Patent & IP news for July 6, 2010
Patent Litigations
- BR-111 Imports & Exports, Inc. v. Indusparquet Industria e Comercio de Madeiras Ltda. et. al. filed 2010-07-05 in Florida Southern
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Patent & IP Blogs
Culture of Indifference Fuels Software Piracy Market from www.ipwatchdog.com Last week Robert Holleyman, the CEO of the Business Software Alliance, published on op-ed article in the Mercury News. This article started by asking what the negative impact for the automotive industry would be on ...
Just in case... from thinkipstrategy.com We wanted to let you know that we'll be doing some major work on our site this coming weekend.
There's always a chance that there may be a bit of disruption, so please ...
The Wine Group Sues Daigeo Over Savannah Trademark from www.iptrademarkattorney.com San Francisco, CA – The Wine Group has filed a trademark infringement lawsuit in the Northern District Court of California against Diageo PLC. Plaintiff sells a wine-based beverage that contains tea flavors under its Olde Savannah ...
Taking accountants to task from ipfinance.blogspot.com "Accounting for IP?" is the title of an article in the current issue of the Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice (JIPLP) by Dr Roya Ghafele (University of Oxford). Roya takes a provocative view of ...
District Court Erroneously Gives Claim Term Two Different Constructions in a Single Claim from www.grayonclaims.com Haemonetics Corp. v. Baxter Healthcare Corp. (Fed. Cir. Jun. 2, 2010)
In this case, the Federal Circuit held that the district court erroneously gave the claim term "centrifugal unit" two different constructions for different instances ...
Federal Circuit Splits on Validity of Means Plus Function Claim from www.patentlyo.com Telcordia Technologies, Inc. v. Cisco Systems (Fed. Cir. 2010)
Chief Judge Rader and Judge Prost sparred over the level of explanation necessary to ensure that a means plus function (MPF) claim is found definite. The ...
CNBC's Crime Inc: Counterfeit Goods from patentlawip.blogspot.com 
An excellent episode discussing the world of counterfeit goods will show on CNBC's Crime Inc., on Wednesday, July 14 at 9p ET/PT. I will definitely watch. Here is the description below:
Sneak Peek ...
Are Third Party Opposition Petitions Permitted in Inter Partes Patent Reexamination or Not? from www.patentspostgrant.com Last week, the Delaware District Court stayed the litigation proceedings in Enhanced Security Research, LLC, et al. v. Cisco Systems, Inc., et al., C. A. No. 09-571-JJF, (June 25, 2010) at the defendant’s request ...
An overview of the 'Health Impact Fund' model for accessible medicines from spicyipindia.blogspot.com A few quick facts before I jump into my post.
- US, EU and Japan together account for roughly 90% of the revenues received by pharmaceutical firms, and thus by far, are their largest money generators ...
Monsanto: court makes a meal of soya ruling from ipkitten.blogspot.com Argentina may have been thrashed by the Germans in the World Cup, but its soymeal exporters have scored a notable victory on the not-so-inhospitable foreign soil of Luxembourg, following today's ruling of the Court ...
A PET aversion? Biorenewable monomers take centre stage from ipkitten.blogspot.com Biorenewable monomers are not something this Kat comes across on a daily basis. Accordingly he is not in the best position to address the issue raised by his correspondent Maja Schmitt, who writes:
"The discussion ...
Patent “Plot” Thickens from ipinsider1.wordpress.com EDN Takes a Fresh Look at NPEs
In the current Electronic Design, Strategy, News, contributing editor Tam Harbert cuts to the heart of the NPE matter with a timely article that focuses on the performance ...
Discovery of documents: is there a real benefit? from patlit.blogspot.com Abbott Laboratories Ltd v Medinol Ltd, an ex tempore judgment of Mr Justice Kitchin in the Patents Court, England and Wales last Thursday, addressed an issue that regularly arises regarding disclosure (discovery): how relevant and ...
Teaming up to Solve the Prior Art Searching Puzzle from info.articleonepartners.com At Article One Partners, we are excited to begin July by teaming up with Intellogist. In a blog post last week, Intellogist mentioned how Article One and Intellogist are complimentary halves of the "prior art ...
As many of our readers may know, IP-Watch is a great source for international IP and IP policy news. They have often served as a terrific resource for us at SpicyIP as well. As they ...
Today, the European Court of Justice (former ECJ) has published the decision in Case C-428/08, reference for a preliminary ruling under Article 234 EC from the Rechtbank's-Gravenhage (Netherlands), made by decision of 24 ...
The court could exercise subject matter jurisdiction over a defendant generic drug manufacturer’s invalidity and noninfringement counterclaims directed to patents for which defendant had filed a Paragraph III certification (indicating that its generic drug ...
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), in an attempt to offer patent applicants more choices, recently proposed establishing a three-tiered examination system. Under the current system, with the exception of accelerated examination and ...
I particularly enjoy the little touches of social history that can come out of the patents. The invention of the pneumatic tyre led to a huge growth in patents to do with bicycles. Quite a ...
In an earlier posting, I talked about how BP and the government were using open source innovation process to look for ideas to cap and clean up the Gulf oil spill. I also mentioned how ...
From a NYT article which covers measures taken by UCF to combat cheating:
Mr. Daines said he was especially disturbed by an epidemic of students’ copying homework. “The term ‘collaborative work’ has been taken to ...
At the start of the new year I pledged that I would start to try and expand the scope of IPWatchdog.com to touch upon intellectual property matters outside the United States. In part this ...
Back in 2008 I announced in a blogpostthat WizPatent launched its WizFolio Web 2.0. The company notified me that they launched the newest version ofWizFolioyesterday.
This version was under development ...
In the last few posts, SpicyIP has discussed the Bilski decision of the US Supreme Court. In this post, we bring forth a crisp analysis by Adithya Banavar (a brilliant and socially-conscious final year student ...
In the last few posts, SpicyIP has discussed the Bilski decision of the US Supreme Court. In this post, we bring forth a crisp analysis by Adithya Banavar (a brilliant and socially-conscious final year student ...
The claims section of a patent defines the metes and bounds of what the inventor is claiming as their invention. As such, the claims section is an important part of the patent. The claims are ...
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