Patent & IP news for June 7, 2010
Patent Litigations
- Gonzales v. Trimedica International, Inc. filed 2010-06-03 in California Eastern
- Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. v. Zydus Pharmaceuticals Usa, Inc. et. al. filed 2010-06-04 in New Jersey
- SPX Corporation v. Mastercool, U.S.A., Inc. et. al. filed 2010-06-04 in Ohio Northern
- Mad Dogg Athletics, Inc. v. Nautilus, Inc. filed 2010-06-03 in Colorado
- Hunter Douglas, Inc. v. Shanghai Top Euro Textile Co. Ltd. et. al. filed 2010-06-04 in Florida Southern
- Molten Metal Equipment Innovations, Inc. v. Pyrotek Inc. filed 2010-06-04 in Ohio Northern
- Cropley Holdings Ltd. v. Electrolux Home Care Products, Inc. filed 2010-06-04 in Illinois Northern
- Koala T-Products, Inc v. Day Systems Company et. al. filed 2010-06-04 in Iowa Northern
- v. iPhoton Solutions, LLC et. al. filed 2010-06-04 in Texas Northern
- Jovanovich et. al. v. Redden Marine Supply, Inc. filed 2010-06-04 in Washington Western
- Rugged Liner, Incorporated v. CYC Engineering, Inc. et. al. filed 2010-06-04 in Michigan Eastern
- Gonzales v. Palo Alto Labs, Inc. filed 2010-06-03 in California Northern
- Dahl v. V-Bro Products, LLC filed 2010-06-03 in Nebraska
- Jovanovich et. al. v. Seattle Marine & Fishing Supply CO filed 2010-06-04 in Washington Western
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Coexistence and the Omega saga from ipkitten.blogspot.com Although reckoned by some to be a scholar, the IPKat has always had problems remembering which party is which in cases in which the warring faction have the same name. The Chancery Division (England and ...
The US Supreme Court takes on Consumer Arbitration Issue from www.ipadrblog.com In February 2002, Vincent and Liza Concepcion entered into a cellphone agreement with AT&T; Mobility. They had been attracted by AT&T;’s promotion of free cellphones when committing to a two-year contract. Then ...
Indian "Bayh Dole" Amendments: A Historic Moment in Indian IP Policy Making from spicyipindia.blogspot.com 
Ch Unni of the Mint reports on a rather historic moment for IP policy making in this country.
Pursuant to the public outcry against the Indian Bayh Dole bill, a Parliamentary standing committee headed by ...
Six Month Report of Patent Reexamination Requests, Significant Non-Compliance from www.patentspostgrant.com 
As detailed in our May 18, 2010 posting, non-compliant requests for patent reexamination have been increasing at the USPTO. As the Office is now more closely scrutinizing the substance and procedural aspects of requests for ...
Background, Foreground and Sideground IP; Whence, What and Why? from ipkitten.blogspot.com There are certain provisions that are often used in licensing or technology transfer agreements, despite lacking any explicit stautory antecedent. One example that imediately comes to mind is the trio of "covenant not to sue ...
Google Sued for Privacy Violation, Patent App Provides Clues from www.ipwatchdog.com On May 17, 2010, Google, Inc. was sued in the United States Federal District Court for the District of Oregon by Vicki Van Valin and Neil Mertz; the allegations asserting violation of Oregon, Washington and ...
Broken Record, No Bilski for You Today from www.ipwatchdog.com Do you remember back in the day when music came from pointy abrasive means, sometimes referred to as a “needle”? It was placed on a rotatably spinning, substantially circular piece of vinyl with groves disposed ...
Should I Get a Patent on My Invention? from blawgit.com What Is a Patent?
A patent is a legal document. It does not give you the right to make your invention, only the right to prevent others from making, using or selling the invention without ...
Monday miscellany from ipkitten.blogspot.com If you are a junior IP lawyer, want to brush up your IP and fancy an idyllic setting for a few days, you could do worse than sign up for this summer's 10th Annual ...
A Welcoming Home for Inventors from ipfinance.blogspot.com 
Since my apartment is wonderfully cool again, I thought this week I’d focus on northern Europe rather than another island jurisdiction. A few readers had pointed out the tax benefits available to IP owners ...
Director Kappos on Improving Patent Reexaminations from info.articleonepartners.com USPTO Director David Kappos wrote yesterday, in his public USPTO blog, about how critical it is for his office to focus on improving the reexamination process. He wrote:
All hyperbole aside, it is no stretch ...
SpicyIP Tidbit: Yoga Asanas soon to be protected by the TKDL from spicyipindia.blogspot.com Our regular readers (from back in the day!) will remember Shamnad and Shwetasree blogging a series of posts on the "patenting" of Yoga asanas controversy.
While this report from HT suggested that the Government may ...
ACTA: The Fact Controller speaks ... from ipkitten.blogspot.com On Saturday the online Official Journal of the European Union carried the Opinion of the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) on the current negotiations by the European Union of an Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), which ...
Los Angeles, CA – Baby products maker, Munchkin, Inc., wants the Court to rule that its Snack Catcher product does not infringe U.S. Patent No. 6,656,514 (“the ‘514 patent”). It also seeks declaratory ...
Per this press release at the USPTO last week.
USPTO Proposes to Establish Three Patent Processing Tracks
Initiative would provide applicants greater control over the speed of patent examination, reduce pendency and enhance work sharing ...
Defendants' motions to reconsider claim construction were granted. "The Court rejects [plaintiff's] arguments that this Court should ignore the arguments and remarks made to the USPTO during reexamination, particularly in light that its arguments ...
The 47-member Council of Europe wants to become an observer in the governmental advisory body of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and is pondering on a possible role as secretariat provider ...
The UK Intellectual Property Office has created a database for its first "Green Channel" patents. The Green Channel was a initiative in May 2009 by which applicants for "green" patents with...
(From Steve van Dulken ...
Global health authorities have been guilty of "grave shortcomings" in transparency and accountability to the public good in their handling of the pandemic influenza outbreak says a new draft resolution from the intergovernmental Council of ...
Last week the United States Patent and Trademark Office announced that the Office entered into a no-cost, two-year agreement with Google to make bulk electronic patent and trademark public data available to the public in ...
Set aside 10 minutes and watch this video (animation) based upon a short lecture by Daniel Pink on “What Motivates Us.” Great insight!
I added his book “Drive” to my list of books I recommend ...
This month’s Kickstand meeting will cover “Capturing Intellectual Property,” via a presentation lead by Bill Meade and Bob Sesek of BasicIP, an intellectual property consulting firm.
For those of you in Boise, here are ...
The Jackson Laboratory, a biomedical research institution and repository for laboratory mice, won a summary judgment of no patent infringement against The Central Institute for Experimental Animals (CIEA). CIEA, a non-profit Japanese corporation that develops ...
David Kappos recently blogged about the importance of reexamination proceedings. He acknowledges while there are plenty of "jobs locked up in [the] backlog," there are also "lots and lots of jobs riding on the patents ...
Although many of our clients know granted European applications must be validated, a good number of them don't have a strong understanding of the grant and validation process.
For many applicants, especially those in ...
As someone who prepares patent opinions and drafts patent applications, I find the following quotations to be right on point. You might enjoy them, too.
“The specification and claims of a patent, particularly if the ...
Dressed in casual weekend attire with white and blue “WIPO Staff” t-shirts, World Intellectual Property Organization personnel on 5 June gave explanations and guidance on intellectual property rights to the public, while a blimp-shaped balloon ...
Recently, Google entered into a two–year agreement with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) to make trademark and patent bulk data accessible online, free of cost. Google––which has faced significant criticism ...
In Crown Packaging Technology, Inc. v. Reexam Beverage Can Co. (March 17, 2009) the Federal Circuit reiterated that the notice provisions of §287 do not apply where the patent is directed to a process or ...
Haemonetics v. Baxter Healthcare (Fed. Cir. 2010)
This decision is important for its endorsement of the claim construction canon that the internal logic and grammar of an individual claim takes primacy over inter-claim consistency.
Baxter ...
Takeaway: In the recent decision In re Suitco (2009-14, Fed. Cir. 2010), the Federal Circuit found the BPAI's claim construction of a floor "finishing layer" to be unreasonably broad. The BPAI relied on the ...
Dr. Ruth Corbin, Adjunct Professor at Osgoode Hall, and Managing Partner of CorbinPartners Inc., along with the Conference Board of Canada, have won the prestigious 2010 Murray Philp Prize for the project “Intellectual Property in ...
In previous posts (here, here and here) I’ve discussed GE’s wind power patent suits against its Japanese rival Mitsubishi.
Mitsubishi struck back recently with a lawsuit of its own accusing GE of violating ...
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