Patent & IP news for August 11, 2010
Patent Litigations
- Minkus Electronic Display Systems Inc. v. Adaptive Micro Systems LLC et. al. filed 2010-08-09 in Delaware
- Plas-Pak Industrues Inc v. Sulzer Mixpac USA Inc filed 2010-08-09 in Connecticut
- Card Activation Technologies Inc v. Sunglass Hut Trading et al filed 2010-08-09 in Illinois Northern
- Unique Product Solutions, Limited v. Clearsnap Holding, Inc. filed 2010-08-10 in Ohio Northern
- Illinois Computer Research LLC v. HarperCollins Publishers, Inc. et. al. filed 2010-08-10 in Illinois Northern
- Richter v. Mio Technology USA Ltd. et. al. filed 2010-08-10 in Nevada
- Fidelity Information Services, Inc. v Wolf Run Hollow filed 2010-08-10 in Texas Northern
- Digital Insight Corporation D/B/A Intuit Financial Services v. Wolf Run Hollow, LLC filed 2010-08-10 in Texas Northern
- App Pharmaceuticals, LLC v. Ameridose, LLC filed 2010-08-10 in New Jersey
- Patent Group, LLC v. William H. Harvey Co. filed 2010-08-11 in Texas Eastern
- The Irrevocable Trust of Anthony J Antonious v. Roger Cleveland Golf Company Inc filed 2010-08-09 in California Central
- Patent Group, LLC v. Newell Rubbermaid, Inc. and Moore Push Pin Co. filed 2010-08-11 in Texas Eastern
- Peter Van Bregmann Jr v. Burton Snowboards North America et. al. filed 2010-08-09 in California Central
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New Article on IP Insurance: Changing the Economics of the IP Litigation Landscape from www.ipprospective.com You may want to be apprised of the opportunities provided by IP insurance. You may also want to simply be aware that the other side might have IP insurance.
I have published an article in ...
Software Patents as Stalking Horses for the Patent System from ipkitten.blogspot.com For those of you who like your discussion about the intersection between IP and innovation/ commercialization/ entrepeneurship laden with rhetorical spice, you cannot beat the commentary of Vivek Wadhwa. Just his current set of affiliations ...
Wednesday whimsies from ipkitten.blogspot.com It's all happening in the Balkans. Having reported on Monday that Serbia's new Trade Law comes into force on 1 January 2o11, the IPKat is now being informed from various good folk that ...
Some summary summer for Ricoh, while Jones groans from ipkitten.blogspot.com It's a good week for sorting out confidentiality cases. Only yesterday the IPKat finally sorted out the awesome decision in Imerman v Tchenguiz (here), and now he's catching up on Robert Andrew Jones ...
A Trademark Justification for Design Patent Rights from www.patentlyo.com I have posted a new draft-article to SSRN entitled A Trademark Justification for Design Patent Rights. The article is currently in the editing process and will hopefully be published later this year in the Harvard ...
The Equities of an Injunction Concurrent with Patent Reexamination from www.patentspostgrant.com Monsanto Co. v. Geerston Seed Farms
In the recent Supreme Court case of Monsanto Co. v. Geertson Seed Farms, the Court shed some additional light on how district courts should assess the factors required to ...
'The Complete Man' just got split in Two! Raymonds Ltd. loses Trademark Battle from spicyipindia.blogspot.com 
(Image taken from here)
A recent decision of the Bombay High Court appears to have highlighted the intricacies of Section 29 of the Trade Marks Act, 1999 to a considerable extent. In the case of ...
Want To Hear Me Speak At SXSW? from blawgit.com If you are planning on attending South by Southwest next year, and want to hear me talk, be sure to let the SXSW folks know. Here is a link, to the voting and here is ...
Welcome, IAN the Intellectual Asset Network from ipfinance.blogspot.com The Intangible Assets Network ("Helping the public sector make the most of their intangible assets") is a new initiative from the UK's Intellectual Property Office, an initiative which -- if it can be developed and ...
Claim Construction of DNA-reciting Claims By Kevin E. Noonan -- The Federal Circuit considered claims to isolated DNA sequences encoding portions of the genome of a porcine circovirus in Intervet Inc. v. Merial Ltd. last week ...
The Socio-Legal Review (SLR) is a student-edited, peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal published annually by the Law and Society Committee of the National Law School of India University, Bangalore. The Journal aims to be a forum that ...
A patent applicant will file a Request for Continued Examination (RCE) after a final Office Action in order to continue prosecution before the examiner, such as to make claim amendments and/or submit evidence that ...
Straight from the "it's about time" department comes breaking word that the so-called popular press are finally identifying the most under reported news story of this recession. The United States Patent and Trademark Office ...
In a post Pulling an All-Nighter for the College Application, the New York Times discusses aspects of the
common application to college.
In light of problems with copying of standard admissions essays, the common ap ...
The bottom line in Adams v. Perrigno was a vacate and remand:
Adams Respiratory Therapeutics, Inc. (Adams) ap-
peals the judgment of the district court that the guaifene-
sin product described in Perrigo Co.’s ...
June's trade data released this morning was not good news -- unless you really like the huge trade deficits of old days of the last decade. In fact, the news is horrible. The trade deficit ...
From Mobile Business Briefing:
South Korea’s antitrust body has launched an extensive investigation into possible patent-related abuses by a range of local and foreign-owned IT and telecoms firms, the government said this week. According ...
Roald Dahl’s 1964 book Charlie and the chocolate factory is a fantasy with an Inventing Room for chocolate inventions. Once though, Dahl helped inspire a patented invention that helped many small...
(From Steve van ...
I have long argued that the economic stimulus spending need to be more than a short term boost -- it needs to be transformative. Education is a transformative investment. Thus I support additional funding to state ...
"ORDER REGARDING PLAINTIFF’S STANDING
UNDER 35 U.S.C. SECTION 292
In United States of America ex rel. FLFMC, LLC v. Wham-O Inc., Civil Action No. 10-435, this Court issued a Memorandum Opinion (Doc ...
The court granted in part defendant's motion to compel the production of prior settlement agreements concerning plaintiff's drug, Lipitor®, but not documents relating to such agreements. The settlement agreements were relevant to secondary ...
You may not have noticed it, but Derwent World Patents Index (DWPI) First View went gently into that good night at the end of July 2010. The First View file has integrated into the main ...
Shizzle Pop, LLC v. Aviva Sports, Inc. (C.D. Cal. Aug. 5, 2010); FLFMC, LLC v. Wham-O, Inc. (W.D. Pa. Aug. 3, 2010)
Last week, a pair of district courts granted motions to dismiss ...
Per a media advisory from the USPTO, released yesterday.
President Obama Signs Bill to Provide USPTO Authority to Spend an Additional $129 Million of FY 2010 Fee Collections
Washington – On Tuesday, August 10, President Barack ...
Yahoo.sports has a story about Michael Vaughn's claim that he played for the Dallas Cowboys. Once exposed, Vaughn tried a variety of tricks. As yahoo describes -->
Since McKenna's report went out last ...
U.S. Pat. Appl. Pub. No. 2009/0188617: Dog nose art.
JW Note: You gotta love dogs . I wonder if my daughter’s recently demolished flip-flops. courtesy of our dog Charlie “van Gogh” Ward, could ...
Caraco Pharmaceutical Labs and Sun Pharmaceutical Ind. tried to get a rehearing en banc regarding the counterclaim provision of the Hatch-Waxman Act (HWA). Novo Nordisk A/S v. Caraco Pharmaceutical Labs and Sun Pharmaceutical Ind ...
On Tuesday, August 10, President Barack Obama signed into law P.L. 111-224 that gives the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) the authority to spend an additional $129 million of the fees the ...
Bibek Debroy from the Indian Express recently carried an article on the International Property Rights Index (IPRI) and India's retreat from reforms. While the IPRI 2010 report came out a while ago, I only ...
This month’s issue of the American Bar Association’s Landslide magazine includes a thought-provoking article about this topic. In the article, R. Mark Halligan points out that patents have limited lifespans, are costly to ...
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