Patent & IP news for July 28, 2010
Patent Litigations
- St. Jude Medical et. al. v. Volcano Corporation filed 2010-07-27 in Delaware
- Accord Industries, LLC v. Valmont Newmark, Inc. filed 2010-07-26 in Florida Middle
- Excel Dryer, Inc. v. AAA Kitchen & Bath Distributor, Inc. filed 2010-07-27 in Massachusetts
- Texas Data Co., L.L.C. v. Playtex Products, Inc. filed 2010-07-27 in Texas Eastern
- Texas Data Co., L.L.C. v. Energizer Personal Care, L.L.C. et. al. filed 2010-07-27 in Texas Eastern
- The PACid Group, LLC v. Best Buy Co., Inc. et. al. filed 2010-07-27 in Texas Eastern
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SpicyIP Tidbit: ' Greenpeace 'advised' to remove TATA logo from game from spicyipindia.blogspot.com Readers have very likely already seen the news of TATA having dragged Greenpeace to the Delhi High Court in a defamation and trademark infringement suit over the use of its logo (stylized T in a ...
Terminal from www.patenthawk.com Eli Lilly markets cancer drug Gemzar®, the active ingredient of which is gemcitabine. 4,808,614 claims gemcitabine, and a method for treating viral infections using gemcitabine. 5,464,826 claims using gemcitabine to treat ...
In case you missed them ... from ipfinance.blogspot.com Some recent posts on other weblogs may be of interest and/or concern to IP Finance readers. I've listed them here for your comfort and convenience:
* In "Serious Damages", Hugo Cox notes for The ...
Examiner Comments in Prosecution History Discounted as Unskilled? from www.patentspostgrant.com The relevance of original patent application prosecution history in patent reexamination remains an unsettled issue at the USPTO. As we discussed last month, the MPEP mandates the application of Phillips v. AWH Corp., 415 F ...
Yesterday's decision of Mr Justice Floyd (Patents Court, England and Wales) in the latest round of Leo Pharma A/S and another v Sandoz Ltd [2010] EWHC 1911 (Pat) (see earlier post here) picks ...
A new proposal from the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) for a “Three Track” system for patent examination may violate US obligations under the World Trade Organization Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights ...
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has posted supplemental interim guidance for the patent examining corps to use when determining subject matter eligibility under 35 U.S.C. § 101 in light of the ...
The global AIDS community meeting in Vienna last week ended with renewed determination to fight the epidemic but underlined an urgent need for increased funding to sustain scientific advances and universal access. Some warned against ...
The USPTO has published Interim Guidance for Determining Subject Matter Eligibility for Process Claims in View of Bilski v. Kappos. This Interim Guidance went into effect yesterday, July 27, 2010, supersedes previous guidance on subject ...
Amanda Carpenter is a JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. In a recent English case involving the Times Newspapers Ltd (“Times”) and Detective Sergeant Gary Flood (“DS Flood”), the Court of Appeal interpreted the ...
In my earlier posting on jobs, I touched upon the growing debate as to whether the US is facing a structural change and must now confront structural unemployment. This brings to mind something that has ...
Oracle seems to be trying to escape ED Texas:
Oracle Corporation (Oracle) submits a petition for a
writ of mandamus to direct the United States District
Court for the Eastern District of Texas to (1 ...
Yesterday, the PTO published Interim Guidance for Determining Subject Matter Eligibility for Process Claims in View of Bilski v. Kappos. The Federal Register notice requests public comments on the Guidance by September 27. Specifically, the ...
Dear Readers, we at Intellectual Property Watch are writing to politely remind you that the financial support of every one of you is needed this year, especially those of you who have long benefited from ...
TheraSense, Inc. (Abbott Labs.) v. Becton, Dickinson and Co. (Fed. Cir. 2010)(En Banc Rehearing)
In TheraSense v. BD, an en banc Federal Circuit is reconsidering the doctrinal structure that it has created to handle ...
On 27 July 2010, the Third Circuit issued a rulilng in the "Bimbo Bakeries"/Thomas' English Muffin case:
The issue on appeal is
whether the District Court erred in enjoining appellant Chris
Botticella, formerly a ...
MSNBC did a story on Jonathan Nyce on 25 July 2010. Nyce is blaming the gardener Enyo:
The man who jonathan nyce is targeting as michelle's killer is the family landscaper, enyo, who nyce ...
First line in an AP story: Bedbugs are spreading at an unprecedented rate in New York City, and officials on Wednesday [July 28] announced the start of a plan to battle the infestation...
Meanwhile, Obama ...
Defendant's motion to disqualify plaintiff's counsel was granted where the disqualified law firm employed an attorney who previously represented defendant. "[The attorney] was involved in patent prosecution work for the accused product. . . . He ...
Plaintiff's motion to compel the production of defendant's source code for future products was granted "because it is reasonably likely to lead to evidence relevant to [plaintiff's] infringement claims. Further, products which ...
China’s government says it is acting in the best interests of its citizens. It is regulating the internet in order to protect its people from pornography and other objectionable content. Critics, however, assert that ...
In view of the Supreme Court’s decision in Bilski v. Kappos, the USPTO on July 27, 2010 released Interim Bilski Guidelines to its Examining Corp. for determining subject matter eligibility ( “Interim Guidance for ...
As the jobless rate remain high and budgets tight, United States policymakers increasingly are looking for ways to boost domestic innovation in order to create new jobs and boost the economy. One such bill to ...
Yesterday I heard from Tom Hochstatter, IP Wire's Managing Editor, that their site (launched in March 2010) is "intend[ed] to be the 'VentureWire' and/or 'TechCrunch' for IP deals and transactions. The following ...
In this installment we start out talking about Judge Michel's work for Senator Arlen Specter and how today there seems to be a slow and steady decline in the checks and balances intended to ...
Many pharma patent cases (including the Novartis Gleevec case and the Roche Valcyte case) raise the issue of "relevant" priority dates.
Tahir Amin dealt with this issue at length in this wonderful post here. I ...
The Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing for Federal Circuit nominee Kathleen O’Malley took place this afternoon. The link to the recording of the proceeding is available here: [Link to Webcast]. Judge O’Malley is introduced ...
Etch A Sketch, the iconic drawing toy of the 1960s and 1970s, is celebrating its 60th birthday this year. It was invented in the mid 1950s by Andre Cassagnes, an electrician in France. Lacking funds ...
The bright, shiny new European Commission e-justice site, launched earlier this month, features a directory of legal professionals which includes lawyers, notaries and bailiffs, the IPKat learns from Kilburn & Strode's observant Nick Bassil -- but ...
Takeaway: A district court construed "an anchor member ... shaped to normally assume a substantially straight configuration" as "sufficiently straight to be inserted into a needle". Smith & Nephew, Inc. v. Biomet, Inc., No. 05-611-KI (D. Ore ...
Director Kappos has a new vision for the MPEP, one that "uses 21st century authoring and contributing techniques". Kappos has blogged about "Reengineering the MPEP" here and here. His second post notes that after soliciting ...
Sun Pharm. Indus. v. Eli Lilly & Co., No. 2010-1105 (Fed. Cir. 2010)
The principle behind the doctrine of double patenting is simple: a person may not obtain two patents on the same invention. The doctrine ...
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