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Philip Brooks’ Patent Infringement Updates

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SumoBrain Now Free

Posted on October 14, 2008
The following is from an October 13, 2008 FreePatentsOnline press release: SumoBrain, launched summer of 2008, offers an alternative to patent search pay services. As a complement to the hugely popular FreePatentsOnline, SumoBrain provides higher account limits and bulk PDF...

Information Research via a ?Discovery Engine?

Posted on October 13, 2008
Mark Johns, President of Littlearth, Inc. wrote to me last week about his company that has "recently developed a technology for finding related/similar documents in large document collections, e.g. patents, wikis, law cases." The following is excerpted from an article...

Tessera Provides Update on ITC Actions and Recent PTO Office Action

Posted on October 10, 2008
The following is excerpted from an October 10, 2008 Tessera press release that appeared at Business Wire: Tessera Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:TSRA), a leading provider of miniaturization technologies for the electronics industry, today provided a status update on certain legal actions...

Protect Your Patent Rights in China

Posted on October 09, 2008
Authors of the March 2007 report entitled, "China?s Guidebook for Pharmaceutical Patent Protection," Wu Yifeng and Labwu Zengxian of Access China, provide information on the legislative climate in China and discuss various aspects of patent rights protection in the country...

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Willfulness Post Seagate

Posted on October 08, 2008
A reader wrote to me asking if I had seen any more recent empirical statistics on willfulness post In re Seagate that updated Judge Kimberly A. Moore's study (see my earlier post). Brian Wm. Higgins wrote the following in a...

Texas Jury Rules Against Candela in Its Patent Infringement Lawsuit

Posted on October 07, 2008
The following is excerpted from an October 7, 2008 Candela press release appearing at BusinessWire: Candela Corporation (NASDAQ: CLZR) today announced the jury in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas ? Lufkin Division ruled in favor...

CSIR Looks to Profit from Patents Stock

Posted on October 06, 2008
The following is excerpted from a livemint.com article by Jacob P. Koshy and K.P. Narayana Kumar: In a significant policy change and an ambitious attempt to monetize its inventory of patents, the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, or CSIR,...

Indian Patent Search in Indian Patent Office Database

Posted on October 03, 2008
Senthil Kumar writes today, October 3, 2008, at his India Patent blog In Indian Patent Office, online patent search facility for both published patent applications and granted patents are available. For granted patents, you will have to click Public search...

Watson Notified of OXYTROL(R) Patent Challenge

Posted on October 02, 2008
The following item is excerpted from an October 1, 2008 press release that appeared at the Sun Herald: Watson Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NYSE: WPI), a leading specialty pharmaceutical company, today confirmed the receipt of a Paragraph IV Certification Notice Letter relating...

Boston Sci To Pay J&J Over $700 Million In Patent Case

Posted on October 01, 2008
Val Brickates Kennedy writing for Fox Business today, October 1, 2008, stated: A U.S. District Court in Delaware has ruled against Boston Scientific Corp. and awarded Johnson & Johnson $407 million in damages and $296 million in pre-judgment interest in...

Don?t Need Quality Patent Information? Think Again?

Posted on September 30, 2008
The following is excerpted from a September 29, 2008 GenericsWeb press release: A recent case heard in the Federal Court of Australia illustrates the need for comprehensive, accurate and regularly updated patent information to ensure that the planned launch of...

Russian IP Laws and Commercialization

Posted on September 29, 2008
The American Bar Association (ABA) Section of International Law and the ABA Center for Continuing Legal Education are sponsoring the above titled teleconference on October 1, 2008. Intellectual property rights and technology transfers are a part of many business investments...

GSK v. Dudas Appellee Brief

Posted on September 26, 2008
The following is excerpted from the September 24, 2008 appellee brief in the Tafas and GSK v. Dudas case: This case concerns rules that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (?PTO?) issued in August 2007. See ?Changes To Practice...

Ruling in Qualcomm-Broadcom Fight Brings Back Opinion Letters for Patent Cases

Posted on September 25, 2008
Zusha Elinson writes on September 25, 2008 for The Recorder at Law.com: Opinion letters are back in vogue for patent cases, after a Wednesday ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Opinion letters from outside counsel...

Section 337 Actions Before the ITC: Latest Forum of Choice for Efficient Resolution

Posted on September 24, 2008
Strafford Publications is hosting a live 90-minute teleconference on October 23, 2008 about pursuing and defending IP litigation before the International Trade Commission. Description The International Trade Commission (ITC) is becoming a preferred forum for litigating intellectual property disputes because...

Confessions of a Non-Recovering Patent Troll Enabler

Posted on September 23, 2008
As a follow-up to my August 15, 2008 post titled, "Venali Wins Summary Judgment Motion Against Catch Curve Over Alleged AudioFax Patent Infringement," Jackie Hutter of the IP Asset Maximizer Blog writes: I came across this TechDirt article: Exposing The...

GEOSPAN's Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against Pictometry Remains Ongoing

Posted on September 22, 2008
The following is excerpted from a GEOSPAN press release issued today, September 22, 2008, at Prudent Press Agency: GEOSPAN Corporation announced today that its patent infringement lawsuit against Pictometry International Corporation of Rochester, NY remains ongoing and is on track...

Active e.Digital Discussion at AGORACOM

Posted on September 19, 2008
A member going by the name, "sunpoop," provided a post on September 17, 2008 at AGORACOM discussing his take on a recent e.Digital shareholder meeting. Much of the discussion, as well as other messages at this forum, focused on the...

TV Giants are Flatliners in Stereo 3-D Patents

Posted on September 18, 2008
Rick Merritt writes in today's, September 18, 2008, EE Times: The world's top television makers appear to hold no significant patents in stereoscopic 3-D despite the fact that some of the largest Hollywood studios want to drive the concept of...

Ohio Experiments With Business-Only Courts

Posted on September 17, 2008
The following is excerpted from a September 17, 2008 editorial of The InterMountain: Beginning next year, two judges in each of five very populous counties in Ohio will become specialists in business cases. Their courts will exist as business-only venues...

Launching the Indian Generic Pharmaceutical Patent Academy

Posted on September 16, 2008
GenericsWeb is thrilled to announce that the Generic Pharmaceutical Patent Academy is travelling to India for two events: - 6th of October '08 at the Taj Krishna, Hyderabad- 8th of October '08 at the Leela Kempinski, Mumbai The Indian Patent...

Detecting Patent Infringement

Posted on September 15, 2008
Peter A. Elyjiw of the Toronto office of Smart & Biggar wrote the above titled article on January 16, 2008. The following is an excerpt from this article: Most people are aware that there is no such thing as a...

Patent Infringement Goes Hollywood

Posted on September 12, 2008
Based on the true story of college professor and part-time inventor Robert Kearns?s (Greg Kinnear) long battle with the U.S. automobile industry, Flash of Genius tells the tale of one man whose fight to receive recognition for his ingenuity would...

Whirlpool and LG Agree to Partial Resolution of Patent Infringement Action

Posted on September 11, 2008
The following is excerpted from a Whirlpool press release issued today, September 11, 2008, at PR Newswire: Whirlpool Corporation (NYSE: WHR) and LG Electronics agreed to a partial resolution of the patent infringement action that Whirlpool brought against LG in...

2007 IP Milestones and Landmark Cases

Posted on September 10, 2008
The 40-minute video seminar from ReedLogic titled, "2007 IP Milestones and Landmark Cases" is led by Frederick Frei of Andrews Kurth LLP and can be downloaded to your computer or iPod, and is sent to you on DVD. This seminar...

Amendment of China Patent Law Quickened

Posted on September 09, 2008
Tuo Yannan reported in yesterday's (September 8, 2008) China Daily: The formal adoption of the National Intellectual Property Strategy has quickened the amendment of the Chinese Patent Law that seeks to enhance IPR protection and to revamp the application process...

Patent Protection Strategies: Maximizing Product Revenues

Posted on September 08, 2008
I just received notice of the above titled book from industrymatter. I thought the content was interesting, although it was actually published over a year ago. In a market environment where competition from generics companies is becoming increasingly aggressive, and...

Docstoc Launches MyDocs and Sync

Posted on September 05, 2008
On September 4, 2008, Docstoc announced its launch of Docstoc MyDocs and Docstoc Sync. Docstoc MyDocs is the best way to store, preview and manage your documents online. With Docstoc MyDocs, you can store ALL your documents privately or publicly...

Monsanto and Pilot Grove Coop Reach Settlement

Posted on September 04, 2008
The following is excerpted from a September 2, 2008 Monsanto press release: Monsanto Company (NYSE: MON) and Pilot Grove Cooperative Elevator, Inc. announced the settlement of a two-year dispute involving patent infringement. Pilot Grove acknowledged violating Monsanto's patented Roundup Ready...

Patents, Search of Prior Art and Revelation of Information

Posted on September 03, 2008
The article, of the above title, submitted for publication in December 2007 by Corinne Langinier and Philippe Marcoul states: This paper examines the strategic non-revelation of information by innovators when applying for patents. In a model of a bilateral search...

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