Patent & IP news for July 7, 2010
Patent Litigations
- Chimei Innolux Corporation v. Sony Corporation et. al. filed 2010-07-06 in Arkansas Western
- EI Du Pont De Nemours & Co v. MacDermid Printing Solutions LLC filed 2010-07-06 in New Jersey
- Novartis Ag et. al. v. Kappos filed 2010-07-06 in D.C.
- GN Resound A/S et. al. filed 2010-07-06 in Connecticut
- Southwire Company v. Encore Wire Corporation et. al. filed 2010-07-06 in Texas Eastern
- Cerro Wire Inc. v. Southwire Company filed 2010-07-05 in Georgia Northern
- Holmberg v. J & K Outdoor Products, Inc. filed 2010-07-06 in Minnesota
- Unique Product Solutions, Limited v. Poolmaster, Inc. filed 2010-07-06 in Ohio Northern
- Unique Product Solutions, Limited v. Tippmann Sports, LLC filed 2010-07-06 in Ohio Northern
- North Texas Patent Group, Inc. v. The Hain Celestial Group, Inc. filed 2010-07-06 in Texas Northern
- Traffic Information LLC v. Cricket Communications, Inc. et. al. filed 2010-07-06 in Texas Eastern
- North Texas Patent Group, Inc. v. Manhattan Group, LLC d/b/a Manhattan Toy et. al. filed 2010-07-06 in Texas Northern
- Network Protection Sciences, LLC v. Juniper Networks, Inc. et. al. filed 2010-07-06 in Texas Eastern
- North Texas Patent Group, Inc. v. NeuroGenesis, Inc. filed 2010-07-06 in Texas Northern
- Creative Compounds, LLC v. S103, Inc. et. al. filed 2010-07-06 in California Southern
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Patent & IP Blogs
The Perfect Storm: Corporate Disclosure, Shareholders, and the Importance of Intellectual Property from www.ipprospective.com I have followed the developing story of John Desmarais and his reported purchase of 4,000 patents from Micron as covered by Joff Wild and the IAM Blog, among other bloggers. A very nice recap ...
Patent law changes as eminent domain? from patlit.blogspot.com For months, arguments have raged about a controversial article published in the February 26 issue of Science magazine. In "Fixing the Legal Framework for Pharmaceutical Research" (available by subscription only), Sherry Knowles contends that recent ...
Luxembourg: Grand Tax Benefits in a Small Country from ipfinance.blogspot.com 
Back from a holiday leading up to the Independence Day weekend in the U.S., I’d like to focus this week on Luxembourg. Luxembourg (officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg), like Belgium, grants domestic ...
Petitions Requesting Continued Reexamination (RCR) from www.patentspostgrant.com In patent application prosecution, patent owners may file an RCE or continuation to continue prosecution as a matter of right under 37 CFR 1.53(b) or 1.53(d) or 37 CFR 1.114 ...
Crime Inc: Counterfeit Goods to Premiere on CNBC from www.patentbaristas.com CNBC Originals goes inside the most profitable criminal enterprise in the world. An economy built on robbing U.S. businesses, costing American jobs, and bankrolling terrorism:
Fake handbags, watches, and perfumes are a way of ...
David Kappos: A View from Europe from www.ipwatchdog.com David Kappos interviewed by Joff Wild, editor of IAM magazine
USPTO Director David Kappos made one of his rare excursions outside of the US at the end of June when he flew to Munich to ...
Importing non-UK decoders into the EU: a multiplicity of questions from ipkitten.blogspot.com No case with number can be found on the Curia website, but if you visit the website of the UK's Intellectual Property Office you will find here a notice regarding Case C-228/10 Union ...
Seen outside the Hamilton Township library on 7 July 2010 from ipbiz.blogspot.com 
This fellow, alluded to in an earlier IPBiz post, was spotted outside the Hamilton Township (NJ) library on July 7, 2010.
In the context of Bilski, one recalls the Hitler spoof, which reflected unfavorably on ...
Cracking Ideas and a day to remember from ipkitten.blogspot.com Today IPKat team member Jeremy trekked out to the furthest reaches of Windsor, to the Land of Lego, where the new UK Minister for Intellectual Property, Baroness Wilcox (right), presented awards to a collection of ...
Foaming at the Mouth III: And Then Came Bilski from www.ipwatchdog.com
When I wrote my first “Foaming at the Mouth” article (see Foaming at the Mouth: The Inane Ruling in the Gene Patents Case) on Association for Molecular Pathology v. USPTO (hereinafter AMP, but also known ...
Dated from www.patenthawk.com You don't need to have a novel invention to get a US patent. You just need to beat the clock, a clock rigged to America as superior to inferior foreigners, a patent xenophobia most ...
European Patent Organisation Discussing Fee Reform and Sustainable Financing (III) from www.ipjur.com EPO Financing Trends (Source: Document CA/33/10)
On the website of the EPO Staff Union (SUEPO) a number of relevant Documents from the Administrative Council of the European Patent Organisation (EPOrg) running the European ...
Garbage Bits from www.patenthawk.com Telcordia sued Cisco for infringing network data transfer patents 4,893,306; 4,835,763; and RE36,633. '306 was knocked out by noninfringement in summary judgment. '763 and '633 ran the gauntlet through trial ...
By Kevin E. Noonan -- After issuing its decision in Bilski v. Kappos, the Supreme Court granted certiorari, vacated the Federal Circuit's decision below, and remanded to the appellate court two cases related to medical ...
RESEARCH CORPORATION TECHNOLOGIES v. MICROSOFT (Fed. Cir. 2010)
One of the first cases that may address the Supreme Court's ruling in Bilski v. Kappos involves RCT's claimed method of halftoning color images. The ...
Takeaway: Invalidation under the on-sale bar of § 102(b) usually involves a sale of the patentee's product. However, the sale can actually be of any product, by any party, as long as it embodies ...
From the Complaint:
“The expiration of a United States patent is not readily ascertainable by members of the American Public at the time of the product purchase. The patent number itself does not provide members ...
Competitors we may be, but the IPKat holds his friends at Intellectual Property Watch in the highest regard. The two IP weblogs work in very different ways, and IP Watch actually has real humans to ...
The parties' motion to vacate claim construction following settlement was denied. "[The] patentees argue vacating the claim construction order would promote the public policy in favor of settlement. . . . [T]he Court disagrees that the overriding ...
A long essay by Andy Groves (former head of Intel) in BusinessWeek (How America Can Create Jobs) is causing something of a stir. Groves message is straight forward enough: economic prosperity depends on more than ...
“Exactly a year ago, a very bad decision was taken” by the World Health Organization that now seems “unscientific and irrational,” said Council of Europe parliamentarian Paul Flynn in a late June presentation of a ...
In its recent Bilski v. Kappos decision, the U.S. Supreme Court held that business methods are patentable, and the Court refused to accept the Federal Circuit’s “machine or transformation” test as the sole ...
Many have already publicized the PTO’s same-day memo to patent examiners regarding how to examine applications in the wake of the Supreme Court’s opinion in Bilski v. Kappos.
On the one hand, it ...
After the Bilski decision was rendered by the Supreme Court, the USPTO issued a press release, stating that the PTO "will be issuing guidance further interpreting the decision as soon as possible" and that the ...
U.S. Pat. No. 6,889,466: Deer stomp simulator.
JW Note: As an avid outdoorsman myself, I have only one word for this invention . . . awesome!
What is claimed is:
1. An apparatus for attracting ...
Yesterday, the European Court of Justice ruled in a case pitching Monsanto against European importers of Argentinean soy meal, denying the US seed giant intellectual property rights over the exports of soy meal from Argentina ...
Stuart Freen is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. The Supreme Court of the United States last week released what was likely the most highly anticipated patent case of the year: Bilski v ...
In an important case, the Federal Circuit has expanded the scope of so-called 102(e) “secret prior art.” Under the decision, a US patent or published application will be considered prior art as of the ...
I’ll be on This Week in Law (video podcast) this Friday, along with J. Matt Buchanan (Promote the Progress blog) discussing Bilski and whatever other interesting topics come up.
If you have any topics ...
Although copyright applications are relatively inexpensive- $35 if filing online- it can be expensive and time consuming to register a large number of works. A series of photographs, paintings or sculptures, or web posts would ...
from USAToday:
[Kagan's] words stand in contrast to the more technical view of judging voiced by Chief Justice John Roberts at his confirmation hearing five years ago. Roberts said he considered himself an umpire ...
The CAFC in GIACOMINI noted:
Treating a provisional application’s filing date
as both the patent’s priority date and its effective refer-
ence date does not raise the alleged tension between
sections 102(e ...
Strafford Publications is hosting an upcoming webinar entitled "IP Licenses in Bankruptcy" scheduled for Tuesday, July 13, 2010:
The Bankruptcy Code has a significant impact on the enforceability of IP license agreements. Challenges arise in ...
With the news last week that CNN’s long time interviewer and host Larry King was retiring, most people on the Internet (being what it is) were as quick to make a joke about his ...
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