Patent & IP news for June 15, 2010
Patent Litigations
- Digital Blue, Inc. v. Advanced Audio Devices, LLC filed 2010-06-11 in Georgia Northern
- Bradley v. L'Oreal USA, Inc. filed 2010-06-14 in Illinois Southern
- Alex and Ani, Inc. v. Max & Chloe, Inc. filed 2010-06-11 in New York Southern
- New Angle Pet Products, Inc. et. al. v. Kingsbridge International, Inc. filed 2010-06-14 in New York Eastern
- Filer, Incorporated v. Staples, Inc. et. al. filed 2010-06-11 in California Central
- DDB Technologies, L.L.C. v. Time, Inc. filed 2010-06-14 in Texas Western
- Millennium, L.P. v. Digitech Systems, Inc. filed 2010-06-11 in New York Southern
- R.A. Phillips Industries, Inc. v. Tramec Corporation filed 2010-06-11 in California Central
- Hallstrom v. Aqua Flora, Inc. et. al. filed 2010-06-14 in California Eastern
- EET Corporation v. C.F.B., Inc et. al. filed 2010-06-14 in Tennessee Eastern
- New Angle Pet Products, Inc. et. al. v. Absolutelynew, Inc. filed 2010-06-14 in New York Eastern
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The Sir Hugh Laddie Chair from ipkitten.blogspot.com The IPKat is delighted to learn that his learned friend Sir Robin Jacob, the senior British intellectual property appeal judge and the scourge of the European Court of Justice, is first to take the ...
No $5.4 Trillion Bounty for False Patent Marking Bounty Hunter from www.ipwatchdog.com Bounty hunters make their living by capturing fugitives from justice for a monetary reward (bounty). A more recent, modern day version of the bounty hunter is one who pursues patentees for false patent marking under ...
Expiration Challenge II from www.1201tuesday.com Today Symbol Technologies -- the company that revived the doctrine of prosecution laches to bring down Lemelson's patents -- received U.S. Patent No. 7,738,865. On the surface, it appears that this patent, like ...
Tafas and GlaxoSmithKline Awarded Jefferson Medal by NJIPLA from www.ipwatchdog.com Dr. Triantafyllos Tafas at Jefferson Medal Award Dinner
On June 4, 2010, the New Jersey Intellectual Property Law Association presented the 2010 Jefferson Medal in honor of exceptional contributions to the field of intellectual property ...
Member of the Month – Society for Advancement of Consulting from ipelton.wordpress.com I am proud to have been selected the “Member of the Month” by the Society for Advancement of Consulting founded by the esteemed Alan Weiss.
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Dow "Bags" a $62M Verdict From Nova Chemicals -- But Will it Hold Up on Appeal? from patent-warrior.blogspot.com 
Dow Chemicals convinced a Delaware jury today to award it $61.7 million in damages in its patent infringement lawsuit against rival Nova Chemicals in a lawsuit which involved Dow's patents for super-strong thin-film ...
Twilight Saga: Bella And Twilight Clothing Unleashes Trademark And Copyright Infringement Lawsuit from www.iptrademarkattorney.com Los Angeles, CA – Summit Entertainment is the producer and distributor of the highly successful Twilight motion picture franchise, including The Twilight Saga: New Moon, and the soon to be released Eclipse. The movies are about ...
Confusing the Property Right with the Implementation of the Property Right from hallingblog.com Many entrepreneurs, inventors, and economists complain about the Patent System and intellectual property rights. However, when you examine their complaints they are often concerned about how the patent system is implemented as opposed to the ...
The requirement for an invention from ipkitten.blogspot.com The IPKat has been taking a look at a new title on an old subject --The Requirement for an Invention in Patent Law, by respected Oxford academic Justine Pila. Justine Pila, an Official Fellow of ...
I never met an inventor who didn’t want to know the value of his inventions. Accounting rules allow intangible assets to be recorded on balance sheets at their ‘highest and best uses’. The highest ...
By Donald Zuhn -- In a press conference held earlier this month, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director David Kappos presented a proposal for a new patent examination initiative -- the "Three-Track" program -- for which the ...
- In a study of 9,500 patent applications that had received a notice of allowance, I found that about 2.3% were abandoned rather than paying the issue fee.
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In yesterday's posting on EDA and incubators, I noted that EDA needs to move beyond a focus on bricks and mortar. They understand that and last month, EDA, along with NIH and NSF, announced ...
I came across the news today that the folks behind the free federated search engine WorldWideScience.org have launched a new (beta) search interface for the tool that will automatically translate keyword queries into multiple ...
The ITC is now going to investigate HTC's claim to determine if Apple products (iPhone, iPad, iPod, etc.) infringe on HTC's patents. This comes after Apple sued HTC for alleged infringement of 20 ...
- NAPP’s Patent Practice YahooGroup – “A Patent Practice Forum exclusively for Members of the National Association of Patent Practitioners. Learn more about NAPP and join today at http://www.napp.org.” (Note: in my opinion ...
The court denied defendants' motion to stay pending reexamination in part, because defendants failed to raise invalidity as a defense and therefore a reexamination would not simplify any issue in the pending litigation. "[T]he ...
Ashlee Froese is an Osgoode Hall alumnus and currently practices intellectual property at the law firm of Keyser Mason Ball LLP. Introduction Interbrand, a well reputed international company whose modus operandi is to analyze global ...
On June 1st Darren Oliver relayed an interesting news item (click here and here for the original article) about the acquisition by Round Rock Research LLC of a portfolio of 4,500 patents from Micron ...
Today, I’d like to share some perspectives on the USPTO’s “Three-Track” proposal for patent examination, which was released for public comment earlier this month. This proposed examination initiative would allow inventors to choose ...
The following table is based on the file histories of 20,000 published patent applications that have been disposed-of.
Technology Center
Non-Final Rejection
Final Rejection
Request for Continued Examination
Restriction Requirement
1600 - Biotechnology and Organic ...
Amanda Carpenter is a JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. On June 2, 2010 the Federal Government of Canada introduced the Copyright Modernization Act (or Bill C-32) that proposes to amend the Copyright Act ...
The Senate Judiciary Committee hearings have not yet been set for Federal Circuit nominees Judge Kathleen O’Malley and Edward DuMont. However, looking through the C-Span video archives, I did run across the confirmation hearing ...
Continuation, divisional and continuation-in-part (CIP) applications are related to the filing of the prior filed patent application by a claim of priority. The prior filed patent application may be referred to as the parent or ...
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