Patent & IP news for July 26, 2010
Patent Litigations
- Switchcraft, Inc. v. Hirschmann Automation and Control, Inc. et. al. filed 2010-07-22 in Illinois Northern
- CIMA Labs Inc. et. al. v. Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc. filed 2010-07-23 in Delaware
- Warrior Sports, Inc. v. Harrow Sports, Incorporated filed 2010-07-23 in Michigan Eastern
- Texas Data Co., L.L.C. v. Acushnet Company filed 2010-07-23 in Texas Eastern
- Sealing Systems Inc v. Adaptor Inc et. al. filed 2010-07-23 in Wisconsin Eastern
- App Pharmaceuticals, LLC v. Navinta LLC et. al. filed 2010-07-22 in New Jersey
- Texas Data Co., L.L.C. v. Callaway Golf Co. filed 2010-07-23 in Texas Eastern
- Texas Data Co., L.L.C. v. Callaway Golf Co. filed 2010-07-23 in Texas Eastern
- Texas Data Co., L.L.C. v. Target Brands, Inc. et. al. filed 2010-07-23 in Texas Eastern
- Sealing Systems, Inc. v. Adaptor, Inc. filed 2010-07-23 in Wisconsin Eastern
- Brain Life, LLC v. Elekta Inc. et. al. filed 2010-07-23 in California Southern
- Atkins v. Magic Sliders L.P. filed 2010-07-22 in California Southern
- Mack-Ray, Inc. v. The J.M. Smucker Company filed 2010-07-23 in Texas Eastern
- Bose Corporation v. Lightspeed Aviation, Inc. filed 2010-07-23 in Massachusetts
- Atkins v. Empire Level Manufacturing Corp. filed 2010-07-22 in California Southern
- GeoTag Inc v. Frontier Communications Corp et. al. filed 2010-07-23 in Texas Eastern
- Texas Data Co., L.L.C. v. Bridgestone Golf, Inc. filed 2010-07-23 in Texas Eastern
- STMicroelectronics Inc filed 2010-07-23 in Texas Northern
- PixFusion LLC v. The New York State Division of Lottery and Sideshow Ltd. filed 2010-07-23 in New York Southern
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IP Man from www.717madisonplace.com 
Since the Bilski decision, I’ve been seeking guidance on what is the definitive test for an “abstract idea.” I stumbled upon an unlikely source the other day as I was walking past the rental ...
Monday miscellany from ipkitten.blogspot.com The vernacular strikes again. "Experts Break New Ground in Traditional Cultural Expression Talks" is the title of a media release from the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) which, as the name suggests, indicates that discussions ...
Effects on False Marking Type Statistics by Increased New Case Filings from docketreport.blogspot.com Justin Gray of Foley & Lardner notes on his Gray on Claims blog that the number of new False Marking cases being filed has again picked up steam. This recent increase has impacted statistics on the ...
Blawg Review #274 from www.lotempiolaw.com Welcome everyone to Blawg Review #274! Blawg Review is still the place to find out where the best law blogs are posted, and because today is the 20th anniversary of the Americans Disabilities Act of ...
Red Light Photo Evidence Inadmissible - Conviction Overturned from www.iptrademarkattorney.com Orange, CA - This post is off topic, but these traffic cameras are popping up everywhere and some research shows that they cause more accidents than they prevent. The Appellate Division in the County of Orange ...
Federal Circuit Nomination Update from inventivestep.net As the Federal Circuit now sits with only 9 active judges and 3 current vacancies, Judge Kathleen O’Malley will finally get a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday afternoon.
Appointments to the ...
Patent Reexamination as a Form of Litigation Damage Control from www.patentspostgrant.com Threat of Injunction Dissolves in Flexiteek Litigation
The initiation of patent reexamination for patents subject to concurrent litigation can provide strategic benefits independent of the ultimate outcome of the reexamination. These litigation inspired applications of ...
Here is a variety of recent USPTO-related news and announcements [It is great to see the USPTO communicating with the public more frequently and in more ways]:
- The next Trademark Public Advisory Committee (TPAC) meeting ...
Experts meeting last week at the World Intellectual Property Organization made the first real strides in over a decade at developing a concrete rules to protect the cultural expressions and folklore of indigenous and local ...
Special Guest Blog by Commissioner for Patents Bob Stoll
To address recent inquires as to whether RCE filings at the USPTO are rising, I asked the Patents team to look into it. Interestingly, it turns ...
Over at the IAM blog there is a posting that everyone interested in patent policy and technology licensing should read - IP value creation at IBM and Microsoft - compare and contrast. Without giving away too much ...
Whether you grew up playing with dolls or action figures, somewhere in your past a Barbie made her way into your playroom. The “unrivaled queen” of the fashion–doll market, Barbie’s 20th century reign ...
An interesting story line on the Great Recession has developed over the past few days. It appears that while company profits are up, company investment is not. The Sunday New York Times ran a story ...
Plaintiff's motion for terminating sanctions for alleged spoliation of evidence was denied. "The fact that [defendant] no longer has the original source code and the reasons it would be expected to have it will ...
Per Edouard LeFevre's post at Foley's Nano & Cleantech Blog on July 29, 2010, Foley & Lardner will host a webcast:
Foley's Rewards and Risks of “Green” Web Conference Series explores ways for executives ...
Hot on the heels of the Bilski decision in the US, the Australian Patent Office has now refined the Australian test for the patentability of business methods.
The patent application in question relates to a ...
from helium:
Google has come to the rescue. Google will not allow content thieves to make Adsense commissions from stolen content. Google can insist that the offending content be removed, or that attribution or other ...
From a NYT blog by Matthew Wald:
Electric cars are designed so that when a driver hits the brake pedal, the electric motors switch functions and become generators, converting momentum back into current.
The piece ...
by Jason Fischer A while back, attorneys for Apple concocted a creative argument for why jailbreaking your iPhone constituted an infringement of the copyrights in the device’s software, based on the non-circumvention provisions of ...
When an Office action is issued by the USPTO, the time period for filing a reply begins. If a reply is not filed within the period specified in the Office action, the application is technically ...
The sequence of events of In re Swanson is well known. Judge James Cohn of the Southern District of Florida has now taken the Swanson approach one step further – in Flexiteek Americas v. PlasTEAK (Case ...
Prometheus Laboratories, Inc. v. Mayo Collaborative Services (Fed. Cir. 2010)(on petition en banc)
by Dennis Crouch
In the wake of the Supreme Court ruling in Bilski v. Kappos, Mayo has petitioned the Court of ...
Every three years, the United States Copyright Office seeks proposals for exemptions from the Digital Millennium Copyright Act ("DMCA"). As part of the DMCA, it became unlawful to circumvent access control measures copyright holders used ...
Vincent Doré is a JD/MBA candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School and Schulich School of Business. In a recent trademark dilution case, Ninth Circuit Chief Judge Alex Kozinski wrote an eloquent opinion that clearly ...
Earlier today, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision of the Bank of International Settlements reached some agreement on a bank reform issue -- specifically on what constitutes "capital" that banks have to hold as part of ...
In a piece titled A memorable case of plagiarism has its roots in New Jersey , Warren Boronson discusses the Sokolow matter,
involving plagiarism by one Jayme Sokolow ( who received a B.A. from Trenton State ...
BPAI analyzes § 101 under both Machine-or-Transformation and Benson (Ex parte Caccavale)
Takeaway: In affirming a § 101 rejection, the BPAI analyzed method claims using the Machine-or-Transformation test and then analyzed under the "abstract idea" test using ...
After 1 hour and 40 minutes I had hardly covered one-third of my questions, and I think you will see that we had a very lively discussion about many things, including Judge Michel's investigation ...
Every three years, the United States Copyright Office seeks proposals for exemptions from the Digital Millennium Copyright Act ("DMCA"). As part of the DMCA, it became unlawful to circumvent access control measures copyright holders used ...
From Bob Park's WN on July 23, 2010:
It's not like harvesting corn once a year; algae gives you a new crop every day. The first step is to find the ideal oil-producing ...
Takeaway: In Ex parte Morooka, the BPAI reversed an enablement rejection because the rejection amounted to a general allegation that inadequate information was disclosed rather than a "reasonable explanation as to why the scope of ...
from cbs11:
Todd Hubing is an electrical engineering professor at Clemson University in South Carolina. He is now the second researcher this year to find problems with Toyota's electronic throttle controls.
Just this month ...
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