IP Think Tank Global Week in Review – 22 February 2008

Here is IP Think Tank’s weekly
selection of top intellectual property news breaking in the blogosphere and
internet.

Please join the discussion by adding your comments on any of these stories,
and please do let me know if you think we’ve missed something important, or if
there is a source you think should be monitored.

You can separately subscribe to the IP Thinktank Global week in Review at
the Subscribe page: http://thinkipstrategy.com/subscribe/

Highlights this week included:

• The European call for copyright
  extension for performers: (John
  Carroll), (The
  IP Factor), (Spicy
  IP), (Public Knowledge),
  (IPR-Helpdesk),
  (Techdirt),
  (Innovationpartners),
• Full CAFC to reexamine the scope of subject matter
  patentability for business methods, also to consider whether it is appropriate
  to reconsider or overrule State Street Bank & Trust Co. v. Signature
  Financial Group, Inc., and AT&T Corp. v. Excel Communications, Inc:
  (Patently-O),
  (PLI),
  (IP
  Updates), (Techdirt),
  (The
  Fire of Genius), (Patent
  Troll Tracker), (Anticipate
  This! ), (Washington
  State Patent Law Blog), (The
  IP Factor), (IPBiz),
  (IP
  Spotlight), (IP
  Law360), (Innovationpartners),
  (IPBiz),
• US
  FTC files complaint against Cephalon alleging the company paid four generic
  drug manufacturers (Ranbaxy, Teva, Mylan and Barr) to delay entry as part of
  litigation settlements: (IP
  Law360), (IP
  Law360), (Spicy
  IP),

Global

Global – General

• What is IP value all about?: (Part I – IP
  finance), (Part II – IP
  finance),
• Candidates for WIPO Director General: (Innovationpartners),
• Cross retaliation at the WTO: Why I think WIPO is wrong: (Spicy
  IP),
• Officials outline international organisations’ IP enforcement policies: (Intellectual Property
  Watch),
• Don’t trust IP to the Post Office!: (Securing
  Innovation),
• IP in unconventional industries: (Cairns)
• Global – Trade
  Marks / Domain Names / Brands
• ICANN
  panel questions Network Solutions on domain name frontrunning: (Ars
  Technica), (Out-Law),
• ICANN:
  New TLD’s policy: (Class 46),

• ICANN
  not yet ready to sever ties to US government: (IP
  Justice),

• Comments
  to the US government on review of joint project agreement with ICANN: (IP
  Justice),
• Domain
  names are bigger than trade marks: ICANN’s new consumer protection role: (IP
  Justice),
• WIPO:
  domain name 4711.org registered in bad faith: Mäurer Wirtz GmbH & Co.
  KG v Lajos Kiss, Delux Befektetes: (Class
  46),
• WIPO:
  domain name audiexperience.com should be transferred to Audi: Audi AG v Mike
  Gillespie, Gillespie Auto Group: (Class
  46),
• WIPO:
  Financial magazine The Economist fails in attempt to gain control of domain
  name theeconomist.com because registrant had not heard of the magazine at time
  of registration: (Out-Law),
• Domain
  hijacking: (Dilanchian),
• Animals
  in trade mark design?: (Class
  46),
• Paper
  on virtual trade marks: (Innovationpartners)

Global – Patents

• Patents
  as intangible asset partitions: (Patent
  Prospector),
• Selling
  out – exiting a patent dispute by company sale: (IP
  ThinkTank),
• IBM
  leads from the front and puts green patents on the side of the angels: (IAM),
• Innovation
  and the university-industry interface: (Securing
  Innovation),

• Thomson’s
  ‘Patent focus report for 2008’ covering patent activity in China , Europe, Japan , India and US: (Spicy
  IP), (Peter
  Zura’s 271 Patent Blog),

• Unprecedented
  number of international patent filings in 2007: (WIPO),
• The
  cost of substandard patents: (Technological
  Innovation and Intellectual Property)

Pharma & Biotech

Pharma & Biotech – General

• 29
  Billion reasons to litigate?: (IP
  ThinkTank),
• When
  does the patent expire?: (GenericsWeb),
• EU: Pharmaceutical sector enquiry regarding possible
  misuse of IP rights: (GenericsWeb),
• India:
  Indian government seeks to be a leader in deep sea bed mining to provide
  competitive edge for pharmaceutical companies in the development of new drugs:
  (Spicy
  IP),
• India : Medical
  Devices Regulation Bill formulated: (Spicy
  IP),
• India : Pharma gets bigger
  – Novo Nordisk and Merck & Co expansion plans: (Spicy
  IP),
• India : US patent reform and the Indian generics market: (Patent Prospector),
• India : Patent laws under scrutiny:
  Biotechnology Industry Association seek changes: (Spicy
  IP), (more from Spicy
  IP),
• India : IP rights and genetic resources: the role of the
  National Biodiversity Authority: (International
  Law Office),
• Nigeria :
  National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control to deploy
  holographs in fight against fake drugs: (Afro-IP),
• Thailand : WHO report on TRIPs flexibilities and
  access to medicines in Thailand :
  (Spicy
  IP),
• UK: Roundabout trade avoids trade mark infringement,
  says Court of Appeal: Eli Lilly and Co & Anor v 8PM Chemist Ltd: (IPKat),
• UK : Court of Appeal delivers verdict in Boehringer
  Ingelheim v Swingward trade mark dispute involving reboxing of drugs and parallel
  importation: (IPKat),
• US: Follow-on biologics and patent
  reform – Will they discourage venture capital investment in the biotechnology
  industry?: (GenericsWeb),
• US: Dr Robert Shapiro discusses
  follow-on biologics report: (Patent
  Docs),
• US: New report identifies $387
  billion in savings from generic biologics: (Holman’s
  Biotech IP Blog),
• US: Can approval of biogenerics
  really save money?: (Patent
  Baristas),
• Vietnam : new developments in patent protection for medical
  uses: (Patent
  Docs),
• Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation licenses stem
  cell patents to BioTime: (IPBiz)

Pharma & Biotech – Products

• Floxin
  (Ofloxacin) –US Supreme Court declines Daiichi Sankyo’s request for appeal of
  CAFC decision reversing Daichii’s initial win in its ofloxacin patent
  infringement case against Apotex: (IP
  Law360),
• Galvus
  (Vildagliptin) – Indian patent granted to Novartis for anti-diabetic drug
  Vildagliptin: (Patent
  Circle),
• Isentress
  (Raltegravir) – Indian patent granted to Merck for antiretroviral drug Raltegravir:
  (Patent
  Circle),
• Kogenate
  (Recombinant factor VIII) – Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics Inc and Novo
  Nordisk file patent suit against Bayer AG and its US subsidiary for patent
  infringement over Kogenate, hemophilia treatment: (IP
  Law360),
• Lipitor
  (Atorvastatin) – Netherlands High Court upholds validity of Pfizer’s Lipitor
  patent preventing Ranbaxy from launching its generic version until patent
  expiry in November 2011: (Spicy
  IP), (IP
  Law360),
• Mircera
  (Methoxy polythylene glycol-epoetin beta) – Amgen reiterates desire for permanent injunction against Roche distributing
  Mircera in the US market, following Roche’s proposal to pay 20% royalty on
  Mircera’s US sales: (IP
  Law360),
• Provigil
  (Modafinil) – US FTC files complaint against Cephalon alleging the company paid
  four generic drug manufacturers (Ranbaxy, Teva, Mylan and Barr) to delay entry
  as part of litigation settlements: (IP
  Law360), (IP
  Law360), (Spicy
  IP),

• Seroquel
  (Quetiapine) – AstraZeneca says no to patent deal talks because it expects to
  prevail in US patent disputes over Nexium (Esomeprazole) and Seroquel: (TherapeuticsDaily),

• Solanesol
  – Central Tobacco Research Institute has patented Solanesol, a medical
  substance from tobacco: (Spicy
  IP),
• Soliris
  (Eculizumab) – Alexion Pharmaceuticals agrees to pay $10 million to Oklahoma
  Medical Research Foundation to settle Soliris patent dispute: (IP
  Law360),
• Tarceva
  (Erlotinib) – Legal issues involved in Roche’s Indian case against CIPLA over
  Tarceva (Part 2): (Generic
  Pharmaceuticals & IP),

• Tarceva (Erlotinib) – Indian government to consider next week whether to
  grant compulsory licenses to Natco for the exportation of generic versions of
  Tarceva and Sutent (Sunitinib) to Nepal : (Intellectual Property
  Watch), (GenericsWeb),

• Taxotere (Docetaxel) – Thailand Government Pharmaceutical Organisation signs
  deal with Dabur Pharma to distribute generic breast and lung cancer treatment in
  Thailand despite uncertainty over compulsory licensing in the country: (Spicy
  IP)

Africa

• Ivory
  Coast breaks ranks, goes for EPA with Europe :
  (Afro-IP),
• Cape Town hosts WIPO’s 2008 IP executive course in April: (Afro-IP),
• Arab world makes progress in IPR
  protection, says Business Soft Alliance, citing Morocco: (Afro-IP),
• Crocs counterfeit raid stands up in
  SA High Court decision: (Afro-IP),
• Zambia steps up the fight against pirates: (Afro-IP)

Australia

• Rudd Government considers
  three-strikes policy against computer users who download songs illegally: (LawFont.com),
  (Techdirt),
  (Ars
  Technica),
• Decision in Review Australia Pty
  Ltd v Innovative Lifestyle Investments Pty Ltd concerning a registered
  design for a garment: (IP
  Down Under),
• Good news for parallel importers –
  bad news for copyright owners: The Polo/Lauren Co L.P v Ziliani Holdings Pty
  Ltd: (IP
  Down Under),
• Australian governments embrace
  creative commons licensing: (Michael Geist)

Austria

• Austrian
  Standards Institute on trade mark valuation: (IP
  finance)

Benelux

• Benelux
  Court of Justice rules on bad faith trade mark infringement and a claim for an
  account of profits: Michel Company Inc v IWC: (Class
  46)

Brazil

• Brazilian government publishes bill
  on bioprospecting/biopiracy: (Patent
  Baristas)

Canada

• CMPDA claims camcording all but
  disappears in Canada:
  (Michael Geist),
• Independent report blasts Access
  Copyright over lack of transparency: (Michael Geist),
• Gilberto Gil, Brazilian Culture
  Minister and musician, on copyright: (Michael Geist), (IP
  Justice),
• National Post joins the copyright
  debate: (Michael
  Geist),
• Canadian authors get short end of
  copyright collective stick: (Ars
  Technica),
• Canadian Heritage Committee seeks a
  say in copyright reform: (Michael Geist),
• Corporate giants call for copyright
  compromise: (Michael
  Geist),
• Montreal Gazette: Richard Stobbe on IP rights in the context
  of the internet: (ipblog.ca),

China

• Calculation of trade mark
  infringement damages in China:
  (IP
  finance),
• MPA files suit against Xunlei
  Networking Technology Co. in China
  after the company allegedly made it easy for subscribers to download US films online:
  (Ars
  Technica),
• Chinese IP teleconferences – 19, 26
  February: (China
  Law Blog),
• International Olympic Committee issues official blogging rules for athletes
  participating in Beijing Olympics: (Techdirt), (Ars
  Technica),
• Chinese government scolds search
  engine, Baidu, for allowing internet users to access controversial celebrity
  images: (Techdirt),
• Counterfeit iPhones smuggled
  outside China; genuine
  iPhones smuggled back into China:
  (IP
  Dragon),
• Apple in China, Part 1: Apple takes an
  unfair beating on iPhone: (The China
  Game),
• Supreme People’s Court’s 18 Feb 08
  judicial explanation on trade marks, enterprise names, and other prior existing
  rights: (China
  Business Law Blog),
• Waves of changes in Chinese patent
  law and regulations: (Philip
  Brooks),
• China innovation. And when will that be?: (China
  Law Blog),
• Chinese patent trials to allow
  foreign experts as reference, not evidence: (IP
  Updates),
• Seminars on IP valuation,
  litigation and damages issues in the US and surveys on attendants’
  attitudes: (IP
  Law360),
• Registering a trade mark in China: (Ezine
  @rticles)

Ecuador

• Creative commons licence drafts
  from Ecuador and Norway enter
  public discussion: (creativecommons.org)

Europe

• Call for copyright extension for
  performers: (John Carroll),
  (The
  IP Factor), (Spicy
  IP), (Public Knowledge),
  (IPR-Helpdesk),
  (Techdirt),
  (Innovationpartners),
• European research discussion, IP
  input urgently needed: (IPEG),
• Contributions submitted in response
  to the green paper in the European Research Area: (IPR-Helpdesk),
• Bundesgerichtshof refers
  ‘Bayerisches Bier’ to the ECJ to consider questions regarding extent of
  protection awarded to a GI under Council Regulation (EEC) 2081/92: (Class
  46), (IPKat),
• CFI rules Orsay’s pink CTM
  applications are confusingly similar to the prior Spanish registration for
  D’ORSAY: Orsay GmbH v OHIM: (Class
  46),
• ECJ ruling values confidentiality
  ahead of transparency in Case C-450/06 Varec SA v Belgium, Diehl Remschied
  GmbH & Co intervening: (IPKat),
• European carmakers use home courts
  to block alleged Chinese copies: (Intellectual Property
  Watch),
• EU skeptical on Microsoft’s
  interoperability conversion: (Ars
  Technica),
• EU Parliament demands action on
  criminal IP penalties: (Out-Law),
  (IP
  Law360),
• European Commission announces new
  investments in EU-Asia research cooperation: (IPR-Helpdesk)

France

• CHASSELAS DE MOISSAC wins over a
  number of other terms used by local producers to be the future PDO for grapes:
  (Class
  46)

Germany

• Germany working toward implementation of the London
  Agreement: (IPKat)

India

• Indian auto sector catching up with
  global counterparts in terms of technology, and litigation over technology: Bajaj
  v TVS: (Spicy
  IP),
• Madras High Court grants order
  restraining TVS from manufacturing and selling their new Flame 125 bikes: Bajaj
  v TVS: (Generic
  Pharmaceuticals & IP), (Spicy
  IP), (Spicy
  IP),
• GI protection for ‘Karbi Anglong
  ginger’ and other spices: (Spicy IP),
• India and Pakistan work jointly to register GI for Basmati rice but no such harmony between the
  nations over GI protection for Pashmina: (Spicy
  IP),
• Gujarat: Is the general level of industrial progress an
  accurate index of a State’s IP awareness?: (Spicy
  IP),
• Indian gaming industry and IP
  creation: (Spicy
  IP),
• Society for Technology Management:
  International conference on IP and technology transfer – 13-16 April: (Spicy
  IP),
• IP delegation from Japan to
  emphasise importance of protecting intellectual property in a situation of a
  burgeoning economy: (Spicy
  IP),
• Exporting Bayh Dole to India: whither
  transparency?: (Part I – Spicy
  IP), (Part II – Spicy
  IP),
• WIPO Director General race on, but no Indian running: (Spicy
  IP),
• Recent case suggests Indian Patent Office may have granted same patent to
  two entities: (Spicy
  IP),
• Indian diamond industry: ‘Brighter’ times ahead (new technology and IP
  rights): (Spicy
  IP),
• Bharatmatrimony obtains restraining order over domain name: (contentSutra),
  (Spicy
  IP),
• Good news for movie watchers – Moser Baer has developed an innovative
  strategy to fight copyright infringement: (Spicy
  IP),

• NLSIU to hold national symposium on challenges to India ’s patent regime – 12, 13
  April: (Spicy
  IP)

Iraq

• Iraq waives Israel Boycott declaration requirement: (The
  IP Factor)

Italy

• Italian government seeks GI protection for Radicchio di Chioggia for cabbages:
  (Class
  46),
• New national legislation infringes EU copyright law: (International
  Law Office)

Korea

• Korean University Professor Lee
  Keung-hae wins patent infringement case against Microsoft: (Patent
  Prospector),

Kosovo

• Declaration of Kosovo independence
  and IP rights: (IPKat)

Luxembourg

• ECJ rules that Luxembourg failed to implement provisions of IP
  Enforcement Directive:Commission des Communautés européennes v Grand-Duché
  de Luxembourg:
  (IPKat)

Norway

• Creative commons licence drafts
  from Ecuador and Norway enter
  public discussion: (creativecommons.org)

Russia

• New Russian law focuses on domain
  names, licences: (Class
  46)

Spain

• Spanish PTO will use email to notify parties not having a domicile in Spain: (Class
  46)

United Kingdom

• ISP’s don’t want to enforce ‘three strikes’ rule
  for copyright abusers: (Ars
  Technica),
• UK ISPs to start tracking your
  surfing to serve you advertisements: (Techdirt),
• Intellectual property rights and
  software protection – a programmer’s view: (Ezine
  @rticles),
• Settlement agreement clause not to
  challenge patent validity may be void in Europe,
  says England & Wales Patent Court: Knorr-Bremse
  Systems for Commercial Vehicles Ltd v Haldex Brake Products GmbH: (IP
  Updates), (IPKat),
• Budweiser trade mark dispute on
  again, in Chancery Division this time: Budejovicky Budvar Narodni Podnik v
  Anheuser-Busch Inc.: (IPKat),
• CPA to float? UK patent
  service providers report record profits: (IAM),
• Franchisor wins trade mark appeal
  but is given ‘little hope’ of damages: Gary Fearns (t/a Autopaint
  International) v Anglo-Dutch Paint & Chemical Co & Ors: (IPKat),
• BBC Radio 4 to broadcast programs
  on ‘global war between the defenders of IP and those determined to share it’
  (25-29 Feb) and specifically on trade marks (26 Feb): (Class
  46),
• Information Commissioner: ‘Data
  protection and privacy have come of age’: (IMPACT),
• Facebook bows to protest and allows
  account deletion: (Out-Law),
• Lawyers penalized for data
  protection breach: (Out-Law),
• Information Tribunal orders
  disclosure of legal advice on public interest grounds: (IMPACT)

United States

US
General

• Lawrence Lessig
  considers running for Congress: (Ars
  Technica), (Cairns),
  (Lessig Blog),
  (Public Knowledge), (Techdirt), (Ars
  Technica), (Lessig
  Blog), (Lessig
  Blog),
• Software Freedom Law Centre
  launches legal primer for FOSS projects: (IMPACT),
• Discussion of Meon’s paper ‘Is
  mobility of technical personnel a source of R&D spillovers?: (IPBiz),
  (more from IPBiz),
• House
  Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet and Intellectual Property: Hearing on
  design law: Are special provisions needed to protect unique industries?: (Public Knowledge), (Techdirt), (Patry
  Copyright Blog), (IP
  Law360), (Counterfeit
  Chic), (debate on Kojo Nnamdi show – Public Knowledge, and
  further elaboration at Public
  Knowledge),
• New US case law resource launched,
  already using CCZero beta: (opencontentlawyer.com),
• Honour code at Ohio University
  won’t resolve plagiarism problem: (IPBiz),
• The
  Press and stupid accusations of plagiarism: (Patry
  Copyright Blog), (Techdirt),
• US Trade Representative invites submissions on Anti-Counterfeiting
  Trade Agreement: (Michael
  Geist),
• Comment on Anti-Counterfeiting
  Trade Agreement to US Trade Representative: (IP
  Justice),
• On the constitutional reasons
  behind copyright and patents: (Techdirt)

US Patent
Reform

• The PTO is not broken – please
  don’t fix: (PLI),Vote on patent reform delayed: (Anticipate
  This!), (IAM),

• Patent reform is again before Washington legislators,
  as Congress continue to fail to reach a consensus on the legislation: (Intellectual
  Property Law Blog),

• BIO CEO provides update on patent
  reform and follow-on biologics legislation: (Part II – Patent
  Docs),

• Patent reform losing steam in the
  Senate: (PLI),Discussion of Senators Leahy and
  Hatch’s Washington Times editorial: (Patently-O),
  (IPBiz),

• Response to Senators Leahy and
  Hatch’s Washington Times editorial by George Margolin of the Professional
  Inventors Alliance: (Patent Prospector),

• Patent reform could protect Data
  Treasury defendants: (Techdirt),

• The (Un)intended consequences of
  the law (how proposed patent reform could assist Data Treasury defendants, The
  Medicines Company and others): (Patent
  Docs),

• Patent reform could hurt
  innovation, economy according to study: (IP
  Law360),

• Patent reform could increase
  deficit by $1.4 billion according to Congressional Budget Office estimate: (IP
  Law360),

• Provision of reform bill will
  triple cost of patents: (IP
  Law360),

• Are VCs, rather than patent law,
  thwarting innovation?: (IPBiz),

• Brian Yost on patent reform: (IPBiz),

• Judge Michel on patent reform: (Patent
  Docs),

• CAFC on patent reform: (Patent
  Prospector),

• Bernard Frieder on patent reform: (Patent
  Prospector),

• US patent system: don’t fix the system, fix the
  people: (PLI),

• Patent Reform Act goes down to the
  wire: (IAM),

• Suppressing innovation? – comments
  on earlier post ‘An unwitting dupe, duped again?’: (IPBiz)

US
Patents

• In re Bilski: Full CAFC to reexamine the scope of subject matter
  patentability for business methods, also to consider whether it is appropriate
  to reconsider or overrule State Street Bank & Trust Co. v. Signature
  Financial Group, Inc., and AT&T Corp. v. Excel Communications, Inc:
  (Patently-O),
  (PLI),
  (IP
  Updates), (Techdirt),
  (The
  Fire of Genius), (Patent
  Troll Tracker), (Anticipate
  This! ), (Washington
  State Patent Law Blog), (The
  IP Factor), (IPBiz),
  (IP
  Spotlight), (IP
  Law360), (Innovationpartners),
  (IPBiz),
• Knowledge leak prevention through
  aggressive patent enforcement strategy: (IP
  Updates),
• USPTO modifies declaration to
  permit access to application by foreign patent offices: (IP
  Updates),
• New applications on peer-to-patent:
  (cairns),
• New USPTO-PPAC members: (e^(ip)),
  (IAM),
• BIO on patent reform: (Patent Prospector),
• Patent law and employee contracts: DDB
  Technologies v MLB Advanced Media: (IPBiz),
  (IP
  Spotlight),
• Recordation issue: DDB
  Technologies v MLB Advanced Media: (IPBiz),
• Patent brokerage, IPotential
  generates over $100 million in sales during 2007: (IAM),
• USPTO news: Proposed rule change to
  timing of filing a biological deposit: (Patent
  Docs), (IP
  Updates),
• Rocket dockets – Eastern District
  of Texas most popular court for patent litigation, time to trial about two
  years: (Patent
  Prospector), (IP
  Law360),
• Wilfulness post-Seagate: (Chicago
  IP Litigation Blog),
• Symposium on patent failure – 29
  March, University of Georgia : (Technological
  Innovation and Intellectual Property)

US
Copyright

• Discussion
  of Zahr Said Stauffer article: ‘Po-mo karaoke’ or postcolonial pastiche? What
  fair use analysis could draw from literary criticism: (43(B)log),
• Could US copyright law be in for a change?: (The
  IP Factor),
• Fraud
  and preemption: Shuptrine v McDougal Littell: (Patry
  Copyright Blog),
• Researcher
  maps out plan to target BitTorrent uploaders: (Ars
  Technica),
• LA
  Times article on whether file sharing amounts to stealing: (Techdirt),
• While
  US blames P2P for everything, EU invests money in it: (Techdirt),
• Copyright
  Registrar requires separate license determination under sections 112 and 114: (IP
  Updates)
• The owner of the SAT college
  entrance exam, CEEB sues Karen Dillard College Prep LP for copyright
  infringement, claiming that KDCP copied and distributed stolen materials to
  students: (IP
  Law360),

US
Trademarks

• In his own sweet voice – sound
  marks: (Anticipate
  This!)

US
– Companies / Entities

• adidas America – Court finds in
  favour of adidas in its product design trade dress infringement case against
  Payless Shoesource: (43(B)log),
• Advanced Micro Devices – Federal Judge
  hands down order meant to resolve loose ends in patent case between Silicon
  Graphics and AMD but AMD asks for
  clarification to ensure record is accurate in case SGI lodges an appeal: (IP
  Law360),
• American Civil Liberties Union – US
  Supreme Court refuses to hear appeal in ACLU’s privacy case against the US
  government over the NSA’s program of tapping phone lines without a warrant: (Out-Law),
• AT&T – Counsel Corporation
  subsidiary C2 settles patent dispute with AT&T over VoIP technology: (Philip
  Brooks), (IP
  Law360),
• Atlanta Attachment – CAFC reverses summary judgment of
  infringement because embodiments were on sale before critical date:
• Atlanta Attachment v Leggett & Platt: (Patent
  Prospector),
• Boston Scientific – Radiologist, Dr
  Bruce N Saffran’s award jumps to $501 million in patent infringement case
  against Boston Scientific after judge adds $69 million in interest: (Spicy
  IP), (IP
  Law360), (Patent
  Troll Tracker), (Patent Prospector),
• Broadcom – Federal Judge rules that
  doctrine of laches bars software engineer, Mark Moore, from bringing claims
  against Broadcom over patent on TV recording and replaying technology: (IP
  Law360), (Peter
  Zura’s 271 Patent Blog),
• CardioFocus – CardioFocus sues nine
  competitors for patent infringement over laser heart device: (IP
  Law360),
• Chamberlain Group – Inconsistency
  in claim construction results in CAFC’s reversal of preliminary injunction: Chamberlain
  Group v Lear: (Patent
  Prospector), (IP
  Law360),
• Data Network Storage – Data Network
  Storage launches patent infringement suit against Hewlett-Packard Co, Dell, and
  Network Appliance over data storage system: (IP
  Law360),
• Emergis Techs – Federal Circuit
  reverses construction but upholds noninfringement in Emergis’ patent
  infringement case against PNM Resources & Otter Tail Corporation: (Chicago
  IP Litigation Blog),
• Enkay Rubber Co – Indian company,
  Enkay sues Score American Soccer Co, Uniroyal Goorich and Michelin NA for
  infringement of its US patent relating to bladder shells for inflatable balls:
  (Spicy
  IP)
• Erico International – CAFC: As a
  matter of law, preliminary injunction defeated by ‘casting doubt’ on patent’s
  validity: Erico Int’l v Vutec Doc’s Marketing: (Patently-O),
  (IP
  Updates), (Peter
  Zura’s 271 Patent Blog), (Patent
  Prospector), (Generic
  Pharmaceuticals & IP), (IP
  Law360),
• Eva’s Bridal – Alleged destruction
  of good name states trade mark abandonment claim: Eva’s Bridal Ltd v
  Halanick Enter., Inc.: (Chicago
  IP Litigation Blog),
• Google – Former Google contractor
  sues Google claiming the idea for ‘Google Sky’ was his: (Techdirt),
• Implicit Networks – Implicit
  Networks launches patent lawsuit against AMD, Intel, NVIDIA, Raza, RealNetworks
  and Sun over data processing system: (Ars
  Technica),
• Intel – Wisconsin Alumni Research
  Foundation sues Intel for infringement of a patent covering a circuit developed
  at the University of Wisconsin-Madison: (IPBiz),
• Intel – High Court won’t hear
  patent battle over microprocessor technology brought by now defunct All
  Computers Inc against Intel: (IP
  Law360),
• Lennon – Yoko Ono clarifies Lennon
  trade mark dispute with a singer Lennon Murphy: (Techdirt),
• Mars Company – New York street
  theatre performer known as the ‘The Naked Cowboy’ sues Mars company for trade
  mark infringement over their advertisement involving animated M&Ms wearing
  underwear and cowboy hats set in a virtual Times Square: (Techdirt), (IPBiz),
  (Counterfeit
  Chic),
• Medtronic – District Court holds
  Medtronic and the law firm representing them, McDermott Will & Emery,
  liable for Brainlab’s costs in the patent infringement case brought by
  Medtronic: (IP
  Directions),
• Microsoft – Microsoft launches
  initiative to foster better interoperability with competing products and
  technologies: (Ars
  Technica),
• Motorola – Motorola brings patent
  infringement lawsuit against Research in Motion (RIM) over cell phone
  technologies, RIM files patent infringement countersuit: (Techdirt), (PLI),
  (IP
  Law360), (Patent
  Prospector), (Out-Law),
• Northbrook Digital Corp – Federal
  Judge rules software used by now-defunct Browster infringed five of Northbrook’s web-browsing patents: (IP
  Law360),
• Nuijten – CAFC denies en banc
  rehearing – decision of non-patentability for signal claims stands: In Re
  Petrus A.C.M. Nuijten: (PLI),
• Oracle – Federal Judge orders Oracle
  and SAP AG into mediation to resolve their trade secrets feud: (IP
  Law360),
• Phoenix Solutions – Phoenix
  Solutions sues DirecTV Group, alleging that interactive voice response system
  the defendant uses to field calls from customers infringes four patents related
  to computer-based speech recognition technology: (IP
  Law360),
• Pirate Bay –
  Prince, The Village People and others to launch lawsuits against BitTorrent
  tracker, Pirate Bay , in US and Swedish courts: (Ars
  Technica),
• Rembrandt IP – Rembrandt IP seeks
  huge patent licensee fees from cable companies, television broadcasters: (Techdirt),
• Retractable Technologies –
  Retractable Technologies sues RadioShack, Fry’s Electronics and Belkin
  International for infringement of its retractable USB cable patent: (IP
  Law360),
• RIAA – Improper joiner rulings,
  sanctions threats don’t deter RIAA: (Ars
  Technica),
• RIAA – Judge dismisses malicious
  prosecution lawsuit brought by Tanya Andersen against RIAA and MediaSentry: (Ars
  Technica),
• RIAA – In leaked ‘training video’
  put together by the RIAA for the National District Attorneys Association, RIAA
  representatives talk about how prosecutors can use music piracy charges to go
  after drug dealers and terrorists: (Techdirt),
• Sandata – Sandata loses bid to
  dismiss antitrust counterclaims brought by Infocrossing in response to
  Sandata’s patent suit over health care worker monitoring systems: (IP
  Law360),
• Sanofi-Aventis – Sanofi-Aventis
  files suit against Safety Syringes Inc in attempt to defend itself against
  patent infringement allegations that are part of a different lawsuit Safety
  Syringes has filed against Plastef Investissements: (IP
  Law360),
• SCO – Stephen Norris Capital
  Partners finances reorganization of SCO and plans for SCO to pursue Novell/IBM
  litigation aggressively despite the company’s earlier litigation failure: (Ars
  Technica), (Techdirt),
  (IP
  Law360), (Against
  Monopoly),
• SMC – ITC Judge rules that SMC did
  not infringe Norgren Inc’s patent relating to pneumatic devices: (IP
  Law360),
• Smith & Nephew – Federal Judge
  approves a deal that resolves a patent suit Smith & Nephew Plc filed
  against Synthes Inc. in 2002 and dissolves a 2006 injunction: (IP
  Law360),
• Sony Computer Entertainment Europe – Buzztime Entertainment brings trademark
  infringement lawsuit against Sony over Sony’s use of the name Buzz! and the
  tagline “It’s time to get buzzing!’ in connection with quiz games: (Class
  46),
• Spirits International – TTAB rules
  ordinary American purchasers include those knowledgeable in English and foreign
  language, therefore Spirits International’s ‘Moskovskaya’ mark meaning ‘of or
  from Moscow’ is misleading: In re Spirits International NV: (IP
  Updates), (IP
  Law360),
• Sports Authority – Product recall
  of Fun2Fly Microcopter toys sparks copyright infringement suit involving three
  toy companies and retailer, Sports Authority: (IP
  Law360),
• TomTom – TomTom launches patent
  suit against Aisin AW, alleging the company violated four patents for car
  navigation systems: (IP
  Law360),
• Virgin Enterprises – Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit rules that TTAB personal subpoena power extends to foreign trade mark
  applicant corporations: Rosenruist-Gestao E Servicos LDA v Virgin
  Enterprises Ltd: (IP
  Updates)