Patent News Watch
From First to File (www.firsttofile.com)June 9th, 2008
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Headlines for the week: (Scroll down for articles)
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-US court overturns patent ruling for LG vs Quanta
-Biotech giants demand a high price for saving the planet
-Patent Filings Surge in China
-FTC appeals Rambus loss in standards case
-Patent Hoarder Caught Shuffling Patents Around To Sue Multiple Times
-Patent Battles Continue Over Wireless Email
-Employee inventions may lead to patent battles with employers.
-Awards in big US patent cases may be stabilising after several years of decline
-Microsoft Patents DMP 'Cell Phone Killer' Device
Jury rules Microsoft didn't violate patent
(SeattlePI) Microsoft Corp. didn't violate a patent owned by Alcatel-Lucent SA when producing its Xbox 360 video game player, a jury said, rejecting Alcatel-Lucent's bid for $419 million in damages.
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US court overturns patent ruling for LG vs Quanta
(Reuters) - The Supreme Court overturned Monday a ruling in favor of South Korea's LG Electronics Inc in a dispute with Quanta Computer Inc of Taiwan over whether the license to a patent automatically passes to whoever purchases the goods.
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Biotech giants demand a high price for saving the planet
(The Independent) Giant biotech companies are privatising the world's protection against climate change by filing hundreds of monopoly patents on genes that help crops resist it, a new investigation has concluded.
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Patent Filings Surge in China
(Businessweek) Applications are rising by 20% a year on the mainland, a sign of growing concern for intellectual-property rights. But could they be trouble for multinationals?
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FTC appeals Rambus loss in standards case
(Reuters) The U.S. Federal Trade Commission asked an appeals court on Friday to reconsider its decision overturning a ruling that computer chip company Rambus Inc (RMBS.O: Quote, Profile, Research) violated antitrust laws, an FTC staffer said.
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Patent Hoarder Caught Shuffling Patents Around To Sue Multiple Times
(Techdirt) Last year, we noted the trend for various patent hoarding entities to set up a group of shell companies with which to sue companies. Part of the reason for doing so was to make it that much more difficult for the companies being sued to even know who they were fighting against.
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Patent Battles Continue Over Wireless Email
(Techdirt) While RIM is often portrayed as a victim for having to pay out $612.5 million in the patent infringement lawsuit filed by patent holding firm NTP, what gets less attention is that part of what kicked off NTP's lawsuit was the fact that RIM itself was going around suing pretty much everyone for patent infringement itself.
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Employee inventions may lead to patent battles with employers.
(Insidecounsel) In 1990, David Barstow was pursuing a dream. By day, he wrote computer code for the oil and gas drilling operations of his employer Schlumberger Technology Corp. At night and on weekends, he worked with his brother Daniel on a very different project: software that would produce computer simulations of live sporting events.
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Awards in big US patent cases may be stabilising after several years of decline
(IAM) We are not quite half way through 2008 and already in the US we have seen several very large patent damages awards handed down by the country's first instance courts. Two of them have been in the last couple of weeks.
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Microsoft Patents DMP 'Cell Phone Killer' Device
(Laptoplogic) Microsoft has put a patent on a device they call the DMP, which would allow companies to kill any feature on your cell phone at their discretion.
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