Patent News Watch
From First to File (www.firsttofile.com)October 13th, 2008
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| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -Verizon loses patent suit against Cox -Intel shakes AMD's chip-fabbing baby -TiVo gets $104.6 million check from EchoStar judgement -Why sinking markets could mean real opportunities for patent acquirers and licensees -Patent Lawsuit Silly Season: TechCrunch Sued For Patent Infringement After Critical Blog Post -Former GC Reflects on Time Immersed in IP Battles -So, How (and When) Will You Get Your Patent Term Adjustment Corrected? -Infringement Found Because Defendant Did Not Affirmatively Plead Noninfringement -US Government Seeking IP Law Experts; Signs Work-Sharing Deals -Intuition + Money: An Aha Moment -My Brain, Your Brawn Verizon loses patent suit against Cox (CNet) Verizon Communications suffered a major blow in its patent battles on Monday, when a federal court ruled that cable company Cox Communications had not infringed on its patents. The telecommunications giant has accused Cox of violating six of its patents related to Internet telephony. Read More Intel shakes AMD's chip-fabbing baby (The Register) AMD's plans to spin its debt-dependent chip manufacturing biz into a separate entity may free the chipmaker from a considerable financial burden, but old rivalries with Intel will assure things don't go down without a hitch. Read More TiVo gets $104.6 million check from EchoStar judgement (MercuryNews) Tivo got its $104,600,472 payment from Echostar, now known as Dish Network, over violation of a patent held by TiVo involving digital video recorders, according to a filing it made today with the SEC. Read More Why sinking markets could mean real opportunities for patent acquirers and licensees (iam) Although there may be some question marks over the future of IP-related financing given recent events, the outlook for those seeking to acquire good quality patents and other IP rights could be very bright. That may seem counter-intuitive as stock markets across the world continue to fall, but think about it for a moment. Read More Patent Lawsuit Silly Season: TechCrunch Sued For Patent Infringement After Critical Blog Post (Techdirt) There are different levels of ridiculousness when it comes to patent lawsuits, with the lowest of the low being patent lawsuits based more on spite than on any legitimate claim. For a while, it seemed like Ray Niro's use of the infamous JPG patent, to sue a bunch companies he just didn't like, was perhaps alone in that category. But, it appears that we now have a new entrant. Apparently, some company (who we won't even name, since there's a good chance it's doing this just to get press attention) sued a more well-known competitor for patent infringement, over a location-based services patent. Read More Former GC Reflects on Time Immersed in IP Battles (LAW) When tiny Immersion Corp. had finally beaten Sony in a long, ugly patent fight, the company's general counsel, Laura Peter, gave CEO Vic Viegas a white cowboy hat. She presented it to Viegas at a celebration at the CEO's peninsula home in the spring of 2007 after Sony said it would drop all appeals and pay the San Jose, Calif., company $150 million to end five years of take-no-prisoners litigation. Read More So, How (and When) Will You Get Your Patent Term Adjustment Corrected? (Patentbaristas) As we saw in the Wyeth v. Dudas case, the US District Court for the District of Columbia overturned the USPTO's interpretation of 35 USC § 154 (the statute that prescribes patent terms). Section 154 grants extensions of patent terms for certain kinds of PTO delay. However, Congress says you can't double-dip, i.e., to the extent that periods of delay overlap, the period of any adjustment granted under this subsection shall not exceed the actual number of days the issuance of the patent was delayed. Read More Infringement Found Because Defendant Did Not Affirmatively Plead Noninfringement (Chicagoiplitigation) Judge Brown granted defendants-counterplaintiffs Square One Parachute's ("SOP") motion for summary judgment that plaintiff-counterdefendant Para Gear ("Para") infringed SOP's design patent based solely upon Para's failure to plead noninfringement as an affirmative defense. Originally, Para filed this case seeking a declaratory judgment of noninfringement and SOP counterclaimed for infringement. But Para later voluntarily dismissed its claim with prejudice. Read More US Government Seeking IP Law Experts; Signs Work-Sharing Deals (IPWatch) Private patent law attorneys should answer a higher calling and serve in the United States government so that experienced, practiced experts may help steer the country's patent system toward a better future, the chief judge of the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit said this week. Read More Intuition + Money: An Aha Moment (NYTimes) IT started with a Harvard physicist acting on a hunch. It ended up producing a new material, called black silicon, that could have a broad impact on technologies ranging from ultrasensitive sensors to photovoltaic cells. Read More My Brain, Your Brawn (WSJ) Decades after his father sold bagels and bialys on New York's Lower East Side, Gary Schwartzberg was convinced he had a product that could reinvent his family business. 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