By reading through a part of the 8000 patents registered by the company, the researchers were able to shed some light into the process of how the “Empire” turns the raw data they treat their users as into those valuable big data golden profiles that then can be marketed. Patents like “Systems and Methods for [...]
Efforts by newly elected chair of world intellectual property organization copyright committee and ongoing studies and initiatives commissioned by WIPO to move past irreconcilable differences on limitations and expectations to copyright, had little effect last week in terms of agreeing a work program me. However, the committee agreed to ask the WIPO secretariat to [...]
Strong IP knowledge is creating an aura for economic growth, and should be a key component used by government for the creation of job opportunities. In U.S. Chamber’s International IP Index comparison of 45 economies, countries that invest in robust IP system are 50% more attractive to foreign investors, have nearly double the workforce [...]
The Federal Circuit affirmed a Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“Board”) decision to uphold the unpatentability of several claims of a patent owned by Affinity Labs of Texas, LLC (“Affinity”). An Examiner initially found the claims to be unpatentable during two inter partes reexaminations and an ex parte reexamination of Affinity’s patent. Apple and [...]
The story in question was written by Sam Biddle and published on April 21, 2015. The article quoted heavily from Lynton's emails, which became public thanks to a massive intrusion that the Obama administration attributed to the North Koreans in advance of the release of the Seth Rogen film The Interview. When the hack [...]
Justice Sanghi has referred a question of law to the Chief Justice on the grounds that the judgment in Micolube India, decided by a three judge bench of the Delhi High Court, may have been decided per incuriam, which is polite Latin for saying that the judges got it completely wrong. Maintainence of composite [...]
