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New IP Lawsuits Filed from RFC Express — Court Bars Publication of 60 Years Later — Patent Attorney Wins Historic National Women’s Air Race Classic — Study Finds Patent Systems May Not Be an Effective Incentive to Encourage Invention of New Technologies — Click any of the news tabs above to display news for that category Intellectual Property News New IP Lawsuits Filed from RFC Express Court Bars Publication of 60 Years Later Crestor Patent Invalidity Evidence Uncovered By Article One Partners Community Current Technology Reports LunarEYE’s Successful Termination of USPTO Reexamination and Enhancement of Its 6,484,035 Patent Bromberg & Sunstein Scores Precedent-Setting Victory for Kaspersky Lab in 9th Circuit Court of Appeals Centocor Ortho Biotech Inc. Awarded $1.67 Billion Patent Jury Verdict from Abbott Laboratories ITC Issues Initial Determination in FormFactor’s Wafer Probecard ITC Action WebTech Wireless Announces Developments in Patent Lawsuit 3M Wins Revocation of HTC Patent by European Patent Office Federal District Judge Upholds Patent Judgment in Favor of Lincoln Financial Group Jury Renders Verdict for Ormco - Align’s Invisalign Product Infringes Ormco Patent Court Affirms Ruling Against CVS to Stop Sale of Counterfeit and Decoded Davidoff Fragrances 3M Files Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against Library Systems Manufacturer ABL Settles Its Dispute with Stanford University and Endorses Stanford’s HIVdb Website and Other Globally Available Research and Not-for-Profit Websites Decas Cranberry Products, Inc. Files Counterclaim Against Ocean Spray NIKE and the NBA Basketball Hall of Fame Sued for Fraud and Other Claims by SportsFuzion Over Michael Jordan Products Excentus Files Lawsuit against Safeway and Its Subsidiaries Blackhawk and Randalls/Tom Thumb for Patent Infringement and Theft of Trade Secrets ION Files Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against WesternGeco Just Enterprises, Inc. Prevails in Trademark Dispute Federal Court Rules CEIVA Patent Is Infringed by Frame Media [–] Minimize News More Intellectual Property Articles Business & Finance News Innovation Hot Spots -- Thomson Reuters Analysis of World Patent Activity Identifies Technology Areas Showing Sharpest Growth Quest Patent Research Corporation Acquires Rights to Patents Relating to Information Storage and Retrieval TeleCommunication Systems Enters Into License Agreement With Bonneville International Corporation Under Mobile-to-Internet Patent Acacia Subsidiary Licenses Medical Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS) Technology to FUJIFILM Corporation Casio Licenses Wi-Lan Wireless Technology DuPont and Bayer CropScience Expand Collaboration With Broad License Agreements PatentCafe Merges With Pantros IP Bankruptcy Trustee Launches Sale of Innovative Spinal Technologies, Inc. Assets IEEE Collaboration with Via Licensing Gains Momentum [–] Minimize News More Business & Finance Articles Science & Technology News Study Finds Patent Systems May Not Be an Effective Incentive to Encourage Invention of New Technologies AirTight Receives U.S. Patent for Router AP Rogue Detection BioCentric Energy Holdings to File Additional Provisional Patent to Enhance Efficency & Capital Reduction Cost of Algae Pro Photobioreactor System Bion Announces Approval of New U.S. Patent that Broadens Protection for the Company’s Livestock Waste Environmental Treatment Processes PROLOR Biotech Awarded Two U.S. Patents for Its Longer-Acting Human Growth Hormone and Longer-Acting Erythropoietin Pangu BioPharma, aTyr Pharma’s Subsidiary in Hong Kong, Files Three Patent Applications afterBOT Awarded Patent for Retail Industry Digital Receipt System Alkane, Inc. Announces U.S. Patent Filing on High Energy Synthetic Fuel CEL-SCI Files Patent Application to Support Company’s Treatment for More Virulent Strain of H1N1 Swine and Other Influenza Viruses Dot Hill Secures Six New Patents, Bolstering Heritage as a Trailblazer in Storage Innovation SONIC and Shell Canada Jointly Apply for Oil Sands Process Patent 90 Brain Fitness Patents for Posit Science Boingo Wireless Awarded First Patent Liquidware Labs Granted Two Further Patents Micronics Receives Patent on Rapid Thermocycling Methodology for Molecular Diagnostics AllTrust Networks Granted Electronic Depositing Patent Cascadia Investments, Inc. to Seek Patent Protection for TinyTwirp.com ImmunoCellular Therapeutics Announces Filing of Key Patent Application Relating to Cancer Stem Cell Technology [–] Minimize News More Science & Technology Articles Miscellaneous News Patent Attorney Wins Historic National Women’s Air Race Classic Credit Suisse Chief Patent Counsel Joins Chadbourne & Parke IP Group Howrey and Day Casebeer Combine New Ninth Edition of Patents and the Federal Circuit Updated With The Latest Cases and Analyses Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser Names New Associate William H. Needle Named Chair of Intellectual Property Department McAndrews, Held & Malloy Nationally Recognized by Chambers & Partners as Intellectual Property Law Leader Attorney with National, International IP Practice Joins Barnes & Thornburg LLP’s Chicago Office Former U.S. International Trade Commission Senior Investigative Attorney Karin Norton Joins Intellectual Property Litigation Practice in Sidley’s Washington Office USPTO and the National Board of Patents and Registration of Finland Partner to Expedite Processing and Improve Patent Quality Anderson Kill & Olick Hires Cynthia M. Monaco, Former Federal Prosecutor, as a Lead Shareholder Anti-Counterfeiting Group Virtual Law Partners Welcomes David Lawson, Janyce Mitchell, David Roise, and Stephen Sullivan Experienced Intellectual Property Litigator Joins Fulbright as a Partner Priya Iyer Promoted to CEO of Anaqua Don J. 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July Features

2009 Corporate Patent Scorecard
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Have Ding V. Singer and Ryan V. Young Rationalized 35 USC 135(b)(2)?
By Charles L. Gholz and Kenneth D. Wilcox
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Patent Strategies Create Value in Life Science
Business Development and M&A Transactions
By Lawrence P. Horowitz of HVA, Inc. and Christopher Halliday of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
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Surviving Corporate Crisis:
Strategies for IP Counsel in Financial Services
By Gina A. Hough of Dickstein Shapiro LLP
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Genes Under the Microscope – Novel or Not?
By Antoinette Konski and Courtenay Brinckenhoff and Alex Nie of Foley & Lardner LLP
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Not All Patent Lawyers Are Created Equal
By Kenneth Solomon of Gallop, Johnson & Neuman, L.C.
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Safety Versus Savings: Congressional Biosimilar Legislation
By Michael Wise and John Peterson and Lara Dueppen of Perkins Coie LLP
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The Making of a Visionary IP Dynasty – Counting Down to the New Chinese Patent Law
Part I – The Shifting Tide
By Wei-Ning Yang and Andrew Y. Yen of Hogan & Hartson LLP
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A Circuit Divided: Supreme Court Refuses Request to Reconcile Federal Circuit’s Dissonant Inequitable Conduct Standards
By Rachel Zimmerman of Merchant & Gould
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The Patent Scorecard™ 2009 – Semiconductors
By Tammy D'Amato of Patent Board™
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RFC Express: Recently Filed Patent Cases

Intellectual Property Today™, published monthly since 1994, focuses on legal issues in patent, trademark and copyright law. Content is geared to the patent attorneys and agents, professionals and executives in firms and companies that provide products and services to this industry. Features emphasize developments in cutting edge technology and their effect on intellectual property law practice.