Patent Law

The following is excerpted from a February 1, 2010 post by Andrea Warmbier at the IP Litigation and The Rocket Docket blog:

PRE Holding, Inc. v. Monaghan Medical Corporation was dismissed without prejudice pursuant to a Stipulated Order entered on January 27, 2010, in the Richmond Division of the Eastern District of Virginia.  The lawsuit had been pending in the EDVA since July 21, 2009, when PRE Holding asserted that the Defendants infringed U.S. Patent No. 7,562,656, which is directed toward an aerosol medication inhalation system to aid in the delivery of aerosolized medicaments to patients.  Monaghan subsequently requested an Inter Partes Reexamination of the ?656 patent, and the USPTO granted the request on January 20, 2010, and entered a First Office Action rejecting all of the asserted claims as unpatentable.

Read the full post here.