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Philip Brooks’ Patent Infringement Updates

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Rule 11 Issues in Patent Infringement Filings

Posted on June 09, 2008
Lawrence Ebert of IPBiz blog wrote on June 6, 2008: GERALD N. PELLEGRINI, appearing pro se against Analog Devices (represented by Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP) took a beating in a case decided by the CAFC on 5...

Chinese Patent Statistics

Posted on June 06, 2008
The following is excerpted from a June 5, 2008 Evaluserve press release that appeared at SANEPR: Although China is still struggling with the image of being a safe haven for intellectual property counterfeiters and thieves, during the last two decades...

Mylan Sued for Patent Infringement on Azor

Posted on June 05, 2008
The following Associated Press item appeared yesterday, June 4, 2008, on CNN Money: Generic drug maker Mylan Inc. said Wednesday it is being sued by Japanese drug maker Daiichi Sankyo for patent infringement on blood pressure drug Azor. Mylan said...

EU Broadens Inquiry into Drug Market

Posted on June 04, 2008
From the European Public Health Alliance (EPHA): European antitrust investigators are expanding the scope of a major inquiry into the ?484 billion pharmaceutical market in a bid to determine whether companies are blocking generics makers from getting less-expensive medicines to...

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FTC Commissioner Rosch on Patent Trolls

Posted on June 03, 2008
J. Thomas Rosch, Commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission spoke before the Newport Summit on Antitrust and Economics in Newport, Rhode Island on May 31, 2008. A reader alerted me to a copy of his remarks which are excerpted, in...

Patent PDF Tools

Posted on June 02, 2008
In view of the lack of easy to use and free tools to download patent documents in PDF format on the web with good country coverage, Rolf Claessen of IP Newsflash and a patent attorney and partner with the patent...

Howrey Loses $250 Million IP Verdict in East Texas

Posted on May 30, 2008
An article appearing in today's (May 30, 2008) issue of Texas Lawyer by Nate Raymond of The American Lawyer states: On May 28, a federal jury in the Eastern District of Texas gave a big win to Sam Baxter of...

PatentCafe Adds New Patent Quality Reports to Its Free CAFC Library

Posted on May 29, 2008
The following is excerpted from a May 28, 2008 PatentCafe press release: The new Patent Factor Index (PFi) Reports, available for public downloading without cost, statistically score more than 2 dozen indicators of patent quality, many of the indices correlating...

The Enterprise Future Of Semantic Search

Posted on May 28, 2008
J. Nicholas Hoover writing in the May 19, 2008 print issue of Information Week states: Powerset launched a tool to search Wikipedia and open source database Freebase Monday, but the technology that powers the search startup could wind up at...

C5's Advanced Forum on Intellectual Asset Mangement for High Tech Industries

Posted on May 27, 2008
As the number of patent applications related to computer implemented business methods and technologies grows, so does the complexity of managing high tech IP portfolios. Against this backdrop, strategy focused companies are responding by taking the necessary steps to avoid...

That's Settled: Micro Backs Tessera Patents

Posted on May 23, 2008
The following is excerpted from an article today, May 23, 2008, at Forbes.com written by Melinda Peer: Tessera Technologies' resilient patents just got stronger--and so did the tech company's stock price as Micro Electronics took licenses on the firm's miniaturized...

Allstate Chief Contemplates Value of its Patents

Posted on May 23, 2008
The following is excerpted from an article today, May 23, 2008, by Becky Yerak in the Chicago Tribune Web Edition: Allstate, which this month introduced new financial products such as ClearTarget Retirement Funds and Guaranteed Lifetime Income, wants to protect...

Court of Appeals Rules on Disputed Terms from Markman Hearing in decisioning.com Case

Posted on May 22, 2008
The following is from a May 7, 2008 Affinity Technology Group, Inc. press release published at Business Wire: Affinity Technology Group, Inc. (OTCBB: AFFI) today announced that the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (the ?Appeals Court?)...

Pre-Filing Investigation of Patent Infringement When Reviewing a Motion for Attorney Fees

Posted on May 21, 2008
An April 1, 2008 post by Lawrence M. Sung, Ph.D., Partner, Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP and Professor & Intellectual Property Law Program Director, University of Maryland School of Law titled, "How the Federal Circuit Looks at a Pre-Filing Investigation of...

NICE Intends to Seek Overturn of Verdict

Posted on May 20, 2008
The following is excerpted from a May 18, 2008 NICE Systems' press release: NICE Systems (Nasdaq: NICE) announced today that in a patent infringement case brought in January 2006 against NICE Systems Inc. and NICE Systems Ltd. by Verint Americas,...

Patent Office Revokes Two Epilepsy Drug Patents

Posted on May 20, 2008
The following is excerpted from a May 19, 2008 Pharmaceutical Patent Attorneys, LLC press release: In two separate rulings, The United States Patent & Trademark Office announced that it will revoke both patents on the epilepsy drug felbamate. The rulings...

Rambus' Injunction Brief

Posted on May 16, 2008
In a follow-up to yesterday's post a reader has provided a copy of Rambus' Injunction Brief. The hearing is scheduled for June 24, 2008. In the 2006 patent trial, the jury awarded Rambus $306,967,272 in damages for Hynix?s sales of...

Silicon Graphics v. ATI Is A Draw

Posted on May 15, 2008
In an update to my February 12, 2008 post, Kyle Fleming and Josh Ryland of Patent Appeal Tracer write: ATI appeals from the judgments of Judge Barbara Crabb on the verdicts that Silicon Graphic's 6,650,327 patent valid and enforceable. The...

Rambus Legal Victories Raise Stock Price Target

Posted on May 14, 2008
Philip Zera, an analyst with Algorithm Capital, sent me his most recent research report on Rambus last night. In his report, Mr. Zera details recent legal decisions affecting Rambus and his expectations on the impact of these decisions. The following...

FTI's 2007 Intellectual Property Statistics

Posted on May 13, 2008
In response to my May 8, 2008 post, Debra Resnick, Global Product Director, Intellectual Property - Forensic and Litigation Consulting of FTI Consulting, provided me with the 2007 version of her firm's Intellectual Property Statistics. Download intellectual_property_statistics_april_2008...

GUEST BLOG: SOME FIRST HAND IMPRESSIONS OF THE EN BANC BILSKI ORAL ARGUMENT

Posted on May 12, 2008
This guest post was written by Charles R. Macedo, Jung Hahm, Howard Wizenfeld and Norajean McCaffrey. [i] On May 8, 2008, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit heard oral arguments in In re Bilski and Warsaw, No....

Press Conference on IPR Protection 2007 Held in Beijing

Posted on May 09, 2008
On May 8, 2008 a press release from the International Sports Movement was available at Sports Features Communications. The following is excerpted from that release: Beijing Intellectual Property Working Conference and the Information Office of the Municipal Government jointly held...

Trade Agency Wants to End Deals Delaying Generics

Posted on May 08, 2008
The following is excerpted from a May 6, 2008 Reuters article by Diane Bartz: A practice by major pharmaceutical companies of paying generic drug companies to delay putting cheaper medicines on the market violates federal law and must be stopped,...

Chinese Firms Triumph in U.S. Battery Suit

Posted on May 08, 2008
The following China Daily item appeared in the May 6, 2008 issue of China View: A U.S. court's decision to shoot down the patent infringement claims of a U.S. battery maker has ended a lengthy case against Chinese battery manufacturers...

Intellectual Property Statistics

Posted on May 08, 2008
Each year the Intellectual Property Group at FTI researches and compiles statistics on intellectual property prosecution and litigation. They recently completed updating their statistics charts to include data for 2006. The charts include: Top Patent Damage Awards: 1980 - 2006...

Evaluating Patent Investments

Posted on May 07, 2008
The Intellectual Property Prospector and the Beard Group Law and Business Publishers are hosting an audio briefing for identifying and evaluating patent investments on May 15, 2008. David S. Ruder, Managing Director of Terrier IP Investments LLC and instructor for...

Sidley Announces Settlement of Patent Infringement Claims Against Fourth LED Manufacturer

Posted on May 06, 2008
The following is excerpted from Sidley Austin's May 6, 2008 press release: Sidley Austin LLP announced today that firm client Professor Gertrude Neumark Rothschild has settled her patent infringement claims against Epistar Corporation, a Taiwanese corporation...

The Increasing Role of Antitrust Principles in Defining Patent Rights

Posted on May 05, 2008
The Antitrust, Pharmaceutical, and Standards Committees of the Intellectual Property Owners Association is hosting the above titled conference on June 9, 2008 in Washington, DC at the Ronald Regan Building and International Trade Center. This conference will examine the role...

U.S. Patent Commissioner Speaks: Current Developments in Patents

Posted on May 02, 2008
Matthew J. Prinn, Business Development Manager for K&L Gates, extends an invitation to all subscribers and readers of Philip Brooks' Patent Infringement Updates to participate in a May 13, 2008 Webinar. Luncheon Speaker: John J. Doll, U.S. Commissioner for Patents...

DCGI Rules Out Low-Cost Version of Patented Drugs

Posted on May 01, 2008
Joe C Mathew, writing today, May 1, 2008, for the Business Standard, India?s leading business daily states: The Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) has decided to reject applications seeking marketing approvals for copycat versions of medicines that have product...

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