Patent & IP news for August 14, 2010

For the avoidance of accidents, or worse? from ipkitten.blogspot.com


Under the UK's Locomotive Act 1865, anyone driving a car in town
had to be led by a man who walked in front of the car,
carrying a red flag -- to prevent 'fatal accidents ...

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Plugged from www.patenthawk.com

Dr. Gregory W. Baran invented a biopsy sampling needle with spring-loaded action to pull a plug from a corpse. This innovation netted the doctor 5,025,797 and CIP 5,400,798. Dr. Baran decided ...

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On-field, off-field from ipkitten.blogspot.com

In November of last year, the IPKat had another of his periodical blasts on the subject of IP licences and "how not to do it". The subject of this little rant was the dispute in ...

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Google Briefly Punishes Oracle by Removal from Google Search from www.ipwatchdog.com

Late yesterday Oracle announced in an exceptionally brief and direct press release that it has filed a lawsuit against Google. But someone at Google didn't find this amusing and seemingly tampered with Google's ...

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PLI Patent Litigation 2010 from www.patentdocs.org

Practising Law Institute (PLI) will be holding five live sessions of its Patent Litigation 2010 seminar this fall in San Francisco (September 20-21), McLean, VA (October 4-5), Chicago (October 14-15), Atlanta (November 8-9), and New ...

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PLI Advanced Patent Licensing Seminar from www.patentdocs.org

Practising Law Institute (PLI) will be holding three live sessions of its Advanced Patent Licensing 2010: Current Developments and Best Practices seminar this fall in Chicago (September 30), San Francisco (October 25), and New York ...

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FTC Halts Canadian Domain Name Registration Scam from www.ipwatchdog.com

The Federal Trade Commission has permanently halted the operations of Canadian con artists who allegedly posed as domain name registrars and convinced thousands of U.S. consumers, small businesses and non-profit organizations to pay bogus ...

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Oral Argument of the Month — Laryngeal Mask Co. Ltd. v. Ambu from www.717madisonplace.com

The Federal Circuit heard oral argument in Laryngeal Mask Co. Ltd. v. Ambu earlier this month.  The court has not yet issued its opinion in the case.  The case concerns US patents 7,156,100 ...

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