Patent & IP news for July 24, 2011

Letter from AmeriKat: Innovation Over Imitation from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Last Sunday, the AmeriKat was recovering from a nasty bout of bronchitis. To cheer her spirits, she decided to grant herself a dose of pre-planned enjoyment in the form of live music. Wrapped up warm ...

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Guest Post: Concentrated Solar Energy from a Crystal Ball (Lens)? from www.greenpatentblog.com

REhnu (pronounced “renew”) is a company based in Tucson, Arizona that makes and sells concentrated photovoltaic (CPV) solar energy systems. The company believes that the greatest energy for the least cost may consist in first ...

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Personalized Media Communications from www.patentlyo.com

Over the past year-and-a-half, 52 utility patents have issued that each cite more than 2,500 references. It turns out that the vast majority of those patents are owned by one company – Personalized Media Communications ...

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Guest Post: Gary Lauder on America Invents Act from hallingblog.com

Gary Lauder runs Lauder Partners LLC in Silicon Valley.  The firm is a private venture capital firm. This page is not dedicated to the idea that our patent system can’t be improved; but rather ...

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Strategic Use of Inter Partes Reexam in Patent Litigation from ipwatchdog.com

While the applicability of Therasense is easy to see as it applies to prosecution of a patent application, the strategic opportunities presented in reexamination are not all together apparent on the face of the ruling ...

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ICANN Warns US Not To Undermine Multistakeholder Model from www.ip-watch.org

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has issued a new statement on a future contract with the United States for root zone management and other internet infrastructure functions, warning against undermining the ...

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Feeding the Trolls… from tacticalip.com

Danie Roy Seems like not a day goes by that we don’t hear about a certain patent troll named Lodsys anymore.  On the internet, if you ignore the trolls, they go away, but in ...

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Myriad Genetics Files Amicus Briefs in Joint Infringement Cases Akamai and McKesson from holmansbiotechipblog.blogspot.com

Personalized medicine company Myriad Genetics has filed amicus briefs in Akamai and McKesson, two cases currently pending before the en banc Federal Circuit that address the doctrine of joint infringement (aka divided infringement). These cases ...

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Conference & CLE Calendar from www.patentdocs.org

July 25-27, 2011 - Intensive Patent Law Seminar (Chisum Patent Academy) - Seattle, WA July 26, 2011 - The New Inequitable Conduct Standard in Patent Litigation: Asserting and Defending Inequitable Conduct Challenges After the Landmark Therasense Decision (Strafford ...

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Court Report from www.patentdocs.org

By Sherri Oslick -- About Court Report: Each week we will report briefly on recently filed biotech and pharma cases. Medicis Pharmaceutical Corp. v. Nycomed U.S., Inc. 1:11-cv-04962; filed July 19, 2011 in the ...

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