JurisDiction — The International Intellectual Property Law Podcast

DeAnn Smith of Foley Hoag LLP in Boston, Mass.: “Chemically Complicated: Effective Arguments to Combat “Obvious to Try” Rejections with respect to Takeda and the Chemical Arts“. (Length: 14:24)

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Frederick L. Whitmer of Kilpatrick Stockton LLP in New York City explains the Cybor Uncertainty Principle in “Claim Construction in Patent Law: A Question of Law?”. (Length: 30:37)

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Dale Lazar, of DLA Piper in Reston, Virginia discusses the Supreme Court of the United State’s Bilski decision on the patentability of business methods. (Length: 17:00)

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Jennifer Silverman of Ellenoff Grossman and Schole LLP in New York City discusses U.S. trademark dilution and the Dec. 3, 2009 decision in Starbucks vs. Wolfe’s Borough (Charbucks) lawsuit. (Length: 17:00)

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The New Jersey Patent Rules – one year later. Guests Stephen Roth of Lerner David Littenberg Krumholz and Mentlik, LLP in Westfield, New Jersey and Philip Johnson, Chief Intellectual Property Counsel at Johnson and Johnson in New Brunswick, New Jersey discuss how patent cases are now litigated in New Jersey. Roth slides. (Length: 34:25)

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In Re Bose and Fraud on the US Trademarks Office regarding declarations of use. Guests: Jonathan Hudis of Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier and Neustadt, LLP and Kimberley Seluga of Sunstein Kann Murphy & Timbers LLP Bose case comment. (Length: 16:54)

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Krista Schwartz of Jones Day on “Software and Scenes a Faire” in computer copyright cases and Charles Weiss of Kenyon and Kenyon on “Ariad: Federal Circuit to Consider Existence of Written Description Requirement”. (Length: 39:16)

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Niri Shanmuganathan of the London office of Taylor Wessing discusses Liability for User Generated Content on the Internet and Ed Reines of the Silicon Valley office of Weil, Gotshal and Manges LLP discusses Interlocutory Appeals of Claim Construction in the Patent Reform Act of 2009. (Length: 26:40)

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Chris Hansen of the ACLU in New York City and Warren Woessner of Schwegman Lundberg Woessner in Minneapolis discuss the Complaint filed by doctor and patient groups against the patents on the BRCA1 and BRCA2 cancer genes exclusively licensed to Myriad Genetics and their attack on gene patents on constitutional grounds. See also Warren Woessner’s blog’s comment on the lawsuit at patents4life.com.

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The Honourable Michael Black AC, the Chief Justice of the Federal Court of Australia, discusses the Fast Track Direction that affects trade-mark and copyright cases issued April 2009. It is part of an aggressive overhaul of the case management and individual docket system the Court has instigated to make litigation faster, more efficient and less expensive. The Court has similar procedures for patent, tax and admiralty cases.

See also the Canadian Federal Court’s Practice Direction on Streamlining Complex Litigation. (Length: 34:52)

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