Patent & IP news for January 24, 2011
Patent Litigations
- Texas IP Research, LLC v. Pentair, Inc. et. al. filed 2011-01-22 in Texas Eastern
- Hasler v. Rust-o-leum filed 2011-01-22 in Illinois Northern
- E.F. Bavis & Associates, Inc. v. Fortis Security Products, LLC filed 2011-01-21 in Kentucky Eastern
- Union Properties v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. et. al. filed 2011-01-24 in Texas Western
- Gharb v. Rockwell Automation et. al. filed 2011-01-19 in Illinois Northern
- Daiichi Sankyo Inc. et. al. v. Watson Pharmaceuticals Inc. et. al. filed 2011-01-21 in Delaware
- Dongkyu Kim v. Global Keratin, Corp. et. al. filed 2011-01-24 in California Central
- Illumination Innovation v. Ace Hardware Corp filed 2011-01-24 in Texas Eastern
- D&R Communications, LLC v. Garett et. al. filed 2011-01-21 in New Jersey
- Avago Technologies U S Inc. et. al. v. Cypress Semiconductor Corporation et. al. filed 2011-01-21 in Delaware
- Heathcote Holdings Corp., Inc. filed 2011-01-24 in Illinois Northern
- San Francisco Technology Inc. v. Elkay Plastics Company, Inc. filed 2011-01-19 in California Northern
- Luv N' Care, LTD. et. al. v. Greenbrier International, Inc. et. al. filed 2011-01-24 in Texas Eastern
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The Business of Social Media: Protecting Trade Secrets & Trademarks in a Socially Networked World from ipwatchdog.com Social media and social networking are the buzz words du jour. Once upon a time it seemed as if those who were “out of it” would be those without an e-mail account, but now practically ...
Jack LaLanne, the Inventor from intellogist.wordpress.com I can’t die. It would ruin my image. Jack LaLanne
Fitness pioneer Jack LaLanne passed away this past weekend due to respiratory failure at the ripe age of 96. Despite being known to many ...
Kodak Loses its ITC Action Against Apple and RIM -- Having a Bad "Kodak Moment" from patent-warrior.blogspot.com 
Kodak, who has been surviving on its IP portfolio since the film business crashed and burned (Paul Simon, where are your product placement songs now?) suffered a big loss today as an administrative law judge ...
BPAI written description claim interpretation height thickness from allthingspros.blogspot.com BPAI interprets "height" of a layer as thickness rather than altitude
Takeaway: The Board affirmed a written description rejection by adopting the Examiner's claim construction, in which "height" of a layer was interpreted as ...
Defensive Patent Acquirer is Going Public from ipinsider1.wordpress.com RPX Files S-1 with the SEC
Its amazing what you can learn, or infer, from a Securities and Exchange Commission S-1 registration statement, which RPX has filed in order to sell $100 million worth of ...
2011 IP Developments Conference: 2 from ipkitten.blogspot.com The second session, launched by Aaron Wood (Wood TMD but, from next week, Grant Spencer), reviewed recent and current developments in trade mark applications and oppositions. He opened with an explanation of the IP TRANSLATOR ...
2011 IP Developments Conference: 3 from ipkitten.blogspot.com The post-prandial session of this year's IP Round-up conference, organised by CLT, began with a description by David Musker (Jenkins) of the current state of European design law, focusing on the main subject of ...
How Patented Innovation Creates Jobs and Economic Growth from ipwatchdog.com Manus Cooney (American Continental Group) discusses job creation with the panel, Chief Judge Michel looks on.
On Friday, January 21, 2011, I was at the Newseum for the Innovation Alliance conference on patents, innovation and ...
Use from www.patenthawk.com 5,287,270 claims a computerized billing system, ostensibly for phone calls. Who uses it? Patent owner Centillion thought Qwest did, so it sued for infringement. The district court summarily found otherwise, because "no single ...
Big Football Game will take place one week from Sunday – be careful what you call it! from ipelton.wordpress.com The Super Bowl® will be played between the Packers and the Steelers one week from Sunday, and it will be watched by hundreds of millions around the world. I can use the words “Super Bowl ...
Letter from Amerikat: Birthday Bits 'n Bobs from ipkitten.blogspot.com The AmeriKat is celebrating her 2nd birthday this week (she will leave you to calculate her age in Kat years). During the past few days she has cast her mind back to reminisce over the ...
Star Wars in Switzerland from ipkitten.blogspot.com 
The Swiss Supreme Court recently (12 January 2011) finally settled a five year battle over the right to award stars to hotels between Schweizer Hotelier-Verein (SHV; incumbent, ranking hotels using stars since 1979) and Gastrosuisse ...
Challenges of Social Networking Patents from www.infringementupdates.com The following is excerpted from a January 23, 2011postwritten by Mark Nowotarski and published by IPWatchdog:
Social networking is one of the fastest growing subject matter areas in the US patent office. The ...
January 25, 2011 - Understanding Obviousness in a Post-KSR World: Practical Applications for Compliance with the Recent USPTO Guidelines (Technology Transfer Tactics) - 1:00 - 2:30 PM (EST) January 26-27, 2011 - The Life Sciences Lawyer's ...
By Sherri Oslick -- About Court Report: Each week we will report briefly on recently filed biotech and pharma cases. King Pharmaceuticals Inc. et al. v. Intelliject Inc. 1:11-cv-00065; filed January 19, 2011 in the ...
A few days ago I was asked if I would mind meeting Chris Barnardo, one of the inventors of the Kymera Magic Wand, which I posted about back in August. The product is a wand ...
The USPTO has announced that starting January 24, 2011, the Patent Proecution Highway between the USPTO and Australia will expand to include positive patentability determinations made under the PCT. While the details of the this ...
Inter Partes SNQs Outpace Ex Parte 2:1
Looking back on 2010 patent reexamination filings, the mean number of Substantial New Questions of Patentability (SNQs) presented differs based upon the type of reexamination proceeding. For ...
Markus Kummer, the long-time Swiss diplomat who has headed the secretariat to the multistakeholder Internet Governance Forum, has become vice president for public policy at the Internet Society in Geneva. The IGF was an outgrowth ...
The standard reaction to the question of regulation and innovation seems to that regulation is anti-innovation. However, I have made the case before that regulations can serve as a forcing function to create new opportunities ...
More than one year ago, the world lost what remained of US Patent 6,237,565. Conceived in 1999, the ’565 had yet to know the impact it would have on the word, nor the ...
By Aaron Thalwitzer More patents were granted in 2010 than ever before — 31% more than in 2009. The Great Recession hasn’t slowed innovation. A good sign, to be sure. According to IFI CLAIMS Patent ...
Today, Consumer Watchdog, self-described as "a nonprofit, nonpartisan consumer advocacy organization" sent Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) a 32-page report arguing "how Google has inappropriately benefited from its close ties to the Obama Administration."
On the ...
The Patent Office of Argentina recently announced a temporary program which permits applications to swap places in the examination queue, such that a later-filed application can be examined sooner by taking the place of an ...
The USPTO has announced that starting January 24, 2011, the Patent Proecution Highway between the USPTO and Australia will expand to include positive patentability determinations made under the PCT. While the details of the this ...
2010 was a fruitful year for breach of confidence actions, began John Hull (Memery Crystal), and unusually they weren't all employment cases. John's analysis commenced with a review of Tchenguiz v Imerman, a ...
By Jason Rantanen
Centillion Data Systems, LLC v. Qwest Communications International, Inc. (Fed. Cir. 2011)
Panel: Lourie, Linn, Moore (author)
Joint patent infringement remains a hot topic as the Federal Circuit continues to tinker with ...
Sean M. O’Connor is Director of the Law, Technology & Arts Group, Faculty Director of the Entrepreneurial Law Clinic, and Professor of Law at the University of Washington School of Law in Seattle. He is ...
Today, the Global Fund sought to settle concerns about fraud involving millions of dollars it provided to several African countries. The fund had been strongly supported by developed countries for its direct model of providing ...
Concerning a patent with a claim relating to previewing low-resolution versions of a moving image while recording still images at a high resolution, the USPTO said Dec. 23 it intended to issue a notice confirming ...
Since my first days at the USPTO, I’ve been committed to modernizing our outdated IT infrastructure. Modern tools are a cornerstone of our strategic direction to leverage 21st century technology to make your work ...
In granting in part plaintiff's motion for enhanced damages, the court rejected defendant's argument that enhanced damages would cause severe prejudice because defendant's profits from the accused product were "not much more ...
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USPTO Creates Online Subscription Center as Part of Expanded Communications and Outreach Effort
The Press Release.
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) today continued to expand its public outreach ...
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