Patent & IP news for September 29, 2010
Patent Litigations
- Parallel Networks, LLC v. Blockbuster, Inc filed 2010-09-27 in Texas Eastern
- eInstruction Corporation v. Promethean Inc. et. al. filed 2010-09-28 in Texas Eastern
- Rogerson Technology Inc v. Granger Plastics Company, The filed 2010-09-27 in South Carolina
- Anchen Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. Labopharm Inc. et. al. filed 2010-09-27 in D.C.
- J. Kinderman & Sons, Inc. v. Inliten, L.L.C. filed 2010-09-27 in Pennsylvania Eastern
- Landmark Technology LLC v. Blockbuster Inc filed 2010-09-27 in Texas Eastern
- Havco Wood Products, LLC v. Rockland Industrial Holdings, LLC et. al. filed 2010-09-28 in Wisconsin Western
- Havco Wood Products, LLC v. Rockland Industrial Holdings, LLC et. al. filed 2010-09-28 in Wisconsin Western
- Tenneco Automotive Operating Company Inc. v. Webvention Holdings LLC et. al. filed 2010-09-28 in Delaware
- Astrazeneca Pharmaceuticals Lp et. al. v. Torrent Pharmaceuticals Limited et. al. filed 2010-09-28 in New Jersey
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The role of the Examiner and the Controller in the Patent Office; Pages from History from spicyipindia.blogspot.com Given the intense debates we've been having on the state and status of the Patent Office staff, I thought it would be interesting to browse through the following pages from the historical, Biblical Ayyangar ...
Brand Licensing: Kat on the prowl finds ... cats from ipkitten.blogspot.com Pip the Cat Yesterday the IPKat took a detour from his usual prowl and found himself in one of London's shabbier corners, the Grand Hall, Kensington Olympia, which housed the Brand Licensing Europe 2010 ...
What to do with an Interfering Patent in Patent Reexamination? from www.patentspostgrant.com This past Monday the BPAI pointed out that a Patent Holder may not swear behind a patent that claims the same invention, the proper forum for such a priority contest being a patent interference proceeding ...
LED Litigation Goes Tubular: Altair Targets LED-O Light Tubes from greenpatentblog.com 
Altair Engineering (Altair) is a Michigan-based company that sells energy efficient solid state lighting products, particularly LED lamps, through its subsidiary, Ilumisys.
Altair owns U.S. Patent Nos. 7,049,761 (’761 Patent) and 7 ...
"No comments", but plenty of comment: more on "genuine use" in Europe from ipkitten.blogspot.com Not just a European debate: even "outsiders"
from the old colonies are welcome to have their say "No news is good news", according to the proverb, but "no comment" gives less ground for celebration. The ...
G 1/09: When is a patent application pending? from ipkitten.blogspot.com Once a patent application has been filed, and before it has been granted, refused or withdrawn, the application is considered to be "pending", i.e. awaiting some further action before a final decision is taken ...
Contract appeal won't get to Federal Circuit where infringement is not an issue from patlit.blogspot.com "No infringement dispute, no appellate jurisdiction in hypothetical breach of contract claim" is the title of a note by Finnegan attorneys John J. Thuermer and Bart A. Gerstenblith which will soon be published in the ...
Wednesday whimsies from ipkitten.blogspot.com The 1709 Blog, which is dedicated to all things copyright, is running a competition to mark the launch of CLT's "Music and Intellectual Property" conference, which will be held in Central London on 8 ...
They Invented What? (No. 184) from anticipatethis.wordpress.com U.S. Pat. No. 5,491,007: Thumb guard novelty device.
What is claimed as being new and desired to be protected by Letters Patent of the United States is as follows:
1. A thumb ...
Patents Critical Indicator of Success from hallingblog.com Another study shows that start-up company success is tied to patenting success. The authors of the study are a pair of professors of finance, Jerry Cao of Singapore Management University and Po-Hsuan Hsu of University ...
Are Your Facebook Postings Private? It Depends Upon Where You Live. from blawgit.com Forbes blogger Kashmir Hill has noted some discrepancies in just how judges around the country treat the information you post on Facebook and other social media platforms for purposes of discovery at trial. In California ...
Premium VOD--Have Studios Found the Answer? from ipfinance.blogspot.com I am about to show my age. When I was a child, the movie business was a simple matter. Studios made movies and people like my brother and I went every weekend afternoon to one ...
The following is excerpted from a September 28, 2010articleby Susan Decker and Diana Ben-Aaron published by Bloomberg:
Apple Inc. said it filed a patent-infringement lawsuit against Nokia Oyj in the U.K., part ...
By Donald Zuhn -- Earlier this month, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) released a report on intellectual property trends in 2008 and 2009 showing that innovative activity and demand for IP rights dipped during the ...
This year's British Invention Show is at Alexandra Palace, London. It is on from the 14th to the 16th October (the 13th is designated as a "media and preview" day from 4 to 7 ...
We bring you a guest post from Kshitij Malhotra on a topic close to my heart.
As Kshitij rightly argues, we need to create more 3 year programs of a quality that matches up to ...
A patent battle has erupted in the United States. Interval Research was founded in 1992 by Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, and David Liddle, also in the computer industry. The idea was to...
(From Steve ...
The Office of the U.S. Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator(“IPEC”) recently recently the 1st issue of its Intellectual Property Spotlight newsletter (PDF). The IPEC is an position that was created by Congress in 2008 ...
One thing that inventors often do not realize is that simply getting a patent on a product or service does not mean that the inventor will make money. Even if you get a patent for ...
By: Scott Nyman There’s no secret that the current model for the movie industry is becoming outdated. Gone are the days where moviegoers are willing to tolerate sticky floors and uncomfortable seats for the ...
Recently I was able to attend a demo of the GenomeQuest sequence searching tool, which is designed to support sequence searching for prior art investigations. GenomeQuest provides access to proprietary patent database collections which have ...
Frost Brown Todd has been named one of eight “standout” law firms in IP litigation in the Litigation Outlook 2011 report published by Law360 and conducted by The BTI Consulting Group.
According to BTI’s ...
If you're reading this article on our blog, you've seen the new design we've applied to www.inovia.com, our new home on the web.
More importantly, we've upgraded our foreign ...
The court granted plaintiff's motion for enhanced damages following the jury's finding of willful infringement and increased damages by $26 million, a 100% increase, based on the following Read Corp. v. Portec, Inc ...
Saying that Congress controls the Patent Office is something of a misstatement really. It would be far more accurate to say that Congress starves the Patent Office and is constantly demanding more and more with ...
The following is excerpted from a September 22, 2010postby Christopher Jagalla at Intellogist:
Acquiring correct assignment data can necessitate more effort than just looking at the assignment field in your favorite patent search ...
International Trademark Association is organizing a seminar on Trademark Filing Strategies in Chennai and Kolkata on October 29 and 30, 2010, respectively.
Who Should Attend This Seminar?
- In-House Counsel
- Lawyers / Outside Counsel
- Business Development Managers ...
Per this Federal Register Notice published September 15, 2010:
The USPTO is seeking public assistance in providing technical training to patent examiners within all technology centers. The Patent Examiner Technical Training Program (PETTP) is intended ...
The list in law.com is based on "Interviews with dozens of professionals who work in the field." Most of the 25 most influential are in industry. Justice Kennedy made the list (he could be ...
On Friday, September 17, 2010, I had the opportunity to chat with Professor Mark Lemley, who is the William H. Neukom Professor at Stanford Law School and partner in the San Francisco law firm Durie ...
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