Patent & IP news for July 21, 2010
Patent Litigations
- The Turtle Company Inc. v. Pez Candy Inc., Usa et. al. filed 2010-07-20 in New Jersey
- Roche Palo Alto LLC et. al. v. Lupin Pharmaceuticals, Inc. et. al. filed 2010-07-20 in Maryland
- InNova v. 3Com Corporation et. al. filed 2010-07-20 in Texas Eastern
- Webvention LLC v. Abercrombie & Fitch Co. et. al. filed 2010-07-20 in Texas Eastern
- Kai U.S.A., Ltd. v. Keeton et. al. filed 2010-07-20 in Washington Western
- Unknown case filed 2010-07-20 in Texas Eastern
- Kellstrom Integration Solutions, LLC v. Siemens Product Lifecycle Mangement Software, Inc. et. al. filed 2010-07-20 in Texas Eastern
- Peterson Manufacturing Co. v. Whelen Engineering Co., Inc. filed 2010-07-20 in Missouri Western
- Promote Innovation LLC v. K-V Pharmaceutical Co. et. al. filed 2010-07-20 in Texas Eastern
- Tristar Metals Inc v. Groomer's Best Inc filed 2010-07-20 in Texas Northern
- Tex Pat, LLC v. Becton, Dickinson and Company et. al. filed 2010-07-20 in Texas Eastern
- Kaneka Corporation v. JBS Hair Inc. et. al. filed 2010-07-20 in Texas Northern
- RBC Horizon, Inc. v. The Bergquist Torrington Co. et. al. filed 2010-07-20 in Wisconsin Western
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The bare facts and the Naked truth from ipkitten.blogspot.com The silly season -- usually some time around August when there's no real news -- has come early this year, according to this little snippet from the New York Times (the IPKat thanks his friend and ...
Patenting by Entrepreneurs: The Berkeley Patent Survey (Part III 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 some of the major findings from the ...
Lots of Support at Patent Office Three Track Public Meeting from www.ipwatchdog.com
Yesterday the United States Patent and Trademark Office held a public meeting on the so-called Three Track examination proposal, with everyone in agreement that the proposal is quite welcome, at least in principle. On June ...
EPO: hearings in "broccoli and tomato cases" from ipkitten.blogspot.com German newspapers today report of protests outside the EPO building in Munich yesterday relating to a Broccoli patent? What is going on? News reports state that farmers and Greenpeace activists were among those protesting arguing ...
What's so bad about "business method" patents? Small PR firms "goosed" by a patent on press releases from thepriorart.typepad.com Those who have read the U.S. Supreme Court’s Bilski decision know thatit involved a big "almost"— a four-justice minority that wanted to ban business method patents. While that's an ill-defined term ...
Never mind the golden rabbits, what about the Golden Balls? from ipkitten.blogspot.com Readers will recall a recent report on this weblog concerning the battle faced by London-based small business operators Gus and Inez Bodur to protect their GOLDEN BALLS Community trade mark application, for goods in Nice ...
A low patent count portfolio strategy? from ipfinance.blogspot.com At the beginning of 2010, business consulting company Frost & Sullivan awarded their Entrepreneurial Company of the Year award to EVO Electric Ltd, a spin-out from Imperial College London in the field of green automotive technology ...
Bad Apple! BPAI Rejects Apple Patent Reissue on Equitable Principles from www.patentspostgrant.com CAFC to Decide Prosecution Laches in Patent Reissue
Earlier this year we discussed the Ex Parte Tanaka decision of the Board of Patent Appeals & Interferences (BPAI) with respect to “bullet claims” in patent reissue, now ...
Wednesday whimsies from ipkitten.blogspot.com If you're thinking of signing up for this year's IP Law Summer School there's still time. Organised by Informa, this long-established programme is a popular, fully residential course for junior IP lawyers ...
By Donald Zuhn -- In a notice published in the Federal Register earlier this month (75 Fed. Reg. 39493), the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office announced that its draft strategic plan for FY 2010–2015 ...
It’s been a matter of debate for a while whether or not patent trolls would be allowed to impact the introduction of clean and green technologies, and whether or not, morally and legally, pure ...
MSD recently announced it will close down the Organon research & development facilities in Oss, near the Netherlands university of Nijmegen. This came as a shock to many in the Netherlands. The departure of Organon is ...
When performing intellectual property due diligence in connection with a corporate acquisition, a frequently overlooked question is whether any of the company’s copyrights may be subject to termination at some point in the future ...
The court granted defendants' motions to transfer venue plaintiff's false marking actions. "[T]he markings on the concerned products and Defendants’ intention with respect to marking the products with expired patents are the central ...
After much maneuvering, the Senate is set to vote on an extension of the unemployment benefits - with the House to rapidly follow. (HR 4213 that also includes a number of tax break extenders -- see stories ...
Stu Freen is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School The Federal Court of Appeal recently released a decision holding that Internet Service Providers (ISPs) are not considered to be broadcasters within the meaning ...
The court granted defendant's motion to dismiss plaintiff's false marking action for lack of standing where another qui tam relator had filed an earlier suit against defendant. "While Plaintiff acknowledges that the technology ...
U.S. Pat. No. 4,656,917: Musical instrument support.
JW Note: We make note of the inventor named on the patent – Mr. Edward L. Van Halen. Rock on!
What is claimed is:
1. A ...
MUNICH – Some experts in Europe are coming to agreement that a tipping point might have been reached with regard to biological patents. At a conference organised this week by the “no patents on seeds” initiative ...
The Centre for Intellectual Property Rights, (CIR) and the Department of Managerial Economics, Strategy and Innovation (MSI) of the University of Leuven, Belgium has an exciting opening for a doctoral researcher in law. The advertisement ...
On July 8th, 2010, the Federal Circuit sat en banc to consider the Hyatt v. Kappos case. On that same day, the court also sat en banc in a case appealed from the U.S ...
Many of us have lamented the fact that although the "national law schools" have churned out very gifted lawyers, we've lost almost all of them to law firms. It is but natural that many ...
Remember that number.
The current new case backlog at the Office is 735,000.
The Office has initiated an effort to reduce the new case backlog to 699,000 by the end of the fiscal ...
The following is excerpted from a July 21, 2010 Sinorgchempress releasepublished at PR Newswire:
Concluding a five-year legal dispute with Flexsys America L.P., the U.S. District Court in Ohio recently entered ...
Takeaway: The Examiner interpreted "assigning an identification number to each of a plurality of micro-operations" as reading on assigning the same identifier to all operations. The Board agreed with this construction, finding that the claim ...
Pfizer Inc. et al. v. Apotex Inc. et al., No. 08-7231 (N.D. Ill. 2010)
The litigation between Pfizer and Apotex over Apotex's ANDA for a generic version of Lipitor (atorvastatin calcium) presents the ...
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