Patent & IP news for August 30, 2010
Patent Litigations
- Uretek USA, Inc. et. al. v. Certified Foundations, Inc. et. al. filed 2010-08-27 in Florida Middle
- By George, LLC v. Hurrican Shooters, LLC filed 2010-08-26 in Florida Middle
- Promote Innovation LLC v. Hampton Products International Corporation filed 2010-08-27 in Texas Eastern
- Patect, LLC v. Panasonic Corporation of North America, et. al. filed 2010-08-27 in Texas Eastern
- Rates Technology Inc. v. Megapath Inc. filed 2010-08-26 in New York Southern
- Terrybear, Inc. v. Une Belle Vie Memorial Urns, LLC et. al. filed 2010-08-26 in Minnesota
- Patent Licensing and Investment Company, LLC v. Green Jets Incorporated filed 2010-08-27 in Virginia Eastern
- Mikityanskiy v. Podee, Inc. filed 2010-08-27 in New York Southern
- Interval Licensing LLC v. eBay, Inc. et. al. filed 2010-08-27 in Washington Western
- Webstone Co., Inc. v. Legend Valve and Fitting, Inc. filed 2010-08-27 in Massachusetts
- Oakley, Inc. v. Zeal Optics, Inc. filed 2010-08-25 in California Central
- Pacific Coast Marine Windshields Limited v. Malibu Boats, LLC et. al. filed 2010-08-27 in Florida Middle
- Promote Innovation LLC v. Flowmaster, Inc. filed 2010-08-27 in Texas Eastern
- Quest Software v. Centrify Corporation et. al. filed 2010-08-27 in Utah
- Graphic Solutions Group, Inc. v. JT Led, Inc. et. al. filed 2010-08-27 in Texas Northern
- McDaniel v. Harbor Freight Tools, Inc. filed 2010-08-27 in Mississippi Northern
- Unique Product Solutions, Limited v. Cavalry Security Group, LLC filed 2010-08-27 in Ohio Northern
- Unique Product Solutions, Limited v. Hy-Grade Valve, Inc. filed 2010-08-27 in Ohio Northern
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Patents and genes: some new titles from ipkitten.blogspot.com The IPKat has recently found himself confronted with three new titles that, in their very different ways, address issues arising from the patentability of genetic material. In this post he says a little bit about ...
Monday miscellany from ipkitten.blogspot.com While litigation is often described in military terms, it is a less frequent occurrence for skirmishes between military groups to be fought out in court. Here however is news of a set of thoroughly confusing ...
"Patent Pending" Provisional Rights from www.lotempiolaw.com Recently a client asked me to sue a competitor for infringement on her patent application. I told her that even though you can mark articles with the terms "Patent Applied For" or "Patent Pending" these ...
Potential Impact of Patent Reform on Medical Innovation from www.patentspostgrant.com The recently published Volume 2, Issue 2 of the journal Medical Innovation & Business focused entirely on patent reform’s potential impact on medical innovation. Special guest editors Renee Kaswan, David Boundy, and Ron Katznelson express ...
Obvious reversed infinite choices number from allthingspros.blogspot.com BPAI finds not obvious to select one direction from infinite number of perpendicular directions (Ex Parte Sato)
Takeaway: In Ex Parte Sato, the BPAI reversed an obviousness rejection to a claim to a transmission belt ...
The SuperFreakonomics of IP Licensing: the Licensing Executives Society’s Annual Meeting from www.patentbaristas.com The Licensing Executives Society is holding its Annual Meeting in Chicago at the Chicago Sheraton Hotel & Towers September 26-29. Themed ‘Deals, Deals and more Deals’ the meeting will focus on the critical role IP plays ...
Patent “War” Launched by Billionaire Allen from ipinsider1.wordpress.com MSFT Founder Sues Over Web Rights
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen is claiming in a suit filed in filed on Friday in Seattle that patents owned by a company that he once controlled, Interval Research, are ...
Article One Partners Announces 4 New AOP Community Leaders from info.articleonepartners.com Article One would like to congratulation and announce the 4 selected AOP Community Leaders!
Ddenim, Engr009, Phanwy, and Sedulous have been selected to the role of AOP Community Leader for which they will be leading ...
Misuse from www.patenthawk.com Compact discs (CDs) became commercially viable by creating an international standard, uninspiring called the "Orange Book." Philips was instrumental in developing the Orange Book standard, as well as holding patents covering a portion of the ...
Copyright Band-its and Public Interest: A Tainted Compulsory Licensing Decision? from spicyipindia.blogspot.com Tis the season of compulsory licensing. First, we have a proactive DIPP exploring ways to create a more optimal compulsory licensing regime in India.
And now we have a quasi judicial body (the copyright board ...
Matthews George, our serial guest blogger from NUJS, has sent in this concise summary on an fantastic, albeit slightly dated Business World story on the state of research and development of new drugs in the ...
Los Angeles, CA – In 1977, Singer/Songwriter Lamont Dozier composed a song entitled “Peddlin’ Music on the Side” and registered the copyright therein. He further renewed the copyright registration in January of 2005.
In 2009 ...
As of August 25, 2010, the USPTO has entered into Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) agreements with twelve countries. While USPTO press releases tout these programs as “cooperative initiatives that streamline the patent system and promote ...
This guest post, authored by Paul Cole,* brings welcome news of some long-awaited reforms in the operation of the Patents County Court for England and Wales (on which see earlier PatLit posts here, here and ...
An analysis of practices and policies involving intellectual property, technology transfer and development shows the difficulties of achieving a positive correlation between those areas. Related Articles:
Facebook Inc. recently filed more than 10 applications with the USPTO a few months ago to register its “Like” button and the word LIKE.
The applications have all been denied initially due to conflicts or ...
Sagging stock prices in the second quarter of 2010 attracted the interest of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the foundation added the Goldman Sachs Group and Monsanto to its portfolio, according to the ...
Eight patents on HIV/AIDS medicines are being challenged by the Public Patent Foundation (PUBPAT), a US-based nonprofit legal service group working to “protect the public from the harms caused by errors within the patent ...
Continued from our last post where we briefly discussed about the rejection of pre-grant opposition filed by Cipla for the Application Number 3003/CHENP/2003 for anti-cancer drug Nilotinib which later matured into issued Patent ...
Over at the Progressive Fix, Stephen Ezell has a great piece on The Economist's Strange Attack on Industrial Policy -- his riff on a major article in the Economist. One of the more interesting points ...
A coda on the early posting on industrial policy from this morning's Wall Street Journal:
The Toledo Museum of Art's $30 million Glass Pavilion is a symbol of America's "Glass City," and ...
nzherald reports that Victoria University found that Brittany Bell deliberately tried to pass off as her own the work of others, including an award-winning Spanish architect, by using images from the internet. The decision was ...
Registration is now open for the 46th Annual Corporate Patent Seminar in Austin, Texas on November 14-16th. Past participants have included representatives from Procter & Gamble, Caterpillar, SC Johnson, Pfizer, Eli Lilly and others.
Limited to ...
September 1-2, 2010 - 7th Annual Pharmaceutical Law Summer School (IBC Legal) - London, UK September 7-9, 2010 - BioPatent Design (Pharma IQ) - Munich, Germany September 8, 2010 - Biotechnology/Chemical/Pharmaceutical (BCP) Customer Partnership Meeting - 10:00 am ...
IPBiz has previously reported on the activities of Fang Zhouzi, who exposes science frauds. The Christian Science Monitor on August 30, 2010 communicated that Zhouzi was assaulted by two men as he walked to his ...
On Friday, the Federal Circuit issued another in a long line of cases cautioning against the use of means-plus-function language in patent claims.
As previously noted, 35 U.S.C. § 112, sixth paragraph, permits a ...
Soon on the heels of the DIPP's discussion paper on compulsory licensing, the Business Standard has reported that the National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) is planning to regulate 'prohibitively expensive oncology medication'. The BS ...
Earlier this month Intellectual Property Strategy Network, Inc. (IPSN) and the Innovation Network Corporation of Japan (INCJ) announced the establishment of Japan’s first intellectual property fund, LSIP. As this acronym suggests, LSIP is to ...
By Dennis Crouch
In a split decision, an en banc Federal Circuit has held that the non-statutory equitable doctrine of patent misuse should be narrowly applied. Here, the court held that an anticompetitive agreement between ...
Over one thousand of the world’s leading intellectual property (IP), licensing and business development professionals will gather for the Licensing Executives Society (USA & Canada), Inc., Annual Meeting at the Chicago Sheraton Hotel & Towers September ...
Defendants' motion to dismiss plaintiff's false marking claims was granted because plaintiff failed to sufficiently plead intent to deceive. "[I]n [another of the court's cases] the allegations were that defendant had continued ...
Advocates at the Federal Circuit sometimes (although rarely) use poetry during oral argument. In Figueroa v. U.S., 466 F.3d 1023 (Fed. Cir. 2006), a case from 2006 concerning the constitutionality of patent fees ...
Although a few False Marking cases have recently been dismissed for failure to plead facts supporting intent to deceive, some plaintiffs have undoubtedly noticed a small window of hope in those same orders. Judge Robinson ...
As explained by the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development in a draft report draft report: "The overall degree to which products are being counterfeited and pirated is unknown and there do not appear to ...
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