Patent & IP news for June 17, 2010
Patent Litigations
- Anthony, Allan & Quinn, Inc. et. al. v. Iconopsych Care, LLC filed 2010-06-16 in Missouri Eastern
- Miller v. Hastings Fiber Glass Products, Inc. filed 2010-06-16 in Illinois Southern
- Abbott Laboratories et. al. v. Anchen Pharmaceuticals, Inc. filed 2010-06-14 in New Jersey
- BetaNet, LLC v. Xerox Corp. et. al. filed 2010-06-16 in Texas Eastern
- WesternGeco LLC v. Fugro-Geoteam Inc. et. al. filed 2010-06-16 in Texas Southern
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Laserdynamics v. Quanta -- The Continuing Slow Death of the Entire Market Value Rule from patent-warrior.blogspot.com 
Last September in Lucent v. Gateway, the Federal Circuit finally took control of the law of patent damages by, with one hand, upholding the entire market value rule and, with the other hand, killing it ...
Ms Neelie Kroes Defending Open Standards from www.ipjur.com Ms Neelie Kroes, European Commission Vice-President for the Digital Agenda
On June 10, 2010, Ms Neelie Kroes, European Commission Vice-President for the Digital Agenda, gave an address at the Open Forum Europe 2010 Summit on ...
And the Wait Continues… Bilski… Wait Continues… Bilski… from www.ipwatchdog.com Again another Supreme Court decision day has come and gone and we do not have a Bilski decision. Shocking! Hardly. The stars seemed to be lining up nicely for today. Yesterday was the 30th Anniversary ...
Want to pass your EQE ... and looking for a book? from ipkitten.blogspot.com Are you thinking of becoming a patent attorney in Europe? Taking the European Qualifying Examinations? Hoping to pass? Says the IPKat, here's something for you to read, depending on your predilections, your preferences and ...
The Luck O’ the Irish – Tax Exempt Patent Income from ipfinance.blogspot.com While the world’s eyes are on the World Cup in South Africa, I will focus this post on a country that is notably, and unfortunately, absent from the field of play – Ireland. Please don ...
Did Mr Gordon Brown Love Secret Patents? from www.ipjur.com Secrecy Orders per 10.000 patents (Source: New Scientist)
According to a report in New Scientist, UK patents are being declared state secrets more than three times as often as those filed in the US ...
Rampant IP Piracy is Hurting U.S. from ipinsider1.wordpress.com China-U.S. IP Policy: Not a Two-Way Street
The United States International Trade Commission (ITC) held a public hearing on June 15 and 16 that focused on China’s IP policies and their effect on ...
ICANN is considering introducing new gTLDs – the top level domains that come after the last “dot” in a domain name (e.g., .com, .au).
The Australian government is now seeking your views on what it ...
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) yesterday held a key signing ceremony implementing an advanced new security system for the internet domain name system (DNS). DNSSEC, DNS security extensions, is expected to ...
The date 20 June will mark the authorised end of Viagra’s patent in Brazil, following a 28 April decision of the Superior Court of Justice. Since the decision, five laboratories have requested registration for ...
The June issue of our newsletter is available here.
Topics include:
- Trademark Tip: Trademarks, Copyrights, and Patents, Oh My!
- Trademarks in the News: World Cup
- Thoughts on the BP brand
Comments, questions, and suggestions for ...
The Christian Science Monitor (via AP) reported:
In a letter earlier this month to Gov. Ted Strickland, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson [formerly of New Jersey] wrote that the pesticide Propoxur could ...
The decision in is lengthy and touches on several issues, most pointedly about
liability of employees/officers of a company for patent infringement.
The decision begins:
This is a patent infringement case involving technol-
ogy ...
Takeaway: In Ex parte White, a dissenting judge found that a claim to "a system" was ambiguous as to whether an apparatus or a method was claimed. The dissent relied on a dictionary definition of ...
The Supreme Court is approaching its summer recess, and one remaining decision that has the attention of those of us in the patent space is Bilski v Kappos.
The Supreme Court is expected to announce ...
I wondered if there were a rash of US trademark applications filed on variations on VUVUZELA (as US applicants race to do every time there is a new hot word). Surprisingly, there are ZERO pending ...
The first Sir Hugh Laddie Chair in Intellectual Property Law at University College London would have Sir Robin Jacob as its first appointee.
Prof Hugh Laddie,a leading English Judge and an expert in ...
The Supreme Court released five opinions today; however, Bilski was again not amongst them. Schwab v. Reilly was released today and, while Schwab has nothing to with IP, the significance is that Bilski is now ...
Michael John Long is an LLM candidate advancing to the PhD at Osgoode Hall Law School The leviathan known as the Google Books project may have far reaching consequences for international copyright law, as well ...
Many companies are hesitant about pursuing patent protection in China based on a perception of toothless IP protection and that patents there are not worth the paper they're printed on. After all, this is ...
Obviousness-type non-statutory double patenting is a judicially created doctrine that operates to prevent patentees from improperly extending a patent's effective term through successive patent grants.
The non-statutory double patenting doctrine was created at a ...
Here are two reports on the future of jobs in the US. A report from the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce entitled Help Wanted projects a serious shortfall in qualified workers:
by ...
In order to commence a copyright infringement action in federal court, under 17 U.S.C. § 411(a), makes registration of a copyright a prerequisite prior to bringing an infringement suit. But in a May ...
Amazon has recently been awarded U.S. Patent No. 7,739,139 for a "Social Networking System." Friendster has previously patented a very similar social networking method and actually has 7 patents in total related ...
Professor Giuseppina D’Agostino is the Founder and Director of IP Osgoode. As the commentary on Bill C-32 continues to take shape, the one issue that is getting the most attention (and certainly not unlike ...
The legal eagles of the IP world have fixed their eyes on the Supreme Court this month, looking for any sign of when the court might issue its long–awaited opinion in Bilski v. Kappos ...
I was firmly convinced that the opinion on Bilski would be issued today.
Why? Well, there are [were] only two days remaining in the quarter (three, if you count Saturday), and I've got more ...
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