Patent & IP news for December 10, 2010
Patent Litigations
- Kilts Resources, LLC v. The Dow Chemical Company filed 2010-12-09 in Texas Eastern
- Kilts Resources, LLC v. Halliburton Company filed 2010-12-09 in Texas Eastern
- GHJ Holdings, LLC v. Proctor & Gamble Manufacturing Company et. al. filed 2010-12-09 in Texas Eastern
- Kilts Resources, LLC v. Brother International Corporation filed 2010-12-09 in Texas Eastern
- Kilts Resources, LLC v. Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. filed 2010-12-09 in Texas Eastern
- Kilts Resources, LLC v. Trane, Inc. filed 2010-12-09 in Texas Eastern
- GHJ Holdings, LLC v. Acushnet Company filed 2010-12-09 in Texas Eastern
- Kilts Resources, LLC v. Boston Scientific Corporation filed 2010-12-09 in Texas Eastern
- Kilts Resources, LLC v. Home Depot Inc filed 2010-12-09 in Texas Eastern
- Kilts Resources, LLC v. Beckman Coulter, Inc. filed 2010-12-09 in Texas Eastern
- Nazomi Communications Inc v. Samsung Telecommunications Inc et. al. filed 2010-12-09 in California Northern
- X-Caliber, LLC v. All American Industries, Inc. et. al. filed 2010-12-09 in Michigan Eastern
- Appriss Inc. v. Information Strategies, Inc. filed 2010-12-09 in Kentucky Western
- The Chamberlain Group, Inc. v. Decko Products, a division of Michel Sales Company et. al. filed 2010-12-09 in Illinois Northern
- San Francisco Technology, Inc. v. Mosswood Enterprises, Inc filed 2010-12-08 in California Northern
- Asius Technologies, LLC v. Sonion US, Inc. filed 2010-12-09 in Illinois Northern
- G5 Outdoors, LLC et. al. v. Davis et. al. filed 2010-12-09 in Michigan Eastern
- Affinity Labs of Texas, LLC v. Nike, Inc. et. al. filed 2010-12-09 in California Northern
- EIT Holdings LLC v. Webmd LLC et. al. filed 2010-12-10 in Delaware
- Main Hastings, LLC v. Berkshire Hathaway, Inc. et. al. filed 2010-12-10 in Texas Eastern
- ICON Health & Fitness, Inc. v. Source Network Sales and Marketing, Inc. filed 2010-12-10 in Texas Eastern
- Eastman Kodak Company v. Shutterfly Inc. filed 2010-12-10 in Delaware
- Patent Group, LLC v. Matco Tools et. al. filed 2010-12-10 in Texas Eastern
- Shionogi Pharma Inc. et. al. v. Mylan Inc. et. al. filed 2010-12-09 in Delaware
- In Re: Armodafinil Patent Litigation filed 2010-12-08 in Delaware
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Patentability of method/process claims- Application of recent US case law to the Indian patent act section 3(k) from spicyipindia.blogspot.com In Research Corp. v. Microsoft, the CAFC discussed the application of 35 U.S.C. § 101 to claims pertaining to abstract ideas, including digital image formats and half-toning. Halftoning is a graphic technique that mimics ...
Patent uncertainty: Goldilocks and Google from ipkitten.blogspot.com The IPKat has received this comment from an employee of a well-known patent-granting office. For the sake of his job security, peace of mind and future promotion prospects he prefers to remain anonymous. He writes ...
Settlement Discussions Explain Delayed Request for Patent Reexamination from www.patentspostgrant.com Your Honor…the dog ate our first reexam request
In reviewing the cases each week that analyze staying an ongoing district court patent infringement proceeding pending a concurrent patent reexamination, I am always struck by ...
Drug Wars: Teva Pharma Uses Online Game to Promote Generic Substitution from www.patentbaristas.com Teva Pharmaceuticals has launched a new online game promotion generic substitution among consumers. The link is below – as you can see, it allows players to replace popular brand-name drugs with their generic equivalents, and it ...
Friday fantasies from ipkitten.blogspot.com Forthcoming events: this year is now nearly over, unless you have a job as a Christmas Santa or as a sales assistant -- in which case you may not be an IP practitioner, brand owner, patent ...
Long Term Economic Predictions from hallingblog.com Background
It has been a year since I published my book The Decline and Fall of the American Entrepreneur: How Little Know Laws and Regulations are Killing Innovation. The book explains that the only way ...
Broccoli (G 2/07) and Tomatoes (G 1/08): the decision is in from ipkitten.blogspot.com The IPKat reported in a post dated 11 June 2007 of a referral having been made to the EPO Enlarged Board of Appeal (G 2/07) on the subject of whether a process involving crossing ...
Sale of Nortel Patents May Change Tech Power Balance from ipinsider1.wordpress.com Bidding Frenzy Likely for IP Rights
Reuters broke a story that bids for the remaining Nortel Networks patents worth up to $1 billion are due within weeks.
Sources close to IP Insider have said that ...
BREAKING: 'Small' EU Patent To Come Soon from www.ipjur.com I just spotted the above-pictured Tweet of Mr Vincent Van Quickenborne, Minister for enterprise and streamlining policy of Belgium.
The linked Document says:
"After more than 40 years breakthrough in realizing EU Patent supporters put ...
By Donald Zuhn -- Earlier today, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office commemorated the 30th anniversary of the Bayh-Dole Act with a special program at its headquarters in Alexandria, VA. The program featured congressional leaders ...
By James DeGiulio -- On August 2, patients with the rare Fabry disease petitioned the Department of Health and Human Services to exercise the "march-in" powers under the federal Bayh-Dole Act, and issue an open license ...
On December 8, 2010, the USPTO launched an Extended Missing Parts Pilot Program that will permit applicants to delay payment of search and examination fees (only) for up to 12 months for certain original U ...
This week, the Daily Beast reports on the top grossing reality show stars of 2010. Being a top reality star today is an opportunity to launch a business career. Paris Hilton may have done this ...
The European Patent Office Enlarged Board of Appeal yesterday gave its decision on the so-called “broccoli” and “tomato” cases, and excluded “essentially biological processes for the production of plans (or animals)” from patentability. Related Articles ...
Unless you’ve been under a rock, you’ve already heard the news. Not only has IV filed its first three lawsuits,but they’ve done it in a very public manner, issuing their own ...
By: Mark R. Malek If there is one thing that we have been focused on over the past year or so here at Tactical IP, it is keeping an eye on trademark bullies here, here ...
The New York Times today has a good article about the increasing number of professional athletes who have taken steps to protect their trademarks. Slogans or catchphrases can be big money for the selling of ...
Yesterday, in a report on my visualization of Apple's patent disputes with HTC and Motorola, Fortune.CNN.com made the following reference to the title of this blog:
"FOSS, by the way, stands for ...
October's trade data released this morning showed a slight improvement. The monthly trade deficit declined dramatically to $38.7 billion from September's $44.6 billion. Exports rose by $4.9 billion while imports ...
The proposed European Union-India free trade agreement was one of the top issues at the 11th EU-India Summit held in Brussels today. But two sides of the story are being told about who will benefit ...
As delegates in Cancun, Mexico, neared the end of their search this week for consensus on how to stop climate change, intellectual property issues were being set aside for later. Related Articles:
Federal Circuit Analyzes Abstract Ideas Exception to Patent-Eligible Subject Matter
Ever since the Supreme Court’s decision in Bilski v. Kappos, much uncertainty has existed regarding what is required for a claim to satisfy ...
Special Guest Blog by USPTO Commissioner for Patents Bob Stoll
Traditional first action pendency declined again to an average of 24.9 months for November from 25.7 months in October. In addition, traditional t ...
Delegates negotiating early stages of a treaty on traditional cultural expressions this week got down to details of what to protect, from whom and how in late-night drafting sessions at the World Intellectual Property Organization ...
The following is excerpted from a December 9, 2010articleby Don Clark and Dionne Searcey from The Wall Street Journal:
Technology companies on Wednesday received troubling news that some had feared for years: Intellectual ...
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