Patent News Watch
From First to File (www.firsttofile.com)October 20th, 2008
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| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -Qualcomm: Nokia to pay $2.5 billion -Nike Sues Wal-Mart, Claiming Cushioned Shoe Design is Copied -District Court Affirms Patent Infringement Rulings And Finds That Amgen Is Entitled To A Permanent Injunction Against Roche -French drugmaker Sanofi-Aventis loses patent lawsuit in S. Korea -Encyclopaedia Britannica loses patent case -Mobile jurors give $192 million to Idea Man -Fulbright's Litigation Trends Survey: U.S. Companies Prepare for Rise in Litigation - U.S. Release -Microsoft: We're all 'mixed source' companies -Latha Jishnu: Enter the patent troll -Obama's and McCain's Technology Policies Examined -Canola oil powers gasless race winners to Vegas -Microsoft Patents the Censoring of Speech Qualcomm: Nokia to pay $2.5 billion (AP) Wireless semiconductor company Qualcomm Inc. will get an upfront payment of $2.5 billion from Nokia Corp. in a settlement of a royalties dispute, a spokeswoman said Friday. Read More Nike Sues Wal-Mart, Claiming Cushioned Shoe Design is Copied (ABAJournal) Nike claims in a lawsuit filed in federal court in Chicago that Wal-Mart is selling shoes that infringe on its patented design. The suit claims Wal-Mart's Detra shoes infringe on two patents related to its Shox brand cushioning system, the Wall Street Journal reports. Read More District Court Affirms Patent Infringement Rulings And Finds That Amgen Is Entitled To A Permanent Injunction Against Roche (MedicalNewsToday) Amgen announced today that the United States (U.S.) District Court in Boston issued its written decision upholding the prior jury verdict and court rulings regarding the infringement, validity and enforceability of 10 claims of four of Amgen's erythropoietin (EPO) patents. The Court also ruled that Amgen is entitled to a permanent injunction prohibiting Roche from selling its pegylated-erythropoietin (peg-EPO) product MIRCERA in the U.S. Previously, the Court entered a preliminary injunction preventing Roche from selling peg-EPO, and Roche has appealed that ruling. Read More French drugmaker Sanofi-Aventis loses patent lawsuit in S. Korea (Trading Markets) French drugmaker Sanofi-Aventis SA has lost a legal battle with a local company Boryung Pharmaceutical Co. over its treatment for colorectal cancer, the South Korean company said Monday. Read More Encyclopaedia Britannica loses patent case (Spero News) Alpine Electronics, manufacturers of high performance mobile electronics, including mobile navigational products, won a patent infringement case started by Encyclopaedia Brtannica. Read More Mobile jurors give $192 million to Idea Man (AL) A chemical expert who contended that he created a method of transforming certain hazardous industrial wastes into lucrative manufacturing ingredients - only to have his idea usurped - was awarded a $192 million jury verdict last Friday in Mobile, AL. Read More Fulbright's Litigation Trends Survey: U.S. Companies Prepare for Rise in Litigation - U.S. Release (Fulbright.com) More than one-third of corporate counsel expect pace of new filings to increase in coming year-43% of billion-dollar companies forecasting possible litigation uptick amid economic slowdown. Read More Microsoft: We're all 'mixed source' companies (CNet) In case you were wondering, Microsoft thinks the battle of open source vs. proprietary software is basically over. "Today, but increasingly in the future, we are all going to be 'mixed source'," Microsoft's top intellectual property lawyer said in a lunchtime interview on Thursday. To bolster his claim, Horacio Gutierrez notes Microsoft is releasing plenty of stuff as open source, while open-source companies like Red Hat often license commercial software alongside their open-source products. "I actually think the war between proprietary and open source is a thing of the past," he said. Read More Latha Jishnu: Enter the patent troll (Business-Standard) If you are familiar with Norse legends you would know what a troll is. Trolls are supernatural beings, a race of giants in Icelandic mythology or goblins in the Scandinavian tradition, who were mostly evil although they could be extremely generous to humans who helped them. Read More Obama's and McCain's Technology Policies Examined (ScienceDaily) As the 2008 presidential election enters its final month, researchers at the Annenberg Research Network on International Communication (ARNIC) have found some sharp differences - and surprising similarities - in the two major candidates' positions on technology policy. Read More Canola oil powers gasless race winners to Vegas (SFGate) Wayne Keith, a hay farmer from Springville, Ala. (population 3,000), pulled into Berkeley last week driving a lime-green pickup truck that runs mostly on wood chips but sometimes cow dung, too. Keith, who wore dirt-flecked overalls and a trucker's cap, was in town to compete in the first Escape from Berkeley race, a kind of mini Cannonball Run to Las Vegas for drivers of vehicles that run on anything but petroleum. Read More Microsoft Patents the Censoring of Speech (Slashdot) On Tuesday, the USPTO awarded Microsoft a patent for the Automatic Censorship of Audio Data for Broadcast, an invention that addresses 'producing censored speech that has been altered so that undesired words or phrases are either unintelligible or inaudible.' 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