Patent & IP news for May 19, 2010
Patent Litigations
- Microsoft Corporation v. Salesforce.com, Inc. filed 2010-05-18 in Washington Western
- Whelen Eng Co Inc v. Code 3 Inc et. al. filed 2010-05-17 in Connecticut
- Radio Systems Corporation et. al. v. Lalor et. al. filed 2010-05-18 in Washington Western
- Sun Hill Industries, Inc. v. Aldi, Inc. filed 2010-05-17 in Pennsylvania Eastern
- DDB Technologies, L.L.C. v. NHL Interactive Cyber Enterprises, LLC et. al. filed 2010-05-18 in Texas Western
- Sharing Sound, LLC v. Apple, Inc. et. al. filed 2010-05-18 in Texas Eastern
- Seton Pharmaceuticals, LLC. v. Alaven Pharmaceutical, LLC. filed 2010-05-17 in New Jersey
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House Introduces PTO Fee Bill from inventivestep.net House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers (D-MI) and Ranking Member Lamar Smith (R-TX) introduced a new bill to provide the PTO with fee-setting authority and to prevent PTO user fee diversion. The text of the ...
Adidas and Reebok Sue To Protect Their Three Stripe and Stripecheck Trademarks from www.iptrademarkattorney.com Los Angeles, CA – adidas and Reebok have teamed up to sue three defendants for trademark infringement arising from the sale of shoes bearing adidas’ three stripe trademark and Reebok’s stripecheck trademark. Adidas alleges that ...
Proposal: Unlocking Job Growth with Patent Acceleration from www.ipwatchdog.com It seems pretty clear that under the direction of David Kappos the United States Patent and Trademark Office is pursuing an “all of the above” strategy to cutting into the backlog and ultimately reducing the ...
Tax and Intellectual Property: Forum Shopping for a Licensing Program from www.ipprospective.com Tax incentives are always a large part of a corporate law practice. Taxes can dictate the structure of a deal, help provide financing for an acquisition, or simply cause an organization to incorporate elsewhere because ...
Facebook Privacy Concerns Continue from www.ipwatchdog.com I am currently working on a series of articles about the Importance of Using Social Networking for Business. And I know I wrote that you should consider using Facebook as one means of Social Media ...
Misguided Missile from www.patenthawk.com Another patent applicant groans like Tom Jones: "Stop Breaking My Heart." Does this lyric sound familiar? "The applicant argues that these rejections were based on a misunderstanding of the [prior art] references, and lacked sufficient ...
By Donald Zuhn -- In the face of strong opposition, the House of Representatives declined to bring a bill that would provide the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office with fee-setting authority to the floor for ...
By Kevin E. Noonan -- It has been a staple of introductory civil procedure exams to include a complicated fact pattern that, at root, leads to a determination that the lawsuit should be dismissed for failure ...
Part II of a Guest Post by Brad Pederson
This is the second post addressing transition provisions outlined in the Manager’s Amendment to S. 515. The first post addressed the transition provisions for interferences ...
In a counterclaim filed May 17, 2010, Oakley, Inc., a sport sunglasses manufacturer, is accused of marking its products with hundreds of patents that were either:
(i) expired,
(ii) did not cover the marked products ...
Defendant's motion for summary judgment of invalidity for lack of enablement was granted. The patent claimed a light bulb with "a coating . . . having a transmittance level in substantial accordance with" a formula containing the ...
In an editorial Asleep in Admissions?, the Boston Globe states Admission officials at Harvard have a lot to explain to legitimate applicants. and ends Are the phones — and the admission office — in decent working order ...
On the heels of a jury verdict against retailer Newegg.com, Inc., we recently mused that Soverain Software LLC may have learned––as Jean–Paul Sartre put it––that “if a victory is told in ...
I recently ran across an interesting history of nanoelectronics -- aka spintronics. The article (From Lab to iPod: A Story of Discovery and Commercialization in the Post-Cold War Era) by history professor W. Patrick McCray describes ...
- Grant Rate: The USPTO’s high patent grant numbers continue. The past two weeks respectively rank Nos. 1 and 2 in terms of the most patents granted in a single week in US history.
- USPTO ...
US Pat. No. 5,053,407, exclusively licensed to Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceutical, is directed to an enantiomer of a racemic compound that had previously been approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
On judgment, the ...
Anjli Patel is an LLB Candidate at the University of Calgary Faculty of Law. Today’s post will be of interest to anyone who has ever extensively compared prices on big-ticket items before making a ...
You may ask: Why would I want to take my valuable time to write or edit articles on Intellogist? How does this benefit me, exactly?
There are several reasons to contribute to Intellogist:
- Helping to ...
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is increasing the availability of its patent electronic filing system, Electronic Filing System—Web (EFS-Web) by providing a new contingency option when the primary portal to EFS-Web ...
I’ve been reading the new book “Patent Law for Computer Scientists: Steps to Protect Computer Implemented Inventions” (Springer publishing 2010) which was written by European Patent Examiners Daniel Closa, Alex Gardiner, Falk Giemsa, and ...
Today the German Supreme Court (Bundesgerichtshof, BGH) has published the full reasons of the decision in re Xa ZB 20/08 dated April 22, 2010. The decision is related to German patent application DE10232674 filed ...
The Intangible Asset Finance Society recently published Mission: Intangible, a book that advocates the careful stewardship of corporate reputation. Authored by IAFS Executive Secretary Nir Kossovsky with Todd Miller, the book explains how corporate stock ...
The following is excerpted from a May 18, 2010 Intellectual Property Alert by N. Nicole Endejann and Lana A. Gladstein of Pepper Hamilton LLP: The Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act of 2009 (the Act ...
Things are looking worse for Gerald Posner, the author of "Case Closed." After being forced out at the Daily Beast for plagiarism, there have been some more accusations of plagiarism, and of tampering with Wikipedia ...
Takeaway: Can a reference that is silent about a limitation can nonetheless anticipate the limitation? It is possible. It depends on how the reference would be understood by a POSITA, and specifically, what inferences a ...
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