Patent & IP news for June 24, 2010
Patent Litigations
- FieldTurf USA, Inc. et. al. v. Astroturf, LLC filed 2010-06-23 in Michigan Eastern
- Keranos, LLC v. Analog Devices, Inc. et. al. filed 2010-06-23 in Texas Eastern
- Asher v. Kroger Co., The filed 2010-06-22 in Colorado
- S.P.E.P. Acquisition Corp. v. OEM Designs, Inc. filed 2010-06-23 in California Central
- Vaughan Co., Inc. v. Envirotech Pumpsystems, Inc. d/b/a Weir Specialty Pumps filed 2010-06-23 in Illinois Northern
- Asher v. Colgate-Palmolive Company filed 2010-06-22 in Colorado
- Asher v. Hy-Vee, Inc. filed 2010-06-22 in Colorado
- Mekiki Co. Ltd. et. al. v. Facebook Inc. filed 2010-06-22 in California Northern
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Bookend from www.patenthawk.com This coming Monday, June 28, is the last day of the Supreme Court session that started in October 2009. It is also the final day that Justice Stevens sits on the high Court before retiring ...
Rights Protected in Trademark Registration from www.lotempiolaw.com How does a trademark benefit your company? Every one knows the value of a name. I wonder what the value of the Nike name and swoosh design is versus all the inventory and assets the ...
German Bundestag Meets Innovation from www.ipjur.com Politicians love to preach on 'innovation'. Europe shall become the most innovative region on earth, and, of course, Germany requests to have a full share of the fruits of her orientation towards technological progress.
The ...
An Interview with PTO Director David Kappos from www.patentlyo.com Joff Wild of IAM Magazine has posted a 40-minute video of a recent interview with USPTO Director David Kappos.
Some interesting points:
- Allowance rate is up about 3% over last year. At the same time ...
Ten Ways to Improve the USPTO Website – Number 1 from inventblog.com Back in the “ReThink(IP)” days, we had a frequent meme called “Things we hate about uspto.gov.” Sadly, most of those “things” are still issues.
I thought it might be fun to revisit that ...
Bilski Decision Day: All Eyes Turn to Supreme Court on Monday from www.ipwatchdog.com Statue outside US Supreme Court building.
Yet another day has come and gone without the United States Supreme Court issuing a decision in Bilski v. Kappos. According to Cover It Live, via the SCOTUS Blog ...
Orange Miniskirt Debacle Less Filling from www.patentbaristas.com Duncan Bucknell, over at the IP ThinkTank, discusses FIFA’s response to the women arrested after wearing orange miniskirts bearing the Bavaria beer company logo to a recent match. Duncan posits that FIFA was not ...
Breaking News: Google wins $1 billion summary judgment against Viacom and Premier League from ipkitten.blogspot.com 
Yesterday, Judge Louis Stanton of the Southern District of New York granted summary judgment for Google in two cases brought separately by Viacom and the Premier League. Judge Stanton held that general knowledge of copyright ...
Is it worth bothering, if all you get is Hungary? from patlit.blogspot.com Football has been much in everyone's mind over the past few weeks, to PatLit makes no apology for alluding to it here. Thank you, Jelena Jankovic (Petosevic), for this link to your news item ...
Neither democracy nor constitution: is it time to rein in EPO rule-making? from ipkitten.blogspot.com A thoughtful and highly respected member of the patent profession in Europe has contacted the IPKat in the hope of stirring up some constructive thinking on a matter of great importance for patent attorneys and ...
They Invented What? (No. 173) from anticipatethis.wordpress.com U.S. Pat. No. 4,320,756: Fresh-air breathing device and method.
I claim:
1. A method for breathing fresh air in a room filled with toxic smoke comprising the steps of
inserting a breathing ...
By Kevin E. Noonan -- Our opinions are always (perhaps inevitably) informed by our experience. And when our experience is limited, particularly when those limitations are coupled with passion, those limitations equally inform our opinions. These ...
In a report titled Stem cells reverse blindness caused by burns, AP reports on an online publication in the New England Journal of Medicine by a team including Graziella Pellegrini of the University of Modena ...
One could almost hear that famous line Now there you go again directed to Joff Wild at IAM as to the text about findings from a IAM/Thomson Reuters benchmarking survey that show issued US ...
By Jason Rantanen, Visiting Scholar at UC Hastings School of Law
Wordtech Systems, Inc. v. Integrated Networks Solutions, Inc. (Fed. Cir. 2010)
In most patent cases, companies are the ones sued as alleged infringers. But ...
From a story titled Single Asian carp found 6 miles from Lake Michigan :
In Michigan, officials renewed their demand to shut down two shipping locks on the Chicago waterways that could provide a path to ...
On Tuesday, the White House released its new 2010 Joint Strategic Plan on Intellectual Property Enforcement (see also the White House blog and the write up in Intellectual Property Watch). The document seeks to lay ...
Plaintiff's motion for a permanent injunction was denied. "Because [plaintiff] is not competing with [defendant], it is more difficult for [plaintiff] to argue that it will be irreparably harmed without an injunction. This fact ...
In a number of previous posting, I've argued that in the I-Cubed Economy manufacturing it tied closely to other production activities, such as product development and services. All of that argues for keeping manufacturing ...
Magistrate Judge John S. Bryant in the Middle District of Tennessee has recommended fining a False Marking defendant an amount representing just 10% of total revenue earned on sales of the falsely marked product, due ...
Last Friday, Landmark Technology, LLC filed suit in the Eastern District of Texas against eight online retailers purveying everything from electronics to jewelry, claiming that such retailers are infringing three patents owned by Landmark relating ...
As a follow up to the GWU-CII controversy, I present to you the excerpts from the blog of Dean Fredrick Lawrence, George Washington University Law School where he shared his views surrounding the controversy and ...
The Court has voted unanimously to drive patent lawyers crazy.No Bilski opinion today. The Chief Justice announced that the Court will have ...
- Tom Goldstein, SCOTUS "Live" Blog reporting, June 24, 2010 10:21 AM
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Everyone with any interest in patents on business methods or software has been eagerly awaiting the decision of the US Supreme Court in the Bilski case. The Court issued ...
Strafford Publications is hosting the above-titledwebinar on August 3, 2010:
This CLE webinar will provide counsel to companies involved in multi-defendant patent litigation with guidance on evaluating and using joint defense groups and ...
A few days ago famed documentary filmmaker Errol Morris started a great series of articles on his blog over at the New York Times. He’s calling his series “The Anosognosic’s Dilemma,” which hooked ...
Stuart Freen is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. It is no secret that there have been plenty of absurd patents issued over the years. The gerbil shirt, anyone? Of the three main ...
A large section of the populace may be unaware of the degree to which India and Indians have contributed towards shaping the skyline of the innovation scenario. Ranging from the touch-screen of an IPod that ...
by Mark Malek If you read this blog at all, you have figured out that I am a sports fan of sorts. I think we all know that I have a slight interest in intellectual ...
In November 2007, Dr. Jens Gaster, GD Internal Market, EU Commission, Brussels, had given a presentation which was then hosted by the Bavarian chapter of Deutsche Vereinigung für gewerblichen Rechtsschutz und Urheberrecht (GRUR) on the ...
The head of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) is stepping down after five years in office, and his successor has been named from within the organisation. John Kennedy, chairman and CEO, said ...
Juan Rivera throws behind the runner Russell Martin on second following a single and gets the last out of a 2-1 game in the top of the ninth in a game won by the Angels ...
By Juan Serrano -- On June 18, 2010, a decree was published in the Federal Official Gazette, reforming several provisions of the Mexican IP law related to patent practice. The main amendments are the following: a ...
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