Patent & IP news for February 4, 2016
Patent Litigations
- The Medicines Company v. Eagle Pharmaceuticals, Inc. et. al. filed 3 days ago in New Jersey
- Orexo AB et. al. v. Actavis Elizabeth LLC et. al. filed 3 days ago in Delaware
- Ignite USA, LLC v. Pacific Market International, LLC filed 2 days ago in Illinois Northern
- Chrimar Systems, Inc. et. al. v. Juniper Networks, Inc. filed 3 days ago in California Northern
- Advanced Touchscreen and Gesture Technologies LLC v. Samsung Electronics Co., LTD, et. al. filed 3 days ago in California Northern
- Whirlpool Corporation v. DG Enterprises, LLC d/b/a Splash Filters filed 2 days ago in Texas Eastern
- Whirlpool Corporation v. iSpring Water Systems, LLC d/b/a 123Filter.com filed 2 days ago in Texas Eastern
- Whirlpool Corporation v. A & M Distribution, LLC filed 2 days ago in Texas Eastern
- Auto-Dril, Inc. v. National Oilwell Varco, L.P. filed 2 days ago in Texas Southern
- Ignite USA, LLC v. Pacific Market International, LLC filed 2 days ago in Illinois Northern
- Ignite USA, LLC v. Pacific Market International, LLC filed 2 days ago in Illinois Northern
- Auto-Dril, Inc. v. Pason Systems USA, Corporation filed 2 days ago in Texas Southern
- Auto-Dril, Inc. v. Canrig Drilling Technology, Ltd. filed 2 days ago in Texas Southern
- Pebble Technology, Corp. v. Sportbrain Holdings LLC filed 2 days ago in California Northern
- Grecia v. Dish Network L.L.C. filed 2 days ago in California Northern
USPTO Weekly Stats
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6,784
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64
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Patent & IP Blogs
Thursday Thingies from ipkitten.blogspot.com OHIM has announced the opening of the entry period for DesignEuropa Awards 2016. All designs entered must be valid Registered Community Designs (RCD). The award is in partnership with the Italian IP office, UIBM and ...
Can GIFs infringe copyright? In Europe the answer is potentially 'yes' from ipkitten.blogspot.com Facebook GIF buttonThanks to Katfriend and scholar Martin Husovec (Tilburg University) this Kat has become aware that, after Facebook, also Twitter is on the move to introduce a dedicated GIF button (although for the ...
EPO appoints new Chief Economist from ipkitten.blogspot.com The EPO has announced the appointment of its new Chief Economist, Yann Ménière.
According to the press release:
Yann Ménière, EPO photo
"Yann Ménière is professor of economics on leave from MINES ParisTech, where he ...
N.D. of California finds Prosecution Estoppel Based on IPR from dunlapcodding.com In a recent decision, the Northern District of California decided that a patent owner’s submissions in an inter partes review constituted a prosecution disclaimer for claim construction purposes. Ann Robl
In a recent decision ...
Katcall for new positions in the IPKat team from ipkitten.blogspot.com The IPKat is pleased to announce a new and exciting opportunity for aspiring community bloggers! Considering the running of the IPKat blog in the future, the IPKat team is proposing to create a new role ...
Motivation Innovations, LLC v. Petsmart, Inc. (D. Del. 2016) from www.patentdocs.org
Coupon Patent Easily Found Invalid under § 101 By Joseph Herndon -- On January 12, 2016, the District Court for the District of Delaware issued an opinion in a case captioned Motivation Innovations, LLC v. Petsmart, Inc ...
Coupon Patent Easily Found Invalid under § 101 By Joseph Herndon -- On January 12, 2016, the District Court for the District of Delaware issued an opinion in a case captioned Motivation Innovations, LLC v. Petsmart, Inc ...
PTAB: Action involving license agreement does not grant standing to file petition for covered business method review from ipspotlight.com
A covered business method (CBM) review is a tool that the America Invents Act (AIA) created to allow entities charged with infringement of a CBM patent to challenge the patent’s validity. A recent decision ...
A covered business method (CBM) review is a tool that the America Invents Act (AIA) created to allow entities charged with infringement of a CBM patent to challenge the patent’s validity. A recent decision ...
Apple to Supreme Court: Samsung litigation 'may be high-profile, [but] it is legally unexceptional' from www.fosspatents.com
Apple has just responded to Samsung's mid-December petition for writ of certiorari (request for Supreme Court review) regarding two legal questions concerning design patents and, in the same document, to amicus curiae ("friend of ...
Magnitude of Nexus Goes to Weight, Not Admissibility, of Copying Evidence from docketreport.blogspot.com
The court overruled defendants' objection to the magistrate judge's ruling allowing evidence of copying and rejected their argument that the magistrate judge failed to consider the magnitude of the nexus between the alleged copying ...
The court overruled defendants' objection to the magistrate judge's ruling allowing evidence of copying and rejected their argument that the magistrate judge failed to consider the magnitude of the nexus between the alleged copying ...
200 Companies, Organisations Worldwide Promote Stronger Encryption from www.ip-watch.org
Nearly 200 organisations, companies and others from 42 countries have signed an open letter to the international community demanding that stronger encryption tools be allowed to be developed and used. The letter describes encryption tools ...
Nearly 200 organisations, companies and others from 42 countries have signed an open letter to the international community demanding that stronger encryption tools be allowed to be developed and used. The letter describes encryption tools ...
China Continues High Growth In IP Filing from www.ip-watch.org
Sheer intellectual property filings may not be the only or even best measure of innovation, but they are a closely watched economic indicator. Using what data it has, the World Intellectual Property Organization recently touted ...
Sheer intellectual property filings may not be the only or even best measure of innovation, but they are a closely watched economic indicator. Using what data it has, the World Intellectual Property Organization recently touted ...
Six Hundred Million Dollars from patentlyo.com
The E.D. Texas is out with a $600,000,000+ jury verdict against Apple in favor of VirnetX. (VirnetXVerdict). Interesting, after the huge verdict bump, the market cap for the company is $250.9M ...
The E.D. Texas is out with a $600,000,000+ jury verdict against Apple in favor of VirnetX. (VirnetXVerdict). Interesting, after the huge verdict bump, the market cap for the company is $250.9M ...
Strictly Construing Amended Claims Against the Patentee from patentlyo.com
by Dennis Crouch In Cioffi v. Google, the Federal Circuit sided with the patentee, Cioffi — holding that the district court erred in its construction of the asserted patent claims and thus vacated the holdings non-infringement ...
by Dennis Crouch In Cioffi v. Google, the Federal Circuit sided with the patentee, Cioffi — holding that the district court erred in its construction of the asserted patent claims and thus vacated the holdings non-infringement ...
An Alternate History of the Web & Copyright Law from writtendescription.blogspot.com
I've been enjoying Walter Isaacson's The Innovators, a history of computers and the Internet. As with any book related to innovation, I've been interested in the importance (or non-importance) of patents for ...
I've been enjoying Walter Isaacson's The Innovators, a history of computers and the Internet. As with any book related to innovation, I've been interested in the importance (or non-importance) of patents for ...
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