate to apply in later cases.

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This double patent judgement by Floyd J is interesting because of the nature of the documents cited by the counterclaimant, which argued that the content represented the common general knowledge possessed by the skilled person.

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A Chinese court has found four employees of mining company, Rio Tinto, guilty of bribery and theft of trade secrets. The employees received jail sentences ranging from seven to fourteen years.

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At the end of 2009, the European Commission closed two long-running investigations into misuse of market power afforded to companies whose patented technology had been incorporated into industry standards: the Rambus case and the Qualcomm case.

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Special to ag-IP-news Agency AMMAN – The Arab Society for Intellectual Property (ASIP) continues its work in overseeing the training courses which started January 17, 2010 and will continue until July 5, 2010 and conducted within the Rule of Law Project (R… (source: AG IP News) – RSS widgets and RSS feeds on Feedzilla.com

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Following the successful recent conclusion of Nominet’s corporate governance review, Bob Gilbert is stepping down as a director of the Company and Chairman of the Board.

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