Patent News Watch
From First to File (www.firsttofile.com)August 25th, 2008
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| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -US company sues Nintendo in Wii wand patent suit -Why is the Marshall, Texas, district court known even in Minnesota for hearing patent lawsuits? -NTP Can't Leave Well Enough Alone Concerning RIM -Cisco employees deny directing patent "troll" blog -How patent gridlock is blocking the development of lifesaving drugs. -No case or controversy when patentee doesn't even know of potentially infringing product -Annals of the Patently Absurd -Is a College Football Playoff Patented? -From the sky to the midway, it's been a wild ride -A Man and His Gun: 'Mr. Gatling's Terrible Marvel' US company sues Nintendo in Wii wand patent suit (AP) Nintendo's hit Wii console with its wandlike remote controller has been targeted in patent infringement complaints by a U.S. technology company. Read More Why is the Marshall, Texas, district court known even in Minnesota for hearing patent lawsuits? (TwinCities) The sleepy town of Marshall, Texas, is looming larger than ever for medical device companies in the Twin Cities. The federal courthouse in the town of 24,000 has helped propel the Eastern District of Texas into the country's most popular venue for patent lawsuits, raising the chances a Twin Cities manufacturer either will sue or be sued in the district. Read More NTP Can't Leave Well Enough Alone Concerning RIM (Techdirt) In one of the biggest travesties of the patent system, over two years ago, RIM agreed to pay NTP $612.5 million for patent infringement, even though the USPTO had been rejecting NTP's patents on re-exam. The patents were highly questionable: extremely broad patents covering pretty basic concepts about making email "wireless." Read More Cisco employees deny directing patent "troll" blog (MarketWatch) A current and a former Cisco Systems Inc. employee on Monday denied they coordinated an anonymous blog that railed against attorneys pursuing patent litigation against Cisco and other technology companies. Read More How patent gridlock is blocking the development of lifesaving drugs. (Forbes) How patent gridlock is blocking the development of lifesaving drugs. A curious thing happened on the way to the biotech revolution. While investment in biotech research and development has increased over the last three decades, new drugs that improve human health have not been forthcoming at the same rate. Read More No case or controversy when patentee doesn't even know of potentially infringing product (File Wrapper) In a decision last week, the Federal Circuit upheld a district court's decision that Article III jurisdiction did not exist in a case where a potential infringer was seeking a declaration of noninfringement. The district court granted a motion to dismiss the under the Federal Circuit's pre-MedImmune reasonable apprehension of suit test, noting that there was no reasonable apprehension of suit. Read More Annals of the Patently Absurd (O'Reilly Radar) Microsoft has received a patent on a "new and improved" Page-Up and Page-Down system. Timothy D. Sellers et al. was awarded the patent on August 19, 2008 for a "Method and system for navigating paginated content in page-based increments." Read More Is a College Football Playoff Patented? I recently discovered US Patent #6053823: Method for conducting championship playoff. It's quite clear that it's for a college football playoff. It includes a "Coaches' Poll, Writers' Poll and Independent/Objective Poll," all combined to produce a playoff bracket. Read More From the sky to the midway, it's been a wild ride (Statesman Journal) Lee Eyerly was an aviation pioneer. He set up a flight school and service shop near the Oregon State Fairgrounds, before Salem even had an airport. He was among those who hounded city officials to build one, and when they finally did, he moved his operations there. Read More A Man and His Gun: 'Mr. Gatling's Terrible Marvel' (NYSun) Richard Jordan Gatling (1818-1903), the inventor of the weapon that bears his name, had a passion for setting objects in orderly motion. His first invention was a four-bladed, screw-type ship's propeller, for which he just missed establishing a patent. Read More ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The First to File EFR™ electronic filing and storage system is our next generation product which is designed to reduce paper output in corporate patent departments. This system integrates seamlessly with outside docketing providers and document management systems using XML API technology. 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