Patent News Watch
From First to File (www.firsttofile.com)May 19th, 2008
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Headlines for the week: (Scroll down for articles)
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-East Texas jury orders Nintendo to pay $21 million to Tyler gaming company in patent case~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-Network Appliance is suing Sun Microsystems for infringing on seven of their patents
-Inequitable Conduct: Failure to Submit Full Experimental Details
-Hewlett-Packard Awarded $51 Million Judgment Against Insurer, ACE
-US Agency to Investigate Semiconductor Patent Complaints
-Medical companies celebrate death of patent reform
-Bush Administration Presses On For Patent Reform Bill This Year
-Big Tech Companies Team Up To Share Info And Fight Patent Hoarders
-Can competitions raise 'cool' factor of math, science?
East Texas jury orders Nintendo to pay $21 million to Tyler gaming company in patent case
(IHT) Nintendo of America Inc. was ordered to pay a small East Texas gaming company $21 million Wednesday for infringing on a patent while designing controllers for its popular Wii and GameCube systems.
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Network Appliance is suing Sun Microsystems for infringing on seven of their patents
(Half Life Source) Sun shares closed down 2 percent after Network Appliance announced the suit, which also seeks a court ruling that Network Appliance is not infringing three of Sun's U.S. patents and that those patents are invalid.
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Inequitable Conduct: Failure to Submit Full Experimental Details
(Patently-O) The CAFC affirmed a ruling that the Lovenox patents - owned by Aventis - are unenforceable due to a failure to submit important experimental information during prosecution.
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Hewlett-Packard Awarded $51 Million Judgment Against Insurer, ACE
(PR-Inside) Federal District Court Judge James Ware found ACE Insurance Company owed Hewlett-Packard more than fifty-one million dollars in defense expenses, prejudgment interest and costs for defending an antitrust counterclaim under "advertisers' injury" coverage.
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US Agency to Investigate Semiconductor Patent Complaints
(PCWorld) The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) has voted to investigate complaints by two U.S. companies that 18 other companies are violating their patent for semiconductor chips containing tungsten metal.
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Medical companies celebrate death of patent reform
(ZDNet) Medical device makers and drug companies are celebrating the apparent death of the 2008 Patent Reform Act.
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Bush Administration Presses On For Patent Reform Bill This Year
(IP-Watch) Despite an apparent stalemate on patent reform in the United States Congress, the Bush administration is still pushing for a bill to be completed this congressional session.
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Big Tech Companies Team Up To Share Info And Fight Patent Hoarders
(Techdirt) While the Patent Troll Tracker remains darkened, the world at large is definitely missing out on some of the more useful information he provided on his blog, shedding all sorts of light on some of the sneakier practices of various patent hoarding companies, who were often shell companies to hide the real identity of who was behind the lawsuits.
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Can competitions raise 'cool' factor of math, science?
(CSMonitor) Math bees and science smackdowns for teen brainiacs are on the rise, along with efforts to fuel interest in those fields.
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