Patent & IP news for January 12, 2011
Patent Litigations
- Promote Innovation LLC v. Ozwest, Inc. et. al. filed 2011-01-11 in Texas Eastern
- Tex Pat, LLC v. Otto Bock HealthCare GmbH et. al. filed 2011-01-11 in Texas Eastern
- NSK Ltd. v. ILJIN Bearing Co. Ltd. filed 2011-01-11 in Alabama Middle
- Troll Busters, LLC v. Roche Diagnostics GMBH et. al. filed 2011-01-10 in California Southern
- Union Properties LLC v. Boy Scouts of America et. al. filed 2011-01-11 in Texas Western
- Cheese Systems, Inc. v. Tetra Pak Cheese and Powder Systems, Inc. et. al. filed 2011-01-11 in Wisconsin Western
- Ingenix, Inc. v. Cave Consulting Group, LLC filed 2011-01-11 in Minnesota
- Whitehaus Collection v. Barclay Products, Limited et. al. filed 2011-01-11 in New York Southern
- NSK, Ltd. v. Iljin Global Co., Ltd. et. al. filed 2011-01-11 in Michigan Eastern
- Zephyr Fluid Solutions, LLC v. Primo Water Corporation filed 2011-01-10 in Connecticut
- Texas Data Co., L.L.C. v. Osment Medels, Inc. d/b/a Woodland Scenics filed 2011-01-12 in Texas Eastern
- Kkg, LLC v. The Rank Group, PLC d/b/a Reynolds Kitchens and/or Reynolds Group et. al. filed 2011-01-12 in Texas Eastern
- Aventis Pharma S.A. et. al. v. Sandoz Inc. filed 2011-01-12 in Delaware
- Solannex, Inc. v. MiaSole, Inc. filed 2011-01-11 in California Northern
- Allergan Inc. et. al. v. Sandoz Inc. filed 2011-01-11 in Delaware
- VirnetX Inc. v. Mitel Networks Corporation et. al. filed 2011-01-12 in Texas Eastern
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Luxury Goods and the "China Price" from ipfinance.blogspot.com 
There are few areas of the trademark and brand-driven business that I find more interesting than luxury brands. When trademark law took shape in the 19th century, marks and signs primarily served the honorable, but ...
CAFC Reversal Cites Patent Reexamination Claim Interpretation from www.patentspostgrant.com Broadest Reasonable Interpretation (BRI) an Outer Limit?
In a district court (or the ITC) patent claims are interpreted based upon the presumption of validity accorded issued patents as guided by controlling claim construction precedent. Phillips ...
The Roberts Supreme Court: Pro-Business and Anti-Patent? from ipwatchdog.com John Roberts, Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court
The latest edition of Fortune magazine has John Roberts, Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, on the cover. The Fortune cover proclaims that ...
False Marking Update: Good News for a Change from ipassetmaximizerblog.com 
How my client prevailed in the first round of a false marking lawsuit
In November, 2010, I wrote a blog post where I talked about a client who was sued for false marking, even though ...
Divorced from www.patenthawk.com Divorce always involves paperwork. In this case, Juris Zanis Pupols divorced himself from reality long before he filed his patent application for "controllable reciprocating Ac/Dc powered specialty products for life enhancement," which he abandoned ...
Wednesday whimsies from ipkitten.blogspot.com Today's your last chance to vote in the Starbucks New Logo poll: if you're an email reader and don't often visit the site but would like to vote, just click here and ...
A Look Back: PatBase December 2010 Update from intellogist.wordpress.com In November 2010 we previewed the incoming PatBase update by looking at some of its new features and designs–for good or for ill. I have been using the final version of the update for ...
The PTO Paradox: A Gatekeeper Mired in the Past from ipwatchdog.com
Gene and I are true believers in the PTO and its mission. What this means, for me anyway, is that the PTO is given the benefit of the doubt for whatever it is they are ...
P Diddy Trademark Issue with Ididdy from patentlawip.blogspot.com 
P.Diddy Opposes “Ididdy” Headphones
Pacific Rim, Inc., maker of a new brand of headphones for iPods and iPhones, apparently isn’t too familiar with pop culture, and possible trademark conflicts with its new “iDiddy ...
Bel Air Lighting Sues For Declaratory Relief Of Copyright Invalidity and Non-Infringement Of Light Fixture from www.iptrademarkattorney.com Los Angeles, CA – Bel Air Lighting is suing Schonbek over the sales of Bel Air’s Portfolio light fixture. Schonbek previously sued Lowe’s Home Centers for copyright infringement for selling the Portfolio light fixture ...
Rambus Tripped Up at USPTO from www.patentspostgrant.com Widely Asserted Patent Held Invalid at USPTO
The Rambus patent portfolio is well known, if not notorious, in the semiconductor industry. Over the years, Rambus has aggressively pursued licensing deals with Infineon, Hynix, Samsung and ...
Outhouse from www.patenthawk.com David Leonhart at the New York Times can't tell a copycat from a thieving rat, calling software piracy "intellectual property theft." "For the United States, the No. 1 problem with China's economy is ...
The Lionel, the Bezpečnostní softwarová asociace and the Wandering Court of Justice from ipkitten.blogspot.com Watch out, Court of Justice --
you can't appropriate jurisdiction
with impunity! When the lion roars, do we not all sit up and pay attention? How much so when it is more than a lion ...
By Kevin E. Noonan -- Members of Congress having sent their letter to the Food and Drug Administration on December 21st (see "Representatives Send Letter to FDA to Explain Data Exclusivity Provisions of Biosimilars Legislation"), on ...
Every winter there are tragic stories of skiers who are caught in avalanches. Sometimes it is not possible to dig them out in time. Some skiers carry electronic trackers, and there are also airbags...
(From ...
In recent week, this IPelton blog has acquired a lot of new readers. Perhaps you missed some older posts. Here are some of the most popular and favorite (in my opinion) posts from the last ...
After buying up a number of American bakeries, including Entemann's and Thomas's English Muffins, Bimbo Bakeries is going into sports, as seen in the headline Phila. Union is now officially team Bimbo .
IPBiz ...
The electronista notes:
A consortium of several companies, including Microsoft, Apple, EMC and Oracle, has backed away from its plan to buy a large number of Novell patents. The companies had submitted a plan notifying ...
Reuters reports:
The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee will take another crack at overhauling the nation's patent laws and protecting personal privacy this year, the panel's Democratic chairman, Senator Patrick Leahy said on ...
Yesterday's Wall Street Journal had an article on the plight of the long term unemployed and their drop in wages when they finally find work (Downturn's Ugly Trademark: Steep, Lasting Drop in Wages ...
Here is a heads-up on what could be a major change in how we treat human capital in the US -- specifically "blue-collar" workers. According to a story in today's Wall Street Journal:
GM CEO ...
I’ve taken to becoming quite frustrated lately with the propagation of the falsity that filing patents can protect your products. Either this statement is incredibly misleading, or patent attorneys have a different interpretation of ...
Following a bench trial, the court found that plaintiffs' cinacalcet drug patents were not invalid for obvious-type double patenting. "Because of the change in patent terms as of June 8, 1995, the '068 and '003 ...
By: Mark R. Malek After an in depth TacticalIP.com investigation, we broke the news to you that the United States Patent and Trademark Office planned to open its first satellite office in Detroit in ...
Patents will soon receive less protection in the United States. That’s the view of many experts who have been closely following Microsoft Corp. v. i4i Ltd. Partnership, which will be argued before the United ...
Stuart Freen is a J.D. candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Sony Computer Entertainment America has launched a legal action against a number of computer hackers in an attempt to halt the proliferation of ...
Moving through my list of Top 10 Mistakes when arguing at the BPAI, it's on to Mistake #5: Failing to address the combination. I've actually blogged about this one several times before, so ...
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