Patent & IP news for June 18, 2010
Patent Litigations
- Pfizer Inc. et. al. v. Mylan Inc. et. al. filed 2010-06-16 in Delaware
- The Estee Lauder Companies, Inc. et. al. v. Oxis International, Inc. filed 2010-06-15 in New York Southern
- SFA Systems, LLC v. BigMachines, Inc. et. al. filed 2010-06-17 in Texas Eastern
- Landmark Technology LLC v. Blockbuster Inc. et. al. filed 2010-06-17 in Texas Eastern
- Air Innovations, Inc. v. Barker Company, Limited filed 2010-06-17 in Iowa Southern
- U.S. Philips Corporation v. Palm, Inc. filed 2010-06-15 in California Northern
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Has the Financial Times Found its Way to the Online Promised Land? from ipfinance.blogspot.com The efforts of newspapers to find a business model that will ensure their continued viability in the online world continue unabated.Take the saga of the Financial Times.
As described in the June 16 posting ...
The Harvard Oncomouse Patent Reexamination, Over Before it Started? from www.patentspostgrant.com 
The Harvard “oncomouse” in case you have never heard of it, is a strange little laboratory rodent genetically modified at Harvard to grow a human ear on its back. (I’ve spared you the actual ...
Broken Chain from www.patenthawk.com 7,051,018 & 7,082,437, owned by Encyclopaedia Britannica, "relate to a multimedia database search system for retrieving textual and graphical information." The patents "claim priority back to October 26, 1989 through a chain ...
Fighting trolls with fire from patlit.blogspot.com Faced with mounting costs and headaches stemming from litigation by NPEs (non-practicing entities, or "patent trolls"), more and more operating companies are resorting to a novel means of addressing the problem. As part of their ...
Intellectual Property: Political Excesses from www.ipjur.com It is a well-known fact that in particular numerous newspaper publishing companies are currently suffering from an increasing downturn of their classic paper-based business model.Their long-established but obviously now deprecated business model had been ...
Non-Obviousness: A Case Study in Judicial Activism from hallingblog.com The genesis of the non-obviousness standard (Inventive Step in Europe) was the Supreme Court’s decision in Hotchkiss v. Greenwood, 52 U.S. (11 How.) 248 (1851). This case first articulated the idea that the ...
Friday fantasies from ipkitten.blogspot.com Friday comes but once a week,
And with it is the need to peek
At all the things you might have missed
In the Forthcoming Events list ...
Have you ever felt that applying for a ...
Stategic mistake in World Cup Bavaria Babes incident and it's not even an Ambush from thinkipstrategy.com Apart from making trade mark and ambush marketing history, FIFA's response to the Bavarian Babes incident has certainly sold a lot of beer for their sponsor's competitor. Every blog post, tweet, article, newspaper ...
Exploratory Prototyping Advice from an Inventor from www.ipwatchdog.com You have an idea, now what? Unless your idea is ridiculously simple, you will probably need to develop it. Almost no ideas come fully formed. They must evolve to approach their final form. Evolution takes ...
Some of you may know the slashdot website, which is always good for a provocative discussion about patents and their value. Their latest entry identifies a newly granted US Patent 7,739,139 assigned to ...
By Donald Zuhn -- In a press release issued on Wednesday, the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) recalled the Supreme Court's landmark decision in Diamond v. Chakrabarty, which was issued thirty years ago on June 16 ...
By James DeGiulio -- Medicis' Solodyn Patent Upheld on Reexamination The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued a reexamination certificate reaffirming Medicis' U.S. Patent No. 5,908,838 covering the skin treatment Solodyn ...
Further to yesterday’s post, ICANN has released:
- v4 of the draft Applicant’s Guidebook; and
- an Economic Framework for the Analysis of the Expansion of Generic Top-level Domain Names;
- and two “snapshots”.
The materials ...
Varsity.co reported:
Dr Nicola Morrison included unattributed material from the work of a final year Land Economy undergraduate in an article published under her name in the Journal of the Town and Country Planning ...
Coverage of the June 15 discussion Patent Reform 2010: What Shape Will It Finally Take? has been slim. The blog post on Legal Times [BLT] is notable for commenters criticizing its assertion:
One fundamental shift ...
First claim of US 7,739,139:
A computer-implemented method, comprising: receiving and storing personal data of a first user of a computer-based service, said computer-based service accessible to users over a network, said personal ...
I recently received a copy of a newspaper supplement commemorating National Small Business Week called “From Beginners to Bigshots.” The paper features profiles of several successful small businesses. A common theme among most of businesses ...
Mr Justice Floyd (Patents Court, England and Wales) gave judgment this morning in Nampak Cartons Ltd v Rapid Action Packaging Ltd [2010] EWHC 1458 (Pat) , an appeal against the decision of the hearing officer not ...
The court granted defendant's motion to dismiss plaintiff's willful infringement claim for failure to state a claim. "In this case, [plaintiff] alleges that [defendant] manufactures and sells the [accused product]. [Plaintiff] also alleges ...
Quality across patent systems has been understudied but a new methodology put forward by the former chief economist of the European Patent Office suggests that the EPO provides higher quality services than its United States ...
Believe it or not, but the international hospitality group Hilton International Corporation of the Hilton Hotels fame cannot carry on business in India (Conrad Hilton has a joint venture with DLF),owing to the outcome ...
Following a bench trial, the court concluded that defendants failed to establish inequitable conduct based on plaintiff's alleged failure to disclose the sample size of tests reported in the patent application. "[D]efendants assert ...
In an article titled Palo Alto patent attorney pleads not guilty to bribery and DUI charges, Joshua Melvin writes of one Richard Chae [once?] of Alston & Bird in Palo Alto.
The reg number is 51539 ...
A large number of US patent applications have corresponding applications being examined in various office actions around the world. Although the major Patent Offices generally give no legal deference to the decisions of another Office ...
This week the New York Times published a fascinating in-depth piece about Watson, a new supercomputer created by IBM specifically to answer the type of vague, allusive riddles posed on the quiz show “Jeopardy!” The ...
There has been a lot of recent talk, blog posts, articles, court activity and even proposed legislation in Congress around the issue of “False Patent Marking.” What does it all mean and why should small- ...
From the beginning of the case:
Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. (Britannica) is the as-
signee of U.S. Patent Nos. 7,051,018 (the ’018 patent) and
7,082,437 (the ’437 patent). The ’018 and ...
Marcus evans will be holding its 3rd Annual Product and Pipeline Enhancement for Generics conference on "Navigating Regulatory Pathways and Patent Strategies to Ensure Market Sustainability" on June 28-30, 2010 in Washington, DC. The conference ...
Law Seminars International (LSI) will be offering a one-hour telebriefing entitled: "Molecular Pathology v. U.S. PTO on Gene Patents" on June 24, 2010 from 1:00-2:00 PM (EDT). Elizabeth Howard of Orrick Herrington ...
Takeaway: The Board has reversed prior art rejections in several cases where the Examiner arbitrarily interpreted the position of various structural elements – like a claim that read on the reference only if the reference was ...
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