Patent & IP news for September 23, 2010
Patent Litigations
- NAS Nalle Automation Systems LLC v. DJS Systems Inc et. al. filed 2010-09-21 in South Carolina
- Rego-Fix Ag v. Techniks, Inc. filed 2010-09-21 in Indiana Southern
- Moritz Aerospace, Inc. v. Condatis LLC filed 2010-09-21 in Connecticut
- Defenshield, Inc. v. First Choice Armor & Equipment, Inc. filed 2010-09-22 in New York Northern
- Leh Chu Enterprise Co Ltd v. Harbor Freight Tools USA, Inc filed 2010-09-21 in Connecticut
- Asus Computer International et. al. v. Nusser filed 2010-09-21 in California Northern
- InBAC, Inc. v. Environmental Systems Products, Inc. filed 2010-09-20 in California Northern
- Graphic Packaging International, Inc. v. C.W. Zumbiel Co. filed 2010-09-20 in Georgia Northern
- Edizone v. Elegant USA et. al. filed 2010-09-22 in Utah
- Hallstrom v. Thermolife International LLC filed 2010-09-21 in California Eastern
- Realtime Data, LLC D/B/A/ Ixo, v. Metropcs Texas, LLC et. al. filed 2010-09-23 in Texas Eastern
- Promote Innovation LLC v. Kaz, Incorporated et. al. filed 2010-09-23 in Texas Eastern
- Parallel Networks, LLC v. Adidas America, Inc. et. al. filed 2010-09-23 in Texas Eastern
- Bristol-Myers Squibb Company v. Teva Pharmaceuticals USA Inc. et. al. filed 2010-09-22 in Delaware
- Promote Innovation LLC v. Fantazia Marketing Corp. filed 2010-09-23 in Texas Eastern
- Joao Bock Transaction Systems of California, LLC v. Cathay Bank et. al. filed 2010-09-21 in California Central
- Promote Innovation LLC v. A.M. Andrews Co. filed 2010-09-23 in Texas Eastern
- Mobileaccess Networks Inc. et. al. v. CommScope Inc. et. al. filed 2010-09-22 in Delaware
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Comment Moderation: From Ad Hominem Irrelevance to Constructive Engagement from spicyipindia.blogspot.com As many of you know, we moderate comments. And despite continuous appeals to keep comments healthy and non personal, some of our commentators insist on using foul language, and personally attacking blog authors' as well ...
Waiver of Patent Owner Statement Disfavored in Ex Parte Patent Reexamination from www.patentspostgrant.com New Ex Parte Patent Reexamination Pilot Program a Tough Sell
Back in August, I reported on a new USPTO pilot program designed to decrease pendency in ex parte patent reexamination by seeking waiver of the ...
Of trademarks and photocopy evidence from spicyipindia.blogspot.com One would not ordinarily expect a discussion on the evidentiary value of photocopied documents to reach the highest court of a country. As it turns out, this just happened in the world of trademarks, where ...
Masked from www.patenthawk.com 7,156,100 claims a mask stuck down the throat, to deliver anesthetic gas during surgery, and provide an unobstructed airway. The poetically named Lanryngeal Mask Company (LMA) sued Ambu for infringement. For that, "all ...
By Donald Zuhn -- On Monday, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office announced via a press release and a notice in the Federal Register (75 Fed. Reg. 57261) that it is seeking comments regarding a ...
The following is excerpted from a September 20, 2010 Volcanopress releasepublished at PR Newswire:
Volcano Corporation today said that it believes the patent infringement claims brought against the company by St. Jude Medical ...
The Ministry of Commerce and Industry has some time back come up with a new notification regarding having completed a preliminary draft of the Patents (Appeals and Applications to the Intellectual Property Appellate Board) Rules ...
Four basic steps will help your business obtain strong trademark and copyright protection.
- Identify - What do I have that is intellectual property? Review brand names, slogans, logos, websites, videos, podcasts, advertisements, written and graphic content ...
By: Philip Zies While perusing a news publication, I came upon an article that made reference to an until-then-unknown variant of the troll family, the fabric troll. We are all, by now, familiar with not ...
We are glad to inform our readers that after more than two years in business, we finally have ipfeathers website functional and active. Most of our readers may already be aware that we started ipfeathers ...
Yesterday's posting illustrated the design process from the 1960's. My point in posting this was to highlight the range of skills involved. However, there is another point: the process itself.
The example given ...
Yesterday, Netflix launched its leading Internet movie subscription service in Canada, hoping to add “meaningfully to the entertainment choices available to Canadian consumers”. For $7.99 a month, Netflix is offering unlimited streaming of thousands ...
In March 2010 the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and the United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office (IPO) announced plans to begin cooperation on increasing the efficiency and quality of the patent examination process ...
The fashion industry claims it loses millions of dollars in revenue every year because of copycats buying one very expensive handbag or shoe or other item, deconstructing it, farming it out (usually to some factory ...
Many employers routinely require new employees to sign non-disclosure agreements (NDAs). The NDA is typically one of many documents — along with tax forms, forms relating to benefits, and other legal documents — that a new employee ...
YES -- The court granted, in part, plaintiff's motion to strike defendant's inequitable conduct expert. "[The expert's] actual opinions are on matters within his expertise as a patent examiner and former Commissioner of ...
This week has yielded some interesting discoveries for me as I’ve been combing the industry for Intellogist-worthy news. My hot list for the week includes national patent office websites, an update on Zotero and ...
As many of you know, April 1, 2010 ushered in numerous changes affecting PCT applications in the EPO. One such change involved the timing for filing a divisional off of a parent application.
Prior to ...
I have previously discussed that it is clear to me that the economic downturn has lessened the appetite for companies to spend money on anything not perceived as a “necessary business expense.” The importance of ...
Several weeks ago TiVo filed its brief in the matter of Tivo, Inc. v. EchoStar Corp., which will be heard en banc by the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on Tuesday ...
Patent offices around the world must work together to combat the inefficiencies in patent processing that threaten to stifle innovation and as a result slow needed growth of the global economy, David Kappos, director of ...
Four common symbols used in intellectual property law are TM, SM, the registered trademark symbol ® and the copyright symbol ©. Do you know what they mean, how to use them, and when?
What do TM and ...A group has prepared an 18-page document titled, “Recommendations for Honor Reform with Students’ Constitutional Rights.” with the objective of reforming UVa's rather draconian honor code.
The Cavalier Daily noted:
In the document, which ...
Notwithstanding a comment on IPBiz, the link to the paper Patent Signaling, Entrepreneurial Performance, and Venture Capital Financing is working fine.
The abstract states:
This work draws on comprehensive patent data for VC-backed firms in ...
TechDirt features the recent patent infringement brought by Apple against Sanho.
In the old days, one remembers the HP printing cartridge wars, and more recently the disposable 35mm cameras battles.
As to "MagSafe" connectors, IPBiz ...
Takeaway: In Ex parte Brown, the BPAI discussed evidence of due diligence in a § 1.132 (swear-behind) declaration. Despite the Applicant's submission of 32 exhibits of evidence, the Board found that the declaration was ...
From shine.yahoo:
This week, the Corn Refiners Association, which represents firms who make the product, petitioned the FDA to change the ingredient’s name to “corn sugar.”
Also, on the "sugar" front, the Newark ...
August Technology Corp. v. Camtek (Fed. Cir. 2010) (non-precedential order)
A jury ruled that Camtek's semiconductor wafer inspection system infringed August's patent rights. The district court then issued a permanent injunction ordering the ...
By James DeGiulio -- Sham Litigation Claims against Par and Paddock Continue in AndroGel Litigation Par Pharmaceutical and Paddock Laboratories received clarification that their agreements with Solvay not to release competing versions of the testosterone supplement ...
By Kevin E. Noonan -- The Washington Legal Foundation (WLF), a self-styled "non-profit public interest law and policy center that regularly appears before federal and state courts to promote economic liberty, free enterprise, and a limited ...
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