Patent & IP news for August 22, 2011
Patent Litigations
- Stat Medical Devices Inc. v. AMG Medical Inc. et. al. filed 2011-08-19 in Delaware
- Masimo Corporation v. Philips Electronics North America Corporation et. al. filed 2011-08-19 in Delaware
- Power Management Systems LLC v. Freescale Semiconductor Inc. et. al. filed 2011-08-22 in Delaware
- Rachiotek, LLC et. al. v. Globus Medical, Inc. filed 2011-08-22 in Massachusetts
- Avocet Sports Technology, Inc. v. Implus Footcare, LLC et. al. filed 2011-08-18 in California Northern
- Avocet Sports Technology, Inc. v. Garmin International, Inc. et. al. filed 2011-08-18 in California Northern
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Patent & IP Blogs
Wonky Claim Construction; Wonky On-Sale Bar from www.patentlyo.com August Technology Corp. v. CamTek Ltd. (Fed. Cir. 2011) A Minnesota jury awarded $6.8 million in lost profit damages to August Tech – holding that Camtek's "Falcon" silicon wafer inspection device infringes claims 1 ...
Some summer reading from patlit.blogspot.com 
U.S. Patent Prosecutor's Desk Reference is a recent Oxford University Press publication, authored by Joshua P. Graham and Thomas G. Marlow. It's remarkable that the pair have found time to put this ...
Samsung and LG Fight Back Against Osram in Expanding LED Patent War from www.greenpatentblog.com In a previous post, I discussed the new LED patent dispute between Osram, Samsung and LG Electronics (LG). There were a few significant developments last month. First, the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) decided ...
Grate expectations for cheese GI from ipkitten.blogspot.com The IPKat has often wondered what the European Union's President, José Manuel Barroso, actually does during the long sunny days of August. Now he knows: the man has been preventing the Old Continent from ...
Monday miscellany from ipkitten.blogspot.com Mark's dream: an entire module of the course will
be dedicated to calculating complex royalty distributions In "Postgraduate diploma in IP transactions - an update", the IPKat's friend Mark Anderson tells us a bit ...
House committee recommends Parliament pass the tobacco plain packaging legislation from ipwars.com
In a report tabled today (pdf), the House of Representatives’ Health and Ageing committee has recommended that the House pass the tobacco plain packaging legislation. The Committee noted the submissions about possible breaches of TRIPS ...
In a report tabled today (pdf), the House of Representatives’ Health and Ageing committee has recommended that the House pass the tobacco plain packaging legislation. The Committee noted the submissions about possible breaches of TRIPS ...
Senate sends tobacco bill to Committee from ipwars.com
The Senate has referred the Trade Marks Amendment (Tobacco Plain Packaging) Bill 2011 to the Legal and Constitutional Affairs committee. This bill would give the Government power to “fix” gaps in the Tobacco (Plain Packaging ...
The Senate has referred the Trade Marks Amendment (Tobacco Plain Packaging) Bill 2011 to the Legal and Constitutional Affairs committee. This bill would give the Government power to “fix” gaps in the Tobacco (Plain Packaging ...
U.S. Copyright Law Basics for Educators from ipwatchdog.com
With the new school year rapidly approaching I thought I might take this opportunity to provide some answers to questions I am frequently asked relating to copyrights by educators and administrators. I have tried to ...
With the new school year rapidly approaching I thought I might take this opportunity to provide some answers to questions I am frequently asked relating to copyrights by educators and administrators. I have tried to ...
Say good-by to sensitive data in New Jersey? from ipbiz.blogspot.com
IPBiz has covered a few OPRA cases in New Jersey. Now we have a new issue. A New Jersey driver's license has magnetic strips with information: The magnetic strip on the back of your ...
IPBiz has covered a few OPRA cases in New Jersey. Now we have a new issue. A New Jersey driver's license has magnetic strips with information: The magnetic strip on the back of your ...
August 22, 1902 from ipbiz.blogspot.com
Learning blogs observes that on August 22, 1902, Teddy Roosevelt became the first president to make a public appearance in an automobile. Elsewhere, the post observes that McKinley was the first president to ride in ...
Learning blogs observes that on August 22, 1902, Teddy Roosevelt became the first president to make a public appearance in an automobile. Elsewhere, the post observes that McKinley was the first president to ride in ...
Plagiarized Ph.D. thesis from University of Virginia? from ipbiz.blogspot.com
Readers of IPBiz may recall the Alison Routman "plagiarism" incident at the University of Virginia: for a paper at Semester at Sea (run by UVa) Alison Routman copied fragments of three sentences from wikipedia, and ...
Readers of IPBiz may recall the Alison Routman "plagiarism" incident at the University of Virginia: for a paper at Semester at Sea (run by UVa) Alison Routman copied fragments of three sentences from wikipedia, and ...
Pizza and Patents – Throw in a Beer, and it’s a Party from tacticalip.com
By: Mark R. Malek Ameranth Wireless has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against several large pizza chains claiming that the online and mobile ordering infringes two patents (source). The patents in questions are U.S ...
By: Mark R. Malek Ameranth Wireless has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against several large pizza chains claiming that the online and mobile ordering infringes two patents (source). The patents in questions are U.S ...
Understanding the patent boom from www.athenaalliance.org
If you want to understand what is happening with the recent patent boom, here are two stories to read: Steve Lohr's "A Bull Market in Tech Patents" in the New York Times and Jia ...
If you want to understand what is happening with the recent patent boom, here are two stories to read: Steve Lohr's "A Bull Market in Tech Patents" in the New York Times and Jia ...
Sic transit innovation - and the broader role of intangibles from www.athenaalliance.org
Innovation needs to be a verb. Unfortunately, most people think of it as a noun. Innovation is a thing, an outcome. As Webster's defines it: a new idea, method or device. But we also ...
Innovation needs to be a verb. Unfortunately, most people think of it as a noun. Innovation is a thing, an outcome. As Webster's defines it: a new idea, method or device. But we also ...
Information Forum on Pending U.S Patent Law Overhaul from www.infringementupdates.com
The above-titled Forum is sponsored by the National Small Business Association and the Washington, D.C., Northern Virginia and Baltimore Sections of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). The Forum will focus on ...
The above-titled Forum is sponsored by the National Small Business Association and the Washington, D.C., Northern Virginia and Baltimore Sections of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). The Forum will focus on ...
Federal Circuit Rules Beauregard Claims are Unpatentable from inventivestep.net
Last week in Cybersource Corp. v. Retail Decisions, Inc., the Federal Circuit panel of Judges Bryson, Dyk, and Prost overruled a large amount of precedent in holding that claims to computer-readable media are directed to ...
Last week in Cybersource Corp. v. Retail Decisions, Inc., the Federal Circuit panel of Judges Bryson, Dyk, and Prost overruled a large amount of precedent in holding that claims to computer-readable media are directed to ...
Offer For Sale from gordononpatentcases.blogspot.com
AUGUST TECH CORP v. CAMTEK LTD
AUGUST TECH CORP v. CAMTEK LTD
- Section 102(b) requires that “the invention was . . . on sale in this country” before the critical date. The Supreme Court has explained that the § 102(b) on-sale bar applies ...
Historical Patents: The Microwave Oven from info.articleonepartners.com
The microwave oven is one of the few inventions that can claim to have completely revolutionized the world. It helps extend the shelf life of food, while sharply cutting down on preparation time. The first ...
Dependent Claim is Not Invalid Under § 112 ¶ 4 Merely Because it Recites Only Structural Limitations of Independent Method Claim from docketreport.blogspot.com
The court denied defendant's motion for summary judgment of invalidity under 35 U.S.C. 112 ¶ 4. "[Defendant] has not cited any Federal Circuit case law in which the court invalidated a dependent claim ...
The court denied defendant's motion for summary judgment of invalidity under 35 U.S.C. 112 ¶ 4. "[Defendant] has not cited any Federal Circuit case law in which the court invalidated a dependent claim ...
Strategic Use of Reexamination in view of the Patent Reform Bill from www.reexamlink.com
Last week I had the privilege of speaking on reexamination at the AIPLA Electronics and Computer Law Summit. The title of my speech was ”Strategic Use of Reexam after Patent Reform – Post-Grant Review and Inter ...
Last week I had the privilege of speaking on reexamination at the AIPLA Electronics and Computer Law Summit. The title of my speech was ”Strategic Use of Reexam after Patent Reform – Post-Grant Review and Inter ...
BPAI competing definitions from allthingspros.blogspot.com
Takeaway: When both the Examiner and the Applicant presented a definition for "laminate," the BPAI accepted the Examiner's definition. "The Examiner’s claim interpretation is not inconsistent with
Appellant’s Specification, and Appellant provides ...
Takeaway: When both the Examiner and the Applicant presented a definition for "laminate," the BPAI accepted the Examiner's definition. "The Examiner’s claim interpretation is not inconsistent with
Appellant’s Specification, and Appellant provides ...
Rural America: Wellspring of Innovation from www.uspto.gov
Guest blog by USPTO Commissioner for Patents Bob Stoll
Looking at today’s sophisticated high-definition television sets it is hard to imagine that their very foundation could have ever been conceived by a rural farm ...
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