Patent & IP news for October 12, 2010
Patent Litigations
- Marvell International Ltd. v. Link A Media Devices Corp filed 2010-10-11 in Delaware
- Main Hastings, LLC v. Kimberly Clark-Worldwide, Inc. et. al. filed 2010-10-12 in Texas Eastern
- Fenner Investments Ltd v. Juniper Networks, Inc. filed 2010-10-12 in Texas Eastern
- Cree Inc. v. SemiLEDs Inc. et. al. filed 2010-10-08 in Delaware
- Collections Marketing Center, Inc. et. al. v. Apollo Enterprise Solutions, Inc. filed 2010-10-12 in Delaware
- Motorola Mobility Inc. v. Apple Inc. et. al. filed 2010-10-08 in Delaware
- Gian Biologics LLC v. Biomet, Inc. filed 2010-10-08 in Delaware
- Lochner Technologies, LLC v. Lenovo (United States) Inc. et. al. filed 2010-10-12 in Texas Eastern
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Applications for "There's an App" from ipkitten.blogspot.com 
Registering "There's an app for that" was a piece of cake
in the US, but Europe may prove more resistant Matthew Rippon was first. Lawrence Ryz was last. Between the two there were many ...
Fulbright report still confident on patent litigation trends from patlit.blogspot.com It's one minute past midnight -- time to break the news: the findings and conclusions of the Fulbright & Jaworski 2010 Litigation Trends Survey are now available. As the firm explains,
"Annually, hundreds of corporate counsel ...
Patenting PETE: Stanford Application Covers New Solar Energy Conversion Technology from greenpatentblog.com Photon enhanced thermionic emission, or PETE, is a relatively new concept in solar energy production. It is considered a major breakthrough because it utilizes both energy from sunlight (solar photons) and from the heat of ...
School District Agrees to Pay $600K For Using School Laptops to Spy on Students from blawgit.com Lower Merion School District Assistant Principal Lindy Matsko used remotely activated school issued webcams to spy on students. When she noticed 15 year-old student Blake Robbins in his home with something in his hands, Ms ...
October Edition Of IP-Watch Monthly Reporter Now Available from www.ip-watch.org The Intellectual Property Watch Monthly Edition features top news on international IP policymaking, the latest on who is coming and going in the international IP community, news briefs and more. The October edition is now ...
Wednesday whimsies from ipkitten.blogspot.com Pill poll,
please vote If you are fascinated by supplementary protection certificates for patents, paediatric extensions and other ways of keeping patent protection going even beyond its normal lifespan, you probably know that The SPC ...
Microsoft's Strategic Alliance in the Smartphone Wars from patent-warrior.blogspot.com 
Preparing for the entry of Windows 7 Phone into the marketplace next week, Microsoft showed that it is more interested in protecting itself from the plethora of lawsuits in the smartphone market than taking an ...
EU Patent Stumbling Again? from ipkitten.blogspot.com The EU Patent. Three words (if you’ll accept the acronym) that have promised much, but delivered little, over the many years that have passed since the idea of a unitary European patent was first ...
The Land of Saints and Sinners? Australia hails Mary from ipkitten.blogspot.com Once upon a time Australia was famous for, among other things, being the distant land to which surplus British criminals could be deported, so that they could be recycled as formidable cricketers, tennis players, IP ...
Takeaway : In Ex parte Rykowksi, the Board reversed an obviousness rejection because the Examiner did not explain how the combination produced the alleged benefit which served as the Examiner's reason to combine.
Details:
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By Donald Zuhn -- At last week's BIO Investor Forum, the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) announced that the number of publicly traded biotech companies dropped from 394 in the fourth quarter of 2007 to only ...
In Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. v. Eisai Co., Ltd., the Federal Circuit addressed complicated subject matter jurisdiction issues in the context of a declaratory judgment (DJ) action that was brought in accordance with the Hatch-Waxman ...
A reputed Pharmaceutical MNC is looking to hire Patent Coordinators for it’s Gobal Patent Organsation.
Qualifications
Atleast three years of relevant experience of working independently, preferably in a law firm or MNC and good ...
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has regulated labels and advertisements that call a product or service “green” (e.g., environmentally friendly) since at least 1992. Products and services that are sold with false “green” claims ...
Over at the blog IP Finance, Neil Wilkof has a great posting on a recent Economist story on innovation aka patents -- Patent Data and Innovation: Once Again, So Much and Yet So Little. I won ...
By now everyone has heard that the 2010 Noble Memorial Prize in Economic Science went to Peter A. Diamond, Dale T. Mortensen and Christopher A. Pissarides for their work on "markets with search friction." In ...
According to the NY Times, software giants Microsoft and Adobe held a secret meeting to discuss strategies to combat the Apple and Google dominance in the mobile space. Reportedly, one solution involves a Microsoft acquisition ...
This morning the Supreme Court granted certiorari in Global-Tech Appliances, Inc. v. SEB, S.A.
In February, the Federal Circuit affirmed a finding that the defendant induced infringement of a patent even though there was ...
Who Has Rights in the Invention?
If you have a new idea or invention, you may need to determine who else may have rights in the invention, such as a co-inventor or employer. For example ...
Defendant's motion to stay pending inter partes reexamination was granted. "Turning to undue prejudice, the Court finds [plaintiff's] complaints substantially mitigated by [defendant's] agreement to 'no longer make, use, offer to sell ...
In an order today, the Supreme Court agreed to hear a case regarding the necessary intent for inducing infringement under 35 U.S.C. § 271(b). The case is Global-Tech Appliances, Inc. v. SEB S ...
James Gannon is a lawyer at McCarthy Tétrault LLP; he blogs at jamesgannon.ca One of the federal government’s main stated objectives in enacting Bill C-32, the Copyright Modernization Act,[1] is to implement ...
The Peer to Patent programme, a United States patent community review platform, has been expanded and re-launched with a new interface. The service seeks to help patent examiners search for prior art with the help ...
Carys Craig is an Associate Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School Michael Geist’s edited collection of essays on copyright reform is being released on October 14th, and we invite you to join us for ...
The countries that own most of the world’s intellectual property rights have all but completed an agreement among themselves that raises the level of protection of those rights while appearing to reduce obligations placed ...
Over on Intellogist, we’ve made an extensive update to our Interactive Patent Coverage Map. This tool allows you to click on a country to quickly find the known patent search systems which have been ...
In this edition of News, Notes & Announcements, happy birthday wishes to IPWatchdog.com for celebrating our 11th year online and a heartfelt thank you to all our readers. Additionally, the TiVo patent used to sue ...
Just this week I had the opportunity to consult with a client that is in the process of creating unique software that is, at least in my opinion, patentable over the prior art. We were ...
US 7,812,826 has first claim:
A method, comprising: detecting at least two first contacts on a display surface of a multi-touch-sensitive display device; detecting a first motion associated with the at least two ...
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