Patent & IP news for October 21, 2010
Patent Litigations
- Donaldson Company, Inc. v. Clark Filter, Inc. filed 2010-10-20 in Minnesota
- Donaldson Company, Inc. v. Group Four, Inc. filed 2010-10-20 in Minnesota
- Sandoz Inc. v. Boehringer Ingelheim filed 2010-10-19 in D.C.
- Intellect Wireless, Inc. v. Sharp Corporation et. al. filed 2010-10-20 in Illinois Northern
- Rapha Products Group, LLC v. Skullcandy, Inc. filed 2010-10-19 in Georgia Northern
- Rally Manufacturing, Inc. v. Federal-Mogul Corporation filed 2010-10-20 in Florida Southern
- Dawn Equipment Company v. Lofquist Welding, Inc. filed 2010-10-20 in Nebraska
- Aftg-Tg LLC et. al. v. Nuvoton Technology Corporation et. al. filed 2010-10-18 in Wyoming
- Vidsys, Inc. v. Proximex Corporation filed 2010-10-19 in Virginia Eastern
- M.K. Distributors, Inc. v. ETS Express, Inc. filed 2010-10-18 in Georgia Northern
- Biogaia AB v. Nature's Way Products, Inc. filed 2010-10-20 in North Carolina Eastern
- Main Hastings, LLC v. Costco Wholesale Corporation filed 2010-10-21 in Texas Eastern
- TransData, Inc. v. Centerpoint Energy Houston Electric LLC et. al. filed 2010-10-21 in Texas Eastern
- Everglades Interactive LLC v. Playdom Inc. et. al. filed 2010-10-21 in Delaware
- Kinetics Noise Control, Inc. v. ECORE International Inc. et. al. filed 2010-10-20 in California Central
- Ibormeith, LLC v. Mercedes-Benz USA, LLC et. al. filed 2010-10-18 in New Jersey
- Noatak Security, LLC v. Accsense, Inc. et. al. filed 2010-10-20 in California Central
- Landmark Technology LLC v. BJ's Wholesale Club, Inc. et. al. filed 2010-10-21 in Texas Eastern
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Coke, Pepsi and the shape of the bottle from ipwars.com Newspaper reports that Coca Cola has sued Pepsico and its Australian licensee, Schweppes, over the shape of the new Pepsi bottle.
The print edition had a photo, but not online. You can go down to ...
Time to draw a line under trolls from www.tangible-ip.com
Back posting & time to draw a line under 3 months of troll posts
We’ve been out of blog action for two and a bit months, what with holidays and project commitments. It was busy ...
New Era Cap and Hat World Sued For Copyright Infringement from www.iptrademarkattorney.com Plaintiff Figure Eight Holdings acquired by assignment the copyright in the “treacherous” design depicted below (left). Plaintiff alleges that defendants had access to the design and that defendant New Era Cap has sold caps bearing ...
Are you catching reassigned US patents in your search? from intellogist.wordpress.com Experienced patent searchers know that searching for patent databases by company name is hard – and I mean really hard. A company which owns a patent is called the patent “assignee” in the US. Take a ...
Padawan v SGAE: more detail from ipkitten.blogspot.com The IPKat's previous post broke the news that the Court of Justice of the European Union's ruling Case C‑467/08, Padawan SL v Sociedad General de Autores y Editores de España (SGAE ...
2020 foresight, or time for some Union-bashing? from ipkitten.blogspot.com The IPKat's sage old friend Richard Gallafent (Gallafents) has drawn his attention to some curious European Commission web pages relating to the Innovation Union. The first, headed "Why do we need an Innovation Union ...
On Tuesday, October 19, 2010, I attended the retirement dinner and reception of the Honorable Chief Judge Paul R. Michel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit at the Mandarin Oriental ...
Takeaway: Ex parte Reisinger involved claims to a postage meter system which include postage codes embedded in the barcode. The Applicant attacked an obviousness rejection by making a "long felt need" / "failure of others" argument ...
He hasn't time to read this decision till tonight, but the IPKat is sharing with you the news that's just out on the Curia website: the ruling of the Third Chamber of the ...
Earlier this year, I had reported the legal tussel between Just Dial and Infomedia 18 Limited. Just Dial had accused Infomedia 18 of copyright infringement with respect to the valuable database which has been a ...
The International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV) held its Council meeting on 21 October, approving the participation of two public interest groups that were rejected at a previous meeting (IPW ...
NAGOYA, JAPAN - Negotiations on a legal international instrument to prevent biopiracy and ensure that resource holders are compensated on Thursday continued to demand the attention of delegates in the closed-door discussions here. Meanwhile, civil society ...
NAGOYA, JAPAN - With the clock ticking and less than a day to go before a draft of a legally binding instrument to prevent biopiracy is due to be presented to the assembly of a major ...
Earlier this week I wrote about the patent-eligibility decision from the USPTO Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences in In re Kelkar. While reviewing the prosecution history of the appeal, I was struck by the ...
Dilution by blurring slowly whittles away at a trademark's distinctiveness whereas dilution by tarnishment is an attack on the reputation and positive image of a mark. Here’s the thing: dilution by tarnishment is ...
Recently, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York ruled that a generic drug manufacturer may not be required to provide advance notice to the innovator of their intent to launch ...
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On October 19, 2010, the USPTO, in collaboration with the New York Law School’s Center for Patent Innovations, announced the upcoming launch of a second Peer to Patent pilot program. Scheduled to commence next ...
This is an interesting sound bite from the oral argument of ESN, LLC v. Cisco Systems, Inc. et al., 2010-1185 (Fed. Cir. Oct. 8, 2010). Judges Prost, Rader, and Dyk commented on the trend by ...
One question in particular that stood out to me was the question about hiring at the USPTO. Director Kappos was asked to give us an idea on what the plans are for hiring examiners to ...
Several major generic-medicine producing nations last week held a discussion on the dangers of compromised medical products and joined together to urge new steps such as defining terms, focussing on public health and strengthening national ...
The ABA Section of Intellectual Property Law will host the above-titledteleconference and live audio webcaston Tuesday, November 16, 2010:
The en banc decision in the Princo Corporation case has providedguidelines for joint ...
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