IP Think Tank Global Week in Review – 18 April 2008
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Highlights this week included:
- Ranbaxy and AstraZeneca reach agreement in Esomeprazole patent litigation: (SmartBrief), (IPBiz), (Spicy IP), (Profitability through Simplicity), (IP Law360), (Philip Brooks), (GenericsWeb),
- Cadbury loses Australian battle over exclusive use of colour purple for chocolate wrapping in its case against Darrell Lea: (Australian Trade Marks Law Blog), (IP Down Under), (IPKat), (IPwar’s),
- Adidas’ three stripes design gets ECJ approval in adidas v H & M: (Counterfeit Chic), (Afro-IP), (Catch Us If You Can!!!), (IMPACT),
- USPTO launches First Action Interview Pilot Program: (IP Law360), (Peter Zura’s 271 Patent Blog), (Patent Baristas), (Patently-O), (Patent Docs), (IP Spotlight), (Anticipate This!),
Global
Global – General
- Candidates for post of WIPO Director General present their platforms: (WIPO),
- IP is not a thing: (Dilanchian),
- FOSS adoption and consumer welfare: (IPcentral)
Global – Trade Marks / Domain Names / Brands
- Manufacturers becoming brand licensing companies: (IP ThinkTank),
- Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement moves forward: (Michael Geist)
Global – Patents
- Office Open XML voted to become official standard, so out of Microsoft’s hands: (Ars Technica),
- Google’s KML map markup language now an official standard: (Ars Technica),
- Application patents don’t apply – new uses of existing technologies: (Intellectual Property Directions),
- US and Japanese patentees stand to gain London Agreement bonus: (IAM)
Global – Copyright
- Hyperlinks as original multimedia – can you help?: (IPKat),
- Tactical response to infringers – copy them?: RealNetworks, Mattel and Hasbro copy the infringer by creating online Scrabble: (IP ThinkTank),
- Creative Commons Statement of Intent for Attribution-Share Alike Licenses released: (creativecommons.org)
Events
- IP Business Congress – 25-26 June, Amsterdam: (IP Business Congress),
- INTA annual meeting – 17-21 May, Berlin: (IMPACT),
- Australia: IPRIA / CELRL / IP Australia: Employees’ IP and the employment relationship – incentives to innovate – 23 April, Melbourne: (IP Down Under),
- Australia: Open access and research conference – 24-25 September, Brisbane: (opencontentlawyer.com),
- China: Ministry of Culture Shanghai: IPR Awareness Week – 20-26 April: (Lehman, Lee & Xu),
- EU: Informa Life Sciences: EU pharmaceutical law forum – 8-9 May, Brussels: (Orange Book Blog),
- US: On Copyright 2008 – 1 May, New York: (Public Knowledge),
- US: PLI conference: Markman hearings and claim construction in patent litigation 2008 – 9 July, New York: (Philip Brooks),
- US: PTO webcast regarding Public PAIR and data-mining requests – 30 April: (Patent Docs), (PLI), (Patent Prospector),
- US: Law Seminars International: Patent Claim Construction – 25 April, Atlanta: (PLI)
- US: American Conference Institute: Pharma/Biotech collaborative agreements – 30 April – 1 May, San Francisco: (PLI),
- US CAFC: The Federal Circuit: a national court of appeals: addressing new challenges – 15 May, Washington: (PLI),
- US: Worldwide Business Research: PharmaBiotech IP Summit – 28-30 May, Philadelphia: (PLI),
- US: PLI: Prior art & obviousness 2008: The PTO and CAFC perspective on patent law sections 102 & 103 – 16 June, San Francisco: (PLI),
- US: BIO: BIO International Convention – 17-20 June, San Diego: (PLI),
- US: Law Seminars International: Multilateral patents – 23 June, San Francisco: (PLI)
Pharma & Biotech
Pharma & Biotech – General
- Innovative partnership to create another patent-free malaria drug: (Intellectual Property Watch),
- Argentina: Inconsistencies in the protection of scientific data – pharmaceuticals and agrochemicals: (International Law Office),
- India / Uganda: CIPLA, LDCs and parallel importation: interesting times ahead?: (Spicy IP),
- India: OPPI recommends timeframe for pre-grant opposition: (Spicy IP),
- India: Jatropha patents (agri-biotech): (Spicy IP),
- India & US: Stem cell patents: (Spicy IP),
- Kenya: GSK presses Kenya to crack down on imports of fake medicines: (Afro-IP),
- Nigeria: Interview with Director General of NAFDAC – Cracking down on counterfeit drugs: (Afro-IP),
- EU: No link between parallel trade and reduction in R&D, says AG in Sot. Lélos Kai Sia EE (and Others) v GlaxoSmithKline AEVE: (IPKat),
- US: Bio commends Sen Specter for patent reform stance: (Patent Docs),
- US: USPTO rules on two of four neural stem cell patents in dispute between StemCells Inc and Neuralstem Inc; parties disagree on how extensively claims amended: (IP Law360), (IPBiz),
- US: Insmed continues fight for generic biologic approval: (GenericsWeb),
Pharma & Biotech – Products
- Cipralex (Escitalopram) – Lundbeck wins appellate ruling on Cipralex patent; Biogen test for patent insufficiency revisited by UK Court of Appeal in Generics (UK) Limited v Lundbeck A/S: (IPEG), (IP Law360), (Therapeutics Daily), (Hal Wegner),
- Mircera (Methoxy polyethylene glycol-epoetin beta) – Roche appeals ban on its sales of Mircera in its patent dispute with Amgen: (Patent Docs), (Patent Docs),
- Nexium (Esomeprazole) – Ranbaxy and AstraZeneca reach agreement in Esomeprazole patent litigation: (SmartBrief), (IPBiz), (Spicy IP), (Profitability through Simplicity), (IP Law360), (Philip Brooks), (GenericsWeb),
- Olux (Clobetasol propionate) – Agis fails to have Connetics’ patent infringement suit over Agis’ ANDA for generic Olux dismissed: (IP Law360),
- Pepcid (Famotide) – US Federal Circuit affirms invalidity of Johnson & Johnson and Merck & Co’s Pepcid patent: (IP Law360), (GenericsWeb),
- Risperdal (Risperidone) – Teva wins Risperdal Orange Book patent listing case; an appeal appears likely: (FDA Law Blog), (IP Law360), (IP Factor),
- Solodyn (Minocycline) – California federal court dismisses Impax Lab’s case against Medicis Pharma for failing to show an immediate controversy regarding Solodyn patent: (IP Law360),
- Tarceva (Erlotinib) – Roche appeals Delhi High Court decision not to restrain Cipla from selling generic version of Tarceva: (Spicy IP),
- Topomax (Topiramate) – Ortho-McNeil keeps exclusivity on topiramate after district court blocks Mylan Labs from infringing their patent; court pulls ‘or’ out of ‘and’ in Ortho-McNeil’s patent: (Patent Baristas),
- Xyzal (Levocetirizine) – UCB SA and Sepracor sue Synthon over ANDA for generic version of Xyzal: (IP Law360)
Africa
- Transfer pricing focus study by Ernst & Young: (Afro-IP),
- Kora All Africa Music Awards to promote copyright values: (Afro-IP),
- IP Kenya – new blog: (BLOG@IP::JUR),
- Kenya: Government to apply for KIKOY as UK trade mark: (IP Kenya),
- Nigeria: £350million owed for ‘looted’ cultural artifacts: (IP finance), (Innovationpartners),
- São Tomé and Príncipe sign up for PCT: (Afro-IP),
- South Africa: Copyright review: (Afro-IP),
- South Africa counterfeit raids: Charges for ringleaders, warnings for the small fry: (Afro-IP),
- South Africa: Prof B Rutherford’s article ‘Limiting the trade mark monopoly: the nature of infringing use’: (Afro-IP),
- Tanzania: Dar es Salaam protestors object to Chinese fakes: (Afro-IP), (IP Dragon)
Australia
- Telstra settles with ACCC over Trading Post ‘sponsored links’: (IPwar’s),
- IP Australia adopts ‘Reconciliation Action Plan’ to promote respect for creativity and innovation of Indigenous Australians: (IP Down Under), (IPwar’s),
- Judgment handed down in Elwood Clothing Pty Ltd v Cotton On Clothing Pty Ltd concerning copyright entitlement in computer design drawings: (IP Down Under),
- R&D for commercial business: Managing your IP: (IP Down Under),
- Does size count? Protecting computer programs under the Copyright Act: Dais Studios v Bullet Creative: (IP Down Under),
- Assessing copyright risk in new classroom technologies: (IP Down Under),
- Cadbury loses battle over exclusive use of colour purple for chocolate wrapping in its case against Darrell Lea: (Australian Trade Marks Law Blog), (IP Down Under), (IPKat), (IPwar’s),
- Employee or independent contractor? – ownership of IP: (Dilanchian),
- Consultant or contractor IP: (Dilanchian),
- IP and general business law issues: Website terms of use reduce risk: (Dilanchian),
- Plant breeder’s rights actions in the Federal Court will now be regarded as IP cases for the purpose of docket allocation: (IPwar’s),
- Ajinomoto v NutraSweet – inventive step and costs: (IPRoo),
- Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft 2020 submission: (LawFont.com)
Austria
- Trade mark statistics and top brands and registrants of 2007: (Class 46)
Bulgaria
- Bulgarian Patent Office, Customs Agency and Economic Police coordinates move against infringers: (Class 46)
Canada
- TSX, Canada’s largest stock exchange operator, settles suit against Canadian Trading and Quotation System over illegal use of TSX’ trading system specifications: (IP Law360),
- Trade marks and metatags: BCAA et al v Office and Professional Employees’ Int. Union et al: (ipblog.ca),
- Identical or similar names don’t necessarily mean there is infringement: Octeau et al v Kempter Marketing Inc: (Canadian Trademark Blog),
- A history of open access in Canada: (Michael Geist),
- .ca domain name registrations reach 1 million milestone: (Canadian Trademark Blog), (Michael Geist),
- Developing Canada’s IP agenda: (Michael Geist)
China
- Supreme Court of Beijing decides packaging of Montresor-Zhanjiangang’s ‘Ferrari’ chocolates slavishly copies that of Ferrero International’s ‘Ferrero Rocher’ chocolates: (Class 46),
- Li-Ning on Nike: (Counterfeit Chic), (Trademark Blog),
- ‘If you can afford a car, you can afford a[n IP] lawsuit’: (Experience Not Logic),
- Beijing Higher People’s Court lists its top 10 IP cases for 2007: (Rouse & Co International),
- China and EU Customs unveils plans to share information to crack down on counterfeiting: (IP Dragon),
- China: We’re fight piracy, honest!: (Ars Technica)
- China IP? The answer is better luck next time: (China Law Blog)
Denmark
- Unregistered Opera mark – infringing and descriptive uses: Holmegaard v Erik Bagger: (Class 46),
- The architect’s patents: (Innovationpartners),
- Pirate Bay demands compensation from IFPI for downtime due to Danish ISP’s blocking access following IFPI’s demands: (Techdirt)
Europe
- OAMI Live blog for exchange of views on OAMI issues: (IPKat), (BLOG@IP::JUR),
- Adidas’ three stripes design gets ECJ approval in adidas v H & M: (Counterfeit Chic), (Afro-IP), (Catch Us If You Can!!!), (IMPACT),
- Europe’s in-house IP champions announced at European Counsel Awards, London: (IAM),
- European Parliament on combating digital piracy: (IPKat),
- EU Commission adopts recommendation on the management of IP in knowledge transfer activities by public research organizations: (IPR-Helpdesk), (BLOG@IP::JUR), (IP finance), (IAM),
- Brandchannel releases report on top performing European retail brands: (Class 46),
- Another trade mark question referred to the ECJ: UDV North America Inc v Brandtraders NV: (Class 46),
- Sony BMG asks ECJ to uphold its rights to certain Bob Dylan songs: Case C-240/07: (IPKat),
- Applicant panel survey 2007 on future patent filings: (European Patent Office),
- Elsmore writes on trade mark coexistence agreements: (Class 46),
- Citibank wins dilution case before CFI: Citigroup and Citibank v OHIM: (IPKat), (Class 46),
- European Data Protection Supervisor calls for data breach law for business: (Out-Law),
- ECJ ruling on distribution in copyright case Peek & Cloppenburg KG v Cassina SpA: (IPKat)
Germany
- Germany passes law to implement IPR Enforcement Directive: (Class 46), (BLOG@IP::JUR), (Intellectual Property Watch)
- German bill on contingency fees for attorneys-at-law, patent attorneys and tax advisors: (BLOG@IP::JUR),
- Requests for GI protection lodged for mustards from Duesseldorf: (Class 46),
- Zappa Family Trust commences proceedings against Arf Society over Frank Zappa dedicated festival ‘Zapanale’: (Class 46)
India
- GI protection sought for Feni cashew apple liquor: (Spicy IP),
- Piracy in the film industry – Bigwigs offer differing opinions: (Spicy IP),
- Further developments Krazzy 4 case regarding alleged use of jingle without composer’s permission: (Spicy IP),
- Report on IIT Kharagpur organized technology transfer expo, IndAc’08: (ipmINDs),
- India withdrawal from Indo-US FutureGen project over tech transfer issues: (Spicy IP),
- Bollywood actor Aamir Khan witness in copyright infringement case concerning movie ‘Lagaan’: (Spicy IP)
Indonesia
- Indonesian cultural heritage takes centre stage at WIPO supported event: (WIPO)
Italy
- Can you help? – queries re IP finance reading materials and careers in internal IP auditing: (IP finance)
Korea
- Expansion of patentable subject matter of medical diagnosis related technologies: (wonjon.com),
- Saint-Exupéry Foundation demands bookstores and publishers stop selling copies of ‘The Little Prince’ claiming IP rights in the illustrations and title design: (IPKat)
Mexico
- WIPO signs cooperation agreements with two leading Mexican educational institutions to advance the teaching of IP: (WIPO), (Daily Dose of IP)
Poland
- Similar logos for Olsztyn city and Cekcyn district: (Class 46)
Spain
- Spanish PTO launches anti-piracy website: (Class 46)
Switzerland
- Swiss upgrade treaty commitments – PLT, WCT, WPPT: (IPKat),
- ‘Pro file-sharing’ musician upset that he’s being used in lawsuit against Pirate Bay: (Techdirt)
United Kingdom
- Plans for .sco domain for Scotland: (Class 46),
- UK music industry demands format shifting levy: (Out-Law),(IPKat), (Ars Technica), (Techdirt), (Patry Copyright Blog), (IP Law360),
- Official launch of Anti Copying in Design (ACID) ‘Mediate to Resolve’ scheme: (IPKat),
- UKIPO launches new free patents database: (IP Menu News),
- High Court recommends narrow view of mental act exclusion to patentability in Rajesh Kapur v The Comptroller General of Patents, Design and Trade Marks: (IPKat),
- Sir Terence Conran’s son seeks to prevent use of notorious surname by the less-well-known advertising giant Havas: (IPKat),
- Results are worthy goals for experts, but principled reasoning is worthier: Artificial Solutions Germany GmbH v Creative Virtual Ltd: (ISinIP),
- Dr Who copyright case: (Patry Copyright Blog),
- Five year old becomes youngest British patent proprietor: (IPKat), (IMPACT),
- Hearing Officer’s refusal to register THERE AIN’T NO F IN JUSTICE for t-shirts overturned: (IPKat)
United States
US General
- USPTO launches new curriculum, i-©®eaTM, and new website, InventNow.org, to educate and inspire tweens in the field of IP: (Patent Prospector), (Techdirt),
- Supreme Court decision in US v Clintwood Elkhorn Mining Co: Plain meaning trumps legislative history: (Hal Wegner),
- IP bundling model to be developed: (IP finance)
US Patent Reform
- Sen Leahy disappointed over thwarted s 1145 Patent Reform Bill: (Patent Prospector),
- International Federation of Professional & Technical Engineers slam s 1145: (Patent Prospector),
- US patent reform stalls as senate negotiations break down: (Intellectual Property Watch), (IP Law360), (IAM), (IPBiz),
- Patent reform: Leahy s 1145 (con’d): Dead or alive?: (Hal Wegner), (IPBiz),
- J Whealan ending position with Sen Leahy to take post as Associate Dean GWU Law School – does this mean Leahy s 1145 is dead?: (Hal Wegner),
- Milwaukee Journal Sentinel editorial on s 1145: (IPBiz),
- Tafas v USPTO – USPTO enjoined from implementing new continuation rules: (Spicy IP), (Post-Grant),
- Tafas v USPTO – Patent Office to consider appeal of ruling which voided patent rule changes: (California Biotech Law Blog)
- Tafas decision sparks hope IDS rules also doomed: (IP Law360)
- Translogic v Dudas: Constitutional challenge to BPAI appointments moves to Supreme Court: (Patently-O), (Hal Wegner),
- USPTO launches First Action Interview Pilot Program: (IP Law360), (Peter Zura’s 271 Patent Blog), (Patent Baristas), (Patently-O), (Patent Docs), (IP Spotlight), (Anticipate This!),
- USPTO’s Complex Work Unit Pilot: (Patent Prospector)
US Patents
- ‘Patent troll tracker’ Frenkel subpoenaed in Scott Harris case: (IPBiz), (IP Law360), (Techdirt),
- PTO releases new set of ‘Written Description Training Manuals’: (Patently-O), (Patent Prospector),
- USPTO announces ‘financial profile’ system: (Daily Dose of IP),
- Cantor Fitzgerald VP comments on Markush rules: (Patent Docs),
- Theft. Bribery. Altered documents. Intrigue. And… patent attorneys? – Did A G Bell invent the telephone?: (IP Spotlight),
- The ins and outs of an ITC section 337 case: (IP Law360),
- Wegner’s top ten patent cases – updates: (Hal Wegner),
- Interesting statistic regarding licensing revenues: (Peter Zura’s 271 Patent Blog),
- Father of modern dentistry – G V Black: (Patent Librarian’s Notebook),
- Lazy man insults his customers – Dudas on patent quality: (Patent Prospector)
US Copyright
- Visual Artistic Rights Act problem: (Patry Copyright Blog),
- State sovereign immunity and state employees: (Patry Copyright Blog),
- Comcast proposes file sharing ‘Bill of Rights’: (Michael Geist), (Techdirt), (Public Knowledge),
- BitTorrent use soars as MPAA fights on against P2P sites: (Ars Technica),
- Copyright Office makes an improvement for the worse – copyright application pendency: (Intellectual Property Law Blog)
US Trademarks
- University of Iowa: Trademark Scholars’ Roundtable: (Reading list – 43(B)log), (Report on roundtable discussion – Part 1 – 43(B)log, Part 2 – 43(B)log, Session 2 – 43(B)log, Session 3 – 43(B)log),
- Courts split over trade mark issues in search engine keyword advertising cases: (IP Law360)
US – Companies / Entities
- Abbott – Innogenetics, Abbott strike $9.5 million deal on Hep C virus testing patent: (IP Law360), (Patent Docs),
- Abbott – Product-by-process; Scripps/Atlantic Thermoplastics conflict: Lupin v Abbott: (Hal Wegner),
- Acacia – Multidistrict litigation created for photo-printing patent suits brought by Acacia against several camera manufacturers: (IP Law360),
- Advanced Video Technologies – Advanced Video Technologies launches lawsuit against Pure Digital Technology alleging infringement of their patent for full duplex single chip video codec: (Philip Brooks),
- Alpha Scientific Corp – CAFC sides with Helena Laboratories in patent dispute with Alpha over blood collection tubes: (IP Law360),
- Axiom – 11th Circuit finds use of competitor’s marks in metatags is trade mark infringement in North American Medical Corp v Axiom Worldwide Inc: (IPwar’s), (ipblog.ca),
- Bilski – BIO files amicus brief in Bilski case: (Patent Docs),
- Boeing – SES Americom satellite abandoned due to patent on lunar flybys: (Techdirt),
- Cambridge University Press – Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press and Sage Publications sue Georgia State University over digital distribution of class reading materials: (Ars Technica), (IP Law360),
- Cat Power – Cat Power, Matador Records get ensnared in copyright controversy over incorrectly crediting and failing to pay due royalties to copyright owner: (Public Knowledge),
- Crocs – ITC Judge finds Crocs’ utility patent for colourful plastic shoes invalid: (IP Law360), (Washington State Patent Law Blog),
- DataTreasury Corp – CAFC upholds order denying a bid from Wells Fargo & Co and Wells Fargo Bank to toss or stay patent suit with DataTreasury over cheque imaging technology: (IP Law360), (Patent Prospector), (Patently-O),
- Electrolux – Electrolux loses trade dress infringement claim against Imig: (43(B)log),
- Facebook – Harvard classmate of Facebook founder seeks to invalidate Facebook trade mark: (IP Law360), (Techdirt), (The Trademark Blog),
- IBM – Big Blue CFO confirms company’s IP-focused acquisitions strategy: (IAM),
- Justia – State of Oregon uses copyright law to prevent other sites from publicising Oregon law: (Techdirt), (Ars Technica),
- Kodak – DR Systems sues to invalidate Kodak’s patent: (IP Law360),
- LG Electronics – DTL Licenses key cell phone patent to LG Electronics: (Philip Brooks),
- Lockheed Martin – EFF hits back at Lockheed Martin for asserting its B-24 trade mark to force B-24 bomber digital images offline: (Techdirt),
- Magnatek – Judge confirms $23.4 million award against Magnatek in lawsuit over electronic lighting ballasts patents owned by Ole K Nilssen: (IP Law360),
- Microsoft – Microsoft proposes new ad privacy structure in effort to influence FTC in on issue of whether online advertisers should be governed by self-regulatory principles: (Out-Law),
- Mullen – Confidential information is potentially broader trade secret information: United Image Print Group, LLC v Mullen: (Chicago IP Litigation Blog),
- NBC – NBC says Apple must address piracy before NBC allows TV content back on iTunes: (Ars Technica), (Techdirt),
- Northwest Airlines – Northwest latest carrier to be ensnared in patent infringement suit by Eon-Net over document-scanning technology: (IP Law360),
- Nylok – Post judgment collateral attack on IP through PTO action barred by ‘defendant preclusion’: Nasalok Coating v Nylok: (Patently-O),
- OraSure – Orasure defends itself in HIV test patent suit brought by Inverness Medical Switzerland and Church & Dwight, alleging patent invalidity: (IP Law360),
- Power-One – Texas federal judge issues permanent injunction preventing Artesyn Technologies from infringing Power-One patent for power converter technology: (IP Law360),
- Qualcomm – Telco’s LTE 4G patent pact; Qualcomm doesn’t sign up: (Ars Technica), (Techdirt),
- Realtek – Realtek seeks lower damages in 3Com patent suit: (IP Law360),
- RIAA – Lava v Amurao file-sharing case dismissed with prejudice at RIAA’s request: (Ars Technica),
- RIAA – Marshal University fails to block RIAA’s P2P subpoenas: Arista Records v Does 1-7: (Ars Technica),
- Rowling – J K Rowling testifies in lawsuit against fan-created Harry Potter lexicon that may become important test of US fair use law: (Ars Technica), (IPKat), (Copyfight), (Techdirt),
- Seagate – Seagate files suit against STEC claiming infringement of four solid-state memory patents: (Ars Technica), (IP Law360), (Techdirt), (Philip Brooks),
- SmartGene – Texas District judge dismisses Advanced Biological Laboratories’ patent infringement claims against SmartGene for lack of jurisdiction: (IP Law360),
- Southwest Medical Solutions: US Securities and Exchange Commission sues Southwest, claiming it misled investors in relation to status of pending trade marks and other matters: (IP Law360),
- Symantec – Court reverses summary judgment of noninfringement and invalidity based upon faulty claim construction in Symantec Corp v Computer Assoc Int’l Inc: (Hal Wegner), (Patent Prospector), (IP Law360), (Patently-O),
- T-Mobile – Patentee has no ‘presumption of priority’ unless specifically adjudged by the PTO during prosecution: PowerOasis v T-Mobile: (Patently-O), (Hal Wegner), (Patent Prospector), (Peter Zura’s 271 Patent Blog), (IP Law360),
- TiVo – CAFC refuses to reconsider ruling that DISH Network’s DVRs infringed on TiVo’s patents for a ‘multimedia time warping system’: (Ars Technica), (Patent Prospector), (IP Law360),
- Toyota – Solomon Technologies’s arguments heard by CAFC in its appeal against ITC decision alleging patent infringement by Toyota in relation to its hybrid model, Prius: (IPBiz),
- Toyota – Toyota asks Supreme Court to review case in which Toyota’s Prius model was found to have infringed Paice’s patents: (IP Law360),
- UniRAM Technology – District Judge rejects Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co’s bid to have one of UniRAM’s patent declared invalid due to inequitable conduct in trade secrets case brought by UniRAM: (IP Law360), (Philip Brooks),
- VoxPath Networks – VoxPath brings patent suit against Verizon, Cox and other VoIP companies over technology for distinguishing between internal and external calls: (IP Law360),
- Zenith – CAFC partial remand of Zenith Electronics Corp v PDI Communication Systems, Inc; that which infringes if later, anticipates if earlier – but elements of anticipation must still be proven: (Patently-O), (Hal Wegner), (Patent Prospector), (IP Law360)
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Mental Acts at High Court
Kapur pulled of a Ressurrection ? Or have Pantent office done this to save face…
see what i don’t understand is if Symbian are through how does Kapur not
is Computer Exclusion over