Patent & IP news for May 5, 2010
Patent Litigations
- SanDisk Corp. v. Kingston Technology Co., Inc. et. al. filed 2010-05-04 in Wisconsin Western
- Cellular Specialties, Inc. v. Pergal filed 2010-05-04 in New Hampshire
- Pieczenik v. Bayer Corporation et. al. filed 2010-05-04 in New Jersey
- BE Aerospace, Inc. v. Societe Industrielle et Commerciale de Materiel Aeronautique Sicma Aero Seat, Societe Anonyme filed 2010-05-04 in North Carolina Middle
- Atlantic Research Marketing Systems, Inc. v. Troy Industries, Inc. filed 2010-05-04 in Massachusetts
- GS Cleantech Corporation v. Iroquois Bio-Energy Company LLC filed 2010-05-03 in Indiana Northern
- Avery Dennison Corporation v. 3M Company filed 2010-05-04 in Delaware
- Verdant Environmental Technologies v. Ecobee, Inc. filed 2010-05-04 in Illinois Northern
- Avery Dennison Corporation v. Continental Datalabel, Inc. filed 2010-05-04 in Illinois Northern
- Avery Dennison Corporation filed 2010-05-04 in Illinois Northern
- F5 Networks Inc filed 2010-05-04 in Washington Western
- USA Sports Inc v. Secondary Sourcing International LLC filed 2010-05-04 in Texas Southern
- v. SBM Atlantia, Inc. et. al. filed 2010-05-04 in Texas Eastern
- Dixit v. Easy Gardner Products, Inc. filed 2010-05-04 in Texas Southern
- GS CleanTech Corporation v. Blue Flint Ethanol LLC filed 2010-05-03 in North Dakota
- Collins v. M&Y Trading Corporation et. al. filed 2010-05-04 in Missouri Eastern
- Eli Lilly And Company v. Watson Pharmaceuticals, Inc. et. al. filed 2010-05-03 in Indiana Southern
- Teleconference Systems, LLC v. AT&T Corporation et. al. filed 2010-05-04 in Texas Eastern
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The Story of the Laawaris Song, as Told by the Calcutta HC from spicyipindia.blogspot.com The key phrase is "all other rights". According to the court, this did not include exploitation of the song, as claimed by Saregama.
In 1981, Saregama acquired a right in the soundtrack, and, therefore, was ...
Wednesday whimsies from ipkitten.blogspot.com PIIPA (Public Interest Intellectual Property Advisors, Inc.) is an international non-profit organisation that makes intellectual property counsel available for developing countries and public interest organizations which seek to promote health, agriculture, biodiversity, science, culture, and ...
Clothing Company Sues Its Former Fashion Designer For Trademark Infringement & Unfair Competition from www.iptrademarkattorney.com Los Angeles – Fashion Designer Micah A. Cohen has been sued by his former employer, Swarm, LLC. Cohen apparently started the clothing company as a young designer and launched the “Shades of Greige” apparel line. Swarm ...
Stapled from www.patenthawk.com Don't mess with Staples. "Staples has won three suits in recent months that, taken as a whole, demonstrate its resolve to aggressively defend against patent infringement claims it believes are without merit. The suits ...
New blogger - Amlan Mohanty - joins us at SpicyIP from spicyipindia.blogspot.com The SpicyIP Team is proud to welcome Amlan Mohanty as the newest member to our blogging team.
Amlan is a second year student of the B.A.LLB (Hons.) program at the National Law School ...
PTO Issuing Many More Patents in 2010 from inventivestep.net Earlier this week, Patently-O reported that the PTO is issuing patents at a much higher rate in 2010 compared to 2009. Last year the PTO issued 167,349 utility patents or about 3,218 per ...
Ohio's Third Frontier program - voters approve from www.athenaalliance.org Yesterday was election day in a number of states -- mostly primaries. But in Ohio, there was a ballot issue to continue funding of the Third Frontier program. According to their website:
The Ohio Third Frontier ...
Learn Practical Patent Analysis: A Case Study (Installment 2) from intellogist.wordpress.com too sensitive or not sensitive enough for your needs.
Grouping patents into families or de-duplicating results is important because without this data cleaning step, certain large groupings of patents may be over-represented when we conduct ...
The Lure of Chapter 11 from ipinsider1.wordpress.com Creditors Should Covet IP, Not Costs
In a wry and informative Sunday Business piece in The New York Times, “Who Knew Bankruptcy Paid So Well?,” reporters Nelson D. Schwartz and Julie Creswell show just how ...
Jessica Seinfeld Copyright Infringement Battle Over Cookbook from patentlawip.blogspot.com 
Last week, a federal appeals court upheld the previous decision of a lower court in the Jessica Seinfeld cookbook case. Jessica (Jerry Seinfeld’s wife) was sued for both trademark and copyright infringement by Missy ...
Companies acquire invention rights by one of three ways from employees. A formal Invention Assignment Agreement is typically executed when the employee begins employment. The Agreement assigns certain inventions of the employee to the company ...
In a momentous decision likely to impact the course of Indian patent jurisprudence, the Indian patent office held against Roche in a post grant opposition challenging the validity of its patent covering Valcyte (Valgancyclovir Hydrochloride ...
With many people predicting a change in government in the UK and, with it, shifts in taxation rules, speculation as to the impact of predicted fiscal austerity measures on IP -- whether from the point of ...
Amanda Carpenter is a JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. In Football Dataco Ltd & Ors v Brittens Pools Ltd & Ors the England and Wales High Court has recently ruled on the copyright status of ...
Guest Post by Brad Pedersen
With the recent announcement from the Obama administration supporting the Manager’s Amendment to Senate Bill S. 515 and with the possibility that the Bill could soon get to the ...
Words like "free trade" and "pharmaceutical products" are often guaranteed to spark off a knee-jerk response. Put the two together in a single sentence and you can be sure that someone, somewhere will take note ...
By Kevin E. Noonan -- Last week, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Therasense Inc. v. Becton Dickinson & Co. issued an order granting plaintiffs' motion for rehearing en banc on the Court's ...
e issue of first ownership of copyright in music and lyrics composed for films and sound recordings, and generally prohibited, in such cases, assignments for lump-sums and maybe those that are for the entire term ...
The court sanctioned plaintiff under FRCP 26(g) because plaintiff did not conduct a reasonable search for responsive documents, but instead relied upon prosecution counsel's statements that it was "highly unlikely" there were responsive ...
It often seems that the second biggest lie in business is the statement "employees are our most important asset." Executive say that repeatedly and then slash payrolls to cut costs. But according to a story ...
A recent decision by the Supreme Court of the United States may now allow copyright owners to bring a lawsuit without securing a federal copyright registration—though the issue is not wholly resolved. On March ...
A new economically driven effort called the Copyright for Creativity Initiative is advocating the harmonisation of copyright exceptions across Europe, and is calling on the European Commission to act upon its 2008 Green Paper “Copyright ...
Rolls-Royce PLC v. United Technologies Corp.
- “Obviousness is a question of law based on underlying factual inquiries including: (1) the scope and content of the prior art; (2) the level of ordinary skill in the ...
Staples has won three patent suits in recent months. The suits involved three popular products sold under the Staples brand name. See the following excerpt from a May 5, 2010 Staples' press release: Staples, Inc ...
We have previously blogged about the emergence of China as a leader in patent filings. Recently, 28 member of the Ministerial Joint Meeting on National Intellectual Property enacted the 2010 National Intellectual Property Rights (IPR ...
The Chennai Patent Office in India last week overturned the patent on Valganciclovir, an expensive drug used to prevent an infection to which people with HIV/AIDS or organ recipients are susceptible, an Indian lawyers ...
The written description requirement remains alive and well! On March 22, 2010, the Federal Circuit issued an en banc decision in Ariad Pharmaceuticals, Inc v. Eli Lilly, upholding the written description doctrine. By a substantial ...
By Yuri Mikulka and Jeffrey J. Zuber || In a recent and rare precedential decision, the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences (BPAI) has clarified that examiner findings are given no deference when specifically challenged on ...
Recently, the White House appointed Victoria Espinel as the U.S. Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator, a new position. Ms. Espinel (or is it “Coordinator Espinel”?) recently sought public comments about steps for the federal government ...
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