Patent & IP news for August 2, 2010
Patent Litigations
- KV Pharmaceutical Company et. al. v. Perrigo Israel Pharmaceuticals Ltd. et. al. filed 2010-07-29 in Delaware
- Barnes & Noble, Inc. et. al. v. Alcatel-Lucent USA, Inc. filed 2010-07-29 in New York Southern
- Danimer Scientific, LLC v. Metabolix, Inc. filed 2010-07-30 in Georgia Middle
- Stretchline Intellectual Properties Ltd. v. H & M Hennes & Mauritz LP filed 2010-07-30 in Virginia Eastern
- barnesandnoble.com l.l.c. v. Xerox Corporation filed 2010-07-29 in New York Southern
- Soc. Esp. De Electrome., S.A. et. al. v. Blue Ridge X-Ray Company, Inc. et. al. filed 2010-07-30 in North Carolina Western
- Tex Pat, LLC v. Stryker Corporation et. al. filed 2010-08-01 in Texas Eastern
- OPTi Inc. v. Silicon Integrated Systems Corp. et. al. filed 2010-07-30 in Texas Eastern
- Tex Pat, LLC v. Littlefuse, Inc. et. al. filed 2010-08-02 in Texas Eastern
- Promethean Inc. v. eInstruction Corporation filed 2010-07-30 in Texas Eastern
- Tex Pat, LLC v. DENTSPLY International, Inc. et. al. filed 2010-08-01 in Texas Eastern
- Tex Pat, LLC v. Sensata Technologies Maryland, Inc. et. al. filed 2010-08-02 in Texas Eastern
- Morvil Technology, LLC v. Ablation Frontiers, Inc. et. al. filed 2010-07-29 in California Northern
- Charcoal Companion Incorporated v. Lifetime Brands, Inc. et. al. filed 2010-07-29 in California Northern
- Worldslide LLC v. Wham-O, Inc. et. al. filed 2010-07-29 in California Eastern
- Implicit Networks, Inc. v. F5 Networks, Inc. filed 2010-07-30 in California Northern
- ArrivalStar S.A. et. al. v. Chapman Command Center, Inc. D/B/A C3 Location Systems filed 2010-07-30 in Illinois Northern
- Buehlhorn et. al. v. Marv-O-Lus Manufacturing Company filed 2010-07-30 in Illinois Southern
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IP Tsar: is it worth a try? from ipkitten.blogspot.com Writing in The Lawyer today ("Opinion: UK economy needs an IP tsar"), Mark Owen is one of the first folk in the IP field to assess the UK intellectual property landscape after the axing of ...
Patent Law Blog (Patently-O) from www.patentlyo.com Becton, Dickinson and Co. v. Tyco Heathcare Group (Fed. Cir. 2010)
Tyco appealed a jury verdict that its safety needles infringed BD’s US Patent No. 5,348,544. The claims require a “spring means ...
From the Journals of Tobias Grubbe, scribe from ipfinance.blogspot.com For those with a slightly quirky sense of humour, and for those who are curious to see how new format for the exploitation of intellectual creations can be made to work with some of the ...
U.S. Based Filers Dominate Patent Reexamination from www.patentspostgrant.com (click to enlarge embedded images)
Patent reexamination has evolved into a highly effective risk management tool for organizations faced with potential patent infringement liability. This post grant review mechanism of the USPTO is increasingly employed ...
Olympic Sponsors: There's One Left (Just For You) from ipkitten.blogspot.com I have been thinking about the big picture lately. Maybe that is what happens when you are about to pack your daughter off for a 10,000 mile journey to begin graduate study ("in a ...
Nutritional Dietary Supplement Trademark & False Designation Lawsuit from www.iptrademarkattorney.com Santa Ana, CA - Nutrivita is a dietary supplement distributor, including the Arthro-7 nutraceutical supplement which is advertised as alleviating joint pain. The Arthro-7 trademark registered with the USPTO on October 24, 2000.
Plaintiff alleges that ...
Speaker Eric van Ginkel is presenting at the Annual ABA Conference on Friday August 6th! from www.ipadrblog.com Greetings IP ADR Blog readers!
Mediator, Arbitrator and Adjunct Professor of Alternative Dispute Resolution at the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution will be a panelist at the Annual ABA Conference on Friday August 6 from ...
The marketing of octopus Paul from ipkitten.blogspot.com Our readers may remember Paul (left), the psychic octopus, who became a global sensation when he correctly predicted the outcome of all Germany games in the recent football World Cup as well as the result ...
Monday miscellany from ipkitten.blogspot.com What better way to get the new week off to a wonderful start than to indulge oneself with the delights of a freshly-published UK patent. The IPKat is much obliged to his friend Ilya Kazi ...
BioOhio Annual Conference Goes On The Road For 2010 from www.patentbaristas.com BioOhio Annual Conference “Innovation Road Show”
This year BioOhio has decided to take its annual conference networking and learning experience around the state. At each 1-day event, the focus will be on innovation… defining it ...
Recent trademark registrations from ipelton.wordpress.com Here is another sampling of recent registrations our clients have received from the USPTO, so readers can see real examples of brands and marks which are being protected:
(These are all public records – click on ...
August 5, 2010 - "Patent Term Extension: The Next Chapter" (Intellectual Property Owners Association) - 2:00 PM (EDT) August 5-10, 2010 - 2010 ABA Annual Meeting (American Bar Association) - San Francisco, CA August 11, 2010 - "Bilski: Implications ...
By Sherri Oslick -- About Court Report: Each week we will report briefly on recently filed biotech and pharma cases. Cima Labs, Inc. et al. v. Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc. 1:10-cv-00117; filed July 28, 2010 in ...
中国政府认为自己的行动符合其公民的最佳利益。它正在规范互联网，以保护其人民不受色情和其他令人生厌内容的危害。然而，批评者声称，中国大幅限制大陆居民可以网上观看、听闻和言论的东西，因此犯了审查过分之过。 Related Articles:
In this interview Kappos discusses with me his management style, his famously long hours, how he manages to inspire the Office to work harder than ever before, his efforts to get funding for the Office ...
Sun Pharmaceutical Industries, Ltd. v. Eli Lilly and Company (Fed. Cir. July 28, 2010)
By Jason Rantanen
Double-patenting issues arise when two commonly owned applications cover the same or similar inventions. The issues in this ...
IP attorneys recognize that “use in commerce” is an critical aspect of trademark law. In order to obtain federal trademark registration, 15 U.S.C. 1051 states that the registrant must demonstrate use of the ...
The court denied defendant's motion to dismiss plaintiff's claims as a sanction for serving inadequate infringement contentions, but ordered plaintiff to amend his infringement contentions a third time or face a dismissal sanction ...
I recently posted on our Inventing the 21st Century exhibition, which opens on the 6 September in London. This is about those that involve green issues. Of the fifteen products that were chosen, some...
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In what we hope will be our final word on the Supreme Court’s recent opinion in the Bilski case—discussed previously here—we note that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued ...
Are counterfeit products first and foremost a threat to human health and safety or is provoking anxiety just a clever way for wealthy nations to create sympathy for increased protection of their intellectual property rights ...
By Dennis Crouch
The Federal Circuit offers some clues to its post-Bilski patentable-subject-matter jurisprudence, but leaves that fight for another day. Instead, the court held the claims anticipated by explicitly ignoring novel claim elements.
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The following is excerpted from a July 30, 2010 press release:
GenericsWeb, a leader in established pharmaceutical patent searching and analysis, recently published an article based on its proprietary patent intelligence for Aricept® (Donepezil), the ...
Today I'm happy to report that something really important and positive happened last week; something that should brighten the perspective of everyone who cares about innovation, intellectual property, and the operations of the USPTO ...
A look at the draft e-Governance policy and its implications on patent law in IndiaThe Department of Information Technology (DIT), Government of India (GoI) recently came out with a draft (V1.1) Policy on ...
A senior patent examiner at the USPTO in a phone interview recently stressed the precedential BPAI case, Ex parte Miyazaki, Appeal No. 2007-3300 (BPAI 2008). In this interesting case, the Board had trouble with the ...
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