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Philip Brooks’ Patent Infringement Updates

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Apple's Success Brings More Patent Lawsuits

Posted on April 30, 2008
Appearing in the April 28, 2008 issue of EE Times, Thomas Claburn of InformationWeek writes: Apple's rise in sales has been accompanied by an increase in patent infringement lawsuits. During the first four months of 2008, Apple was named as...

Court Denies Hologic Request for Preliminary Injunction Against Sales of Contura

Posted on April 29, 2008
SenoRx, Inc. (Nasdaq:SENO) today [April 29, 2008] announced that a request for a preliminary injunction, filed by Hologic and its wholly-owned subsidiaries, Cytyc Corporation and Cytyc LP in their pending patent infringement suit against SenoRx, Inc., was denied by the...

AAAU Reference Center

Posted on April 29, 2008
The American Arbitration Association has developed guides, Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) documents, and reports to help enhance users' knowledge of alternative dispute resolution in general, and about its application in particular areas or industries...

Former Thomson Scientific Executive Appointed to PatentCafe Top Sales Spot

Posted on April 25, 2008
The following is excerpted from a PatentCafe April 24, 2008 press release I received via email (the Company's website does not yet have the full release available): PatentCafe.com, Inc. is pleased to announce the appointment of David M. Schab as...

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CAT Patent Infringement Suits Could Spread to Others in Prepaid

Posted on April 24, 2008
An April 2008 featured article by Paybefore (an industry resource for prepaid and stored value cards) staff states, in part: Chicago-based Card Activation Technologies, Inc. (CAT) is suing major retailers, including Barnes & Noble, Aeropostale, OfficeMax, TJX Companies, Sears and...

GUEST BLOG: In re Bilski Roll Call

Posted on April 23, 2008
By Charles R. Macedo, Amster Rothstein & Ebenstein LLP, cmacedo@arelaw.com[i] On May 8, 2008, the Federal Circuit will be hearing oral argument in the In re Bilski case on the issue of what is a patent-eligible process. There have been...

Rambus Defeats FTC

Posted on April 22, 2008
A reader provided the following press release issued today, April 22, 2008, by The Voluntary Trade Council, Inc.: The Federal Trade Commission's long-running prosecution of Rambus Inc. [NASDAQ:RMBS] suffered a critical defeat today after a three-judge panel of the U...

Justin Muchoney Gets Dream Job

Posted on April 22, 2008
Congratulations! Justin Muchoney 2008 Disney Parks Chief Magic Official After months of grueling campaigning culminating in a two-day climax of in-Park competitions, Justin Muchoney claims the victory as the Disney Parks Chief Magic Official! Be sure to come back in...

e-Discovery Special Masters

Posted on April 21, 2008
Chere Estrin, CEO of Estrin LegalEd and owner of The Estrin Report blog, wrote on February 11, 2008: I'm telling you, when a field pops, it really pops. Apparently, the increased use of electronic discovery has resulted in a new...

Collecting Evidence of Infringement

Posted on April 18, 2008
In a presentation to the Boston Entrepreneurs' Network on January 3, 2006, Brian T. Moriarty of Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C. made the following observations about patent infringement investigations: Collecting Evidence of Infringement ? Hunches and ?I know it?...

Flip Video Camera Maker Hit with Patent Infringement Lawsuit

Posted on April 17, 2008
Dawn Kawamoto posted the following today, April 17, 2008, at CNET's News Blog: Advanced Video Technologies lobbed a patent infringement lawsuit against Pure Digital Technology, maker of the popular Flip Video cameras, according to a Reuters report. The lawsuit, filed...

UniRAM Wins Bench Trial against TSMC in Inequitable Conduct Counterclaim

Posted on April 16, 2008
The following press release appeared today, April 16, 2008, on PR Newswire: On April 14, 2008, Chief Judge Vaughn Walker of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California issued findings of fact and conclusions of law...

DTL Licenses Key Cell Phone Patent to LG Electronics

Posted on April 16, 2008
The following press release appeared today, April 16, 2008, on Business Wire: General Patent Corporation International (GPCI), a leading patent licensing and enforcement firm, announced today on behalf of its client, Digital Technology Licensing LLC (DTL), that it has licensed...

AstraZeneca PLC Soars on Nexium Drug Patent Settlement

Posted on April 16, 2008
The following press release appeared yesterday, April 15, 2008, on BioSpace: Ranbaxy Pharmaceuticals Inc. (RPI), a wholly owned subsidiary of Ranbaxy Laboratories Limited (RLL), announced today that it has reached several agreements with AstraZeneca. Two of these agreements concern Esomeprazole...

Seagate Sues Chip Maker

Posted on April 15, 2008
Erika Brown reported today, April 15, 2008, at Forbes that: Hard-disk drive industry leader Seagate Technologies filed a suit on Monday against a competitor, STEC, a maker of solid-state drives, alleging patent violations. The move could set an important precedent...

Guidewire Launches "Accenture Behaving Badly"

Posted on April 14, 2008
In a follow-up to my December 20, 2007 post titled, "Accenture Files Patent Suit Against Guidewire," I was contacted this afternoon by a representative of Guidewire. She said that Guidewire has launched a website titled, "Accenture Behaving Badly." Some excerpts...

Markman Hearings and Claim Construction in Patent Litigation 2008

Posted on April 11, 2008
The Practising Law Institute (PLI) is hosting the above titled conference in New York City on July 9, 2008. The conference is also available via live webcast. The conference is chaired by Thomas L. Creel of the Law Office of...

Roche Appeals Preliminary Anemia Drug Injunction

Posted on April 10, 2008
Deena Beasley reporting for Reuters writes today, April 10, 2008: Roche Holding AG filed on Wednesday to appeal a preliminary court injunction barring U.S. sales of its anemia drug Mircera. Rival Amgen Inc, which last year won a patent infringement...

Patent Quality Reports Analyze Patents in Cases Decided by the Federal Circuit

Posted on April 09, 2008
The following is excerpted from an April 8, 2008 PatentCafe press release: Today, patent information provider PatentCafe introduced a new line of patent quality evaluation reports for United States patents in patent infringement litigation cases decided by the Court of...

Amici Curiae Brief for In Re Bilski

Posted on April 08, 2008
Anthony F. Lo Cicero, Charles R. Macedo and Jung Hahm on Friday, April 4, 2008, filed a Brief For Amici Curiae Reserve Management Corporation, PCT Capital LLC, Rearden Capital Corp. And Sales Optimization Group In Support Of Maintaining State Street....

Justin Muchoney Makes Final Three for Disney's Chief Magic Official Contest

Posted on April 07, 2008
As described in my March 4, 2008 post on Disney's Chief Magic Official contest in conjunction with CareerBuilder.com, a good friend, Justin Muchoney, made the final ten. At 12:01 this morning Disney announced after close to 500,000 votes were cast,...

A Unique Approach to Legal Recruiting

Posted on April 04, 2008
For those attorneys who are considering a move, this might be of interest: Firm to Firm is a premier legal search firm that focuses on matching exceptional candidates with elite law firms. Our team of experienced professionals awards the most...

Caraco Pharm Labs v. Forest Labs (Lexapro) CAFC Decision

Posted on April 03, 2008
The following guest post is provided by H. Keeto Sabharwal, IP Litigation Practice Group Leader for Blank Rome LLP, based in Washington, DC: In its 2-1 decision in Caraco Pharm. Labs. v. Forest Labs. yesterday, the CAFC further refined its...

aai Requests FTC Investigation of Rembrandt

Posted on April 02, 2008
A reader alerted me to the "Request for Investigation of Rembrandt, Inc. for Anticompetitive Conduct that Threatens Digital Television Conversion" in a March 26, 2008 Petition to the Federal Trade Commission by the American Antitrust Institute. Some excerpts include: The...

Patent Bending

Posted on April 01, 2008
Bill Heinze of I/P Updates blog reported on August 14, 2006 about "[t]he Discovery Channel Canada's Patent Bending team ... scour[ing of] patents from the past 100 years 'to find the seemingly greatest, strangest or most fantastically odd ideas that....

Managing the Dragon

Posted on March 31, 2008
Dan Fitzpatrick writes in the March 30, 2008 print issue of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Before venturing halfway around the world to become the businessman known as "Mr. China," Jack Perkowski was a North Catholic High School student seen hitching rides...

Be Careful What You Post

Posted on March 28, 2008
A reader brought to my attention today a court Decision and Order in the Document Security Systems, Inc., et al. v. Adler Technologies, Inc., et al. case (U.S. District Court, Western District of New York, Case 03-CV-6044). Judge Michael A....

The Strategic Value of Patent Claim Construction

Posted on March 27, 2008
This IncreMental Advantage seminar will cover all of the pertinent issues regarding claim construction and interpretation: ? The Role of Claim Construction in Patent Preparation ? A Review of the Strategic Utility of Claims ? Evolution of Claim Construction ?...

ITC Investigates Blue Laser Patent Claim

Posted on March 26, 2008
Ian Williams writing for vnunet.com today, 26 Mar 2008: The US International Trade Commission has begun an investigation into certain short-wavelength light emitting diodes and laser diodes following a patent infringement complaint. Gertrude Neumark Rothschild, an emeritus professor at Columbia...

The Federal Circuit Raises The Standard For Willful Infringement And Enhanced Damages

Posted on March 25, 2008
Ali Dhanani writes in the February 2008 Intellectual Property Report (Volume 5, Issue 73) from Baker Botts L.L.P., an article entitled, "In The Wake Of In re Seagate Technology, LLC: The Federal Circuit Raises The Standard For Willful Infringement And...

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