Patent News Watch
From First to File (www.firsttofile.com)March 17th, 2008
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Headlines for the week: (Scroll down for articles)
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-IBM Hit With $6 Million Software Fraud Suit~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-Nokia Has Paid $1 Billion To Qualcomm For Tech Patents
-Apple Faces Patent Suit Filed By ZapMedia Over iTunes, iPod
-Wyeth, J&J sue Medtronic over Endeavor stent patent
-Gibson Says it Holds a Patent for Guitar Hero
-GraphOn files patent infringement suit against Yahoo, five others
-Group: Patent reform bill compromise close
-Troll Tracker, Defamation, and Splitting the Bar
-Cellphones to keep track of your purchases -- and you
-As patent cases clog courts, drugs are a lawyer's best friend
IBM Hit With $6 Million Software Fraud Suit
(Information Week) Internet retailer Harry & David claims IBM knowingly sold it e-commerce software that violated other companies' patents and then refused to back the merchant when those companies sued or complained.
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Nokia Has Paid $1 Billion To Qualcomm For Tech Patents
(Information Week) As new cell phone infrastructure technologies are introduced, handset manufacturers and service providers are placing new emphasis on intellectual property assets -- who owns them and how much they are worth.
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Apple Faces Patent Suit Filed By ZapMedia Over iTunes, iPod
(Dow Jones) ZapMedia alleges patents for its system allowing the distribution of media assets to user devices were infringed when Apple unveiled its iPod MP3 player with the integrated iTunes software application in October of 2001 and iTunes store in April 2003.
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Wyeth, J&J sue Medtronic over Endeavor stent patent
(HealthImagingNews) The companies filed a patent infringement suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey alleging the zotarolimus-eluting stent infringes on the claims of three patents owned by Wyeth and licensed to J&J - the '781, '146 and '728 patents. The patents relate to the use of rapamycin, or sirolimus, and its analogues - including zotarolimus.
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Gibson Says it Holds a Patent for Guitar Hero
(Gameshout) Gibson has decided to sue Activision over a patent Gibson has held since 1999 which it says gives it all rights to the Guitar Hero franchise.
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GraphOn files patent infringement suit against Yahoo, five others
(BizJornals) GraphOn Corp. said Monday it filed a lawsuit alleging patent infringement against Yahoo Inc., Classified Ventures LLC, IAC/InterActiveCorp., Match.com, eHarmony.com and CareerBuilder LLC.
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Group: Patent reform bill compromise close
(Washington Post) Advocates of a patent reform bill stalled in the U.S. Senate say negotiators are close to working out compromises that would allow the legislation to move forward.
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Troll Tracker, Defamation, and Splitting the Bar
(PatentlyO) Rick Frenkel - who until recently was known only as the Patent Troll Tracker - has now been sued for defamation by two Eastern District of Texas lawyers: Johnny Ward, Jr. and Eric Albritton. Frenkel recently revealed himself as an IP Director at Cisco Systems.
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Cellphones to keep track of your purchases -- and you
(LATimes) You might not know it, but as of January it became illegal in California for companies to require workers to have devices implanted under their skin that would reveal their whereabouts at all times.
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As patent cases clog courts, drugs are a lawyer's best friend
(GlobeInvestor) It must be the most thankless job on the bench.
A core group of Federal Court of Canada judges toil away in virtual anonymity, juggling an ever-growing backlog of numbingly technical cases involving hundreds of millions of dollars of corporate profits.
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