Patent News Watch
From First to File (www.firsttofile.com)March 31st, 2008
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Headlines for the week: (Scroll down for articles)
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-Micron loses round in fight with Rambus~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-Microsoft Patent Claims Force Avistar To Cut 1/4 Of Staff
-Desire2Learn patent dispute takes new twist
-Teva Can't Yet Sell Alzheimer's Generic
-Court of Appeals Reverses Lower Court Decision in Favor of TriMed, Inc. Patent Infringement...
-Judge calls for European patent litigation system
-Columbia Professor Latest To Go On The Patent Offensive
-Patent insanity
-Patent Challenge of the Week: When does a patent expire?
-The Rush To Patent the Atomic Bomb
Micron loses round in fight with Rambus
(Idaho Statesman) After a nearly 10-year legal battle, Micron Technology could be one step closer to paying Rambus millions of dollars for infringing on the California company's patents.
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Microsoft Patent Claims Force Avistar To Cut 1/4 Of Staff
(Information Week) Avistar Communications, a videoconferencing company that makes 40% of its money from licensing intellectual property, said Wednesday that it must cut a quarter of its staff and suspend the creation of a Chinese development facility in large part due to Microsoft patent challenges against all of Avistar's 29 U.S. patents.
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Desire2Learn patent dispute takes new twist
(The Record) In a preliminary ruling, a U.S. patent office examiner says Blackboard Inc. should never have received the patent at the heart of the company's battle with Kitchener's Desire2Learn Inc.
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Teva Can't Yet Sell Alzheimer's Generic
(AP/Yahoo Fincance) Drug developer Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. said Friday a U.S. District Court ordered Teva to tentatively refrain from selling a generic version of Eisai Co.'s Alzheimer's treatment Aricept.
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Court of Appeals Reverses Lower Court Decision in Favor of TriMed, Inc. Patent Infringement...
(PR Newswire/Reuters) TriMed, Inc., a Valencia, CA-based developer and manufacturer of orthopaedic fixation devices, has announced that the United States Court of Appeals has ruled in its favor and reversed a lower court's summary judgment in its patent infringement suit against defendant Stryker Corporation (Stryker). The appellate court found that Stryker's accused device contains "precisely the same structure" shown in TriMed's patent. The decision was announced January 29, 2008.
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Judge calls for European patent litigation system
(ManagingIP) A leading UK Judge has called for a "one-stop patent shop" to cater to companies that do business across Europe, after finding a patent invalid just days after is was upheld by a court in the Netherlands.
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Columbia Professor Latest To Go On The Patent Offensive
(Techdirt) Over the last year or so, we've seen two disturbing trends in enforcing patents. The first, is seeing patent holders suing a bunch of companies at once rather than just one or two, as used to be standard. They do this because they fear that some type of patent reform is coming, either via Congress or the courts.
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Patent insanity
(Ottawa Citizen/Canada.com) In the 21 months since he joined Wi-Lan Inc. as CEO, James Skippen has been to the moon and back.
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Patent Challenge of the Week: When does a patent expire?
(PatentlyO) Last week, I wrote about whether an infringement lawsuit can properly be filed at 12:01 am on the date that the patent is scheduled to issue. A plaintiff only has standing to sue once a patent is issued, and it is not clear to me that patent has actually issued by that point (even if the patentee holds exclusive rights for the entire day once the patent has issued).*
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The Rush To Patent the Atomic Bomb
(Slashdot) In case you were thinking of building your own atom bomb, you may want to weigh your intellectual property liability. It seems there are over 2000 patents covering the atom bomb.
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