Intellectual Property Law

Study: Patent Litigation Protects Holders
Patent litigation is picking up. We knew that, of course, but PricewaterhouseCoopers provides the numbers to back it up in its 2008 patent litigation study. (Full report in PDF.) And with that growth in litigation has come a corresponding increase...

Patent Trolls Statistics, will Europe escape the trolls
IP Down Under at http://ipdownunder.com/patent-trolls-statistics-will-europe-escape-the-trolls-187/.IPEG: Patent Troll Tracker tracks patent litigation. Read their year end?s “rundown on some numbers concerning patent litigation“...

PLI Patent Litigation 2008
Practising Law Institute (PLI) will be holding five sessions of its Patent Litigation 2008 seminar this fall in San Francisco (September 22-23), McLean, VA (October 6-7), Chicago (October 23-24), Atlanta (November 10-11), and New York (November 17-18)...

TexasBarCLE Advanced Patent Litigation Course - Day 1
This week my travels in the wonderful world of patent litigation take me to Carlsbad, California (just north of San Diego) where this morning I participated in the opening seminar of the 4th annual TexasBarCLE Advanced Patent Litigation Course...

Patent Litigation
Practising Law Institute (PLI) is hosting "Patent Litigation 2008" in San Francisco (with live webcast) on September 22-23, 2008. The program will also take place in Northern Virginia, Chicago, Atlanta and New York City with October and November dates...

Litigation management Part III -- intellectual property litigation costs
So many posts on Law Department Management have had something to say about the costliness of patent litigation that I decided to corral them here (See my post of March 10, 2005: IP litigation costs; March 29, 2005: patent litigation...

Mesothelioma Law Suit
Asbestos Exposure

Zantac Patent
GlaxoSmithKline and Cypress Pharmaceutical settle patent infringement dispute.

Soliris Patent
Alexion Pharmaceuticals Inc. agrees to pay the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation a $10 million patent infringement settlement.

$189 Million Settlement Reached in Slab Litigation
$189 Million Settlement Reached in Slab Litigation

Breakthrough Settlement Reached In Chinese Drywall Litigation
Chinese Drywall Litigation Breakthrough Settlement Reached

DRAM Patent
ProMOS Technologies and Mosel Vitelic pay MOSAID Technologies an undisclosed patent infringement settlement.

Sony
to Pay $18.5 Million For Patent Infringment