Patent & IP news for June 9, 2010
Patent Litigations
- Delaware Capital Formation, Inc. et. al. v. Norgren Automation Solutions, Inc. filed 2010-06-08 in Michigan Eastern
- American Covers v. ICC Innovative Concepts filed 2010-06-08 in Utah
- v. YMax Communications Corp. et. al. filed 2010-06-08 in Florida Southern
- Salient Surgical Technologies Inc. et. al. v. Bovie Medical Corporation filed 2010-06-08 in Delaware
- LSP Technologies Inc v. Metal Improvement Company, LLC filed 2010-06-08 in Ohio Southern
- Silicon Graphics, Inc. v. Ati Technologies, Inc. filed 2010-06-07 in Wisconsin Western
- Prism Technologies v. Adobe Systems Incorporated et. al. filed 2010-06-08 in Nebraska
- Josephs v. Sigma-Aldrich Corporation filed 2010-06-08 in Missouri Eastern
- Seirus Innovative Accessories, Inc. v. Kombi Ltd. et. al. filed 2010-06-08 in California Southern
- Holmberg v. Oregon Scientific, Inc. filed 2010-06-08 in Minnesota
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Nice reference as CIPA plans to entertain from ipkitten.blogspot.com IP TRANSLATOR sounds a strange term for a UK registered trade mark for services in 'Class 41: Education; providing of training; entertainment; sporting and cultural activities.' Funnily enough, this list corresponds exactly to the class ...
Wednesday whimsies from ipkitten.blogspot.com "Purpose-bound protection for DNA sequences: in through the back door?" is the title of a major article in the Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice by Syngenta's Michael A. Kock which contains a critical ...
Timing of the Notice of Allowance, Issue Fee Payment, and Patent Issuance from www.patentlyo.com A Patently-O reader asked a question about the timing of a patent’s issuance and whether the date of issue-fee payment affects the issue date. i.e., whether “the patent will issue on the same ...
The onus on appeal from a trade mark opposition from ipwars.com If there were any doubt about it, the Full Federal Court has confirmed that the person opposing the registration of a trade mark bears the onus of proving a successful ground of opposition on appeal ...
Court Dismisses Dr. Dre’s Lanham Act & Right Of Publicity Claims Against Death Row from www.iptrademarkattorney.com Los Angeles, CA – Dr. Dre sued the new Death Row records for breach of contract, trademark infringement, false advertising, violation of the right of publicity, and unfair competition. Details blogged here, and read the complaint ...
Disturbing the Calm from www.patenthawk.com The BBC is reporting that the "Indian government is planning to patent nearly a thousand yoga postures." Swami Pragyamurti Saraswati is not pleased: "In fact, I'm distressed at the way things have developed in ...
Lights Please from www.patenthawk.com B-K Lighting sued FVC for infringing RE39,084, which claims a mechanism for adjusting the angle of a light fixture. After giving the B-K's expert short shrift, the district court granted summary judgment of ...
Improvements: Learning with the Hitch Mounted Toilet Seat from www.ipwatchdog.com By far, most inventions are improvements upon other known devices or solutions. In fact, whenever I teach patent law courses I tell students that in their career as a patent attorney they are unlikely to ...
By Damian Slizys -- Following the discussion in Patent Docs of the Australian Senate's gene patent inquiry last December (see "Gene Patenting: Australian Potpourri"), we now expect the findings of the Senate enquiry to be ...
By Donald Zuhn -- In March, the District Court for the Southern District of New York found the claims of several of Myriad Genetics patents (directed to the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes) invalid, ruling in favor ...
BRUSSELS - Small fees for internet users could be used to pay musicians and other artists for the dissemination of copyright-protected work online, a Brussels conference has been told. Related Articles:
An often neglected area in British intellectual property is registered designs, where the look of a product is protected. Keeping with my World Cup theme, I had a look at football-related designs in...
(From Steve ...
IPRIA held a public seminar on the Commonwealth Government’s proposals to ban the use of artwork and logos on cigaratte packaging.
The video and Powerpoint packs are now online via here – Prof. Davison advises ...
With Memorial Day now behind us, so much for the vote on S.515 before the holiday. Since Congressman Conyers floated the separate USPTO funding bill there does not appear to be much movement on ...
The SWF file format [Small Web Format" or "Shockwave Flash" ] was created by FutureWave Software, which was acquired by Macromedia, which was acquired by Adobe. It is estimated that over 99% of Web users now ...
As an update to the IPBiz post
"They're back!": patenting sports moves , note
Sport and Intellectual Property, edited by Jacques de Werra.
The book includes a chapter on broadcasting sports rights, the area of ...
Within an account of a university professor catching a student plagiarizing, one finds the following text:
I’d considered designing a course that would focus on rewriting, rephrasing, riffing, and appropriation as real tools of ...
I have long noted that government's have important intangible assets that need to be carefully managed and, in some cases, monetized. Here is a case in point. Yesterday, the Montgomery County Board of Education ...
Stuart Freen is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. While most of the media coverage of Bill C-32 (aka the “Copyright Modernization Act”) has focused on either the increased protection for digital locks ...
Earlier this week nary an Internet patron could glean their RSS feeds in peace when the iPhone 4 news stampede trampled Applephiles and Applephobics alike. Coverage was so rampant that I even thought about getting ...
TriMed, Inc. v. Stryker Corp., No. 09-1423 (June 9, 2010)
TriMed sued Stryker on a patent directed to an implantable device used to set bone fractures. In the first go-around, the district court found non-infringement ...
Why have they not “got it”?
In a post at the end of last year, I wondered why I had got it wrong. I searched for reasons for companies not jumping into IP commercialisation.
However ...
This is a reminder that some companies and individuals are sending out unsolicited mailings to patent applicants and owners of international patents, designs and trade marks asking them to apply for entry in various (sometimes ...
The magistrate judge recommended that the district judge should not recuse himself. "Judge Folsom’s spouse owns stock in [a company that] owns a portion of the defendant. . . . At present, [the third party company] owns ...
The European Patent Office has created a new classification scheme for green technologies and applications related to the mitigation of climate change. The new category, identified as Y02 in the ECLA classification, has two main ...
We’ve discussed before the prevalence of omnibus patent infringement cases in which a single plaintiff sues dozens of defendants whose only connection to one another is that the plaintiff decided to sue them. This ...
The following is excerpted from a June 9, 2010articleby Shara Tibken of Dow Jones Newswires published at The Wall Street Journal online:
Shares of Rambus Inc. (RMBS) slumped Wednesday after a decision in ...
The oral argument of the month for the month of June is Akamai Tech v. Limelight Networks which was argued on Monday. This oral argument is quite interesting — especially if you are dealing with divided ...
Takeaway: An expert declaration under § 1.132 should describe the declarant's background. Furthemore, the BPAI expects specific facts about the background rather than generalizations. The BPAI also expects the declaration to explain how the ...
Takeaway: An expert declaration under § 1.132 should describe the declarant's background. Furthemore, the BPAI expects specific facts about the background rather than generalizations. The BPAI also expects the declaration to explain how the ...
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