Patent & IP news for May 24, 2010
Patent Litigations
- TriStrata Technology Inc. v. Control Corrective Skincare Inc. et. al. filed 2010-05-20 in Delaware
- St. Clair Intellectual Property Consultants Inc. v. Hewlett-Packard Company filed 2010-05-20 in Delaware
- Bird Brain, Inc. et. al. v. Carson Industries, d/b/a Carson Home Accents filed 2010-05-21 in Michigan Eastern
- Microsoft Corporation v. Phoenix Solutions, Inc. filed 2010-05-21 in California Central
- Imperial Toy LLC et. al. v. SBA Toys USA, Inc. et. al. filed 2010-05-20 in California Central
- Crown Equipment Corporation v. I.D. Systems, Inc. filed 2010-05-21 in Ohio Southern
- Axcess International, Inc. v. Savi Technologies, Inc. filed 2010-05-21 in Texas Northern
- Automated Transactions LLC v. First Niagara Financial Group, Inc. et. al. filed 2010-05-21 in New York Western
- Huntair, Inc. v. Greenheck Fan Corp. filed 2010-05-21 in Wisconsin Western
- Imperial Toy LLC v. SBA Toys USA, Inc. et. al. filed 2010-05-20 in California Central
- Cherdak v. Nordstrom, Inc. filed 2010-05-21 in Virginia Eastern
- Carson Cheng et. al. v. AIM Sports, Inc. et. al. filed 2010-05-20 in California Central
- Raytheon Company v. Technosoft, Inc. filed 2010-05-21 in Arizona
- Schroeder & Tremayne, Inc. v. Just Perfect, Inc. filed 2010-05-21 in Missouri Eastern
- Microlog Corp. v. Continental Airlines, Inc. et. al. filed 2010-05-21 in Texas Eastern
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Free Intellectual Property Law App Now Available for iPhone from ipelton.wordpress.com Free Intellectual Property Law App Now Available for iPhone
Falls Church, VA, May 22, 2010 –(PR.com)– Erik M. Pelton & Associates, PLLC, today announced the release of Apptorney: IP, a free iPhone® application for intellectual ...
The Gap: Being What You Know and Being Who You Are from www.ipadrblog.com Cultivating Qualities of Being
Introduced here in my first post as having a “contemplative law practice,” a few friends politely inquired – what is a “contemplative law practice,” and what does that have to do with ...
Progress from ipkitten.blogspot.com Here's the fourth and final contribution in a series of four short pieces by the IPKat's friend Keith Braithwaite (read the prologues to pieces one, two and three for the background) on the ...
Levi Strauss Sues Gardeur Over Pocket Stitching Designs On Jeans from www.iptrademarkattorney.com San Francisco, CA – Clothing and jeans giant Levi Strauss owns several USPTO registered trademarks for its arcuate stitching design initially used in 1873, which it alleges is the oldest known clothing trademark in the United ...
Continuing the post-mortem of the Patent Office's Order in the Valcyte case: The workings of the Opposition Board from spicyipindia.blogspot.com In response to my earlier post on the procedural issues in the Valcyte post-grant opposition I received unconfirmed information, from parties familiar with the matter, that the recommendations of the Opposition Board were not even ...
Breaking News: American Needle v NFL from ipkitten.blogspot.com 
Breaking News: The Supreme Court didn't deliver Bilski today but they did unanimously decide that American Needle's important IP and anti-trust lawsuit against the NFL can proceed (see decision here).
In brief, a ...
The Wait Continues: Another Day Without a Bilski Decision from www.ipwatchdog.com After 6 months and 15 days we still wait for a decision in Bilski v. Kappos, perhaps the most anticipated Supreme Court patent decision of all time. It is now 10:50 am Eastern Time ...
Federal Circuit Reverses BPAI's Claim Interpretation from www.grayonclaims.com In re Vaidyanathan (Fed. Cir. May 19, 2010) (nonprecedential)
The Federal Circuit vacated the BPAI's rejection of two claims as the BPAI's interpretation of the claims "finds no support in the [application] specification ...
Patent Slips on Non-Slip Surface from www.patenthawk.com Microthin.com sued SiliconeZone computer mouse pad patents 5,942,311 & 5,997,995, which claim "a thin, non-slip mat or pad made of plastic" and a method of making the same, respectively. After claim ...
Shielding an Expert Declarant in Patent Reexamination from Deposition in Concurrent Litigation? from www.patentspostgrant.com Unlike pre-grant patent prosecution, the submission of declaration evidence under 37 CFR 1.131/132 in patent reexamination is not only common, but the norm. This is due to the fact that there are no ...
Supreme Court Refuses Microsoft Appeal in Alcatel-Lucent Case from www.ipwatchdog.com Earlier today the United States Supreme Court denied Microsoft Corporation’s petition for writ of certiorari in Lucent Technologies, Inc. v. Gateway, Inc. et al, with Microsoft being among the “et al.” The case dealt ...
By Sherri Oslick -- About Court Report: Each week we will report briefly on recently filed biotech and pharma cases. Medicis Pharmaceutical Corp. v. Nycomed US Inc. et al. 1:10-cv-00419; filed May 19, 2010 in ...
Patent Baristas look at rule changes introduced by IP Australia to stop patent applicants circumventing the $100 surcharge for each claim in a patent in excess of 20 claims.
Read on here with links to ...
Included within a discussion of the last episode of "Law & Order" [ Rubber Room ] is the line
"Law & Order" has become, to be as unromantic as possible about it, a triumph of what is now popularly ...
Plaintiff's complaint alleging expired patents as the basis for a false marking claim did not fail to state a claim under 35 USC § 292. "[Defendant] contends that its challenged articles are not 'unpatented' because ...
Here is a tidbit from a new report from the Booz & Company magazine Strategy+Business -- Growth through Focus: A Blueprint for Driving Profitable Expansion (registration required):
Too often, when companies rationalize and focus, they slash ...
Neel Mason,a Managing Partner of Mason & Associates, with over 13 years of practice in IP matters has written for our readers, this excellent guest-post on the impact of the Copyright Amendment Bill, 2010 on ...
On May 21, 2010, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office announced that it would open up its Green Technology Pilot Program to patent applications that cover additional technology categories. Under the Pilot Program, an ...
In Crocs v. ITC, the Federal Circuit overturned an ITC ruling on whether or not imitation shoes based on the Crocs design infringed both design and utility patents Crocs held. The ITC had originally ruled ...
As we alluded to in our last blog post, the cost of translation work can be a crippling factor when it comes to seeking patent protection. When looking to outsource your translation work, you should ...
The following is excerpted from a May 24, 2010 DDB Technologies press release published at BusinessWire: DDB Technologies, L.L.C. (“DDB”) continues to enforce its patent portfolio within the interactive sports broadcasting market. AOL ...
The CAFC concludes:
The elements of equitable estoppel were established
without material factual dispute, and the district court did
not abuse its discretion in weighing the equities. We affirm
the district court’s ruling that ...
from the decision:
Count VIII alleged a “breach of fiduciary duty by John
Doe I [patent attorney] in violation of 35 U.S.C. et seq., 37 CFR et seq., and
the Manual of Patent ...
- Trademark / Antitrust: The Supreme Court has ruled against the National Football League (NFL) in an antitrust suit involving the NFL's exclusive apparel licensing deal with Reebok/Adidas. The court held that the NFL was ...
Aspex Eyewear Inc. v. Clariti Eyewear, Inc.
- “In the context of patent infringement, the three elements of equitable estoppel that must be established are: (1) the patentee, through misleading conduct, led the alleged infringer to ...
Chief Judge Paul Michel will be retiring from the bench later this month after more than twenty-two years on the bench and five as the chief judge. He recently offered his annual “state of the ...
I have received a response to my recent post Reducing Patent Pendency. The following was received from Peter C. Pappas, Chief Communications Officer & Senior Advisor to the Under Secretary for Intellectual Property:
I wanted to ...
Discussions of patent litigation here and elsewhere often focus on the practices and prevalence of non–practicing entities (or patent trolls), i.e., businesses that own patents but don’t use them for anything other ...
It was bound to happen sooner or later, what with the steady advance of social networking. First the Director's Blog, now the Office has a Facebook page.
After perusing the thing for a bit ...
Last month, I had the honor of being one of five speakers at a seminar in San Francisco sponsored by the Global Innovation Forum and ACT’s Innovators Network where invited guests included Bay Area ...
Ashlee Froese is an Osgoode Hall alumnus and currently practices intellectual property at the law firm of Keyser Mason Ball LLP. For the first time since 2006, the Supreme Court of Canada (”SCC”) has been ...
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