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Philip Brooks’ Patent Infringement Updates

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Google Gooses Search

Posted on August 19, 2009
I ran across the following Quick Takes item in the August 17, 2009 print edition of InformationWeek: Google's new Caffeine search platform is drawing raves from testers who say it yields more results with better accuracy than its existing search...

GPC Licenses DTL Cell Phone Patent to Eleven Phone Companies

Posted on August 18, 2009
General Patent Corporation (GPC), a leading patent licensing and enforcement firm, announced today [August 18, 2009] on behalf of its client, Digital Technology Licensing LLC (DTL), that it has licensed DTL's key cell phone patent to eleven (11) phone companies...

Boliven Patent Search Site

Posted on August 07, 2009
Boliven is a free patent search site that you may find useful. It covers several patent authorities (USPTO, EPO, PCT, JPO, KIPO) plus INPADOC and includes patent file histories and assignments. It also has some graphical analytics (top assignees, top...

Dish Prevails Over TiVo in Initial Patent Ruling

Posted on August 06, 2009
The following is excerpted from an Associated Press August 5, 2009 article at Forbes: Dish Network Corp. said Tuesday that it has received an initial favorable ruling related to its patent fight with TiVo Inc. The satellite TV operator, and...

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VirnetX Receives Markman Order in Patent Infringement Action Against Microsoft

Posted on August 05, 2009
The following is from a July 31, 2009 VirnetX press release available at PR Newswire: VirnetX Holding Corporation (NYSE Amex: VHC) announced today that the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, Tyler Division, issued its patent...

Patent Exploitation "Made in Germany"

Posted on August 04, 2009
A press releaseappeared today, August 4, 2009, at PR Newswire that really caught my eye. The article describes the importance of considering patent value in lending decisions and in potentially avoiding bankruptcy. I was retainedby a public company several years...

2009 IPO Annual Meeting

Posted on August 03, 2009
The Intellectual Property Owners Association is hosting its 2009 annual meeting September 13-15, 2009 in Chicago, IL. We are pleased to have Greg Brown, President and Co-CEO of Motorola, Inc., as Monday?s luncheon speaker. Tuesday?s luncheon speaker will be Hon...

DOJ Takes Aggressive View of "Pay for Delay" Settlements

Posted on July 31, 2009
The following is excerpted from an article by Thomas Carey appearing in Sunstein's July 2009 IP Update: The Department of Justice now recommends strict scrutiny of ?reverse payments? ? settlements of patent litigation lawsuits in which the plaintiff, a pioneer...

Markman Hearing Presentation

Posted on July 30, 2009
The PLI has a Web Program available from Markman Hearings and Claim Construction in Patent Litigation 2009 recorded July, 2009 in New York City. The purchase price of this Web Program segment includes the following article from the Course Handbook...

Patent Filing Trends Around The Globe: A Dolcera Analysis

Posted on July 29, 2009
From a July 28, 2009 post at The Dolcera Blog: In 2006 total number of application filled across the world were 1,764,633 which were 4.9% more than filled in 2005 (1,681,596). There is 91% increase in patent filing from 1985...

Apple, RIM, Samsung Chips Targeted in Trade Case

Posted on July 28, 2009
The following is excerpted from a Daily Herald article that appeared today, July 28, 2009: Apple Inc., Research In Motion Ltd. and six other companies that use Samsung Electronics Co. memory chips were named in a U.S. trade complaint that...

Teva and Ortho-McNeil-Janssen Settle Ortho Tri-Cyclen® Lo Litigation

Posted on July 27, 2009
On July 24, 2009, Teva issued the following statement at Business Wire: Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (Nasdaq: TEVA) announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement with Ortho-McNeil-Janssen to settle the patent infringement lawsuit in the U...

Neo Material Technologies' Magnequench Division Completes Patent Compliance Program Extension

Posted on July 24, 2009
The following is excerpted from a July 23, 2009 press release appearing at CNW Group: Neo Material Technologies (TSX: NEM) (the "Company" or "Neo") announced today that its Magnequench division has effectively completed the extension of its patent compliance program...

Index Ventures Joins Kleiner Perkins and Charles River in RPX Series B

Posted on July 23, 2009
As a follow-up to my January 26, 2009 and March 16, 2009 posts on RPX, the following news is excerpted from an RPX press release issued today: RPX Corporation, a defensive patent aggregator, today announced it completed a Series B...

Largest Patent Litigation Settlement in China

Posted on July 22, 2009
Evalueserve?s latest article analyzes the patent infringement lawsuit filed by The Chint Group against Schneider Electric in China. It was recently announced that French company Schneider Electric settled a three-year old patent litigation with Chint, one of the largest manufacturers...

How the Supreme Court Should Resolve Bilski v. Doll

Posted on July 21, 2009
Guest post by Charles R. Macedo, Norajean McCaffrey[*] (July 20, 2009) On June 1, 2009, the U.S. Supreme Court granted a petition for writ of certiorari for the Federal Circuit?s decision In re Bilski. See Bilski v. Doll, 129 S.Ct....

AMS Calls Patent-Infringement Loss a Win for Their SCRAM System

Posted on July 20, 2009
The following is excerpted from a July 16, 2009 Alcohol Monitoring Systems, Inc. press release found at PR Newswire: Denver-based Alcohol Monitoring Systems (AMS) has recently lost a long-standing patent infringement case against Tampa, Florida-based Actsoft...

Lawyer Could Face Jail for Voir Dire Question

Posted on July 17, 2009
The following item was posted by Debra Cassens Weiss on July 14, 2009 at the ABA Journal: A federal judge has found patent lawyer John van Loben Sels in contempt of court and threatened him with a 48-hour jail sentence...

IP Advocate Adds New Expert Opinions Section

Posted on July 16, 2009
On July 14, 2009, IP Advocate issued a press release (see excerpt below): Adding new functionality and resources to its award-winning online community, IP Advocate has launched ?Expert Opinions,? a new section in the IPAO Forum on IPAdvocate.org designed to...

Protection of Business Method Patents Outside the United States

Posted on July 16, 2009
The above-titled article in the Vol.1 No.5 May/June 2009 print issue of Landslide (a publication of the ABA Section of Intellectual Property Law) by Eugene F. Derényi, Vivien Tzau, Nicholas Zweck, Huw Evans, Ramesh C. Dhawan, Anuj Kulshreshtha, Lena Shen,...

Jones Day U.S. Supreme Court Review/Preview

Posted on July 14, 2009
I just came from attending an excellent Supreme Court Round-Up at Jones Day's Pittsburgh office. The program titled, "U.S. Supreme Court OT '08 / OT '09 Review / Preview" was presented by Douglas Cole, Chad Readler, Brian Murray and Leon...

The "Cuddly Dragon Shows His Fiery Side

Posted on July 13, 2009
Simon Watkins of Financial Mail writing at thisismoney.co.uk on July 12, 2009 states: With his floppy hair and boyish grin, millionaire Richard Farleigh was the 'cuddly one' who used to be in BBC Dragons' Den, always ready with a friendly...

Dewey IP Trio Jumps to McKool Smith

Posted on July 10, 2009
The following is excerpted from a July 10, 2009 article by Brian Baxter of The American Lawyer: Only a day after Dewey & LeBoeuf helped itself to the cream of Cooley Godward Kronish's corporate practice, the firm lost three IP...

Inventor Fights for Ownership Rights To His Own Patents

Posted on July 09, 2009
ATLANTA (July 8, 2009) ? IP Advocate today announced that it has published a new case study on its website ? www.IPAdvocate.org ? presenting the story of an academic researcher honored by the EPA who is now battling his university...

Kenyan AIDS Patients Seek To Overturn Anti-Counterfeiting Law

Posted on July 08, 2009
Nicholas Wadhams writes today, July 7, 2009, for Intellectual Property Watch: Three HIV/AIDS patients in Kenya announced Tuesday they will petition the country?s Constitutional Court to declare a new anti-counterfeiting act illegal because it could deny them access to generic...

Federal Data Going Online

Posted on July 07, 2009
J. Nicholas Hoover wrote an article in the June 8, 2009 issue of InformationWeek about the federal government's launch in May of the Data.gov website with 47 data sets. The goal was to have 100,000 data feeds available to the...

Example of Special Master Assignment

Posted on July 06, 2009
By Order of the Court, Blank Law & Technology was appointed Special Master to interview both Plaintiffs and Defendants to determine whether Defendants? destruction of file servers containing project data in a patent infringement case was willful and whether such...

Chip Bans Hit OEM Plans

Posted on July 03, 2009
The following is excerpted from a July 1, 2009 article by Rick Merritt at EE Times: Systems makers may be beginning to feel the bite of a limited exclusion order prohibiting the import of chips from six companies found to...

Bayer Files Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against Teva

Posted on July 02, 2009
The following is excerpted from a Thursday, July 02, 2009 press release at Webwire: Bayer Schering Pharma AG, Germany and Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. together with Schering Corporation have filed a patent infringement lawsuit in the U.S. Federal Court in...

CRESTOR PATENT INVALIDITY EVIDENCE UNCOVERED BY ARTICLE ONE PARTNERS COMMUNITY

Posted on July 01, 2009
The following is excerpted from a July 1, 2009 Article One Partners press release: Article One Partners, LLC has discovered new prior art impacting the validity of AstraZeneca?s Crestor U.S. drug patent, in closing out another round of Patent Studies...

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