Patent & IP news for July 20, 2010
Patent Litigations
- AVM Technologies LLC v. Intel Corporation filed 2010-07-16 in Delaware
- Videx, Inc. v. Medeco Security Locks, Inc. filed 2010-07-16 in Oregon
- Monkeymedia, Inc. v. Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment, et. al. filed 2010-07-19 in Texas Western
- Miller et. al. v. Aluma-Form, Inc. filed 2010-07-19 in Illinois Southern
- Promote Innovation LLC v. Praxair, Inc. filed 2010-07-19 in Texas Eastern
- Tex Pat, LLC v. Xylos Corporation et. al. filed 2010-07-19 in Texas Eastern
- Promote Innovation LLC v. Schering Corporation et. al. filed 2010-07-19 in Texas Eastern
- Promote Innovation LLC v. Roche Diagnostics Corporation et. al. filed 2010-07-19 in Texas Eastern
- Hudson Surgical Design, Inc. v. Biomet, Inc. filed 2010-07-19 in Illinois Northern
- Waters Industries, Inc. v. totes Isotoner Corporation et. al. filed 2010-07-19 in Illinois Northern
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Patenting by Entrepreneurs: The Berkeley Patent Survey (Part II of III) from www.patentlyo.com Guest Post by Robert Merges and Pamela Samuelson, UC Berkeley School of Law; Ted Sichelman, University of San Diego School of Law
In our previous post, we discussed three major findings from the Berkeley Patent ...
Updated Bilski Guidance Forthcoming From the USPTO from www.patentabilityblog.com In response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Bilski v. Kappos (see our post here), the USPTO issued a memorandum to provide interim guidance to the Patent Examining Corps (see our post ...
By Donald Zuhn -- In a motion filed on June 28, Plaintiffs-Appellees in the Association for Molecular Pathology v. United States Patent and Trademark case have moved for Chief Judge Randall R. Rader to recuse himself ...
Today the European Patent Office’s Large Board of Appeal will hear a highly contested and much anticipated case on on the patentability of biotechnological enhanced breeding methods (in this case for broccoli and tomatoes ...
Tips for Effective Negotiating:
You can’t always get what you want, But if you try sometimes you might find, You get what you need
- Rolling Stones (1969)
The following stages of negotiation are covered ...
Defendant's motion to dismiss plaintiff's false marking claim for failure to plead with particularity was granted in part. "[S]pecific facts showing Defendant’s knowledge of falsity or intent to deceive are critically ...
Defendant's motion to dismiss plaintiff's false marking claim for failure to plead with particularity was granted in part. "[S]pecific facts showing Defendant’s knowledge of falsity or intent to deceive are critically ...
AP noted a quote: "After six years of litigation, we are pleased to reach a settlement with Toyota," said Frances Keenan, chairman of the Paice board, in a statement.
Also: http://ipbiz.blogspot.com/2010 ...
Checking the status of a U.S. patent application after you’ve filed a Request for Continued Examination (RCE) can be confusing and disheartening. Even if you’ve filed several responses and conducted an examiner ...
Steven Pearlstein's latest column (Can regulation beget innovation?) is based on this insight:
It's been 20 years since Harvard Business School professor Michael Porter provided scholarly support for the notion that, rather than ...
One of my favorite parts of our recent full update and revision of the Thomson Innovation Intellogist Report is the extensive detail on allowed operators. Operators are the specialized search conjunctions, wildcard/truncation features, and ...
In the Phillipines, plagiarism charges have been leveled against Associate Justice Mariano del Castillo in the decision in the "comfort women" case.
The manilastandardtoday reports: Del Castillo was accused of copying two foreign law journals ...
A last-chance negotiation of a draft protocol text on biodiversity access and benefit-sharing has been given yet another chance as delegates parted ways on Friday in Montreal without an agreement but with a tentative plan ...
By now you have probably heard that the USPTO draft Strategic Plan for 2010-2015 is posted and open for comment. We recently announced that we have extended the comment period to August 2. If you ...
Continuing with our mission to increase transparency and accountability at Indian intellectual property institutions, we have filed, with the Central Public Information Officer (CPIO) of the Copyright Division, Ministry of HRD, applications under the Right ...
This is a good opportunity to update the topic of telework, for two reasons. First, it remains a topic of vital importance to many USPTO employees. And second, there is actually very important news to ...
by Mark Malek Many of my clients have been following the Bilski case. As our readers know, the case of whether or not a method for hedging risks in commodities trading was recently decided by ...
An NPR story on plagiarism concludes with a quote from Don McCabe, a professor at Rutgers University Business School :
"The top's cheating to thrive, the bottom's cheating to survive, and those in the ...
Guest Blogger: Adam Singh
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), was signed on July 26, 1990 by then President George H. W. Bush. The ADA prohibits any discrimination based solely on a person's disability ...
When the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit decided Bon Tool, it unwittingly triggered an avalanche of litigation against major corporations brought under 35 U.S.C. § 292, the false marking statute ...
Here’s a recent podcast that is a debate by Professor John Duffy of George Washington Law School and Professor David Olson of Boston College Law School. The podcast was sent to me by the ...
AIPR has provided an excellent analysis of the numerous problems with the present “Patent Reform” bill. There analysis is reproduced below:
S.515 and HR.1260, the Patent Reform Act: the weak grace period harms ...
Presumably at some date in the near future US District Court Judge Kathleen O’Malley and attorney Edward DuMont will be confirmed by the Senate for seats on the US Court of Appeals for the ...
With the latter portion of the summer now upon us here in Canada, IP Osgoode will be slowing down its volume of blog posts, updates and newsletters slightly over the rest of the July and ...
Professor Giuseppina D’Agostino (Osgoode Hall Law School) has authored a new book entitled “Copyright, Contracts, Creators – New Media, New Rules”. The book is briefly described below. The digital world has put content within arm ...
The following is excerpted from a July 13, 2010 Article One Partners Patent Quality Review Blogpostby David DiGiammarino:
The Article One team is proud to congratulate one of our Researchers, known as "Specialist ...
Pharma Patents blog on Three Easy Solutions to the McKesson Problem.
Related posts:
- New patent bill…Post-Grant Opposition Procedures Matt Buchanan of PromoteTheProgress.com is at a CLE today and...
- Fed Cir Blog on Post-Pfaff ...
It's been three weeks since Bilski v. Kappos was released, and I've been deluged with blog posts, client alerts, and seminars that amount to nothing but Yet Another Rehash of Bilski.
Still, some ...
On July 20, 2010, the USPTO hosted a public meeting on the proposed Enhanced Examination Timing Control Initiative, which would offer three tracks for examination while delaying examination of foreign-based applications. (Other blog articles discuss ...
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