Patent News Watch
From First to File (www.firsttofile.com)September 2nd, 2008
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-Qualcomm violates Broadcom patent injunction
-PlayStation 3 at risk as Sony faces Blu-ray patent lawsuit
-Judge Cuts Damages In Boston Scientific Patent Row
-Appeals Court Vacates $49 Million Award in Patent Case
-USPTO Seeks Practitioners to Test Online Continuing Education System.
-Breaking the patent logjam
-Too common scientific fraud should be punished
-Light Reading For Labor Day: 2007 Annual US Court Report
-Daydream achiever
-Father-son team offers tech innovation
Qualcomm violates Broadcom patent injunction
The US District Court for the Central District of California has found wireless telecommunications products and services company Qualcomm in contempt of an order designed to prevent the company from violating three Broadcom patents.
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PlayStation 3 at risk as Sony faces Blu-ray patent lawsuit
(The TechHerald) With a recent consumer report revealing that Sony's Blu-ray format is struggling to find market traction, the high-definition standard is now facing a potentially costly court battle with Orinda Intellectual Properties USA, which claims that Sony's HD platform infringes on its patented technology.
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Judge Cuts Damages In Boston Scientific Patent Row
(Dow Jones/SmartMoney) Boston Scientific Corp. said a federal judge found two patents held by rival Medtronic Inc. to be unenforceable and slashed the damages Boston Scientific must pay in a patent-infringement case involving devices to remove blockages in coronary arteries.
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Appeals Court Vacates $49 Million Award in Patent Case
(LegalTimes) The Federal Circuit last Friday dialed up 1-800-REVERSE. In a patent dispute between companies that route "1-800" phone calls for major companies, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit tossed a $49 million enhanced-damage award lodged against Virginia-based Targus Information Corp.
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USPTO Seeks Practitioners to Test Online Continuing Education System.
(Anticipate This) The USPTO is developing a Continuing Education for Practitioners ("CEP") system for on-line delivery of educational materials to patent practitioners, and is seeking help in piloting the on-line system. The CEP system is built on the recognition that a smoothly operating patent system requires well-qualified USPTO personnel working hand-in-hand with up-to-date patent practitioners.
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Breaking the patent logjam
(FT) Any effective system of patent administration requires close co-operation between private inventors and government officials. Unlike land, or mining, or even copyright claims, it takes more than a simple filing to perfect a patent claim.
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Too common scientific fraud should be punished
(NewsDay) Scientists enjoy a high level of public credibility. Their pronouncements on matters ranging from global warming to cloning are usually taken at face value. But while most scientists are honest, that doesn't mean we should unquestioningly accept what they say. A study released this month says that scientific fraud is not being seriously punished.
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Light Reading For Labor Day: 2007 Annual US Court Report
(271 Patent Blog) When you're not preoccupied wiping BBQ sauce from your hands (and children's faces) this weekend, the Statistics Division for the Administrative Office of U.S. Courts released its annual report (all 416 pages) on "Judicial Business of the United States Courts."
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Daydream achiever
(The Boston Globe) ON A SUNDAY morning in 1974, Arthur Fry sat in the front pews of a Presbyterian church in north St. Paul, Minn. An engineer at 3M, Fry was also a singer in the church choir. He had gotten into the habit of inserting little scraps of paper into his choir book, so that he could quickly find the right hymns during the service. The problem, however, was that the papers would often fall out, causing Fry to lose his place.
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Father-son team offers tech innovation
(The News Sentinel) A Fort Wayne father-and-son team has developed technology that could transform the radio-frequency identification tags now commonly used to track and manage inventory.
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