Patent & IP news for June 16, 2010
Patent Litigations
- Medicis Pharmaceutical Corporation v. Mylan Inc. et. al. filed 2010-06-14 in Delaware
- Martin Engineering Company v. ASGCO Mfg., Inc. filed 2010-06-15 in Illinois Central
- Bayer Schering Pharma Ag et. al. v. Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. et. al. filed 2010-06-15 in Illinois Northern
- Allergan, Inc. v. Apotex, Inc. et. al. filed 2010-06-15 in Texas Eastern
- Video Enhancement Solutions, L.L.C. v. Denon Electronics (USA), L.L.C. et. al. filed 2010-06-14 in California Central
- Infection Prevention Technologies, LLC v. Uvas, LLC et. al. filed 2010-06-15 in Michigan Eastern
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Nanofutures – the future of Nanotechnology IP? from www.tangible-ip.com It’s been a couple of interesting days in Oviedo, Spain, at the first Nanofutures conference launching the European Technology Integration and Innovation Platform (ETIP) in Nanotechnology. The ETIP is designed to be Europe’s ...
Rambus shares nosedive on court news from ipfinance.blogspot.com It's been rather interesting to follow Rambus stock market fortunes over the past few months (a chart is available over at Yahoo Finance here). Much of the movement over the past few weeks has ...
Overheated dairy warriors back in court from ipkitten.blogspot.com Last year the IPKat reported on a fiercely-contested preliminary skirmish in the battle of the dairies in JN Dairies Ltd v Johal Dairies Ltd, Gurbir Singh, where a scheduled four-day hearing took twice as long ...
The Innovation Olympics from ipkitten.blogspot.com It's time for another set of company rankings. This time the purveyor is Bloomberg Business Week (April 29th issue) and the ranking is "The 50 Most Innovative Companies." At a macro level, innovation can ...
Time up for qui tam trolls? from patlit.blogspot.com Recent 'false marking' cases in the United States have drawn attention to what seems to be a productive little cottage industry in the field of patent litigation, where anyone -- regardless of their commercial interest -- can ...
Wednesday whimsies from ipkitten.blogspot.com If you want to know why there have been so many empty seats in this year's World Cup matches, perhaps the answer lies here. According to the BBC, world football supremos Fifa are considering ...
Paparazzi Photo Kills Ford Design in Patent Reexamination from www.patentspostgrant.com 
In a strange twist of fate, a Ford design patent was recently invalidiated in patent reexamination based upon a spy photo. In an appeal before the BPAI, (ex parte Ford Global Technologies, 90/007,640 ...
Unreleased from www.patenthawk.com Database monolith Oracle tried to put a DJ hurt on 5,894,554 as invalid and/or unenforceable. Patent owner epicRealm counterclaimed infringement, then passed the torch to Parallel Networks to carry on. '554 goes ...
Replication Error from www.patenthawk.com Wordtech sued a school district in California, and Integrated Networks Solutions (INSC), along with four INSC employees, for infringing CD copier patents 6,141,298; 6,532,198; and 6,822,932. The school district ...
June 16, 2010: 30th Anniversary of Diamond v. Chakrabarty from www.ipwatchdog.com Ananda M. Chakrabarty
On June 16, 1980, 30 years ago today, the United States Supreme Court issued its landmark patentable subject matter decision in the case of Diamond v. Chakrabarty, which held that living matter ...
Emotion and Anecdotes Should Not Drive Patent Policy Debate from www.ipwatchdog.com President Theodore Roosevelt, the Trust Buster
Emotion and anecdotes unfortunately drive the debate on IP policy, particularly patent policy, because most people are suspicious and predisposed against monopolies. That is certainly understandable, at least in ...
USPTO Seeks Change Patent Examiner Performance Standards from www.ipwatchdog.com Changes will mark the first updates to standards in nearly 25 years
WASHINGTON – Management at the United States Patent and Trademark Office has been working with representatives of the patent examiners union, the Patent Office ...
First the ethics, now the misconduct ... from patlit.blogspot.com First it's patent litigation ethics, now it's plain misconduct -- is this the hand of coincidence at work or is there someone at Oxford University Press who is out to stir the consciences of ...
By Andrew Williams -- Last month, in Photocure ASA v. Kappos, the Federal Circuit affirmed the decision by the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia that methyl aminolevulinate hydrochloride ("MAL hydrochloride"), brand ...
Apple keeps on coming out with interesting patent applications. I am indebted to the free newspaper Metro on the 14 June for an item titled "Apple eyes the power of the sun" (a title which ...
A month ago, in "Reputations and Bottom Lines", I mentioned the publication of Mary Adams' and Michael Oleksak's new book Intangible Capital: Putting Knowledge to Work in the 21st-Century Organization. A copy of this ...
Silicon Graphics, Inc. (SGI) v. ATI Technologies, Inc. and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) (Fed. Cir. 2010)
In his first opinion as Chief, Judge Rader provided the parties with a lesson in claim construction. This decision ...
The Commonwealth Attorney-General introduced the Civil Dispute Resolution Bill 2010 into Parliament today which, if enacted, will require:
- applicants in civil proceedings in the Federal Court and the Federal Magistrates Court to file a genuine ...
From the Independent:
In one case, an international student who had been at a Chinese university for two years submitted a final year project which, after being run through a computer program, showed matches to ...
In granting plaintiffs' emergency application for a preliminary injunction, the court found irreparable harm. "Though many of the damages alleged will 'boil down to money,' the calculation of these damages will be very difficult. Also ...
Last week, I posted a piece on Why humanities matter in the I-Cubed Economy. My point was that we need much more than scientific and technical knowledge (the point that Daniel Bell missed in The ...
According to an article on IPWatchdog, Solo Cup "successfully rebutted the presumption of deceptive intent" in Pequignot v. Solo Cup Co. by seeking advice of counsel and taking the "good faith step of replacing worn ...
Gene Quinn's discussion of hitch-mounted toilets at IPWatchdog.com leads to a valuable point: just because something is patentable does not mean it should be patented.
Inventors often fail to recognize that companies and ...
Today I’d like to shine the patent search spotlight on a neat touch in PatSnap that may otherwise go unnoticed: thumbnail magnification.
In a recent refresh, the patent search system PatSnap was updated with ...
USPTO management has worked with representatives of the patent examiners union (POPA) to establish a proposal to "better align the performance standards for patent examiners with the USPTO’s goals for increasing quality in patent ...
He couldn't be there himself, but the IPKat is indebted to Anton van Dellen for this information about the disappearing debutante, IP Minister Baroness Wilcox. He writes:
"As part of the British Black Music ...
I got curious and was able to locate another source of recorded Senate Judiciary Committee hearings. Here is the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing for Judge Moore of the Federal Circuit from back in 2006 (you ...
By Kevin E. Noonan -- Myriad Genetics, for itself as well as the named defendant Directors of the University of Utah Research Foundation, filed a Notice of Appeal today in Association for Molecular Pathology v. U ...
U.S. Pat. No. 5,966,743: Substance dispensing headgear.
What is claimed is:
1. A transportable dispensing receptacle for a substance comprising
a container enclosing a chamber to carry the substance, the container including ...
In mid-May until the end of June, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) releases orders and opinions. SCOTUS has yet to issue a number of decisions this term, however, and it is rapidly ...
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