Patent & IP news for May 25, 2010
Patent Litigations
- Nycomed Us Inc. et. al. v. Tolmar, Inc. filed 2010-05-21 in New Jersey
- Genzyme Corporation v. Sandoz Inc. filed 2010-05-21 in Delaware
- Accession, Inc. v. Radio Systems Corporation filed 2010-05-24 in New Jersey
- Genzyme Corporation v. Watson Laboratories, Inc. filed 2010-05-24 in Maryland
- Golden Bridge Technology Inc. v. AT & T Inc. et. al. filed 2010-05-21 in Delaware
- Johnson v. Techtronic Industries North America, Inc. et. al. filed 2010-05-24 in California Eastern
- Alexx, Inc. filed 2010-05-24 in California Eastern
- Hariguchi v. Netlogic Microsystems, Inc. et. al. filed 2010-05-21 in California Northern
- 3M Innovative Properties Company et. al. v. TransWeb LLC filed 2010-05-21 in Minnesota
- Eades Appliance Technology, LLC v. Preston Industries, Inc. filed 2010-05-24 in Nevada
- Mobile Merchandisers, Inc. v. Rack's, Inc. filed 2010-05-24 in Washington Western
- Weber-Stephen Products Co. v. Bond Manufacturing Co. filed 2010-05-24 in Illinois Northern
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INTA day 1 from ipkitten.blogspot.com 
The IPKat's Monday activities at INTA commenced with registration at 7.30am, followed by the rituals of collecting the attendee goody bag and the securing of as many ribbons as possible to wear on ...
Tracking the recession by industry from www.athenaalliance.org This morning, BEA released industry-specific data on the recession. According to the press release,
Downturns in durable-goods manufacturing and finance and insurance and a continued contraction in construction were the leading contributors to the downturn ...
NBC “Harry’s Law” Trailer. from anticipatethis.wordpress.com JW Note: Hat tip to Professor Crouch at Patently-O, who also identified the best quote (from a patent attorney’s standpoint, anyhow) being about 30 seconds into the clip.
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Business of Software: How to Develop Tools for Patent Lawyers from www.ipwatchdog.com If you ever thought of starting a patent software company, I have some good news for you. Unlike the general software markets for, say, antivirus or mp3 software, the legal software market is just not ...
INTA day 2 from ipkitten.blogspot.com The IPKat's day began at the Boston office of Fish & Richardson, where a veritable army of concerned practitioners gathered for breakfast and, more importantly, a chance to discuss latest developments regarding the Madrid Protocol ...
The Synthia Saga: CIPA fights back from ipkitten.blogspot.com The Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys (CIPA) in the United Kingdom has already issued a response to the Professor Sulston's rant over the patentability (or otherwise) of Craig Venter's Synthia synthetic life form ...
Patent Bill We Can Support from hallingblog.com According to Computer World John Conyers Jr., a Michigan Democrat and chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, and Lamar Smith of Texas, the ranking Republican on the committee introduced a patent bill that eliminates fee ...
John, Craig and Synthia from ipkitten.blogspot.com You just can't keep everyone happy when it comes to patents, it seems. The criticisms of the system for protecting life forms have long been known and articulated, and these have led to checks ...
M/s Godrej Sara Lee Ltd. v. Reckitt Benckiser Australia Pty. Ltd: Jurisdiction 'Designed' to err? from spicyipindia.blogspot.com 
(Image taken from http://myows.com/blog/kopykat-file-1-im-not-stealing/)
This case involves an appeal filed against an order of the Controller of Patents & Designs, Kolkata under Section 19(1) of the Designs Act, 2000, canceling registered ...
Debating the law of patent opposition: An appeal by any other name would smell just as sweet? from spicyipindia.blogspot.com 
As our older readers are aware, we have done several posts on the Patent Office, the Patent Office procedures, and more recently decisions of Courts that affect the Patent Office procedure.
The UCB Farchim decision ...
M.S.M. Satellite v. Star Cable Network: Piracy receives yet another 'interim' blow from spicyipindia.blogspot.com 
(Image taken from here)
In the case of M.S.M. Satellite Singapore Pte Ltd. v Star Cable Network & Others [F.A.O. (OS) 211/2010] the Appellant M.S.M. had a wholely-owned-subsidiary Multi ...
By Donald Zuhn -- Last month, in Vanderbilt Univ v. ICOS Corp., the Federal Circuit affirmed a decision of the District Court for the District of Delaware finding that Plaintiff-Appellant Vanderbilt University had failed to prove ...
The Canadian Federal Court of Appeal has ruled that no royalty is payable for downloads (should that be “streaming”?) of those 30 second previews of music. Apparently, it falls with the fair dealing provisions for ...
Neel Mason, Managing Partner of Mason & Associates, who has previously blogged for us, over here, has sent us this equally insightful piece on the proposed amendments to 'Cover Recordings' in the Copyright Act, 1957. For ...
Reexamination allows the USPTO to reconsider the patentability of at least one claim of an existing patent. Congress intended reexaminations to provide an important quality check on patents that would allow the government to remove ...
The magistrate judge recommended granting defendant's alternative motion to transfer venue of plaintiff's false marking case to the defendant's home venue. "[T]he convenience of the parties strongly favors a transfer. . . . [P ...
smar(tm)ark newsletter from Erik M. Pelton & Associates, PLLC 1.3 : May 2010 smar(tm)ark brand and trademark newsletter from Erik M. Pelton & Associates, PLLC In This Issue Trademark Tip Trademarks in the ...
The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has recently agreed to an en banc review of the litigation between TiVo and Dish Network. TiVo's seemingly endless patent dispute is a perfect illustration of ...
Ok, so I wasn’t there, don’t know the context and I know and it isn’t particularly a politically correct thing to do, but it did make me smile in today’s news ...
On a more IP and serious note, there is a good exchange of views on the merits and demerits of patents being filed on synthetic life on the BBC website today. http://news.bbc.co ...
We all know that the legal element of patent searching can add an interesting twist onto scientific and technical literature searches. Those of us in the Intellogist community who do lots of validity investigations, for ...
On 12 may 2010, the Enlarged Board of Appeal of the European Patent Office (EPO) issued its opinion G3/08 on the referral of 22 October 2008 by the President of the EPO on the ...
by Mark Malek The United States Supreme Court recently heard the case of In re Bilski in which the court was asked to make a determination of what is and what is not patentable subject ...
Aspex Eyewear Inc. v. Clariti Eyewear, Inc., No. 2009-1147 (Fed. Cir., 2010)
In March 2003, Aspex sent Clariti a letter identifying 4 Aspex patents relating to magnetically attachable lenses and stating "[i]t is our ...
Here is an interesting quote from a story in today's Washington Post:
"We've lost a bucketload of money to foreigners because they have brands and we don't," complained Fan Chunyong, the secretary ...
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 ...
I thought this was humorous comment by Judge Plager during the oral argument of Orion IP, LLC v. Hyundai Motor America, 2009-1130 (Fed. Cir. May 17, 2010), : “We’re a court of errors. We don ...
We are pleased to announce our new office in Munich, Germany and the appointment of Wolfgang Danner as Senior Director, Business Development.
“Germany files more PCT applications than any other country in Europe – 15,000 ...
Bestriding the narrow IP world like a Colossus, Microsoft is always in the news when it comes to patent lawsuits––and this week is no exception.
Previous columns have focused both on Microsoft’s frequent ...
Orion IP v. Hyundai Motor America (Fed. Cir. 2010)
Orion sued Hyundai and twenty other automobile manufacturers for infringement of its patent covering a “computer-assisted parts sales method.” The invention took computer and database technology ...
By Josh Lawler and Thomas F. Zuber || In a controversial decision, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York has held that neither isolated DNA nor methods directed toward identifying mutations ...
Excerpted from a May 18, 2010 press release at PRLog: 2009 ushered in several interesting cases which indicate a significant shift in the thinking of the courts regarding patent infringement damages, and specifically, the entire ...
Columbia student Brian Corman copied from comedian Patton Oswalt in his valedictorian speech. Corman's speech was "up" on YouTube but then it went down, faster than you could say Wheatoned Curry.
Oswalt twittered and ...
The general rule is that the term of a patent is 20 years upon filing or 17 years upon issuance depending on the date that it was filed and whether it was enforceable on June ...
Although Poltorak labels S.515 as a compromise between IT and pharma, one notes IT is flexing its muscles in the House to deep six S.515.
It is true that independent inventors and university ...
Robert Dewald is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School On May 12, 2010 the Enlarged Board of Appeal of the European Patent Office (EPO) responded to several questions posed by the President of ...
PatLit has never been particularly happy about the use of the term 'patent troll' to describe a patent proprietor who, while not manufacturing anything himself, seeks to enforce a patent by collecting a rent for ...
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