Patent & IP news for July 1, 2010
Patent Litigations
- Canon Inc., v. Copylite Products Corp. et. al. filed 2010-06-29 in Virginia Eastern
- MacNeil Automotive Products Limited v. Winfield Consumer Products, Inc. filed 2010-06-30 in Illinois Northern
- MVS Studio Inc. et. al. v. Bingo Bean LLC et. al. filed 2010-06-30 in New York Eastern
- Waters Industries, Inc. v. Kikkerland Design, Inc. filed 2010-06-30 in Illinois Northern
- The Fox Group, Inc. v. Cree, Inc. et. al. filed 2010-06-29 in Virginia Eastern
- Foundations Worldwide, Inc. v. Fifth Third Bank et. al. filed 2010-06-30 in Ohio Northern
- Eli Lilly And Company v. Actavis Totowa LLC et. al. filed 2010-06-30 in Indiana Southern
- Abaxis, Inc. v. Cepheid filed 2010-06-28 in California Northern
- Newport Controls, LLC v. Balboa Instruments, Inc. et. al. filed 2010-06-30 in California Central
- Lake Cherokee Hard Drive Technologies, L.L.C. v. Bass Computers, Inc. et. al. filed 2010-06-30 in Texas Eastern
- Nufix Inc et. al. v. minSURG Corporation Inc et. al. filed 2010-06-29 in Alabama Northern
- Bandspeed Inc v Acer Inc et al filed 2010-06-30 in Texas Eastern
- Hallstrom v. Eagle Eyes Optics, In et. al. filed 2010-06-29 in California Northern
- Interactive Life Forms, LLC v. California Exotic Novelties, Inc. et. al. filed 2010-06-30 in Texas Western
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Heartache for heartburn drugmaker, though court sweetens the bitter pill from ipkitten.blogspot.com If you're too busy to read all 920 paragraphs of Case T-321/05 AstraZeneca v Commission, delivered today by the General Court of the European Union, let the IPKat help you at least find ...
Old woman rebranded in wonder makeover from ipkitten.blogspot.com Is nothing sacred, wonders the IPKat. The answer is "probably not". For generations, American children of all ages have followed the adventures of Wonder Woman. Born in 1941, WW is not much short of her ...
Commerce Secretary Headlines Copyright Policy Symposium from www.ipwatchdog.com Public and Private Sector Leaders Meet to Discuss Copyright in the Internet Economy
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke gathered with leaders from the public and private sectors to discuss the relationship between ...
Pharma pay-and-procure symposium from ipfinance.blogspot.com A media alert from the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) this morning announces a forthcoming technical symposium, "Access to Medicines: Pricing and Procurement Practices", which the World Trade Organization (WTO) is to host in Geneva ...
SpicyIP Readership Survey 2010 from spicyipindia.blogspot.com We've taken our time on this, but decided to survey our readers on your experience and feedback about the blog. We realise the comments section on individual blog posts offers limited avenues for discussion ...
EU Draft Council Regulation On The Translation Arrangements For The EU Patent Published from www.ipjur.com On December 04, 2009, a (partial) political breakthrough had been achieved by the EU Council: A number of conclusions on an enhanced patent system in Europe were fixed on that day.
EU Council Document 16113 ...
Did You Know… Disney Patented Precision Fireworks Display from www.ipwatchdog.com Frequent readers of IPWatchdog.com know that on holidays I look for appropriate patents to profile that fit within the festive spirit of the holiday. Call me a geek if you like, you wouldn’t ...
Patently-O Bits and Bytes from www.patentlyo.com - EPO Count System: At a recent meeting in Edinburgh, the EPO Vice-President for legal and international affairs mentioned that EPO patent examiners receive twice as much credit for rejecting an application than for allowing the ...
Playboy Sues Drake for Copyright Infringement from patentlawip.blogspot.com 
Hip hop artist Aubrey Drake Graham, aka “Drake” had a hit last year with the song “Best I Ever Had.” But, like many other commercially-successful songs these days, “Best I Ever Had” sampled a previous ...
BPAI Ballroom from www.patenthawk.com The BPAI and Obzilla are regular dance partners. So far this year, they've held two public balls: two precedential opinions in 2010, both ostensibly about obviousness, but as much about Board review procedure and ...
Senate Hearing on Intellectual Property from ipelton.wordpress.com Last week I had the pleasure of attending the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on “Oversight of the Office of the Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator.” A webcast is available. It has been quite some time – law ...
Senator Leahy Pushes Patent Reform on the Heels of Bilski from www.patentspostgrant.com With patent reform seemingly on the back burner yet again, Senator Leahy stands on the In re Bilski soap box to rally supporters Monday, noting:
In Bilski v. Kappos, the Court unanimously affirmed the judgment ...
By Donald Zuhn -- Last week, Representative Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) (at right) introduced three bills in the House related to the labeling of food containing genetically engineered material, the cultivation and handling of genetically engineered crops ...
I'll tell you what, I wish I could write 101 rejections with as little supporting analysis as the Supreme Court did in the Bilski decision. A little discussion of precedential caselaw (Benson, Flook and ...
In the last post, we had undertaken analysis of Justice Kennedy’s opinion in the Bilski decision. In this post, we will discuss Justice Stevens’ and Justice Breyer’s opinions.
Justice Stevens’ Opinion
Justice Stevens ...
In this final post on the Bilski decision, we discuss Justice Breyer's opinion.
Justice Breyer’s Opinion
Justice Breyer begins his opinion by concurring with Justice Stevens that the Bilski application must be rejected ...
Date: July 14th 2010
Time: 10:30 am to 2:00 pm
Venue: The Maratha, Sun N Sand, 262 Bund Garden Road, Pune 411 001, India.
Who should attend: In-house and outside counsel, as well ...
Filing of financial patents seems to be on a parallel upward trend with litigation in the United States, with large companies being prime targets, and individual or small entities owning the patents, according to a ...
(Over the past few years, we've highlighted some of the pro's and con's of financial innovation. For example, intangible asset monetization is one example of a financial innovation that Athena Alliance has ...
This morning I am going to shameless cherry pick from the most recent Ontario's Regional Economic Development and Innovation Newsletter (published by the Ontario Network on the Regional Innovation System - ONRIS). If you are ...
“Bilski Ruling: A Victory on the Path to ending software Patents” reads a short stub on the Bilski decision on the site of Free Software Foundation. As pointed out earlier, the Bilski judgment was expected ...
Numerous international experts have found that the pending Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) threatens public interests. A statement has been drafted reflecting the conclusions reached at a meeting of academicians, practitioners and public interest organizations gathered ...
The machine-or-transformation test is not the sole test for patent eligibility under §101.
As stated by Justice Kennedy in the opinion of the Court, the question in this case turned on ...
As the summer recess approaches, it is all but certain that Congress will (again) postpone efforts to enact patent reform. Since the manager's amendment (S. 515) was forwarded to the Senate in April, very ...
As a follow up to the previous post, the issue of whether a continuation application filed on the same day that the parent application issues as a patent has been dealt with before by at ...
U.S. Pat. No. 4,194,629: Love Box.
Abstract:
A box for use as a token between lovers for assuring their love to each other; the box including an instruction sheet that states the ...
Intellogist and Article One Partners have teamed up in a unique venture to help our communities mutually benefit from what we feel are complimentary halves of a prior art searching puzzle. Article One posts Patent ...
With Bilski in the rear–view mirror and fading fast from view, we return to the nitty–gritty of patent litigation, and how rare it is for a successful defendant to obtain an award of ...
Takeaway: The BPAI has held in a number of cases that a claim is not rendered indefinite because it recites a standard (e.g., the IEEE 802.14 standard, commonly known as "WiFi"). In some ...
The following is excerpted from a June 30, 2010articleby Erich Schwartzel at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
It dealt with the heady world of intellectual property, so it's only appropriate the case would inspire ...
Michael John Long is an LLM candidate advancing to the PhD at Osgoode Hall Law School A short while ago, while sitting in the living room at the home of my nurse friend, I noticed ...
A concerned reader has written to the IPKat with the following:
"I’m having trouble obtaining information on the new “pre-examination” for the EQE and wondered if any enlightened Kats know how it is going ...
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