Patent & IP news for September 14, 2010
Patent Litigations
- Ruoey Lung Enterprise Corp. v. Six Victor LTD. filed 2010-09-10 in Massachusetts
- Scott et. al. v. Zimmer Inc. et. al. filed 2010-09-10 in Delaware
- Nichia Corporation v. Wilmar Corporation filed 2010-09-13 in Texas Eastern
- Uniloc USA, Inc. et. al. v. Disk Doctors Labs, Inc. et. al. filed 2010-09-13 in Texas Eastern
- Astrazeneca Pharmaceuticals Lp et. al. v. Osmotica Pharmaceutical Corporation filed 2010-09-13 in North Carolina Eastern
- North Texas Patent Group, Inc. v. ALL-STATE International, Inc. filed 2010-09-13 in Texas Northern
- Remy International, Inc. v. Wetherill Associates, Inc. et. al. filed 2010-09-10 in Indiana Southern
- Patcap, LLC v. Safariland, LLC filed 2010-09-10 in Ohio Northern
- Vellata, LLC v. Best Buy Co., Inc. et. al. filed 2010-09-10 in California Central
- Hakes et. al. v. RJB Company, Inc. et. al. filed 2010-09-13 in Idaho
- Sealy Technology LLC vs. Simmons Bedding Company filed 2010-09-13 in North Carolina Middle
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Lego brick hits a wall from ipkitten.blogspot.com The ECJ has today, in Case C‑48/09 P, ruled that the iconic Lego brick (depicted right is the image that was subject of the trade mark registration) cannot be registered as a trade ...
Yesterday's answers today: Court of Justice nails Akzo privilege claim from patlit.blogspot.com Akzo Nobel NV, the world’s largest manufacturer of paints, lost an appeal today over its assertion that it was entitled to attorney-client privilege in a case that could have curtailed the investigative powers of ...
Delaware District Court Continues Oddball Protective Order Practice from www.patentspostgrant.com Confidential Information & Claim Drafting
As we discussed last March, the Federal District Court of Delaware seems to have some oddball ideas when it comes to the realities of patent reexamination concurrent with litigation. In our ...
How nuts! from ipfinance.blogspot.com Many of you have written to blogger Jeremy about the recent article in the New York Times, "The Peanut Solution". The article describes an item that, by all accounts, is an easy-to-manufacture and easy-to-administer wonder ...
Split Federal Circuit Panel Finds Claim Preamble Language Not Limiting from www.grayonclaims.com American Medical Systems, Inc. v. Biolitec, Inc. (Fed. Cir. Sept. 13, 2010)
In this case, a split Federal Circuit panel found claim preamble language not limiting. The patent at issue related to various methods and ...
The following is excerpted from a September 13, 2010 article atMassDevice:
A federal appeals court handed Medtronic Inc. (NYSE:MDT) a win in a patent infringement lawsuit filed by Synthes Inc. subsidiary Spine Solutions ...
By Donald Zuhn -- In Daiichi Sankyo Co. v. Matrix Laboratories, Ltd., decided last Thursday, the Federal Circuit affirmed a determination by the District Court for the District of New Jersey that Matrix Laboratories, Ltd., Mylan ...
Copyright and patent laws “are often misused” for reasons that have “more to do with limiting competition and preventing consumers from making innovative uses of their products” than they do with stopping piracy, global consumer ...
At the start of this year, WIPO commissioned a group of us (under the stewardship of Professor Lionel Bently, the famed Cambridge IP don and co-author of the leading treatise: Bently and Sherman on IP ...
A patent provides the patentee the right to exclude others from making, using, selling, offering for sale and importing the patented invention into the United States. The right to exclude others from importing the patented ...
The UN Human Rights Council opened yesterday morning, with its session planned to run until 1 October. Several new reports that touch on issues of innovation and indigenous protection are expected to be presented. The ...
Distribution networks and supply chains are critically important and complex functions for most businesses. They are also a leading threat to enterprise value. Misstatements, unfulfilled promises, and failures of performance anywhere along the supply chain ...
Over at M•CAM's blog Patently Obvious, they have done an analysis of the 3PAR deal from the point of view of the patents - and the finding is enlightening:
In the frenzy of attempting ...
Copyright and patent laws "are often misused" for reasons that have "more to do with limiting competition and preventing consumers from making innovative uses of their products" than they do with stopping piracy, global consumer ...
Swiss Supreme Court Forbids Rights Holders’ Access to Personal IP Addresses The Swiss Federal Supreme Court took a decision on 8 September preventing the collection of Internet Protocol (IP) addresses by private companies. Related Articles ...
BPAI finds "occasionally greater than one" is not indefinite
Takeaway: The BPAI reversed an indefiniteness rejection for a dependent claim that appeared on its face to contradict its parent claim. The independent claim recited that ...
It’s true – I was once new to patent searching, blithely dumping keywords into Google and saying things like “IPC code? What’s that?” Ah, youth. Fortunately, before turning me loose on the unsuspecting public ...
During the course of a random discussion, with a friend, on prominent voices and faces on the Indian IP scene I discovered that a disproportionately large number of these prominent voices and faces were from ...
In a significant departure from the standard practice in Indian patent trials, Justice Ravinder Bhat, who is presiding over the Nexavar patent infringement suit filed by Bayer against Cipla, has ordered, on the 23rd of ...
In denying defendant's motion for summary judgment of invalidity of plaintiff's reissue patent based on the recapture rule, the court rejected defendant's argument that statements made during prior litigation concerning the original ...
The still fresh ruling by CAFC on Goeddel v. Sugano reversed the decision by BPAI which held that Sugano is entitled to its filing date of its initial Japanese application and BPAI consequently awarded Sugano ...
What with all this fuss over Lego bricks [see Class 99 post here -- with a Kat-post to follow], many normally attentive folk have forgotten to complain that the IPKat has said not a word over ...
My Legal Conferences is hosting the above-titledwebinaron October 21, 2010:
The decision of Bilski v. Kappos significantly impacts the scope of patentable subject matter, especiallybusiness method patents. The decision has far-reaching implications ...
Tiffany Wong is a JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School Harry Reid, the Senate Majority Leader from Nevada, is struggling in his bid for re-election against Sharron Angle, a Republican endorsed by the Tea ...
I would also like to take issue with Judge Dyk's statement that it would simply be easier, and better, to say that anything in the preamble is limiting. Yes, that would certainly be easier ...
One month after the appeal was heard, the Full Court has rejected Nature’s Blend’s appeal that Nestlé used Luscious Lips as a trade mark.
Nature’s Blend argued first that the trial judge ...
Tri-Star Electronics Int'l. v. Preci-Dip Durtal SA (Fed. Cir. 2010)
Mr. Kerek (from Ohio) invented the claimed “socket contact” while an employee of Tri-Star and he duly executed an assignment of his rights to ...
Claim 1 of Joule Patent 7,794,969:
A method for producing hydrocarbons, comprising:
(i) culturing an engineered cyanobacterium in a culture medium, wherein said engineered cyanobacterium comprises a recombinant acyl ACP reductase (AAR) enzyme ...
By Donald Zuhn -- On June 29, one day after issuing its decision in Bilski v. Kappos, the Supreme Court granted certiorari, vacated the Federal Circuit's decision below, and remanded to the appellate court two ...
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