Patent & IP news for November 15, 2010
Patent Litigations
- Ken Mills Engineering LTD. et. al. v. Bulk Handling Systems et. al. filed 2010-11-12 in Tennessee Middle
- Denmel Holdings et. al. v. Argento SC By Sicura et. al. filed 2010-11-12 in Utah
- Edizone v. Profoot filed 2010-11-12 in Utah
- Hackman v. Mizuno USA, Inc. filed 2010-11-12 in Ohio Southern
- Hospira, Inc. et. al. v. Caraco Pharmaceutical Laboratories, Ltd. filed 2010-11-12 in Michigan Eastern
- RB Technologies, LLC v. Lifeshield Security, Inc. filed 2010-11-12 in California Southern
- Microsoft Corporation v. PartsRiver, Inc. et. al. filed 2010-11-10 in California Northern
- Genmark Diagnostics, Inc. v. Caliper Life Sciences, Inc. filed 2010-11-10 in California Northern
- Starr Products, LLC v. Betesh Group Holding Corporation, The et. al. filed 2010-11-10 in Colorado
- Draper, Inc. v. Mechoshade Systems, Inc. et. al. filed 2010-11-10 in Indiana Southern
- Igt v. Aristocrat Technologies Inc et. al. filed 2010-11-15 in California Central
- Lawrence E Tannas Jr v. Systems Technology Incorporated et. al. filed 2010-11-12 in California Central
- Effectively Illuminated Pathways LLC v. UnbeatableSale.com, Inc. et. al. filed 2010-11-15 in Texas Eastern
- Fujitsu Limited et. al. v. Netgear, Inc. filed 2010-11-12 in Wisconsin Western
- Vertical Computer Systems, Inc. v. Interwoven, Inc. et. al. filed 2010-11-15 in Texas Eastern
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Monday miscellany from ipkitten.blogspot.com Around the blogs. "Manufacture or repair?" is the question raised by Brian Whitehead and Richard Kempner (Kempner & Partners LLP) in a current intelligence note for the Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice, published ahead of ...
Jurisdictional Nuance from www.patenthawk.com Nuance sued competitor Abbyy over its OCR scanning software patents. Finding out who the US subsidiary of Abbyy was owned by, Nuance amended its complaint to target the parent company in Cyprus, and the Russian ...
New BPAI Appeal Rules Proposed from www.patentspostgrant.com Rules for Ex Parte Appeals to be Simplified
In recent years, the USPTO has advanced significant changes to the rules of practice for ex parte appeals to the Board of Patent Appeals & Interferences (BPAI). (previously ...
BPAI Finds Examiner Rendered Claim Term Superfluous During Prosecution from www.grayonclaims.com Ex parte Castillo (BPAI Nov. 15, 2010)
Today, the BPAI reversed an examiner's rejection of claims as the examiner's interpretation of the claim rendered the claim term "directly" superfluous. The patent application at ...
AOP Concludes First Study with Shared Rewards! from info.articleonepartners.com We are delighted to announce the conclusion of Study DEV 129 - Hydraulic Gear Pump Having Sound Absorption Cavities - as we congratulate yoovee for winning the Study! Yoovee will receive $14,200.
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Patent Office achieves ‘gold standard’, demands Rs. 104,000 to deliver certified copies of 26 documents!!!! from spicyipindia.blogspot.com In an absolutely mind-blowing case before Justice Murlidhar of the Delhi High Court a petitioner, presumably a defendant in a patent case, seems to have taken serious objection to the sky-high fees, of Rs 104 ...
How to follow me from ipelton.wordpress.com Want to make sure you receive the latest blog posts, videos, and news from Erik M. Pelton & Associates! There are a variety of ways to receive posts from the blog, so you can use whichever ...
Tech Transfer Times Two: a couple of book reviews from ipkitten.blogspot.com Competition Law, Technology Transfer and the TRIPS Agreement: Implications for Developing Countries is the title of a very good book by Tu Thanh Nguyen (Faculty of Law, Lund University, Sweden and Ho Chi Minh City ...
The Final ACTA from ipkitten.blogspot.com Responses to ACTA's final text are likely to be mixed ... Via a Tweet from the invaluable Michael Geist comes what looks rather like the final text of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. Described as being ...
SpicyIP Tidbit: Proposed 'Legal Services Board' to cover even 'Patent Agents' from spicyipindia.blogspot.com Sometime last week the Ministry of Law and Justice had released a draft bill entitled "Legal Practitioners (Regulations and Maintenance of Standards in Professions, Protecting the Interest of Clients and Promoting the Rule of Law ...
Book Review Monday: Imitation to Innovation in China from www.patentbaristas.com “In every crisis, there is opportunity” ~Chinese Proverb
With a GDP of more than $8,000 billion, China is poised to become the world’s third-largest pharmaceutical market next year – up from number eight in ...
Fox Sues Renegade Classics for Infringing Sons of Anarchy Copyright and Trademarks from www.iptrademarkattorney.com Los Angeles, CA – Fox is the owner of all copyrights in its “Sons of Anarchy” television show airing on FX. The dramatic television series follows a notorious outlaw motorcycle club battling outside threats to protect ...
Teva Pharm. Indus. v. AstraZeneca Pharms., No. 08cv4786 (E.D. Pa. 2010)
Here's something you don't see every day: an ANDA filer suing a brand-name drug manufacturer for patent infringement.
In late 2007 ...
A recent piece in Forbes Woman discusses the difficult situation business owners who do not properly clear and protect their trademark may face – paying lawyers to defend a trademark case that might not be successful ...
Takeaway: Most of the BPAI decisions that are appealed to the Federal Circuit involve fairly routine reviews of prior art rejections. In re Jung is different: it's about the Examiner's requirement to make ...
Defendants' renewed motion to stay pending ex parte reexamination was granted because plaintiff amended all of its independent claims during the reexamination proceeding and added new claims in response to the PTO's initial rejection ...
In this post we continue our series about the USPTO's recently-proposed Enhanced Examination Timing Control Initiative. Following our post outlining the basic details of each of the proposed three tracks, we now discuss the ...
Here is an interesting rant from and IP strategist (Jackie Hitter) Inventiveness and Patents Do Not Equal Innovation:
Few things infuriate me more than supposed experts who make statements along the lines of "patents are ...
Samantha Schreiber is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Professor Peter K. Yu, an IP Osgoode Research Affiliate, examines the impact of external influences on the development of moral rights both in Europe ...
By: Aaron B. Thalwitzer A friend-of-the-court brief filed by the US Department of Justice says that genes should not be patentable. ‘We acknowledge that this conclusion is contrary to the longstanding practice of the Patent ...
As Congress returns this week for a lame duck session that will focus on a new budget and the fate of the Bush-era tax cuts, there is some speculation in the patent world on the ...
Steven Zuccarelli is a J.D. Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School On 28 October 2010, IP Osgoode hosted Professor Graham Dutfield of the University of Leeds School of Law, who discussed research that demonstrates ...
In Dupont v Solvay, the Intellectual Property Appellate Board (IPAB) ruled that certain amendments to the specification as proposed by the patentee were acceptable.
In this case, the Controller had made a positive recommendation (acceptable ...
The World Intellectual Property Organization copyright committee has reached an eleventh-hour agreement on a work programme that could help ease access to reading materials for the visually impaired. Related Articles:
Since our last announcement about the NUJS Max Planck IP Workshop, we have added a number of new speakers and moderators which promises to make this dialogue a fabulous one! Please find the new schedule ...
Thanks to Michael Geist's tweets and IPKats quick follow up, we have news that the final text of the controversial ACTA has just been released, though it's stated as 'Subject to Legal Review ...
PatLit made reference in July (here and here) to the application for disclosure (evidence) made by Abbott in the course of an action in which it sought declarations of non-infringement, and orders for revocation, of ...
You may recall our recent efforts to streamline the appeals process by vesting the Board with the sole authority to hold an appeal brief noncompliant. This has led to a dramatic reduction in the percent ...
Takeaway: The Federal Circuit held that a method claim which referred to "engaging eight cube pieces" was limited to a 2x2x2 cube despite the use of "which comprised" in the method preamble. Furthermore, the cube ...
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