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members can receive this concise ip newsletter every business day. 10 jan at 2pm et inequitable conduct 17 jan at 2pm et extraterritoriality spotlight after westerngeco ipo — yesterday in an opinion by judge stoll, the federal circuit upheld a uspto inter partes review decision rejecting realtime’s claims as run-length encoding. realtime argued that the uspto erred in finding that a skilled artisan would have been motivated to the combine two the federal circuit said that uspto “was not required to make any finding regarding a motivation to combine” where it determined that the patent was obvious over one of the references alone and hp’s reliance on the second reference was to help explain the first. moreover, substantial evidence supported a finding of motivation to combine the references given their “striking similarities” and that the first suggested looking to the second for additional information. to be deputy general counsel for intellectual property law and solicitor of the uspto beginning monday, 14 january. krause succeeds nathan kelley, who stepped down last year. krause has been deputy solicitor since 2014 and has worked in the solicitor’s office since > tivo executive argues ip reform is necessary and a bipartisan issue >  > “innovation-stifling u.s. court decisions” and theft of u.s. > companies’ ip in other countries and that is an area “where during the quarterly meeting of the uspto’s patent public advisory committee (ppac), chief financial officer tony scardino reported that the 2014 appropriations bill signed in january funds the uspto at $3.024 billion – $90.8 million above the fiscal 2013 enacted level and $238.3 million above the fiscal 2013 sequestration level. the budget will allow the uspto to hire 1,000 patent examiners and 63 administrative patent judges and provides funding related to opening satellite offices in san jose, denver, and dallas. projected 2014 spending is estimated at $2.948 billion. the white house will release its fiscal 2015 budget on march 4.