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AIPLA Reports
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- New Trademark Fees Go Into Effect January 31, 2005
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- Anticounterfeiting and Online Identity Bill Is Cleared for White House
- Supreme Court Review of Grokster Will Examine Secondary Liability
- Most of Blackberry Verdict Is Affirmed
- Federal Circuit Hears Oral Argument on Applying §271(f) to Software
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- Supreme Court: Trademark Fair Use May Apply Without Considering Confusion
- President Signs Bill Making New Fees Effective on December 8, 2004
- President Signs Bill to Create Copyright Royalty Judges
- President Signs Bill to Renew Satellite Compulsory Licensing
- Federal Circuit Will Identify Panel Members Earlier
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- 2005 Patent and Trademark Fees
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- Effective Date of Trademark Fees Will Await PTO Rulemaking
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- New Fees Will Not Go Into Effect Before December 6
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- Congress Acts on Last Minute IP Legislation
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- Congress Passes Fee Increase Bill Without Anti-Diversion Provision — Congress on November 20, 2004, agreed on PTO fee increases and appropriations incorporated into an omnibus appropriations bill (H.R. 4818).
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- AIPLA Amicus Brief Urges Review of Grokster Decision
- Supreme Court Asks for Government Brief on Claim Drafting and Equivalents
- Inadvertent Violations of Appellate Rules May Be Sanctioned
- Government Files Summary Judgment Motion in Suit over Fee Diversion
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- Patent Agents Receive Invitation to Join AIPLA
- Patent Opposition Bill Includes Other Patent Reforms
- Anti-circumvention Injunction on Printer Cartridge Chip Is Lifted
- Dismissal of DJ Action Was Abuse of Discretion
- Invalidity and Noninfringement Analysis for Furniture Designs Was Improper
- CAFC Law Controls Appealability of Order to Enjoin Parallel Action
- ‘Clear Disavowal’ of Claim Scope May Be Implied
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- Congress Passes Limits on Charitable Deductions for IP
- Congress Adjourns With Patent and Copyright Bills Pending
- AIPLA Amicus Brief Urges Rehearing in Plant Patent Case
- Solicitor Invited to Advise on Infringement by Pre-Clinical Uses
- Court Denies Review of Sixth Circuit Finding of Per Se Antitrust Violation
- Court Denies Review of Decision Denying Subpoena to Identify ISP Subscribers
- No Presumption of Ordinary Meaning Without Accepted Meaning in Art
- Lost Sales of Affiliated Licensee May Not Be Claimed As Patent Damages
- Criminal Copyright Bootlegging Statute Is Unconstitutional
- Festo Presumption Is Rebutted by ‘Tangential Relation’ Evidence
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- AIPLA Files Amicus Briefs in Claim Construction and Fee Diversion Cases
- House Passes H.R. 4077 to Combat Piracy and Exempt Certain DVD Devices
- Congress Makes Progress on PTO Fee, Copyright and Counterfeiting Bills
- New California Law Criminalizes Unauthorized Movie and Music Distribution
- Correction of Inventorship Suit Is Barred by Eleventh Amendment
- Proof of Unauthorized Access Is Required for DMCA Claim
- No De Minimis Defense for Sampling Infringement of Sound Recording
- PTO Issues Final Rules to Implement Part of Strategic Plan
- PTO Issues Final Rules on Electronic Madrid Filings
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- Senate Bill Would Fund PTO for One Year Without Stopping Fee Diversion
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- Adverse Inference from Refusing to Disclose Counsel Opinion Is Dropped — Knorr-Bremse Systeme Fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GMBH v. Dana Corp., Fed. Cir., No. 01-1357, 9/13/04.
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- PTO Issues Method Patent on Cloning Mammals
- PTO Fees Are Increased to Reflect Changes in CPI
- Final Trademark Rules Are Announced on Corrections and Cancellations
- Functional Description Was Not Enough for DNA Patent
- Embodiments Were Improperly Used to Construe Claim Term
- Grokster Peer-to-Peer System Is Not Contributorily Infringing
- Foreign Sales Can Enable Printed Publication of Plant for Anticipation
- Toothbrush Art Is Analogous Art for Hair Brush Claim
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- Dudas Will Be Named PTO Director in Recess Appointment
- Trademark Commissioner Chasser Will Resign in September
- En Banc Federal Circuit Will Review Claim Construction Issues
- Insufficient Showing of Utility for Tagged Sequence Barred EST Claim
- Personal Name Lacked Secondary Meaning for Misattribution Claim
- Family Movie Act Is Approved by House Judiciary Committee
- Copyright Office Endorses Codification of Inducement Liability
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- En Banc Review Is Denied for Written Description Ruling
- Walker Process Claim Is Controlled by Federal Circuit Law
- Section 271(f) Applies Only to Components ‘From’ United States
- Government Advises Against Cert in Per Se Antitrust Case
- Enactment of Copyright Restoration Did Not Violate Constitution
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- AIPLA Testifies in Favor of Creating Post-Grant Opposition Procedure
- Senate Passes Patent Nonobviousness Bill and Criminal Copyright Bills
- House Judiciary Committee Approves Bill on Counterfeit Labels
- Witnesses Disagree on DVD Liability Exemption
- Senate Judiciary Approves Bill to Extend Satellite Copyright Provisions
- New Bill Would Codify Inducement of Copyright Infringement
- New Bill Would Extend Bar on Counterfeit Goods to Counterfeit Labels
- PTO Issues Final Rules on Computerized Exam for Practitioners
- Amended Rule on Patent Term Adjustment Calculation Is Clarified
- Final Rules Are Issued on Notice for Phonorecord Compulsory License
- Final Rules Are Issued on Service, Testimony, and Production
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- AIPLA Critiques PTO’s Proposed Ethics Rules
- Rewriting Dependent Claims Can Bar Equivalents Infringement
- Low Risk of Misdispensing Drug Does Not Resolve Trademark Confusion
- Title 17 Fees May Be Awarded for Trial on State Law of Ownership
- Final Rules Are Issued on Powers of Attorney and Assignment Documents
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- Senate Judiciary Committee Approves Dudas and Reports Copyright Bill
- Fee Bill Faces Resistance From Senate Appropriators
- Abrogation of State Immunity for IP Was Not Rooted in 14th Amendment
- Printed Matter Doctrine Bars Patentability of Prior Art Lab Kit
- Federal Circuit Has Interlocutory Jurisdiction In Arbitration Case
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- Senate Judiciary Holds Confirmation Hearing on Dudas Nomination
- Senate Judiciary Approves Bills on Patent Fees and Nonobviousness for Joint R&D
- Senate Judiciary Approves Bills on Criminal Violations of Copyright on Internet
- House Subcommittee Marks Up Satellite Reauthorization Bill
- Proof of Priority Fails Without Translation of Prior Application
- Bad Faith Issue Is Not Determinative of Fair Use
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- House IP Subcommittee Considers Amending Federal Dilution Law
- House IP Subcommittee Approves P2P and Internet Bills
- Patent Policy Has No Role in Claim Construction
- Hybridoma Applications Did Not Create Priority for Genetic Engineering Claims
- Board Orders Based on Conferences Do Not Violate Writing Requirement
- Final Rule Permits Patent Term Adjustment for Delay of Board Remand
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- White House Will Nominate Dudas as PTO Director
- House Passes Legislation to Relax Obviousness for Joint R&D Programs
- House Subcommittee Considers Reform of Copyright Compulsory License
- Written Description Requirement Is Independent of Enablement
- Indefiniteness Invalidity Applies Only When Claim Cannot Be Construed
- Prosecution History of Later Patent Is Relevant to Scope of Earlier Patent
- Final and Proposed Rules Are Issued on Compulsory Licenses
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- House Passes Fee Bill with Rebate Provisions to Address Diversion
- House Passes Bill to Reform Royalty Arbitration Proceedings
- House Energy Chooses FTC Policing of Database Misappropriation
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- Amended Fee Bill Would Address Diversion With Certain Fee Rebates
- Claim Term Is Not Limited to Technology of Filing Date Absent Clear Disavowal
- Feature in Specification with Single Embodiment Did Not Limit Claim
- Court Construes ‘Temporary Presence’ Infringement Exemption
- Disclosed and Unclaimed Subject Matter Is Lost If Understood by One of Skill
- Fact Issue Barred Summary Judgment for Online Safe Harbor Defense
- Copyright Office Proposes New Rules on Service, Testimony, and Production
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- House Judiciary Approves Amended Bills on Obviousness and Databases
- President’s 2005 Budget Would End Diversion of PTO Fees
- Copyright Office Issues Final Rules on Sound Recording Performance Royalties
- En Banc CAFC Hears Oral Argument on Willful Infringement
- AIPLA Files as Amicus Curiae to Oppose Per Se Antitrust Ruling
- Risk of New Matter Rejection Does Not Avoid Prosecution History Estoppel
- Disclosure of Single Embodiment Did Not Limit Patent Scope
- Use of Trademarks in Website List for Keyed Ads May Be Infringing
- Inherent Anticipation Does Not Require Prior Recognition
- Antibody Patent Application Lacked Sufficient Written Description in Parent
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- Court Will Consider Whether Fair Use Trumps Likely Confusion
- Amended Limitation Did Not Estop Equivalents Infringement
- ‘Comprising’ Term Made Finding of No Interference Improper
- Use of Term in Cited Prior Art Patent Affects Claim Construction
- Copyrighted Works in Digital National Geographic Are Privileged Revisions
- Jon Dudas Becomes Acting Director of USPTO
- PTO Issues Rule Revisions on Inter Partes Reexamination
- PTO Extends Suspension of Electronic Madrid Filings
- PTO Requests Comments and Schedules Roundtable on Inter Partes Reexam
- PTO Proposes Rules on Amending and Correcting Trademark Registrations
- PTO Plans to Stop Mailing Cited Patents with Office Actions
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