Patent & IP news for February 28, 2013

The IP Puzzle That Is 3-D Manufacture from ipfinance.blogspot.com

Perhaps the last place I had planned to encounter a cutting-edge issue regarding IP was in the column by James Saft, "The Coming Dollar Bull Run", which appeared in the February 26 issue of Reuters ...

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Par/Paddock Answers FTC Before Supreme Court from www.patentdocs.org

By Kevin E. Noonan -- Par/Paddock, one of the generic drug company defendants in FTC v. Actavis Inc. et al. (the "reverse payment" ANDA settlement case now before the Supreme Court) filed its reponsive brief ...

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Federal Circuit Addresses Sufficiency of Factual Support Needed to Show Undue Experimentation from www.orangebookblog.com

Cephalon, Inc. v. Watson Pharms., Inc., No. 2011-1325 (Fed. Cir. 2013) by Katherine H. Johnson In Cephalon v. Watson, decided earlier this month, the Federal Circuit reversed a finding of invalidity for lack of enablement ...

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District of New Jersey Considers Subject Matter Jurisdiction Where No Paragraph IV Certification Is Filed from www.orangebookblog.com

Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp. v. Sandoz Inc., No. 12-3289 (D.N.J. 2013) by Katherine H. Johnson In an opinion issued earlier this month, Defendants moved to dismiss for lack of subject matter jurisdiction with ...

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Chief Judge Rader Speaks Out About Patent Litigation Abuse from www.ipwatchdog.com

Chief Judge Rader: "The patent system has a narrow focus. It is not a consumer affairs program. It is not a manufacturers guarantee compliance program. It’s not a competition program. It has one objective ...

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The importance of getting the statistics right from www.athenaalliance.org

This posting follows on my previous posting on interesting insights from the OECD Knowledge-Based Capital conference. In his presentation at the opening session, Steve Landefeld, Director of the US Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) raised ...

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The importance of getting the statistics right - 2 from www.athenaalliance.org

Apropos my earlier posting (and the recent news that GDP grew rather than declined in the 1Q), the Upjohn Institute is hosting a conference today and tomorrow on another measure issue: Measuring the Effects of ...

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New SHIELD Bill Introduced in House from inventivestep.net

Last year, several members of Congress sought to limit patent infringement suits concerning computer hardware and software.  If the suit did not have a “reasonable likelihood of succeeding,” the losing party would be required to ...

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ALJ Shaw Grants Motion To Compel Litigation Invoices In Certain Audiovisual Components (337-TA-837) from www.itcblog.com

On February 19, 2013, ALJ David P. Shaw issued the public version of Order No. 62 (dated February 5, 2013) granting Respondents Funai Electric Co., Ltd.; Funai Corporation, Inc.; P&F; USA, Inc.; Funai Service ...

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Global Health Giants, Trade Deals, And IP Play Central Role In 2013 Public Health from www.ip-watch.org

The role of intellectual property in a wide range of public health challenges - access to medicines, vaccine prices, procurement strategies, and research for diseases of the poor - is a focal point in 2013 cutting across ...

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Job Opening – Junior IP Litigator – New York from www.ipwatchdog.com

Large global firm with a full service platform, and a respected IP department, is seeking an intellectual property & technology associate for their New York office. The ideal candidate will have 1-3 years of patent litigation ...

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Stacking Royalties: One Royalty for Three Patents from www.patentlyo.com

Stryker Corp v. Zimmer, Inc. (W.D. Michigan 2013) ( Download StrykerVerdict ) I was just looking at the jury verdict in this patent infringement case. Stryker sued on about twenty claims patents coming from three different ...

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