Patent & IP news for June 8, 2010
Patent Litigations
- Innoband, Inc. v. ASO Corp. filed 2010-06-07 in Texas Eastern
- Illumination Management Solutions, Inc. v. Ruud Lighting, Inc. filed 2010-06-07 in Texas Eastern
- Lambda Optical Solutions LLC v. Alcatel Lucent SA et. al. filed 2010-06-04 in Delaware
- Catch Curve, Inc. v. Integrated Global Concepts, Inc. et. al. filed 2010-06-07 in Georgia Northern
- Hickman v. Alderson Court Transcripts Service For The Supreme Court et. al. filed 2010-06-04 in D.C.
- Abbott Laboratories et. al. v. Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. et. al. filed 2010-06-04 in Delaware
- Abbott Laboratories et. al. v. Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd. et. al. filed 2010-06-04 in New Jersey
- New Frontier Advisors, LLC et. al. v. Intuitive Allocations LLC et. al. filed 2010-06-04 in Massachusetts
- McNamara v. Elizabeth Arden, Inc. filed 2010-06-07 in Illinois Northern
- Sternberg et. al. v. Griffin International Companies, Inc. filed 2010-06-04 in Oregon
- Shared Memory Graphics, LLC v. Apple Inc. et. al. filed 2010-06-04 in California Northern
- Littlefuse, Inc. filed 2010-06-07 in Illinois Northern
- McNamara v. Vitamin Shoppe, Inc. filed 2010-06-07 in Illinois Northern
- Freudenberg Filtration Technologies LP v. Camfil AB et. al. filed 2010-06-04 in Kentucky Western
- Activision TV, Inc. et. al. filed 2010-06-07 in Illinois Northern
- Bayer Schering Pharma AG et. al. v. Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. et. al. filed 2010-06-07 in Nevada
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Patent Grants Remain at All-Time High from www.patentlyo.com The USPTO issues patents each Tuesday morning at 12:01 am. In the past several weeks, I have reported on the rising number of patents being issued each week. The past seven-weeks rank as the ...
Are you ethical? Are you any good? Do you really want to know? from ipkitten.blogspot.com Do you provide services relating to IP rights? Do you -- or your clients -- ever wonder if you're any good? If so, read on. The British Standards Institute (BSI) has published on its website a ...
Mr Bruno van Pottelsberghe de la Potterie on 'The Quality Factor in Patent Systems' from www.ipjur.com Mr Bruno van Pottelsberghe de la Potterie is a Senior Research Fellow at Bruegel and Professor at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management (SBS-EM), where he holds the ...
Albanian scrutiny of IP licences: will the burden be lifted? from ipfinance.blogspot.com "IP licences examined through a competition lens" is the title of a recent contribution in International Law Office by Shpati Hoxha (Hoxha Memi & Hoxha, Tirana), on developments in IP commercialisation in Albania. The author writes ...
Lack of Evidence in Patent Reexamination from www.patentspostgrant.com In last week’s discussion on the topic of declaration usage in patent reexamination, we explained the benefit of such evidence in close cases, illustrated by both the dissent and majority comments on the limited ...
Breaking News: Madras HC dismisses Tirupati laddu PIL from spicyipindia.blogspot.com SpicyIP has breaking news that the Madras High Court today dismissed a Public Interest Litigation challenging the registration of Tirupati Laddu as a geographical indication. The Court dismissed the petition observing that alternate remedy of ...
R.I.P. Doctrine of First Sale & Privity in Contract - The Tale of the Publishing Industry & the Delhi High Court from spicyipindia.blogspot.com In 2 peculiar judgments, in the cases of John Wiley & Sons & Ors. v. Prabhat Chander Kumar Jain & Ors. CS (OS) No.1960/2008 and John Wiley & Sons v. International Book Stores & Ors. CS(OS) No ...
Dr Seuss and the USPTO Application Exchange Programme from ipkitten.blogspot.com 
I have been contacted by an eminent member of the UK patent profession that the new application exchange programme at the USPTO (details here) where, in exchange for dropping an active case it is possible ...
June Edition Of IP-Watch Monthly Reporter Now Available from www.ip-watch.org The Intellectual Property Watch Monthly Edition features top news on international IP policymaking, the latest on who is coming and going in the international IP community, news briefs and more. The June edition is now ...
The New Zealand tortoise: should we nip it in the bud? from patlit.blogspot.com In "Has the patent tortoise almost reached the finish line?", New Zealand law firm Simpson Grierson comments on the extremely slow progress of replacing that jurisdiction's ancient Patents Act 1953 with a fresh, new ...
All or Nothing Design Patent Reexaminations: On the Rise? from www.ipwatchdog.com Given the increase in design patent cases being heard by the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in the past two years, it seems an appropriate time to consider trends in design patent reexamination ...
Straight from our Patent Research Community: Advisor Kepler from info.articleonepartners.com Advisor Kepler recently won Study ETRI 029 which related to technology used in a CDMA system. Kepler was kind enough to share his thoughts about Article One Partners and his recipe for success!
I recently ...
Further Adventures in Obviousness and Inequitable Conduct By Kevin E. Noonan -- In Purdue Pharma Products L.P. v. Par Pharmaceutical, Inc., the Federal Circuit exercised its prerogative to illustrate its fractured jurisprudence on two issues ...
Many enjoy football by playing "table football", where the players are on rods running across the board. The earliest patent I can trace for that subject is by Harold Thornton of Crouch End, London,...
(From ...
Last February, Gordon J ruled that there was no copyright in White Pages subscriber listings and (perhaps more surprisingly) Yellow Pages listings. Now, Stone J has applied IceTV (here and here) to find that copyright ...
When it comes to a discussion on the ACTA, the variables remain the same, and not much seems to have changed. The negotiations run their own course, in intermittent phases of secrecy and sudden displays ...
As a large yoga fan (Bikram is my thing—can’t recommend it more highly, in fact thanks to Jordan for positioning our London office right next to a studio) this caught my eye in ...
Robert Dewald is a JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School Technology plays an important role in today’s educational institutions by providing easy access to and distribution of music, art, literature and other information ...
Marvin Isley died in Chicago at age 56.
The Isley Brothers had sued Michael Bolton concerning copyright infringement of Love is a Wonderful Thing and won a jury verdict in 1994 which was upheld by ...
Defendant's motion for satisfaction or modification of a consent judgment following the ITC's determination that the patent-in-suit was invalid was denied. The parties' earlier settlement agreement contained an admission by defendant that the ...
Of the statement by Helen Thomas --“Tell them to get the hell out of Palestine” --, the Washington Times noted:
Her remarks were scarcely reported at first, but when posted on the Drudge Report website at ...
David Brooks' column in this morning's New York Times is a defense of studying the humanities. He talks about the need to hone communications and social skills in this technical age. But he also ...
"Information is the lifeblood of development," says the government of Rwanda in a recently-adopted intellectual property policy, part of the country’s comprehensive development strategy. The new policy attempts to integrate Rwanda into the international ...
Haemonetics, Corp. v. Baxter Healthcare Corp., No. 09-1557, (June 2, 2010)
Haemonetics sued Baxter on a patent relating to a compact blood centrifuge device for separating and collecting components in a liquid such as blood ...
The Silicon Graphics case includes a license issue:
Delaware law governs the Microsoft license. Under
Delaware law, contract interpretation is a legal question.
Honeywell Int’l Inc. v. Air Prods. & Chems., Inc., 872 A.2d ...
There is a simple (and simplistic) mental model of the intangible economy that many carry around with them -- including economists who should know better and journalists and politicians who probably don't. That model is ...
Hear ye hear ye, the Intellogist Report on SureChem has been fully updated and revised!
If you’re not familiar with SureChem, I’ll briefly touch on a couple of interesting developments in this blog ...
“Delay is preferable to error.”The IPO reported this morning that the Bilski v. Kappos opinion will "almost certainly be issued on one of the next three Mondays – June 14, 21, or 28 ...
-- Thomas Jefferson
We are now 211 days removed from oral argument in Bilski v. Kappos. In comparison, KSR v. Teleflex took 153 days. Commentators everywhere are speculating about the reason for the delay. Some are considering it ...
"At no time, not for one second, did commercial interests enter my decision-making," Director General Margaret Chan of the World Health Organization declaration in a letter today defending the organisation's increasingly scrutinised response to ...
On Friday, the PTO published notice of “Enhanced Examination Timing Control Initiative“. The notice provides further details on the PTO proposal on multi-track examination.
The PTO terms the three tracks as: I – Prioritized Examination; II ...
The final step in the establishment of a patent pool under international drug-purchasing mechanism UNITAID was taken today, the UN body announced. Related Articles:
The judges of the Federal Circuit from time to time will swear-in to the Federal Circuit their judicial law clerks. One of the nice aspects of this is that you can tell the genuine appreciation ...
The following is excerpted from anarticleby Law360 staff writer, Nick Brown, published at the Forbes On the Docket blog:
A federal judge has thrown out generic-drug maker Wockhardt Ltd.'s claim that Sepracor ...
The United States follows a first-to-invent rule wherein the first person to invent is awarded a patent. For example, if an inventor can prove that he or she conceived of the invention before someone else ...
In Purdue Pharma v. PAR, the CAFC affirmed a finding of
obviousness.
Of unexpected results to negate the obviousness finding:
According to Par, Purdue presented no
evidence of unexpected results over the Oshlack patent’s ...
Gopal Subramaniam: "Lack of appropriate standards in legal writing and education has unfortunately resulted in a sharp decline in the production of good quality, original legal writing in public space."
Gee, you mean Gary Boone ...
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