Patent & IP news for May 18, 2010
Patent Litigations
- Saxon, Inc. v. Mark Andy, Inc. filed 2010-05-14 in Michigan Eastern
- Merge Emed, Inc. v. Virtual Radiologic Corproation filed 2010-05-14 in Georgia Northern
- Protegrity Corp v. Voltage Security Inc filed 2010-05-17 in Connecticut
- HRD Corporation v. Bagherzadeh filed 2010-05-14 in Texas Southern
- Aloft Media, LLC v. Compuware Corp. et. al. filed 2010-05-14 in Texas Eastern
- Video Products, Inc. v. Lastar, Inc. et. al. filed 2010-05-17 in Ohio Northern
- Bell Helicopter Textron Inc. v. Eurocopter filed 2010-05-14 in D.C.
- CY Technology Group v. Groupon, Inc. filed 2010-05-14 in California Central
- Rosebud LMS Inc. v. Adobe Systems Incorporated filed 2010-05-14 in Delaware
- Jordan Acquisition Group, LLC v. TSI, Incorporated filed 2010-05-17 in Michigan Eastern
- Truss Industry Production Systems, Inc. v. Stark Truss Company, Inc. filed 2010-05-17 in Texas Eastern
- Frilly Jilly LLC v. Leg Avenue, Inc. filed 2010-05-14 in Colorado
- Convergence Technologies (USA), LLC v. Microloops Corporation et. al. filed 2010-05-17 in California Northern
- Voxpath RS, LLC v. LG Electronics U.S.A., Inc. et. al. filed 2010-05-17 in Texas Eastern
- Synchrome Technology, Inc. v. Microsoft Corporation et. al. filed 2010-05-17 in Nevada
- Warrior Sports, Inc. v. Easton-Bell Sports, Inc. filed 2010-05-17 in Michigan Eastern
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Withdrawing patent applications: a matter of priority from ipkitten.blogspot.com "Patents Act 1977: Withdrawing patent applications with no rights outstanding" is the title of a notice posted on the UK's Intellectual Property Office website last Friday. It seeks to clarify practice on the withdrawal ...
USPTO Releases Patent Reexamination Request Best Practices from www.patentspostgrant.com In light of the recent uptick in non-compliant requests for patent reexamination, last week the Central Reexamination Unit provided FAQs and best practices for preparing patent reexamination requests. The document is linked to the USPTO ...
Sony Patent Application: Preview of InteractiveTV? from www.lotempiolaw.com Tweet of the week
Thanks to Innovator, Consultant, Strategist, Emerging Media, Social TV, Canadian Expatriate Richard Kastelein for tweeting @expathos this week about a Sony patent application that may give us a preview on how ...
Sales Assistant Killed from www.patenthawk.com Jerome Johnson got thoughtful while working "at a farm equipment dealership." 5,367,627 claims a computerized sales assistance system for finding particular parts. Jerome sold the patent to Orion in 2004. Orion sued Hyundai ...
Patent Reform Being Undermined by House Efforts? from www.patentspostgrant.com As explained last week, a vocal contingent of House members appear unsatisfied with the recent momentum of the manager’s amendment to S.515. So, in the truest tradition of U.S. politics, they have ...
Guest Post: Analyzing the results of the Patent Agent examination from spicyipindia.blogspot.com Rajiv Kr. Choudhry, an Indian IP attorney, has come forth with a brilliant statistical analysis of the results of the patent agent examination. Rajiv has an LL.M. in IP law at the George Washington ...
IP finance ... where money issues meet IP rights from ipfinance.blogspot.com I premise my following comments with a caveat: I am not much of an expert on the economics of futures, derivatives, hedges and the like. Stocks and bonds have provided enough excitement for me over ...
Here's the third in a series of four short pieces by the IPKat's friend Keith Braithwaite (read the prologues to pieces one and two for the background) on the delicate balance between proprietary ...
By Donald Zuhn -- Earlier today, the Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) reported that new legislation that would provide the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office with fee-setting authority will be brought to the floor of ...
Companies may base their existing and future product lines on new products produced by their competitors. However, businesses must be careful not to infringe upon rights of others when doing so. For example, your competitor ...
In what is hopefully the beginning of the end of the controversial EU regulation 1383/2003, under which seizures have been taking place at borders of EU countries for drugs in transit from and to ...
A critical report on financing research and development of medicines for the world's poorest was created without transparency, failed to live up to its mandate, and did not address the potential threat that intellectual ...
I've just finished reading a new book on "new growth economics" -- From Poverty to Prosperity: Intangible Assets, Hidden Liabilities and The Lasting Triumph over Scarcity by Arnold King and Nick Schulz. The first 3 ...
False Marking:
The proposed changes to the false marking statute would have the effect of limiting the potential plaintiffs to only those who have suffered a "competitive injury" as a result of the false marking ...
The following is excerpted from an Amster, Rothstein & Ebenstein Patent Law Alert by David A. Boag and Charles R. Macedo: On May 14, 2010, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit agreed ...
Two interesting statistics that came-out in today’s USPTO Roundtable on Patent Quality:
- The number of examiner interviews have increased 60% over last year.
- The action-per-disposal rate has fallen from about 2.9 actions-per-disposal to ...
from AP, via Detroit Free Press:
Massachusetts prosecutors say 23-year-old Adam Wheeler claimed he had earned a perfect academic record at Phillips Academy in Andover and at MIT before enrolling at Harvard, when in reality ...
With IP budgets experiencing significant cutbacks in the last year, many applicants have struggled to maintain the same level of global protection they were able to achieve in “fatter” times. As a result, many applicants ...
Per this press release yesterday at the USPTO: USPTO Opens Application Exchange Program to All Applicants to Reduce Patent Backlog “Project Exchange” Expanded and Extended to Enable All Applicants to Expedite Processing of a Pending ...
Amanda Carpenter is a JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Granting summary judgment in favour of the music industry, a US federal court has found peer-to-peer file-sharing service LimeWire liable for copyright infringement. This ...
Marcelo Thompson is a Research Assistant Professor in Law and Information Technology at the Faculty of Law of The University of Hong Kong and Acting Co-Director of its Law and Technology Centre. Without the usual ...
The court granted in part defendant's motion for summary judgment of indefiniteness as to plaintiff's data storage patent to the extent it claimed a "means for creating a vertical partition for each and ...
Two groups this week are urging the World Health Assembly to address access to diagnosis, treatment and new drugs, for a tropical disease that is the leading parasitic killer in the Americas. At a side ...
The larger patent reform bill has run into a roadblock and now Congress is currently trying to pass smaller scale reform. One of these small scale bills, a bill that would have given the USPTO ...
The Pharmacy Technician Certification blog posted its round-up of the 50 Best Twitter Feeds for Pharma News. While there is no shortage of feeds you can find in pharma, this list provides a breakdown of ...
The Pharmacy Technician Certification blog posted its round-up of the 50 Best Twitter Feeds for Pharma News. While there is no shortage of feeds you can find in pharma, this list provides a breakdown of ...
The Australian Patent Office (APO) is proposing official fee increases with effect from August 1, 2010. Fees always go up (we don’t often get to report on fee decreases). However, there is one new ...
Patent assignee data is a goldmine for conducting competitive intelligence. Want to know who the big players in a technology sector are? Follow the patent breadcrumb trail of patent assignee data. Researching and presenting company ...
Just came across a patent owned by a certain Pharmatop SCR (Patent Number 238164 granted in Jan 2010 in India) and was struck with how obvious it appears to be:
"A method for producing an ...
Discussion at the annual World Health Assembly on counterfeit medicines may prove lively as stakeholders continue to raise concerns that the term “counterfeit” will confuse protecting patients from unsafe drugs with protecting trademarks from infringement ...
An en banc rehearing is now pending before the Federal Circuit in the case of Therasense (Abbott) v. BD. The case focuses on questions of patent unenforceability due to the patentee’s inequitable conduct during ...
Suffering defeat at a patent infringement trial is bad, paying a damages award to a successful patent–holding plaintiff is worse––but what may truly strike fear into the heart of any defendant is the ...
For the first time in her lifetime on NCIS, M. Allison Hart, patent lawyer, and generally controlling lawyer, is placed in a rather defensive position.
In the subtheme of the 20 year old murder in ...
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