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Philip Brooks’ Patent Infringement Updates

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

The Flip Side of ?Reverse Payments?

Posted on February 04, 2010
The following is excerpted from an article by Steven Seidenberg in the February 2010 issue of the ABA Journal: For the second time in three years a case about ?reverse payments? is before the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals....

Patent Trolls: Acacia is One Company Tech Giants Like to Avoid

Posted on February 03, 2010
The following is excerpted from a February 2, 2010 article by Susan J. Campbell, TMCnet Contributing Editor: An intense look around any industry is likely to turn up companies that seem to operate on a different level. For the technology...

AULR Federal Circuit Panel Discussion

Posted on February 02, 2010
Event Title: A First Look at the 2009 Decisions of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit Date: Feb 4, 2010 Time: 6:30PM - 8:00PM ET Location: Washington College of Law, American University 4801 Massachusetts Ave, NW...

Rambus Comments on ITC Ruling

Posted on February 01, 2010
The following is excerpted from remarks by Tom Lavelle, Senior Vice President and General Counsel for Rambus, during the Rambus, Inc. Q4 2009 earnings call on January 28, 2010 available in the transcript of the call at Seeking Alpha: As...

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Gen-X Ideas on IP

Posted on January 29, 2010
The above-titled blog was launched by a group of almost 20 students from the IP and Technology Management department of the National Academy of Agricultural Research Management (NAARM) of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research on February 6, 2009...

Teva Receives Favorable Court Decision Regarding Generic Temodar(R)

Posted on January 28, 2010
The following is excerpted from a January 27, 2010 article at Medical News Today: Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (Nasdaq: TEVA) announced today that the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware has issued a decision in its litigation over...

Intellectual Property Contingency Consortium

Posted on January 27, 2010
I received an inquiry recently from a reader that was concerned about whether he was covering all of his legal options, but hesitant to retain an attorney. I offered to provide him with the names of a few attorneys that...

What If Sequenom's Down Syndrome Test Doesn't Exist?

Posted on January 26, 2010
The following is excerpted from a January 25, 2010 blog post by Jim Edwards at BNET Pharma: What if Sequenom (SQNM)?s Down Syndrome test doesn?t exist in any meaningful form? That is the question raised by a lawsuit filed against...

Estimating Damages of Patent Infringement Seminar

Posted on January 25, 2010
Incremental Advantage will host the above-titled conference in Washington, DC and via webinar: Patent damages are outlined in the 35 USC § 284 statute and state that a patent holder is entitled to at least a reasonable royalty as damages....

Licensing Executives Society (USA & Canada) Celebrates 45 Years of Leadership

Posted on January 22, 2010
The Licensing Executives Society (USA & Canada) Inc., is celebrating 45 years of leadership in the business of intellectual property (IP) and licensing with the kick-off of a multi-faceted membership awareness campaign designed to recruit new members and encourage membership...

Microsoft Sues TiVo To Try To Defend Customer AT&T

Posted on January 21, 2010
The following is excerpted from a January 20, 2010 article by Roger Cheng of Dow Jones Newswires published at CNNMoney.com: Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) is suing TiVo Inc. (TIVO) as part of a broader attempt to provide legal cover for customer...

Data.gov Continues to Grow

Posted on January 20, 2010
As a follow-up to my July 7, 2009 post on the federal government's launch of the Data.gov website, J. Nicholas Hoover writes in the December 21, 2009 print issue of InformationWeek that the "site has grown from just 47 data...

25th Annual Intellectual Property Law Conference

Posted on January 19, 2010
The ABA Section of Intellectual Property Law in cooperation with the ABA Section of Science & Technology Law and the ABA Forum on the Entertainment & Sports Industries will host the 25th Annual Intellectual Property Law Conference on April 7...

Motorola and VTech Resolve Patent Litigation

Posted on January 18, 2010
The following is excerpted from a January 15, 2010 Motorola press release: Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT), VTech Communications, Inc. and VTech Telecommunications, Ltd. today announced that they have entered into a Settlement and License Agreement that will end their pending...

4th Annual Patent Law Institute

Posted on January 15, 2010
PLI?s 4th Annual Patent Law Institute is designed to cover the practice impact of recent developments on all three sub-groups in the patent law community: patent prosecutors, patent litigators, and patent strategic & transactional lawyers. The two-day schedule includes 6...

Patent Pending

Posted on January 13, 2010
The following is excerpted from an article by Rachel M. Zahorsky that appeared in the January 2010 print issue of the ABA Journal: A plan to help some federal judges wade deeper into the pool of patent cases is awaiting...

Visualizing Patent Statistics by Means of Social Network Analysis Tools

Posted on January 12, 2010
The above-titled article by Christian Sternitzke, Adam Bartkowski, and Reinhard Schramm appeared in World Patent Information (Volume 30, Issue 2, June 2008, pages 115?131). The following is an excerpt from this article: In recent years, developments in the field of...

Bilski & Warsaw Share Insights

Posted on January 11, 2010
The following is excerpted from Jeff Kuester's December 30, 2009 post at his AwakenIP blog: Sitting in the U.S. Supreme Court next to my clients, Bernie Bilski and Rand Warsaw, I wondered what they were thinking as the Justices inquired...

EU Probes Danish Drug Maker for Generic Drug Delay

Posted on January 08, 2010
The following is excerpted from an article by AP Business Writer, Aoife White, published by the Miami Herald: European Union regulators said Thursday that they suspect Danish drug maker Lundbeck may have delayed the launch of a cheaper, generic version...

Cisco Patent May Impact the Future of Search

Posted on December 31, 2009
The following is excerpted from a December 30, 2009 blog post by Erik Sherman published by BNET: One of the limitations of search engines such as Google (GOOG) or Microsoft?s (MSFT) Bing that crawl the web looking for links is...

Nokia Requests ITC Investigation into Apple Patent Infringement

Posted on December 30, 2009
The following is excerpted from a December 29, 2009 Nokia press release: Nokia announced it has today filed a complaint with the United States International Trade Commission (ITC) alleging that Apple infringes Nokia patents in virtually all of its mobile...

Judge Orders New Trial in NewRiver v. Newkirk Products

Posted on December 29, 2009
The following is excerpted from a December 28, 2009 case summary by the Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff available at LexisNexis: Where a jury returned a verdict in a patent infringement case, a new trial is necessary because the court erred...

Infineon Settles Patent Infringement Lawsuit With Fairchild

Posted on December 28, 2009
From Dow Jones Newswires' Frankfurt Bureau on December 28, 2009: Germany's Infineon Technologies AG (IFX.XE) Monday said it has settled a patent infringement lawsuit with Fairchild Semiconductor International Inc (FCS). MAIN FACTS: - As part of the agreement, Fairchild will...

Cephalon's Provigil Price Hike May Prove FTC's Antitrust Case

Posted on December 25, 2009
The following is excerpted from a December 23, 2009 article by Jim Edwards published at BNET: Cephalon (CEPH) has hiked the price of Provigil by one third since the introduction of Nuvigil, a similar but newer sleep disorder drug. At...

Microsoft Word Sales Face U.S. Ban

Posted on December 24, 2009
The following is excerpted from a December 22, 2009 InformationWeek article by Paul McDougall: An appeals court on Tuesday ordered Microsoft to stop selling Microsoft Word 2007 and other Office 2007 products by Jan. 11 because the software infringes on...

New Patent Test for Machines Using Mathematical Algorithms

Posted on December 23, 2009
The following is excerpted from a blog post by Erik Sherman published by BNET on Dec 22, 2009: Industries, particularly high tech, may be waiting for the U.S. Supreme Court decision, expected this coming spring, in the Bilski case to...

Patent Facts and Stats

Posted on December 22, 2009
I received an inquiry from a consultant today posing three questions. I obtained some preliminary information and have presented this below. I realized during this research that I have included this type of information in posts over the years, but...

ITC Says Samsung Infringed Kodak Camera Patents

Posted on December 21, 2009
The following is excerpted from a December 19, 2009 article by Nancy Gohring (IDG News Service) published by PC World: An administrative law judge at the U.S. International Trade Commission ruled that Samsung has infringed two camera patents developed by...

Cyclone Power Technologies Licenses Burn Everything Engine Systems for China Market

Posted on December 18, 2009
The following is excerpted from a December 17, 2009 item from The Auto Channel: Cyclone Power Technologies Inc. has completed its License Agreement with Great Wall Alternative Power Systems Ltd. to advance the development and production of Cyclone?s Schoell Cycle...

The Long-Term Value of Opinions of Counsel

Posted on December 17, 2009
The above-titled presentation by Scott W. Breedlove of Vinson & Elkins (co-authored by David J. Tobin) was given at The University of Texas School of Law's 14th Annual Advanced Patent Law Institute on October 29?30, 2009 in Austin, TX. The...

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