Patent Law

Cha's suit against Flamm is back

Posted on January 27, 2008
The Nov. 2007 decision in the Flamm/Cha business has been re-considered, and the lawsuit (of Cha against Flamm) re-instated. Apparently, one of the factors involved a PhD "forensic linguistics? expert who analyzed the wording and structure of the single ?offending sentence? that is allegedly the basis of the lawsuit...

Plagiarism at the New York Press

Posted on January 26, 2008
Editor & Publisher wrote:In a note to readers in its current issue, the New York City alt-paper said columnist Claudia Lonow, whom it identified as "a television writer based in Los Angeles who had not previously written for a newspaper," plagiarized the questions for the first column because she had no reader questions...

Monsanto v. Bayer Bioscience

Posted on January 26, 2008
The Federal Circuit affirmed a decision by Judge Webber in ED Missouri that Bayer's US 5,545,565 is unenforceable for inequitable conduct. The CAFC also notes that Judge Webber had the jurisdiction to declare three (3) other Bayer patents unenforceable...

Patent reform: bad for (small) business

Posted on January 25, 2008
Following up on the IPBiz post Does the current patent reform bill help small business in any way? concerning an article in NJBiz, IPBiz invites NJBiz to read the filing by Ron Katznelson concerning the manner in which the "patent reform" on the rules on continuing applications has adversely impacted small business...

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No wonder CIRM wants to emulate the NIH: "conflicts of interest"!

Posted on January 25, 2008
In February 2007, IPBiz noted: In the past, there has been much discussion of the secrecy of grant proposals for research on embryonic stem cells at CIRM. Secrecy was defended on the basis that CIRM was acting just like NIH (or NSF). One notes that the "be like Mike" philosophy is accurate, if not effective...

Plagiarism in the restaurant business

Posted on January 24, 2008
Michael Bauer of SFGate wrote:A review I wrote of the restaurant Terzo in San Francisco more than a year ago is causing a stir in Portland, because some of the words and phrases I used turned up in an article written by chef Stu Stein to describe his Portland, Ore...

Whirlpool files ITC action against LG Electronics

Posted on January 24, 2008
LG Electronics, no stranger to patent cases (at the Supreme Court and elsewhere) is involved in a case with Whirlpool over refrigerators.Reuters stated: Whirlpool said on Wednesday [23 Jan 2008] it filed the patent infringement action with the International Trade Commission (ITC), charging several LG refrigerator models infringe five Whirlpool patents...

Fear of getting caught not really a plagiarism deterrent

Posted on January 23, 2008
A commentary in Nature about plagarism and multiple publication titled "A Tale of Two Citations" concludes with the words:But above all, the fear of having some transgression exposed in a public and embarrassing manner could be a very effective deterrent...

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