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Summary of the Kappos Confirmation Hearing

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The U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary conducted a nomination hearing on July 29, 2009 from 10:00 a.m. to 11:14 a.m. for David J. Kappos to be Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office.  Beverly Baldwin Martin (to be United States Circuit Judge for the [...]

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WIPO To Debate IP vs. Greentech

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The Financial Times reported today that efforts to avert a clash between the U.S. and emerging economies over patents at a climate change meeting later this year will top the agenda at a two-day conference that opens today on IP and public policy and organized by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).
At the G8 summit [...]

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Foreign Affairs Bill Passes With IP Text

June 11, 2009

The House voted overwhelmingly late Wednesday to establish new U.S. policy in opposition to any global climate change treaty that weakens the intellectual property rights of American green technology as part of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act.  The vote comes as diplomats prepare for December negotiations as part of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate [...]

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Another Bill Introduced To Prohibit Patents On Tax Planning Methods

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The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants applauded Representative Rick Boucher, a Democrat from Virginia, and Representative Bob Goodlatte, a Virginia Republican, for introducing legislation that would prohibit patents on tax planning methods.
 
“We need this bill so that U.S. tax laws will be applied equally to all taxpayers,” AICPA President and CEO Barry Melancon [...]

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Quick Look at Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s IP Cases

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Patent
 
Supreme Court nominee Judge Sonia Sotomayor has understandably had few patent-related cases while on the Second Circuit, but was more involved in patent trials while on the Southern District of New York.  She has never sat on the Federal Circuit as a Visiting Judge.
 
District Court Patent Cases
 
Judge Sotomayor had two cases that reached the Federal [...]

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AIPLA Spring Meeting: District Court Judge Has Not Seen Impact post-eBay

May 18, 2009

After hearing presentations describing a different “post-eBay world” in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s much debated decision on injunctive relief, Judge Joseph J. Farnan of the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware argued that the high court’s 2006 ruling “hasn’t done a whole lot,” and rather can best be seen as [...]

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Energy Secretary: Drop IP Protection To Promote Greentech?

March 30, 2009

Interesting (and some may say ominous) story in the NY Times Dot Earth blog last week. 
At the end of a tour of the Brookhaven National Laboratory, Steven Chu, the Secretary of Energy and a Nobel laureate in physics, met with reporters to discuss the Obama administration’s goals for promoting energy innovation.  He was asked, among other [...]

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