Patent & IP news for May 21, 2010
Patent Litigations
- Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. v. General Electric Co. filed 2010-05-20 in Florida Middle
- Sandoz Inc. v. Boehringer Ingelheim International GMBH et. al. filed 2010-05-19 in Florida Middle
- Medicis Pharmaceutical Corporation v. Nycomed US Inc. et. al. filed 2010-05-19 in Delaware
- Adiscov, L.L.C. v. Autonomy, Inc. et. al. filed 2010-05-17 in Virginia Eastern
- Golden Bridge Technology, Inc. v. AT&T, Inc. et. al. filed 2010-05-20 in California Central
- 3M Company et. al. v. Sperian Protection Americas, Inc. et. al. filed 2010-05-19 in Minnesota
- Network Signatures Inc v. Petsmart Inc filed 2010-05-18 in California Central
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Trade mark ruling muzzles free and honest speech, says Court of Appeal from ipkitten.blogspot.com The IPKat commends the Court of Appeal for England and Wales for the robust terms in which it condemns the foolish, inept and anticompetitive ruling of the Court of Justice of the European Union in ...
USPTO Rising Allowance Rate from www.patentlyo.com The USPTO issued more patents during the past two weeks than in any fortnight in history. A primary driver of that upswing appears to be a dramatic rise in the allowance rate. This change is ...
Startup 2010 Competition - Crowdsourcing wins again! from info.articleonepartners.com Congratulations to "Red Beacon" for winning the SAI Startup 2010 Competition! A panel of VCs selected Red Beacon out of ten promising startups. Having won this competition last year, we know what an exciting achievement ...
Friday fantasies from ipkitten.blogspot.com Friday has come around once again, and with it comes the Kats' weekly plea to readers to check the Forthcoming events side bar. The IPKat's favourite event next week is this year's informal ...
USPTO Makes it Easier to Be Green from greenpatentblog.com 
BC Upham at Triple Pundit has an exclusive report this morning that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is significantly broadening the eligibility requirements for the Green Technology Pilot Program.
Specifically, the USPTO ...
USPTO Expands Green Technology Acceleration Pilot Program from www.ipwatchdog.com In yet another attempt to expedite important patent applications through the examination process the United States Patent and Trademark Office announced earlier today that it is revising its Green Technology Pilot Program. The revision in ...
Patent Applicants: Get Your Attorney on the Phone to the Examiner–NOW!!! from ipassetmaximizerblog.com 
Sieze the Day: Take your patent allowance!
A couple of couple of weeks ago, I wrote a detailed post about how the US Patent Office seems to be in a deal-making mood. Today, Dennis Crouch ...
The USPTO Has A Facebook Page from www.lotempiolaw.com The official United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Facebook page promises to deliver the latest USPTO news, photos and videos.
Through Facebook the USPTO will directly connect with the public and the intellectual property ...
Microsoft vs. Salesforce.com: Troll, Alley Thug or Patent Warrior? from patent-warrior.blogspot.com 
Microsoft doesn't sue people very often for patent infringement -- at least not unless someone else sues them first.
Thus, it was quite an event when Microsoft chose to honor Salesforce.com with a patent ...
A Different Patent Law Proposal: U.S. Utility Models? from anticipatethis.wordpress.com JW Note: This is a repeat of a post we originally wrote in November 2008. However, we’ve been wanting to bring the topic up again ever since we read Hal Wagner’s article titled ...
Newman Says Obviousness is Matter of Foresight Not Hindsight from www.ipwatchdog.com Judge Pauline Newman, CAFC
For most of us patent prosecutors, Judge Newman is our hero. Not only is she “one of us” (former corporate chief patent counsel for FMC Corporation), but, as a Federal Circuit ...
Post Graduate Diploma in IPR & Patent Management by GIIP from spicyipindia.blogspot.com 
We had previously informed you about the Global Institute of Intellectual Property (GIIP) programme on Patent Protection, Enforcement and Management here. This time GIIP brings to you a nine months full time post-graduate diploma programme ...
How much should you invest in patents? from ipfinance.blogspot.com How much should you invest in patents?” ask Kelce Wilson and Claudia Tapia Garcia in a recent edition (XLV, No. 1) of the Licensing Executives Society journal LES Nouvelles. The authors are Senior Patent Attorney ...
By Sarah Fendrick -- The Department of Justice, Federal Trade Commission, and U.S Patent and Trademark Office have announced that they will be holding a joint public workshop on the intersection of patent policy and ...
By Kevin E. Noonan -- On April 29th, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled that the "pay-for-delay" agreement between defendants Bayer AG and several generic drugmakers (including The Rugby Group, Watson ...
By James DeGiulio -- Covidien's Patent for Restoril Found Obvious Covidien PLC suffered a setback in its infringement suit with URL Pharma Inc. after the claims of its patent for sleep aid Restoril were found ...
A lot of publicity has suddenly appeared following Craig Venter's announcement that he has created a synthetic life form. He has put the genome of a bacterium into a cell that can self-replicate,...
(From ...
MUNICH – Whether strengthening patent protection and extending data exclusivity is the way to more innovation in the pharmaceutical and diagnostic sector was the subject of a recent conference here. The third annual trilateral patent conference ...
This week the Federal Circuit issued a non-precedential opinion that provides some insight into what the court considers to be “common sense” in the context of patent application examination. In In re Vaidyanathan (no. 2009-1404 ...
The past year’s expert working group process at the World Health Organization on solutions for financing of research and development into diseases afflicting poor nations was flawed and led to an unsatisfactory result, representatives ...
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 has ...
Prejudice from Stay
The court denied defendants' motion to stay pending the Federal Circuit's decision in Stauffer v. Brooks Bros., 615 F. Supp. 2d 248 (S.D.N.Y. 2009). "If the issue in ...
The court granted defendants' motion for summary judgment of lack of constructive notice where plaintiffs could not establish compliance with the marking requirement. "[E]vidence of current company policy and practice, without any other evidence ...
Nathan Fan is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. At this year’s Canada 3.0 conference, over 2,000 members of the private, public and academic sectors gathered together in hopes of ...
In November, the PTO announced a pilot program where small entity patent applicants could receive special, accelerated patent examination for a pending patent application in exchange for abandoning another unexamined pending application. The program would ...
After an at times bitter week-long debate on the issue of fake and poor quality drugs, member states have decided they will lead the World Health Organization forward towards a resolution on the issue. Related ...
Uwe E. Reinhardt, a noted economics professor, has posted a series of essays at the Economix blog on wealth creation -- the latest being Who Creates the Wealth in Society? In this essay, he expands upon ...
The USPTO is now offering an application exchange program ("Project Exchange") allowing applicants that, prior to the program's inception, had more than one application pending at the USPTO to withdraw one of those applications ...
U.S. Pat. No.6,752,231: Personal transportation system.
I claim:
1. An automotive vehicle having a pair of road wheels each rotatably mounted on a respective one of a pair of axially aligned ...
While many districts have granted and continue to grant stays in patent litigation pending reexamination, several recent rulings from the Eastern District of Texas have held the opposite, with potentially significant implications ...
Patent Lens is a free patent search system from Cambia with a few features that set it apart from its peers. Interesting features include:
- Making the search interface available in Chinese (中文), English, Russian (Русский ...
From Don Chisum & Janice Mueller:
The Chisum Patent Academy will offer its second annual Intensive Patent Law Training Workshop at its offices in Seattle, Washington, on July 29-31, 2010. The workshop will focus on substantive ...
World Health Organization members today took an important step closer to finding new ways to finance research and development into diseases afflicting developing countries. Related Articles:
The CAFC did not back up the BPAI on obviousness rejections:
For claims 1–9, we vacate the rejection and remand
for further examination.
The patent examiner has to set up the obviousness case:
The ...
The Chisum Patent Academy will offer its second annual Intensive Patent Law Training Workshop on on July 29-31, 2010 in Seattle, WA. The workshop will focus on substantive patent law (patentability and enforcement) through analysis ...
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