Patent & IP news for May 3, 2010
Patent Litigations
- Schering Corporation et. al. v. Kappos filed 2010-04-30 in D.C.
- Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited et. al. v. Sandoz, Inc. filed 2010-04-29 in New York Southern
- Public Patent Foundation, Inc. v. Johnson & Johnson Consumer Companies, Inc. filed 2010-04-29 in New York Southern
- Brooks & Baker, L.L.C. v. Flambeau, Inc. et. al. filed 2010-04-30 in Texas Eastern
- Reddy Ice Corporation vs ISB-In Store Bagging Machine Company LLC filed 2010-04-30 in Texas Northern
- Patent Group, LLC v. Kness Mfg. Co., Inc. filed 2010-04-30 in Texas Eastern
- Traffic Information, LLC v. Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. et. al. filed 2010-04-30 in Texas Eastern
- Patent Group, LLC v. Vaughan and Bushnell Manufacturing Co filed 2010-04-30 in Texas Eastern
- Intuit Educational Ventures LLC v. Leapfrog Enterprises, Inc. et. al. filed 2010-04-30 in Texas Eastern
- Patent Group, LLC v. Summit Chemical Company filed 2010-04-30 in Texas Eastern
- Patent Group, LLC v. M. E. Heuck Co. filed 2010-04-30 in Texas Eastern
- Patent Group, LLC v. Orbit Irrigation Products, Inc. filed 2010-04-30 in Texas Eastern
- Patent Group, LLC v. G. T. Water Products, Inc. filed 2010-04-30 in Texas Eastern
- Dart Machinery, Limited v. Procomp Electronics, Incorporated, et. al. filed 2010-04-30 in Michigan Eastern
- Lift-U, a Division of Hogan MFG., Inc. v. Ricon Corp. et. al. filed 2010-04-29 in California Northern
- Uroplasty Inc. filed 2010-04-30 in Washington Western
- Lemkin v. Bell's Precision Grinding et. al. filed 2010-04-30 in Michigan Eastern
- Autoscribe Corporation et. al.. v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. et. al.. filed 2010-04-30 in Iowa Southern
- Uroplasty Inc. v. Moses et. al. filed 2010-04-30 in Washington Western
- NetAirus Technologies, LLC v. Apple Inc. filed 2010-04-30 in California Central
- FuzzySharp Technologies Incorporated v. Nvidia Corporation et. al. filed 2010-04-30 in California Northern
- Syndicate Sales, Inc. v. Garcia Group, Inc. filed 2010-04-30 in Indiana Southern
- Pelsor v. Petoria, Inc. et. al. filed 2010-04-30 in Kentucky Western
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District Court vs. USPTO Patent Reexamination Analysis (BPAI Informative Opinion in Ex Parte Baxter International, Inc.) from www.patentspostgrant.com Different standards lead to different results in patent reexamination and district court litigation
During district court patent infringement litigation between Baxter and Fresenius, Fresenius requested reexamination of Baxter’s patents relating to hemodialysis machines with ...
Sanctioned from www.patenthawk.com Starting in 1998, Medtronic sued multiple parties over multiple surgical instruments patents, BrainLAB being one of them. Defendants summary judgment motions of noninfringement were denied. Before the case went to the jury, BrainLAB renewed its ...
Of south India, Handicrafts and changing types -- GI trends from spicyipindia.blogspot.com If anyone's glanced through the latest GI Journal, No. 33, available here, you will have seen that the number of applications for GIs in India has crossed the 200 mark. Of these, at least ...
EuropaCorp Sues Consolidated Pictures Over Distribution Of “I Love You Phillip Morris” Movie from www.iptrademarkattorney.com Los Angeles, CA – EuropaCorp is a French motion picture studio that produced the feature film “I Love You Phillip Morris,” starring Jim Carrey and Ewan McGregor. In a May 8, 2009 agreement, EuropaCorp licensed to ...
Monday miscellany from ipkitten.blogspot.com Around the blogs. Class 46, the European trade mark weblog founded by MARQUES supporters and now hosted by that organisation, has this weekend secured its 1,100th email subscriber. There's also some news of ...
Update: Beyoncé's pirated bikini from ipkitten.blogspot.com As the IPKat has reported earlier, Triumph (the underwear manufacturer) obtained an interim injunction against Sony Music in Germany, enjoining Sony from further distributing Beyoncé's music video for the "Video Phone" song (see below ...
Expand your search scope with cross lingual search from intellogist.wordpress.com Hello all,
I wanted to quickly check in from Baltimore where I’m attending the Patent Information Users Group annual conference (by the way, you can follow Intellogist on Twitter to see my live tweets ...
"IP Golden Oldies": The First Salvo from ipkitten.blogspot.com Following the call from our earlier blogpost, this Kat will be taking a crack at the first of what he hopes is a regular series of discussions on "IP Golden Oldies". At the suggestion of ...
Exclusive Interview: Jim Greenwood, President & CEO of BIO from www.ipwatchdog.com Jim Greenwood,
President & CEO of BIO
On Wednesday, April 21, 2010, I had the pleasure of conducting an exclusive, on the record interview with Jim Greenwood, former Congressman and current President & CEO of BIO. Over ...
Article One Partners - Win an Apple iPad! from info.articleonepartners.com Thanks to feedback from our Advisors, we have decided to ‘up the ante' for our referral contest. The new prize for the referral contest is $500 or an Apple iPad! The winner of the referral ...
Court Report from www.patentdocs.org
By Sherri Oslick -- About Court Report: Each week we will report briefly on recently filed biotech and pharma cases. Pfizer Inc. et al. v. Watson Pharmaceuticals, Inc. et al. 0:10-cv-60674; filed April 29, 2010 ...
By Sherri Oslick -- About Court Report: Each week we will report briefly on recently filed biotech and pharma cases. Pfizer Inc. et al. v. Watson Pharmaceuticals, Inc. et al. 0:10-cv-60674; filed April 29, 2010 ...
Meet the Docs at BIO 2010 from www.patentdocs.org
The Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) is holding its annual BIO International Convention this week at McCormick Place in Chicago, IL. Founded in 1993, BIO is a nonprofit association seeking supportive biotechnology policies on behalf of ...
The Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) is holding its annual BIO International Convention this week at McCormick Place in Chicago, IL. Founded in 1993, BIO is a nonprofit association seeking supportive biotechnology policies on behalf of ...
A Prescription For Failure: Health And IP In The Dominican Republic from www.ip-watch.org
In the United States, trade policy is generally considered an economic issue. But for developing countries like the Dominican Republic, it can be a matter of life and death, write Tanya Baytor and Patrick Griffith ...
In the United States, trade policy is generally considered an economic issue. But for developing countries like the Dominican Republic, it can be a matter of life and death, write Tanya Baytor and Patrick Griffith ...
Does the international intellectual property system help or hinder exporters? from ipwars.com
Is the question that will be addressed at a 3 hour forum in Melbourne on 25 May 2010, organised by IP Australia.
Three speakers:
Amy Roy, General Counsel of Boost Juice.
Amy will discuss the ...
Guest Post: Exhaustion and Copyright Law - A look at the Copyright Amendment Bill, 2010 from spicyipindia.blogspot.com
One our regular commentators - Ms. Sneha Jain - a student of ILS, Pune has sent us this excellent guest post on the implications of the Copyright Amendment Bill, 2010 for parallel imports of copyrighted works. She ...
One our regular commentators - Ms. Sneha Jain - a student of ILS, Pune has sent us this excellent guest post on the implications of the Copyright Amendment Bill, 2010 for parallel imports of copyrighted works. She ...
WIPO Traditional Knowledge Committee Opens With Hope For Text-Based Talks from www.ip-watch.org
Negotiators at the World Intellectual Property Organization this week will address longstanding efforts by many WIPO members to begin in earnest text-based negotiations for a tool to better protect traditional knowledge and genetic resources. Related ...
Negotiators at the World Intellectual Property Organization this week will address longstanding efforts by many WIPO members to begin in earnest text-based negotiations for a tool to better protect traditional knowledge and genetic resources. Related ...
Failure to Review Discovery Produced "Years Earlier" Does Not Justify Late Introduction of New Inequitable Conduct Theories from docketreport.blogspot.com
Plaintiff's motion in limine to exclude any new theories of inequitable conduct, including 22 new prior art references disclosed at the pretrial motion deadline, was granted. "[Defendant] does not explain why it waited until ...
Plaintiff's motion in limine to exclude any new theories of inequitable conduct, including 22 new prior art references disclosed at the pretrial motion deadline, was granted. "[Defendant] does not explain why it waited until ...
High-Tech Startups in a “Mixed Source” Software World: Can Money Be Made? from dcipattorney.com
Although the software business model taxonomy is neither perfect nor universal, most high-tech entrepreneurs recognize the existence of (and difference between) the “proprietary” and the “open source” software business models.[1]
The proprietary or “closed ...
Ranking brands and valuing intangibles from www.athenaalliance.org
Over at the blog IP Finance, Neil Wilkof asks the question What Should We Do With Brand Rankings?. In this case, he looks at the process of brand valuation and rankings for the BrandZ rankings ...
Over at the blog IP Finance, Neil Wilkof asks the question What Should We Do With Brand Rankings?. In this case, he looks at the process of brand valuation and rankings for the BrandZ rankings ...
The Endowment Effect: IP and Human Rationality from www.iposgoode.ca
Brian Chau is a JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. In a recent article, Christopher J. Buccafusco and Christopher Jon Sprigman consider whether IP transactions are subject to “endowment effects”. The endowment effect is ...
Brian Chau is a JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. In a recent article, Christopher J. Buccafusco and Christopher Jon Sprigman consider whether IP transactions are subject to “endowment effects”. The endowment effect is ...
Guest Post: An Appeal by Indian Civil Society to the U.S. President from spicyipindia.blogspot.com
Indian civil society organizations have sent an open letter to President Obama, informing him of the USPTO's and U.S. Embassy's attempts in influencing the course of the debate on Indian patent law ...
Indian civil society organizations have sent an open letter to President Obama, informing him of the USPTO's and U.S. Embassy's attempts in influencing the course of the debate on Indian patent law ...
Federal appellate courts: “a system of arranged marriage with no divorce” from ipbiz.blogspot.com
The UChicago Law School has a post titled New York Times Profiles Judge Wood, which sets up the link to the NYT.
Within the setup:
The appeals bench, Judge Posner warned, was like “a system ...
The UChicago Law School has a post titled New York Times Profiles Judge Wood, which sets up the link to the NYT.
Within the setup:
The appeals bench, Judge Posner warned, was like “a system ...
SpicyIP Tidbits: Cipla serves legal notice on GWU; demands a written apology for events in relation to the GWU-CII Summit from spicyipindia.blogspot.com
The Business Standard and the Economic Times have both reported that Cipla, one of India's biggest pharmaceutical companies, has served a legal notice on the George Washington University (GWU) for allegedly allowing the GWU-CII ...
The Business Standard and the Economic Times have both reported that Cipla, one of India's biggest pharmaceutical companies, has served a legal notice on the George Washington University (GWU) for allegedly allowing the GWU-CII ...
How Long Do I Wait for a First Office Action from www.patentlyo.com
Based on the USPTO's most recent numbers on examination, I created an updated table of the average delay until a first office action is mailed from the PTO. These numbers reflect an average for ...
Detecting Patent Infringement from www.infringementupdates.com
The following is excerpted from a February 26, 2009 Winter Meeting presentation by Julia Elvidge, President, Chipworks available at the Licensing Executives Society website. The presentation includes perspectives from Freescale Semiconductor and STMicroelectronics on several ...
The following is excerpted from a February 26, 2009 Winter Meeting presentation by Julia Elvidge, President, Chipworks available at the Licensing Executives Society website. The presentation includes perspectives from Freescale Semiconductor and STMicroelectronics on several ...
Divided Infringement Standard Still Evolving from www.717madisonplace.com
ct, indirect communication is specifically contemplated. See ’651 patent col.3 ll.42-48 (“The link may be a landline, or other direct communications path . . . . Alternatively, this link may have several parts . . . .”) (label numbers omitted). Therefore ...
ct, indirect communication is specifically contemplated. See ’651 patent col.3 ll.42-48 (“The link may be a landline, or other direct communications path . . . . Alternatively, this link may have several parts . . . .”) (label numbers omitted). Therefore ...
KSR "obvious to try" standard shows up in BPAI WARF case from ipbiz.blogspot.com
From the BPAI decision in Appeal 2010-001854, relating to WARF's
US Patent 7,029,913 :
In KSR, the Supreme Court stated that an invention may be
found obvious if it would have been obvious ...
From the BPAI decision in Appeal 2010-001854, relating to WARF's
US Patent 7,029,913 :
In KSR, the Supreme Court stated that an invention may be
found obvious if it would have been obvious ...
Patent Pendency: Reconsidering Expedited Examination from www.patentlyo.com
On September 19, 2009, Oleg Zaitsev filed his patent application directed to a computer-hardware implemented anti-virus system. Zaitsev included a petition for accelerated examination along with pre-examination search results and an examination support document explaining ...
Into the Final Stretch: Surveying Bilski's Treatment in the Lower Courts from 271patent.blogspot.com
Ircuit "declined to adopt a broad exclusion over software or any other such category of subject matter beyond the exclusion of claims drawn to fundamental principles …[and noted] the process claim at issue in the ...
Ircuit "declined to adopt a broad exclusion over software or any other such category of subject matter beyond the exclusion of claims drawn to fundamental principles …[and noted] the process claim at issue in the ...
Provisional date reference burden proof from allthingspros.blogspot.com
Takeaway: When an Examiner applies a § 102(e) reference as of its priority date, the precedential decision Ex parte Yamaguchi allocates the burden of proof for whether the priority document provides proper support under § 112 ...
Takeaway: When an Examiner applies a § 102(e) reference as of its priority date, the precedential decision Ex parte Yamaguchi allocates the burden of proof for whether the priority document provides proper support under § 112 ...
Gene Therapy Experiencing a Revival from www.patentdocs.org
By James DeGiulio -- After over a decade of suspicion following the death of an 18-year-old patient, gene therapy is experiencing a revival among scientists and drugmakers, according to a recent Bloomberg report ("'Dead as Doornail ...
By James DeGiulio -- After over a decade of suspicion following the death of an 18-year-old patient, gene therapy is experiencing a revival among scientists and drugmakers, according to a recent Bloomberg report ("'Dead as Doornail ...
ALZA Corp. v. Andrx Pharmaceuticals, LLC (Fed. Cir. 2010) from www.patentdocs.org
By Andrew Williams -- Last week, in ALZA Corp. v. Andrx Pharms., LLC, the Federal Circuit affirmed the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware's decision that ALZA's patent related to treating ...
By Andrew Williams -- Last week, in ALZA Corp. v. Andrx Pharms., LLC, the Federal Circuit affirmed the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware's decision that ALZA's patent related to treating ...
Kappos Talks Patent Reform and Gene Patents at BIO Convention from www.ipwatchdog.com
What follows are pieces of Director Kappos' remarks at the session prior to taking questions and answers. While it is probably unfair to call these remarks prepared remarks, it was clear that he referred to ...
What follows are pieces of Director Kappos' remarks at the session prior to taking questions and answers. While it is probably unfair to call these remarks prepared remarks, it was clear that he referred to ...
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