Patent & IP news for September 9, 2011

Federal Circuit Panel Disagrees Over Application of Rambus v. Infineon from www.grayonclaims.com

Markem-Imaje Corp. v. Zipher Ltd. (Fed. Cir. Sept. 9, 2011)

In this case, the patent at issue related to devices for transfer printing, a process where ink is carried by a ribbon that is moved ...

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Road trips – a photo trademark journal from www.erikpelton.com

Great trademarks (and bad ones too for that matter) are all around us every day. For example, driving. They are on the backs of cards (make and model), bumper stickers, commercial vehicles, billboards, exit information ...

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The Nine Senators who Voted for America – Not the America Invents Act from hallingblog.com

There were only nine Senators who voted for America and the Constitution yesterday.  They were:   Rand Paul R-KY Cantwell D-WA Boxer D-CA Johnson R-WI Lee R-UT Coburn R-OK DeMint R-SC McCain R-AZ McCaskill D-MO   Rubion ...

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Patent reform passes Senate 89-9, without amendments; fee diversion remains from ipbiz.blogspot.com

H.R. 1249, the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (Patent Reform) passed the Senate 89-9, unamended.

Without the amendments, one recalls that the House version of HR 1249 is not modified to end fee diversion. Fee ...

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Classen Immunotherapies, Inc. v. Biogen IDEC (Fed. Cir. 2011) -- Additional Views from Chief Judge Rader from www.patentdocs.org

By Kevin E. Noonan -- Accompanying the Federal Circuit's majority decision in Classen Immunotherapies, Inc. v. Biogen IDEC is a separate explication of "additional views" by Chief Judge Rader (at right) joined by Judge Newman ...

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Out of this world: "Star Wars" and "Star Trek" patents from britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk

Gus Lopez' Toy design patents site links to 51 US design patents for toys related to the "Star Wars" films. for the look. Design patents is the American term for what the British call registered ...

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Apple wins (again) in Germany: Galaxy Tab 10.1 injunction upheld from fosspatents.blogspot.com

A reporter from Germany's leading news agency DPA (Deutsche Presse Agentur) was first to report on Twitter that the Düsseldorf Regional Court once again upheld the preliminary injunction against the Galaxy Tab 10.1 ...

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Senate Passes House Version of Patent Reform from inventivestep.net

Patent reform is a reality, as the Senate passed H.R. 1249 without amendment.  The voting on the proposed amendments was close; passage of the overall bill was not. Senate Action Sen. Jeff Session’s ...

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BPAI no patentable weight mental step from allthingspros.blogspot.com

Takeaway: The Board gave no patentable weight to the limitation "at least one set of text that was authored not for any purpose related to creating or accessing the profile" because an objective reader of ...

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What Does Classen v. Biogen Mean for the Patent Eligibility of Diagnostics and Personalized Medicine? from holmansbiotechipblog.blogspot.com

In previous posts to this blog, I have discussed three important cases that pertain to the patent eligibility of inventions based on the discovery of medically useful correlations involving patient clinical data - Prometheus v. Mayo ...

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Patent Reform Bill Passes the Senate an on its way to the President from tacticalip.com

By: Mark R. Malek The United States Senate has now passed the American Invents Act by a vote of 89 to 9.  See Gene Quinn’s recent article on IPWatchdog.com for some great insight ...

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R&D and stock markets from www.athenaalliance.org

A recent study by Deutsche Bank Research finds that "companies with an R&D; intensity 50% higher than their industry average boast a 14-21% higher market capitalization." As the study points out, however, increased R ...

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What is the litigation history of U.S. Patent No. X? from docketreport.blogspot.com

Like its prosecution history, a patent’s litigation history can have significant impact on current enforcement efforts. But quickly and accurately gathering litigation history about a patent (or more so for a group of patents ...

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Friday Foreign Filing Roundup from info.inovia.com

Yesterday in an 89-9 vote, the U.S. Senate passed an overhaul to the U.S. patent system, marking the biggest change to U.S. patent law since 1952.  We have more on that and ...

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Patent Reform Bill Passes: Medicines Company to Party Like They’re Rebecca Black from www.patentbaristas.com

Well, it looks like it’s all over but for the crying.  The Senate voted 89 to 9 to pass the Patent Reform Act bill yesterday. The Senate rejected proposed amendments to the house bill ...

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University Sues Makers of Heart-Healthy Cookies from holmansbiotechipblog.blogspot.com

In a complaint filed September 7 in the Western District of Wisconsin, Brandeis University joins its exclusive licensee (GFA Brands) in suing a number of cookie companies, including Keebler, Famous Amos, Nestlé's and Pillsbury ...

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"We Had to Look Hard" Not Adequate Justification For Untimely Expert Report Addressing New Prior Art from docketreport.blogspot.com

The court granted defendant's motion to strike the supplemental report of plaintiff's invalidity expert which included a new prior art reference. "[P]laintiff says that the reference was 'not readily available,' but it ...

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Main Street Catalysts:  Patents, Immersion, and Passion from www.ipprospective.com

US economic news has been notably bleak over the past month:   GDP growth figures have been revised downward; US long-term debt has lost its AAA-rating; payrolls are reported (and expected to continue) to rise at ...

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Court Rules in Allergan's Favor on Lumigan Patent from www.infringementupdates.com

The following is from a September 9, 2011 Reuter's update with reporting by Tom Hals; additional reporting by Rans Pierson in New York; and editing by Derek Caney: Delaware District Court judge Sue Robinson ...

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Jobs bill as an innovation bill? from www.athenaalliance.org

There has been a lot of ink and bandwidth devoted over the last 12 hours to the President's jobs plan (see text of last night's speech and White House fact sheet). The comments ...

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Patents Directed to Human Organisms from www.patentlyo.com

A major problem with the soon-to-be-enacted patent reform act (H.R. 1249) is that its poor wording inevitably leads to uncertainty about how the law will be interpreted by the courts and by the patent ...

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US Charges Movie Download Site With “Criminal Copyright Conspiracy” from www.ip-watch.org

A grand jury in the United States has charged website Ninjavideo.net with criminal copyright conspiracy for allowing large-scale unauthorised movie downloads, the US Justice Department announced today. Related Articles:

• US Attorney General In China ...

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All Inventions Are Equal, But Some Inventions Are More Equal Than Others from gametimeip.com

It took over 6 years and two presidents (10 and three, depending who you ask), but a major patent overhaul finally passed both houses of Congress, after a Senate vote of 89-9 on H.R ...

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CRTC Report Reveals Canadians As Digital Revolution Leaders from www.iposgoode.ca

Taylor Vanderhelm is a JD candidate at the University of Alberta. The Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), an independent public authority that regulates and supervises broadcasting and telecommunications in Canada, recently released a report ...

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America Invents: Lies, Damn Lies and Legislative History from ipwatchdog.com

So the point is that there is the language of the bill, and then there is what we were told was in the bill, which actually isn’t what is in the bill if you ...

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“Washington Declaration” Demands Return Of Public Interest In IP Rights from www.ip-watch.org

A new multi-stakeholder declaration demanding that the public interest be returned to intellectual property rights was issued this week and is open for signatures by anyone, already collecting hundreds of supporters. The declaration contains numerous ...

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