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Biotech IP practitioners at the BIO International Convention warned companies will increasingly look to trade secrets as a result of the courts’ and USPTO’s interpretation of Section 101, while David Kappos, Phil Johnson and Judge Paul Michel gave a gloomy outlook for patent holders

A judge in the Northern District of California ruled on Wednesday that an ITC finding of non-infringement does not block litigation on the same patents

“Simplify. Simplify. Simplify.” That was the advice given to advocates by Judge Alex Kozinski of the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit at the annual Sir Hugh Laddie Lecture at University College London this week, in a lively talk that also featured Barbie, Eliza Doolittle and the Garcia v Google case

This fall, there will be a 93% increase in PCT deadlines due to the America Invents Act (AIA). Before the final changes of the AIA came into effect on March 16, 2013, there was an influx of patent applications, as the new law included a number of provisions that made it more difficult to obtain protection in the US. Those applications are now up for PCT national stage entry. inovia and RWS recently released an extensive guide detailing how law firms and corporations should handle this upcoming flood of deadlines. Read the full report here.

In this week’s roundup of IP developments, we focus on judges. The England & Wales Court of Appeal reversed decisions in Actavis v Lilly and Smith & Nephew v ConvaTec, there was a landmark in Switzerland’s Federal Patent Court and Judge Alex Kozinski visited London

The US Supreme Court’s ruling this week in Kimble v Marvel has brought attention to a little-known patent licensing rule that even some sophisticated parties did not know about

Unitary Patent renewal fees will be based on those of the top four participating member states, an EPO Select Committee has decided

Like the rest of the country, China’s movie industry is showing impressive growth. However, Ellen Szymanski argues that despite the gaudy numbers, stronger copyright protection is needed to promote long term sustainability

The Netherlands, Estonia and the EU Commission have issued statements criticising the final compromise texts for a new Trade Marks Directive and an amended Community Trade Mark (CTM) Regulation

John Welch has joined Wolf Greenfield & Sacks as counsel in the trade mark group