Patent & IP news for April 22, 2010
Patent Litigations
- Georgia-Pacific Consumer Products LP v. Netpak Electronic Plastic and Cosmetic, Inc. filed 2010-04-19 in Georgia Northern
- Decision Support, LLC et. al. v. Election Systems & Software, Inc. et. al. filed 2010-04-21 in North Carolina Western
- Georgia-Pacific Consumer Products LP v. Stefco Industries, Inc. et. al. filed 2010-04-19 in Georgia Northern
- Georgia-Pacific Consumer Products LP v. Draco Hygienic Products Inc. filed 2010-04-19 in Georgia Northern
- Arris Group, Inc. v. Harmonic, Inc. filed 2010-04-19 in Georgia Northern
- Linde LLC v. Cryogenic Systems Equipment, Inc. filed 2010-04-19 in Illinois Northern
- Georgia-Pacific Consumer Products LP v. Paradigm Marketing Consortium, Inc. et. al. filed 2010-04-19 in Georgia Northern
- Simonian v. Allergan, Inc. filed 2010-04-19 in Illinois Northern
- Georgia-Pacific Consumer Products LP v. Kruger Products LP et. al. filed 2010-04-19 in Georgia Northern
- Forrester Environmental Services, Inc. et. al. v. Wheelabrator Technologies, Inc. filed 2010-04-21 in New Hampshire
- Helferich Patent Licensing, LLC v. Palm, Inc. filed 2010-04-19 in Illinois Northern
- Tonerhead, Inc. v. Inktec Zone America Corporation et. al. filed 2010-04-20 in Illinois Northern
- Sephra L.P. v. Giles & Posner Ltd. et. al. filed 2010-04-21 in California Southern
- Data Detection Systems, LLC v. Attachmate Corporation et. al. filed 2010-04-21 in Texas Eastern
- Paper Models, LLC v. Yamaha Motors Corporation U.S.A et. al. filed 2010-04-21 in Illinois Northern
- Arlington Industries, Inc. v. Electronic Custom Distributors, Inc. filed 2010-04-21 in Pennsylvania Middle
- Kyocera Corporation et. al. v. Norman IP Holdings, LLC filed 2010-04-21 in California Southern
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Unclear from www.patenthawk.com Nissim sued ClearPlay for patent infringement. They settled by ClearPlay taking a license, paying ongoing royalties. Nissim got upset that ClearPlay wasn't playing it straight, so Nissim sued to enforce the agreement, as well ...
Bad Kissinger gets no GI protection as Commission strikes out German mass application from ipkitten.blogspot.com Posted today on the website of the European Union's online Official Journal is a most rare and unusual document -- Commission Decision of 19 April 2010 rejecting a list of applications for entry in the ...
Evangelizing Strategic IP Management and Monetization from www.ipprospective.com I delivered a presentation today to the Kentucky Bar Association’s Annual Corporate Counsel Conference titled Strategic IP Management: Shifting the Practice from Ex Post to Ex Ante. The conference was well attended by numerous ...
The best way to avoid copyright from thinkipstrategy.com Don't copy.
Make your own stuff, don't copy someone else's. Be innovative and create your own.
If you come up with the same stuff independently - and I mean without even a hint ...
Fat cats feel the squeeze? Pharma's lean time in Europe from ipkitten.blogspot.com Although it's not actually an intellectual property case, today's ruling in Case C‑62/09, The Queen, on the application of the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry v Medicines and Healthcare Products ...
Something to read -- and indeed to sample from ipkitten.blogspot.com Always fascinated by lawbooks for laymen, the IPKat notes the recent publication of Patent Law for Computer Scientists: Steps to Protect Computer-Implemented Inventions, by Daniel Closa, Alex Gardiner, Falk Giemsa and Jörg Machek.
Who are ...
USPTO Releases 1st Quarter 2010 Patent Reexamination Stats from www.patentspostgrant.com Yesterday, the USPTO released ex parte and inter partes reexamination statistics for the 1st Qtr of 2010. Reexamination filings continue to rise significantly. First quarter results alone show 126 inter partes reexamination filings, this number ...
TotalPatent Semantic Search from intellogist.wordpress.com After recently gaining more experience and insight into LexisNexis’ patent search system TotalPatent, the Semantic Search feature stands out as one of its best. TotalPatent implements Semantic Search, a latent semantic analysis system, in a ...
British election latest: Marmite takes on the BNP from ipkitten.blogspot.com The BBC has reported today that leading global brand owner Unilever is threatening legal action against the British National Party in order to prevent it from using a jar of the popular Marmite spread in ...
They Invented What? (No. 167) from anticipatethis.wordpress.com U.S. Pat. No. 2,602,996: Revolving spaghetti fork.
What I claim is:
A revolving spaghetti fork comprising a handle and a shank with prongs on the end thereof ro- 25 tatable with respect ...
'Working' a Patent under the Indian Patent Act, 1970 – Does importation of a patented invention count? from spicyipindia.blogspot.com In early January this year Sai had carried a post on a public notice issued by the Patent Office, under Section 146 of the Patents Act, requesting all patentees to furnish statements, by 31st of ...
By Donald Zuhn -- In a press release issued earlier this month, MPEG LA, LLC announced that it was launching an initiative to enhance the availability of gene patents for diagnostic testing. MPEG LA, which describes ...
A joint project being launched by a regional non-profit group along with the Ecuador’s intellectual property office (IEPI) aims to reduce software piracy by offering a free software alternative through public libraries. The initiative ...
United States Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (Democrat, Montana) and ranking member Chuck Grassley (Republican, Iowa) this week requested a US government investigation of the effect of China’s IP rights infringement on American ...
Plaintiff's motion to dismiss defendant's false marking counterclaim as barred by the statute of limitations was denied. The court rejected plaintiff's argument that "because [defendant] alleges that [plaintiff] began falsely marking more ...
Looking back: Earlier I posted (here) about Apple's victory against holding company Monec. Apple won summary judgment of non-infringement in the Eastern District of Virginia before discovery even began. The claims require a display ...
I recently came across an OCED report from last December on The Emerging Patent Marketplace written by Tomoya Yanagisawa and Dominique Guellec. The paper covers some of the same ground as our two working papers ...
Nirav Bhatt is an LLM candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. The much deliberated topic of making education easily accessible and available for no cost is indeed coming closer to reality, with a huge increase ...
The Spicy IP team is delighted to bring to the readers a Guest Post by Dr. Henning Große Ruse–Khan, who has kindly agreed to share with us the following comment on the ACTA draft ...
At the AUTM 2010 Annual Meeting, several University Technology Transfer Office (TTO) executives asked us how and why TTOs are using inovia and what benefits they see. Here's a brief case study of a ...
At the AUTM 2010 Annual Meeting, several University Technology Transfer Office (TTO) executives asked us how and why TTOs are using inovia and what benefits they see. Here's a brief case study of a ...
Entrepreneurs rightly value good ideas for business names, brand names, logos, slogans and, in creative industries, titles. A creative business name or striking logo can do wonders for establishing your brand and building customer loyalty ...
In finding it had no jurisdiction in the licensing case involved in CLEARPLAY v. MAX ABECASSIS and NISSIM CORP, the CAFC quoted the Supreme Court in Christianson:
“a claim supported by alternative theories in the ...
Issue 1 is a statewide ballot measure on the May 4 primary ballot that will renew and continue Ohio’s successful economic development and jobs creation program, the Ohio Third Frontier initiative. A public-private partnership ...
Ecuador this month granted its first compulsory licence for a patented pharmaceutical since declaring last year that it would utilise international rules allowing it to do so. The move has already brought the country substantial ...
Electronic check processing is a quickly developing field that is becoming the subject of an increasing number of patent applications. The non-obviousness of one such application (assigned to a government charter organization, the Federal Reserve ...
The Winnipeg Free Press wrote:
Two Winnipeg artists are involved in a copyright dispute that is earning national attention.
The Globe and Mail reported Wednesday that the Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art (MMCA) has stopped ...
If you own a copyright, patent, or trademark, you have a calculation to make when you discover someone you believe is infringing your rights—how aggressive to be in protecting them. On the one hand ...
On April 2, 2010, the USPTO issued a press release and published in the Federal Register a request for comment on a proposed change that would effectively give applicants a 12-month extension to the current ...
There is a very interesting post across at Joff Wild’s IAM blog highlighting a study by MDB Capital Group on the relationship between patent quality and stock performance. http://www.iam-magazine.com/blog/Detail ...
The following is excerpted from an April 2010 IMS Expert Services BullsEye Bulletin by Robert Ambrogi: Long-debated legislation to overhaul the nation's patent system could be headed soon to a vote by the full ...
Our community of researchers is rapidly growing, and we would like to take a moment to profile a few researchers, whom we call Advisors.
Article One is proud to recognize Advisor Stacey Anderson-Redick (EagleEye). Stacey ...
The episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation on 22 April 2010 titled World's End had a Nazi-related theme. [Note song "Tomorrow Belongs to Me" performed by students in uniforms wherein the teacher says: a ...
From Tech Daily Dose:
Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., is pressing Senate leaders to bring his patent overhaul legislation to the Senate floor before the Memorial Day break. Senate Majority Whip Richard Durbin, D-Ill ...
As many practitioners understand, a patentee is entitled under 35 U.S.C. 154(b)(1)(A-C) to a patent term adjustment (PTA). Subject to certain limitations, a PTA is determined if (A) the USPTO ...
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