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Patent Docs' Weekly Court Report
Posted on February 23, 2009A new addition to my Blogroll, Patent Docs, offers a weekly Court Report that briefly summarizes recently filed biotech and pharma cases. In addition, the authors (four patent attorneys who hold doctorates in a diverse array of biotech and chemical...
Lincoln National Life Insurance Wins Variable Annuity Patent Infringement Case
Posted on February 20, 2009The following article appeared on February 19, 2009 at WGAN's Channel 2 News website: A Cedar Rapids-based insurance company has been ordered to pay about $13 million in a patent infringement case. A federal jury in Cedar Rapids returned the...
PatentBuddy Upgrades Inventor Edition with 3.5 Million Records
Posted on February 19, 2009On February 13, 2009, PatentBuddy made a major upgrade to the Inventor Edition with 3.5 million records. PatentBuddy for Inventors allows you to: Create your own capabilities profile. Search for inventors in your same area of expertise. Search directory of...
5th International Judges Conference on Intellectual Property Law
Posted on February 18, 2009The conference [to be held April 20-21, 2009 in Washington, DC] is modeled after conferences held in Washington,D.C. in 1989, 1995 and 1999?hosted by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit?and more recently in 2005?organized by IPO Education...
And Now for Something Completely Different - Detecting Software Copyright Infringement
Posted on February 17, 2009I was contacted recently by Bob Zeidman, President of SAFE Corporation. They offer a product called CodeSuite®, which detects software copyright infringement. While this might seem a little off topic for a patent infringement blog, please hear me out...
IPWatchdog Presents The Top 25 Patent Blogs
Posted on February 16, 2009On February 11, 2009, Gene Quinn of IPWatchdog presented the top 25 (updated since to 26) patent blogs based on Technorati Rank. As Gene explains, "Technorati Rank is based upon Technorati Authority. Technorati Authority is the number of blogs linking...
NERA Releases Report on Intellectual Property Litigation and Damages Trends in China
Posted on February 13, 2009The following is excerpted from a February 13, 2009 NERA press release appearing at Business Wire: Though intellectual property rights (IPR) infringement damage awards continue to be small in China, the number of IPR awards appear to be increasing and...
Power Integrations, BCD Settle Patent Suit
Posted on February 12, 2009Dylan McGrath writing today, February 12, 2009, for EE Times states: China's BCD Semiconductor Manufacturing Ltd. has agreed not to sell some parts in the U.S. market under the terms of a settlement of patent infringement litigation brought by U.S....
FreePatentsOnline.com Logs its One Millionth Registered User
Posted on February 11, 2009The following is excerpted from a February 10, 2009 press release from FreePatentsOnline.com: Patents Online, LLC, the company behind www.freepatentsonline.com, announced today its one millionth registered user. FreePatentsOnline (FPO) has patent data from the USA, Europe, WIPO and Japan, and...
Cubist Sues Teva Over Generic Drug
Posted on February 10, 2009The following is excerpted from a February 10, 2009 article from Mass High Tech: Cubist Pharmaceuticals Inc. has announced plans to file a patent infringement lawsuit against Teva Parenteral Medicines Inc., after receiving notice that Teva plans to issue a...
Prior Art Found Relevant to a Patent Litigation Against Garmin
Posted on February 09, 2009The following is excerpted from a February 9, 2009 Article One Partners' press release at PR Newswire: Article One Partners, LLC, a global community working to legitimize the validity of patents, today announced seven new patent studies, as well as...
Special Master Declares Reverse Payment Legal
Posted on February 06, 2009Diane Bartz reporting for Reuters on February 4, 2009 writes: Schering-Plough Corp (SGP.N) and Upsher-Smith Laboratories won a battle in a class action fight over K-Dur 20 on Wednesday when a special master recommended that a class action lawsuit against...
German Court Affirms Validity of MMP Portfolio Patent
Posted on February 05, 2009A reader alerted me to the following February 3, 2009 item from Business Wire: Today Alliacense announced that the German Federal Patent Court (Bundespatentgericht, BPatG) in Munich affirmed the validity of DE 6,903,356 8T2, the German counterpart to EP 0,786,730...
Court Stays Rambus Case Against DRAM Vendors
Posted on February 04, 2009Dylan McGrath writing for EE Times on February 3, 2009: The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California has stayed coordinated patent infringement cases by Rambus Inc. against memory supplier Hynix Semicondctor, Micron Technology Inc., Nanya Technology Corp...
Peer-to-Patent and Article One Drag the Reclusive Patent Onto the Thoroughfare
Posted on February 03, 2009Mike Shultz of Message Infusion and PR point person for Article One Partners alerted me to a January 30, 2009 post by Andy Oram of O'Reilly Media. An interesting post, with lots of links, comparing and contrasting Peer-to-Patent and Article...
LORD OF THE RINGS
Posted on February 02, 2009Photo - Matt Freed/Post-GazetteCaption: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Intellectual Property Will Become America's Main Source of Competitive Advantage in a 21st Century Global Economy
Posted on January 30, 2009From BusinessWire on January 26, 2009: Mark Blaxill and Ralph Eckardt, two experts on innovation and intellectual property strategy (IP), take that argument one step further: In a competitive global economy, IP rights are one of a company?s ? indeed,...
Daubert Motions: Keys To Offering & Defending Expert Opinions
Posted on January 29, 2009National Constitution Center is hosting the above titled audio conference on February 18, 2009. The speaker for the program is Clifton Hutchinson, a partner in the Dallas office of at K&L Gates, where he specializes in complex litigation and scientific...
European Commission Attacks Practices That Prevent Competition From Generic Drugs
Posted on January 28, 2009A December 1, 2008 article that appears at mediLexicon states, in part: The European Commission's 426 page Interim Report on the Pharmaceutical Sector (the "Report") , which was released on 24 November, makes no specific allegations of anticompetitive behaviour against...
Litigating Willful Infringement in the Post-Seagate World
Posted on January 27, 2009Landslide? is the ABA Intellectual Property Section's new magazine forum for discussion of intellectual property issues. It offers analysis, news, and commentary about the law of patents, trademarks, copyright, trade secrets, and related subjects. It also keeps readers current on...
Epson Joins RPX Defensive Patent Aggregation Service
Posted on January 26, 2009The following RPX press release will issue on Wednesday, January 28, 2009: Epson Joins RPX Defensive Patent Aggregation Service Digital Imaging Giant First RPX Member from Japan TOKYO ? January 28, 2008 - RPX Corporation, a defensive patent aggregator, today...
24th Annual Intellectual Property Law Conference - April 1-4, 2009
Posted on January 23, 2009This conference, held in Arlington, Virginia, "is recognized for its national and international scope and preeminent programming. It attracts IP practitioners from across the nation and around the world." "The past year has seen critical developments in IP law...
Renhcol Settles Patent Infringement Lawsuit with Pregame
Posted on January 22, 2009The following is excerpted from a January 22, 2009 General Patent Corporation press release that appears at Business Wire: General Patent Corporation (GPC), a leading patent licensing and patent enforcement firm, announced today on behalf of its client, Renhcol, Inc...
Actavis UK Ltd v Novartis AG
Posted on January 21, 2009Barrister Jane Lambert writes in her 500th post at her NIPC blog: This was a claim by Actavis for the revocation of a Novartis's European patent for a preparation which released fluvastatin (a cholesterol inhibiting drug) gradually rather than in...
U.S. Court of Appeals Affirms ITC Bar on Imports of Infringing Ink Cartridges
Posted on January 20, 2009From today's, January 20, 2009, WebWire: On January 13, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington D.C. affirmed the Final Determination and General Exclusion Order of the U.S. International Trade Commission ("ITC"). A General Exclusion Order...
MedImmune and the Expanded Scope of Declaratory-Judgment Jurisdiction
Posted on January 19, 2009Greg Wesner and Mike Keyes of K&L Gates LLP wrote the above-titled article in the Winter 2009 issue of the ABA's Intellectual Property Litigation newsletter. In their discussion they state that prior to the MedImmune v. Genentech decision the owner...
Intel, Microsoft, HP Sued for Alleged Patent Infringement
Posted on January 16, 2009The following is excerpted from an item by Agam Shah with IDG News Service that appeared today, January 16, 2009, at Computerworld: Xpoint sued IT giants including Intel, Dell, Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft for allegedly infringing on its data recovery patents...
Annual Review of Intellectual Property Law Developments: 2006-2008
Posted on January 15, 2009This new, annual publication from the ABA Section of Intellectual Property Law includes thoughtful and balanced treatment of the key legal developments in the courts, agencies, and legislatures' keeping you current in every area of IP law. The January 2009...
Brooks Consulting LLC Launches New Website
Posted on January 14, 2009Today, January 14, 2009, Brooks Consulting LLC launched a new website. We provide litigation and strategy consulting to small businesses, international conglomerates and law firms of every size. Not just consultants ? we have run businesses. Our goal is to...
Patent Strategies for Foreign R&D Work in China
Posted on January 13, 2009On December 27, 2009, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress passed the amendments to the Patent Act. Tian Junfeng, an attorney with Unitalen Attorneys at Law, analyzed China's Patent Law and Foreign Trade Law and shares some insights...
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