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Philip Brooks’ Patent Infringement Updates

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Last Entry: May 24, 2010 at 12:52:16

Nokia, Qualcomm Patent Battle To Be Webcast

Posted on July 22, 2008
A reader tipped me off to this interesting item by W. David Gardner in yesterday's (July 21, 2008) InformationWeek: The mother of all wireless patent cases is scheduled to get under way Wednesday when Qualcomm (NSDQ: QCOM) and Nokia (NYSE:...

Developments in Pharmaceutical and Biotech Patent Law

Posted on July 21, 2008
The Practising Law Institute is hosting a seminar with the above title in New York City and San Francisco (Live Webcast) on September 11, 2008 and October 15, 2008, respectively. Pharmaceutical and biotech patent law is an important and rapidly...

Green Patent Blog

Posted on July 18, 2008
Eric Lane is the author of the Green Patent Blog ("covering intellectual property issues in clean technology") which launched in December 2007. He is a patent attorney at Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps in San Diego, where he is in...

Patently Protectionist

Posted on July 17, 2008
I was recently contacted by reader and author, Colleen V. Chien, Assistant Professor, Santa Clara University School of Law. She has written a paper on the International Trade Commission titled, "Patently Protectionist? An Empirical Analysis of Patent Cases at the...

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District Judges? Greater Use of Case-Specific Specialized Advisors

Posted on July 16, 2008
Chief Judge James F. Holderman of the United States District Court, Northern District of Illinois and Halley Guren, Senior Law Clerk to Chief Judge Holderman make four proposals (PTO post-grant review; the Federal Circuit?s changing the standard of review and...

Teva Gets a Taste of Its Own Medicine

Posted on July 15, 2008
This from Brian Orelli, writing for The Motley Fool, on July 14, 2008: Now Teva Pharmaceutical (Nasdaq: TEVA) knows what it feels like to be on the other side of a patent challenge. The generic-drug maker said last week that...

Where Are All the New Rocket Dockets?

Posted on July 14, 2008
An article that I wrote for Evalueserve's Circle of Experts on the impact of local patent rules in various courts has just been published by Primerus. Many of those involved with patent infringement litigation are well aware of the Texas...

Teva Intends to File Lawsuit Against Generic Filer for Patent Infringement

Posted on July 11, 2008
The following is excerpted from a July 11, 2008 Teva press release appearing at PharmaLive: Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (Nasdaq: TEVA) today commented on Momenta Pharmaceuticals, Inc./Sandoz Inc.'s announcement regarding the filing of a Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA) containing...

U.S. International Trade Commission Institutes Investigation Based Upon Flexsys Patent

Posted on July 10, 2008
A July 10, 2008 Solutia Inc. press release published by Prime Newswire stated, in part: Flexsys(r) America L.P., a subsidiary of Solutia Inc. (NYSE:SOA), today announced that the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) has voted to institute an investigation of...

A Few Federal Judges are Creating New e-Discovery Rules

Posted on July 09, 2008
As a follow-up to my July 2, 2008 post, you might find the article titled, "Rockin' Out the E-Law" by Jason Krause in the July 2008 print issue of the ABA Journal of interest. E-discovery consultant Mary Mack of the...

WordLogic Corporation Files Patent Infringement Against Mercedes-Benz

Posted on July 08, 2008
The following is excerpted from a WordLogic press release that appeared today, July 8, 2008, at Business Wire: WordLogic Corporation (OTCBB:WLGC) announces that a patent infringement lawsuit has been filled against Mercedes-Benz USA by our attorneys in US District Court,...

Patent Litigation

Posted on July 07, 2008
Practising Law Institute (PLI) is hosting "Patent Litigation 2008" in San Francisco (with live webcast) on September 22-23, 2008. The program will also take place in Northern Virginia, Chicago, Atlanta and New York City with October and November dates...

Search for Prior Art Using IEEE

Posted on July 03, 2008
I received the following offer from IEEE and have added it to my Tools list: When it comes to US and European technology patenting, the IEEE is cited nearly 4 times more frequently than any other publisher. And our IEEE...

E-Mail Archives And Litigation: Here's How To Get It Right

Posted on July 02, 2008
Andrew Conry-Murray writes for InformationWeek (From the June 23, 2008 print issue) about how, "[f]ailure to manage e-mail can cost millions in court. A popular framework and an archiving system can help get your house in order--and pay dividends in....

Costs of Patent Infringement Litigation

Posted on July 01, 2008
In a presentation titled, "U.S. Patent Law ? A Procedural Overview" by Fox Rothschild LLP, a cost estimate for the various steps of a patent infringement case is included. These costs are as follows: i. Prefiling investigation ~ $5,000. ii....

FormFactor Patents Invalid, SK Supreme Court Rules

Posted on June 30, 2008
EE Times Asia reported today, June 30, 2008: The South Korea Supreme Court issued an oral ruling that 12 claims of FormFactor's Korean Patent No.252457 are invalid, and ordering the case to be taken back to the Korean Patent Court...

Patent Infringement Updates Celebrates Third Anniversary

Posted on June 27, 2008
Thanks to all of you loyal, as well as occassional, readers. Please let me know what types of content you would like to see in the coming year. All the best... Phil

Patent Damages: The European Landscape

Posted on June 26, 2008
An article of the above title by Gregory J. Urbanchuk and James R. Tumbridge appears in the Summer 2008 issue of the American Bar Association's Intellectual Property Litigation (available to members only). The rules for quantifying patent damages varies among...

Peer-to-patent Increases Prior Art Submissions

Posted on June 25, 2008
Eklavya Gupte reporting on June 23, 2008, from London for Managing Intellectual Property writes, "[t]he USPTO's peer-to-patent project has led to a big increase in prior art submissions but has failed to bring in fresh patent applications in its first...

CBI?s Pharmaceutical Congress on Paragraph IV Disputes

Posted on June 24, 2008
The Center for Business Intelligence is hosting the above titled conference in Philadelphia, PA on October 15 - 16, 2008. Paragraph IV litigation is reaching an all-time high with almost $85 billion in product sales that potentially could be affected...

Pitt Sues Again Over Patents

Posted on June 23, 2008
Bill Schackner, for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, wrote on June 21, 2008: The University of Pittsburgh, turned down by a federal judge in Pittsburgh, has taken a patent infringement lawsuit against the world's largest producer of radiotherapy equipment for cancer treatment...

First China-Based Sucralose Manufacturer Confirms United States ITC Target Date Extension

Posted on June 20, 2008
The following is excerpted from a June 4, 2008 Business Wire press release: Guangdong Food Industry Institute (GDFII/L&P Food), a leading manufacturer of sucralose, announces that Administrative Law Judge Charles E. Bullock of the United States International Trade Commission (ITC)...

Maryland Intellectual Property Law Blog

Posted on June 19, 2008
I have added Brian Wm. Higgins' Maryland Intellectual Property Law Blog to my Blogroll. Mr. Higgins' blog covers the following topics: Copyrights Forms & Downloads IP News and Trends Litigation Patents Patent Reform Act Trade Secrets Trademarks In an April...

The Rise of Asia's Patent Applications

Posted on June 18, 2008
The following News & Trends reports appeared at EE Times Asia on June 2, 2008: In a year that saw a record number of filings under the World Intellectual Property Organization Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT), inventors from South Korea and...

IP License Strategies After Court's Unanimous Ruling on Patent Exhaustion

Posted on June 17, 2008
Strafford Publications is hosting a live 90-Minute CLE Teleconference with Interactive Q&A on July 16, 2008. On June 9, in Quanta Computer Inc. v. LG Electronics Inc., the U.S. Supreme Court once again reversed the Federal Circuit on an issue...

Broadcom Found Not to Infringe SiRF Patents in ITC Ruling

Posted on June 16, 2008
The following is excerpted from a June 13, 2008 Broadcom press release that appeared at PR Newswire: Broadcom Corporation (Nasdaq: BRCM) today announced that the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) rejected claims by GPS chipmaker SiRF Technology Holdings Inc...

More Patent Statistics

Posted on June 13, 2008
In a follow-up to my June 6, 2008 post entitled, "Chinese Patent Statistics," I was contacted by Evalueserve with a link to the study cited in their press release (free, but registration required). These additional observations were provided: The article...

Legal Imperatives on IP Management

Posted on June 12, 2008
A new publication is available from Research and Markets Ltd. in Dublin: The business landscape is littered with intellectual property landmines. Microsoft, Apple Computer, Sun Microsystems, Medtronic, Research in Motion and Nintendo are just a few of the companies that...

Guest Blog: Quanta Computers, Inc. v. LG Electronics, Inc.: The Supreme Court Sets the Law on Patent Exhaustion Back On Track

Posted on June 11, 2008
By Charles R. Macedo, Joseph M. Casino, and Marion P. Metelski Charles R. Macedo and Joseph M. Casino are Partners and Marion P. Metelski is Senior Counsel at Amster, Rothstein & Ebenstein LLP. Their practices specialize in intellectual property issues,...

Chipping Away at the Quanta v. LG Electronics Patent Decision

Posted on June 10, 2008
In a follow-up to the January 11, 2008 guest post authored by Michael J. Kasdan, Esq. and Charles R. Macedo , Esq. of Amster, Rothstein & Ebenstein, LLP, Michael writes, "the Supreme Court resolved in its Quanta decision yesterday the...

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