Patent & IP news for June 17, 2011
Patent Litigations
- Kaneka Corporation v. Zmc-USA, L.L.C. filed 2011-06-15 in Texas Southern
- Capital Confirmation, Inc. v. Poe filed 2011-06-16 in Tennessee Middle
- Universal Support Systems, LLC v. CommScope, Inc. et. al. filed 2011-06-16 in North Carolina Western
- American Covers v. California Scents filed 2011-06-16 in Utah
- Smitherman v. Trans Design Inc. et. al. filed 2011-06-16 in Texas Southern
- Tranz-Send Broadcasting Network, Inc. v. Bittorrent, Inc. et. al. filed 2011-06-14 in California Northern
- International Business Corporation v. Panacea Products Corp. filed 2011-06-17 in Georgia Northern
- Sunrise Medical (US) LLC v. Permobil Holding AB et. al. filed 2011-06-15 in Colorado
- Network Signatures Inc v. Cardinal Health Inc filed 2011-06-17 in California Central
- Catalina Marketing International, Inc. v. Kappos filed 2011-06-17 in Virginia Eastern
- Network Signatures Inc v. Anheuser-Busch Companies Inc filed 2011-06-17 in California Central
- Network Signatures Inc v. Virgin Mobile USA Inc et. al. filed 2011-06-17 in California Central
- EON Corp. IP Holdings, LLC v. Landis+Gyr Inc. et. al. filed 2011-06-17 in Texas Eastern
- Ogma LLC v. Activision Blizzard Inc filed 2011-06-17 in Texas Eastern
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Nokia v IPCom - Round Two of the English Leg of the International Patent Battle from ipkitten.blogspot.com The tussle between Nokia and IPCom has reached the courts once again and is, in the mind of this Kat at least, beginning to appear a little like the legal equivalent of UK TV uber-serial ...
P.H. Kurian - the Patent Office's 'Knight in Shining Armour' - resigns as the Controller General from spicyipindia.blogspot.com As most of you may have already heard, the Controller General of Patents, Trademarks & Designs Mr. P.H. Kurian has resigned from his post despite completing only half of his five year term. The new ...
Of Rags and Richemont: Chloé goes to court from ipkitten.blogspot.com Chloé's legal team give a whole new meaning
to the concept of making an appearance in Court As a great believer in the old-fashioned virtues of spelling, punctuation and grammar, and as a great ...
Federal Circuit Reverses District Court's Finding That Claim Terms Not Using "Means" Were Subject to § 112 ¶ 6 from www.grayonclaims.com Inventio AG v. Thyssenkrupp Elevator Americas Corp. (Fed. Cir. June 15, 2011)
In this case, the Federal Circuit reversed the district court's finding that two claim terms, "modernizing device" and "computing unit", were terms ...
BPAI Judicial Diversity and Appeal Win Rate from www.patentlyo.com I recently created a database of 10,000 recently released ex parte decisions by the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences (BPAI) with dates ranging from November 2009 to June 2011. These ex pare BPAI ...
What Would You Say to Research and Development Types About Patents? from ipkitten.blogspot.com 
This Kat has been "away on assignment", as they say, and settling back into his frenetic version of routine has proved to be a challenge. We're getting there, though.
As periodically happens, I was ...
The Problem with Patent Keyword Highlighting from intellogist.wordpress.com
Highlighting is normally your friend, helping your brain sort through a jumble of words on a whitespace. Plenty of search engines (of any type) have it in some form, some providing more advanced features than ...
Highlighting is normally your friend, helping your brain sort through a jumble of words on a whitespace. Plenty of search engines (of any type) have it in some form, some providing more advanced features than ...
ITunes Match and making Prof. Lessig’s case from ipwars.com
Recap: Prof. Lessig’s argument. You will remember that Michael Speck from Music Industry Piracy Investigations was outraged by Apple’s pending iTunes Match service and, in particular, the part where the service would in ...
Recap: Prof. Lessig’s argument. You will remember that Michael Speck from Music Industry Piracy Investigations was outraged by Apple’s pending iTunes Match service and, in particular, the part where the service would in ...
Apple amends complaint against Samsung, asserts more intellectual property rights against more products from fosspatents.blogspot.com
Apple has already put its inevitable defeat against Nokia behind it and is in attack mode again. Yesterday (Thursday, June 16, 2011), Apple amended and expanded its complaint against Samsung, asserting more patents and other ...
USPTO Appoints New Deputy Commissioner for Trademark Operations from tacticalip.com
By: Mark R. Malek In a press release dated June 15, 2011, the USPTO announced the appointment of Mary Boney Denison as deputy commissioner for trademark operations. Ms. Denison will oversee the examination and processing ...
By: Mark R. Malek In a press release dated June 15, 2011, the USPTO announced the appointment of Mary Boney Denison as deputy commissioner for trademark operations. Ms. Denison will oversee the examination and processing ...
Top 5: Pet Patents and Inventions from info.articleonepartners.com
While many inventions and ideas are designed to improve our lives, there are also many that help out with our pets as well. Today, we look at some of the unique patents that relate to ...
Oracle sues Google over Sun/Java from ipbiz.blogspot.com
The San Francisco Chronicle story begins: Oracle Corp. is seeking billions of dollars in damages in a patent- and copyright-infringement suit against Google Inc., claiming the search-engine company's Android software uses technology related to ...
The San Francisco Chronicle story begins: Oracle Corp. is seeking billions of dollars in damages in a patent- and copyright-infringement suit against Google Inc., claiming the search-engine company's Android software uses technology related to ...
Stamps case revisits In re Klopfenstein: webpage as prior art? from ipbiz.blogspot.com
The nonprecedential case of Stamps v. Endicia covers a lot of ground,
but its treatment of a webpage as prior art (with a dissent by Bryson)
is informative. The issue of webpages as prior art ...
The nonprecedential case of Stamps v. Endicia covers a lot of ground,
but its treatment of a webpage as prior art (with a dissent by Bryson)
is informative. The issue of webpages as prior art ...
Copyright Vital For Authors, Adaptable For Wide Access, WIPO Panellists Say from www.ip-watch.org
Copyright is necessary to allow authors to live from their trade and to guarantee their independence, and exceptions should be decided by authors and publishers, according to panellists on a copyright dialogue held at the ...
Copyright is necessary to allow authors to live from their trade and to guarantee their independence, and exceptions should be decided by authors and publishers, according to panellists on a copyright dialogue held at the ...
Infringement Contentions Must Disclose Not Only The Result of Allegedly Infringing Process, But Also The "Product Configurations and Additional from docketreport.blogspot.com
End User Programming" Used to Generate Such Results
Defendant's motion to compel plaintiff to disclose how it configured the accused products to produce alleged infringement was granted. "[Defendant] complains that neither the screenshots provided ...
End User Programming" Used to Generate Such Results
Defendant's motion to compel plaintiff to disclose how it configured the accused products to produce alleged infringement was granted. "[Defendant] complains that neither the screenshots provided ...
IP – the value and risks to a fast growing business from ipfinance.blogspot.com
- was the title of a seminar recently held at the London office of insurance company MunichRe.In addition to launching a new IP insurance product, the seminar also presented the findings of a survey of ...
- was the title of a seminar recently held at the London office of insurance company MunichRe.In addition to launching a new IP insurance product, the seminar also presented the findings of a survey of ...
Common Text Emerges On Copyright Exceptions For The Blind from www.ip-watch.org
A cross-cutting group of major World Intellectual Property Organisation members today produced a “non-paper” on limitations and exceptions to copyright for visually impaired readers at a WIPO meeting on copyright. The group had met in ...
A cross-cutting group of major World Intellectual Property Organisation members today produced a “non-paper” on limitations and exceptions to copyright for visually impaired readers at a WIPO meeting on copyright. The group had met in ...
Friday fantasies from ipkitten.blogspot.com
Friday -- time to reflect, take things easy, and check out all those exciting events on the IPKat's Forthcoming Events page!
In "Some Light Reading", Cat the Kat reviewed a lovely little book entitled In ...
Friday -- time to reflect, take things easy, and check out all those exciting events on the IPKat's Forthcoming Events page!
In "Some Light Reading", Cat the Kat reviewed a lovely little book entitled In ...
PatentScope Mobile from patentlibrarian.blogspot.com
PatentScope now offers a mobile search interface. As far as I know, this is the first patent office database optimized for mobile devices.
Also read that WIPO is planning to add "the bulk" of patent ...
PatentScope now offers a mobile search interface. As far as I know, this is the first patent office database optimized for mobile devices.
Also read that WIPO is planning to add "the bulk" of patent ...
Apple's UA 20110142016: AD HOC NETWORKING BASED ON CONTENT AND LOCATION from ipbiz.blogspot.com
The first claim states:
A computer-implemented method, comprising: receiving from a first mobile device a first request to participate in social networking; within a time window of receiving the first request, receiving from a second ...
The first claim states:
A computer-implemented method, comprising: receiving from a first mobile device a first request to participate in social networking; within a time window of receiving the first request, receiving from a second ...
Federal Circuit introduces strict new Inequitable Conduct standard in Therasense from www.postgrant.com
Recently, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit handed down an opinion, Therasense, Inc. v. Becton, Dickinson, & Co., that will have a extensive impact on the standards used to determine when a patent must ...
Recently, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit handed down an opinion, Therasense, Inc. v. Becton, Dickinson, & Co., that will have a extensive impact on the standards used to determine when a patent must ...
Too many lawyers with technical degrees, or too many underemployed scientists? from ipbiz.blogspot.com
Within a post titled Lawyers & engineers: too many, too few, just right?by Bill Schweber is the text:But what really has me ambivalent is that so many of the lawyers at top IP firms ...
Within a post titled Lawyers & engineers: too many, too few, just right?by Bill Schweber is the text:But what really has me ambivalent is that so many of the lawyers at top IP firms ...
“You have to look at all the tradeoffs" from ipbiz.blogspot.com
The comment could be about patent reform 2011, but in fact it related to the AARP disclosure to the Wall Street Journal on June 17, 2011 about being open to cuts in social security. The ...
The comment could be about patent reform 2011, but in fact it related to the AARP disclosure to the Wall Street Journal on June 17, 2011 about being open to cuts in social security. The ...
Guest Post: Gaston Kroub on the UKIPO “Green Channel” Initiative Two Years In (Part II) from www.greenpatentblog.com
In a previous post, this author provided background on the UKIPO’s “Green Channel” for expedited examination of patent applications drawn to environmentally-friendly technologies. As noted in that post, the program’s two-year anniversary recently ...
In a previous post, this author provided background on the UKIPO’s “Green Channel” for expedited examination of patent applications drawn to environmentally-friendly technologies. As noted in that post, the program’s two-year anniversary recently ...
Federal Circuit to Sit in Colorado in Fall of 2012 from www.717madisonplace.com
Each fall the Federal Circuit usually visits a city across the country to hold session and hear oral arguments. You might recall that last fall the court sat in Atlanta. I suspect that Chief Judge ...
Each fall the Federal Circuit usually visits a city across the country to hold session and hear oral arguments. You might recall that last fall the court sat in Atlanta. I suspect that Chief Judge ...
Oracle expert says Google owes between 1.4 and 6.1 billion dollars from fosspatents.blogspot.com
Finally the cat is out of the bag and the numbers are on the table: the Oracle expert report on damages Google vehemently opposes arrived -- according to a Google filing that has now become available ...
Patent Owner Vindicated As Winston Drives Hyundai Off A Cliff from gametimeip.com
Just this afternoon, a Tyler, Texas jury decided that four different claims of US Patent 7,606,739 were infringed by Hyundai, and none of the claims were proven invalid by clear and convincing evidence ...
Just this afternoon, a Tyler, Texas jury decided that four different claims of US Patent 7,606,739 were infringed by Hyundai, and none of the claims were proven invalid by clear and convincing evidence ...
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