Patent & IP news for November 1, 2010
Patent Litigations
- Iron Bridge Tools, Inc. et. al. v. Olympia Tools International, Inc. filed 2010-10-29 in Florida Southern
- Apple, Inc. v. Motorola, Inc. et. al. filed 2010-10-29 in Wisconsin Western
- J. Schmalz GmbH et. al. v. Coval Vacuum Technology Inc. filed 2010-10-29 in North Carolina Eastern
- Tex Pat, LLC v. Sharp Corporation et. al. filed 2010-10-31 in Texas Eastern
- Fresenius Medical Care Holdings, Inc. v. Lupin filed 2010-10-29 in Massachusetts
- Virginia E-Commerce Solutions, LLC v. eBay, Inc. et. al. filed 2010-10-29 in Virginia Eastern
- Forecast Sales v. Axxiom Manufacturing, Inc. filed 2010-10-29 in Indiana Southern
- Eli Lilly And Company v. Teva Parenteral Medicines, Inc. et. al. filed 2010-10-29 in Indiana Southern
- Tex Pat, LLC v. United Technologies Corporation et. al. filed 2010-10-31 in Texas Eastern
- Granger v. Croscill Home, LLC filed 2010-10-29 in Alabama Southern
- ArrivalStar S.A. et. al. v. Xora, Inc. filed 2010-10-29 in California Northern
- Astellas Us LLC et. al. v. Nycomed U.S. Inc. filed 2010-10-27 in New Jersey
- Apple, Inc. v. Motorola, Inc. et. al. filed 2010-10-29 in Wisconsin Western
- San Francisco Technology Inc. v. G.T. Water Products Inc. filed 2010-10-27 in California Central
- Tex Pat, LLC v. Eaton Corporation et. al. filed 2010-11-01 in Texas Eastern
- Rovi Corporation et. al. v. Toshiba Corporation et. al. filed 2010-10-29 in Delaware
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Are you effectively using Japanese File Index and F-terms? from intellogist.wordpress.com As an English-speaking patent searcher, sure, you feel comfortable looking up US and IPC classification codes. The classification schedules are easy enough to browse, and you probably understand the hierarchical organization of the systems pretty ...
Regional Patent Office Coming to a City Near You? from anticipatethis.wordpress.com 
Per this recent article from Crain’s Detroit Business, Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke is on record stating that the Department of Commerce is considering opening regional Patent Offices. Currently, there is a single Patent ...
Go Ahead, Make My Day from www.patenthawk.com Patent Hawk's bread-and-butter business is invalidating patents. The smart-phone patent slugfest among Microsoft, Motorola, Apple, Nokia, Google, HTC, Kodak, RIM and others puts the party hat on Patent Hawk. It also puts the dunce ...
The PCC Page, no.4: ADR -- waste of space or chance of success? from patlit.blogspot.com Having opted for trial before the Patents
County Court, Cautious Co was no longer
tempted by other forms of dispute
resolution To recap: the PCC Pages is a series of Tuesday features on the new ...
Inventing Wealth from hallingblog.com Inventing is the way in which humans create wealth. Despite this no major school of economics pays more than lip service to invention. Economics is the study or how people produce goods and services to ...
Costco v. Omega: Parallel Importation And Its Implications from www.patentbaristas.com Browsing the aisles of Costco, taking in the consumerism the Christmas has come to denote, my mind was drawn to its jewelry and watch section. As I was feasting my eyes upon baubles and trinkets ...
Texas Court Frowns Upon Patent Reexamination Gamesmanship from www.patentspostgrant.com Patentee’s Rescinding of Earlier Made Disclaimer Deemed “Gamesmanship”
Back in June of this year, I discussed the case of Beneficial Innovations, Inc. v. AOL, LLC. et al., 2-07-cv-00555 (TXED) (Ward, J.). The previous post ...
After Google France et al: when is an ad "vague"? from ipkitten.blogspot.com Some of our readers may know that this particular Kat has a particular interest in Keyword Advertising ("AdWords") related decisions of all shapes and sizes - a passion (or shall we say: an obsession) she shares ...
By Kevin E. Noonan -- The United States government (or at least that part of it constituting the Department of Justice) has filed an amicus curiae brief in the AMP v. USPTO case (Myriad) in which ...
Guest Blogger: Arthur S. Cookfair, Registered Patent Agent
WHAT CAN BE PATENTED
The patent statutes (35 U.S.C. 101) specify four classes of subject matter suitable for the grant of a patent. To be ...
The Espacenet website has provided statistics on the most popular subjects searched for on that patent database. They cover the three months July-September 2010, and are divided into European and...
(From Steve van Dulken's ...
I had an article in the Ireland's Sunday Business Post with the title "Working smarter, not just harder" making the case for IP commercialization a key element of the Smart Economy strategy.
The edited ...
by Mark Malek As our readers know, we here at TacticalIP like to point out the times in which intellectual property has been used in an inappropriate matter, i.e., when intellectual property owners get ...
On October 7, 2010, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) issued a press release announcing the adoption of new procedures for measuring the quality of patent examination that will be implemented during the start ...
If you are claiming a computerized "system" of some kind in a patent application related to software or business methods, be sure to think of the claim in terms of how the PTO will examine ...
Susan H. Abramovitch is a partner in Gowlings’ Toronto office, practising exclusively in entertainment law. Susan’s practice covers all aspects of music industry transactions, as well as film, television, live theatre, multimedia, videogaming and ...
Over the years, I have posted a number of pieces on taxation of royalties and the shift of IP to low tax countries. A story in the Washington Post shows how Google uses this mechanism ...
In March, Judge Robert Sweet invalidated a number of patent claims directed to isolated gene sequences and methods of comparing or analyzing the sequences. This case is now on appeal at the Federal Circuit. The ...
The conclusion of the Department of Justice amicus brief in the Myriad case says:
For the foregoing reasons, the Court should reverse the district
court’s invalidation of the composition claims that are limited to ...
Malaya.com noted some faculty of the College of Law of the Lyceum of the Philippines University have come out in support of the professors who challenged the Supreme Court about an opinion which plagiarized ...
On Friday I thought I posted links to amicus briefs filed by Holman/Cook-Deegan and DOJ in AMP v. PTO, but turns out they were not operational, I believe the problem has been corrected. Just ...
On Friday, October 29, 2010, practically on the eve of a national election that will in all certainty be an enormous rebuke of the Obama Administration and the Democrats' agenda in general, the Department of ...
Disagreement over the mandate of a newly-formed World Intellectual Property Organization committee resulted in a vote to suspend the meeting with no conclusions last Friday evening. Related Articles:
Plaintiff's motion to dismiss plaintiff's inequitable conduct counterclaim was granted and defendant was ordered to file a counterclaim that complied with the pleading requirements of FRCP 9(b). "[Defendant], inter alia, has not ...
Sun Pharma. Ind. Ltd. v. Eli Lilly and Co., No. 2010-1105, (Nov. 1, 2010, Order)
Eli Lilly filed a first application describing a new class of chemical compounds having antiviral utility, including the compound named ...
Solvay S.A. v. Honeywell Intl. (Fed. Cir. 2010) Read/download the decision here Prepared by Thomas Lee In Solvay S.A. v. Honeywell International, Appeal 2009-1161 decided October 13, 2010, an accused patent infringer ...
Like it or not, the patent system is a great motivator, and used appropriately to incentivize the type of behavior we want to encourage it is a powerful tool in the government arsenal. To fundamentally ...
Bloomberg reported: The justices today [1 Nov 10] said they will hear Stanford’s bid to revive its lawsuit against a Roche unit over patents covering ways to test how well AIDS treatments are working ...
The following is excerpted from a November 1, 2010articlepublished at Third World Network:
Concerns were raised by several countries at a meeting of the TRIPS Council over the proposed Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA ...
Judge Lourie was calling the case of Auction Management Solutions v. Manheim Auctions, a patent case related to internet auctioning, when he asked counsel for the appellant if he was buying or selling. Counsel for ...
Takeaway: The Board found that a swear-behind declaration did not show constructive reduction to practice of a claimed spatial relationship because the claims used different terminology than the evidence. Specifically, the claims referred to the ...
By James DeGiulio -- On January 1, 2011, all direct European patent applications and European national phase applications will be subject to new EPC Rules 141 and Rule 70b, which modify the requirements for supplying search ...
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