Patent & IP news for August 27, 2010
Patent Litigations
- Hti Ip, LLC et. al. v. DriveOK, Inc. (d.b.a. Vehiclepath) et. al. filed 2010-08-26 in California Southern
- Altair Engineering, Incorporated v. LEDs America, Inc. filed 2010-08-26 in Michigan Eastern
- Lottotron, Inc. v. Athila Station, Et. Al filed 2010-08-26 in New Jersey
- CP Manufacturing Inc v. Rodney Henry Sewell et. al. filed 2010-08-24 in California Central
- Unique Product Solutions, Limited v. Great Lakes Orthodontics, Ltd. filed 2010-08-26 in Ohio Northern
- Becton, Dickinson And Company v. Insulet Corporation filed 2010-08-26 in New Jersey
- U.S. Ethernet Innovations, LLC v. Acer, Inc. et. al. filed 2010-08-23 in California Northern
- Implicit Networks, Inc. v. Citrix Systems, Inc. filed 2010-08-24 in California Northern
- Goodman v. Elpida Memoray Inc et. al. filed 2010-08-23 in California Northern
- Software Rights Archive, LLC v. Google Inc. et. al. filed 2010-08-23 in California Northern
- Unique Product Solutions, Limited v. Agrimar Corporation filed 2010-08-26 in Ohio Northern
- Trudell Medical International v. Pari Respiratory Equipment, Inc. et. al. filed 2010-08-24 in Virginia Eastern
- Retail Inkjet Solutions, Inc v. Tonerhead, Inc filed 2010-08-26 in California Southern
- Rosenfield et. al. v. Accessory Power, Bright Ideas Incorporated et. al. filed 2010-08-25 in Arizona
- Mary Elle Fashions, Inc. v. Technology Research Corporation filed 2010-08-26 in Illinois Southern
- General Hospital Supply Corporation v. Velmed, Inc. filed 2010-08-26 in North Carolina Western
- Simonian v. Pella Corporation filed 2010-08-26 in Iowa Southern
- Cirrex Systems, LLC v. Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York et. al. filed 2010-08-25 in New York Southern
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Interval Licensing v. AOL, Apple, eBay, Facebook, Google, etc. from www.patentlyo.com Interval Licensing LLC v. AOL, Apple, eBay, Facebook, Google, Netflix, Office Depot, OfficeMax, Staples, Yahoo!, and YouTube (W.D. Wash. 2010).
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen started Interval Research in 1992. During the 1990’s, the ...
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Consumer Watchdog Quashes Solar Greenwash Down Under from greenpatentblog.com 
In a case of successful public enforcement against greenwashing, two solar panel retailers have amended their ads after the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) found their marketing statements potentially misleading and deceptive (see the ...
Facebook’s “Trademark Bullying” Should Serve as Yet Another IP Strategy Lesson for Startup Entrepreneurs from ipassetmaximizerblog.com 
Like other forms of bullying, Facebook's aggressive trademark activities can be attributed to "poor parenting"
This week, Facebook’s trademark action against a small online teaching company has been all over the news. In ...
Friday fantasies from ipkitten.blogspot.com 
"Tom, Tom the piper's sonIP and Music is among the conference topics you ...
Stole a tune and away he ran.
But now he's in a dreadful plight --
He forgot about the copyright!"
For those who read this weblog religiously ... from ipkitten.blogspot.com This weblog doesn't have a regular religious column, and doesn't intend to start one now. But every so often the Kats are concerned with religious topics -- two of which are mentioned here.
Several ...
HR 5980 Distracts From Patent Reform Efforts from www.patentspostgrant.com If you are one of the foolish people out there under the impression that the U.S. banking and real estate crash has led to the current economic state, heightened unemployment, etc, you would be ...
The following is excerpted from an August 26, 2010 Associated Pressarticle published at fresnobee.com:
Jet engine maker Rolls-Royce said Thursday that it has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against United Technologies over the ...
In "Ten Tips for Streamlining Patent Prosecution," Director Kappos outlines ten steps that he would like practitioners to take in order to promote compact prosecution. While I agree with most of these steps in principle ...
The European Commission has launched a consultation on extending the scope of Council Directive 2003/49 on a common system of taxation applicable to interest and royalty payments between associated companies of different Member States ...
Sai Vinod Nayani, a third year student at the National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkotta has sent us this very interesting guest post on the proposed amendment in the Copyright Amendment Bill, 2010 inserting the ...
If you are a law professor teaching a general course on intellectual property, you might consider a cheap text-book alternative:
- Franklin Pierce Professor Tom Field freely gives-away PDF versions of his 470 page book titled ...
On July 29, Rep. Frank Wolf (R-VA), along with Rep. Hal Rogers (R-KY), Rep. Rob Wittman (R-VA), Rep. Candice Miller (R-MI), Rep. Daniel Lipinski (D-IL), introduced a bill entitled “Bring Jobs Back to America: Strategic ...
In a report titled " A review of intellectual property rights risk in Asia" by Hong Kong-based Political and Economic Risk Consultancy (PERC), India has been rated to be pretty bad in terms of protecting intellectual ...
This morning's downward revision of 2nd quarter GDP numbers by the BEA is a shock, but not a surprise. Almost everyone expected such a revision given the recent bad trade numbers. In fact, some ...
Mikkel Hippe Brun, who operates the blog Schemaworks, writes about various technical, policy and patent issues issues surrounding the IT industry. Recently, he became aware of a patent directed to a "Communication Routing Apparatus." In ...
In a piece titled Green-tech patent program off target pace , Martin LaMonica begins:
A trial program meant to speed the pace of innovation in green technology hasn't unleashed the torrent of activity as hoped ...
Recently I authored a blog post regarding whether or not you can patent an idea? Remember you can get a patent for the" thing" you make not the idea.
In order for an idea to ...
nj.com notes that bedbugs were found in three of the Eatontown, NJ-Monmouth Mall movie theater's 15 auditoriums on August 25, 2010 and the theater closed down.
Meanwhile, in Somerville, Somerset County (adjacent to ...
In the patent biz, evidence of who did what when can be quite important.
A Newark Star-Ledger piece illustrates that videotape will beat human memory/spin in the evidence game:
On Wednesday [August 25], Christie ...
On a day when we just reported a bad rating for IPR protection for India, the news of India's first patent auction rolled in.
Tech Transfer 2010,a one day patent technology showcase will ...
In another development in which copyright law appears to be following the lead of patent law, we see evidence that it may be just as easy to file a bare–bones copyright claim as it ...
Last December, the USPTO launched a pilot program to accelerate the examination of certain “green” technology patent applications. Under the pilot program, for the first 3,000 applications related to green technologies in which a ...
Hal Wegner has just broke the news that Arti Rai, Administrator for External Affairs, is leaving the PTO to an unspecificed position that has not been announced by the government.
As Administrator for External Affairs ...
The Patent Buddy’s blog is looking for nominations for America’s Top Patent Prosecutors. Do you have what it takes?
Who is a Top Prosecutor?
A Top Patent Prosecutor is any patent attorney who ...
The court granted defendant's motion to limit damages in part because plaintiff marked its product's packaging and not the product itself. "[N]o reasonable jury could find that [plaintiff's] choice to mark ...
How often have you felt you had a great invention that was just what the world was waiting for. Unfortunately, many would-be entrepreneurs are under the illusion that that is all they need for someone ...
Former Microsoft executive and billionaire Paul Allen sued several major Internet companies and three large retailers for patent infringement today, asserting that four patents originating at Interval Research, Allen's dot-com era think tank, cover ...
A company of Paul Allen sued Apple Inc., Google Inc. and nine other companies on Friday, August 27.
An online.wsj story included quotes from Mark Lemley:
"It sounds like the classic patent troll case ...
It has been almost four years since the Federal Circuit declined to take en banc review of the case Amgen, Inc. v. Hoechst Marion Roussel that would have allowed the court to review its en ...
In previous posts, IPBiz has discussed "American Inventor" and similar television shows.
In 2006, one Francisco Patino was a contestant on "American Inventor," presenting a dual-passenger bicycle. Although encouraged by a guest appearance by Lance ...
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