Patent & IP news for May 20, 2010
Patent Litigations
- MeadWestvaco Corporation et. al. v. Rexam PLC et. al. filed 2010-05-18 in Virginia Eastern
- Specnor Technic Corp. v. Speedline Technologies, Inc. filed 2010-05-18 in Florida Middle
- United States Of America et. al. v. Glaxosmithkline Consumer Healthcare, Lp et. al. filed 2010-05-18 in Pennsylvania Western
- Southern Mills, Inc. v. Polartec, LLC filed 2010-05-17 in Georgia Northern
- Whelen Eng Co Inc v. Emergency Tech Inc et. al. filed 2010-05-17 in Connecticut
- Master Craft Products Corp. v. Potpourri Group Inc. et. al. filed 2010-05-17 in New Jersey
- Network Signatures Inc v. The Home Depot Inc filed 2010-05-18 in California Central
- Fowler Woods LLC v. AccuRadio, Inc. et. al. filed 2010-05-19 in Texas Eastern
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Microsoft Just can’t Catch a Break in Patent Reexamination from www.patentspostgrant.com Parallel Networks Case Moves Forward in Marshall Texas Despite Pending Appeal of Patent Reexaminations
As if the i4i issue wasn’t enough of a Texas debacle for Microsoft on May 10, 2010, Judge David Folsom ...
Structurally Similar Drug with Different Biological Properties Meets Criteria for Term Extension from www.patentbaristas.com After the US Patent and Trademark Office denied a patent term extension under 35 U.S.C. §156, to Metvixia® — with an active ingredient methyl aminolevulinate hydrochloride — Photocure ASA sought a do-over in district court ...
CEO of Article One is at Startup 2010 Today from info.articleonepartners.com A year ago, Article One Partners won the 2009 Startup of the Year at Silicon Alley Insider's annual conference. Today, our momentum continues with more and more clients using our model of crowdsourcing patent ...
High Court allows appeal in Barefoot case from ipwars.com E & J Gallo owns TM No 787765, BAREFOOT, for “wines” in class 33. It had acquired ownership of the trade mark by assignment in 2005 from a Mr Houlihan.
Lion Nathan introduced a new beer ...
USPTO: give one up, get one fast from ipkitten.blogspot.com As every patent applicant knows, some inventions are worth more than others. Some applications should lead to granted patents as quickly as possible, while with others, the applicant is quite happy that they linger in ...
Germany: liability for an unsecured private WiFi network from ipkitten.blogspot.com An interesting case has been decided by the German BGH on 12 May 2010. A private individual left his home WiFi router unsecured (on factory default settings). Someone downloaded a copyright protected piece of music ...
JCVI Creates World’s First Genetically Engineered Self-Replicating Synthetic Bacterial from www.ipwatchdog.com J. Craig Venter, PhD., Founder, Chairman & President of JCVI
Researchers at the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI), a not-for-profit genomic research organization, recently published results describing the successful construction of the first self-replicating, synthetic bacterial ...
USPTO Eliminates Patent Prosecution Highway Petition Fee from www.patentabilityblog.com The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) today announced it would eliminate the fee for the petition to participate in Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) programs. The elimination of the PPH petition fee is expected ...
USPTO Signs PPH Deal With China; USPTO Eliminates PPH Fee from www.ipwatchdog.com The United States Patent and Trademark Office today announced two news items relative to its efforts to expand international work sharing arrangements. First, On May 19, 2010, USPTO Director David Kappos and China’s State ...
By Donald Zuhn -- The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office announced today that it is providing a new contingency option for its electronic filing system (EFS-Web) for use when the primary portal to the EFS-Web ...
By Kevin E. Noonan -- At the end of last month, the U.S. Trade Representative, Ron Kirk, issued the 2010 Special 301 Report, which according to the USTR website "reflects the Administration's resolve to ...
Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) is organizing a Seminar on “Proposed Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) and TRIPS: Issues and Implications” on 28 May, 2010 at FICCI,New Delhi. As we are ...
A battle broke out yesterday at the World Health Organization over whether it should continue its relationship with an in-house anti-counterfeiting law enforcement and customs group, and what that decision might mean for the role ...
In March a report came out by Sir James Dyson, inventor and designer of the dual cyclone vacuum cleaner. It was called Ingenious Britain: Making the UK the leading high tech exporter in Europe. It ...
In a post titled With Overhaul of Patent Law Stalled, House To Consider Narrower Bill, CQ Politics discusses a limited-scope patent reform bill of
Congressman Conyers, the House Judiciary Chairman.
The problem is that a ...
from Nanowerk post, titled: From beams to buckyballs - setting the stage for the nanotechnology revolution-->
Curl said Smalley initially showed little interest in pursuing the experiment, but Curl thought Kroto's ideas had merit. "My ...
Starting in 1996, and with growing frequency over the last decade, a company called Eon–Net, L.P. and two related entities filed over 100 lawsuits against a wide range of businesses, alleging infringement of ...
A battle broke out yesterday at the World Health Organization over whether it should continue its relationship with an in-house anti-counterfeiting law enforcement and customs group, and what that decision might mean for the role ...
© 2010, Michael E. Kondoudis
The USPTO has announced a new plan to increase the availability of its patent electronic filing system, EFS-Web, by providing a new contingency option when the primary portal to EFS-Web experiences ...
There is no evidence that the work of the World Health Organization has been misled or misled its members on the issue of fake or dangerous drugs, representatives of the UN organisation told journalists today ...
Many thanks to Pranesh Prakash of CIS for bringing to our attention this public notice by the Parliamentary Standing Committee examining the Copyright Amendment Bill, 2010 that was introduced in the Rajya Sabha in the ...
There is a new paper on the role of bank loans in innovation -- Beg, Borrow, and Deal? Entrepreneurship and Financing in New Firm Innovation by Sheryl Smith of Temple University. Using data from Kauffman Firm ...
A 2008 landmark decision at the World Health Organization approved a new Global Strategy and Plan of Action on Public Health, Innovation and Intellectual Property. Precious Matsoso, the current director of the programme, spoke to ...
DAMAGES
The changes proposed to 35 U.S.C. § 284 seem to be done with the intention of increasing the predictability of damages in patent litigation. 35 U.S.C. § 284 currently gives courts significant ...
Michael John Long is an LLM candidate advancing to the PhD at Osgoode Hall Law School In their recent article, Copyright as Tort, authors Avihay Dorfman and Assaf Jacob argue towards a more comprehensive tort ...
AWall Street Journal article discusses how a number of European companies are delisting from US stock exchanges. The article points out that cost of complying with US law is outweighs any benefits derived by ...
There is a new blog setting out information about patent goings-on in Europe. According to the EPLAW Patent Blog, it aims to be a top-quality, free, independent European blog on patent law, providing speedy access ...
The court granted plaintiff's motion to exclude the testimony of defendant's inequitable conduct expert. "[Defendant] does not identify a single case where [its expert] opined on whether a patent applicant committed inequitable conduct ...
© 2010, Michael E. Kondoudis
There are many advantages to filing applications via the USPTO’s electronic filing system (EFS-Web). One practical advantage is that the USPTO measures the size of an electronically filed application differently ...
A new conference paper has been submitted to the World Health Assembly committee addressing the World Health Organization work on counterfeit and substandard medicines. It offers a way forward on this week's most controversial ...
The EPO recently announced that US assignment data will be updated weekly instead of bimonthly in the INPADOC legal status database, which also means that it will be available via esp@cenet.
The data will ...
IP Valuation is not an exact science and the cold rationality of classical economics often fails at giving a value to items of Intellectual Property that satisfies owners and buyers equally. In the specific case ...
The latest draft is now available from the Swiss chair overseeing a small side group at the World Health Assembly trying to work out how to take forward a landmark initiative within the UN agency ...
The latest draft is now available from the Swiss chair overseeing a small side group at the World Health Assembly trying to work out how to take forward a landmark initiative within the UN agency ...
The plaintiffs, The Board of Regents of the University of Texas System and Hydro-Québec filed their Second Amended Complaint and Jury Demand against defendants, А123 Systems, Inc. (“А123”) and Black & Decker Corporation on May 19 ...
The Federal Court of Justice ("Bundesgerichtshof") is the supreme court (court of last resort) in all matters of law in Germany. Recently, the Court was asked to evaluate whether a client-server system, configured to dynamically ...
Per the press release:
USPTO Launches Page on FacebookAgency’s profile will deliver the latest news, photos and videos from the USPTO
Washington – The Department of Commerce’s United States Patent and Trademark Office ...
A few days ago, I was surprised when I was told that our Patents Act provides the same kind of grace period that the US Patents Act provides to its inventors/patent applicants. Section 102 ...
With the CAFC’s decision in Perfect Web Technologies, Inc. v. InfoUSA, Inc., 2009-1105 (Fed. Cir. Dec. 2, 2009), it struck me that the court was easing away from its precedent in In re Zurko ...
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