Patent & IP news for May 10, 2010
Patent Litigations
- Fastek, LLC v. Al-Jon Manufacturing, LLC filed 2010-05-07 in California Southern
- Novo Nordisk Inc. et. al. v. Lupin Ltd. filed 2010-05-06 in New York Southern
- Seat Sack, Inc. v. Childcraft Education Corp. et. al. filed 2010-05-07 in New York Southern
- Thermal Corp. et. al. v. Momentive Performance Materials Inc. filed 2010-05-06 in Delaware
- Ford Motor Company v. Paice, LLC filed 2010-05-07 in Michigan Eastern
- Stant Usa Corp. v. Mahle Filter Systems North America, Inc. filed 2010-05-06 in Indiana Southern
- Pieczenik v. Astrazeneca Pharmaceuticals Lp et. al. filed 2010-05-06 in New Jersey
- Sun-Mate Corporation v. Office Depot, Inc. et. al. filed 2010-05-07 in California Central
- Merck & Co, Inc. et. al. v. Sandoz Inc. filed 2010-05-06 in New Jersey
- Encore Rail Systems, Inc. v. The Willamette Valley Company filed 2010-05-07 in Illinois Northern
- Silverlit Toys Manufactory Ltd. et. al. v. Toyrrific, LLC et. al. filed 2010-05-06 in California Central
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Ownership and control of IP: report 2 from ipkitten.blogspot.com Next to speak on the Ownership and control of IP programme was Chris Stothers (Arnold & Porter), on the topic of IP and Abuse of Control. This was a canter through the highways and byways of ...
BPAI Rejects WARF Stem Cell Patent Claims in Inter Partes Reexamination Appeal from www.patentspostgrant.com On April 28, 2010, The USPTO’s Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences (BPAI) rejected claims 1-3 of Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation’s (WARF) “Primate Embryonic Stem Cells” Patent (U.S. Patent No. 7,029 ...
Ownership and control of IP: report 1 from ipkitten.blogspot.com Speaking at today's conference on Ownership and Control of IP Rights, Colin Pearson (right, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton) gave a broad overview of the key issues relating to the ownership and control of patents ...
Vegas Trade Show Satisfies Minimum Contacts Test from www.patentlyo.com Patent Rights Protection Group v. Video Gaming Technologies (VGT), (Fed. Cir. 2010)
Patent Rights holds patent rights to several slot-machine patents and sued a host of companies for infringement. The Nevada-based district court dismissed the ...
Ownership and control of IP: report 3 from ipkitten.blogspot.com Following the Ownership and control of IP conference lunch-break solicitor-advocate Bratin Roy (Bristows) emphasised, in "Inventions and Innovations Created by Employees: who owns, who controls?", that the three main concerns raised here are exploitation, compensation ...
Go Behind the Scenes with the Article One Partners Open Study from info.articleonepartners.com At Article One Partners, we have a dedicated community of individuals who do amazing research on patents that are posted as Patent Studies. We have launched over sixty Studies, with exceptional results from our community ...
Extension from www.patenthawk.com Three recent cases before the CAFC went to challenges to patent term extension. Photocure challenged the PTO's denial of term extension in Photocure v. Kappos, and won. In Wyeth v. U.S., Wyeth unsuccessfully ...
Prosecutor Grift from www.patenthawk.com We see it all the time. Inventors who paid tens of thousands of dollars to respectable law firms who took their money and either got them worthless patents, or strung them out with useless applications ...
Patenting by Small-Entities from www.patentlyo.com The number of small-shop innovators continues to dwindle. In a sample of recently issued patents,* only 20% claim “small entity” status. Of those, 30% (6% of the total) are held by the original inventors.** According ...
Refusing Proprietary Technology from ipkitten.blogspot.com The IPKat is (still) no expert when it comes to the software industry but, like many IP enthusiasts, he tries to keep up with the major issues and thought-trends as and when they crop up ...
By Sherri Oslick -- About Court Report: Each week we will report briefly on recently filed biotech and pharma cases. Eli Lilly & Company v. Watson Pharmaceuticals, Inc. et al. 2:10-cv-00647; filed May 5, 2010 in ...
Mack Innovations lodged a provision patent application for a “cable pulling apparatus for helicopters” on 12 August 2005. The complete application for a standard patent was lodged on 14 August 2006 and a standard patent ...
Plaintiff's motion for summary judgment that its infringement claims were not barred by prosecution laches was granted. "[T]his Court concludes that [plaintiff] is correct and that the Supreme Court has addressed the issue ...
The court severed and dismissed without prejudice all but the first named defendant where plaintiff asserted 11 patents containing 694 claims against 4 corporations. "No conspiracy is alleged. No joint action is alleged. No common ...
Paul Dougherty is a former Patent Examiner at the United States Patent and Trademark Office, and he works with me regularly, helping me with patent applications and Office Actions. Paul is also an entrepreneur, having ...
NEW YORK - Republican and Democratic lawmakers in the United States are “hotlining” colleagues to ascertain if there is any objection to moving patent reform quickly through the US Senate, a representative of a major stakeholder ...
Zak Muscovitch is the principal of The Muscovitch Law Firm, in Toronto, Canada. He is a veteran domain name lawyer having represented numerous domain name owners from all over the world in disputes and transactions ...
Here is a juxtaposition of news stories that came across my computer screen this morning:
The Wall Street Journal - States Move to Cut Incentives to Businesses
Forbes - States That Truly Bet On Small Business
This ...
Jeffrey Vicq is an associate with Clark Wilson LLP’s Technology & Intellectual Property and Higher Learning Practice Groups. Those of us who provide trade-mark prosecution and counselling services—and particularly those of us who work ...
A global Broadband Commission for Digital Development announced today will unite industry, government and civil society in an attempt to expand access to the internet - and with that, access to information that is essential to ...
The Supreme Court has granted certiorari to decide Costco Wholesale Corp. v. Omega, S.A., in which Omega sued Costco when it bought a shipment of Omega watches from another importer and sold them for ...
From the Director's latest blog entry:
The Ariad decision is important for the Office because written description is a critical tool for ensuring that an applicant does not claim more than she is entitled ...
On May 5, 2010, Director Kappos testified to the House Judiciary Committee. The prepared testimony included three specific USPTO goals: By the year 2014, reduce the average time to first office action on the merits ...
by Mark Malek Professor Dennis Crouch of Patently-O recently posted an article about the difficulties in collecting royalties pursuant to a patent licensing agreement. In his post, Professor Crouch referenced a report by Invotex, which ...
The following is excerpted from a May 10, 2010 Merckpress release from Business Wire and published at Morningstar:
Merck & Co., Inc. and Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Inc., USA and Glenmark Pharmaceuticals, Ltd. have reached an agreement ...
Takeaway: Many claims include entities with more than one instance ("a plurality of widgets"). When the claim involves relationships between multi-instance entities, getting the claim language right can be challenging. For example, suppose the claim ...
By Nate Chongsiriwatana -- Hana Biosciences, Inc. recently announced that it received a Notice of Allowance from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for U.S. Application No. 11/886,803, entitled "Vitamin K for ...
Ortho-McNeil and Daiichi Sankyo v. Lupin, No. 2009-1362 (Fed. Cir. 2010)
Photocure v. Kappos, No. 2009-1393 (Fed. Cir. 2010)
In separate cases decided today, the Federal Circuit upheld two patent term extensions under 35 U ...
By James DeGiulio -- Celgene and Novartis Reach Settlement with Barr Laboratories in Ritalin ANDA Suit Celgene Corp. and Novartis AG have reached a settlement with Barr Laboratories Inc. over Barr's attempt to market a ...
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