Patent & IP news for April 26, 2010
Patent Litigations
- Shire LLC et. al. v. Teva Pharmaceuticals USA Inc. et. al. filed 2010-04-22 in Delaware
- Patriot Universal Holdings LLC et. al. v. Formax Incorporated et. al. filed 2010-04-23 in Wisconsin Eastern
- Aoi Electrical, LLC et. al. v. Sebsible Solutions, LLC et. al. filed 2010-04-22 in Indiana Southern
- Zen Design Group, Limited v. Wild Planet Entertainment, Inc. filed 2010-04-23 in Michigan Eastern
- Luka v. The Proctor and Gamble Company filed 2010-04-22 in Illinois Northern
- Wells-Gardner Electronics Corporation v. C. Ceronix, Inc. filed 2010-04-23 in Illinois Northern
- Luka v. Revlon, Inc. et. al. filed 2010-04-22 in Illinois Northern
- Colder Products Company v. Value Plastics, Inc. filed 2010-04-23 in Minnesota
- Heathcote Holdings Corp., Inc. v. Maybelline LLC et. al. filed 2010-04-23 in Illinois Northern
- W.E.T. Automotive Systems Limited v. Amerigon, Inc. filed 2010-04-23 in Michigan Eastern
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Vatican Supports Adult Stem Cell Research from www.patentbaristas.com The Vatican is throwing its support behind an international project for adult stem-cell research but is not directly involved and has made no financial contribution to the initiative.
The project, led by the University of ...
Monday miscellany from ipkitten.blogspot.com If you've emailed IPKat Jeremy today and are hoping for a swift response, please be patient: it's World IP Day today and he's a bit preoccupied with the events of the moment ...
SpicyIP Interview: KritiKal and innovative solutions for India from spicyipindia.blogspot.com SpicyIP hopes its readers have had an interesting World IP Day so far, and have some innovative celebrations for the times ahead!
Following up on Shamnad's succinct and timely editorial on India's engagement ...
Death of Angel Capital from hallingblog.com According to the Wall Street Journal:
Senator Chris Dodd’s 1,400-page financial reform bill contains many economic land mines, and here’s one of the worst: Provisions that would make it harder for business ...
Leahy Procedural Move Makes Patent Reform Passage Near from www.ipwatchdog.com Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT), Chair of Judiciary Committee
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) recently came to agreement with Committee Ranking Republican Jeff Sessions (R-AL) on changes to the Patent Reform Act of 2009 ...
Federal Circuit to Hear Inequitable Conduct Case En Banc from inventivestep.net Today, the Federal Circuit issued an order in Theresense, Inc. v. Becton Dickinson and Co. granting the plaintiffs’ petition for rehearing en banc. Specifically, the court asked the parties to consider six issues:
1. Should ...
Patent Law Reform Front and Center? from www.patentspostgrant.com 
Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) is pushing Senate leaders to bring the Patent Reform Act of 2010 (S. 515), as amended March 4, 2010, to the Senate floor before the Memorial Day recess. Internet ...
Federal Circuit to Consider Inequitable Conduct En Banc from www.ipwatchdog.com The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit earlier today decided to take up important issues relating to inequitable conduct en banc, vacating the earlier panel decision in Therasence, Inc. v. Becton Dickinson ...
Settlement in Styriagra/Viagra trade mark disupte from ipkitten.blogspot.com Some of our readers may recall the curious trade mark dispute between Mr Mandl, an Austrian pumpkin seed oil producer, and pharmaceutical company Pfizer over Mr Mandl's use of the mark "Styriagra" on blue ...
Automotive Racing Sues Procomp Motorsports for Trademark Infringement from www.iptrademarkattorney.com Los Angeles, CA - Automotive Racing Products manufactures a wide range of bolts, fasteners, and other parts and accessories for automobiles. In 1975, Plaintiff began using the ARP trademark, which was registered with the USPTO on ...
SpicyIP wishes all of its readers a wonderful World IP day! May this day and the days that follow unleash your creativity and imagination and spur an inventive zeal in all that you do.
To ...
In what is certainly a great step towards increasing transparency by making available information, the Indian Patent Office has published two documents listing the details of pharmaceutical product patents granted by it in the last ...
For those interested, there is a webinar at 4 pm today featuring an interesting discussion on the various patent issues related to the Myriad Genetics Case.
This webinar complimentary and the speaker is Prof Srividhya ...
DFAT ‘welcomes’ the release of the draft ACTA text:
http://www.dfat.gov.au/trade/acta/index.html
Draft text: http://www.dfat.gov.au/trade/acta/Draft-ACTA-text-21-April-2010.pdf
IBM fait l’objet d’une plainte pour concurrence déloyale portée devant la Commission européenne par l’éditeur d’un logiciel open source, qui accuse le géant de l’informatique d’empêcher les consommateurs d ...
El gigante de la computación IBM enfrenta una reclamación fundada en las disposiciones antimonopolio, presentada ante la Comisión Europea por una empresa de programas informáticos de código abierto que alega que IBM impide que los ...
تواجه شركة أي بي إم العملاقة لإنتاج الحواسيب دعوى بانتهاك قوانين مكافحة الاحتكار قدمتها إلى المفوضية الأوروبية شركةٌ للبرامجيات المفتوحة المصدر التي تزعم أن شركة أي بي إم تمنع العملاء من استخدام تلك البرامجيات. وفي ...
Brandon Evenson is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Most advertisements are disappointing. They suffer from gimmicky jingles, exaggerated punchlines, and fake endorsements. Yet every once-in-a-while there comes an ad that is witty ...
计算机巨人IMB正面临一家公开渠道信息软件公司在欧洲委员会提出的违背反托拉斯法的控告，该软件公司声称IMB阻止客户使用其软件。与此同时，公开渠道信息业界担心，IBM作为一家公开渠道软件制作的领军企业将运用知识产权来阻止竞争者，而这将危及自由和公开渠道的软件，并有可能打开其他公司纷纷声张知识产权的阀门。就此，IBM再次表示对公开渠道信息业界的支持，并要求竞争公司解释其软件如何不会侵犯到IBM的知识产权。 Related Articles:
Ongoing efforts to implement the 2007 Development Agenda at the World Intellectual Property Organization took another twist today as a new group was launched representing developing countries seeking full transformation of the United Nations body ...
In August 2009, IPBiz, in the post
Unintended consequences of Clunkers program? , likened the unintended consequences of "Cash for Clunkers" program to the unintended consequences of the USPTO's "reject, reject, reject" philosophy.
Another example ...
Filomeno S. Sta. Ana III writes of the Pangilinan matter, and additionally brings up a student plagiarism matter involving applied physics students at the University of the Philippines, which students submitted a technical paper as ...
by Mark Malek In a previous post, we discussed the importance of forming an intellectual property holding company to own your IP. That previous post established that starting an IP holding company is necessary. This ...
This is further to my earlier postings dated April 01, 2010, titled In the Pipeline: Future Revision of the Trade Mark System in the European Union and of April 15, 2010 titled Hungarian Way Of ...
In previous posts (e.g.,
Disasters with Word's "track changes" ), IPBiz has highlighted downsides to using the "track changes" feature of Word. In the recent matter of attorneys for former governor Rod Blagojevich's ...
The court disqualified defendants' counsel because "other attorneys associated with their firm [previously] represented plaintiff," in connection with oppositions to foreign patent applications involving the patented technology. In doing so, the court rejected defendants' position ...
Today is the 10th anniversary of World Intellectual Property Day and the 40th anniversary of the WIPO.
In celebration, WIPO has adopted a new logo. It's the first time the logo has been changed ...
Este mes, el Ecuador concedió su primera licencia obligatoria para un producto farmacéutico patentado, desde que el año pasado declarara que utilizaría normas internacionales que permiten tal concesión. Esta acción ya le ha aportado al ...
I had the pleasure of appearing last week on The Independent Business Owner Show hosted by Rick Corrado. We had a lively discussion about managing a growing business, managing staff, using interns, using technology, trademark ...
Therasense Inc. (now Abbott) v. Becton, Dickinson and Co. (Fed. Cir. 2010)
The Federal Circuit has granted Abbott’s request for an en banc rehearing on the issue of inequitable conduct.
The rehearing will focus ...
In a post titled Supreme Court: Kagan Accused of Plagiarism Scandal Whitewash, the Institute for Public Accuracy brings up past discussion of Elena Kagan's role in the plagiarism by Laurence Tribe.
One does not ...
Most people who work in IP will have had the experience: you're standing at a party (wedding, dinner, bar mitzvah, what-have-you), talking to someone you've just met. The inevitable question arises: "So, what ...
As recently announced in my earlier posting, the current Draft on the so-called Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) has Officially been released. Just a few remarks:
1. Transparency and Openness
The Document is still redacted insofar ...
BusinessWeek has published its The 50 Most Innovative Companies. Apple continues as number one. But, the big story is the rise of Asia:
In the 2010 Bloomberg BusinessWeek annual rankings of Most Innovative Companies, 15 ...
Alza Corp. v. Andrax Pharmaceuticals, Llc.
- “To satisfy the plain language of § 112, ¶ 1, [a patentee is] required to provide an adequate enabling disclosure in the specification; it cannot simply rely on the knowledge of ...
Brandon Evenson is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Most advertisements are disappointing. They suffer from gimmicky jingles, exaggerated punchlines, and fake endorsements. Yet every once-in-a-while there comes an ad that is witty ...
In an order today, the Federal Circuit granted rehearing en banc in Therasense, Inc. v. Becton, Dickinson & Co. The order indicates the court will be reconsidering its precedent on virtually the entire gamut of issues ...
Therasense Inc. v. Becton, Dickinson and Co., No. 08-1511 (April 26, 2010, order)
During proseuction before the USPTO, the patentee made certain representations to the examiner regarding the patent claims and the prior art. At ...
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The federal government is pursuing a suicidal policy of giving away our inventions to our foreign competitors. Our state can mitigate the damage of this insane policy by creating a state intellectual property bank.
IPBiz almost fell off its chair reading the headline in Science of the article titled "Obama Picks Pragmatists for New Bioethics Panel," which included as a second sentence
The 12-member group, selected more for practical ...
In an article on genetic testing within Science [328 Science 298, 302], one finds the text:
"Unfortunately, Chapman, no geneticist, had drawn on a narrow stock of European apples--itself a narrow selection of wild apples ...
The above-titled article by Donald R. Dunner, Bryan C. Diner, Esther H. Lim and Troy E. Grabow (all Partners with Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP) appears in Volume 59 (page 809) of the American ...
This is the third in a series of blog posts about arguing the meaning of claim terms. Previous posts are here and here.
Takeaway: The BPAI has limited the broadest reasonable interpretation doctrine by citing ...
Last week, Patent Docs published a post on the recent White Paper issued from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office regarding provisions contained in the "Managers' Amendment" of the Senate patent reform bill (S ...
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