Patent & IP news for May 13, 2010
Patent Litigations
- Deere & Company v. Great Plains Manufacturing Incorporated filed 2010-05-12 in Iowa Southern
- Merchant Media, LLC et. al. v. Columbus Closeouts, Ltd. et. al. filed 2010-05-12 in New York Southern
- Vivant Pharmaceuticals, LLC v. Clinical Formula, LLC et. al. filed 2010-05-11 in Florida Southern
- Vivant Pharmaceuticals, LLC v. Clinical Formula, LLC et. al. filed 2010-05-11 in Florida Southern
- Exmark Manufacturing Company Inc. filed 2010-05-12 in Nebraska
- Kovesdy v. Kovesdy et. al. filed 2010-05-10 in California Northern
- Csb-System International Inc. v. Sap America, Inc. filed 2010-05-11 in Pennsylvania Eastern
- Lumination, LLC v. Fawoo Tech North America, LLC et. al. filed 2010-05-12 in Ohio Northern
- Man Machine Interface Technologies LLC v. Vizio Inc et. al. filed 2010-05-11 in California Central
- Sharing Sound, LLC v. Amazon.com, Inc. et. al. filed 2010-05-12 in Texas Eastern
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Chief Judge Michel: Fellow Citizens: Be On Guard from inventivestep.net In a preview of what Chief Judge Paul Michel of the Federal Circuit plans to focus his energy on after he retires from the Federal Circuit at the end of the month, he recently addressed ...
Trade marks and copyright in book series titles: second opinion sought from ipkitten.blogspot.com A distinguished member of the Spicy IP blog team has written to the IPKat and his readers for a second opinion. The question raised is this:
"In my hypothetical, there’s a book with the ...
Mule Kick Trick from www.patenthawk.com Interferences are the mule kick of the shambolic first-to-invent patent regime that only the U.S. clings to. In this episode, Jos Timmermans provoked an interference by copying claims into 11/085,744 from Jones ...
Still Subsidizing Banks & Wall Street from hallingblog.com The TARP bailout of Wall Street may be over but we are still bailing out the millionaires on Wall Street. The Federal Reserve has purposely set the fed funds rate to zero in order to ...
Microsoft’s Late Use of Patent Reexamination in the i4i Dispute from www.patentspostgrant.com As has been widely reported this week, U.S. Patent No: 5,787,499 has been confirmed by the USPTO in ex parte reexamination 90/010,347. The patent has been widely reported as impacting ...
Putting Open Source to good use on the farm ... from ipkitten.blogspot.com Above: "Now, where on earth did I put that darned shrinkwrap ...?"
Open Source is a label that is so firmly attached to software licensing in the minds of many of us that it can be ...
TotalPatent Intellogist Report Updated from intellogist.wordpress.com I touched on TotalPatent’s Semantic Search in one of our recent posts, but there is much more to investigate in our recent TotalPatent full report review and update. We undertake these full report reviews ...
How to Evaluate the Retail Opportunity of a Product from www.lotempiolaw.com What Inventors Need to Know...
Most independent inventors want to license their invention to a retailer. Usually an inventor does not have the experience nor the money to market, manufacture and distribute a product on ...
Extension of Copyright Terms in the Copyright Amendments from spicyipindia.blogspot.com EXTENSION OF COPYRIGHT TERMS: Photographs and Principal Directors
Those of you who have been following the proposed amendments to the Copyright Act would have noticed the extended copyright terms for photographs and principal directors, who ...
Article One Partners Crowdsources Direction from Community Members from info.articleonepartners.com The strength of AOP lies in its community. Our community is made up of individuals from around the world who come together to do amazing patent research. Our Advisors find the best prior art because ...
Takeaway: You can appeal to the BPAI on a non-final Office Action. You are allowed to present completely new arguments in an Appeal Brief.
Details: Two common misconceptions about the appeal process are related to ...
By Kevin E. Noonan -- Steve Burrill, President and CEO of Burrill & Co. took the stage at BIO 2010 in Chicago last week, and once again provided in 90 minutes his impressions and opinions on the ...
By Andrew Williams -- Last week, in Scantibodies Laboratory, Inc. v. Immutopics, Inc., the Federal Circuit affirmed a claim construction decision and corresponding summary judgment of non-infringement rendered by the U.S. District Court for the ...
IPRIA is hosting a seminar on the Commonwealth Government’s announced intention to ban the use of artwork and logos on cigarette packaging.
Speakers:
- Prof. Mark Davison
- Prof. John Freebairn, a professor of economics at ...
The first Brazilian generic drug against erectile dysfunction recently received registration at the National Surveillance Agency - a unit of Health Ministry. The Viagra generic’s registration was only possible because of a decision of the ...
World Trade Organization Director General Pascal Lamy has answered a letter from members of the European Parliament asking that the WTO provide an “expert assessment and analysis of the current provision” of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade ...
In a nonprecedential order in In re Apple (an attempt to go from ED Tex to D Mass), the CAFC wrote:
To be sure, the status of Personal Audio, LLC, as a Texas corporation is ...
As I've noted before, one of the best sources of data on new start-ups is the Kauffman Foundation's Firm Survey, which is tracking 5000 companies that began operations in 2004. The Kauffman Foundation ...
Plaintiffs' motion in limine to exclude evidence of defendants' costs and expenses regarding sales of their products was denied where defendants had produced 5 years of tax returns in discovery and 3 more years of ...
The following is excerpted from the May 8, 2010 post of Volker 'Falk' Metzler, Partner of KSNH Patentanwälte, at his Visae Patentes blog: USPTO Director David Kappos recently commented on the March 22, 2010 Federal ...
The following note was written by European Patent Attorney Paul Cole who is also the Visiting Professor of IP at Bournemouth University
EPO Enlarged Appeal Board decision in G 0003/08 Programs for computers/PRESIDENT ...
In my role as Chair of the Forest Bioproducts Division of AIChE, I've been involved with technical programming and webinars dealing with biorefineries, biofuels, and conversion of biomass, especially forest and cellulosic biomass. There ...
An article posted on pittsburghlive begins:
Suspended West Jefferson Hills School Superintendent Terry Kinavey testified Wednesday that she had permission to use welcome letters and a brochure she has been accused of plagiarizing.
"Permission" is ...
That defendants to patent infringement actions frequently attempt to decline the hospitality of the Eastern District of Texas is not a new topic for this blog, that Apple––recently reported to have faced more infringement ...
The Federal Circuit recently granted Abbott’s request for an en banc rehearing of its Therasense decision. The rehearing will focus on the fundamental elements of inequitable conduct. Inequitable conduct is a non-statutory (i.e ...
Readers might recall a recent post on the potential impact of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement on developing countries. What was missing however, was any official communication from the Indian government on the issue, even after ...
The problem: If you perform a search engine search for a patent statute/rule, the USPTO’s copy of the statute/rule doesn’t appear in the search results.
- Example: Google search for 37 CFR ...
Not exactly IP related: but given that IP lawyers are also (fortunately or unfortunately) part of the bigger fraternity of lawyers, this is something of interest.
I reported earlier on the prospect of an Indian ...
Steven Zuccarelli is a JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Balancing pharmaceutical patent rights with public health needs is a contentious issue that poses enormous challenges to lawmakers. The conflict between innovators of therapeutics ...
Stuart Freen is a JD candidate at Ogsoode Hall Law School. The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) recently released its annual Recording Industry in Numbers report, and the numbers are grim indeed: Global ...
Each and every day IPWatchdog.com generates many page views as a result of our social networking through Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and others as well as our own IPWatchdog Social Network. We can state with ...
On June 24, 2010, my partner Susan Krembs will moderate a one-hour online discussion about the similarities and differences of trade secret protection in the United States and Canada.
Topics will include:
- how to protect ...
On April 28, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit granted the petition for rehearing en banc submitted by Plaintiffs-Appellants Abbott Diabetes Care, Inc. (formerly Therasense, Inc.) and Abbott Laboratories in Therasense, Inc. v ...
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