Patent & IP news for December 15, 2010
Patent Litigations
- Icon Health & Fitness v. Johnson Health Tech North America filed 2010-12-14 in Utah
- Jardin v. Datallegro, Inc. et. al. filed 2010-12-13 in California Southern
- Cequent Performance Products, Inc. v. B & W Custom Truck Beds, Inc. filed 2010-12-14 in Michigan Eastern
- BIAX Corporation v. Motorola, Inc. et. al. filed 2010-12-13 in Colorado
- Sun Most LLC v. RBS Citizens National Association filed 2010-12-13 in California Central
- Sofpool, LLC v. KMart Corporation et. al. filed 2010-12-14 in California Eastern
- Complete Production Services, Inc. v. Webvention, LLC et. al. filed 2010-12-14 in Texas Southern
- Medicis Pharmaceutical Corporation v. Nycomed US Inc. filed 2010-12-15 in Delaware
- Lawson Software Inc. et. al. v. Webvention Holdings LLC et. al. filed 2010-12-15 in Delaware
- Beats Electronics LLC et. al. v. Fanny Wang Headphone Company Inc et. al. filed 2010-12-14 in California Northern
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Long Live The EU Patent - But A New EU Patent Court System Is Dead? from www.ipjur.com Today I was able to gain access to EU Commission Document COM(210) 790 final - kudos to @EUpexian on Twitter. The paper is titled Proposal for a Council Decision authorising enhanced cooperation in the area ...
Wednesday whimsies from ipkitten.blogspot.com More fun with functionality. The IPKat has received a prod from one of his regular comment-posters, who emailed him to praise the high quality of the readers' comments on this weblog [Merpel notes sourly: the ...
Patent Citation Visualizations from intellogist.wordpress.com Patent citation visualizations are a hot feature in the patent search world. Most major systems have some variation on a feature that allows users to view a tree, web, or map-like structure detailing the forward ...
Call for Papers: The Incentive to Invent from www.patentbaristas.com The University of Baltimore School of Law’s Intellectual Property Law Journal seeks articles for its Spring 2011 symposium issue. The symposium’s theme is: “The Incentive to Invent: Intellectual Property Protection and the U ...
Genuine-fake data and legal compendium: the WCO gets busy from ipkitten.blogspot.com The partnership between Customs
and Business, symbolised by a piece
of red tape which may twist
and change colour but
is never broken The World Customs Organization (WCO) doesn't often get a mention on ...
Brands will be everywhere. Will anyone notice? from ipelton.wordpress.com I remember going to Red Sox games in my youth when the ‘Green Monster’ was bare of advertisements. And the pitching changes, pre-game show, broadcast booth, and line up announcements during the TV and radio ...
Latitude from www.patenthawk.com ColorQuick sued VistaPrint and OfficeMax for patent infringement in the Eastern District of Texas. Defendants wanted a transfer to Massachusetts. Denied. Petition to the CAFC for a writ of mandamus, to overturn, failed. "In sum ...
They Invented What? (No. 191) from anticipatethis.wordpress.com U.S. Pat. Appl. Pub. No. 2002/0128081: Santa’s reindeer food.
JW Note: Wishing a Happy Holidays to all! See you in 2011!
What is claimed is:
1. A kit for supplying reindeer food ...
SMEIA grabs the headlines -- but fails the "Merpel" test from ipkitten.blogspot.com If the IPKat ever had to do any lobbying, this is his dream lobby First to send this link to the IPKat for his perusal was stalwart patent practitioner and early riser Ron Camp (Kilburn ...
By Sherri Oslick -- About Court Report: Each week we will report briefly on recently filed biotech and pharma cases. Anticancer, Inc. v. Cellsight Technologies, Inc. et al. 3:10-cv-02515; filed December 8, 2010 in the ...
By Donald Zuhn -- On October 22, Defendants-Appellants Myriad Genetics, Inc. and ten Directors of the University of Utah Research Foundation filed their brief in Association of Molecular Pathology v. U.S. Patent and Trademark Office ...
By Kevin E. Noonan -- One of the arguments advanced by the plaintiffs in Association of Molecular Pathology v. U.S. Patent and Trademark Office ("Myriad") is that a pernicious effect of permitting patents on genes ...
Intellectual Property Owners hold a vital stake in driving innovation and promoting intellectual property in a nation’s Innovation ecosystem. IP Owners of India represent a Global Community. From MNCs to Traditional Artisan, it represents ...
Opinions were divided in a United Nations consultation yesterday in New York on enhanced cooperation of public policy issues pertaining to the internet, whether two bodies on the issue are needed. Discussions reflected that the ...
The Full Court (Keane CJ, Perram and Yates JJ) have dismissed Telstra’s appeal in the Phone Directories case.
First impressions.
Given the (arguably) disparate reasoning in the 2 judgments in IceTV, the Chief ...
The recent Federal Circuit decision in ERBE Elektromedizin GMBH v. Canady Technology LLC serves as a reminder that the doctrine of claim differentiation generally will not be useful to support a claim interpretation that is ...
Was it over before it started? Anti-patent advocates have been watching court filings closely, looking for situations where the Supreme Court’s recent case on patentability of abstract ideas could be used broadly against a ...
One of our readers, Arpan Banerjee sent us this interesting bit of information concerning foreign films shot in India, which could be useful to lawyers working in the field of entertainment law.
Arpan has a ...
In Re Acer America Corp. is the latest in a growing body of opinions authored by the Federal Circuit finding that the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas has abused its ...
Available online, though not yet in print, is an article "Security interests over intellectual property", by up-and-coming IP expert Andrea Tosato. Currently a doctoral candidate in Intellectual Property law at the University of Pavia, Andrea ...
The court denied defendant's motion for summary judgment of noninfringement on the basis of divided infringement because the method step allegedly performed by a third party was part of a preamble and therefore not ...
Two weeks ago, the United States Supreme Court decided to hear another patent case[1] – marking only the ninth time during the Chief Justice Roberts era that Court has decided to do so. The popular ...
This morning, President Obama is meeting with a number of business leaders to discuss the economy. Billed as a "CEO Summit" I suspect the agenda will be the standard rhetoric of cut taxes and cut ...
Creation of a single European patent came to a screeching halt when EU member countries were unable to reach the necessary unanimous agreement during talks held in Brussels earlier this fall. Deadlocked for the past ...
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