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Philip Brooks’ Patent Infringement Updates

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By Philip Brooks

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Last Entry: May 24, 2010 at 12:52:16

Pre-litigation Strategies: Patent Reexamination

Posted on January 12, 2009
The following excerpt is from an article by Robert E. Krebs and Hal J. Bohner that originally published in the Spring 2004 edition (Vol. 4, No. 1) of Thelen Reid's Intellectual Property and Trade Regulation Journal: The costs of patent...

Worlds.com Sues NCSoft for Infringing Key Virtual Worlds Patent

Posted on January 09, 2009
The following is excerpted from a General Patent Corporation press release that appeared today, January 9, 2009 at PR-inside: General Patent Corporation (GPC), a leading patent licensing and enforcement firm, announced today that it filed a patent infringement lawsuit against...

IP Holder Injects Itself Into Patent Lawsuit

Posted on January 08, 2009
Zusha Elinson writing on January 6, 2009 for The Recorder states: There are usually two options in patent litigation: fight or settle. But San Francisco's RPX Corp. has thrown a wild card into a case between patent-holding company Acacia Research...

ITC Extends Initial Determination in Tessera DRAM ITC Action

Posted on January 07, 2009
The following is excerpted from a January 6, 2009 Tessera Technologies press release available at Business Wire: Tessera Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: TSRA) announced that the Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) in the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) action brought by Tessera...

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LED Shareholder Derivative Suit Has an IP Twist

Posted on January 06, 2009
Eric Lane of the Green Patent Blog writes on January 4, 2009: This is something I haven?t seen before: a shareholder derivative action for patent infringement. BaoLiang Wang (Plaintiff Wang) is a 22% shareholder of a small California LED sign...

Supreme Court of Canada Redefines Law on Anticipation and Obviousness

Posted on January 05, 2009
Santosh Chari, a patent agent with Blakes, writes on November 20, 2008 at the firm's website: On November 6, 2008, the Supreme Court released its decision in Apotex Inc. v. Sanofi-Synthelabo Canada Inc. The primary issue before the court was...

Bayer's Little Lost Drug Patent

Posted on December 31, 2008
Brian Orelli writes today, December 31, 2008, at The Motley Fool: I wonder whether someone at Bayer just found an old box of patent documents tucked in the corner of an office that hasn't been used in years. The drugmaker...

Willful Infringement after Seagate

Posted on December 30, 2008
Sanford E. Warren Jr. and William Kennedy Jr. of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP write that "[p]atent suits are particularly frightening for defendant companies because patent suits have the potential for astronomical damages." The following is excerpted from...

Frontier Communications Settles Patent Litigation

Posted on December 29, 2008
An Associated Press article appearing today at Forbes describes the license deal that Frontier Communications Corp. has agreed to enter into with Ronald A. Katz Technology Licensing LP related to its interactive voice patents. Read the full article here.

Obviousness in View of KSR According to USPTO

Posted on December 26, 2008
Jean Witz, Training Quality Assurance Specialist with USPTO Technology Center 1600 (biotechnology, chemistry, pharmaceuticals), presents the above-named discussion of obviousness as it relates to life sciences patents. She writes: The Basic Approach to Determining Obviousness Remains the Same An examiner...

Patent Infringement Advice for University Researchers

Posted on December 24, 2008
Robert S. MacWright, Ph.D., Esq., University of Virginia (UVA) Patent Foundation Executive Director; John Breen, Ph.D., Esq., UVA Patent Foundation Senior Patent Counsel; and Rick Kast, Esq., UVA Associate General Counsel and Special Assistant Attorney General offer a presentation titled,...

China Mulls National Security Scrutiny for Patent Applications

Posted on December 23, 2008
The following is excerpted from a December 22, 2008 article appearing at China View: Chinese inventors who wish to apply patents for their innovations in foreign countries must first go through government scrutinies to find out if such innovations should...

Federal Circuit Creates New Test for Business Method Patents

Posted on December 22, 2008
The above titled article by Matthew A. Goldberg appeared in the December Litigation News, a publication of the American Bar Association. He writes, in part: After considerable anticipation by the patent bar, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal....

Intellectual Asset Management Strategies

Posted on December 19, 2008
The Center for Business Intelligence is hosting Intellectual Asset Management Strategies in Baltimore, MD on January 20 - 21, 2009. The conference will focus on Legal, Intellectual Property, Regulatory, Patents, Portfolio, Licensing and Lifecycle issues facing the pharmaceutical and biotechnology...

Apple Sued Over Apple TV

Posted on December 18, 2008
Thomas Claburn reporting today, December 18, 2008, for InformationWeek writes: Apple TV may still be struggling to find a place in the living room, but it will play an important role in an Illinois courtroom in the months ahead. In...

MinSurg, ODC, NuFix and Nutech Announce Settlement of Pending Litigation

Posted on December 17, 2008
The following is excerpted from a press release available at PR Newswire issued today, December 17, 2008, by Orthopedic Development Corporation: minSURG Corporation, along with its parent company, Orthopedic Development Corporation (ODC), and NuFix, Inc...

Evaluating the Risk of Patent Infringement by Means of Semantic Patent Analysis: The Case of DNA Chips

Posted on December 16, 2008
The above titled article by Isumo Bergmann, Daniel Butzke, Lothar Walter, Jens P. Fuerste, Martin G. Moehrle, and Volker Erdmann appeared in the November 2008 issue of R&D Management (Vol. 38, Issue 5, pp. 550-562). The abstract reads: In this...

Intellectual Property Insurance Coverage Essentials

Posted on December 15, 2008
National Constitution Center is hosting the above titled audio conference on January 8, 2009. Effective Intellectual Property Insurance coverage protects businesses from the myriad of copyright, trademark & patent infringement claims that can occur, but not all policies provide adequate...

Judge Issues Rule 11 Sanctions on Camera Infringement Claim

Posted on December 12, 2008
Walter Olson wrote on December 9, 2008 at his Overlawyered blog: ?Frequent patent defendants say they?re hit by frivolous lawsuits all the time. But it?s very rare for a judge to find a patent lawsuit to be frivolous enough to...

In Re: Rosuvastatin Calcium Patent Litigation

Posted on December 11, 2008
On November 24, 2008, Magistrate considers several dismissal motions and recommends that they be granted in part and denied in part In Re: Rosuvastatin Calcium Patent Litigation. The following is a December 3, 2008 post by MorrisJames Delaware at the...

17th Annual Intellectual Property Law and Policy Conference

Posted on December 10, 2008
Fordham Law Intellectual Property Law Institute is presenting the 17th Annual Intellectual Property Law and Policy Conference for the first time outside the U.S. in Cambridge, UK. The conference will be held on April 15 & 16, 2009. The conference...

Valence Technology Prevails in Decision by European Patent Office to Revoke University of Texas Patent

Posted on December 09, 2008
The following is excerpted from a Valence press release issued today, December 9, 2008, at Business Wire: Valence Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: VLNC), an international developer of safe lithium phosphate energy storage solutions, prevailed in today?s decision by the Opposition Board...

Facebook For Patent Trolls

Posted on December 08, 2008
As a follow-up to my previous post on Article One Partners, take a look at what Asher Hawkins writes for Forbes: For each Internet social network effort that thrives, there are dozens that fail to generate any interest from the...

Oral Arguments Completed in PTO v. GSK, Tafas

Posted on December 05, 2008
Gene Quinn of IPWatchdog "attended the oral arguments this morning at the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit regarding the matter of the United States Patent & Trademark Office v. Tafas, the appeal of the claims and...

European Patent Case Law

Posted on December 05, 2008
Check out the European Patent Case Law blog that covers news of patent law in France and Europe and case law of the EPO. The site is in French, but links to German and English translations are available. The following...

OPTi v. Apple Claim Construction Order

Posted on December 04, 2008
Counsel for the plaintiff in the OPTi Inc. v. Apple, Inc. case mentioned in my Tuesday post filed the following yesterday, December 3, 2008: Per this Court?s November 26, 2008 oral decision after hearing argument on all claim construction issues,...

Samsung Among Top Patent Holders in Solar

Posted on December 03, 2008
Rick Merritt writing today, December 3, 2008, for EE Times discusses a recently issued report: Canon, TSMC and Samsung are among the largest patent holders in solar photovoltaic panels, although they have no products in the field today. By contrast,....

Opti Inc. v. Apple Computer Markman Hearing

Posted on December 02, 2008
A reader wrote to me inquiring on where they might locate information on the November 26, 2008 Markman hearing in the Eastern District of Texas between Opti Inc. and Apple Computer Inc. In the process of pointing him to Michael...

Patent Buddy to Research Patent Attorneys and Agents

Posted on December 01, 2008
Joseph G. Scott, President of Patent Buddy, alerted me to his site as a "great place to research USPTO-registered attorneys, agents & their organizations." As of today, this covers a universe of 39,259 attorneys/agents and 13,081 organizations. Patent Buddy offers...

M·CAM, Inc. Launches Patently Obvious® IP Assertion Defense Service

Posted on November 26, 2008
Charlottesville, Virginia ? November 17, 2008??Today, M·CAM, Inc. announced the Patently Obvious® assertion defense service, a rapid and cost-effective solution empowering companies to defend against patent assertions. The price range of Patently Obvious® is about 1-2% of the average IP...

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