Patent News Watch
From First to File (www.firsttofile.com)June 16th, 2008
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Headlines for the week: (Scroll down for articles)
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-Nintendo Sues Over Wireless Nunchuck
-Blackboard Plays Defense For a Change, as Company Is Sued for Patent Infringement
-HP And Acer Make Nice, Settle Patent Lawsuit
-EU pushes open-source standard as 'smart business
-Patent litigation by the numbers
-Alberto Gonzales to Help `Special Master' on Check Patent Case
-Patents for All: The System That Could Not Contain Itself
-Losing Our Lead in Innovative R&D
-Looking for a start-up idea and VC funding? Call Microsoft
Court Says Mylan's Generic Prilosec Doesn't Violate AstraZeneca Patents
(Thomson Financial) Mylan Inc. said Tuesday a federal appeals court has affirmed that omeprazole, the company's generic version of acid reflux drug Prilosec, doesn't infringe patents asserted by AstraZeneca.
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Nintendo Sues Over Wireless Nunchuck
(Next-Gen) At a glance, Nyko's wireless Kama Nunchuck (pictured) appears plenty different from Nintendo's first-party Nunchuck controller, simply because Nyko's offering is wireless, and Nintendo's isn't.
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Blackboard Plays Defense For a Change, as Company Is Sued for Patent Infringement
(The Cronicle) Blackboard Inc., the higher-education software company known for aggressively enforcing its patents, has been sued for allegedly infringing on another company's patent.
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HP And Acer Make Nice, Settle Patent Lawsuit
(ChannelWeb) The year-old back-and-forth patent litigation between No.1 global computer vendor Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HPQ) and Acer finally came to an end Monday when both companies agreed to a confidential agreement.
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EU pushes open-source standard as 'smart business
(AP) The EU's top antitrust official called Tuesday on member governments to use open-source software, an apparent jab at Microsoft Corp.'s proprietary technology.
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Patent litigation by the numbers
(Filewrapper) PricewaterhouseCoopers recently published its annual litigation study entitled 2008 Patent Litigation Study: Damages awards, success rates and time-to-trial. The study examined a wide range of variables pertaining to patent litigation from 1995 to 2007.
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Alberto Gonzales to Help `Special Master' on Check Patent Case
(Bloomberg) Former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, who was forced from his job amid a controversy over the firings of federal prosecutors, has been hired to provide assistance to a special master on a patent case.
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Patents for All: The System That Could Not Contain Itself
(Huffington Post) Last week, the Supreme Court unanimously reversed the Court of Appeals for Federal Circuit in Quanta v. LG. Electronics.
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Losing Our Lead in Innovative R&D
(BusinessWeek) To hear the National Academy of Sciences tell it, the U.S. faces little risk of losing its technology dominance.
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Looking for a start-up idea and VC funding? Call Microsoft
(Computerworld) Microsoft Corp. may not have the best reputation on patent issues, but in one area it appears to be friendlier and more progressive than other IT vendors.
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