Patent & IP news for November 16, 2010
Patent Litigations
- Royal Appliance Manufacturing Co. et. al. v. Fellowes, Inc. filed 2010-11-15 in Ohio Northern
- 180S, Inc. et. al. v. Brookstone, Inc. filed 2010-11-15 in Maryland
- Geocel LLC v. Chem Link Inc filed 2010-11-09 in Indiana Northern
- Jet-Lube, Inc. v. Bestolife Corporation filed 2010-11-15 in Texas Southern
- AntiCancer, Inc. v. Berthold Technologies. et. al. filed 2010-11-12 in California Southern
- Gemmy Industries Corporation v. Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell LLP et. al. filed 2010-11-15 in Texas Northern
- Adams v. Hearthmark, LLC et. al. filed 2010-11-15 in Wisconsin Western
- Fortinet, Inc. v. Palo Alto Networks, Inc. filed 2010-11-12 in California Northern
- Patent Harbor, LLC v. Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, LLC et. al. filed 2010-11-16 in Texas Eastern
- Cary Products v. DCM Manufacturing, Inc. filed 2010-11-16 in Texas Eastern
- PT Diagnostics, LLC v. Honeywell International Inc et. al. filed 2010-11-16 in Texas Eastern
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Patent & IP Blogs
Right to begin: Madras HC on Bajaj-TVS case from spicyipindia.blogspot.com Over at the Bajaj-TVS trial, which, yes, is still happening in the city formerly known as Madras, a Division Bench of the High Court has reversed the trial court decision, observing that asking Bajaj to ...
Event: Workshop on Commercialisation Aspects of IPR from spicyipindia.blogspot.com We have an interesting event update for the entrepreneurs among you who are in Delhi this month -- The folks at the Indian Angel Network Incubator inform us that they are hosting a workshop on the ...
The Indian Patent Information Retrieval System from intellogist.wordpress.com India is an exploding market for intellectual property. Patent applications are exceeding 30,000 per year (see page 9) and this number is sure to erupt as Indian patent law reforms and becomes more easily ...
IP enforcement and SMEs: the truth! from ipkitten.blogspot.com While the IPKat is generally viewed as a fairly lively and sometimes irreverent didactic news-and-comment blog, it doesn't hurt to remind readers that the various members of the blogging team are also serious IP ...
USPTO Announces Extension and Expansion of Green Technology Pilot Program from greenpatentblog.com
Last week the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) formally announced its plan to extend and expand the Green Technology Pilot Program, which provides accelerated examination for patent applications relating to green technologies.
According ...
Not the 2012 Olympics: Willie and Kate to wed from ipkitten.blogspot.com Darker days for the Royals:
Queen Elizabeth was so poor when
she married the Duke that they could
only afford a wedding in black
and white The engagement announced today, of Prince William (second in ...
The PCC Page, no.6: Judge injects meaning into “SME Court” from patlit.blogspot.com The PCC Pages is a series of Tuesday features on the new regime for litigation before the recently revamped Patents County Court (PCC) for England and Wales, hosted by PatLit but furnished by the Chartered ...
Sham Patent Reexamination Argument Goes Nowhere from www.patentspostgrant.com Lockwood Reexamination Gripe Goes Nowhere
As discussed last week, the case of Lockwood v. Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton was recently argued before the CAFC. Wasting no time, today, the CAFC affirmed the lower court ruling ...
Tivo Stock Price from www.717madisonplace.com The Federal Circuit sat en banc to hear the oral argument in Tivo v. Echostar on Tuesday November 9th. It is interesting to compare the stock performance of Tivo and Dish. Tivo’s stock price ...
According to this press release from Trade Minister Craig Emerson, ACTA was finalised overnight.
A pdf of the finalised text (subject to legal review) may be downloaded here.
DFAT’s previously advertised information sessions will ...
The following is an excerpt from a November 11, 2010articleby Tony Bradley at PCWorld:
The countersuit is a standard legal maneuver for patent infringement law suits.It is common enough that it is ...
By Kevin E. Noonan -- The Supreme Court has spent a decade second-guessing (and in large part overturning) decisions of the Federal Circuit in the exercise of its unique mission to harmonize patent law. Sometimes this ...
I was watching TV when an advertisement came on about a bricklaying tool, the Bricky®. Someone I recognised from one of the first "reality" programmes, Garden Force, was enthusing about it and saying...
(From Steve ...
The USPTO has published proposed changes to the rules governing practice before the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences. While the proposed changes salvage a few elements from the 2008 "Final Rules" that never took ...
The United States Trade Representative has released the final text of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement [pdf], though it is still "subject to legal review." This text, dated 15 November, is the agreed finalised version, according ...
Ivy Tsui is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School “Matooke” means more than just the word “banana” in Uganda – it is synonymous with “food” in the local language. However, a bacterium called banana ...
The court denied defendant's motion to dismiss plaintiff's qui tam false marking action and rejected defendant's argument that marking with the conditional phrase "[X products] are covered by one or more of ...
The PTO is again seeking to change the rules for patent appeals at the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences. The good news is that the new Federal Register notice indicates that the previous controversial ...
To be liable for patent infringement, a “single” entity must sell a product or perform all of the steps of a claim in a patent. If “two” different parties provide different components or different steps ...
On November 15, 2010, the USPTO published a proposed rule that is intended to clarify and simplify patent appeals practice. Some of the most significant changes include that proposals to:
- Remove several requirements from the ...
Yesterday, the USPTO announced proposed changes to the rules governing ex parte patent appeals before the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences. (BPAI). According to Director Kappos, “we hear often from stakeholders that the patent ...
The end of the year is still a few months off, but Time magazine has decided to call it early… Last week, Time issued its annual “50 Best Inventions” article. It’s an interesting and ...
by Mark Malek Do you remember that just a few days ago, in my previous article, I promised that I would continue to update you on the Facebook lawsuits that have recently been filed to ...
Cancer Res. Tech. and Schering v. Barr Labs., No. 2010-1204 (Fed. Cir. 2010)
Last week, the Federal Circuit clarified that the equitable defense of prosecution laches requires a separate finding of ...
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