Patent & IP news for July 12, 2010
Patent Litigations
- Prime Time Toys, Ltd. v. Ja-Ru, Inc. et. al. filed 2010-07-09 in New York Southern
- NTP, Inc. v. Google Inc. filed 2010-07-08 in Virginia Eastern
- Heckmann Building Products, Inc. et. al. v. Hohmann & Barnard, Inc. et. al. filed 2010-07-09 in Illinois Northern
- Condatis LLC v. Arinc Inc. et. al. filed 2010-07-09 in Texas Eastern
- Mackie et. al. v. General Marine Contractors, LLC et. al. filed 2010-07-09 in Texas Southern
- Genzyme Corporation v. Watson Laboratories, Inc. filed 2010-07-09 in Maryland
- Carestream Health, Inc v. Caliper Life Sciences, Inc. filed 2010-07-09 in Wisconsin Western
- NTP, Inc. v. High Tech Computer Corp. et. al. filed 2010-07-08 in Virginia Eastern
- Promote Innovation LLC v. Medtronic, Inc. filed 2010-07-09 in Texas Eastern
- Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Inc. v. Enzo Life Sciences, Inc. filed 2010-07-09 in Massachusetts
- NTP, Inc. v. Microsoft Corporation filed 2010-07-08 in Virginia Eastern
- NTP, Inc. v. Apple, Inc. filed 2010-07-08 in Virginia Eastern
- AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP et. al. v. Torrent Pharmaceuticals Ltd. et. al. filed 2010-07-08 in Delaware
- Promote Innovation LLC v. Zodiac Pool Systems, Inc. filed 2010-07-09 in Texas Eastern
- NTP, Inc. v. LG Electronics MobileComm U.S.A., Inc. et. al. filed 2010-07-08 in Virginia Eastern
- NTP, Inc. v. Motorola, Inc. filed 2010-07-08 in Virginia Eastern
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Patent & IP Blogs
Two outstanding competitions: a Kat apologises from ipkitten.blogspot.com More than slightly embarrassed, the IPKat confesses that in his enthusiasm to various other things, he had quite forgotten to announce the winners of a couple of his competitions. The first of these was to ...
On how To Make Use Of A Mobile eBook Reader from www.ipjur.com Some months ago I had contemplated going deeper into technologies and issues of e-books and mobile eBook readers. Starting point was some kind of discontent with the format of a blog for articles that exceed ...
Patently-O Bits and Bytes from www.patentlyo.com - Todays Posts:
- Updated Statistics: Patent Application Pendency
- Inequitable Conduct: Leviton Manufacturing v. Universal Security Instruments by Jason Rantanen
- New Contributing Author: Jason Rantanen
- My friend Jason Rantanen has agreed to become a contributing author on ...
Monday miscellany from ipkitten.blogspot.com IP ThinkTank strategist and enthusiast, the smiling and podcast-friendly Duncan Bucknell has launched a new website, Think IP Strategy. He wants to know what you think of it. Well, you can take a look here ...
Renewed Congressional Interest for Funding the Patent Office from www.ipwatchdog.com Congressman Conyers seems interested in providing funding to the USPTO
Recently the United States Patent and Trademark Office released its draft Strategic Plan for FY 2010 – 2015. This may seem odd given that FY 2010 ...
Updated Statistics: Patent Application Pendency from www.patentlyo.com 
The above chart shows average application pendency for issued utility patents grouped by issue year. The chart presents three separate series that differ according to the filing-date used in the pendency calculation. The lowest data-series ...
July Edition Of IP-Watch Monthly Reporter Now Available from www.ip-watch.org The Intellectual Property Watch Monthly Edition features top news on international IP policymaking, the latest on who is coming and going in the international IP community, news briefs and more. The July edition is now ...
Endeavor Talent Agency Sued For Copyright Infringement Over Television Show Concept from www.iptrademarkattorney.com Los Angeles, CA – Brian Everett filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Endeavor Talent Agency, LLC, alleging that his treatment “El Royale” was used to create CBS’s “Welcome to the Captain” television show. Everett claims ...
Brands and Obesity: How Do Innovation and Regulation Fit In? from ipfinance.blogspot.com There has been increasing discussion about the role that government can, or should play, in promoting innovation, including a blog post on this site here. Most of these efforts, both at the institutional and academic ...
By Sarah Fendrick -- Last month, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office published a notice in the Federal Register (75 Fed. Reg. 30773) indicating that it is seeking comments on the collection of information through ...
By Sherri Oslick -- About Court Report: Each week we will report briefly on recently filed biotech and pharma cases. Shire Development Inc. et al. v. Cadila Healthcare Ltd. et al. 1:10-cv-00581; filed July 7 ...
Bennett J has allowed Mars to proceed to register its “Whiskas purple” colour as a trade mark for pet food, following Nestlé’s withdrawal of its opposition.
Nicholas Weston has a helpful summary; note Mars ...
Robert Dewald is a JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School The race for political office is competitive and fraught with risk where adversaries seek out support by advertising and creating political platforms to appeal ...
Over at IP Finance, Neil Wilkof has an interesting posting on Brands and Obesity: How Do Innovation and Regulation Fit In?. The posting is a takeoff from an article last month in the Economist (Good ...
The Death Rattle of a Troll
As we detailed previously, the NTP patent portfolio has been eviscerated in patent reexamination with over 2200 claims rejected across 8 patents. All 8 patents are now on appeal ...
Health experts of the German Parliament are concerned about possible negative effects of the European Union-India free trade agreement under negotiation. In a letter dated 8 July, the Parliament’s Committee on Economic Cooperation and ...
The British Library will be hosting a free exhibition on British inventions of the last decade. Inventing the 21st Century will be on display in the Folio Gallery at St Pancras from the 6 September ...
By Jason Rantanen
In Leviton, Chief Judge Michel issued his last words as a judge on the subject of inequitable conduct, while Judge Prost provided some hints as to her views on the questions pending ...
In November of 2008, we launched the Article One Partners website, enabling a whole new way of doing patent validity research.
Today, we are excited to announce the redesign of our website, complete with our ...
by Mark Malek As many of you already know, the United States Supreme Court has finally handed down its decision in the case of In re Bilski (Decision). For some background on the Bilski case ...
The company that owns Subway sandwich stores (Doctor’s Associates, Inc.) has filed to register FOOTLONG as a trademark for use with sandwiches with the USPTO. See USPTO application record here.
The application was approved ...
Chicago IP Litigation Blog recently posted a discussion of a May, 2010 summary judgment order issued in Von Holdt v. A–1 Tool Corp., where Judge Manning of the Northern District of Illinois granted summary ...
A blogger at ScienceBlogs wrote on 6 July 2010:
Seed has, in its corporate wisdom, decided to let Pepsico buy its way into a blog on ScienceBlogs. Pepsi writes SMG a nice check, and suddenly ...
Zhu Xueqin, a history professor at Shanghai University, was accused of plagiarizing in his thesis, including copying from "Rousseau and the Republic of Virtue" by Carol Blum.
Of interest in the report from the Shanghai ...
from a New York Times account:
The director [Roman Polanski] fled on the eve of sentencing in California because of fear that the presiding intended to renege what his defense lawyers said was a deal ...
Today, Ken Jarboe of Athena Alliance and Mary Adams of I-Capital Advisors submitted the following statement to the SBA on IC management and entrepreneurship:
On March 10, 2010 the Small Business Administration (SBA) published a ...
In 1999 Alan Greenspan, the former head of the US Federal Reserve, delivered a speech at Harvard University entitled “Transcending all else is being principled”. In it he said of reputation “In today’s world ...
I recently wrote a three part series of articles for the Idaho State Bar’s magazine regarding how to deal with e-mail overload:
- Email Overload Part III – Hacking Your Own E-Mail, The Advocate (Official Publication ...
Validation costs for granted European applications can easily spiral out of control due to the translations required for many countries at this stage. Translation costs can make up over 75% of the total cost for ...
The U.S. Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences (BPAI) has released its first opinion citing the U.S. Supreme Court case of Bilski v. Kappos. With a Notification Date of today, July 12, 2010 ...
Copyright is critical to the survival of the music industry and its creators, but lack of respect for copyright is not why artists are struggling to make ends meet, argued a recent panel of media ...
The following is excerpted from a July 9, 2010articleby Jim Edwards published at BNET:
Bayer (BAY) has come up with a brand new legal argument in the fight over the legitimacy of its ...
Takeaway: In Ex parte Robson, the Examiner issued an enablement rejection for a claim reciting "at least one guide rail" and gave two reasons for the rejection. First, two different structures could meet these claim ...
from The Cronk of Higher Education:
by K-FOAG
Freelance Writer
In these dog-eat-dog economic times, tenure is becoming an increasingly rare option for academic hopefuls. As a coveted job-security status, tenure has represented a holy ...
from their website on 12 July 2010: Today, we are excited to announce the redesign of our website, complete with our new logo. Our new design and logo are based on input from our community ...
Congratulations to Spain for winning the World Cup in soccer. But the big money winner is the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) for the marketing of the event. The Hollywood Reporter said that 700 ...
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