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: Patently ObviousPatently-O Bits and Bytes No. 304
By Dennis Crouch, Esq.
- Next Monday (December 7, 2009) at 2:00 P.M. in Room 201, the Federal Circuit will hear en banc arguments in the case of Ariad Pharmaceutical v. Eli Lilly. The case questions whether Section 112 of the Patent Act creates a written description requirement that is separate and distinct from the enablement requirement. An audio version of the oral arguments is expected to be available that same day. [Calendar]
- PATracer reports on the pending Federal Circuit case of Kawasaki v. Bombadier. In that case, Kawasaki had sued to enforce the terms of a settlement agreement. Rather than enforcing the agreement, Judge Folsom of the E.D. Tex. dismissed the lawsuit ? holding that his court lacked subject matter jurisdiction over what had become a contract dispute. In the 1994 case of Kokkonen v. Guardian Life, the Supreme Court held that unless incorporated into a court order, disputes over a settlement agreement must stand on its own jurisdictional feet. [LINK]
- Eriq Gardner asks Can a Science-Fiction Movie Infringe a Tech-patent? His question is prompted by a lawsuit where ? you guessed it ? a patentee (Carl Burnett & his company Global Findability) has sued Summit Entertainment for making/distributing the Nicholas Cage film entitled "Knowing" in which Cage is portrayed as acting like he is using an allegedly infringing geo-locator. The complaint was filed by the Cahn Samuels firm in Federal Court in Washington DC. In the movie setup, the geo-locating technology is based on information provided in 1958 (and rediscovered in 2008). If pretending to be an infringer is actionable, this reconstructed history may also render the patent obvious? The movie was critically panned, but Cage's star power still helped bring in almost $80 million in box office revenues.
- Global Findability's patent is actually quite interesting. It focuses on a mechanism that converts latitude, longitude, & altitude readings into a "single discrete all-natural number." I.e., one number to uniquely identify a position anywhere (relative to the earth). [LINK]
Full post as published by Patently Obvious on December 03, 2009 (boomark / email).
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