Patent & IP news for October 25, 2010
Patent Litigations
- Vibram S.P.A. et. al. v. Fut Glove, LLC filed 2010-10-22 in Florida Middle
- JB Originals, LLC v. W.I.N.O.S., Inc. filed 2010-10-22 in North Carolina Eastern
- Pacific Scientific Energetic Materials Company LLC et. al. v. Ensign-Bickford Aerospace & Defense Company filed 2010-10-21 in Arizona
- Prucher et. al. v. CMW International, Inc. filed 2010-10-22 in Michigan Eastern
- Metso Minerals Industries Inc et. al. v. Astec Industries Inc et. al. filed 2010-10-22 in Wisconsin Eastern
- Main Hastings LLC v. Munchkin Inc filed 2010-10-25 in Texas Eastern
- Promote Innovation LLC v. Signature Brands, LLC filed 2010-10-25 in Texas Eastern
- LSI Corporation v. Vizio Inc filed 2010-10-20 in California Central
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Leonard Boswell Backs Internet Companies Over the People of Iowa from blawgit.com I recently wrote that Senator Charles Grassley is no friend to the Internet, choosing instead to run “roughshod over freedom of speech on the internet.” To be fair, Republicans hold no monopoly on using elected ...
Battistelli update from ipkitten.blogspot.com A bit of a quicky this one.
As the IPKat mentioned in an earlier post, Benoît Battistelli (right), the new President of the European Patent Office, will be giving a public lecture at UCL on ...
Keeping Busy from ipelton.wordpress.com The last few months have been even busier than usual here at Erik M Pelton &Associates.; Thanks to exciting clients and new speaking opportunities, there has been little time to stop and reflect on all ...
Google sued for patent infringement (Street View) from patlit.blogspot.com Last week CHRISTIE, PARKER & HALE stated that they have sued Google on behalf of their client Vederi LLC, for patent infringement based on Google street view (here). They tell us that “the complaint alleges that ...
European IP Leaders Meet at 4th Summit from ipinsider1.wordpress.com Vision is Focus for Brussels IP 2010
Leading figures in European intellectual property business, regulation and finance, as well as several prominent Americans, will be on hand for the 4th Pan European Intellectual Property Summit ...
EchoStar Debates TiVo Patent Reexamination Result from www.patentspostgrant.com EchoStar Seeks to Exploit Examiner Comments in Letter to CAFC
A few weeks back, I reported on the second emergence of the TiVo Time Warp Patent (U.S. Patent 6,233,389) from patent reexamination ...
Monday miscellany from ipkitten.blogspot.com "Working together" is one
of the new President's themes Antonio Campinos has now made his first speech to industry since taking over as President of the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (OHIM ...
Patent limericks competition: now for the winner! from ipkitten.blogspot.com The previous post gave readers a sample of the entries received in the IPKat's Patent Limerick competition. Now for the winner ...
The number of entries received was very large. Getting on for a hundred ...
Book Review Monday: Insidious Competition from www.patentbaristas.com solipsism – n. – the theory that the self can be aware of nothing but its own experiences.
You already know they exist — out there somewhere — waiting to bash your company. Just look at websites such as ...
The PCC Page, no.3: The biter bitten? – Watching your pre-action steps from patlit.blogspot.com In this, the third in the series of PCC Pages, the Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys (CIPA) takes us through the next stage when contemplating using the Patents County Court for England and Wales for ...
Friday afternoon I attended the second day of the AIPLA annual meeting. I got to the Marriott Wardman Park hotel at 9:00 am and was there until after 11:00 pm, for a full ...
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has announced an additional one-year pilot of its “Peer To Patent” pilot program, which invites public participation in the patent application process. The new program launches on October ...
Tom Friedman's column on Sunday was about the election and economy. But it contains a great description of the transformation. He conceds the point that areas are doing well, such as new technologies.
But ...
In a ruling expected to rock Europe’s controversial copyright levy system, the European Court of Justice held on 20 October that governments may impose fees on digital reproduction equipment to compensate rights holders only ...
TV Guide noted:
The South Park episode, titled "Insheeption," and a CollegeHumor video both featured the same lines that mocked the complexity of the film, but were not actually from the film. One line in ...
Gemalto SA v. HTC Corporation, HTC America Inc., Exedea Inc., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Samsung Telecommunications America LLC, Motorola Inc., and Google Inc. was filed in ED Texas (Tyler) on 22 October 2010.
The allegation ...
Of KSR v. Teleflex, IPWatchDog writes:
The “common sense” test urged by the Supreme Court, however, ignores that fact that after one learns of something it is always common sense. In essence, the Supreme Court ...
Plaintiff's motion in limine to exclude physical examples of allegedly unauthenticated prior art was denied. Defendant's "Statement of Uncontroverted Facts and Conclusions of Law" filed in support of summary judgment claimed that the ...
Last week the USPTO announced a new peer-to-patent pilot program that will include patent applications in the fields of biotechnology, bioinformatics, telecommunications, and speech recognition, in addition to the software and business methods applications that ...
Congress is again causing problems for the Federal Judiciary. The crisis is a lack of judicial resources due to the fact that Congress refuses to confirm Federal judges.
We know that there are currently 3 ...
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and the European Patent Office (EPO) have agreed to work toward the formation of a joint patent classification system. Unlike other major patent document classification systems, the ...
On October 14, 2010, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas granted what is reportedly the largest judgment ever awarded in an action involving on-line counterfeiting. In Farouk Systems, Inc. v ...
The USPTO's classification system has been different from the International Patent Classification System (IPC) because (a) the USPTO's classification system came first, and (b) WIPO decided to take a different classification path when ...
One of our frequent readers Mr. Praveen Raj, a scientist with the CSIR has filed a rectification petition with the GI Registry requesting the cancellation of the 'Geographical Indication' status granted to the Tirumala Tirupati ...
Today marks the next step in patent research innovation. The United States Patent and Trademark Office blog announced the official start of the Peer To Patent 2011 Pilot. Peer To Patent allows individuals to submit ...
Leslie Chong is a J.D. Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School In their thought-provoking New York Times article, Kal Raustiala (professor at UCLA Law School) and Chris Sprigman (professor at Virginia Law School) discuss ...
The oral argument in Cheetah Omni v. Samsung Electronics, et al., 2010-1169 (Fed. Cir. Oct. 12, 2010) is interesting in that it dealt with the construction of the term “optical signal” and whether in view ...
Myriad filed its brief with the Federal Circuit last Friday in its appeal of the district court decision in AMP v. PTO, which found Myriad's gene patents to be patent ineligible. The brief is ...
By Sherri Oslick -- About Court Report: Each week we will report briefly on recently filed biotech and pharma cases. Sandoz Inc. v. Boehringer Ingelheim 1:10-cv-01767; filed October 19, 2010 in the District Court of ...
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