Patent & IP news for May 14, 2010
Patent Litigations
- Sandvik Intellectual Property AB v. Kennametal Inc. filed 2010-05-13 in Pennsylvania Western
- Shire LLC et. al. v. Actavis Elizabeth LLC et. al. filed 2010-05-12 in Delaware
- Berry Plastics Corporation v. Intertape Polymer Corporation filed 2010-05-13 in Indiana Southern
- ESCO Corporation v. Romac Industrial Parts, Inc. filed 2010-05-12 in Georgia Northern
- Fox Ridge LLC v. L-1 Identity Solutions Inc. filed 2010-05-12 in Delaware
- Cirrex Systems LLC v. Infraredx, Inc. filed 2010-05-12 in New York Southern
- Seely v. Cumberland Packing Corp. filed 2010-05-11 in California Northern
- Meru Networks, Inc. v. Extricom, Ltd. filed 2010-05-11 in California Northern
- Rogers v. Goody Products, Inc. filed 2010-05-12 in Pennsylvania Eastern
- Automated Transactions LLC v. First Niagara Financial Group, Inc. et. al. filed 2010-05-13 in New York Western
- Genentech, Inc. v. Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania filed 2010-05-11 in California Northern
- MONKEYmedia, Inc. v. Apple, Inc. filed 2010-05-13 in Texas Western
- Vescent, Inc. v. ProSun International, LLC filed 2010-05-12 in Colorado
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Friday fantasies from ipkitten.blogspot.com Friday again, and it's time to check the IPKat's side bar for news of fresh seminars, conferences and other ways of improving your grasp of IP in the company of friends, peers and ...
Zetia Patent Litigation Settles: Reissue Bullet Claims No Longer Shot Down from www.patentspostgrant.com 
In the Summary Judgment opinion, Judge Linares held that the ‘115 patent claims were effective to protect the ezetimibe species, when construing the facts in the light most favorable to Schering. Following Schering’s concession ...
Crafty Stand from www.patenthawk.com The labyrinth of possibilities makes patent licensing a byzantine form of contract, particularly regarding standing. Case in point. AMF licensed ear implant patents 5,609,616 and 5,938,691 to AB, while retaining certain ...
Guide to 21st century business - new book from www.athenaalliance.org
Mary Adams and Michael Oleksak have just published their new book
Intangible Capital: Putting Knowledge to Work in the 21st Century Organization. This is an important new contribution.
As I said in my review of ...
Germany: A Case Study On How To Strangulate Innovation from www.ipjur.com Free WIFI - No longer available in Germany?
Well, I think I don't have to tell you here that patents are some sort of exclusive right related to inventions. Only inventions are eligible to be ...
That WTO complaint: a Kat is mildly puzzled from ipkitten.blogspot.com It is now known that Brazil and India are each launching complaints to the World Trade Organization regarding the seizure within the European Union territory of generic pharma products which, being made in India and ...
Inequitable Conduct: Forming the Doctrinal Boundaries from www.patentlyo.com Taltech v. Esquel Enterprises (Fed. Cir. 2010)
After a prior remand, the W.D. Washington district court held Taltech’s patent unenforceable due to inequitable conduct during prosecution and awarded over $6 million in attorney ...
Early-Stage Patent Litigation: May 14 from info.articleonepartners.com Here's our latest close look into a recent patent litigation case centered on patent quality.
Display Technologies Inc. v. Universal Surveillance Corp.
Case number 10-cv-209 - U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode ...
Pikes Peak IEEE Talk from hallingblog.com I will be speaking at the Pikes Peak IEEE dinner event on May 21. To register click here.
“The Decline and Fall of the American Engineer”
By Dale B. Halling, Esq.
New ECJ reference a bit of a Paine ... from ipkitten.blogspot.com The IPKat has learned, via the UK Intellectual Property Office, of Case C-145/10 Eva-Maria Paine v Standard Verlags GmbH, Axel Springer AG, Süddeutsche Zeitung GmbH, Spiegel-Verlag Rudolf Augstein GmbH & Co KG and Verlag M ...
Infringement action won't be stayed pending foreign decision in non-patent claim from patlit.blogspot.com Stay of proceedings is always an important issue where litigation breaks out between the same parties in different jurisdictions in respect of the same patent -- but it's not so common to find an application ...
Subway Threatens Hotdog Vendor for Using “Footlong” from blawgit.com Federal trademark law prohibits federal trademark registrations on words which, when used in connection with the goods, are merely descriptive. A cursory Google search reveals over 6,000 uses of the words “footlong sandwich” apart ...
Bad News for Microsoft: i4i Patent Emerges Reexamination from www.ipwatchdog.com Earlier this week i4i Limited Partnership announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office confirmed the patentability of all claims of the U.S. Patent 5,787,449. The ‘449 patent was being reexamined ...
By James DeGiulio -- Medicis Settles Solodyn Infringement Case with Ranbaxy Medicis Pharmaceutical Corp. has reached consent and licensing agreements with Ranbaxy Laboratories Inc., thus settling patent infringement claims against Ranbaxy over Medicis' oral acne drug ...
Patent valuation, as a subject, is still “hot”. When in LinkedIn a question was posted on how to value IP[1] a large number of comments, suggestions and ideas appeared. The overall conclusion – it is ...
The ever expanding universe of domain names is certainly a nuisance for business owners. But given the situation, is it better to try to register domain name extensions like .BIZ, .US, and now .CO? Or ...
In a declaratory relief action, the court ordered defendant to present its claims first and instructed that neither party could refer to itself as the plaintiff. "[Plaintiff's] claims are defenses to liability. Thus, for ...
This is the first entry in a series of entries analyzing the impact the proposed Patent Reform Act of 2010:
First-To-File:
Perhaps the most major change that the proposed patent reform legislation contains is the ...
Vincent Doré is a JD/MBA Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School and Schulich School of Business. Over 2000 people convened in Stratford, Ontario this week for Canada 3.0: Canada’s Premier Digital Media ...
Today's Wall Street Journal has a story on the small business credit crunch - Bailout Missed Main Street, New Report Says:
Government funding to U.S. banks has done little to ease the credit crunch ...
Writing for International Law Office earlier this week ("Novartis's endeavours to obtain interim injunctions come to naught"), Sara Pelaz (Grau & Angelo) explains what happened last December when pharma company Novartis applied for an interim ...
Courts don’t just affect the rights of accused criminals. In business, we often forget, the effect of an adverse (or favorable) court ruling can be drastic, and immediate. Today’s shining example of this ...
TiVo v. EchoStar (Fed. Cir. 2010)
The Federal Circuit has announced an en banc rehearing of the TiVo appeal focusing on the process of chasing-down defendants to enforce an injunction — especially where the defendant has ...
How to proceed with the results of an initiative aimed at finding real alternatives for innovative health research financing is on the agenda at next week's World Health Assembly (WHA). The assembly also is ...
Alfred E. Mann Foundation for Scientific Research v. Cochlear Corp.
- “A patent owner may transfer all substantial rights in the patents-in-suit, in which case the transfer is tantamount to an assignment of those patents to ...
As part of the confirmation process, judicial nominees submit a public questionnaire to the Senate Judiciary Committee. This is a link to the public questionnaire for Judge Kathleen O’Malley’s nomination to the Federal ...
In other Apple–related news, The Recorder reports on a new angle in the ongoing patent skirmish between Apple and smart phone rival HTC, which makes devices that use Google’s Android operating system. Responding ...
The following is excerpted from an article by Grant Gross, IDG News Service\Washington Bureau, published at SFGate: The U.S. International Trade Commission will investigate complaints by Apple that Eastman Kodak violated its patents ...
It now is become a seemly predictably trend in India that a movie is invariably sued for copyright infringement just prior to its release. Few weeks back it was ‘Houseful’, this time it is the ...
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