Patent & IP news for September 16, 2010
Patent Litigations
- Cellular Specialties, Inc. et. al. filed 2010-09-15 in Massachusetts
- Versata Software Inc. et. al. v. Callidus Software Inc. filed 2010-09-14 in Delaware
- Cherdak v. Nordstrom, Inc. filed 2010-09-15 in Virginia Eastern
- Hightower v. Sud Chemie, Inc. filed 2010-09-15 in Texas Eastern
- Digitech Information Systems, Inc. v. BMW Auto Leasing, LLC et. al. filed 2010-09-15 in Florida Middle
- Radio Flyer, Inc. v. Kiddieland Toys Limited filed 2010-09-15 in Illinois Northern
- Parallel Networks LLC v. Oriental Trading Company, Inc. filed 2010-09-14 in Texas Eastern
- LG Electronic, Inc. v. Vizio, Inc. et. al. filed 2010-09-15 in Texas Eastern
- Skyhook Wireless, Inc. v. Google, Inc. filed 2010-09-15 in Massachusetts
- spaseska v. Vantiss Creations LLC et. al. filed 2010-09-15 in Massachusetts
- Progressive Casualty Insurance Company v. Hti, Ip, LLC filed 2010-09-15 in Ohio Northern
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Wednesday whimsies from ipkitten.blogspot.com Are you thinking of becoming a patent or trade mark attorney ...? If so, your starting point might just be this link to some relevant information on the UK Intellectual Property Office website. Sadly, adds the ...
Patently eligible for $130,000 from patlit.blogspot.com PatLit does not often repeat material found on other weblogs, but it notes an attractive proposition which it has just spotted on the excellent Patently-O under the title "Stanford and Samsung offer $130,000 in ...
Bollywood Piracy: Fighting Technology with Technology from spicyipindia.blogspot.com We are all aware of the rampant piracy affecting Bollywood but the scene of crime seems to have shifted to cyberspace in the recent past. Mybangalore directs us to news of how Bollywood has decided ...
Patent Reform – The Big Lie from hallingblog.com Supporters of the present Patent Reform Bill often argue:
Congress has not substantively altered patent law for more than 50 years. The patent system is simply not up to the challenges of the 21st century ...
Bavaria PGI v trade mark battle shifts in favour of the Dutch from ipkitten.blogspot.com You won't catch
the Advocate
General dressed
like this in court ... The battle for BAVARIA as a beer trade mark continues. Today Advocate General Mazak gave his Opinion in Case C‑120/08 Bayerischer ...
Patent Reform Not Dead Yet from inventivestep.net Just when it appeared that there would be no patent reform for yet another Congress, 25 senators have sent a letter to majority leader Harry Reid (D-NV) asking him to bring the Manager’s Amendment ...
By Donald Zuhn -- With fall fast approaching, it appears that patent reform legislation has returned from a lengthy summer vacation and once again is a topic of conversation, at least in the Senate. In the ...
Ronald Slusky is adding two cities to his two-day “Invention Analysis and Claiming” seminar offering it this fall in Dallas, TX on Oct. 25-26 and in New Brunswick, NJ on Nov. 15-16. The program is ...
An entry on health.yahoo by one David Zinczenko includes the text:
A&W; Root Beer Freeze (large, 32 oz)
820 calories
18 g fat (11 g saturated, 1 g trans)
400 g sodium
136 ...
Subsequent to my post highlighting the lamentable shortage of examiners at the Indian Patent Office, I wrote the following letter addressed to both Mr PH Kurian, Controller General of Patents and Mr V Bhaskar, Joint ...
In an article that started off with plagiarism by chemistry students, one finds the text:
Welcome to the sometimes confounding topic of plagiarism in the cut-and-paste Internet era. While most seem to agree with the ...
Ashoka, global association of the world’s leading social entrepreneurs, seeks an entrepreneurial leader for its Law for All Initiative.
About Ashoka
Since 1980, Ashoka has pioneered the field of social entrepreneurship, investing in more ...
The Federal Circuit's recent decision in Daiichi Sankyo Co., Ltd. v. Matrix Labs., Ltd. is a nice example of a thorough analysis of the patentability of a new chemical entity by the "lead compound ...
Brett J. Trout has been selected by his peers for inclusion in the 2011 edition of The Best Lawyers in America® in the specialties of both Information Technology Law and Intellectual Property Law. The Best ...
Terry Hart embarks on a fairly detailed comparison of (what was known about the draft) ACTA and US copyright law to see how much would need to change “ACTA: Thought for FUD” in 4 parts ...
By: Philip Zies An article published by The Kansas City Star reports that IHOP, the International House of Pancakes, recently sued IHOP, the International House of Prayer, for trademark infringement and trademark dilution. The 52-year ...
On a recent telephone call, a company inquired as to whether inovia offers patent filing services for the Organisation Africaine de la Propriété Intellectuelle or African Intellectual Property Organization (OAPI). Although inovia currently only offers ...
Vincent Doré is a JD/MBA Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School and Schulich School of Business Facebook, whose 500 million users make it the world’s largest social network, is engaged in several intellectual ...
The combined forces of strengthening copyright law and the explosion of information has led to huge transaction costs in managing legitimate transactions of copyright material, the top economist from Google said yesterday at the World ...
I have long argued that manufacturing has become a knowledge intensive activity. Part of that transformation is a techniques of 3-D printing. Up until now, much of the technology was used for rapid-prototyping. A company ...
Just a note to reinforce the importance of transforming manufacturing (see earlier posting), there is this story as well in the New York Times - China Shifts Away From Low-Cost Factories:
Companies here in China's ...
Biotechnology industry leaders announced today a major new program to improve the quality of U.S. life science education. The Biotechnology Institute’s new “Scientists in the Classroom” initiative is the life science industry’s ...
My interview with Q. Todd Dickinson, the current Executive Director of the AIPLA and former Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the Patent and Trademark Office, took place on August 19 ...
Tuesday, a petition for writ of mandamus was filed by a false marking defendant who asks the Federal Circuit to consider the following issue:
"Did the district court clearly err when it denied [defendant's ...
The World Trade Organization Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) agreement has sparked decades of international debate over whether exporting stronger intellectual property norms to developing countries is beneficial or harmful. Related Articles:
The second round of World Trade Organization dispute settlement consultations between the European Union and the Netherlands and India and Brazil over the seizure of generic medicines in transit were held this week. Related Articles ...
On September 16, 2010 WIPO launched the “IPC Green Inventory,” a new reference page dedicated to highlighting environmentally sound technologies within the IPC Classification. WIPO had this to say:
The tool, “IPC Green Inventory”, contains ...
Thank you to all who were able to attend the AOP Community Webinar!
We feel the Webinar was a huge success and we are looking forward to continued Community Calls in the near future.
A ...
We bring to you an excellent piece covering a portion of trademark law that is not often discussed in India - non-visual trademarks. This post is brought to us by Vatsala Sahay, an enterprising 4th year ...
Sorry for the light posting…I’ve been a little busy.
I can now announce here that I will be forming a new law firm on October 1, 2010: Buchanan Nipper LLC, working for the ...
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