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Philip Brooks’ Patent Infringement Updates

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Best Tax Practices for Managing Intellectual and Intangible Property

Posted on June 30, 2009
On July 9, 2009, CCH is hosting a live audio seminar titled, "Managing Your Intellectual and Intangible Propery: Best Tax Practices for Domestic and Cross-Border Operations." Learn the best tax strategies for working with intangible assets ? in a timely...

Calculating Damages Arising from Design Patent Infringement

Posted on June 29, 2009
I just received my print Summer 2009 issue of the ABA Intellectual Property Litigation newsletter. The following is excerpted from the above-titled article by Mark Gallagher and Kelly Caputo of Duff & Phelps: So, what would you like in your...

Fourth Blogaversary!

Posted on June 27, 2009
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IP Trial Strategy: Buying Tivo's Bull

Posted on June 26, 2009
The following is excerpted from a June 26, 2009 article by Zusha Elinson of The Recorder appearing at Law.com: As the make-or-break patent trial between Tivo Inc. and EchoStar Corp. got under way in Marshall, Texas, Tivo's top brass had...

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Professional Liability Policy Excludes Patent Claims

Posted on June 25, 2009
Kenneth J. St. Onge writing today, June 25, 2009, for Insurance Journal: A professional liability policy does not cover legal fees for patent infringement lawsuits brought by a competing company, a Pennsylvania appeals court has ruled. The ruling comes in...

Business Method Patents on Supreme Court Docket

Posted on June 24, 2009
From BPCouncil: Some 30 years after it last looked into the subject, the Supreme Court decided to weigh in on the burning issue of software and business method patentability by granting the certiorari petition and hearing the appeal filed by...

LARGO Models Supreme Court Decision Making

Posted on June 23, 2009
I just finished reading an article by Cara J. Hayden in the print edition of the Spring issue of Pitt Magazine (electronic version will eventually post here). The article titled, "Supreme Decisions," discusses the work of Pitt professor Kevin Ashley....

China's Guidebook for Pharmaceutical Patent Protection

Posted on June 22, 2009
Research and Markets announced today, June 22, 2009, in a Business Wire press release: The addition of the "China's Guidebook for Pharmaceutical Patent Protection" report to their offering. China is expected to become the fifth largest drug market in the...

fuelperks! Patent Infringement Suit Filed Against Safeway

Posted on June 19, 2009
The following is excerpted from a June 18, 2009 press release available at Business Wire: Excentus Corporation announced today that it has filed a lawsuit against Safeway, Inc. and Safeway subsidiaries, including Blackhawk Network, Inc., Blackhawk Marketing, LLC...

2nd Annual Pharmaceutical Congress on Paragraph IV Disputes

Posted on June 18, 2009
The Center for Business Intelligence is hosting the above-titled conference in Philadelphia, PA on October 22-23, 2009. Paragraph IV litigation is reaching an all-time high with almost $85 billion in product sales that potentially could be affected by pending litigation...

Pfizer Sues Mylan Over Patents for Top-Drug Lipitor

Posted on June 17, 2009
The following is excerpted from a June 15, 2009 article by Phil Milford and Susan Decker at Bloomberg: Pfizer Inc., the world?s biggest drugmaker, sued rival Mylan Inc. asking a judge to prohibit sales of a generic version of its...

IP Advocate Wins Two Communicator Awards of Distinction From International Academy of Visual Arts

Posted on June 16, 2009
Non-Profit Dedicated to Empowering Academic Researchers is Honored For Excellence in Education and Branding ATLANTA (June 16, 2009) ? IP Advocate (www.IPAdvocate.org) today announced it has won two awards from the International Academy of the Visual Arts, honoring the non-profit...

Pittsburgh Penguins Win Stanley Cup

Posted on June 15, 2009
Pittsburgh Wins Super Bowl, Stanley Cup ... World Series?!?!!!

A123 Systems Files Motion to Reopen Case Against Hydro-Quebec

Posted on June 12, 2009
Jeffrey Gleason of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, counsel for A123 Systems, Inc. filed a motion yesterday, June 11, 2009, to reopen the A123 Systems, Inc. v. Hydro-Quebec case: Plaintiff A123 Systems, Inc. (?A123?) hereby moves the Court....

Developments in Pharmaceutical and Biotech Patent Law 2009

Posted on June 11, 2009
PLI is hosting the above-titled conference in New York City on September 17, 2009 (along with groupcasts in Boston, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh and a live webcast) and in San Francisco on October 14, 2009. This year?s program is totally new!...

Cellectis SA Clarifies Competitor?s Comments on Preliminary U.S. Patent Office Action

Posted on June 10, 2009
The following is an excerpt from a June 10, 2009 Cellectis press release available at Business Wire: On March 13, 2008, the genome engineering company Cellectis SA (Alternext: ALCLS) initiated a patent infringement lawsuit in the U.S. District Court in...

Largest U.S. Patent Infringement Case Ever is Controversial Too

Posted on June 09, 2009
A reader alerted me that the jury in the Star Scientific v. R.J. Reynolds case should get the case this week. I have covered this case in numerous prior posts. The following is excerpted from a May 19, 2009 article...

Tafas Requests Rehearing En Banc in PTO Rules Case

Posted on June 08, 2009
From two June 4, 2009 posts by Matt Osenga at his Inventive Step blog: One of the plaintiffs in the PTO rules case, Dr. Tafas, has filed a combined petition for the Federal Circuit panel to rehear the case, or...

Monroeville Woman Claims Victoria's Secret Infringed on Her Patent

Posted on June 04, 2009
From a June 4, 2009 article by Paula Reed Ward at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: They say necessity is the mother of invention. For Heather Knox, it was frustration that drove her. After spending years having to wear two bras at...

Dish Network Hit With Contempt Ruling in Patent Case

Posted on June 03, 2009
The following is excerpted from a June 3, 2009 article at the Portland Business Journal by Greg Avery of the Denver Business Journal: Satellite broadcaster Dish Network Corp. has been found in contempt of a two-year-old patent infringement judgment won...

Elite Group of Chief Intellectual Property Officers to Convene For Groundbreaking Meeting

Posted on June 02, 2009
The following is excerpted from a June 2, 2009 IAM press release: Intellectual Asset Management (IAM) magazine, the world?s leading provider of IP business news, today announced it will host the inaugural meeting of the Chief Intellectual Property Officer (CIPO)...

The Economics of Commercial Success in Pharmaceutical Patent Litigation

Posted on June 01, 2009
The above-titled article by Rahul Guha, Jian Li, and Andrea L. Scott appeared as the cover article for the May/June 2009 print issue of Landslide (a publication of the ABA Section of Intellectual Property Law). The following is an excerpt...

U.S. Reexamines Merck's Singulair Patent

Posted on May 29, 2009
In a follow-up to prior posts (e.g., March 19, 2009) on Article One Partners is this excerpt from a Reuters article by Ransdell Pierson at guardian.co.uk: Merck & Co said on Thursday the U.S. Patent Office is reexamining the patent...

Vote for the Top Patent Blogs

Posted on May 28, 2009
Gene Quinn of the IPWatchdog Blog is soliciting votes to rank the top patent blogs from the 50 identified previously. Philip Brooks' Patent Infringement Updates is one of the 50 available for readers to vote on. Take a look at...

Invotex Damages Expert Testifies in Internet Advertising Patent Infringement Trial against Yahoo

Posted on May 27, 2009
From a May 19, 2009 press release at PR Newswire: In the internet advertising patent infringement suit brought against Yahoo, Inc. by Acacia Research Corporation's subsidiary, Creative Internet Advertising Corp., Invotex(R) Group damages expert Michele M...

A Litigator's Guide to Expert Witnesses

Posted on May 26, 2009
An American Bar Association bookstore best seller by Cecil C. Kuhne III: Whether you are an experienced litigator or just starting your practice, you won't want to head to court or to a deposition without this book. The admission of...

Civil Procedure: Pre-Suit Filing Requirements

Posted on May 22, 2009
In a comment posted by Robert Matthews, Jr. of Latimer, Mayberry & Mathews IP Law, LP at LegalOnramp.com in response to a February 23, 2009 post by Eric Johnson at his Seattle Litigation Journal: Via Rule 11 of the Federal...

Toronto Firm Wins in Suit Against Microsoft

Posted on May 21, 2009
The following is excerpted from a May 20, 2009 article by Simon Avery appearing at the Globe and Mail: A small technology company in Toronto has won a Texas jury verdict ordering Microsoft Corp. to pay it $200-million (U.S.) for...

VIZIO Files TV Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against Funai

Posted on May 20, 2009
The following is excerpted from a May 20, 2009 VIZIO press release available at PRNewswire: VIZIO, Inc., the Number One Shipper of Flat Panel HDTVs in the USA, announced today that it has filed a patent infringement lawsuit in the...

Acacia Research Subsidiary Creative Internet Advertising Corporation Receives $6.6 Million Jury Award in Patent Infringement Case

Posted on May 19, 2009
The following is excerpted from a May 18, 2009 press release at Business Wire: The Simon Law Firm announces that on May 15, 2009, a federal jury awarded Acacia Research Corporation?s (Nasdaq: ACTG) subsidiary, Creative Internet Advertising Corporation, $6...

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