Recent Headlines in the IP World:
- USPTO 2018-2022 Strategic Plan
- Shazma Khan: Apple Patent Indicates New Design for Future iPhones (Source: Business Recorder)
- Andrew Chung: U.S. Justices Wrestle with Patent Arguments for Anti-Nausea Drug (Source: Reuters)
- Sam Shead: Baidu Leads AI Patent Applications In China With 2,368 Filings (Source: Forbes)
- Alan Friedman: Apple Files Patent Application to Improve the Audio for Animoji (Source: Phone Arena)
Commentary and Journal Articles:
- Atty. Krista L. Cox: The Minority Gender Patent Gap (Source: Above The Law)
- Prof. Lionel Artige: Measurement of Innovation: Where Do We Stand? (Source: SSRN)
- Prof. Kim Siow: Doctrine of Equivalent Poses a Risk to TRIZ-Based Patent Circumvention? (Source: SSRN)
Announcements & Events:
- Professor Dennis Crouch was chosen as one of the 50 most influential people in intellectual property by Managing Intellectual Property, a source of news and analysis on IP developments worldwide.
- Silicon Valley Intellectual Property Law Association:“Subject Matter Eligibility” & Inventor of the Year Award
New Job Postings on Patently-O:
- Knobbe Martens–Patent Scientist Biotechnology
- Guntin & Gust
- Fitch, Even, Tabin & Flannery LLP
- Dinsmore & Shohl LLP–I.P Associate or Patent Agent
- Dinsmore & Shohl LLP–I.P. Associate
- Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
- Knobbe Martens–Patent Scientist
- Daly, Crowley, Mofford & Durkee, LLP
- Weaver Austin Villeneuve & Sampson LLP
- Bainwood, Huang & Associates
- Leydig, Voit & Mayer
link to washingtonpost.com
Executives at more than a dozen generic-drug companies had a form of shorthand to describe how they conducted business, insider lingo worked out over steak dinners, cocktail receptions and rounds of golf.
The “sandbox,” according to investigators, was the market for generic prescription drugs, where everyone was expected to play nice.
“Fair share” described dividing up the sales pie to ensure that each company reaped continued profits. “Trashing the market” was used when a competitor ignored these unwritten rules and sold drugs for less than agreed-upon prices.
Golly, that sounds pretty messed up.
Congratulations Dennis — hard earned and well deserved.
SVIPLA’s, “Subject Matter Eligibility”
Missing sub-head:
“How to Continue to Get Away with Stealing the Patented Innovations of Others”
Re: “Professor Dennis Crouch was chosen as one of the 50 most influential people in intellectual property by Managing Intellectual Property, a source of news and analysis on IP developments worldwide.”
Congratulations and well deserved.
Any idea of the total readership of Patently-O these days?
Titled Voice Effects Based on Facial Expressions, the patent relates to technology that would allow an iPhone user to bark while using the Animoji feature, and have a real dog bark come out of the speaker instead.
“Technology” has “allowed” this and a trillion other dumb@ ss things for a long, long time. My patent “relates” to “technology” that would “allow” (GROUNDBREAKING!) an iPhone user’s dog to bark into the phone and have a photo of the user’s face reciting lines from Confucius to a third party instead. My other patent “relates” to “technology” that would “allow” (NEVER BEFORE POSSIBLE!) a user’s husband to bark into the phone and have the dog’s bark come out of the user’s mother-in-law’s face instead. And yet another patent “relates” to “technology” that would “allow” (FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER!) a picture of Director Iancu’s weeping face to be projected above every urinal in your office building every time an “artificial intelligence” patent is correctly deemed to be ineligible g@ rbage.
It’s soooo awesome and fun bein’ an “innovatah” in the Silly Con Bro world. Now if you’ll excuse me I’m going to “mine some data” and sell it, which is something nobody ever did before because data has only been around for a couple decades. Oh, did I say “data”? I mean “big data”, which is totally different because, hey, “big.”
link to bing.com
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