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13 May 8:00 pm
... Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the Public Patent Foundation (PUBPAT), and a whole host of
others have filed a lawsuit challenging patents on two human genes associated ... compound requires that the inventor be able to define it so as to distinguish it from other
materials, and to describe how to obtain it. Amgen Inc. v. Chugai Pharmaceutical Co. and Genetics Institute, ... state hidden among a million other base pairs in the genetic
code. One patent for example, U.S. Pat. No. 5,747,282, claims "[a]n ...
2 Nov, 2006 12:55 pm
Here you go, straight from the Public Patent Foundation's press release: Forgent Networks has
stopped asserting its patent against JPEG, has dropped all its pending cases that ... for the electronic sharing of photo-quality images. In
its filing, PUBPAT submitted previously unseen prior art showing that the patent, which was issued in 1987 to Forgent's subsidiary Compression
Labs Inc., was not new and, as such, should be revoked. The PTO granted PUBPAT's request in February 2006 and rejected the ...
7 May, 2007 4:37 am
... Court jolted the American patent system. The case, KSR International Co. v. Teleflex Inc., dealt with the placement of an electronic
sensor in an accelerator that could be adjusted according to a driver's height - not in itself a matter of national concern. ... , much that seemed settled law may be up for grabs. […]
[…] According to Dan Ravicher, patent attorney and founder of the Public Patent Foundation, such concerns are overblown. Difficulties with subjectivity, he points out, are hardly unique ...
10 Feb 7:38 am
... -defendant on the Section 1 restraint-of-trade claim. Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc. v. Abbott Laboratories, Inc., __ F.3d __, 2009 WL ... both monopolized
and attempted to monopolize the terazosin market by fraudulently obtaining an invalid patent for purposes of delaying generic entry and filing
sham lawsuits in violation of Section ... 2d 1577 (Fed. Cir. 1986), in its application for the '207 patent. The attorney who argued before the
PTO that two prior public sales of Form IV terazosin should not ...
17 Feb 11:45 am
... -defendant on the Section 1 restraint-of-trade claim. Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc. v. Abbott Laboratories, Inc., __ F.3d __, 2009 WL ... both monopolized
and attempted to monopolize the terazosin market by fraudulently obtaining an invalid patent for purposes of delaying generic entry and filing
sham lawsuits in violation of Section ... 2d 1577 (Fed. Cir. 1986), in its application for the '207 patent. The attorney who argued before the
PTO that two prior public sales of Form IV terazosin should not ...
26 Mar 9:04 am
... While one of the named plaintiffs here is a charity organization--the Tobin family foundation--the "et al." represents a very-much-for-profit holding company: Commerce
Technology Licensing ... Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik, the New Jersey IP boutique that prosecutes his patents. TomTom Tells Microsoft Where to Go TomTom Global Assets B.V.
v ... s East Texas lawsuit. GraphOn, a public company (OCTBB: GOJO.OB) got its patents when it acquired Network Engineering Software,
Inc. (NES) in 2005. And, says ...
8 Oct, 2008 4:00 pm
... ," said EFF Senior Intellectual Property Attorney Michael Kwun. "Patenting technology that has already been publicly disclosed and widely adopted opens the door to
lawsuits ... new products in good faith." In fact, Seer Systems has already sued Beatnik, Inc., a company creating music software for mobile devices. Beatnik and Seer later ...
Busting Project: http://www.eff.org/patent/ Contacts: Michael Kwun Senior Intellectual Property Attorney Electronic Frontier Foundation
michael@eff.org Paul Grewal ...
9 Dec, 2008 7:03 am
... this effort, OIN is ready to announce the following program: The launch of a defensive publication program, with New York Law School and the Linux Foundation, to
reduce the number of patents that threaten Linux and open-source development by making prior art ... economy. ***Separately--> Michael Sullivan's IPLawOutline. Note, for
example, in discussing Medegen MMS, Inc. v. ICU Medical, Inc., the outline alludes to Liebel-Flarscheim: However, if the dissenting Judge Walker is correct based on the
...
20 Oct, 2007 7:34 am
... US not recognizing undocumented traditional knowledge or ancient remedies as "prior art" within the meaning of the Patent Act. The loophole
is the foundation for "biopiracy": a derogatory term for companies from the developed world that purport to "claim ownership of, ... and subject matter freely given should be
encumbered by a grant of royalties based on information in the (limited) public domain. The Rio Treaty has placed the burden on countries to
determine how they will exercise their property ...
13 May 6:31 am
... learn from the practices and observations of others. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC), who recently completed a whirlwind tour of public
hearings in California and Washington DC has now begun publishing transcripts of these meetings and has ... ) Panelist Presentations • Iain M. Cockburn, Licensing: a view from the
trenches (Selected findings from the LES Foundation Surveys) • Stuart Graham, Patents and Technology Markets: How is the market operating, and can it be improved? • James
E. Malackowski ...
18 Jun, 2007 6:45 am
CSIRO v. Buffalo Technology, Inc., E.D. Tex. (6:06-CV-324), June 15, 2007 CSIRO is the principal scientific research organization of the Australian ... public at large. CSIRO is similar to the United States' National Science Foundation and National Institute of Health. On January 23, 1996 CSIRO was
granted U.S. Patent ... stating that formal research institutions may avail themselves of injunctive relief when their patents are
infringed. Irreparable Harm to CSIRO Relying on the TiVo, Paice and Visto cases ...
8 Nov, 2007 5:34 am
... nor is the applicant reaching out for a broad incorporation of background technology from unspecified parts of unrelated publications. Here, the applicant simply invoked the
expedient of incorporating a prior disclosure in a chain of applications on the same ... the reliable use of this expedient, lest an earlier patent become an invalidating reference against its successors in the chain of filings. The majority's rejection of the factual foundations of
incorporation by reference and creation of a ...
18 Jun, 2007 11:45 am
... . It conducts scientific research and applies the efforts of that research to benefit the public at large, somewhat like the U.S. National
Science Foundation or National Institute of Health. In this opinion, Judge Davis determined that the injunction ... CSIRO was not a competitor of Buffalo's in the relevant market
- it simply wished to license the technology embodied in the patent in order to fund addition research activities. Judge Davis' holding that
research institutions may obtain injunctive ...
19 Jul, 2008 8:49 pm
... more complete discussion, please note that the "notice of appeal" pertains ONLY to the third WARF patent, US 7,029,913. There is no
challenge on appeal to the other two. ... a bit of a "house divided" component to the argument that WARF does not have corresponding patents outside the U.S. If people OUTSIDE of
the U.S. are NOT impeded by ... , which represents Consumer WatchDog (formerly FTCR), is located in New York (The Public Patent Foundation, Inc., 1375 Broadway, Suite 600, New York, New York 10018 ...
20 Dec, 2008 3:00 am
... coming ten months (Hal Wegner) Public Knowledge, Center for Democracy and Technology, Knowledge Ecology International, Public Patent Foundation and library community representatives ... decision, first merits appeal to the
court(?): Cameron Int'l Corp v Patent of SAFOCO (Hal Wegner) Fatal failure to update trial court on change in the law ... dance theatre and
charitable services: Ballet Tech Foundation, Inc v The Joyce Theatre Foundation, Inc (TTABlog) TTAB dismisses 'Sopranos' opposition: HBO neglects ...
25 Jan, 2008 1:00 am
... request: Government finds prior art submitted by the Foundation invalidates all of Gilead Sciences' claims: (Public Patent Foundation), (Generic Pharmaceuticals & IP), (GenericsWeb), (IP ... Part 1 - TTABlog), (Part 2 - TTABlog), 2007 top US patent assignees from ISIClaims: (Patent Librarian's Notebook), Northern District's 2007 trade ... providers, Big
River Telephone Co., Broadvox Holdings LLC, NuVox Communications Inc. and Paetec Communications: (IP Law360), Synergetic - Eye surgery equipment maker ...
1 Feb, 2008 12:00 am
... Property Watch), (Generic Pharmaceuticals & IP), Mevalotin (Pravastatin) - Teva files patent lawsuit against Kyowa Hakko Kogyo with
Tokyo District Court in relation to a cholesterol ... rejects Gilead's HIV/AIDS drug patents in response to prior art submitted by the Public Patent Foundation: (IPBiz), (Patent Circle), (Spicy IP),
Zantac (Ranitidine ... serves and finds specimen of use acceptable: In re ICE Futures US, Inc: (TTABlog), (IP Updates), Mesmerized by fame of "VANITY FAIR" mark, TTAB sustains
...
27 Jan, 2007 6:56 am
... that these claims of big financial windfalls to the state were ludicrous," said Jennifer Washburn, author of the book University, Inc.: The Corporate Corruption of American
Higher Education. Stem cell research is still in the very basic research stage, she said, ... the first to do human embryonic stem cell research," said Dan Ravicher, of the
Public Patent Foundation. "They were just the first to run to the patent office and try to get such a broad patent." The nonprofit Public
Patent Foundation, ...
24 Aug 7:01 am
... in Review at the Subscribe page: [duncanbucknell.com] Highlights this week included: US CAFC affirms that patent ownership (and standing)
can vest through operation of law: Sky Technologies v ... concerning 3G mobile handsets (ITC 337 Law Blog) Juniper - Public Patent Foundation files amicus brief supporting Juniper's false marking claim in ... mark SUN-LAND for 'raisins, dried fruits, preserved fruits': In re
Sunland Inc (not precedential) (TTABlog) TTAB finds WOW PRINTABLE COUPONS confusingly similar ...
8 Jul 7:04 am
... Infosint relating to the manufacture process used for Citalopram (Patent Docs) Citrucel (Methyl cellulose) - US: Public Patent Foundation files patent marking suit against
Gloxosmithkline over ... pay $1.67 billion to Centocor because Humira found to infringe US Patent No 7,070,775; hearing set on inequitable
conduct claims (The Prior ... - Canada: FC rejects request for generic Viagra, expresses discomfort over construction of patented compounds: Pfizer Canada Inc v Novopharm
Limited (Global IP Watch)
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