Patent & IP news for August 25, 2011
Patent Litigations
- Ghj Holdings, LLC v. Indian Industries, Inc. filed 2011-08-24 in Indiana Southern
- Solar Sun Rings Inc v. Wal-Mart Stores Inc et. al. filed 2011-08-24 in California Central
- Network Signatures Inc v. Office Depot Inc filed 2011-08-23 in California Central
- Blacklidge Emulsions, Inc. v. Russell Standard Corporation filed 2011-08-24 in Mississippi Southern
- Cadence Pharmaceuticals, Inc. et. al. v. Exela Pharma Sciences, LLC et. al. filed 2011-08-24 in North Carolina Western
- Nadirashvili v. Cardiovascular Systems, Inc. filed 2011-08-24 in Minnesota
- Ip Co., LLC v. Ingersoll-Rand Company et. al. filed 2011-08-25 in Texas Eastern
- Olympic Developments AG, LLC v. Sony Electronics, Inc. filed 2011-08-23 in California Northern
- Motorola Mobility, Inc. v. Microsoft Corporation filed 2011-08-25 in Washington Western
- Technology Licensing Corporation v. Westinghouse Digital, LLC et. al. filed 2011-08-25 in Illinois Northern
- CareFusion 303 Inc v. B Braun Medical Inc filed 2011-08-23 in California Central
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Patent & IP Blogs
Judge Crabb Does Away With Stand-Alone Markman Hearings from www.grayonclaims.com Dashwire, Inc. v. Synchronoss Technologies, Inc. (W.D. Wis. July 28, 2011)
Judge Crabb of the Western District of Wisconsin, a quite popular venue for patent cases given its familiarity with such cases and relative ...
Looking for something to do this weekend: why not search 100 million peer-reviewed documents? from ipkitten.blogspot.com If you are in the business of searching online databases of scientific documents, you may by now have stumbled across the curiously-named Boliven, which modestly describes itself as "The leading information portal for R&D ...
Protection of IP and international investment treaties: a new book from ipfinance.blogspot.com Even if it is a serious IP book,
based on a PhD thesis, Kluwer
could have put a pretty picture
on the cover ... Simon Klopschinski (Hoffman Eitle, Munich) writes to tell IP Finance that his ...
Cybersource v. Retail Decisions: 101 Judicial Activism from hallingblog.com This case is another example of the courts ignoring the statutory language and not understanding basic technical and patent concepts. Cybersource invented a process for determining if credit card fraud was likely in an online ...
Patenting Censorship? from tacticalip.com
Danie Roy Alright, today I’m taking a little break from my dear pharma/biotech IP. The controversy, however, never seems to leave. And by that I mean I’m going to be talking about ...
Danie Roy Alright, today I’m taking a little break from my dear pharma/biotech IP. The controversy, however, never seems to leave. And by that I mean I’m going to be talking about ...
CyberSource and the Tragedy of Bad Analogies from www.patentdocs.org
Is DNA patent-ineligible because it is like software? By Kevin E. Noonan -- Recently, in CyberSource Corp. v. Retail Decisions, Inc., a panel of the Federal Circuit invalidated claims to software directing the performance of a ...
Is DNA patent-ineligible because it is like software? By Kevin E. Noonan -- Recently, in CyberSource Corp. v. Retail Decisions, Inc., a panel of the Federal Circuit invalidated claims to software directing the performance of a ...
BPAI reverses § 102(b) rejection because reference did not show sale or use in United States from allthingspros.blogspot.com
Takeaway: The BPAI reversed an anticipation rejection under the "use or sale" prong of § 102(b) because neither the press release nor the related online article established use or sale of the game controller in ...
Takeaway: The BPAI reversed an anticipation rejection under the "use or sale" prong of § 102(b) because neither the press release nor the related online article established use or sale of the game controller in ...
Jaime O'Connor's oven door shield invention from britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk
Today's Metro had an article on Jaime O'Connor of Halifax, Yorkshire, who has invented (and is selling) an oven shield to prevent the doors from being splattered by cooking foods. The shield is ...
Today's Metro had an article on Jaime O'Connor of Halifax, Yorkshire, who has invented (and is selling) an oven shield to prevent the doors from being splattered by cooking foods. The shield is ...
USPTO Adapts To Tanaka Reissue Standard from www.pharmapatentsblog.com
In a Notice published August 1, 2011, the USPTO announced a policy change to comply with the recent Federal Circuit decision in In re Tanaka: Effective immediately, the following policy is implemented. Where the only ...
In a Notice published August 1, 2011, the USPTO announced a policy change to comply with the recent Federal Circuit decision in In re Tanaka: Effective immediately, the following policy is implemented. Where the only ...
5 More Tips for Acing the Patent Bar Exam from ipwatchdog.com
The United States Patent Office is now offering the patent bar examination in electronic format, and that means that the way you study for the exam needs to change. In the past test takers were ...
The United States Patent Office is now offering the patent bar examination in electronic format, and that means that the way you study for the exam needs to change. In the past test takers were ...
“If I had my druthers, I would not want to go into a new market in a heavy-handed fashion, trying to enforce patents" from ipbiz.blogspot.com
Peter D. Meldrum, CEO of Myriad, is quoted in the New York Times: “If I had my druthers, I would not want to go into a new market in a heavy-handed fashion, trying to enforce ...
Peter D. Meldrum, CEO of Myriad, is quoted in the New York Times: “If I had my druthers, I would not want to go into a new market in a heavy-handed fashion, trying to enforce ...
German Galaxy Tab 10.1 injunction: it's not looking good for Samsung but not over yet from fosspatents.blogspot.com
[DEVELOPING STORY -- still adding new information]
I changed plans a few days ago and didn't travel to today's court hearing in Düsseldorf on the Apple v. Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 Community design ...
Apple loses an intangible asset - maybe from www.athenaalliance.org
With the announcement last night of Steve Jobs' resignation as CEO of Apple, the importance of human capital as a key intangible asset has hit home. I don't subscribe to the Great Man theory ...
With the announcement last night of Steve Jobs' resignation as CEO of Apple, the importance of human capital as a key intangible asset has hit home. I don't subscribe to the Great Man theory ...
SpicyIP Announcements: Call for Submissions - Special Issue on Dispute Settlement at the WTO from spicyipindia.blogspot.com
The Editors of TL&D; invite submission of unpublished, original works for publication in the forthcoming Special Issue of TL&D; (vol.4, no.1 (2012)). The theme for the Special Issue is: Dispute Settlement ...
The Editors of TL&D; invite submission of unpublished, original works for publication in the forthcoming Special Issue of TL&D; (vol.4, no.1 (2012)). The theme for the Special Issue is: Dispute Settlement ...
Guest Post: Part I - Factors Contributing to Orphan Works vis-a-vis a viable Option from spicyipindia.blogspot.com
We are extremely pleased to bring to our readers an extensive piece by Niranjan Singh on orphan works and the viable alternatives for protection works from being orphaned, with an analysis of the Google Books ...
We are extremely pleased to bring to our readers an extensive piece by Niranjan Singh on orphan works and the viable alternatives for protection works from being orphaned, with an analysis of the Google Books ...
Post title from spicyipindia.blogspot.com
ORPHAN WORK: IS TRACING AN AUTHOR WORTHBLOCKING THE KNOWLEDGE?As copyright law has evolved, twospecific changes to copyright laws have exacerbated the orphan work problems.First, revisions of the Copyright Act in 1976 provided automatic ...
ORPHAN WORK: IS TRACING AN AUTHOR WORTHBLOCKING THE KNOWLEDGE?As copyright law has evolved, twospecific changes to copyright laws have exacerbated the orphan work problems.First, revisions of the Copyright Act in 1976 provided automatic ...
Guest Post: Part III - Factors Contributing to Orphan Works vis-a-vis a viable Option from spicyipindia.blogspot.com
GOOGLEBOOK SETTLEMENT: A BRIEF STUDY [1]
There had to be a legal ramificationfor copying a work, and then releasing it to the world. In September 2005Authors guild sued Google for scanning books, storing and processing ...
GOOGLEBOOK SETTLEMENT: A BRIEF STUDY [1]
There had to be a legal ramificationfor copying a work, and then releasing it to the world. In September 2005Authors guild sued Google for scanning books, storing and processing ...
Apple v. Samsung: official German court statement on today's hearing from fosspatents.blogspot.com
Shortly before 4 PM local time, the Düsseldorf Regional Court's hearing on Apple v. Samsung (Galaxy Tab 10.1 Community design infringement case) ended, and I reported on it during and right after the ...
CAFC affirms SDNY in Unigene v. Apotex; obviousness discussed from ipbiz.blogspot.com
The bottom line of the CAFC decision:
Accordingly, this court affirms the district court’s grant of summary judgment of nonobviousness in favor of Unigene, affirms the district court’s denial of summary judgment of ...
The bottom line of the CAFC decision:
Accordingly, this court affirms the district court’s grant of summary judgment of nonobviousness in favor of Unigene, affirms the district court’s denial of summary judgment of ...
Jacob Rooksby on University Patent Litigation from writtendescription.blogspot.com
Although one might expect universities to seldom initiate patent litigation, Jacob Rooksby reports that they filed over 50 patent cases in 2009 and 2010. In University Initiation of Patent Infringement Litigation, after reviewing the history ...
Although one might expect universities to seldom initiate patent litigation, Jacob Rooksby reports that they filed over 50 patent cases in 2009 and 2010. In University Initiation of Patent Infringement Litigation, after reviewing the history ...
The Pros and Cons of EBSCOhost’s Visual Search Form from intellogist.wordpress.com
Most search platforms give users access to multiple search forms, since each searcher has different needs and strategies. Patent searchers need access to a wide variety of databases and search forms in order to locate ...
Most search platforms give users access to multiple search forms, since each searcher has different needs and strategies. Patent searchers need access to a wide variety of databases and search forms in order to locate ...
Spotify Under Fire for Alleged Patent Infringement from tacticalip.com
Scott Nyman Recently, my sister told me about a new music player (at least to the US), Spotify. Apparently, this social, music streaming application has gained a large following in the European countries. The feature ...
Scott Nyman Recently, my sister told me about a new music player (at least to the US), Spotify. Apparently, this social, music streaming application has gained a large following in the European countries. The feature ...
Generic Candesartan Launch Opportunity - Prodrug Patent Expiration in 2012 from www.infringementupdates.com
The following is excerpted from an August 23, 2011 GenericsWeb press release: GenericsWeb, the leader in established pharmaceutical patent analysis and searching, recently published an article based on its proprietary Pipeline Patent Intelligence that analyses ...
The following is excerpted from an August 23, 2011 GenericsWeb press release: GenericsWeb, the leader in established pharmaceutical patent analysis and searching, recently published an article based on its proprietary Pipeline Patent Intelligence that analyses ...
Report From China and a Look at Our “China Team” from www.uspto.gov
Guest blog by Deputy Director Teresa Stanek Rea
I just recently returned from a very interesting and extensive two-week trip to China, my first trip there as Deputy Director of the USPTO. I visited six ...
Guest blog by Deputy Director Teresa Stanek Rea
I just recently returned from a very interesting and extensive two-week trip to China, my first trip there as Deputy Director of the USPTO. I visited six ...
Federal Circuit: Offer for sale before invention occurs may bar patentability from ipspotlight.com
Sometimes, marketing gets ahead of R&D.; This can happen when a company’s marketing group promises to deliver a product to a customer, and then turns to R&D; and asks “can you create ...
Sometimes, marketing gets ahead of R&D.; This can happen when a company’s marketing group promises to deliver a product to a customer, and then turns to R&D; and asks “can you create ...
Patents role in Apple’s success from www.ipeg.eu
Now the master of new consumer technologies, Steve Jobs, announced his resignation on Wednesday as Apple CEO, attention is also given to the intellectual property aspects of Apple’s success. Mr. Jobs’s say over ...
Now the master of new consumer technologies, Steve Jobs, announced his resignation on Wednesday as Apple CEO, attention is also given to the intellectual property aspects of Apple’s success. Mr. Jobs’s say over ...
Patent Cooperation Truly: Moving Towards a True International Patent? from dcipattorney.com
I have previously advised on this blog site that over-filing for foreign patent rights is one of the top five IP-related mistakes made by small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs). This is because patents are jurisdictional ...
I have previously advised on this blog site that over-filing for foreign patent rights is one of the top five IP-related mistakes made by small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs). This is because patents are jurisdictional ...
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