Patent & IP news for August 23, 2010
Patent Litigations
- Patect, LLC v. Sealed Air Corporation et. al. filed 2010-08-22 in Texas Eastern
- NLB Corp. v. StoneAge, Inc. filed 2010-08-20 in Michigan Eastern
- Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, Inc. v. Shea Integration Solutions Corp filed 2010-08-20 in California Northern
- Unique Product Solutions, Limited v. Foot Levelers, Inc. filed 2010-08-20 in Ohio Northern
- Patect, LLC v. Corning Incorporated filed 2010-08-22 in Texas Eastern
- Tex Pat, LLC v. Agilent Technologies, Inc et. al. filed 2010-08-22 in Texas Eastern
- Genomic Health, Inc v. Incyte Corporation filed 2010-08-18 in California Northern
- Tex Pat, LLC v. Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc et. al. filed 2010-08-22 in Texas Eastern
- Patent Harbor, LLC v. LG Electronics, Inc. et. al. filed 2010-08-20 in Texas Eastern
- Medicines Company v. Hospira Inc. filed 2010-08-19 in Delaware
- Lexmark International, Inc. v. Ink Technologies Printer Supplies, LLC et. al. filed 2010-08-20 in Ohio Southern
- LL&L Innovations et. al. v. Jerry Leigh of California et. al. filed 2010-08-20 in Utah
- Medicis Pharmaceutical Corporation v. Acella Pharmaceuticals Incorporated filed 2010-08-19 in Arizona
- Starlinger & Co. GMBH v. Windmoller & Holscher KG filed 2010-08-20 in Texas Southern
- Grant Street Group, Inc. v. D & T Ventures, LLC et. al. filed 2010-08-20 in Pennsylvania Western
- Great Plains National Bank v. Leppert et. al. filed 2010-08-20 in North Dakota
- Greene Le Consulting & Trade Corp v. Renosky et. al. filed 2010-08-19 in South Carolina
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Patent & IP Blogs
EU Patent: Advocates General Suggesting To 'Rise The Bar' In a Different Way from www.ipjur.com Only now I have stumbled upon Opinion 01/09 - Statement by the Advocates General of the Court of Justice of the European Union concerning the European Patent and the Community Patent Court as planned by ...
Tarnishment by association: a new twist from ipkitten.blogspot.com It is well known that fashion labels send celebrities free samples of their wares in the hope that the celebrity will wear the piece in public, be photographed in the process and hopefully inspire others ...
Before you litigate that patent in India, read this from patlit.blogspot.com From the ever-fertile keyboard of Spicy IP blogger Prashant Reddy comes "A Beginner's Guide to Patent Litigation Before Indian Courts and the Indian Patent Office" (here), an entertaining and thought-provoking piece in which ...
Monday miscellany from ipkitten.blogspot.com "How to Write an Effective IP Press Release". There's a choice of two dates for this IPKat seminar -- Tuesday 7 September 2010 (hosted by Collyer Bristow) and Tuesday 5 October (hosted by Olswang LLP ...
Backgrounds of Registered Patent Practitioners from www.patentlyo.com Tom Field and his co-authors have been kind enough to make their patent practitioner background database available to the public [Download 5mb database]. Their data is based on the registration applications that hopeful patent attorneys ...
Best Logos – MLS edition from ipelton.wordpress.com It has been quite some time since I went to an MLS soccer game – although the games in D.C. are well attended and the team was a recurring contender in the first years of ...
Turning Off an Inter Partes Patent Reexamination from www.patentspostgrant.com Can an Ongoing Patent Reexamination be Stopped?
With most patent reexaminations now being conducted concurrent to a district court or ITC proceeding, a common question of such plaintiffs is “what becomes of the patent reexamination ...
Advocate General says "non" to proposed new European patent plan from ipkitten.blogspot.com 
The IPKat says a big "thank-you" to some very public-spirited soul at London solicitors Bristows for getting a press release out this morning on the 34-page Opinion of the Advocate General on Case 1/09 ...
AMP v. USPTO -- Briefing Schedule Update from www.patentdocs.org
By Donald Zuhn -- In June, Myriad Genetics and ten Directors of the University of Utah Research Foundation filed a Notice of Appeal in Association for Molecular Pathology v. U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, seeking ...
By Donald Zuhn -- In June, Myriad Genetics and ten Directors of the University of Utah Research Foundation filed a Notice of Appeal in Association for Molecular Pathology v. U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, seeking ...
PhRMA Files Amicus Brief in Therasense Case from www.patentdocs.org
By Kevin E. Noonan -- Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, Chapter 1, first line The several amicus curiae briefs that have been filed ...
By Kevin E. Noonan -- Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, Chapter 1, first line The several amicus curiae briefs that have been filed ...
What Should Bilski Mean To Examiners? from www.pharmapatentsblog.com
Shortly after the Supreme Court issued its decision, the USPTO published "Interim Guidance for Determining Subject Matter Eligibility for Process Claims in View of Bilski v. Kappos." The guidance is to be used by examiners ...
Shortly after the Supreme Court issued its decision, the USPTO published "Interim Guidance for Determining Subject Matter Eligibility for Process Claims in View of Bilski v. Kappos." The guidance is to be used by examiners ...
The Advocate General's Opinion: thumbs down for the proposed Court from patlit.blogspot.com
Here, courtesy of Kevin Mooney (Simmons & Simmons) is an English translation of Advocate General Juliane Kokott's Opinion, on behalf of all the Advocate General, in Case 1/09 on the legality of the proposed ...
Here, courtesy of Kevin Mooney (Simmons & Simmons) is an English translation of Advocate General Juliane Kokott's Opinion, on behalf of all the Advocate General, in Case 1/09 on the legality of the proposed ...
The Righthaven matter: copyright infringement and bloggers from ipbiz.blogspot.com
Righthaven LLC is bringing copyright infringement actions against people who post content obtained from the Las Vegas Review- Journal. In a post titled Could The Legality Of Google's Cache Kill Righthaven's Copyright Claims ...
Righthaven LLC is bringing copyright infringement actions against people who post content obtained from the Las Vegas Review- Journal. In a post titled Could The Legality Of Google's Cache Kill Righthaven's Copyright Claims ...
German patent funds in trouble? from www.athenaalliance.org
In our report last year Maximizing Intellectual Property and Intangible Assets: Case Studies in Intangible Asset Finance, we mentioned the patent fund partnership between Deutsche Bank (DB) and IP Bewertungs AG which manages three funds ...
Ingenious Britons event from britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk
There are two weeks to go before the British Library's Inventing the 21st Century exhibition opens in the Folio Society Gallery in our London site. That's free, while modestly priced at £10 (£7 ...
There are two weeks to go before the British Library's Inventing the 21st Century exhibition opens in the Folio Society Gallery in our London site. That's free, while modestly priced at £10 (£7 ...
Did the lack of software savvy patent attorneys cause a decline in patent quality? from ipbiz.blogspot.com
The abstract for a paper by Clifford, Field and Cavicchi titled A Statistical Analysis of the Patent Bar: Where are the Software-Savvy Patent Attorneys? states:
Among the many factors that impact the declining quality of ...
The abstract for a paper by Clifford, Field and Cavicchi titled A Statistical Analysis of the Patent Bar: Where are the Software-Savvy Patent Attorneys? states:
Among the many factors that impact the declining quality of ...
US Internet Neutrality Flare-Up Resonates Across International Front from www.ip-watch.org
A network neutrality policy proposed recently by industry giants Google and Verizon not only sparked controversy here in the United States, but the news is making waves internationally as well. Related Articles:
A network neutrality policy proposed recently by industry giants Google and Verizon not only sparked controversy here in the United States, but the news is making waves internationally as well. Related Articles:
That valuation question from www.athenaalliance.org
You may have heard that HP and Dell are in a bidding war for a company called 3PAR. Here is the latest update from the Wall Street Journal:
H-P's $24-a-share bid is one-third higher ...
Survey: Why Patent Law from www.patentlyo.com
The following survey is designed primarily for patent law professionals and asks why you became a patent law professional rather than staying within your technical area of expertise and working as an engineer, scientist, developer ...
Assigning Monetary Value to Past Infringement Does Not Undermine Plaintiff's Request for Permanent Injunction from docketreport.blogspot.com
The court denied defendant's motion for summary judgment as to plaintiff's request for permanent injunctive relief. "[T]he mere fact that Plaintiffs have assigned a monetary value to past infringement, does not mean ...
The court denied defendant's motion for summary judgment as to plaintiff's request for permanent injunctive relief. "[T]he mere fact that Plaintiffs have assigned a monetary value to past infringement, does not mean ...
Perrigo Announces Patent Infringement Lawsuit by Galderma from www.infringementupdates.com
The following is excerpted from an August 22, 2010 press release found atMelodika.net:
Perrigo Company announced its filing with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its Abbreviated New Drug Application ...
Breaking news: Whistle blower researcher arrested after disclosing problems with voting machines from spicyipindia.blogspot.com
Breaking news: Whistle blower researcher arrested after disclosing problems with voting machines:
Amongst others, Wired, NDTV India, The Register UK, and PC World have disclosed that a security researcher, Hari Prasad has been arrested after ...
Breaking news: Whistle blower researcher arrested after disclosing problems with voting machines:
Amongst others, Wired, NDTV India, The Register UK, and PC World have disclosed that a security researcher, Hari Prasad has been arrested after ...
Judge Lamberth enjoins Obama stem cell guidelines on ESC from ipbiz.blogspot.com
CNN reports:
A U.S. district judge granted a preliminary injunction [23 August 2010] to stop federal funding of embryonic stem cell research that he said destroys embryos, ruling it went against the will of ...
CNN reports:
A U.S. district judge granted a preliminary injunction [23 August 2010] to stop federal funding of embryonic stem cell research that he said destroys embryos, ruling it went against the will of ...
USPTO and Russia Begin Patent Prosecution Highway Pilot from ipwatchdog.com
The Commerce Department’s United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and the Federal Service for Intellectual Property, Patents and Trademarks of the Russian Federation (ROSPATENT) have agreed to partner in establishing a Patent Prosecution ...
The Commerce Department’s United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and the Federal Service for Intellectual Property, Patents and Trademarks of the Russian Federation (ROSPATENT) have agreed to partner in establishing a Patent Prosecution ...
Reference found enabling for high level claim from allthingspros.blogspot.com
Takeaway: In the reexamination appeal Ex parte Given Imaging Ltd., the Applicant argued that a reference with a short description and one figure wasn't enabling and thus wasn't anticipatory. Despite the presence of ...
Takeaway: In the reexamination appeal Ex parte Given Imaging Ltd., the Applicant argued that a reference with a short description and one figure wasn't enabling and thus wasn't anticipatory. Despite the presence of ...
Ramifications of a Cease and Desist Letter from ocpatentlawyer.com
After patent issuance, the patentee has enforceable rights in that he/she can sue another entity for damages and/or an injunction to stop that entity from making, using, selling, offering for sale or importing ...
Webster tit-for-tat citation study criticized from ipbiz.blogspot.com
The punchline by Philip Davis:
So there you have it. The simple association between reference length and citations is spurious, confounded by such other simple explanations such as the length of the paper and the ...
The punchline by Philip Davis:
So there you have it. The simple association between reference length and citations is spurious, confounded by such other simple explanations such as the length of the paper and the ...
National Law Journal Editorial Questions USPTO Three-Track Examination Proposal from www.patentdocs.org
By James DeGiulio -- Earlier this summer, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director David Kappos announced a proposal for a three-tiered patent prosecution regime that could be instituted in the Office (see "USPTO Director Announces ...
By James DeGiulio -- Earlier this summer, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director David Kappos announced a proposal for a three-tiered patent prosecution regime that could be instituted in the Office (see "USPTO Director Announces ...
Sundrop’s Solar Gasification Uses Total Concentration from greenpatentblog.com
Sundrop Fuels (Sundrop) is a Colorado company that combines concentrated solar power (CSP) technology with biofuels production processes.
While most biomass-to-biofuels systems burn the feedstocks as the first step in biofuel production, Sundrop uses concentrated ...
Court Report from www.patentdocs.org
By Sherri Oslick -- About Court Report: Each week we will report briefly on recently filed biotech and pharma cases. Cephalon, Inc. et al. v. Apotex Corp. et al. 1:10-cv-22997; filed August 19, 2010 in ...
By Sherri Oslick -- About Court Report: Each week we will report briefly on recently filed biotech and pharma cases. Cephalon, Inc. et al. v. Apotex Corp. et al. 1:10-cv-22997; filed August 19, 2010 in ...
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