Patent & IP news for September 20, 2010
Patent Litigations
- Patent Group, LLC v. Lee Precision, Inc. filed 2010-09-17 in Texas Eastern
- Patent Group, LLC v. Jarden Corporation filed 2010-09-17 in Texas Eastern
- Promote Innovation LLC v. The Elations Company LLC filed 2010-09-17 in Texas Eastern
- Patent Group, LLC v. The Schawbel Corporation filed 2010-09-17 in Texas Eastern
- Lutz v. Respond Associates, Inc. et. al. filed 2010-09-17 in Michigan Eastern
- Patent Group, LLC v. MTM Molded Products Company filed 2010-09-17 in Texas Eastern
- Pamlab, L.L.C. et. al. v. Allegis Pharmaceutical, L.L.C. filed 2010-09-15 in New York Southern
- Patent Group, LLC v. Strike King Lure Company et. al. filed 2010-09-17 in Texas Eastern
- Hollingsworth & Vose Air Filtration Limited v. DelStar Technologies Inc. et. al. filed 2010-09-16 in Delaware
- Patent Group, LLC v. Hasbro, Inc. filed 2010-09-17 in Texas Eastern
- Patent Group, LLC v. Pennzoil-Quaker State Company filed 2010-09-17 in Texas Eastern
- EMC Corporation, v. BetaNet filed 2010-09-17 in Massachusetts
- Patent Group, LLC v. Johnny Ray, LLC et. al. filed 2010-09-17 in Texas Eastern
- Patent Group, LLC v. Panavise Products, Inc. filed 2010-09-17 in Texas Eastern
- Patent Group, LLC v. New Archery Products Corporation filed 2010-09-17 in Texas Eastern
- Patent Group, LLC v. Pop Rocks, Inc. filed 2010-09-17 in Texas Eastern
- Patent Group, LLC v. Lunker Lure-Hawg Caller, Inc. filed 2010-09-17 in Texas Eastern
- Thomson Licensing SAS et. al. v. Qisda Corporation et. al. filed 2010-09-16 in Delaware
- Service Company Solutions, LLC et. al. v. Silbaugh et. al. filed 2010-09-15 in California Northern
- Patent Group, LLC v. Uniden America Corporation filed 2010-09-17 in Texas Eastern
- Patent Group, LLC v. EZE-LAP Diamond Products, Inc. filed 2010-09-17 in Texas Eastern
- Patent Group, LLC v. Angler Tech, Inc. filed 2010-09-17 in Texas Eastern
- Patent Group, LLC v. The Wiffle Ball, Incorporated filed 2010-09-17 in Texas Eastern
- Target Training International, LTD., v. Extended Disc North America, Inc., filed 2010-09-17 in Texas Southern
- Mamma Mia's Trattoria, Inc. v. The Original Brooklyn Water Bagel Co., Inc. filed 2010-09-17 in Florida Southern
- Winterborne, Inc. v. Crosman Corporation filed 2010-09-16 in California Central
- Shareasale.com, Inc. v. Essociate, Inc. filed 2010-09-16 in California Central
- Nassau Precision Casting Co., Inc. v. Acushnet Company, Inc. et. al. filed 2010-09-16 in New York Eastern
- Columbia Machine Inc v. Besser Company filed 2010-09-17 in Washington Western
- Double Reef, LLC d/b/a Ionloop et. al. v. Arc Quest Co., Ltd. et. al. filed 2010-09-17 in Texas Northern
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Large Patent Reissue/Reexamination IDS Filings Driven By Inequitable Conduct Plague from www.patentspostgrant.com The Fruit of the Poisonous Inequitable Conduct Tree= Mammoth IDS Filings
Last week, I commented on a recent ruling in Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems LLC, et al v. Haldex Brake Products Corp., 1-09-cv-00176 (N.D ...
A tale of two judges from ipkitten.blogspot.com Colin smiling
(before his appointment) The IPKat has discovered that Her Majesty the Queen has appointed none other than Colin Birss QC to be a Specialist Circuit Judge, Judge of the Patents County Court on ...
Facts, Figures, Tools and Widgets from ipkitten.blogspot.com It seems that September is rapidly turning into the month of facts, figures, tools and assorted widgets. Last week the Kat reported on WIPO’s publication of their World Intellectual Property Indicators 2010. Earlier, he ...
Panel discussion on social media legal issues at Harrisburg University from ipelton.wordpress.com Last week I was honored to participate on a lively panel discussion at Harrisburg University of Science and Technology’s Social Medial Summit in front of a sold out audience at the school’s beautiful ...
Eric van Ginkel is presenting at the 83rd Meeting of the Cal State Bar Association! from www.ipadrblog.com Mediator, Arbitrator and Adjunct Professor Eric van Ginkel will be presenting at the 83rd Annual Meeting of The State Bar of California, on September 24 (Panel 40) from 8-10 am!
Eric will be a member ...
Eric van Ginkel is presenting at the 83rd Meeting of the California State Bar Association! from www.ipadrblog.com Mediator, Arbitrator and Adjunct Professor Eric van Ginkel will be presenting at the 83rd Annual Meeting of The State Bar of California, on September 24 (Panel 40) from 8-10 am!
Eric will be a member ...
Pepsi Sues SPE Trading For Importing Into U.S. Gray Market Manzanita Sol® From Mexico from www.iptrademarkattorney.com Los Angeles, CA – Pepsi’s subsidiary owns the Manzanita Sol® trademark that is used on apple flavored soft drinks. Manzanita Sol® is Pepsi’s popular brand in Mexico. Pepsi has sold in the U.S ...
Want to Know More about IP Strategy? A Selection of Posts for In-House and Outside Counsel from ipassetmaximizerblog.com 
The IP Asset Maximizer Blog Greatest Hits--At Least in Relation to IP Counseling
This week, I am speaking at the Midwest IP Institute. I will be participating in a “fire side chat” with my good ...
$30 Billion for Small Business Lending from hallingblog.com President Obama’s latest proposal to stimulate the economy is to subsidize community banks so that they lend to small businesses. Gary Townsend has a great article on this at Seeking Alpha. He suggests the ...
Previously, I had noted that the remedy for breaching an injunction is proceedings for contempt of court.
Tracey J, having found various respondents in contempt arising from breaches of injunctions made in 2004 not to ...
Many companies have multiple corporate entities that perform different functions and/or operate in different territories. Patent ownership among corporations may be based on such factors as inventorship, operations, territory, accounting and/or tax considerations ...
A method of spraying on fabric, such as clothes, that hardens and can then be removed has been invented. A BBC video demonstrates and explains the method. It looks quite spectacular as a method of ...
For the Indian pharmaceutical industry, it may seem that Christmas has arrived a little bit early this season. The industry has always relied heavily on the marketing of generic drugs since its inception. Its job ...
HP is at it again. According to a story in Business Week - HP Shows Proclivity for High Premiums With ArcSight:
Hewlett-Packard Co. outbid at least two rivals to clinch its acquisition of ArcSight Inc., two ...
I have already posted about our Ingenious Britons: personal journeys in invention and design event, for which a few tickets are still available. It takes place this Wednesday (22nd), at 18.15 in the...
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In this edition of News, Notes & Announcements, the mother of all patent trolls, Acacia Research Corporation, scores two more licensing agreements, one with IBM the other with US Cellular. Samsung Electronics and Stanford Law School ...
The Merit Systems Protection Board is slated to argue tomorrow its first oral argument in 27 years before the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. The announcement of the oral argument was made ...
One our regular commentators Mr. Praveen Raj, a trademark/GI activist, had earlier petitioned the Intellectual Property Appellate Board to cancel the Tirupati Laddu GI. The full text of the petition which can be accessed ...
An NPR post discusses "Plagiarism and essay mills," by economist Dan Ariely, which seems to conclude essay mills don't produce quality stuff.
Surprise, surprise. In a world wherein the Stanford Law Review proclaims Gary ...
In 2010 two landmark rulings regarding DNA sequence patents were given in the US by US courts. In the first one, Association for Molecular Pathology et al. v. United States Patent and Trademark Office et ...
from a news release:
The IP Solutions business of Thomson Reuters has announced a partnership with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) for the launch of the Access to Specialised Patent Information (ASPI) programme. The ...
Grammy award-winning singer/songwriter and UN Messenger of Peace Stevie Wonder today called on the governments of the World Intellectual Property Organization to create a system for copyright law to assist those with disabilities in ...
Applying Transocean Offshore Deepwater Drilling, Inc. v. Maersk Contractors USA, Inc., --- F.3d ---- (Fed. Cir. 2010), the court granted defendant's motion for judgment as matter of law that plaintiff was not entitled to lost ...
I have added a second patent search tool (see lower left sidebar):
TheIntellectual Property Library, launched in December 2009, is a free international database of patent and patent-related publications. It's goal is to ...
It has been just over one year since I was sworn-in as Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office, and I’d like to use the opportunity to take stock of where we ...
Boy, the WIPO news keeps coming! This time, WIPO in partnership with LexisNexis, Minesoft, ProQuest, Questel-Orbit, Thomson Reuters and WIPS (a veritable patent search system all-star lineup) has announced the Access to Specialized Patent Information ...
Seminar – The Entire Market Value Rule and the End of Casual Empiricism
The entire market value rule (or “EMVR”) allows for the recovery of patent infringement damages based on the value of the entire product ...
Tahir Amin (Co-founder of I-MAK) on behalf of the World Health Organization (South-East Asia and Western Pacific Regions) has written a very useful step-by-step guide on searching for patents on medicines. Given that procuring generic ...
By: Jason Rantanen
Fujitsu Ltd. v. Netgear (Fed. Cir. 2010)
Panel: Lourie, Friedman, and Moore (author)
In the age of digital databases and online resources, the WIPO has made an important contribution of its own by launching WIPO Lex, a wonderful resource available online, carrying a host of information on national ...
In an attempt to foster innovation and increasing access, especially for the developing and least-developed countries,WIPO has launched the Access to Specialized Patent Information (ASPI),partnering with
LexisNexis, Minesoft, ProQuest, Questel, Thomson Reuters, and ...
In a recent decision, the Federal Circuit reversed a decision of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts. The district court had granted summary judgment of noninfringement to the defendant finding that ...
The 15th Annual Independent Inventors Conference, co-sponsored by the United States Patent Trademark Office (USPTO), and Invent Now® will be held in Alexandria, VA at the US Patent and Trademark Office campus on November 4 ...
Jerry Cao (Assistant Professor, of Finance Singapore Management University) and Po-Hsuan Hsu (Assistant Professor of Finance, University of Connecticut) recently looked at patent data for VC-backed firms in the U.S. from 1976 through ...
Takeaway: A patentee's trademark application was used, unsuccessfully, by the accused infringer as evidence of an on-sale bar. (Lampi, LLC v. American Power Products, Inc., 65 F.Supp.2d 757, 761 (N.D.Ill ...
By James DeGiulio -- As the Patent Reform Act of 2010 makes it way through the Senate, various groups continue to make their positions known on provisions contained within the legislation. (For a detailed summary of ...
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