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internet.
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Highlights this week included:
-
WIPO
Copyright Committee 16th session to discuss Broadcast Treaty, new
proposal for exceptions and limitations agreement: (Public Knowledge), (Public Knowledge), (Intellectual Property
Watch), (Public
Knowledge), (Public
Knowledge), (IPwar’s),
(Intellectual Property
Watch), (KEI),
(Public Knowledge), (IP
Justice), (IP
Justice), (KEI),
(KEI),
(KEI),
(WIPO), - US:
PTO finds remaining two of WARF’s embryonic stem cell patents valid: (Patent
Prospector), (IP
Law360), (IPBiz),
(Patent
Docs), (Holman’s
Biotech IP Blog), (IPBiz), - US
CAFC invalidates Pfizer’s latest-expiring patent on Celebrex for double
patenting, remaining two of Pfizer’s three asserted patents are valid
prohibiting Teva from launching a generic version of Celebrex until 2014: (Orange Book
Blog), (Generic
Pharmaceuticals & IP), (Patently-O),
(Patent
Prospector), (IP
Updates), (The
IP Factor), (IP
Law360), (Patent
Docs), (GenericsWeb),
(Spicy
IP), (PLI), - Patent Troll Tracker Blog sued,
shuttered: (Securing
Innovation), (Peter
Zura’s 271 Patent Blog), (Patently-O),
(Patent
Prospector), (Peter
Zura’s 271 Patent Blog), (EDTexweblog.com),
(Techdirt),
(Washington
State Patent Law Blog), (Patent
Baristas), (IP
Law360), (Securing
Innovation)
Global
Global – General
- What’s the solution to YouTube’s infringing tactics?: (Spicy
IP), - ‘The Good, the Bad and the Ugly II’ – Business, public interest forces and
the role of IP: (IP
finance), - Interview with Debra Harry,
Indigenous People’s Council on Biocolonialism: (Intellectual Property
Watch), - WIPO Committee on Development and IP wraps up inaugural meeting: (WIPO),
- Five IP policy questions for WIPO DG Candidates: (Intellectual Property
Watch), - IP strategy for R&D: keep records like Thomas Edison: (Lightbulb),
- New kid on the block – Technology Transfer Tactics journal: (IP finance),
- New IP blog: SOLO Independent IP Practitioners: (The Trademark
Blog), - WIPO and Kellogg School of Management offer executive program on strategies
for management of IP: (WIPO) - Six good questions for building wealth with intellectual property: (Lightbulb),
- Global – Trade
Marks / Domain Names / Brands - WIPO:
Panathinaikos.com goes to football club: (Class
46), - ICANN
invites public comments and constituency impact statements regarding its draft
proposal to curb domain tasting: (Canadian
Trademark Blog) , - Smart
derivative trade marks: (IP
ThinkTank), - Linkages
between the WIP development agenda and the TRIPS Council: (Intellectual Property
Watch)
Global – Patents
- Abandoning
patents – when to do it: (IP
ThinkTank), - Discussion
of ‘Patent Failure: How Judges, Bureaucrats, and Lawyers Put Innovators at Risk’
by economists Bessen and Meurer: (Patently-O),
(Against Monopoly),
(Patent
Prospector), (Patent
Prospector), - Patent
valuation through frequency of citations: (IP
finance), - New
IP resource PatDL: (IP
Menu News)
Global – Copyright
- Olympics
wants special IP protections – and to ignore everyone else’s: (Techdirt), - Secondary
liability to be discussed at WIPO?: (Public Knowledge), -
WIPO
Copyright Committee 16th session to discuss Broadcast Treaty, new
proposal for exceptions and limitations agreement: (Public Knowledge), (Public Knowledge), (Intellectual Property
Watch), (Public
Knowledge), (Public
Knowledge), (IPwar’s),
(Intellectual Property
Watch), (KEI),
(Public Knowledge), (IP
Justice), (IP
Justice), (KEI),
(KEI),
(KEI),
(WIPO), - ‘Year of filters’ turning into year
of lawsuits against ISPs – Report on major record labels litigation against
ISPs from around the globe: (Ars
Technica), (Techdirt), - REM
puts new album online with social network application, iLike, before release
date: (Techdirt)
Pharma & Biotech
Pharma & Biotech – General
- Symposium
on public policy patent landscaping in the life sciences: (WIPO), - Drugs
are a (patent) lawyer’s best friend?: (Now, Why Didn’t I Think of That?) - India: Gene
silencing: (Spicy IP), - India: US Patent reform implications for
Indian Pharma: (Spicy
IP), - India: Generic
pharmaceutical industry in the spotlight: (International
Law Office), - India:
Supreme Court refuses to stay a Gujarat High Court decision restraining Ranbaxy
from airing its controversial ads directed against Paras Pharma’s ‘Moov’ brand:
(Spicy
IP), - India:
Patents on ARV drugs could increase costs: (Generic
Pharmaceuticals & IP), - US:
Survey shows most Americans want drug prices regulated: (Spicy
IP), - US:
Amerinet launches Generic Sourcing Program to reduce pharmacy spend: (GenericsWeb), - US:
Commonwealth Biotechnologies announces issuance of patent related to real time
PCR detection of herpes virus: (Patent
Docs), - US:
Genomic research company Open Biosystems settles infringement claims asserted
by Sigma-Aldrich and Oxford BioMedica over patents for LentiVector technology:
(IP
Law360), - US:
PTO finds remaining two of WARF’s embryonic stem cell patents valid: (Patent
Prospector), (IP
Law360), (IPBiz),
(Patent
Docs), (Holman’s
Biotech IP Blog), (IPBiz), - US:
IPAuctions begins sale of US patent number 6,645,525 relating to drug delivery
technology: (Patent
Docs)
Pharma & Biotech – Products
- Actonel
(Risedronate) – US District Court upholds validity of Proctor & Gamble’s
Actonel patent, rejecting Teva’s obviousness arguments: (Orange Book
Blog), - Ambien
(Zolpidem) – Sanofi-Aventis files suit against Sandoz in an effort to keep
Sandoz from marketing generic version of Ambien: (IP
Law360), - Aricept
(Donepezil) – USV receives US patent related to pharmaceutical ingredient used
in Aricept, reversing an earlier refusal: (IP
Law360), - Aspirin
– Bayer’s attempt to register ASPRINA as a US trade mark fails: (Intellectual
Property Directions), - Celebrex
(Celecoxib) – CAFC invalidates Pfizer’s latest-expiring patent on Celebrex for
double patenting, remaining two of Pfizer’s three asserted patents are valid
prohibiting Teva from launching a generic version of Celebrex until 2014: (Orange Book
Blog), (Generic
Pharmaceuticals & IP), (Patently-O),
(Patent
Prospector), (IP
Updates), (The
IP Factor), (IP
Law360), (Patent
Docs), (GenericsWeb),
(Spicy
IP), (PLI), - Focalin
(Dexmethylphenidate) – US Federal Judge denies Elan Corporation’s motion to
dismiss Teva’s counterclaims in a patent dispute over ADHD drug Focalin: (IP
Law360), - Gaviscon
– Internal documents that were recently leaked to the public, indicate that Reckitt
Benckiser schemed with NHS to avoid releasing a generic name for the Gaviscon:
(Spicy
IP), - Lybrel
(Levonorgestrel/Ethinyl Estradiol)– Wyeth sues Watson over US patent for birth
control drug: (IP
Law360), (GenericsWeb), - Plavix
(Clopidogrel) – Sanofi in negotiations with Thai government to prevent Cadila
from obtaining a compulsory licence to market generic clopidogrel in Thailand:
(Generic
Pharmaceuticals & IP), (GenericsWeb), - Risperdal
(Risperidone) – Teva files lawsuit against FDA seeking relisting of US patent
relating to Risperdal: (Patent
Baristas), - Seroquel
(Quetiapine Fumarate) – Trial date set for 11 August in AstraZeneca’s fight to
stop Sandoz from marketing a generic version of Seroquel: (Generic
Pharmaceuticals & IP), - Tarceva
(Erlotinib) – After promising to reconsider its aggressive stance on compulsory
licensing, Thailand’s new government decides to override international patents
on three cancer drugs: Femara (Letrozole), Tarceva (Erlotinib), Taxotere
(Docetaxel): (IP
Law360), (Generic
Pharmaceuticals & IP), (GenericsWeb),
(Patent
Docs), - Yasmin
(Drospirenone) – US District Court declares Bayer Schering Pharma’s Yasmin
patent invalid for obviousness in its battle with Barr Laboratories: (Patent
Docs) - Zyprexa
(Olanzapine) – UK court orders disclosure of drug dealers’ details in patent
case Eli Lilly & Co Ltd v Neopharma Ltd & Anor: (IPKat), - Zyprexa
(Olanzapine) – Eli Lilly fails to stop Novopharm from launching generic version
of Zyprexa in Canada: (Generic
Pharmaceuticals & IP), (IP
Law360)
Africa
- General Manager of Zimbabwe Music
Rights Association to lecture Swazi judiciary on copyright: (Afro-IP - Science and IP in Addis Ababa – a
first hand account from James Nurton of Managing IP: (Afro-IP), - Botswana – most free and least
corrupt. Shame about the IP: (Afro-IP), - Ethiopia receives US trade mark for
Sidamo coffee despite opposition from Starbucks: (The
IP Factor), (Afro-IP), - CC licensed test for African
sleeping sickness: (creativecommons.org), - Update on PCT applications filed in
Nigeria: (Afro-IP), - Parallel imports of DVDs to be
tested in South Africa: Universal City Studios v Mr Video: (Afro-IP), - The W****D C*P of 2*1*: FIFA’s
intellectual property rights in South Africa: (Afro-IP), - Namibia to adopt competition
legislation: (Afro-IP), - SAIIPL decides first appeal in Telkom SA Ltd & TDS Directory Operations
(Pty) Ltd v The Internet Corporation involving the domain names
phonebook.co.za and whitepages.co.za: (IPKat)
Australia
- Indemnity costs order in trade marks
infringement case Brother Industries, Ltd v Dynamic Supplies Pty Ltd: (Australian
Trade Marks Law Blog), - Is there an engineer in the house?
Australia’s IP future: (Lightbulb), - Commercialisation of IP and IT
products for Australian children: trends and statistics: (Lightbulb), - Nufarm
Ltd v Jurox Pty Ltd
– a lesson in construction of claims: (Mallesons
Stephen Jaques)
Bulgaria
- Bulgaria
sees post-accession boom in trade mark litigation: (Class
46)
Canada
- Toronto Star on paying for P2P: (Michael Geist),
- Michael Geist presentation: Facing
up to Facebook: The fight for fair copyright in Canada: (Michael Geist), - Council of Ministers of Education
renews call for educational copyright exemption: (Michael Geist), - New Democratic Party’s Charlie
Angus offers Industry Minister Jim Prentice a much-needed reality check on WIPO
and copyright reform: (Michael Geist), (Ars
Technica), - Everybody is jumping on the levy
bandwagon: (Michael
Geist), - Federal Court of Appeal rules CHEAP
TICKETS trade mark generic and ‘clearly descriptive’: Cheaptickets and Travel
Inc v Emall.ca Inc et al: (ipblog.ca), - Public lecture on e-publishing and
the law by Michael Geist: (Michael Geist), - CMEC on fair dealing: (Michael Geist),
- New Canadian Business IP Coalition
on the way: (Michael
Geist)
Europe
- The Economist on CTM fees and
national offices: (Class 46) - More on EPO fee changes: (IPKat),
- AG’s opinion in O2 bubbles trade
mark/comparative advertising campaign: (Rouse
& Co International), - EU presidency moves to kick-start
Community patent talks: (IAM), - EC President: ‘Counting the cost of
counterfeits: fakes cost more’: (BLOG@IP::JUR), - EPO announces new IP training
website: (Daily
Dose of IP), (IP
Menu News) - EU Trademark Office brings in
millions of pounds with no way of spending it: (IPKat),
(Class
46), - European Community Trademark Office
revises application process: (Ladas
& Parry), - OHIM: more information on national
search reports after 10 March 2008: (Class
46), - Public Knowledge comments on
European discussion of filtering, three-strikes programs: (Public Knowledge), - Dealing with the EPO’s new excess
claims fees: (Patent
Docs), - The Anschluss and expropriation of
Jewish copyrights in Europe: (Patry
Copyright Blog),
France
- Paris First Instance Criminal Court
– U-turn on perfume comparison chart?: (Class 46)
Germany
- Nuremberg zoo wins FLOCKE trade
mark dispute: (Class
46), - German police raid CeBit trade show
boothes, confiscating various gadgets for possible patent infringement: (IAM),
(Techdirt),
(Out-Law), - Seven DVD manufacturers enter licence agreements with MPEG LA LLC resolving some MPEG-2
patent suits: (IP
Law360), - German appeal court rules that using
a competitor’s trade mark adword does not amount to trade mark infringement, if
the search result is clearly recognisable as an advertisement: (Class
46), - Non-practising entity, IP-Com, sues
HTC for patent infringement: (IPEG), - Federal Patent Court on trade mark
protection for the colour ‘red’: (Class
46), - Federal Patent Court publishes
brief guidelines regarding similiarity of goods and services in classes 16 and
35, 42: (Class
46)
India
- Victory for Tourism Ministry over
‘Incredible India’ tagline: (Spicy
IP) - EU-India Free Trade Agreement
negotiations – differences over IPRs and other issues: (Spicy
IP), - Digitised database of Indian
patents to be available early 2009: (Spicy
IP), - FM radio v Music industry –
copyright/royalty issues: (Spicy
IP), - Exporting Bayh Dole to India:
potential lessons from a Duke University study: (Spicy
IP), - India on a roll – filings galore!:
(Spicy
IP), - EU threatens US with new WTO action
over online gambling: (Out-Law), - A software patent?: (Spicy
IP), - Still some spark left in the Flame
– TVS Motors relaunches its ‘Flame’ motorcycle despite injunction from Madras
High Court: (Spicy
IP), - Contrary to some reports Indian
Government has not acceded to the Madrid Protocol: (IPKat), - UK’s reference to ECJ in Intel v CPM
on dilution, due to be heard on 16 April: (IPKat)
Israel
- IFPI gets Israeli ISPs to block Hebrew P2P site: (Ars
Technica), - Israeli flashmobs and pictures of works of architecture in protest against
copyright law: (Patry
Copyright Blog)
Ireland
- Irish music industry labels launch
copyright action against ISP, Eircom : (IPKat)
Kuwait
- Kuwait holds first Intellectual
Property Seminar: (The
IP Factor)
Netherlands
- IP Business Congress 2008 –
Amsterdam, 25 June 2008: (IP
ThinkTank), - PGI application for GOUDA HOLLAND:
(Class
46), - District Court of The Hague rules
in favour of Viacom (MTV) in its trade mark dispute with Vadobag: (Class
46), - Document Security Systems overcome
European Central Bank’s validity challenge to their patent covering methods for
making banknotes more difficult to copy: (IPKat)
Poland
- Polish croissant to become a PGI: (Class
46)
Portugal
- European Communities brings proceedings against Portugal for failing to
implement IPR enforcement directive: (IPKat)
Spain
- Spain failed to fulfill obligations under Directive 2001/84 on resale right
for the benefit of the author of an original work of art: Commission v Spain:
(IPKat)
Turkey
- ICEBERG trumps Turkish ICE BOYS… so far: decision on time limits in trade
mark cancellation proceedings: (Class
46), - Patent Institute considers arguments of ‘well-known but unrecorded
trademark’: (International
Law Office)
Ukraine
- New trade mark fees in the offing:
(Class
46)
United Arab Emirates
- Nokia wins small victory over counterfeiters:
(International
Law Office)
United Kingdom
- More patent money wasted on fighting over
where to sue: Research in Motion UK Ltd v Visto Corporation: (IPKat) - Risks in bringing a UDRP complaint:
(IPwar’s), - Controversy over ISPs selling
clickstream data to Phorm for targeted advertisement purposes:
(Techdirt),
(Ars
Technica), (Techdirt),
(Out-Law), - Stretching the definition of trade mark infringement? – Ferrari seeks to
stop Style Limousines from displaying Ferrari sign on modified cars: (The
IP Factor), (Class
46), - Tories call for big changes to cybercrime and data protection offences: (Out-Law),
- No innocent infringement defence for community designs: J Choo (Jersey)
Limited v Towerstone Limited: (IMPACT), - UK IPO announces Patent Prosecution Highway to be extended to cover
international applications: (IPKat), - Chancery Division rules in favour of plaintiffs in copyright ownership
dispute Animatrix Ltd & Ors v O’Kelly: (IPKat), - Chancery Division decides on costs in
copyright case Experience Hendrix LLC
& Anor v Times Newspapers Ltd: (IPKat), - UK Anti-Piracy Plan a work in progress, will address ISP role: (Intellectual Property
Watch), - Chancery Division dismisses Digipos’ appeal in trade mark case against Digi
International: (IPKat), - Copyright Licensing Agency to launch series of new collective digital
licences: (IPKat)
United States
US
General
- Transparency isn’t a substitute for privacy: (Techdirt),
- US seizes domain name of Spanish
company selling Cuba trips: (Ars
Technica), (IP
Justice), - In defence of Rembrandts in the
Attic: (IAM),
(further discussion from IAM), - PreCYdent’s web of law free legal
search engine: (Cairns), - American Apparel and Footwear
Association rejects compromise text of the Design Piracy Prohibition Act
that would extend US legal protection to fashion designs: (Counterfeit
Chic), - Can
someone give Michael Eisner a history lesson on copyright and patents?: (Techdirt)
US
Patent Reform
- Can we get rid of the myth that
more patents means more innovation?: (Techdirt) - Coalition for Patent Fairness ups
the ante on patent reform, spells out damage apportionment: (Peter
Zura’s 271 Patent Blog), (Patent
Prospector), - Coalition for 21st
Century Patent Reform’s response to the Coalition for Patent Fairness’
proposals: (Patent
Prospector), - Patent reformers: lemmings or
lemming-hoaxers?: (IPBiz), - Keep developing countries and
foreign companies out of the US patent reform debate: (IAM), - Inequitable conduct policy – Former
USPTO Commissioner Harry Manbeck sends letter to Senate Judiciary Committee
regarding section 1145: (Patent
Prospector), (IP
Law360), (Patent
Docs), - It’s getting to be crunch time for
section 1145: (Patent
Docs), - Latest amendments to section 1145:
(Peter
Zura’s 271 Patent Blog), (IP
Updates) - Goldberg – Patent Office grants
EEF’s request for reexamination of Sheldon F Goldberg’s online gaming patent: (Electronic Frontier
Foundation), (IP
Law360),
US
Patents
- The problem is patent quality, not
‘trolls’: (Techdirt), - Gold standard – patent allowance
rates and patent quality: (Patent
Prospector), - Appeallusion – Part II – Affirmance
rate of BPAI and patent quality: (Patent
Prospector), - Patents on video game mechanics to
strangle innovation: (Ars
Technica), - Can we invalidate vague
business-method patents when we can’t define them: (Against Monopoly), - More on the 44% patent grant rate:
(IPBiz), - PTO publishes impact analysis on
‘alternative claim language’ proposal, calls for more comments: (Peter
Zura’s 271 Patent Blog), (IP
Law360), (Patent
Docs), (Patent
Baristas), (IP
Updates), (Patent
Docs), (PLI), - Courts may now have more leeway in
moving patent lawsuits away from East Texas: Micron Technology Inc v
Mosaid Technologies Inc: (Techdirt), - Are CND patent lawsuits actually a
mating call?: (Philip
Brooks), - They call this reportage? – Forbes
report on the patent scene: (Patent
Prospector), (Just
a Patent Examiner), - Speedy patent trials? Check out the
Northern District of California: (IP
ADR Blog), - Patent Troll Tracker Blog sued,
shuttered: (Securing
Innovation), (Peter
Zura’s 271 Patent Blog), (Patently-O),
(Patent
Prospector), (Peter
Zura’s 271 Patent Blog), (EDTexweblog.com),
(Techdirt),
(Washington
State Patent Law Blog), (Patent
Baristas), (IP
Law360), (Securing
Innovation) - Did Bayh-Dole end corporate
R&D?: (Patent
Prospector), - Reexamination improves patent
quality: A look at the latest USPTO filing data: (Electronic
Frontier Foundation), (Peter
Zura’s 271 Patent Blog), - Wisconsin is home to the fastest
federal court in the country: (IP
Law360), - GAO testimony supports POPA’s
position on examiner attrition: (Patent
Docs), - Extending the patent term: most
patents are extended due to PTO delay: (Patently-O),
(IP
Updates), - PricewaterhouseCooper releases 2008
patent damages study: (Peter
Zura’s 271 Patent Blog), - Law firm advertises that it won’t
represent patent trolls: (Techdirt), - What kind of progress are we
promoting?: (Techdirt), - USPTO independent inventors online
chat transcripts: (Anticipate
This!),
US
Copyright
- House
IP committee member endorses college P2P blocking: (Ars
Technica), - Plagiarism:
intent in the eye of the beholder?: (IPBiz), - Ricky
Gervais inspires copyright opinion: Situation Management Systems v ASP
Consulting Group: (Patry
Copyright Blog), - Orcas
and statutory damages: Smith v NBC Universal: (Patry
Copyright Blog), - Fair
Use Act threatens innovators’ rights according to Institute for Policy
Innovation: (IP
Law360), - Warring
fashion associations fail to compromise on copyright protection: (Public Knowledge), - Congressman
Rick Boucher may inject much-needed fair use into PRO-IP Act: (Ars
Technica), - Publishers
and PicScout make our case for orphan works: (Public Knowledge), - $5 a month for legal P2P could
happen sooner than your think: (Ars
Technica), (Techdirt), - Michael Eisner and the history of
copyright: (Patry
Copyright Blog)
US
Trademarks
- Utah amends controversial trademark
law restricting trade marks from being used as internet search keywords to
trigger advertisements: (Daily
Dose of IP), - A free speech double whammy: Flawed
anti-phishing bill would dilute trade mark fair use and anonymity protections:
(Electronic
Frontier Foundation), - ‘Privacy-invasive’ Domain Name
Trademark Bill before US Congress: (IP
Justice)
US
– Companies / Entities
- AB Foods – Rare summary judgment of
no likelihood of confusion in Allen Bros
v AB Foods: (Chicago
IP Litigation Blog), - Abbott – CAFC addresses multitude
of issues and vacates an injunction against Abbott Laboratories while upholding
in part a ruling that Abbott infringed an Innogenetics patent for detecting and
classifying hepatitis C virus genotypes: (IP
Law360), - Acacia – Patent Office agrees to
reexamine JPEG patent: (Techdirt), - Activision – Activision sues Gibson
in response to claims that ‘Guitar Hero’ violates patent: (Techdirt), (Patent
Prospector), (Philip
Brooks), - Aloft Media – Aloft sues five cell
phone companies including Nokia and Motorola over Smartphone patent: (IP
Law360), - Bilski – What supplemental briefing
bodes for Bilski: (IP
Law360), - Cingular – Digital Technology
Licensing settles its patent infringement lawsuit against Cingular over signal
encoding technology used in cell phones: (IP
Law360), - Corel – Simon Systems refiles suit
accusing Corel Corp’s MPEG editing software of patent infringement: (IP
Law360), - Bookham – Bookham sues rival JDS
Uniphase, alleging wrongfully accused Bookham of violating three of its patents
for tunable laser products: (IP
Law360), - Bose – Bose files lawsuit against
Eforcity alleging that Eforcity infringed the patent and trade dress for Bose’s
SoundDock digital music system: (IP
Law360), - Dakocytomation – CAFC panel issues
mixed ruling in patent infringement suit filed by University of California and
Abbott against Dakocytomation: (Patent
Docs), (IP
Updates), - Delphi – Bankrupt auto parts maker
Delphi Corp asks federal court to affirm that four of Automotive Technologies
International’s patents are invalid and unenforceable and that Delphi has not
infringed them: (IP
Law360), - E.Digital – E.Digital sues LG
Electronics, Nikon, Samsung Electronics and others for infringement of patents
relating to flash memory technology: (IP
Law360), - Flashpoint – Flashpoint Technology
files suit against AT&T Mobility LLC, Kyocera Corp., Nokia Corp. and
several other cell phone companies over patents related to digital camera
technology: (IP
Law360), (Patent
Prospector), - Fox News Network – Fox fails to win
control over domain name, foxbusinessnetwork.com, due to late trade mark
filing: (Out-Law),
(The
Trademark Blog), - Fujitsu – KLA-Tencor challenges
validity of Fujitsu’s patent for methods of making semiconductor chips using
advanced optics: (IP
Law360), - Gabbanelli Accordians & Imports
– Non-participation from the defendant, Italo-Am. Accordion Mfg Co, leads to
admission of jurisdiction and summary judgment of trade mark and trade dress
infringement: (Chicago
IP Litigation Blog), - Goss International Americas – First
in line: registration before litigation: Goss
International Americas, Inc v A-American Machine & Assembly Co: (Intellectual
Property Law Blog), - Intellect Wireless – Intellect
Wireless files patent infringement complaints against Motorola, LG Electronics,
T-Mobile, Sanyo and others concerning wireless communication features,
including paging and caller ID: (Patent
Prospector), (IP
Law360), - Lending Tree – Lending Tree
challenges the validity of H&R Block’s patent covering real-time financial
card offers to web customers: (IP
Law360),Major League Baseball – MLB demands
six Cape Cod League teams that use names of the Major League teams license the
names, including buying uniforms and merchandise through MLB: (Techdirt), - Microsoft – Veritas invalidates
Microsoft’s patent for replicating data files: (IP
Law360), - Philips Lumileds Lighting Company –
Columbia University professor settles infringement claims against Philips over
patents related to the LED technology: (IP
Law360), - PressTek – International Trade Commission
launches investigation into PressTek’s allegations that Israeli printing - plate
manufacturer VIM Technologies Ltd., its partner Hanita Coatings RCA Ltd. and
four North American distributors are infringing patents for printing press
technology: (IP
Law360), - Prominent Consulting – Court holds
no Colorado River abstention in copyright cases: Prominent Consulting
LLC v Allen Bros., Inc: (Chicago
IP Litigation Blog), - Rambus – Rambus will be allowed to
present testimony from related cases during trial to defend itself against
allegations that it improperly amended and aggressively enforced its DRAM chip
patents: (IP
Law360), - Realself.com – Lifestyle Lift, a
face lift company, sues Realself.com product review forum for trade mark
infringement: (Out-Law), - University of Texas – Court finds
insufficient evidence to support federal fame of University of Texas’ ‘long
horn steer in silhouette’ trade mark and grants KST Electric summary judgment
of no federal dilution: (43(B)log), - US Air Force – US Air Force issues
DMCA takedown notice on publicly released advertisement about its cyber-defense
initiatives: (Techdirt), - US Gypsum Co – Court rules forum
selection clause destroys venue: US Gypsum Co v 3M Innovative Props. Co.: (Chicago
IP Litigation Blog) - Viacom – Federal court shoots down Viacom’s bid for punitive damages in its
copyright suit against Google and its video-sharing site, YouTube: (IP
Law360), (Ars
Technica), (43(B)log),
(Techdirt),
(Out-Law), - Viacom – Music Choice files patent
infringement suit against Urge Radio, which is owned by Viacom and MTV
Networks: (IP
Law360), - VTran – Vtran sues another cable
company, Mid-Hudson Cablevision, for patent infringement in relation to
video-on-demand services: (IP
Law360), - Walt Disney Co – Walt Disney Co
wins trade mark claims in Thoroughbred
Legends LLC v The Walt Disney Co: (43(B)log), - World Wide Video – Years after Yoko
Ono stopped the showing of a John Lennon film for alleged copyright
infringement, World Wide Video is suing Ono for violating its purported copyright
to the same footage: (IP
Law360), - Yahoo – GraphOn files patent
infringement suit against Yahoo, eHarmony.com, Match.com and others in relation
to web listing services: (IP
Law360), - ZapMedia – ZapMedia media files
patent infringement suit against Apple over iTunes: (Patent
Prospector), (IP
Law360), (Ars
Technica), (Techdirt)