Patent & IP news for March 19, 2010

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post image The Increase of Patent Litigation (Part 1 of 4) from info.articleonepartners.com

Patent litigation in the US has increased over 230% in the past two decades.  Given that, what is the cause of increased US patent litigation?  What does this mean for the researchers, lawyers, counsels and ...

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post image Friday fantasies from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Do please check the entries on the IPKat's side bar, since we have added a few since last time you looked. The World Intellectual Property Day events are all doing very well -- but there ...

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post image How long is forever? from ipkitten.blogspot.com

This isn't such a silly question as it sounds, since the word "perpetual" crops up frequently in intellectual property licences. One recently-litigated example of this is BMS Computer Solutions Ltd v AB Agri Ltd ...

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post image Mad about customer service from thinkipstrategy.com

Do you know who your customers are?

"I'm in house IP counsel", you say, or "I'm an exec interested in IP, I don't have any customers."

Wrong and wrong again.

Your customers ...

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Rethinking Privacy: James Grimmelmann’s “Privacy as Product Safety” from www.iposgoode.ca

Peter Waldkirch is a second year LL.B. student at the University of Ottawa. The rapid rise of online social networks (can you believe that Facebook only opened itself to the general public in 2006 ...

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Posner snagged for plagiarism, again from ipbiz.blogspot.com

Gerald Posner, who resigned from the Daily Beast over plagiarism problems
[see
On Gerald Posner and "accidental plagiarism"
] was snagged again, this time for plagiarism within his book, Miami Babylon. Writing about the incident, Dave ...

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Marking Website as Containing Patented Firewall Software that No Longer Exists is not False Marking of the Website from docketreport.blogspot.com

The court granted defendant's motion to dismiss plaintiff's false marking claim based on defendant's incorrect statement that patented software was "functioning" on a website. "Though [plaintiff] does not allege that [defendant] marked ...

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Dutch Court to Differ from German Orange Book Decision from www.ipeg.eu

In a combined court case between Philips and SK Kassetten regarding CD- and DVD-technology (CD-R and DVD+R disks), the District Court of  The Hague (Netherlands) ruled in favor of Philips, in a case that ...

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No Rest for Weary Microsoft from eyesonip.blogspot.com

VirnetX, a California–based company, brought suit against Microsoft, a Washington–based company, in (unsurprisingly for readers of this blog) the Eastern District of Texas, alleging that certain Microsoft products violated two patents held by ...

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Sikes, the Toyota Prius, and paralegal services from ipbiz.blogspot.com

One side story in the Sikes / Prius event concerns a former job of Sikes. Jalopnik reported about William Sweet, a former business associate of Sikes:

William Sweet says he went into business with Sikes, together ...

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Forbes on America's Most Inventive Companies from www.athenaalliance.org

Here is an interesting story from Forbes on America's Most Inventive Companies. What was most interesting was not the fact that companies with patent make money -- but the differential among companies:
foreign electronics manufacturers ...

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Therasense v. BD: En Banc Support from Law Professors from www.patentlyo.com

Guest post by Christian Mammen. Mammen is a Resident Scholar at UC Hastings. He also maintains an IP litigation and strategy practice. (He was also my boss when I was a summer associate at the ...

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The Importance of Using Social Networking for Business; Part I – Facebook from www.ipwatchdog.com

Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn.  These are a few of the more popular Social Networking sites that you have probably already heard of and may already be using.  But Social Networking platforms such as these are not ...

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Therasense v. BD: En Banc Support from Law Professors from www.patentlyo.com

Guest post by Christian Mammen. Mammen is a Resident Scholar at UC Hastings. He also maintains an IP litigation and strategy practice. (He was also my boss when I was a summer associate at the ...

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Turning mosquitos into allies in disease control? from ipbiz.blogspot.com

from GEN [Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News] :

Japanese researchers have managed to engineer mosquitoes into “flying vaccinators” that could theoretically be used to deliver protein-based vaccines against diseases such as leishmaniasis and malaria through their bite ...

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New Paper Suggests Cooperative Patent Prosecution from inventivestep.net

My wife, Kristen Osenga, is a law professor at the University of Richmond School of Law.  She writes in the area of patent law and has recently written a paper about a different way to ...

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Sound bytes as substance in amicus briefs? from ipbiz.blogspot.com

Back in October 2009, TOSHIKO TAKENAKA (Director, CASRIP) and SEAN O’CONNOR (Associate Director, CASRIP) submitted an amicus brief on Bilkski. Recently, Professor Takenaka was co-signor of an amicus brief on Therasense (an inequitable conduct ...

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They Invented What? (No. 163) from anticipatethis.wordpress.com

U.S. Pat. No. 6,490,999: Collar apparatus enabling secure handling of a snake by tether.   What is claimed is: 1. A collar apparatus for collaring a snake comprising: an elongated collar section forming ...

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Viacom goes after YouTube from ipbiz.blogspot.com

The Atlantic runs a post titled The Shocking, Scandalous Details of the YouTube-Viacom Spat on the copyright infringement action brought by Viacom.

See also


Copyright wars involving MySpace, YouTube

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Zocor (simvastatin ) has problems? from ipbiz.blogspot.com

WebMD has a post titled FDA Warns of Zocor Risk to Muscles includes the text:

A different study found that muscle damage was more common in patients taking Zocor doses of more than 20 milligrams ...

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