Patent & IP news for January 20, 2011
Patent Litigations
- KMC Exim Corporation v. Pacific World Corporation filed 2011-01-13 in New York Eastern
- Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited et. al. v. Cadila Healthcare Ltd. et. al. filed 2011-01-14 in New York Southern
- Semco, LLC v. Huntair, Inc. filed 2011-01-19 in Missouri Western
- VS Technologies v. Twitter, Inc. filed 2011-01-18 in Virginia Eastern
- MT Industries, Inc. v. Allure Institute, LLC filed 2011-01-19 in Ohio Northern
- SanMar Inc v. ChicoEco, Inc. filed 2011-01-19 in Washington Western
- Genetic Technologies Limited v. American Esoteric Laboratories et. al. filed 2011-01-19 in Texas Western
- Witherspoon v. NuCoal Solutions filed 2011-01-19 in Utah
- Main Hastings LLC v. Hsbc USA, Inc. et. al. filed 2011-01-20 in Texas Eastern
- Network Signatures Inc v. United Airlines Inc filed 2011-01-20 in California Central
- Network Signatures Inc v. Merck and Co Inc filed 2011-01-20 in California Central
- Main Hastings LLC v. Citigroup, Inc filed 2011-01-20 in Texas Eastern
- Gibson Guitar Corp. v. 745 LLC filed 2011-01-19 in Tennessee Middle
- NT Objectives Inc v. Cenzic Inc filed 2011-01-20 in California Central
- Main Hastings LLC v. JPMorgan Chase & Co. filed 2011-01-20 in Texas Eastern
- Main Hastings LLC v. First Citizens Bancshares, Inc. et. al. filed 2011-01-20 in Texas Eastern
- TS Media Tech, LLC v. Associated Equipment Corporation et. al. filed 2011-01-20 in Texas Eastern
- Mad Dogg Athletics, Inc. v. Kevin Lamar et. al. filed 2011-01-20 in California Central
- King Pharmaceuticals Inc. et. al. v. Intelliject Inc. filed 2011-01-19 in Delaware
- Olympic Developments AG, LLC v. Atlantic Broadband, Inc. et. al. filed 2011-01-20 in California Central
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Callaway Golf’s Last Stand in Patent Reexamination from www.patentspostgrant.com Golf Ball Brawl Heard at BPAI
Yesterday, the Board of Patent Appeals & Interferences (BPAI) heard oral arguments in the longstanding dispute between Callaway Golf and Acushnet. Acushnet is the parent company of Titleist, maker of ...
New Patent Reform Bill Coming Tuesday from www.patentspostgrant.com Senate Judiciary Committee Releases Bill
As I discussed earlier this week, the patent reform debate will begin anew in a matter of days. Today, a bipartisan group of Senators announced their intention to introduce new ...
PLI’s Winter 2011 Schedule Full of Great IP Programs from ipwatchdog.com From the shameless commerce division, with at least a mild dose of self promotion, I am here to tell you about some of the intellectual property programs that the Practising Law Institute (PLI) has in ...
TI:GERs and Yellow Jackets: Innovation At Georgia Tech from gametimeip.com Recently I came across a program at my alma mater called TI:GER (Technology Innovation: Generating Economic Results). It was apparently created in 2002, which is well after I stopped looking for work as ...
Patent Office Orders Reexamination of Tax Related Patent from ipwatchdog.com Scott Daniels, partner in the firm Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, and the primary author of Reexamination Alert™, recently happened across a rather rare reexamination story. See PTO Director Initiates Reexamination Against Gift Tax Patent. Earlier ...
How to Search Legal Opinions on Google Scholar from intellogist.wordpress.com Google has updated their Google Scholar search system to allow users to specify individual U.S. Federal or State Courts while searching for legal opinions. This change makes searching more streamlined and offers hope that ...
"Put up in time, or shut up": Court of Appeal rejects IPCom's arguments in UK leg of international patent battle with Nokia from ipkitten.blogspot.com This morning the Court of Appeal (Jacob and Sedley LJJ and Norris J) handed down its judgment in Nokia v IPCom [2011] EWCA Civ 6.
By way of back story: IPCom (described in the judgment ...
When it's too late to mend a broken patent from patlit.blogspot.com The decision of the Court of Appeal for England and Wales in Nokia GmbH v IPCOM GmbH & Co KG [2011] EWCA Civ 6 was delivered today by Lord Justice Jacob, speaking on behalf of his ...
Companies Adopting Open Innovation Must Incorporate Patent Information at the Front End from ipassetmaximizerblog.com (Editorial note: This is a repost from this blog over 2 years ago, but the content is more relevant than ever. On January 20, 2010, I am participating in a Yet2.com webinar with Ben ...
Springy Construction from www.patenthawk.com Two concomitant litigations between Arlington and Brideport over 5,266,050 & 6,521,831, in the same district court, produced different constructions of the same claim term. The later case (Arlington II) construed "spring metal ...
Sometimes a Pig is Just a Pig from www.patentlyo.com Moody v. Morris, PBS, et al. (Fed. Cir. 2010)
In 1993 and 1994 Kyle Morris and William Kirksley filed several patent applications all directed toward animated captioning “coordinated with oral-word utterances.” The idea was to ...
[Guest Post by David Boundy. David is a Vice President and Assistant General Counsel for Intellectual Property for a prominent Wall Street brokerage firm. The views he expresses here are not those of the firm ...
By Donald Zuhn -- USPTO and IPAU Extend PPH and Agree to New PCT-PPH Programs Today, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and IP Australia (IPAU) announced that the two offices had agreed to extend ...
I will be speaking at the American Intellectual Property Law Association’s (AIPLA) Mid-Winter Institute next month in Orlando as part of a panel on green IP.
The other speakers on the panel - called “IP ...
In recent years, more trademark defendants have taken their case to the public – often using social media – to pressure the accuser to reconsider its position. For example, see South Butt, Vermonster dispute, or Wikipedia’s ...
Judge Avern Cohn of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan found claims of Novo Nordisk's US Patent No. 6,677,358, relating to Prandin (repaglinide ), invalid and unenforceable.
On Tuesday, President Obama signed Executive Order 13563 on Improving Regulation and Regulatory Review. This Executive Order could be a big step forward in our goal of harnessing the power of intangible assets for economic ...
A New Way to Comment on the MPEP
The USPTO has begun offering an alternate method for commenting on selected chapters of the Manual of Patent Examining Procedure (MPEP). This new approach is modeled after ...
The court denied defendant's motion to compel settlement documents from another case involving plaintiffs and one of the patents-in-suit. "The Court concludes that plaintiffs’ confidentiality interests in the [other] settlement agreement, as well as ...
CENTILLION DATA SYSTEMS V. QWEST COMMUNICATIONS INTERNATIONAL
- We hold that to “use” a system for purposes of infringement, a party must put the invention into service, i.e., control the system as a whole and ...
Ivy Tsui is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School In 2008, Apple filed a trademark application with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for the name “App Store” (serial number 77525433). Microsoft ...
On January 18, 2011, Apple sued Nokia in England [ Apple Inc. v. Nokia Corp., HC11C00093, High Court of Justice, Chancery Division (London) ].
Of an included challenge to one of Nokia's patents, Mark Durrant of ...
In a follow-up to my January 17post, Bryan Sims, Associate Editor forBiorefining Magazine, writes in anarticletoday, January 20, 2010:
Upon the request ofBiorefining Magazine, Gevo issued a rebuttal statement regarding ...
What began as a separate action may become formally linked to the largest extant U.S. wind power patent war as Mitsubishi has requested to intervene in a lawsuit brought by GE against a former ...
By Scott Nyman Apple has its “App Store,” Android has its “Market,” and Windows Phone 7 is beginning to feel a little left out. Maybe this is why Microsoft has recently filed a motion with ...
Economic Times lately reported that a group of patent lawyers under the aegis of a newly formed public interest group, Promoting Public Interest Lawyering (P-PIL) have filed a writ petition challenging the legality of the ...
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