Patent & IP news for January 5, 2012
Patent Litigations
- Select Retrieval, LLC v. Winchester Carpet & Rug Company filed 2012-01-03 in Virginia Western
- Del Monte Fresh Produce Company v. Webvention Holdings LLC et. al. filed 2012-01-04 in Maryland
- The JM Smucker Company v. Lodsys LLC filed 2012-01-04 in Wisconsin Eastern
- Fellowes, Inc. v. Royal Appliance Mfg. Co. et. al. filed 2012-01-05 in Ohio Northern
- Network Signatures Inc v. Whirlpool Corporation filed 2012-01-04 in California Central
- Shire LLC et. al. v. Watson Laboratories Inc filed 2012-01-05 in New Jersey
- CheckFree Corporation et. al. v. Metavante Corporation et. al. filed 2012-01-05 in Florida Middle
- Narada Systems, LLC v. Violin Memory, Inc. filed 2012-01-05 in Texas Eastern
- Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. et. al. v. Zoll Medical Corporation filed 2012-01-05 in Washington Western
- PPS Data v. Diebold Eras et. al. filed 2012-01-05 in Utah
- Waterton Polymer Products USA et. al. v. Edizone filed 2012-01-05 in Utah
USPTO Stats
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Patent & IP Blogs
CGPDTM announces impressive training syllabus for new patent examiners from spicyipindia.blogspot.com It appears that 2012 is going to be a good year for Indian IP.
The very first announcement published on the IPO's website this new year, is an impressive training syllabus for the newly ...
Patenting Away from Home: Stats on Foreign Filing from info.articleonepartners.com Among the strongest trends in global IP is an increase in cross-border filings. Growth in secondary filings (that is, filing a patent abroad) is coupled with growth in PCT system filings, as inventors increasingly seek ...
More than 100 trademarks featuring the term “2012″ have already been filed! from www.erikpelton.com 2012 looks to be a big year for trademarks. As of late December 2011, the USPTO records included nearly 100 pending applications and registrations that feature the wording “2012″ – more ‘live’ records than there are ...
2011 Patent Grants: A New Record from www.patentlyo.com By Dennis Crouch The USPTO issued more utility patents in calendar year 2011 than in any year in history. The 2010 total – just shy of 225,000 issued patents – is only a small increase over ...
Incontrovertible evidence: Oracle raised, not slashed, its damages claims against Google from fosspatents.blogspot.com About four months ago, I said that "[m]edia reports on reduced damages claims [by Oracle against Google] are unfounded". In that blog post, I explained that "[i]f one interprets Google's letter [to ...
An acute case of recovery: can Comet see through Windows? from ipkitten.blogspot.com 
This Kat is often in a love-hate relationship with the Microsoft Windows operating system on her computer. Therefore she was interested to read yesterday that the software giant had commenced proceedings in the High Court ...
Amazons, Austro Mechana march on Luxembourg from ipkitten.blogspot.com Amazon-watchers have been quick to spot the latest reference of a case to the Court of Justice of the European Union for a preliminary ruling: it's Case C-521/11 Austro-Mechana Gesellschaft zur Wahrnehmung mechanisch-musikalischer ...
Top Stories of 2011: #6 to #4 from www.patentdocs.org
By Donald Zuhn -- Reflecting upon the events of the past twelve months, Patent Docs presents its fifth annual list of top biotech/pharma patent stories. For 2011, we identified a dozen stories that were covered ...
By Donald Zuhn -- Reflecting upon the events of the past twelve months, Patent Docs presents its fifth annual list of top biotech/pharma patent stories. For 2011, we identified a dozen stories that were covered ...
Thanks to Apple's flawed litigation strategy, HTC has nothing to fear until March 2013 (in the US) from fosspatents.blogspot.com
Litigation is full of imponderabilities and surprises, especially in the United States, where the ITC increasingly appears to be a very difficult forum for smartphone patent holders and district court cases involve layperson juries as ...
Court Slams Frivolous & Vexatious Litigation with $4.7 MM in Fees from www.ipwatchdog.com
In what seems to be a continuing trend, the United Stats Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit is continuing to show increasingly little tolerance for abusive patent litigation tactics. In the most recent pronouncement ...
In what seems to be a continuing trend, the United Stats Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit is continuing to show increasingly little tolerance for abusive patent litigation tactics. In the most recent pronouncement ...
NTIA Supports New Domains – Phased In, With Protection from www.ip-watch.org
The US National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) has announced its support for additional policies for new generic top-level domains on the internet, with conditions. The Commerce Department agency will stick to the 12 January ...
The US National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) has announced its support for additional policies for new generic top-level domains on the internet, with conditions. The Commerce Department agency will stick to the 12 January ...
Google-IBM Patent Deal: Business As Usual? from gametimeip.com
Google’s been on an IP shopping spree lately, snatching up large swaths of patents at a time. One of the more notable transactions is an apparent deal with IBM that was at least partially ...
Google’s been on an IP shopping spree lately, snatching up large swaths of patents at a time. One of the more notable transactions is an apparent deal with IBM that was at least partially ...
Change In USPTO Representation At WIPO Could Reflect Shift In Priorities from www.ip-watch.org
The sudden change in officials in charge of international policy at the United States Patent and Trademark Office could reflect shifting priorities at the World Intellectual Property Organization. Related Articles:
The sudden change in officials in charge of international policy at the United States Patent and Trademark Office could reflect shifting priorities at the World Intellectual Property Organization. Related Articles:
Italian court denies Samsung motion for preliminary injunction against iPhone 4S from fosspatents.blogspot.com
ANSA, the official Italian news agency, just reported that Judge Marina Tavassi of the Tribunale di Milano -- the Milan-based Italian first-instance court for patent cases -- has rejected a Samsung request for a preliminary injunction against ...
Inside Perspective on Patenting at the African Regional Intellectual Property Office from info.inovia.com
Guest article by Robert J. Sayre of Modern Times Legal. Headquartered in Harare, Zimbabwe, the African Regional Intellectual Property Office (ARIPO) may be perceived by many practitioners through a shroud of mystery—admittedly, that was ...
Guest article by Robert J. Sayre of Modern Times Legal. Headquartered in Harare, Zimbabwe, the African Regional Intellectual Property Office (ARIPO) may be perceived by many practitioners through a shroud of mystery—admittedly, that was ...
En banc sua sponte sub secretum? from www.717madisonplace.com
Today marks eight months since the Federal Circuit heard oral argument in the section 101 case Dealertrack v. Huber. I’ve been curious why it is taking a long time to render an opinion in ...
Today marks eight months since the Federal Circuit heard oral argument in the section 101 case Dealertrack v. Huber. I’ve been curious why it is taking a long time to render an opinion in ...
Top National Stage Entry Countries for 2011 from info.inovia.com
Happy New Year everyone! It’s become an annual tradition for us to take a look back at the top national phase filing destinations for our clients from the past year. inovia was ranked the ...
Happy New Year everyone! It’s become an annual tradition for us to take a look back at the top national phase filing destinations for our clients from the past year. inovia was ranked the ...
Proposed Rule for Third Party Prior Art Submissions from inventivestep.net
A change to US patent law that is being implemented as part of the America Invents Act is that third parties will soon be able to submit references to the PTO in pending applications. The ...
A change to US patent law that is being implemented as part of the America Invents Act is that third parties will soon be able to submit references to the PTO in pending applications. The ...
Patents for Working Out at the Workplace from intellogist.wordpress.com
Well, we’re still here. I guess the Mayans were wrong. Who would have expected that the end of the world wouldn’t have actually occurred except for Harold Camping …wait, what’s that? The ...
Well, we’re still here. I guess the Mayans were wrong. Who would have expected that the end of the world wouldn’t have actually occurred except for Harold Camping …wait, what’s that? The ...
"It’s a friggin’ footnote" from ipbiz.blogspot.com
IPBiz has covered some of the unusual situations emanating from the newsrooms of Philadelphia tv stations. For example, the Larry Mendte saga illustrated some legal points about email hacking, and worked its way onto NBC ...
IPBiz has covered some of the unusual situations emanating from the newsrooms of Philadelphia tv stations. For example, the Larry Mendte saga illustrated some legal points about email hacking, and worked its way onto NBC ...
Advanced Micro-Fabrication Equipment Inc. Prevails for Fourth Time Against Lam Research from www.infringementupdates.com
The following is excerpted from a January 4, 2012 AMEC press release published by PR Newswire: Advanced Micro-Fabrication Equipment Inc. (AMEC) announced that it has prevailed again in litigation against AMEC subsidiaries by Lam Research ...
The following is excerpted from a January 4, 2012 AMEC press release published by PR Newswire: Advanced Micro-Fabrication Equipment Inc. (AMEC) announced that it has prevailed again in litigation against AMEC subsidiaries by Lam Research ...
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