Patent & IP news for June 2, 2010
Patent Litigations
- Herengracht Group LLC v. Intelligent Products Inc. et. al. filed 2010-06-02 in Florida Southern
- Bayer Schering Pharma AG et. al. v. Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Limited et. al. filed 2010-06-01 in Delaware
- v. Parallel Networks LLC et. al. filed 2010-06-01 in Texas Eastern
- v. Everett Laboratories, Inc. filed 2010-06-01 in Florida Southern
- Herengracht Group LLC v. WM. Wrigley Jr. Company filed 2010-06-01 in Florida Southern
- Condatis LLC v. Audi of America, Inc. et. al. filed 2010-06-01 in Texas Eastern
- Safelite Fulfillment Inc et. al. v. Ramhuset-Dalaspeglar AB filed 2010-06-01 in Ohio Southern
- Lusa Lighting, Inc. v. American Tack & Hardware Co., Inc. et. al. filed 2010-06-01 in California Central
- Minelab Electronics Pty Ltd et. al. v. White's Electronics Inc filed 2010-06-01 in Nevada
- Brown v. Kraft Foods, Inc. filed 2010-06-01 in Missouri Eastern
- Munchkin, Inc. v. Venita Tubbs et. al. filed 2010-06-01 in California Central
- Brown v. Georgia Pacific Corporation filed 2010-06-01 in Missouri Eastern
- August Technology Corporation et. al. v. Camtek Ltd. filed 2010-06-01 in Minnesota
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Wednesday whimsies from ipkitten.blogspot.com The IPKat's poll on background music at IP social events closes tonight at one minute to midnight, British Summer Time. Please, PLEASE vote if you wish to make your voice heard (literally!). For those ...
Spun from www.patenthawk.com Haemonetics sued Fenwal for infringing centrifuge patent 6,705,983. Litigation whirled away all but claim 16 as asserted. District court claim construction defined a "centrifugal unit" as a vessel, even, though the claim preamble ...
Can Inequitable Conduct be Cured Via Patent Reexamination? from www.patentspostgrant.com 
Last Friday two decisions of the Federal Circuit touched upon patent reexamination practices. In this post we will examine the first decision, Leviton Manufacturing Company, Inc. v. Universal Security Instruments, Inc./Shanghai Meihao Electric Inc ...
CAFC Judges Should Be Require to Examine Patent Applications from www.ipwatchdog.com On Friday, May 28, 2010, USPTO Director David Kappos gave five suggestions for practitioners on the Director’s Forum (i.e., the Kappos blog). The first two suggestions caught my attention because they are things ...
An IP Tax Haven Amidst Cool Beaches from ipfinance.blogspot.com 
A couple of weeks ago IP Finance team blogger Jeremy posted this request from a reader seeking information on which countries are good tax havens for intellectual property portfolios. Reader comments and responses pinpointed Luxembourg ...
Please Don't Squeeze the "Cushelle"? from ipfinance.blogspot.com 
I have returned from my annual total immersion in the world of trademarks, also known as the International Trademark Association Annual Meeting. Flush with a plethora of memories, new professional insights, and even a new ...
USPTO Making Bulk Data Available To The Public Via Google -- Hello, EPO, Are You Listening? from www.ipjur.com I just stumbled on an article on techdailydose.nationaljournal.com by Ms Juliana Gruenwald titled PTO Teams With Google On Trademark, Patent Database:
"The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Wednesday announced it has reached ...
Patently-O Bits and Bytes from www.patentlyo.com - Bilski Watch: Dissenting & Concurring Opinions: In discussing the timing of Bilski v. Kappos, several commentators suggested that the delay might indicate (1) that the court will issue multiple opinions (concurrences or dissents); or (2) that ...
Put those vuvuzelas away, here comes FIFA from ipkitten.blogspot.com 
The IPKat has been reading with concern of the latest developments in South Africa, drawn to his attention by Dan Guildford. In "Scramble for sponsorship in 2010", popular football magazine When Saturday Comes (a.k ...
Measuring the Plague of Inequitable Conduct from www.patentlyo.com In Therasense, the en banc Federal Circuit is poised to consider fundamental questions of the law of inequitable conduct. Some members of the court have called the doctrine’s current state a “scourge” and a ...
Kappos: US Economic Security Depends on National IP Strategy from www.ipwatchdog.com Kappos delivers speech at Center for American Progress, 6/2/2010
Earlier today the Center for American Progress hosted a speech given by David Kappos, Undersecretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and the Director of ...
Rather behind the times, I know, I've just noticed a 10 March press release by the UK Intellectual Property Office titled UK and US announce action plan to reduce global patent backlogs. The idea ...
One of the finest scientists India ever produced – APJ Abdul Kalam urges Indian scientists to become pioneers in innovation and technology in his recent speech at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research. He categorically stressed ...
Following news that Dialog is now offering SciPat’s full text database of English machine translations for Chinese patent documents, I’ve been taking a look at some free sources of Chinese patent information on ...
In-house ACCess, "Connecting you to the news & views impacting the in-house counsel community throughout the world" with six authors is planning to ramp up its blog beginning this month. The Association of Coporate Counsel (ACC ...
Here is an interesting news item from Twitter today.
http://www.inthenews.co.uk/news/music/music/force-india-sues-lotus-f1-for-breach-of-intellectual-property-$21378971.htm
Intriguing. Isn’t it. In a market where IP comes and goes fast, season by ...
Last week, the OECD held its 2010 Ministerial meeting and policy forum. The focus of the meetings was on economic recovery and sustained growth. One of the highlights was the release of OECD's Innovation ...
With its oil catastrophe now more than a month old, BP will clearly face major issues in the future as it presumably attempts to restore its image, brand and consumer trust. Of course, the primary ...
The United States government has launched a new initiative it claims will monitor the impact of US federal science investments on employment, knowledge generation and health outcomes. The initiative is led by the National Institutes ...
Haemonetics, Corp. v. Baxter Healthcare Corp.
- “Patent claims function to de-lineate the precise scope of a claimed invention and to give notice to the public, including potential competitors, of the patentee’s right to exclude ...
If an authority grants two patents for the same invention to the same applicant, that is double patenting. In most European states the law requires that one of the patents must cease. Since it started ...
The World Intellectual Property Organization is opening its doors to the public on Saturday for a glimpse at the organisation’s activities, during its first-ever “open day.” Related Articles:
The allowance rate is significantly on the rise. PatentlyO recently discussed this trend and cited an increase from under 50% to around 65% over the past few months.
While it is unclear what the actual ...
Today two separate search engines for intellectual property rights were announced in Geneva and Washington, DC, both of which have the potential to significantly ease searches for patents, trademarks and other IP. The World Intellectual ...
The court sua sponte struck defendant's affirmative defense to plaintiff's false marking claim. "[Defendant] states that the United States is an indispensable party to this action. But that is at odds with 35 ...
In a report yesterday, Bloomberg shed light on what PatentFreedom is calling the 2nd largest NPE in the country. Second, of course, to Intellectual Ventures. John Desmarais, a former big-firm lawyer and defender of large ...
Via this press release, the USPTO and Google have teamed up to distribute bulk USPTO data via a Google page: http://www.google.com/googlebooks/uspto.html.
The good news: easier access to USPTO data ...
WIPO Gold - yesterday, WIPO launched "WIPO Gold", a free, on-line global IP reference resource that provides simplified access to a broad collection of searchable IP data and tools relating to, for example, technology, brands, designs ...
Takeaway: In deciding obviousness, it matters a lot how you frame the number of possible options. Choosing between two options is probably obvious. Choosing between an infinite number is almost certainly not. In the recent ...
Professor Giuseppina D’Agostino is the Founder and Director of IP Osgoode. At long last, the Canadian Federal Government today introduced the Copyright Modernization Act (or Bill C-32), the much-awaited copyright reform bill. The bill ...
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