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Philip Brooks’ Patent Infringement Updates

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General Patent Corporation Settles Patent Infringement Lawsuit with Audiovox

Posted on December 16, 2009
The following is excerpted from a December 14, 2009 GPC press release: General Patent Corporation (GPC), a leading patent licensing and enforcement firm, announced today on behalf of its client, Advanced Video Technologies LLC (AVT), that it settled a patent...

Rule 11 in Australia

Posted on December 15, 2009
The following is excerpted from a December 3, 2009 article by Grant Fisher and Kellech Smith titled, "Indemnity costs awarded in unjustified threats of a patent infringement proceeding" from IP @ Blake Dawson: The Federal Court of Australia recently determined...

Federal Circuit Expands Declaratory Judgment Jurisdiction

Posted on December 14, 2009
The following is excerpted from a December 14, 2009 Morgan Lewis Intellectual Property Lawflash: On December 4, the Federal Circuit issued an opinion that could make it considerably easier for companies faced with implied threats from patent licensing entities to...

Apple Countersues Nokia

Posted on December 11, 2009
The following is excerpted from a December 11, 2009 Apple press release published at PR Newswire: Responding to a lawsuit brought against the company by Nokia, Apple® today filed a countersuit claiming that Nokia is infringing 13 Apple patents. "Other...

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New ITC Cases Target Televisions, BlackBerries, Semiconductors

Posted on December 11, 2009
The following is excerpted from a December 4, 2009 post by Jenna Greene, Senior Reporter, at the BLT (Blog of LegalTimes): It's been a busy week at the International Trade Commission, with four new, high-stakes intellectual property complaints filed in...

Patent Protection For Sale

Posted on December 10, 2009
The following is excerpted from a December 10, 2009 article by Lee Gomes of Forbes Magazine: It's hardly surprising that many companies would rather pay to settle a patent claim than risk the exposure and expense of a trial. So...

Perrigo Confirms Filing for Generic Version of Clobex(R) Spray and Announcement of Lawsuit

Posted on December 09, 2009
The following is excerpted from a December 9, 2009 Perrigo press release published at PR Newswire: Perrigo Company (Nasdaq: PRGO; TASE) today announced that it has filed an Abbreviated New Drug Application for Clobetasol Propionate Topical Spray, 0.05%, a generic...

Europe Moves Toward European Patents and European Patent Court

Posted on December 08, 2009
The following is excerpted from a post by Dennis Crouch at his PatentlyO blog: The European Union (EU) is working toward a major reform of its patent laws that would create a European Patent and a European Patent Court for...

Pay-For-Delay Agreements Again Show How Pharma Abuses Patent Law To Harm Us All

Posted on December 07, 2009
The following is excerpted from a December 7, 2009 post by Mike Masnick at Techdirt: We've discussed in the past how pharmaceutical patents actually tend to slow down the development of better healthcare solutions, and earlier this year, we mentioned...

Cephalon Files Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against Teva Pharmaceuticals

Posted on December 03, 2009
The following is from a December 3, 2009 Datamonitor Financial Deals Tracker item via COMTEX: Cephalon, Inc. has filed a lawsuit in the US District Court in Delaware against Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc., a subsidiary of Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, Ltd...

The State of Patent Damages Law After Lucent v. Gateway

Posted on December 02, 2009
On December 16, 2009, the Section of Intellectual Property Law of the ABA presents the above-titled Teleconference & Live Audio Webcast. The Federal Circuit's recent decision in Lucent Technologies Inc. v. Gateway Inc. has put the patent damages reform debate...

General Patent Settles Lawsuit with HID Global over Smart Cards Patents

Posted on November 30, 2009
The following is excerpted from a November 30, 2009 General Patent press release: General Patent Corporation (GPC), a leading patent licensing and enforcement firm, announced today on behalf of its client, Leighton Technologies LLC, that it has settled all pending...

OraSure Technologies Announces Settlement of Patent Infringement Lawsuit

Posted on November 20, 2009
The following is excerpted from an OraSure press release published by GlobeNewswire on November 19, 2009 and available at The Wall Street Journal's Market Watch: OraSure Technologies, Inc. (OSUR) today announced the settlement of the patent infringement lawsuit filed against...

Athena Diagnostics Files Patent Infringement Suit Against Ambry Genetics

Posted on November 19, 2009
The following item was posted on November 19, 2009 by MassDevice staff: The Worcester, Mass.-based Thermo Fisher Scientific subsidiary accuses Ambry Genetics Corp. of violating one of its diabetes test patents. Athena Diagnostics Inc. accused a California-based molecular biology firm...

A123 Systems Seeks to Recharge Battery Again

Posted on November 18, 2009
The following is excerpted from the "Defendants? Third Unopposed Motion for Extension of Time to Respond to Plaintiffs? Motion for Leave to File Second Amended Complaint" filed on November 16, 2009 in the Hydro-Quebec v. A123 Systems case: Defendants A123...

Intellectual Property Issues in Business Transactions 2010

Posted on November 17, 2009
Practising Law Institute is hosting the above-titled seminar on January 21 - 22, 2010 at the PLI New York Center-New York, NY (with a follow-up seminar/live webcast on February 23 - 24, 2010 in San Francisco). The series is chaired...

Convergence Technologies Files Lawsuit Against Hewlett-Packard, Sapphire and Microloops

Posted on November 16, 2009
The following is excerpted from a November 16, 2009 Convergence press release published at PRNewswire-Asia: Convergence Technologies (USA) LLC, of Reston Virginia, today announces that it has filed a lawsuit (Docket No. 1:09cv1256) in the Eastern District of Virginia against...

ITC Issues Final Determination in FormFactor's Wafer Probe Card ITC Action

Posted on November 13, 2009
The following is excerpted from a November 13, 2009 FormFactor press releaseavailable at Marketwire: FormFactor, Inc. (NASDAQ: FORM) announced today The International Trade Commission (ITC) issued a final determination in the investigation of probe card manufacturers Phicom Corporation and Micronics...

Patentable Subject Matter After the Bilski Oral Argument

Posted on November 12, 2009
A Telecast by the Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property, Washington College of Law, American University and the Federal Circuit Bar Association will take place on November 19, 2009, 4:30-6:30 pm at Washington College of Law, Room 603...

ACLU's Chris Hansen Discusses Biotech Patent Ruling

Posted on November 11, 2009
The following is excerpted from a November 11, 2009 post at the Bulletproof Blog drawn from a recent interview with Chris Hansen, staff attorney with the ACLU First Amendment Working Group. In the interview, Mr. Hansen discusses the impact of...

Tessera Technologies Provides Update on Legal Actions

Posted on November 10, 2009
The following is excerpted from a November 2, 2009 Business Wire item found at Trading Markets: On Oct. 30, 2009, the International Trade Commission (ITC) announced that it will review portions of the Initial Determination by the Administrative Law Judge...

TSMC vs. SMIC Ends with $200M Settlement

Posted on November 09, 2009
The following is excerpted from a November 9, 2009 Semiconductor International article by David Lammers: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (TSMC, Hsinchu, Taiwan) settled its trade secrets lawsuit with Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp...

India Angered by Generic Drug Seizure

Posted on November 06, 2009
The following is excerpted from a November 4, 2009 article at the Bangkok Post: India accused the European Union Wednesday of violating WTO norms by confiscating generic drugs made by Indian pharmaceutical companies, a report said. The latest incident, which...

TSMC Court Win a Major Blow to China's Biggest Chip Maker

Posted on November 05, 2009
The following is excerpted from a November 5, 2009 article by Dan Nystedt at Computerworld: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSMC) has won a major victory over China's biggest chip maker in a court case that could have wide ranging implications for...

Complex Patent Suits: The Use of Special Masters for Claim Construction

Posted on November 04, 2009
The following is excerpted from the above-titled article by Neil A. Smith (partner with Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP) from the September/October 2009 print edition of the American Bar Association's Section of Intellectual Property Law's Landslide: When a complex...

Secret Details of Litigation Financing Deal

Posted on November 03, 2009
The following is excerpted from a November, 3, 2009 article by Alison Frankel at The Am Law Litigation Daily: One of the frustrations of reporting on the rise of third-party litigation financing funds...is the secrecy surrounding the practice. For the...

Bilski Case's Pittsburgh Connection

Posted on November 02, 2009
From an article by Anya Litvak in the October 30, 2009 print edition of the Pittsburgh Business Times: On Nov. 9, the U.S. Supreme Court will decide if a Pittsburgh company?s idea to protect consumers against energy price and volume...

Recommendation 45 of the WIPO Development Agenda and IP Enforcement

Posted on October 30, 2009
Mr. Sisule F. Musungu, President, IQsensato, Geneva prepared a document titled, "The Contribution of, and Costs to Right Holders in Enforcement, Taking into Account Recommendation 45 of the WIPO Development Agenda." The report was published on September 28, 2009 for...

LexisNexis Semantic Search Patent Research

Posted on October 29, 2009
The following is excerpted from an October 12, 2009 post by Thomas J. Colson at the Securing Innovation blog: LexisNexis, a leading global provider of content-enabled workflow solutions, today announced the availability of transparent semantic search technology for its full...

A123 in Talks to Settle Lithium Battery Patent Fight

Posted on September 30, 2009
The following is excerpted from a September 24, 2009 Bloomberg article by Susan Decker and Alan Ohnsman: A123 Systems Inc., a maker of lithium batteries for plug-in cars that first sold stock today, is in talks to end a patent...

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