Intellectual Property Law

Headlines Across the Blawgosphere
Headlines across the blawgosphere this morning: Sixth Circuit Notes Split Re Whether 18 U.S.C. whether § 3583(i) Nevertheless Contains an Implicit Sworn-Facts Requirement - Split Circuits Ribstein on Unincorporated Firms - TRUTH ON THE MARKET Merged law firms take on name Husch Blackwell Sanders LLP - Show Me Blawgs Rep...

LSI Multilateral Patents Workshop
By Donald Zuhn -- Law Seminars International (LSI) will be holding a workshop on Successfully Drafting Multilateral Patents on June 23, 2008 in San Francisco, CA. The workshop will provide information on: ? Successful international patent preparation and prosecution...

What might have been in patent reform
In a post titled --Patent reforms can shift research --, one has the text:Congress has a unique opportunity to help the millions of Americans afflicted by neglected diseases. The Patent Reform Act, now being considered in the Senate, could rework the national patent system to encourage breakthrough treatments for many chronic conditions that too often go unaddressed by drug makers...

FASB Standard 5, cont'd
We've added several new links to our Monday post on this proposal (which would require much broader accounting disclosures than now as to how companies are being sued and might be sued in the future, and what the cases might...

Patent Refom: Unsettling Rights
By Dennis Crouch There have been numerous reports calling the US Patent System broken or at least in need of severe repair. From my view, the greatest problems with US patent law arise because of its common lack of clearly drawn property lines...

Killing the Crap Shoot
Over a third of patent cases are reversed and remanded on appeal. Faulty claim construction is the reason half the time. As it is, district court trial resembles a $3-$5 million roll of the dice...

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.

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

Sony
to Pay $18.5 Million For Patent Infringment

Qualcomm Settles Patent Suit for $891 Million

The Princeton Review
$2.6 million settlement reached in patent infringement case.