IP Think Tank Global Week in Review – 1 February 2008

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selection of top intellectual property news breaking in the blogosphere and
internet.

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Highlights this week included:

• Google taking the profit
  out of domain tasting: (The
  Trademark Blog), (Canadian
  Trademark Blog), (Class
  46), (Ars
  Technica),
• ECJ rules that EU law
  does not force disclosure of internet users’ details in file-sharing cases
  in Productores de Música de España (Promusicae) v Telefónica de España
  SAU: (Out-Law),
  (IPKat),
  (Catch
  Us If You Can!!!), (Intellectual
  Property Watch), (Out-Law), (Electronic
  Frontier Foundation),
• The UK High Court allows computer program
  patent claims in Astron Clinica & Ors v The Comptroller: (IPKat),
  (BLOG@IP::JUR),
  (Filemot), (IAM),
  (The
  IP Factor), (IP
  Updates), (IMPACT),
  (IPcentral
  Weblog), (Out-Law),
  (IPBiz),
• Tarceva (Erlotinib) – Roche
  patent infringement action against CIPLA before Delhi High Court: Many
  posts at: (Spicy
  IP) and (Patent
  Circle)

Global

• IFPI publishes Digital
  Music Report 2008: (IPKat),
• Speculations about
  multilateral patent reforms of the future (cont’d): (BLOG@IP::JUR),
• ISO pushing forward to
  establish an international standard for patent valuation: (Peter
  Zura’s 271 Patent Blog), (IAM),
  (Patent
  Prospector),
• Eco patent commons: (Spicy
  IP), (IPR
  Helpdesk),
• Warner, EMI and Universal
  deny signing deals allowing their music on Qtrax, a free file-sharing
  service: (IPKat),
  (Ars
  Technica), (IMPACT),
• Amazon plans to take its
  DRM-free music offering worldwide: (Ars
  Technica),
• Music is (A)live – but
  music industry looks for future: (Intellectual
  Property Watch),
• More on IP orphans: (IP ThinkTank),
• Intangible asset
  financial outlook: difficult but not dead: (IAM),
• Double double toil and
  trouble: Why claim writing is an art: (Intellectual
  Property Directions),
• White hat domainers are
  not black hat cybersquatters: (Erik
  J Heels),
• IP & trust: (IP ThinkTank),
• Panel: More balance
  needed in IP and trade; disclosure may not be enough: (Intellectual
  Property Watch),
• EPO posts ‘Why
  researchers should care about patents’: (IPBiz),
  (IP
  Updates),
• Google taking the profit
  out of domain tasting: (The
  Trademark Blog), (Canadian
  Trademark Blog), (Class
  46), (Ars
  Technica),
• ICANN proposal to end
  domain tasting: (Canadian
  Trademark Blog), (The
  Trademark Blog), (Out-Law),
• U2’s manager calls safe
  harbour a ‘Thieves’ Charter: (Michael Geist),
  (Ars
  Technica), (IPKat),
• Technophrenia, piracy,
  and filtering – technological measures and copyright: (IPcentral),
• Expert IP and
  biodiversity panelists see high impact of bilateral trade deals on Geneva policymaking:
  (Intellectual
  Property Watch),
• IP Finance group meeting:
  presentation on ‘The UNCITRAL Legislative Guide on Secured Transactions
  and the issues arising out the collateralization of IP: (IP
  Finance),
• Facts are critical for
  success in war and law: (Dilanchian)

Pharma

• European Commission raids
  pharmaceutical companies in sector-wide inquiry on patent abuse: (The
  IP Factor),
• Thailand plans to issue
  four cancer drug compulsory licences – Vichai panel has advised the public
  health minister to issue compulsory licences for Letrozole, Imatinib,
  Docetaxel, and Erlotinib: (Generic
  Pharmaceuticals & IP) (for update on Imatinib see posting listed
  by drug name below),
• Indian company Suven Life
  Sciences granted US patent for a class of Serotonin receptor affinity
  compounds, used in the treatment of neuro-degenerative conditions: (Spicy
  IP),
• FDA: broken, like the
  USPTO?: (IPBiz),
• State of the Union address 28 Jan 2008:
  statement regarding patenting human life: (IPBiz),
  (Patently-O),
• Alnylam Pharmaceuticals
  secures UK patent covering molecules that affect RNA interference: (SmartBrief),
• Doha style compulsory licences for
  exports: The politics…: (Spicy
  IP),
• Pushing to compulsory
  licensing: Pharma companies heading closer to Doha: (Spicy
  IP),
• Financial Express on the
  battle between big pharma companies and the generic industry: (Spicy
  IP)

• Avandia (Rosiglitazone
  Maleate) – GSK receives Indian patent for hydrate form of Rosiglitazone
  Maleate: (Patent
  Circle),
• Glivec (Imatinib) – Natco
  receives stay from the Supreme Court against Chennai High Court’s order
  for the IPAB hearing of Novartis appeals regarding Imatinib without a
  technical member: (Generic
  Pharmaceuticals & IP), (Spicy
  IP),
• Glivec (Imanitib):Thailand
  avoids compulsory licence on cancer drug with Novartis agreeing to provide
  the drug free under a government-sponsored health insurance program: (Intellectual Property
  Watch), (Generic
  Pharmaceuticals & IP),
• Mevalotin (Pravastatin) –
  Teva files patent lawsuit against Kyowa Hakko Kogyo with Tokyo District
  Court in relation to a cholesterol lowering drug: (The
  IP Factor),
• Namenda (Memantine) – Forest Laboratories sue six generic drug-makers over
  patent relating to Nemenda Alzheimers drug: (IP
  Law360),
• Namenda (Memantine) – Forest Laboratories sues Upsher-Smith Laboratories
  for patent infringement to stave off a generic version of its drug
  Namenda: (IP
  Law360),
• Ofloxacin – Apotex gets
  $5m in wrongful injunction damages in its battle with Daiichi Sanko over a
  patent relating to an antibacterial ear medicine: (IP
  Law360), (Patent
  Prospector),
• Opana (Oxymorphone) –
  Endo Pharmaceuticals and Penwest Pharmaceuticals sue Impax for alleged
  patent infringement as Impax moves closer to marketing a generic version
  of Opana: (IP
  Law360),
• Protonix (Pantoprazole) –
  Wyeth and Nycomed announce they will launch generic version of Protonix: (Generic
  Pharmaceuticals & IP), (IP
  Law360), (IPNewsFlash),
  (IPNewsFlash2)
• Protonix (Pantoprazole) –
  Sun launches generic version of Protonix: (Generic
  Pharmaceuticals & IP), (SmartBrief),
• Selzentry (Maraviroc) – Pfizer
  agrees to give International Partnership for Microbicides a royalty-free
  license to Maraviroc, its newly-approved HIV treatment: (SmartBrief),
  (more from SmartBrief),
• Sutent (Sunitinib) –
  Natco requests Indian government to grant it a compulsory licence for
  Sutent, renal cancer drug, from Pfizer: (Generic
  Pharmaceuticals & IP),
• Tarceva (Erlotinib) –
  Natco requests Indian government to grant it a compulsory licence for
  Tarceva, lung cancer drug, from Roche: (Generic
  Pharmaceuticals & IP),
• Tarceva (Erlotinib) – Roche
  patent infringement action against CIPLA before Delhi High Court over
  Tarceva patent: (Update: the law on temporary injunctions – Spicy
  IP and correction at Spicy
  IP), (Pricing issues – Spicy
  IP), (Some dates – Spicy
  IP), ( Businessworld article – Spicy
  IP), (Litigation analysis Patent
  Circle; Patent
  Circle, Patent
  Circle and Patent
  Circle), (Litigation analysis III – Patent
  Circle), (Contours of section 3(d) – Spicy
  IP), (Litigation analysis IV – Patent
  Circle), (Reader comments – Patent
  Circle),
• Viread (Tenofovir) – US
  Patent Office 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) – Cypress and GSK
  settle on Ranitidine oral suspension: (Generic
  Pharmaceuticals & IP), (IP
  Law360)

Africa

• Microsoft
  ‘outs’ SA infringers: (Afro-IP),
• Japan to fund ‘better use’ of African IP: (Afro-IP),
• BSA-IDC
  report pinpoints benefits predicted from reducing SA software piracy: (Afro-IP),
• Kenya Appeal Court denies single colour protection: (Afro-IP),
• Second
  Botswanan Minister to speak out on the importance of an effective intellectual
  property regime to the Botswanan economy: (Afro-IP)
  (and post script – Afro-IP)

Australia

• Public consultation on
  ‘format shifting’ of photo and films: (IP
  Menu News),
• Parallel imports and
  section 123 of the Trade Marks Act: (Australian
  Trade Marks Law Blog),
• ‘New England Australia’
  is now a geographical indicator for wine: (Dilanchian),
• Jail sentence for
  copyright infringement: Le v R: (IP
  Down Under),
• Trade mark infringement:
  who can provide consent?: Industries Ltd v Dynamic Supply Pty Ltd:
  (IP
  Down Under)

Brazil

• IFPI
  raids hundreds of internet cafes: 600 cops, one arrest: (Ars
  Technica)

Canada

• Interlocutory injunctions
  in trade mark cases: a difficult test to meet: CMAC Mortgages v
  Canadian Mortgage Expert Centre and CanadaHyundai Autov Cross Canada Auto Body Supply: (Canadian
  Trademark Blog), (coverage of Hyundia – IPblog),
• Privacy Coalition warns on
  copyright reform: (Michael Geist),
• Wikinomics on the
  copyright MPs: (Michael
  Geist),
• CRIA says it is not
  seeking copyright provisions ‘related to content filtering or termination
  of repeat offenders’ in the forthcoming Bill: (Michael Geist),
• Arthur Ponsonby and the
  Canadian DMCA: (Michael
  Geist),
• Mainstream press articles
  on copyright reform: (Michael Geist),
  (Michael Geist),
  (Michael Geist),
  (Michael Geist),
  (Michael Geist),
  (Michael Geist),
• Tim Denton on copyright
  and Right v Left: (Michael Geist),
• The Canadian DMCA: A
  summary to-date: (Michael Geist),
  more analysis (Michael
  Geist)
• ISPs face new role in
  network control: (Michael Geist),
• MP Charlie Angus calls
  for WIPO debate before Copyright Bill: (Michael Geist)
• Filing patents in Canada a tactical advantage: (IP
  Law360),
• Canadian patent filings
  as a ‘trial balloon’: (IP
  Updates),
• Litigate patents in Canada,
  settle worldwide: (IP
  Law360),

China

• Eleven record companies win
  copyright infringement case against Yahoo! China: (Rouse
  & Co International),
• Seven record companies lose
  copyright lawsuit against Baidu: (Rouse
  & Co International),
• Sotheby’s wins trade mark
  infringement lawsuit against Chinese copycats: (Rouse
  & Co International),
• Puma sues Chinese company
  for imitating brand name: (Rouse
  & Co International),
• Singfun Electric Group sues
  Qingdao Aucma for patent infringement: (Rouse
  & Co International),
• Does China’s copyright law have a
  sense of humour?: (IP
  Dragon),
• Increase in East Asian
  patent filings outpaces rest of world: (Post-Grant)

Europe

• Standardisation policy
  more effective than legislation on IP?: (Intellectual
  Property Watch),
• ECJ rules that EU law
  does not force disclosure of internet users’ details in file-sharing cases
  in Productores de Música de España (Promusicae) v Telefónica de España
  SAU: (Out-Law),
  (IPKat),
  (Catch
  Us If You Can!!!), (Intellectual
  Property Watch), (Out-Law), (Electronic
  Frontier Foundation),
• ECJ ruling in Productores
  de Música de España (Promusicae) v Telefónica de España SAU may
  bolster case for ISP-level filtering: (Ars
  Technica),
• Promusicae is
  relevant to trade mark infringements too: (Class
  46),
• London Agreement to enter
  into force on 1 May 2008 following France’s ratification: (BLOG@IP::JUR),
  (IPKat),
  (IP
  Updates), (IPEG),
  (IAM),
  (Patent
  Docs),(Patent
  Baristas),
• OHIM: National search
  report for CTMs becomes optional: (BLOG@IP::JUR),
  (Class
  46),
• IQNet mark opposed by EC
  for containing elements of the European Community flag: (Catch Us If You
  Can!!!),
• ECJ to clarify ‘bad
  faith’ in Chocoladefabriken Lindt & Sprüngli AG v Franz Hauswirth
  GmbH: (Class
  46),
• CFI upholds OHIM’s
  rejection of Japan Tobacco’s opposition to Torrefaccao Camelo’s figurative
  mark including the depiction of a camel, palm trees and pyramids: (The
  IP Factor), (Class
  46),
• Federación de
  Cooperativas Agrarias de la Comunidad Valenciana loses appeal before the
  CFI in its plant varieties case: (IPKat),
• AG delivers opinion in HutchinsonO2
  holdings v 3G regarding comparative advertising containing non-identical trade
  marks: (IPKat),
  (more from IPKat),
  (Class
  46), (Catch
  Us If You Can!!!),
• EU to take Taiwan to WTO over compulsory licensing provision: (Spicy
  IP), (IP
  Watch),
• European Patent Office
  fee changes may prompt change in patent filing strategy: (IP
  Spotlight),

France

• Debate on merger of
  professions of patent attorneys and lawyers stalled in entrenched fights?:
  (BLOG@IP::JUR),
• French patent chief
  hopeful of European litigation agreement in second half of 2008: (IAM),
• French government
  pressing ahead with plans to cut off the internet access for those caught
  sharing files via P2P: (Ars
  Technica)

Germany

• No
  safe habour for RapidShare in copyright infringement case brought by GEMA (the
  German recording industry association): (Ars
  Technica),
• Implementation
  of London
  Agreement: German patent law now in a shambles?: (BLOG@IP::JUR),
• German Federal Patent Court gives guidance on trade mark protection for the
  names of fictitious and unknown persons: Percy Stuart: (Class
  46)
• IP-Com (backed by Fortress Investment
  Group) sues Nokia in a $17.8 billion infringement suit over mobile
  communication patents: (IPLaw360),
  (PatentTrollTracker)

India

• Bollywood and online
  piracy: (Spicy
  IP),
• Supreme Court on whether
  Indian court judgments are copyrightable: Eastern Book Company v. D.B.
  Modak: (Spicy
  IP), (Guest post – Spicy
  IP),
• India and TRIPS compliance:
  Protectionist policies: (Spicy
  IP),
• Punjab University Dean
  proposes new model to share IP right: (Spicy
  IP),
• Indian fast-moving
  consumer goods sector looks to brand valuation as a marketing tool: (IP
  Finance),
• Moves to protect
  traditional knowledge: (Spicy
  IP), (more from Spicy
  IP)

Ireland

• New Irish notice on costs in opposition
  proceedings: (Class
  46)

Japan

• First arrest of a computer virus writer in Japan…
  for copyright infringement: (IPKat),
• Japan blocks import of Nanya SDRAM chips at Fujitsu’s request: (IP
  Law360)

Latvia

• IP protection in Latvia : (Mondaq)

New Zealand

• NZ Court of Appeal finds Cadbury not entitled to
  the word PURPLE for non-purple confectionary products in Cadbury Ltd v Effem
  Foods Ltd: (IP Down
  Under)

Norway

• Norwegian public broadcaster uses BitTorrent for
  content distribution: (Michael Geist)

Spain

• Spain condemned for non-implementation of resale rights directive: Commission des
  Communautés européennes v Royaume d’Espagne: (IPKat)

Switzerland

• Switzerland warns Logistep, a company that tracks file-sharers for copyright infringements,
  that its tactics violate Swiss telecommunication law: (IPKat),
  (Ars
  Technica),
• Electronic filing of international trade mark
  applications from February 2008: (Class
  46)

Taiwan

• EU to take Taiwan to WTO over compulsory licensing provision: (Spicy
  IP), (IP
  Watch),

 

United Kingdom

• Gemstar commences patent
  litigation proceedings in the High Court against Virgin Media: (IMPACT),
  (IPEG),
• Baroness Morgan to become
  the next British Minister for Intellectual Property: (IPKat),
• High Court allows computer
  program patent claims in Astron Clinica & Ors v The Comptroller:
  (IPKat),
  (BLOG@IP::JUR),
  (Filemot), (IAM),
  (The
  IP Factor), (IP
  Updates), (IMPACT),
  (IPcentral
  Weblog), (Out-Law),
  (IPBiz),
• Globe found liable for
  trade mark infringement and passing off in its battle with D Jacobson
  & Sons over logo used on footwear: (IPKat),
  (Class
  46),
• Public consultation on
  new exceptions to copyright infringement: (IP
  Menu News),
• UK introduces option for fast
  track trade mark examination: (Rouse
  & Co International),
• Kitchin J hands down
  decision regarding the Hearing Officer’s discretion to allow amendments to
  a patent application in M-Systems v Trek: (IPKat),
• Don’t expect privacy law
  overhaul in the wake of HMRC: (Out-Law),
• Amazon: one step closer
  to DRM free tracks in the UK?:
  (IMPACT),
• Information
  Commissioner’s Office finds Marks & Spencer breached data protection
  law when it allowed details of employees to be held on a laptop without
  the protection of encryption: (Out-Law),
• Information Commissioner
  wants new criminal offence of recklessly or knowingly breaching data
  protection principles: (Out-Law),
• UK High Court begins
  hearing case between Visto Corp and Research in Motion over email
  messaging technology: (IP
  Law360),
• MySpace wins UK
  domain name that pre-dated its service: (Out-Law), (Techdirt),
• Who’s requesting UKPO
  invalidity and noninfringement opinions: (IP
  Updates),
• UKIPO issues practice
  guidance on correspondence: (Class
  46),
• UKIPO: Copies of UK patent files available through online forms: (IP
  Menu News),
• Database rights: does Crowson
  Fabrics change things?: (IMPACT),
• Guidance from Court of
  Appeal on staying parallel patent revocation actions: Glaxo Group v
  Genentech & Biogen: (Rouse
  & Co International)

United States

US General

• IP and innovation: Why
  the US will always lead the way: (IAM)
• Tafas files opposition
  brief to USPTO’s summary judgment motion in the matter of stopping
  implementation of the agency’s proposed rules limiting patent filings and
  examination: (Patent
  Prospector),
• More on Patent Exhaustion
  and LG v Quanta: (Patent
  Baristas)

US Patent Reform

• Patent reform: bad for
  (small) business: (IPBiz),
• Patent reform 2008: less
  protection for the underdog?: (IPBiz),
• Draft Report on Senate
  Patent Reform Bill: Applicant quality submissions and micro-entities: (Patent
  Docs),
• Draft Report on Senate
  Patent Reform Bill: Damages: (Patent
  Docs),
• Senate Patent Reform Bill
  on interlocutory appeals of claim construction orders: (IP
  Updates),
• Senate Patent Reform Bill
  on mandatory search requirements: (IP
  Updates),
• Congressional Research
  Service Report on Patent Reform: (IP
  Updates), (Anticipate
  This!),
• Senate Patent Reform Bill
  on prior art grace period: (IP
  Updates),
• Senate Patent Reform Bill
  on prior user rights: (IP
  Updates),
• Patent Reform Act of 2007
  – Initiative relevant to prosecution: (Anticipate
  This!),
• Patent-granting system
  awaits serious shake-up: (IP
  Law360)
• Patent reform debate: response
  to Alexander Poltorak’s editorial article: (Patent
  Troll Tracker), (Patent
  Prospector),
• USPTO does not support
  Patent Reform Bill: (PLI),
• Patent reform: Unsettling
  rights: (Patently-O),
• Patent Act won’t meet
  ‘efficiency’ goals: (IP
  Law360),
• Patent reform: patent
  cases and multi-district litigation: (Patent
  Troll Tracker),
• Patent reform 95% of the
  way there?: (IPBiz),
• Patent reform: damages
  apportionment: (Patent
  Prospector),
• Patent reform: Outside
  looking in: (Patent
  Prospector),
• Tension rises as patent
  reform hits ‘the final stretch’: (Peter
  Zura’s 271 Patent Blog),
• A dupe of the opposition
  to US patent reform? Me?: (Experience
  Not Logic),
• Draft Report on Senate
  Patent Reform Bill: Interlocutory decisions and venue: (Patent
  Docs),
• Senate Patent Reform Bill
  may do damage to damages: (IP
  Law360),
• Dozens of letters
  opposing patent reform sent to Senators: (Washington
  State Patent Law Blog), (Patent
  Docs),
• Death to Cybor de
  novo claim construction review through Leahy, s 1145 Patent Reform Act: (Harold Wegner),

US Copyright

• DRM technology for music
  may be dead: (IP
  Law360), (response from IPEG),
• Copyright or wrong? –
  internet file sharing: (The IP
  Factor),
• Docstoc IP document
  sharing service: (IP
  Updates), (Philip
  Brooks), (Patent
  Baristas),
• Leahy s 1145 Patent
  Reform Reported January 24; Enactment — Fantasy or Reality?: (Harold Wegner),
• US presidential
  candidates reveal positions on some IP issues: (Intellectual
  Property Watch), (IP
  Updates),
• Jokes and copyright: (Patry
  Copyright Blog),
• ISP copyright filter
  debate continues: Verizon stays away, while Rep Bono is all for filtering:
  (Techdirt),

US Patents

• Patenting life (Part
  III): (Patent
  Docs),
• IRS Taxpayer Advocate
  Service issues annual report which strongly condemns patents on tax
  strategies: (Harold Wegner),
• Lawyer asserts copyright
  in cease and desist letter: (IPKat),
  (Likelihood of
  Confusion),
• Texas Bar Journal ‘Year
  in review’ 2007 – ‘Patent litigation: a changing landscape’: (EDTexweblog),
• N.D. GA :
  Supreme Court’s Twombly decision doesn’t affect pleadings in patent
  cases: FlintCBT Partners v Goodmail Systems: (Peter
  Zura’s 271 Patent Blog),
• Canada and Korea added to ‘patent
  prosecution highway’: (IP
  Law360), (Patent
  Docs), (PLI),
  (IP
  Menu News),
• ‘New route’ created
  between USPTO and JPO: (Patent
  Docs), (PLI),
  (IP
  Updates),
• Business methods:
  Patenting computer and machine implemented inventions since Nuijten
  and Comiskey – webinar 14 Feb 2008: (Philip
  Brooks),
• Business methods: A
  litigator’s perspective: (PLI),
• Looking for the brighter
  side of KSR: (PLI),
• Reading the tea leaves of
  PCT files: (PLI),
• NDN Globalisation Initiative
  releases report entitled ‘The idea-based economy and globalization: The
  real foundations of American prosperity in the 21st century’: (IPcentral),
• N-Data signals important
  new enforcement trend: (IP
  Law360),
• Claim interpretation
  should include disclosed embodiments: Oatey v IPS: (Patently-O),
  (IPBiz),
  (Patent
  Prospector),
• Estimating damages: Using
  hindsight – Janis Joplin’s Yearbook: (Philip
  Brooks),

US Trademarks

• PTO letters of protest:
  Is ‘CYBERLAW’ registrable?: (TTABlog),
• Qualcomm sets the
  baseline for e-discovery: (IP
  Law360),
• TTAB reverses mere
  descriptiveness refusal of ‘SUGAR No. 11’ for futures exchange 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 2(d) opposition to
  “VANITY INSANITY” for clothing: (TTABlog),

US Companies / Entities

• American Seating: CAFC
  considers invalidity by prior use and lost profits damages in patent
  infringement lawsuit against USSC Group: (Patent
  Prospector), (IP
  Updates),
• Barracuda Networks –
  Barracuda defends ClamAV antivirus program from patent threats made by
  Trend Micro: (Ars
  Technica), (Patent
  Prospector),
• Bayer Bioscience –
  Monsanto awarded $8.5m after Federal Appeals Court upheld decision that
  Bayer’s insect-resistant corn patents were unenforceable due to
  inequitable conduct: (IP
  Law360), (IPBiz),
  (Patent
  Baristas), (IP
  Updates), (Patently-O),
  (Patent
  Prospector), (Patent
  Docs),
• Boston Scientific –
  Federal Judge refuses to dismiss or transfer four Boston Scientific
  lawsuits seeking to invalidate Johnson & Johnson’s patents for
  coronary stents: (IP
  Law360), (Delaware
  IP Law Blog),
• Council on American
  Islamic Relations – CAIR asks Judge to throw out radio host, Michael
  Savage’s, copyright lawsuit over radio clips posted on CAIR’s website: (Electronic Frontier
  Foundation),
• Crown Packaging Tech –
  Court finds Crown Packaging Tech’s patent claim invalid for lack of
  adequate written description in its case against Rexam Beverage Can Co: (Delaware IP Law Blog),
• eSpeed – District Court
  denies eSpeed’s motion for judgment on grounds of patent unenforceability
  due to misuse in its case against Trading Technologies: Restrictive
  license agreements are not patent misuse: (Chicago
  IP Litigation Blog),
• Fisher-Price – Icon
  Health & Fitness Inc. has sued Fisher-Price for patent infringement
  over technology that electronically simulates a mountain hike: (IPLaw360)
• Fujitsu – Fujitsu and
  subsidiary launch suit accusing Tellabs of willfully infringing four of
  their patents relating to optical communications products: (IP
  Law360), (Fujitsu),
  (DailyTech),
• Global Patent Holdings – Global
  Patent Holdings’ JPEG on a website patent is to be reexamined again
  following an ex parte reexamination request from an anonymous third party:
  (Patent
  Troll Tracker),
• Google – Google settles
  patent dispute with Skyline Software Systems over Google earth: (IP
  Law360),
• Halliburton – Appellate
  Judge affirms lower court’s dismissal of patent lawsuit brought by
  Halliburton against M-I due to vagueness of key term in the patent: (IP
  Law360), (IP
  Updates), (Patent
  Prosepector), (Peter
  Zura’s 271 Patent Blog),
• Hasbro – Bogglific, an
  online version of Boggle, has been removed from Facebook following receipt
  of letter of demand from Hasbro: (IP
  Law360),
• LTG – Finding acquired
  distinctiveness and substantial exclusivity lacking, TTAB cancels LTG’s registration
  for the color gold for fluorescent lamps: TTABlog),
• Matsushita and Samsung
  have settled all ongoing patent infringement suits in the USA and Japan over semiconductor technology:
  (IPLaw360)
• Microsoft – ITC
  determines Alcatel-Lucent infringed Microsoft’s patents covering devices
  that integrate telephones and computers: (IP
  Law360), (post covering litigation history between Microsoft and
  Alcatel-Lucent – Techdirt),
• Microsoft – Non-documentation
  related sanctions imposed on Microsoft in its 2002 consent decree are extended
  until November 2009 due to non-compliance (John Carroll), (Ars
  Technica),
• Microsoft – Microsoft
  settles mouse patent cases brought by F and G Research Inc: (Washington
  State Patent Law Blog), (IPLaw360),
• N-Data – FTC stops N-Data
  from charging excessive royalities on standardized ethernet patents: (Patent
  Prospector),
• Qualcomm –Federal Judge
  denies Qualcomm’s motion to stay an injunction prohibiting the company
  from importing and selling certain chips that infringe Broadcom’s patents:
  (IP
  Law360),
• Rambus – Rambus has
  prevented its rivals from using the expression ‘patent troll’ in its
  dynamic random access memory chip patent case against Hynix, Samsung,
  Nanya and Micron: (IP
  Law360), (Patent
  Prospector),
• Rambus – FTC opinion not
  allowed as evidence in patent infringement case between Rambus and Hynix,
  Micron and Nanya: (IP
  Law360), (Patent
  Prospector),
• RIAA pushes to expand
  statutory damages provision of copyright law: (Ars
  Technica), (Techdirt),
  (Patry
  Copyright Blog),
• RIAA sees a 99.6%
  capitulation rate from students at University of Tennessee
  facing copyright infringement action in connection with file-sharing: (Ars
  Technica),
• RIAA chief: We don’t see
  a need for mandatory ISP filtering: (Ars
  Technica),
• RIAA – Magistrate judge
  suggests Rule 11 sanctions against RIAA lawyers in Arista v Does 1-27:
  (Ars
  Technica), (Techdirt),
• Samsung – ITC
  investigates imports of products containing LCD devices by Sharp in
  connection with a patent dispute between Samsung and Sharp: (Philip
  Brooks),
• SDMK – SDMK launches
  patent infringement action against eight defendants over its patents
  relating to portable digital multimedia products: (IP
  Law360),
• Sprint Nextel – Sprint
  Nextel commences patent infringement proceedings against Big River
  Telephone, Broadvox, NuVox, and Paetec Communications over VOIP technology:
  (Patent