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Friday, February 01, 2013

• Pattishall McAuliffe Selected for Gold Band in Prestigious WTR 1000 World Rankings
• Potter Anderson & Corroon Elevates Three Attorneys to Partnership

Thursday, January 31, 2013

• ICE, CBP, USPIS Seize More Than $13.6 Million in Fake NFL Merchandise During ’Operation Red Zone’
• USPTO Seeking Comments on Matters Related to the Harmonization of Substantive Patent Law

Wednesday, January 30, 2013

• Specal Feature -- You Can Jailbreak Phones But Not Tablets: New DMCA Rules Roll Back Fair Use in Favor of Software Owners’ Rights
• Special Feature --- Returning Fire: The Respondent’s Brief and Several Supporting Amicus Curiae Briefs in Gunn v. Minton¹
• Banner & Witcoff Obtains Most Design Patents for 10th Consecutive Year
• New York Intellectual Property Law Association (NYIPLA) will present the 11th Outstanding Public Service Award to the Hon. Barbara S. Jones at the Judges Dinner

Tuesday, January 29, 2013

• Special Feature: Opening Shots in Gunn v. Minton¹: The Petitioner’s Brief and Several Amici Curiae Briefs in Support
• Boutique Law Firm Price Heneveld LLP Continues Expansion Adding Two More Attorneys
• Duane Morris Chicago Office Adds Intellectual Property Partner Kevin M. Nelson
• RatnerPrestia Welcomes IP Litigator, Robert A. McKinley

Monday, January 28, 2013

• Antigua to Pursue Sanctions Against the United States in Decade-Long Trade Dispute
• Veteran Post-Grant Intellectual Property Partner Joins Arent Fox in Los Angeles

Friday, January 25, 2013

• Fish & Richardson Elevates 15 Attorneys to Principal

Thursday, January 24, 2013

• Kirk Deheck Named Voting Shareholder for Boyle Fredrickson
• Schiff Hardin LLP Expands National Intellectual Property Group with Addition of Three New Partners

Saturday, January 19, 2013

• Ruling in International Trade Commission Case a Win for U.S. Manufacturer

Wednesday, January 16, 2013

• Armstrong Teasdale Adds Partner, Two Associates

Monday, January 07, 2013

• Armstrong Teasdale Announces Four New Partners
• Fish & Richardson Principal, Dr. Frank Peterreins, Translates Definitive German Patent Litigation Book into English
• Fitzpatrick, Cella, Harper & Scinto Promotes Elizabeth Holowacz and Stephen Sullivan to Partner
• Loeb & Loeb Adds Partner William J. Kramer to Patent Practice in Chicago
• Smith, Gambrell & Russell Broadens Its Intellectual Property Practice in Washington

Thursday, December 20, 2012

• Pepper Hamilton Expands Intellectual Property Practice
• Unistraw Receives Key Patent for Flavoring Straws

Thursday, December 13, 2012

• Barnes & Thornburg LLP’s Michigan Office Expands Intellectual Property Offerings with Arrival of Attorney Frank Scutch
• Michael Tompkins Rejoins Sheridan Ross as Shareholder
• Morpho Detection Wins Patent Infringement Suit Against Smiths Detection Over Widely-used Airline Passenger Screening Technologies

Wednesday, December 12, 2012

• Attorney Paul Ratzmann Joins Rader Fishman IP Firm in Michigan
• Greenlee Sullivan Attorneys to Join Lathrop & Gage
• Thomson Reuters Study Charts Surge in Middle Eastern Trademarks
• Woodcock Washburn Elects New Partner Aaron B. Rabinowitz

Tuesday, December 11, 2012

• Prominent Attorney Brian O’Donnell Joins Kilpatrick Townsend’s Denver Office

Monday, December 10, 2012

• Foley Adds Two Seasoned Intellectual Property Litigators in Del Mar
• IFI CLAIMS Patent Services Licenses Global Patent Data to Gridlogics

Tuesday, November 27, 2012

• NeoMedia Licenses Mobile Barcode Patents to Kraft Foods Group, Inc.
• Nomadix and HP Settle Internet Gateway Patent Litigation
• SNR Denton Welcomes Dallas Intellectual Property and Technology Partner Matthew Harper
• US Patent for Reconciliation Solution Affirms Vestmark’s Innovative Technology

Monday, November 19, 2012

• Barnes & Thornburg Adds Intellectual Property Attorney Jordan Weinstein to Growing Washington, D.C. Office
• Fish & Richardson Attorney Ruffin B. Cordell Inducted into American College of Trial Lawyers

Friday, November 16, 2012

• Federal Circuit Rules in Favor of SMC Corporation By Affirming ITC’s Decision To Invalidate Competitor’s Patent
• Patent Offices of United States, Europe, and Japan Approve Trilateral Cooperation Declaration to Further Advance Patent Systems Worldwide
• Two McAndrews, Held & Malloy Attorneys Receive Special Recognitions at AIPLA’s Annual Meeting
• World’s Five Largest Intellectual Property Offices Announce Release of First Annual IP5 Statistics Report

Thursday, November 15, 2012

• Husch Blackwell Launches its Latest Blog, LocalPatentRulesInsight.com
• Intellectual Property Law Firm Brinks to Open Detroit Office

Wednesday, November 14, 2012

• PrimeDisc Marketing and Bestdisc Technology Join the One-Blue Licensing Program for Blu-ray Disc™

Tuesday, November 13, 2012

• AIPLA Bestows Awards During 2012 Annual Meeting
• Kilpatrick Townsend Named One of Working Mother and Flex-Time Lawyers ’50 Best Law Firms for Women’ For Leadership in Promoting, Retaining Talent

Monday, November 12, 2012

• Arnold & Porter Expands its Northern California Life Sciences Capabilities With the Arrival of Jeffrey Hessekiel
• Squire Sanders Bolsters Intellectual Property Capability with Leading Litigator

Friday, November 09, 2012

• Kilpatrick Townsend Adds Prominent Attorney to Firm’s San Diego Office

Thursday, November 08, 2012

• Leason Ellis Adds Two Associates

Wednesday, November 07, 2012

• Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney Adds Prominent IP, Pharma and Biotech Lawyer Christine Hansen in Wilmington

Friday, August 10, 2012

• USPTO to Hold Texas Regional Inventors Conference in Austin, September 14-15

Wednesday, August 08, 2012

• Perkins Coie Wins Patent Litigation Case For Simon Property Group

Tuesday, August 07, 2012

• Holy Transfiguration Monastery Wins Copyright Appeal Against Archbishop
• Oblon Spivak Attorneys Appointed to Leadership Positions in the American Bar Association
• Proskauer Broadens Biotech Patent Litigation Capabilities With New Partner in New York

Monday, August 06, 2012

• Trademark Education Event Returning to USPTO

Thursday, August 02, 2012

• National Intellectual Property Expert Eric Osterberg Opens Law Firm in Stamford, CT
• Neal Gerber & Eisenberg, LLP Wins Landmark Copyright Infringement Decision For myVidster.com
• Rembrandt IP Management, LLC Announces the Addition of Meredith L. Carter as Managing Director of Business Development

Wednesday, August 01, 2012

• Polsinelli Shughart New York Adds Trio of Intellectual Property Litigators to Enhance Pharmaceutical Patent Practice
• Two McAndrews, Held & Malloy Attorneys Honored Among the World’s Leading Patent Practitioners

Thursday, June 07, 2012

• Steven McCracken of Callaway Golf Joins Fish & Richardson

Thursday, May 31, 2012

• First To File to Host Digital IP Webinar on June 14th
• Oblon Spivak Partner Elected to AIPLA Board ofDirectors

Wednesday, May 30, 2012

• Judge David Folsom to Lead Jackson Walker Texarkana Office
• USPTO Publishes Proposed Rules to Implement Micro Entity Status for Paying Discounted Patent Fees

Tuesday, May 29, 2012

• Associate Register of Copyrights Michele Woods Appointed to WIPO
• Infojustice Roundup - May 29, 2012
• ITC Trial Lawyer Kent Stevens Joins McKool Smith

Friday, May 25, 2012

• Oblon Spivak Files Preemptive Copyright Infringement Suit on Behalf of Rolling Thunder Motorcycle Rally, Washington, D.C.
• Waller Clients Prevail in Soul Men Intellectual Property Case

Thursday, May 24, 2012

• USPTO Concord Patent and Trademark Resource Center (PTRC) Now Open to the Public

Wednesday, May 23, 2012

• Brinks Adds Five Legal and Technical Professionals in Chicago Office
• Fox Rothschild Bolsters IP Litigation Practice with DC Additions

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

• McCarter & English Continues to Expand Its Patent Litigation Practice with the Addition of Thomas A. Stevens in Wilmington
• Two New IP Litigators Bolster Haynes and Boone New York
• USPTO to Host Clean Technology Partnership Meeting

Tuesday, May 15, 2012

• Brinks Shareholder Janet Pioli Named President of IPLAC
• Butamax Granted Core Patent for Making Biobutanol and Distillers Grains
• Gevo Dismisses Butamax Patent Infringement Lawsuit
• Lab21 Secures European and USA Patents for HCV Drug Resistance Genotyping
• Software Patent Specialist Michael Kiklis Joins Oblon Spivak’s Leading Post Grant Patent Group
• Worlds Inc. Receives 7th Virtual Worlds Patent Related to MMO Architecture

Monday, May 14, 2012

• Akerman Senterfitt Welcomes Intellectual Property Shareholder Richard Gilly in Washington D.C.
• Dr. William Haulbrook Joins Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP as a Partner
• Energy Telecom, Inc. Announces Allowance of Patent Application for Claims of New Benefits for Its Telecommunication Eyewear
• Helicos BioSciences Corporation Settles its Patent Litigation Against Pacific Biosciences, Inc.
• Infojustice Roundup - May 14, 2012
• Kilpatrick Townsend Adds Attorney Lindsay Hopkins to Firm’s Atlanta Office
• Landmark Copyright Ruling Sets Rules for Fair Use in the Digital Age
• McDermott Names New Head of Silicon Valley Office
• OPKO Health Receives Important U.S. Patent Allowance
• Silicon Laboratories Awaits Official Complaint Before Exerting Well Established RF Patent Portfolio

Friday, May 11, 2012

• McAndrews, Held & Malloy Wins Inequitable Conduct Ruling for Client CSP Technologies
• Patent Litigator Joseph Lavelle Joins DLA Piper in Washington, DC
• RyMed Technologies Wins Patent Infringement Case
• Voip-Pal.Com Inc. Acquires Five Major VoIP Patents Through Acquisition of Digifonica (International) Limited Gibraltar

Thursday, May 10, 2012

• Biscom Awarded Patent for File Size Reduction of Scanned Color Documents with Black & White Areas
• Excentus Files Patent and Trademark Infringement Lawsuit against QuikTrip Corporation, Midax, Inc. and Others
• MDHI Reaches New Agreement with Patent Holder -- Patent Rights Extended Through March 2013
• MGT Capital Investments, Inc. Announces Gaming Patent Acquisition
• SNR Denton Continues Expansion of Its Intellectual Property Practice in Washington, DC
• USPTO to Test New Option for Information Disclosure Statements (IDS)

Wednesday, May 09, 2012

• Special Feature -- Appellate Court Defines Suspension of Proceedings in Trademark Cases
• Special Feature -- The LAST BEST PLACE That Doesn’t Need a Trademark Registration
• Baker Hostetler’s Growth Continues in Washington, D.C.
• Kirkland & Ellis Bolsters IP Practice as Litigators Leora Ben-Ami, Thomas Fleming, Patricia Carson and Christopher Jagoe Join New York Office
• Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP Boosts Patent Capabilities with Hiring of Six IP Attorneys
• New Study Catalogs All Specialized Intellectual Property Courts in the World
• Rembrandt IP Management Announces Patent Infringement Lawsuit Naming Slot Machine Manufacturer and Casinos
• Squire Sanders Builds Intellectual Property Presence in Asia with Partner Hire
• Three Accomplished IP Attorneys Join Haynes and Boone, LLP
• US Patent Office Re-Exam Concludes RPost Proof of Delivery Patent Valid

Tuesday, May 08, 2012

• Armstrong Teasdale’s Intellectual Property Practice Welcomes Six New Attorneys
• Broad Patent Protection Granted for iBio Immunomodulator
• Coloplast Wins Patent Infringement Verdict Against Generic Medical Devices, Inc.
• General Patent Corporation Settles Patent Infringement Lawsuit with Giesecke & Devrient America
• McAndrews Nationally Recognized for Securing High-Quality Patents
• MPS Wins More than $9.4 Million in Attorneys’ Fees and Costs against O2 Micro

Monday, May 07, 2012

• Infojustice Roundup - May 7, 2012
• NanoViricides Announces Issuance of a Fundamental Patent in the USA
• Nixon Peabody Expands West Coast Intellectual Property Practice
• USPTO Expands Trademark Law School Clinic Certification Pilot Program

Friday, May 04, 2012

• Intellectual Property Exchange International Announces Exchange Rules
• McAndrews, Held & Malloy Secures Victory for Stryker Corporation
• USPTO Seeks Nominations for Patent and Trademark Advisory Committees

Thursday, May 03, 2012

• Microsoft Signs Patent Licensing Agreement With Aspen Avionics
• U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Confirms Cypress SRAM Patent Asserted in Cypress’s ITC Action Against GSI Technology
• VirnetX And Aastra Sign A Patent License Agreement

Wednesday, May 02, 2012

• Facebook and Google Have a New Frienemy - BoingOpia.com launches Patent Pending Web 3.0

Tuesday, May 01, 2012

• IP and International Commercial Litigator Robert Parker Joins Baker & McKenzie

Thursday, April 26, 2012

• Augme Finalizes Patent License
• Explosion of Litigation Approaches as 4G-LTE Patents Become Smartphone Standard
• Nick Bolter Appointed Partner-in-Charge of Edwards Wildman’s London Office
• Quarles & Brady Secures Major Intellectual Property Victory

Wednesday, April 25, 2012

• Arradiance Receives New Patent Allowances for Exclusive Right to Manufacture Large Area Nanofilm Activated Microchannel Plate Detectors
• BIOLASE Files Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against European Competitor
• Lpath Receives First U.S. Patent for Anti-LPA Antibody, Lpathomab
• Marshall Edwards Issued New Patent For Use Of Lead Drug Candidate ME-143 In Treating Cancer
• Potter Voice Technologies Files Colorado Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against Apple, Google, Others
• Precision BioSciences Files Tenth Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against Cellectis Related to Meganuclease Technology and Requests Permanent Injunction
• Thomson Reuters Delivers Critical Trademark Content on Mobile Devices with New Watch Functionality

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

• Arroweye Solutions Patents Digital On-Demand Technology
• eIQ Energy Receives U.S. Patent for Parallel Solar Technology
• Fried Frank Expands Intellectual Property Platform With Addition of Leading Corporate Lawyer Daniel C. Glazer
• Ivera Medical Announces the USPTO Upheld Key Patents for Disinfecting Port Protector Technology
• MacroSolve Files Patent Infringement Suits Against AOL and Bank of America
• Quinn Emanuel Adds Another Experienced Patent Trial Lawyer To Its Washington, D.C. Office

Monday, April 23, 2012

• Covington Advises Microsoft in Patent Agreement With Facebook
• Essential Medical Dismisses Patent Case against Masimo and Cercacor
• Infojustice Roundup - April 23, 2012
• Renesys Granted Patent for Monitoring Internet Routing by United States Patent Office
• Rosetta Genomics Receives Key U.S. Patent Allowance
• Two Patent Litigators Join King & Spalding in New York

Friday, April 20, 2012

• Lawsuit Claims Wide Range of Apple Devices Infringe Patents for Screen Manipulation
• Lifetime Wins First Patent Infringement Lawsuit in China

Thursday, April 19, 2012

• Holovisions U.S. Patent for Context-Driven Search is Approved
• Phillips Nizer Adds Alan Behr, Intellectual Property Law, Fashion and Technology Attorney, to the Corporate & Business Law Department
• Supreme Court Clears the Way for Generic Patent Challenges
• Three Knobbe Martens Attorneys Named Among Top 100 Intellectual Property Lawyers in California
• USPTO and UKIPO Issue Preliminary Progress Report on Worksharing Initiative
• Watson Confirms Glumetza Patent Challenge

Wednesday, April 18, 2012

• Chinese Nationals Charged With Software Piracy and Exporting Technology to China; Former NASA Employee Also Charged
• Leading Silicon Valley IP Trial Lawyer Hopkins Guy Joins Baker Botts
• Massive Cache of Counterfeit Athletic Apparel Found in Sacramento Warehouse
• NeoMedia Awarded New Patent for Faster and Easier Implementation of Mobile Barcode Applications and Services

Tuesday, April 17, 2012

• Article One Partners Unveils Survey Results From IP Patent Litigation Study
• Cyclacel Pharmaceuticals Announces Grant of New U.S. Patent Covering Sapacitabine

Monday, April 16, 2012

• Asentinel Announces Another Patent License Agreement
• GreenShift Receives Fifth Corn Oil Extraction Patent
• Infojustice Roundup - April 16, 2012
• K&L Gates Boosts IP Litigation Practice with Orange County Lawyer Team
• Vermillion Receives Notice of Allowance for Patent of Biomarker for Ovarian Cancer

Thursday, April 12, 2012

• BioElectronics Announces European Patent Issuance
• Morrison & Foerster Patent Litigation Team Secures Win for Hydrapak and Rare Rule 11 Sanctions Award
• NewPage Awarded Patent for PointTrac TT RFID Product
• Tim Bradley Of Coats And Bennett Named Webmaster Of Triangle Intellectual Property Law Association

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

• Arisdyne Systems Awarded Second Patent on Ethanol Yield Improvements Using Low Energy
• Technology Patent Wars Heat Up -- Microsoft and AOL Make Billion Dollar Deal
• ThermoEnergy to Evaluate and Strengthen its Patent Positions as First Step in New Corporate Focus
• US Commerce Department Releases New Report Showing Intellectual Property-Intensive Industries Contribute $5 Trillion, 40 Million Jobs to US Economy
• Valorem Law Group Adds IP Attorney to Firm

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

• Boutique Patent Firm O’Brien Jones Adds Two IP Attorneys
• Cleartronic Announces Issuance of Patent for Multi Ad Hoc Interoperable Communicating Networks
• Fish & Richardson Principal Adam Kessel Named 2012 Up & Coming Lawyer by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly
• Gevo Granted Critical Patent Enabling Commercially Viable Yields of Isobutanol Production from Yeast
• Oblon Spivak Partner Roberta Bren Selected as a Finalist for the Inaugural Euromoney Legal Media Group Women in Business Law Awards
• Patton Boggs Bolsters IP Strength With Addition of Four Patent Attorneys
• Top Litigator Re-Joins Weil’s Patent Litigation Practice in Houston

Monday, April 09, 2012

• Eyewear Designer Zenni Optical Prevails In Major Patent Dispute with Aspex Eyewear
• Fish & Richardson Announces 2012 Diversity Fellows
• Infojustice Roundup - April 9, 2012
• Kilpatrick Townsend Adds Counsel Christian Nicholes to Firm’s Silicon Valley Office
• NeoMedia Files Lawsuit Alleging Patent Infringement
• Pendrell Names IP Industry Veteran as VP of Patent Licensing
• ProGaming Platforms Preparing to File Two New Patent Applications
• SEFE Inc. Receives Patent for Dynamic Electrical Converter System

Thursday, April 05, 2012

• Amy B. Goldsmith Joins Tarter Krinsky & Drogin As Partner In Intellectual Property Practice Group
• Industry Giants Weigh-in On Decision that Could Expose Millions of Internet Users To Copyright Liability
• Precision BioSciences Files Ninth Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against Cellectis Related to Engineered Meganucleases
• University of Kansas Researchers Win Co-Inventorship Dispute over Cancer Drug Formulation Patents
• USPTO and Hungarian Intellectual Property Office (HIPO) sign Memorandum of Understanding on Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) Program
• Watson Confirms Favorable District Court Ruling in Generic Sanctura XR® Patent Suit
• Worlds Inc. Files Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against Activision Blizzard, Inc., Blizzard Entertainment, Inc., and Activision Publishing, Inc.

Wednesday, April 04, 2012

• New Patent Broadens iBio’s Proprietary Biologics Platform
• New Patent for Cartilage Repair Issues Under Vet-Stem Stem Cell License
• SustainX Awarded Four U.S. Patents for Energy Storage Innovations
• U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan Rules in Favor Of Oblon Spivak Client Paralyzed Veterans of America
• XenoPort Awarded U.S. Patent Directed to Composition and Formulations of XP23829, a Novel Fumarate Analog for the Potential Treatment of Relapsing-Remitting Multiple Sclerosis and Psoriasis

Tuesday, April 03, 2012

• Special Feature -- Patent Claims Must Recite Significantly More than a Law of Nature
• CardinalCommerce Grows International and US Patent Portfolio With Additional Patent Awards
• Duane Morris Washington, D.C. Office Adds International Trade Commission Lawyers Michael G. McManus and Rodney R. Sweetland III
• inovia Announces the Findings of its Annual U.S. Global Patent and IP Trends Survey
• K&L Gates Adds Pittsburgh IP Litigation Partner
• Lawrence Robins Joins Edwards Wildman as IP Partner in Boston
• Lawyers of the Roundtable: Alltech Symposium to Host Intellectual Property Dialogue
• Manatt Expands Intellectual Property Practice in New York
• RAMP Issued Two New Patents Supporting Core MediaCloud Platform

Monday, April 02, 2012

• Connolly Bove Thwarts False Marking Constitutional Challenge on Behalf of FMC Corporation
• Critical Outcome Technologies Inc. Receives Second U.S. Patent for COTI-2
• General Patent Corporation Settles Patent Infringement Lawsuit with Zoolert
• Infojustice Roundup - April 2, 2012
• InterDigital and Cinterion Extend Term of Patent License Agreement and Include 4G Coverage
• Medversant Issued Second Verification Technology Patent
• Pendrell Acquires More Than 1,300 Patents Covering 3G and 4G Wireless Technologies, E-commerce, Mobile Applications, Video Delivery and Security
• Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi L.L.P. Attorney Matthew McFarlane Named a 2012 Leadership Council On Legal Diversity Fellow
• Sesame Software Awarded Cloud Services Data Replication Patent
• True Religion Awarded $863.9 Million Judgment Against Internet Counterfeiters
• USPTO Expands Patent Law School Clinic Certification Pilot Program
• USPTO to Test New Post Final Rejection Option

Friday, March 30, 2012

• Foley & Lardner Welcomes Cliff Liu to its Silicon Valley Office
• HumanEyes Technologies Files Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against Sony
• McDermott Welcomes Top IP Litigator and Team to Silicon Valley Office
• USPTO and NIST Unveil New IP Awareness Assessment Tool

Thursday, March 29, 2012

• Adapt IP Ventures Retained to Market Video Capturing Patent Portfolio; Client Announces Patent Issuance
• Horizon Pharma Files Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against Par Pharmaceutical, Inc. for Filing an ANDA Against DUEXIS
• Omeros Reports Allowance of Additional Patent for Ophthalmology Product OMS302
• Visible World Awarded Key Patent for Household Addressable TV Advertising

Wednesday, March 28, 2012

• Apple, Sony Sued in California Patent Infringement Claim Over iTunes, Playstation Network Systems
• BGH Verdict - Unitedprint Wins Patent Litigation Against Vistaprint
• Netlist Provides Update on US Patent & Trademark Office Communications
• Supreme Court Knocks Back Myriad Genetics Patents
• USPTO to Boost Job Opportunities for Veterans through Veteran Intern Program
• Vermillion Receives Notice of Allowance for Patent on Methods for Diagnosing Ovarian Cancer
• VIZIO Licenses Digital TV Patent Portfolio to Westinghouse Digital, LLC
• Worlds Inc. Receives Sixth Virtual Worlds Patent

Tuesday, March 27, 2012

• BRS Labs Granted U.S. Patent for Behavioral Recognition System
• Fujitsu Licenses ContentGuard Digital Rights Management Technology
• ISTA Pharmaceuticals Announces Issuance of U.S. Patent for PROLENSA
• OTI Files Patent Infringement Suit against T-Mobile

Monday, March 26, 2012

• Digonex Files Lawsuit Asserting Patent Infringement by Qcue
• Genmab Announces Patent Settlement Agreement for Ofatumumab
• Infojustice Roundup - March 26, 2012
• Inovio Receives U.S. Patent for SynCon® H1N1 Influenza Universal Vaccine
• IP and Life Sciences Transactional Attorney Joins Latham & Watkins in New York
• IP Litigator Kamleh Nicola Joins Baker & McKenzie’s Toronto Office
• Splunk Granted U.S. Patent for Innovative Time-Series Search Engine Technology
• Supreme Court Decision Whacks Diagnostics Companies
• USPTO Partners with NASA’s Center for Collaborative Innovation and TopCoder on Competition to Modernize Tools for Patent Examination

Friday, March 23, 2012

• Arthur Beeman Named Head of SNR Denton’s Silicon Valley Office
• Cooley Secures Complete Trial Victory for High-Profile Client
• Cooper & Dunham Celebrates 125 Years of IP Law
• GameTruck’s Patented Concept Weeds Out Imitators
• General Patent Corporation Settles Patent Lawsuit with Smartrac Technology

Thursday, March 22, 2012

• Special Feature -- Can’t Touch This - Supreme Court Finds Personalized Medicine Patent Claims Invalid
• Cartus Awarded Patent for Innovative Online Bidding Platform
• Endo Acquires Johnson Matthey’s Oxymorphone Patent
• ipPerformance Conducting Study on Corporate Practices for Handling Non-Practicing Entities Attacks (Patent Trolls) Benchmark
• Natural Alternatives International, Inc. Announces Issuance of New U.S. Patent Covering CarnoSyn® Beta-alanine
• Tim Bradley Of Coats And Bennett, PLLC, Addresses Tattoo Copyrights In ABA Publication
• USPTO to Host Women’s Entrepreneurship Symposium in Honor of Women’s History Month
• Visualant Granted Third Patent on its Spectral Pattern Matching Technology

Wednesday, March 21, 2012

• GreenBytes Awarded Patent for Power Consumption Innovation
• Implant Sciences Receives Patent for Narcotics and Explosives Particle Removal System
• Morrison & Foerster Wins for Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Before the International Trade Commission
• Pepper Hamilton Enhances Intellectual Property Practice With Addition of Michael J. McNamara
• Price Heneveld LLP is Pleased to Announce the Addition of Kevin K. Xu as a Patent Agent of the Firm
• Socket Mobile Receives U.S. Patent for Barcode Scanner With Integrated Stylus

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

• Amarin Announces Notification of Patent Allowance for AMR101
• Cantor Colburn LLP Announces New Associate
• PositiveID Corporation Awarded U.S. Patent No. 8,133,451 for First-of-Its-Kind Detection System for Molecular Biological Diagnostics
• Triumfant Awarded Patent for Innovative Remediation Approach
• Xeris Pharmaceuticals Receives U.S. Patent for Injection of Ultra-Concentrated Drugs and Biologics

Monday, March 19, 2012

• Bass, Berry & Sims PLC Expands New Washington, DC Office with Top Patent Lawyer Terry Clark
• Blaze Mobile Awarded Another Patent for NFC Payments
• Broadcom Granted Permanent Injunction Against Emulex in Patent Infringement Suit
• Canon Announces Resolution of Patent Infringement Disputes
• Former White House IP Attorney Andrew Baluch Joins Foley
• Infojustice Roundup - March 19, 2012
• Patent Holders Score Significant Victory in Rare Federal Circuit En Banc Rehearing
• Recovery as a Service Platform Patent Issued to Geminare
• Savtira Chooses Reed Smith, Top Global Law Firm, to Manage Growing IP Portfolio

Friday, March 16, 2012

• Amerigen Announces ANDA Filing and BYSTOLIC Patent Challenge
• First Sidense Customer Takes Kilopass 1T Patent Coverage License

Thursday, March 15, 2012

• First To File Develops and Releases New App For The iPhone and iPad
• Tekmira Provides Update on Progress in USPTO Patent Interference Proceedings
• Towers Watson Issued U.S. Patents for Insurance Industry Smart Modeling Technique
• USPTO and AUTM Announce Joint Patent Examiners Training Initiative
• Vestaron Corporation Announces Filling of Insect Control Patents

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

• BSKB Expands Litigation and Trademark Practices with Addition of Michael T. Smith
• Farella Braun + Martel Names Stephanie Skaff Chair of Intellectual Property Litigation Department
• Forest Laboratories, Inc. Files Lawsuits against Several Companies for Infringement of BYSTOLIC Patent
• Mountain View Pharmaceuticals Announces Receipt of a U.S. Patent on Next-Generation PEGylation Technology (PharmaPEG)
• Patent Infringement Claims Against Comdata Dismissed
• Sojern Receives U.S. Patent for Method to Provide Customized Messages to Travelers
• U.S. Patent Awarded for Talari Networks’ Technology That Enables Enterprises to Drastically Reduce Network Costs
• Zep Solar Strengthened by U.S. Patent Office Action Against Westinghouse Solar

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

• Association of American University Presses Partners with Copyright Clearance Center
• Butamax Responds to Gevo Patent Infringement Lawsuit
• CallidusCloud Expands Patent Portfolio, Acquires Two New Patents
• Federal Circuit Decides Masimo, Represented by Knobbe Martens, Is The First Inventor of Additional Breakthrough Patient Care Technology
• Georg Papst, Founder of Papst Licensing, Passes Away at the Age of 76
• Gevo Granted Key Patent Covering Critical Technology to Enable Commercially Viable Yields of Isobutanol Production from Yeast
• Gevo Refutes Butamax’s Unfounded Allegations of KARI Enzyme Patent Infringement
• Patent and Trademark Trends 2011 -- Thomson Reuters Evaluates the State of Global IP
• Tampa Woman Sentenced to 2 Years for Trafficking in Counterfeit Goods
• Thomas R. Johnson Returns to Merchant & Gould
• USPTO Announces 2012 National Trademark Expo

Monday, March 12, 2012

• Augme Files Patent Infringement Suit Against Competitor Velti USA, Inc.
• Butamax Files Biobutanol Patent Infringement Lawsuit to Stop Gevo’s use of Butamax KARI Enzyme Technology
• Daxor Announces Filing of Two Additional Patents for Updated Automated Blood Analyzer
• Former Verizon IP Chief Leonard C. Suchyta Joins Hunton & Williams LLP
• Infojustice Roundup - March 12, 2012
• Plandai Biotechnology, Inc. Files Revolutionary Patent for Increasing Absorption of Antioxidant Protection
• Revolutionary Concepts, Inc. Awarded Additional Patent to Develop Communication Products for EyeTalk 2-Way Device in Billion Dollar Infant and Toddler Market
• Top Image Systems Files for Patent for Its Intelligent Mobile Document Delivery Apps

Thursday, March 08, 2012

• Catheter Connections Announces a Patent Notice of Allowance for its IV Disinfection Technology
• Intellectual Property Law Departments Decrease Patent Staff, Yet Patent Efficiency increases
• IP Conference Features Lead Attorneys in Louboutin (Red Sole Shoes) Trademark Litigation
• Oblon Spivak Partner Robin Bren Selected as a 2012 Influential Women of Virginia Honoree
• Winegard Company Successfully Opposes King Control’s Post-Trial Motions

Wednesday, March 07, 2012

• AWR Expands Patent Portfolio and Receives Patent for Block-specific Harmonic Balance Analysis System in Electrical Circuit Design
• Chicago Attorney Says Former Motorola Employee Not Guilty of Trade Secret Theft
• McAndrews, Held & Malloy Announces Victory in Patent Litigation Case for VTech Holdings, Ltd.
• New Book -- Business Method and Software Patents -- A Practical Guide
• Patent Issued for the First Original Snap-on-Bra Mock Camisole
• Ropes & Gray to Open Office in Seoul, Korea
• Skinvisible Granted US Sunscreen Patent for UVA Absorber

Tuesday, March 06, 2012

• 1st Detect Awarded EU Patent for Chemical Detection Technology
• ICAP Patent Brokerage Announces for Auction Extensive Patent Portfolio of Wireless and Mobile Device Technology
• Idenix Pharmaceuticals Announces Declaration of a Patent Interference by the USPTO
• INETCO Awarded Patent for Multi-reader, Multi-writer Lock-Free Ring Buffer Algorithm
• McDermott Expands Silicon Valley Intellectual Property Litigation Team
• NeoMedia Awarded Patent for its Mobile Barcode Management and Infrastructure Technology
• Precision BioSciences Files Fifth Patent Infringement Lawsuit against Cellectis Related to Engineered Meganucleases
• Two McAndrews, Held & Malloy Founding Partners Recognized Among the World’s Top Patent Attorneys

Monday, March 05, 2012

• Ameranth’s Strategic Gaming/Poker Patent Casino Poker and Dealer Management System Confirmed Valid by United States Patent and Trademark Office
• Carroll, Burdick & McDonough Once Again Expands Internationally
• Depomed Files Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against Gralise ANDA Filers
• Hair Direct Successfully Defends Intellectual Property After 3-Year Legal Battle
• Infojustice Roundup - March 5, 2012
• Korea’s Dongjin Semichem Appoints CPA Global to Manage Patent Renewals
• Reising Ethington Uniquely Positioned to Benefit from USPTO-Detroit Office Location
• Sigrity Awarded U.S. Patent for Unique Voltage-Management Optimization
• Top Patent Litigator and Intellectual Property Leader Ed Anderson Joins Sheppard Mullin
• Universal Electronics Files Patent Infringement Suit against Universal Remote Control
• Vermillion Receives Notice of Allowance for Patent on Platelet Biomarkers of Angiogenesis
• Vorys Expands Technology and Intellectual Property Group With the Addition of Three Attorneys

Friday, March 02, 2012

• The Webb Law Firm Expands Medical Device Technology Expertise with New Hire of Jeffrey Mulrooney

Thursday, March 01, 2012

• Blackhawk Network Responds to Patent Infringement Decision
• Essentialis Files Two New Patent Applications for Investigational Compound DCCR
• Former U.S. Register of Copyrights and Senior Counsel to Oblon, Spivak Marybeth Peters Selected for IP Hall of Fame 2012
• National Inventors Hall of Fame Announces 2012 Inductees
• USPTO and Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO) Highlight Progress in Bilateral Cooperation

Wednesday, February 29, 2012

• 5BARz International Inc. -- US Patents Issued
• Arrowhead Announces Patent Issuance Covering siRNA Inhibitors of HIF-2a (EPAS1)
• Audible Magic Granted Three New U.S. Patents for Content Recognition Innovations
• Core Wireless Launches Patent Litigation Against Apple
• Finsphere Awarded US Patent Recognizing Innovation in Mobile Identity Authentication
• North Texas Man Sentenced to Nearly 5 years in Federal Prison on Copyright Infringement Conviction
• O2Micro Receives Patent for Power Management System
• Patent Issued on Fusion-Protein Vaccine Technology
• Patterson & Sheridan LLP Announces Two New Partners
• Perkins Coie Launches IP, Corporate Capabilities in New York
• Robert Kramer Joins SNR Denton’s Intellectual Property Practice in Silicon Valley and San Francisco
• TimeTrade Awarded Patent for Appointment Scheduling System
• Waddey & Patterson, Tennessee’s Largest Patent & Trademark Law Firm, Marks 20th Anniversary

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

• Cheryl S. Scotney Joins Keating Muething & Klekamp’s Intellectual Property Group
• First To File White Paper Demonstrates that Implementing FTF’s Digital IP Management Can Result in a 200% or Greater ROI in Year One Alone
• HPEV Receives Notice of Allowance of New Patent
• Infojustice Roundup - February 27, 2012
• Personalized Media Communications Names Boyd Lemna and Kitty Harvey Directors
• Price Heneveld LLP is Pleased to Announce the Addition of Peter A. Cummings as an Associate of the Firm
• UBM TechInsights Releases its Apple Inc. Patent Landscape
• Yottaa Granted Key Patent for Web Performance Optimization Technology

Monday, February 27, 2012

• 41st Parameter Granted Patent for SafeSession Technology That Protects Consumers and Businesses From Man in the Middle Attacks
• Austin Law Firm Wins Cutting Edge Domain Name Decision
• BackWeb Settles Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against IBM
• Brian Jackson, Ph.D. in Neuroscience, Joins The Webb Law Firm as an Associate
• David Wallace Joins Arent Fox’s Intellectual Property Practice
• Indel Therapeutics Awarded Third Patent for Novel Antimicrobial Drug Discovery Platform
• ITNS to Patent Proprietary Technology That Magnetizes Salt to Revolutionize $95 Billion Water Desalination Industry
• MacAulay-Brown Files Provisional Patent for Signal Processing and Data Compression

Saturday, February 25, 2012

• AIPLA’s Q. Todd Dickinson to be Inducted in IP Hall of Fame

Friday, February 24, 2012

• The Lanier Law Firm Representing Twin Peaks Software in California Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against Red Hat Inc.

Thursday, February 23, 2012

• Special Feature -- The Standard for Invalidating a Patent for Obviousness? Still a Work in Progress
• MAP Pharmaceuticals Issued Additional U.S. Patent for Methods of Achieving Rapid Treatment of Migraine Based Upon Pharmacokinetic Profile
• Mark J. Rosenberg Joins TKD as Counsel in Intellectual Property Practice Group
• MonoSol Rx, LLC Remains Confident in Its Patent Portfolio
• Zecotek Files Patent Lawsuit Against Saint-Gobain Corporation and Philips

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

• Special Feature -- Blue Ivy Carter Gets Star Treatment From The Feds
• Special Feature -- Please Refrain From Using My Refrain! Musicians Again Confront Politicians For Unauthorized Use of Songs
• Armstrong Teasdale in Ranking of Largest 100 IP Practices
• Jeffrey R. Anderson Joins Dunlap Codding
• mPhase Technologies, Inc. Files Drug Delivery Patent
• Santarus and Depomed Announce Settlement with Lupin of GLUMETZA Patent Litigation
• US Patent Office Rejects All Claims in Second MonoSol Patent
• Vringo Receives Notice of Allowance for First International Patent
• World Surveillance Group Files PCT Patent Application on Airship Design

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

• Cobra Electronics Awarded United States Patent for Citizens Band Radios Featuring Wireless Mobile Phone Connectivity
• Efficient Drivetrains and Toyota Motor Corp. Reach Agreement on Pending Patent Litigation
• GlucAffect Blood Sugar Management Formula From Reliv Earns Patent
• HistoRx Earns Patent on Quantitative Immunoassay Optimization
• Leading Intellectual Property Litigation Team Joins Perkins Coie in Chicago
• MacroSolve Files Patent Infringement Suit Against GEICO
• New Associate Neil Friedrich at The Webb Law Firm has Biomedical and Advanced IP Law Degrees
• Oxford University Press Announces the Release of Trademark Surveys -- A Litigator’s Guide
• Patent Prosecution and Litigation Group Led By Martin Bruehs, Charles Bruton and Scott Cummings Joins SNR Denton
• Sigma Life Science Obtains Global License for Kyoto University’s iPS Cell Patent Portfolio, Deepens Commitment to Drug Discovery and ADME/Toxicology
• TeleSign Receives Patent for TeleBureau -- The First Phone-Number Based Clearinghouse for Online Fraud
• US Patent Protection for Pulmaquin Is Extended with Issuance of a Composition of Matter Patent
• ViaSat Brings Lawsuit Against Space Systems/Loral and Loral for Patent Infringement and Breach of Contract
• VINtek Awarded Third U.S. Patent

Monday, February 20, 2012

• Infojustice Roundup - February 20, 2012
• Patent Attorney Corey Beaubien Elected Shareholder of Reising Ethington, P.C.
• Pluritas, LLC to Manage the Sale of SemiQuest, Inc.’s Patent Portfolio

Friday, February 17, 2012

• Harness Dickey Stronger with Additional USPTO Location
• Horizon Receives Notice of Paragraph IV Certification Against Patents for DUEXIS
• Laura A. Brozek Joins Hamilton Brook Smith Reynolds as a Technology Specialist
• MMRGlobal and VisiInc Sign Agreement to License MMR Australian Patent Portfolio on the Road to HIMSS

Thursday, February 16, 2012

• BioDelivery Sciences Receives Patent Allowance Triggering $15 Million Milestone Payment from Endo Pharmaceuticals
• Carbonite Awarded Patent for its Green Dots
• CenterBeam Secures Patent for Solution That Enables Enterprises to Bring Your Own Security to the Cloud
• Illumina Announces Favorable Patent Claim Construction Ruling in Litigation Against Complete Genomics, Inc.
• RF Micro Devices Responds to Patent Infringement Claim
• Trius Announces Issuance of Tedizolid Patent in China
• USPTO Establishes Thomas Alva Edison Visiting Professionals Program
• Valent BioSciences Files Patent Applications Claiming Benefits of Abscisic Acid in Animal Feed

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

• ARIAD Announces Issuance of Key U.S. Patent on Ponatinib
• Clean Wind Energy Tower, Inc. USPTO Notice of Allowance for Unique Efficient Energy Patent Application
• NaturalNano Granted US Patent on Key Manufacturing Process
• Peregrine Semiconductor Files Patent Infringement Actions Against RF Micro Devices and Motorola Mobility
• Pryor Cashman’s IP Group Expands with the Addition of Seasoned Patent Litigator James Klaiber
• Stemedica Granted U.S. Patent for Cellular Scaffold
• Thomson Innovation Streamlines Workflow and Enables Faster IP Decision Making with New Intuitive User Interface
• Titan Spine Acquires Additional Patent Protection for its Spinal Implant Surface Technologies
• United States Patent Office Issues Broad Content Curation Patent

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

• Barnes & Thornburg Continues Atlanta Growth with Addition of Jeff Morgan
• KFx Medical Corporation Earns a Third Patent Grant Continuing Growth
• Natural Alternatives International, Inc. Files Patent Infringement Claim Against DNP International Co., Inc.
• New Patent Promises to Accelerate Cancer Trials
• Precision BioSciences Receives Notice of Intent to Grant for New European Patent Covering Engineered Meganucleases
• SI-BONE Awarded Significant Across Bones Patent Allowance
• Sunesis Pharmaceuticals Announces Notice of Allowance for U.S. Patent Application Covering Vosaroxin Compositions
• Tegal Announces Continuing Discussions for Balance of Nanolayer Deposition Patent Portfolio
• The Lanier Law Firm Announces California Patent Infringement Lawsuit for Atomic Precision Systems Against Intel, IBM, Others

Monday, February 13, 2012

• Banner & Witcoff Elects Shareholders; Announces New Attorneys
• Carbon Sciences Files Patents for Steam Reforming of Natural Gas
• DR Systems Announces Issuance of U.S. Patent for Matching Medical Images
• Heidi R. Pickreign Joins Hamilton Brook Smith Reynolds as a Technology Specialist
• Infojustice Roundup - February 13, 2012
• Zynga is Sued by Personalized Media Communications for Infringing Four Patents

Saturday, February 11, 2012

• Merchant & Gould Scores Significant Patent Litigation Victory for Generic Pharmaceutical Manufacturers over AstraZeneca
• Mylan Intends to Challenge Unfavorable Verdict in Patent Trial Related to Mylan’s Generic Version of Sunovion’s Xopenex® Inhalation Solution
• Watson Confirms Beyaz Patent Challenge

Friday, February 10, 2012

• Licensing Executives Society International Announces Continued Commitment to Promoting IP Licensing & Tech Transfer; Supports New USPTO Patents for Humanity Initiative
• Lighthouse IP Group Announces Launch of New Version of its Acclaimed English Language Chinese Patent Database
• Lucky Litter LLC Announces Settlement of Litigation
• mPhase Technologies, Inc. to File Drug Delivery Patent

Thursday, February 09, 2012

• afterBOT Awarded Fourth Patent for Secondary Selling Using Digital Receipt Links Across Sellers
• Catalyst Pharmaceutical Partners Files U.S. Provisional Patent Application for GABA Aminotransferase Inhibitor Use in Treatment of Tourette Syndrome
• Cumberland Receives Acetadote® Patent Notice of Allowance
• Frankfurt Kurnit Law Firm Promotes Four Attorneys to Counsel
• Hyatt Corporation Sued for Patent Infringement by Mobile App Technology Leader MacroSolve
• ObjectVideo and Sony Enter Into Patent License Agreement
• Practical Law Company Continues US Growth With Launch of PLC Intellectual Property & Technology Service
• TRA, Inc. Awarded New Patent for Improvements in Using Big Data for Television Advertising Targeting
• USPTO Proposes Rules of Practice for Trials before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board and Judicial Review of Patent Trial and Appeal Board Decisions

Wednesday, February 08, 2012

• USPTO Launches Patents for Humanity Pilot
• AsepticSure Patent Protection Goes Global
• Bill Hart Retires from Proskauer Rose LLP
• Cigital CTO Gary McGraw Serves as Guest Editor for the Latest Issue of Computing Now
• Merchant & Gould Names Two New Partners and Four New Shareholders
• Rambus and NVIDIA Sign Patent License Agreement
• The John Marshall Law School 56th Annual IP Conference Focusing on Hot Topics, Recent Developments
• Ulmer & Berne Welcomes Intellectual Property Attorney Duke Haugh to Cincinnati Office
• USPTO Seeks Public Input on Proposed Fees

Tuesday, February 07, 2012

• Allen & Overy Continues Growth in Washington, D.C. and Expansion of Global Intellectual Property Practice With Appointment of Section 337 Specialist Steven E. Adkins
• AWR Expands Patent Portfolio and Receives Patent for Automatic Creation of Vias in Electrical Circuit Design
• Digonex Positions to Dominate Dynamic Pricing Market with 2 New Patents
• Expway Retains Drakes Bay Company LLC to Monetize its Patent Portfolio to Financial, Database and Media Markets
• Sheppard Mullin Elects Twelve Attorneys to Partnership
• SofTech Files Patent Application with the USPTO
• SynQor and Lineage Power Settle IBA Patent Litigation

Monday, February 06, 2012

• ENERCON Receives Patent For Innovative Nuclear Reactor Filter System
• eprentise Awarded Patent for Database Consolidation and Separation Technology
• Federal Appeals Court Denies Petition To Rehear Its Decision Affirming Amsted’s 10-Year Exclusion Order and 10-Year Cease and Desist Orders Against Tianrui, Tianrui Foundry, SCT and Barber
• Honeywell Files Lawsuit Alleging Patent Infringement by Nest Labs
• Infojustice Roundup - February 6, 2012
• Leading US and Japan Patent Lawyer Joins DLA Piper
• Leason Ellis Launches Account on Sina Weibo, the Leading Microblog of China
• Lee Felsenstein and Bob Zeidman Join Forces
• Paul A. Ainsworth Joins Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox as Of Counsel
• Precision BioSciences Announces Allowances in Fifth and Sixth U.S. Patent Applications Related to Engineered Meganucleases
• Solera Announces Filing of Complaint for Patent Infringement Against Mitchell International, Inc.
• SpeechCycle Awarded Patent for Repeat Caller Process
• Valence Technology Wins European Patent Appeal

Friday, February 03, 2012

• Acclaimed Patent Trial Lawyer David Warden Joins Houston Complex Commercial Litigation, Intellectual Property Firm AZA
• Ameranth Receives Notice of Allowance for Major New Patent for its 21st Century Communications Web/Wireless Synchronization Inventions
• BSKB Elevates Greg Cheng-Kang Hsu to Partner
• E-Commerce and Interactive Expertise in New Patent Attorney at The Webb Law Firm
• Federal Circuit Grants Rehearing in Patent Case With Potentially Far-Reaching Effects
• Goodwin Procter Expands Intellectual Property Litigation Practice with Addition of New Partners in Los Angeles
• McAndrews, Held & Malloy Becomes Corporate Sponsor of First Look for Charity Event
• OrthoSensor, Intelligent Orthopedic Device Innovator, Receives Two Additional Key Patents
• Precision BioSciences Announces Allowance of Fourth U.S. Patent Related to Engineered Meganucleases

Thursday, February 02, 2012

• $30 Million Due to MMRGlobal Under Non-Exclusive Patent License Agreement
• Arnstein & Lehr Welcomes David Newman to its Chicago Office
• Baker Hostetler’s Growth Continues in Costa Mesa, CA
• BodyMedia Files Patent Infringement Suit Against BASIS Science
• Colibri Heart Valve Announces Issuance of Patent for New Method of Making Replacement Heart Valves
• Connolly Bove Obtains ITC Ruling That Importation Of LIP Cigarette Wrappers Made by Julius Glatz and LIPtec Do Not Violate Any Valid Claims of Schweitzer-Mauduit Patents
• inovia Supports Findings of USPTO Report on International Patent Protections for Small Businesses
• IntraOp Medical wins Patent Defense Suit Protecting Their Intellectual Property
• MacroSolve Files Patent Infringement Suit Against Facebook
• T2 Biosystems Announces Issuance of Key Patent Providing Broad Intellectual Property Protection for Direct Detection Diagnostic Methods

Wednesday, February 01, 2012

• ImmunoCellular Therapeutics Receives Notice of Allowance of Cancer Stem Cell Targeting Patent
• IP, Licensing and Business Development Leaders Gather for LES (USA & Canada) Winter Meeting on Value Creation in High Tech, March 12-14 in Anaheim
• LES IP100 Executive Forum Gives Global IP Leaders Unique Chance to Problem Solve, Brainstorm and Talk Candidly About Pressing Issues in IP Business Today
• MediciNova Receives a Notice of Patent Allowance for a Method of Treating Progressive Multiple Sclerosis
• Minesoft and RWS Group Announce a Successful Major System Upgrade to PatBase to Meet Surging Demand
• Nixon Peabody LLP Promotes IP Attorney to Partner
• ObjectVideo Enters Into Patent Licensing Agreement With Tyco Security Products’ American Dynamics Business Unit
• Restoration of Copyright in Foreign Works Passes Constitution Muster

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

• AnywhereCommerce Granted New Secure Transaction Patent
• Court Raises the Heat on Patentee Who Persisted with Baseless Infringement Suit
• FirstBest Granted Patents for Innovations in Insurance Underwriting Management System and Agent Portal
• Medicity Receives 3rd U.S. Patent for Health Information Exchange Technology
• Open Invention Network Highlights Strong 2011 Licensing Performance
• Potter Anderson Supports Future Inventors and Patent-holders at Annual Hagley Museum Invention Convention
• Prominent Patent and Trial Attorneys Join Winthrop & Weinstine
• Seventeen Knobbe Martens Attorneys Named 2012 Southern California Super Lawyers
• Shared Spectrum Company Awarded Patents for Key Dynamic Spectrum Access Technologies
• Sweet Green Fields Granted First U.S. Patent for Highly Efficient, All Natural Stevia Extraction Process
• TechNet California Supports Calls for Silicon Valley U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
• XRoads Networks Gets Favorable Order Against Fatpipe Networks Over Tampering and Spoliation Motion in Patent Lawsuit

Monday, January 30, 2012

• Alnylam Receives Notice of Allowance from United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) for New Patent
• Crowell & Moring’s IP Litigation Practice Expands on Both Coasts with Four Pharmaceutical Attorneys
• Infojustice Roundup - January 30, 2012
• Leason Ellis Sues USA Trademark Enterprises For Fraudulent Marketing and Trademark Catalog
• Leatt Corporation Sues Atlas Brace for Patent Infringement
• McAndrews, Held & Malloy Delivers Client Successes in 2011
• Nationally Recognized IP Attorney Joins Dinsmore
• Precision BioSciences Announces Allowance of Third U.S. Patent Related to Engineered Meganucleases
• To Russia With Love -- Supreme Court Upholds Restoration of Copyright in Works of Russian Authors and Composers (And Many Others)
• Ulmer & Berne Partner Wayne Serra Appointed Vice Chair of Standards Setting Committee of the Intellectual Property Owners Association

Friday, January 27, 2012

• Deadline for Comments on Future Locations for USPTO Satellite Offices Approaches Monday January 30, 2012
• Jack G. Abid, Registered Patent Attorney at Florida Based Law Firm, Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath and Gilchrist, P.A. Has Been Named Shareholder in the Firm
• Metro PCS Sued by Klausner Technologies for Visual Voicemail Patent Infringement
• Winston & Strawn Expands Global IP Litigation Practice With Addition of Michael Scheer to its New York and Los Angeles Offices

Thursday, January 26, 2012

• Dechert Represents Celgene in Purchase of Avila Therapeutics

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

• Twelve McAndrews, Held & Malloy Attorneys Named 2012 Illinois Super Lawyers or Rising Stars
• USPTO Announces Public Hearings and Request for Comments on Genetic Diagnostic Testing per the America Invents Act
• USPTO Publishes Proposed Rules for Supplemental Examination and to Revise Reexamination Fees

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

• AIPLA Elects Baker Botts Partner Mark Whitaker as General Counsel
• Duane Morris Wins Cisco’s Litigation Counsel of the Year Award
• Kasowitz Expands IP Litigation Group in New York With Michael Eisenberg
• KFx Medical Corporation Awarded New Medical Devices Patent
• Prominent Intellectual Property Attorney Joins Kilpatrick Townsend in Silicon Valley
• U.S. Government Rules in Favor of LG Electronics, Against Whirlpool in Refrigerator Patent Case

Monday, January 23, 2012

• Dechert Expands IP Practice with the Arrival of Marianne Schaffner in Paris
• Infojustice Roundup - January 23, 2012
• Johnson & Associates Changes Name to Johnson, Marcou & Isaacs, LLC
• Personalized Media Communications is Granted Two New Patents; A Third Will Issue On February 7
• Venable Strengthens National Patent Prosecution/Litigation Practice with Addition of Five-Attorney Group, Including Three Partners

Thursday, January 19, 2012

• Choate, Hall & Stewart Names Two New Partners
• First To File Announces Automated USPTO Document Download for USPTO Private PAIR System Users
• McAndrews, Held & Malloy Announces Three New Board Members, Four New Partners

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

• Andrei Iancu Named Managing Partner of Irell & Manella
• Armstrong Teasdale’s Intellectual Property Practice Welcomes Three New Attorneys
• DLA Piper Secures Preliminary Injunction on Behalf of Chip Connect in Copyright and Trade Secrets Case
• MoloLamken Adds Deputy Chief of the U.S. Justice Department’s Public Integrity Section and Quinn Emanuel IP Litigator
• Novak Druce + Quigg LLP Names Newly Promoted Partners

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

• Frankfurt Kurnit Law Firm Adds New Entertainment Partner and Counsel
• Leading Patent Litigator Joins Latham & Watkins in New York
• RPost Patents Validated by California Federal Court
• USPTO Issues Reports Required by the America Invents Act on the Prior User Rights Defense Study and the International Patent Protection for Small Business Study

Friday, January 13, 2012

• Coats And Bennett, PLLC, Wins Default Judgment For Carpet Client In Copyright Infringement Case
• Robert Stoll, Former U.S. Patent Commissioner, Joins Drinker Biddle

Thursday, January 12, 2012

• Baker Hostetler’s Growth Continues in Washington, D.C.
• Best-Lock Files Legal Action to Cancel LEGO Trademark
• Black Hills IP Expands - Announces Two New Facilities

Thursday, December 01, 2011

• Leading Intellectual Property Attorney Joins Kilpatrick Townsend in Washington, D.C.

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

• BIOLASE Issued Broad New Patent for Treating Eye Conditions, Including Presbyopia, Cataracts and Glaucoma
• Corey Field Authors New Treatise on Entertainment Law
• Given Imaging Files Patent Infringement Lawsuit in Korea Against Intromedic
• NephRx Corp. Awarded U.S. Patent for NX002 for Treatment of Oral Mucositis

Tuesday, November 29, 2011

• Federal Circuit Court Denies RJR Request for Rehearing of Decision in Star Scientific Patent Infringement Lawsuit
• McDonald’s Monopoly Promotion Subject of Patent Infringement Suit
• Natural Alternatives International, Inc. Announces Issuance of New U.S. Beta-Alanine Patent Protecting CarnoSyn Products
• Spring Consulting Group Awarded Two Additional Patents for its Innovative Benefits Funding Strategies
• True Bio Electric Acquires New Green Energy Patent That Will Revolutionize the World’s Human Waste

Monday, November 28, 2011

• InSite Vision Wins Patent Interference Litigation Against the University of California, San Francisco
• O2Micro Wins Appeal Affirming Patent Infringement Judgment and Injunction in Lighting Technology
• Prana Secures Key Patent for Parkinson’s Drug PBT434 in the United States
• U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Grants Gevo’s Request for Reexamination and Invalidates Butamax Patent ’889
• U.S. Patent Issued to Clear Align for Laser for ISR Applications

Wednesday, November 23, 2011

• Hemopet Awarded Key Nutrigenomics Pet Food Patent
• Pioneering Technology Issued US Patent for Safe-T-sensor Technology

Tuesday, November 22, 2011

• BioFactura Awarded US Patent for its StableFast Biomanufacturing Platform
• Enbrel® (etanercept) Patent Issued
• Pall Corp. Files Patent For Closed Cell Collection and Seeding System

Monday, November 21, 2011

• Special Feature -- New Encouragement for Patent Owners Seeking Injunctions After Winning an Infringement Suit
• Infojustice Roundup - November 21, 2011
• Intellectual Property Firm Pruetz Law Group Joins Glaser Weil
• Johnson & Associates Expands West Coast Presence

Friday, November 18, 2011

• ESCORT Radar Files Complaint Against Cobra Electronics
• FutureLogic Announces It Will Appeal the Summary Judgment Ruling in Its Patent Infringement Case Against Nanoptix
• Key Patents Issued to Celerus Diagnostics
• Novak Druce + Quigg LLP Continues Bay Area Expansion
• Steptoe’s Cooke Appointed to Leadership Role with Lex Mundi’s IP Practice Group

Thursday, November 17, 2011

• Steptoe’s Winterfeldt Receives INTA Volunteer Service Award

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

• Ampio Pharmaceuticals Expands Patent Portfolio of Drugs for Treating Inflammatory Diseases
• Chamberlain Hrdlicka Announces Hire of Collin A. Rose
• TCS Receives Three U.S. Patents for Advancements in Navigation
• The LES Foundation Invites Graduate Students across the Globe to Register Today for its 2012 Business Plan Competition!
• Winegard Company Receives Favorable Verdict in Patent Lawsuit
• Worlds Inc. Announces Notice of Allowance for a Fifth Virtual Worlds Patent

Tuesday, November 15, 2011

• Chameleon Chair Awarded U.S. Patent for Its Unique Chair Design
• Collegiate Inventors Honored by Leading U.S. Organizations for Pioneering Science and Technology Advances
• Cryptography Research and Mikron JSC Sign Patent License Agreement for DPA Countermeasures
• Hitachi Chemical -- CMP Slurry Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against Korean Company
• MWV’s U.S. Patents Ruled Valid and Enforceable for Fragrance Dispensing System with NoC Dip Tube
• Roetzel Bolsters IP Practice with Addition of Robert Pershes in Fort Lauderdale
• Sonics Continues Lawsuit Against Arteris for Patent Infringement
• VIRxSYS Issued U.S. Patents for Its Lentiviral Vector and SMaRT RNA Platforms
• Visible Measures Awarded Patent for Measuring Online Video Viewing Time

Monday, November 14, 2011

• 2011 Marks a Year of Growth for Top-Ranked Boutique IP Firm Cantor Colburn
• Cloud Storage Pioneer Pro Softnet Faces Most Disruptive Patent Attack to Date
• Covington’s Chinoy Elected President of ITC Trial Lawyers Association
• Infojustice Roundup – November 14, 2011
• Nexidia Adds First-Call Resolution Analysis Patent to Intellectual Property Portfolio
• Three McAndrews, Held & Malloy Attorneys Honored As 2012 Best Lawyers in America
• USPTO Announces New Exhibit Highlighting the Patents and Trademarks of Steve Jobs

Friday, November 11, 2011

• Volpe and Koenig, P.C. Hires Attorney Marina Sigareva

Thursday, November 10, 2011

• USPTO Launches Recruitment Effort to Hire Veterans

Wednesday, November 09, 2011

• Paul Kilmer Receives INTA’s Advancement of Trademark Law Award

Tuesday, November 08, 2011

• Duane Morris IP Chair Lewis F. Gould, Jr., Reappointed as Commonwealth Trustee of Temple University
• Stephen Zralek to Chair Litigation Committee
• Two Marshall, Gerstein & Borun Partners Recognized Among World’s Top Patent and Technology Licensing Lawyers

Monday, November 07, 2011

• Perkins Coie Opens Office in Taipei, Taiwan

Friday, November 04, 2011

• Duane Morris Atlanta Office Adds Partner Brian Gannon
• McAndrews, Held & Malloy Attorney Herb Hart Appointed To Serve in Key Association Roles

Thursday, November 03, 2011

• Remaining Co-Founder of NinjaVideo.net Pleads Guilty to Criminal Copyright Conspiracy
• Steptoe’s Filarski Elected Leader of Licensing Executives Society
• Wood Herron & Evans Introduces New Post Grant Proceedings Practice Group

Tuesday, November 01, 2011

• Patent Reexamination Specialist Greg Gardella Moves to Oblon, Spivak’s Leading Post Grant Patent Group

Monday, October 31, 2011

• Candace Lynn Bell, Intellectual Property Attorney, Joins the White Plains Office of Eckert Seamans

Friday, October 28, 2011

• Young & Thompson Implements First To File’s EFR For Trademarks

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

• Copyright Alliance Cheers U.S. House Proposal to Curb Digital Theft of U.S. Intellectual Property
• McAndrews, Held & Malloy Secures Claim Construction Victory and Settlement for VTech Electronics North America, LLC
• Merchant & Gould Adds Jeffrey D. Blake as Partner
• PhRMA Statement on Protecting Intellectual Property
• Register of Copyrights Names Associate Register for Policy and International Affairs
• Three Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney Shareholders, Firm’s IP Licensing Practice Recommended in 2011-12 IAM Licensing 250
• VisionTech Administrator Sentenced to Prison for Role in Sales of Counterfeit Circuits Destined to US Military

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

• BSKB 2012 Seminar Dates Announced
• Federal Appeals Court Requires Insurers to Defend Patent Infringement Suit Under Standard Commercial Liability Policies
• Kilpatrick Townsend’s Judy Powell Receives Excellence in Intellectual Property Award from the ACC Intellectual Property Committee
• PhRMA Statement on Intellectual Capital
• USPTO and EPO Launch New Website for the Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) Project
• USPTO and the Norwegian Industrial Property Office to Partner on Patent Prosecution Highway Pilot

Monday, October 24, 2011

• Charles A. Bieneman Has Been Elected 2011-2012 Chair of the State Bar of Michigan Information Technology Law Section
• Fish & Richardson Senior Principal John B. Pegram Receives 2011 Outstanding Service Award from AIPLA
• Infojustice Roundup - October 24, 2011
• West Coast Expansion Positions Article One Partners as Patent Researching Resource for Silicon Valley

Friday, October 21, 2011

• Merchant & Gould Welcomes New Attorneys in Minneapolis, Madison and Denver
• Noted Texas Federal Judge T. John Ward Joins Ward & Smith in Longview
• Two Wood Herron & Evans Lawyers Receive Top Honors

Thursday, October 20, 2011

• CPA Global Launches Insight to Help Companies Better Manage and Leverage Their Patent Portfolios
• Small OTC Brand Patent Lawsuit Settled with Store Brand

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

• Onello & Mello Opens in Boston
• USPTO Meets or Exceeds its FY2011 Goals

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

• ICE HSI Seizes $3 Million Worth of Counterfeit Items at DC-area Flea Market
• Top Patent Litigator Nick Setty Joins Sheppard Mullin
• USPTO to Conduct Studies of Prior User Rights and International Patent Protection for Small Businesses per the America Invents Act

Monday, October 17, 2011

• Bracewell Records Patent Victory for Overstock.com
• Reed Smith Wins Ten-Year Patent Battle for Altair Eyewear
• Weil Grows Patent Litigation Practice with Addition of Stephen Shahida as Partner

Friday, October 14, 2011

• Oblon, Spivak Welcomes Former United States Register of Copyrights Marybeth Peters
• Pirkey Barber Managing Partner Elected President of Prestigious American Intellectual Property Law Association

Thursday, October 13, 2011

• Former Head of Intellectual Property & Media at Lawrence Graham Joins Brown Rudnick’s London Office
• Zirus CEO Joins Ballard Spahr’s IP Practice in Atlanta

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

• Bracewell & Giuliani Adds Litigator and Former Patent Examiner Jonathan R. Spivey to IP Practice
• Ulmer & Berne Continues Rapid Expansion of Chicago Office With Addition of Mark R. Anderson

Friday, October 07, 2011

• CPA Global Welcomes Condo Roccia as New Client
• Husch Blackwell Intellectual Property Attorneys Author Patent Reform Book Analyzing Effects of Leahy-Smith America Invents Act

Thursday, October 06, 2011

• Armstrong Teasdale Announces Five New Attorneys

Wednesday, October 05, 2011

• Greenberg Traurig Launches Patent Reform Law Website

Tuesday, October 04, 2011

• K&L Gates Bolsters Intellectual Property Practice with Paris Addition
• Patent Infringement Action Against Tempur-Pedic and Ascion Moves Forward

Monday, October 03, 2011

• Akin Gump Expands IP Practice With Addition of Partners Chad Everingham and David Stein
• Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP Launches as an International Law Firm with 650 Lawyers and 14 Offices
• Five IP Lawyers Promoted to Covington’s Partnership
• Infojustice Roundup
• McAndrews, Held & Malloy Founding Partner John J. Held Honored by Legal Services Corporation for Pro Bono Work

Friday, September 30, 2011

• Attorney Mark A. Pitchford Joins Waddey & Patterson
• Price Heneveld LLP is Pleased to Announce the Addition of Rebecca A. Becker as a Patent Agent and Gregory A. Lewis as an Associate of the Firm

Thursday, September 29, 2011

• CPA Global Acquires IP Software and Services Provider Ipendo from Zacco Group
• Hogan Lovells Secures Patent Victory for HemCon Medical Technologies, Inc. in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
• USPTO Rebrands National Library Network as Patent and Trademark Resource Centers

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

• Baker Hostetler’s Growth Continues in New York as Theodore J. Kobus III Joins Intellectual Property Group
• McDermott Bolsters Fast-Growing IP Prosecution & Transactions Practice

Friday, September 23, 2011

• McAndrews, Held & Malloy Founding Partner Timothy J. Malloy Named Fellow of Litigation Counsel of America

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

• Fulwider Patton’s Vern D. Schooley Honored With Proclamation from City of Long Beach

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

• DuPont to Host Conference Call to Review $919.9 Million Verdict in Intellectual Property Case against Kolon Industries

Monday, September 12, 2011

• Special Feature -- Non-Practicing Entities Race to File Lawsuits Before Patent Reform Ends An Era of Multi-Defendant Patent Litigation

Wednesday, August 31, 2011

• Morrison & Foerster Wins Appellate Affirmance for Novell, Prevailing in Final Chapter of Long-Running Litigation with SCO Group over Popular Unix Software
• New Partner John Garretson Joins SHB IP Practice
• Seyfarth IP Team Scores an Unprecedented Victory for Home Shopping Network in Patent Infringement Suit

Tuesday, August 30, 2011

• ADAPTIX Granted Two New 4G-relevant Patents

Wednesday, August 24, 2011

• Special Feature -- Are Patent Trolls Facing A New Era of Litigation Penalties?
• Connolly Bove Announces Continued Expansion
• Fish & Richardson Wins Major Patent Infringement Suit for Allergan, Inc. Over Leading Glaucoma Drug
• Frankfurt Kurnit Law Firm Adds New IP Litigation Partner
• Life Sciences Team Joins Michael Best
• McAndrews, Held & Malloy Secures Claim Construction Victory and Settlement for Mount Vernon Mills, Inc. and VF Imagewear, Inc.

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

• ADAPTIX Awarded a Flurry of New 4G Patents in 2011
• Camtek Wins Appeal of the Decision in Rudolph Patent Infringement Case

Monday, August 22, 2011

• Fox Rothschild Broadens IP and International Services with Addition of Los Angeles-Based Chan Law Group
• IP Enforcement Roundup - August 22, 2011
• Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser Names New Associate

Thursday, August 18, 2011

• Agincourt Gaming Files Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against Zynga, Asks Court to Shut Down Infringing Games
• General Patent Corporation Reaches Settlement in Patent Infringement Lawsuit with Sakar International, Inc.
• Gevo Files with USPTO to Invalidate Butamax Patent

Wednesday, August 17, 2011

• Greenberg Traurig Wins Landmark Patent Decision, Invalidating Broad Business Method Claims As Unpatentable

Tuesday, August 16, 2011

• Levenfeld Pearlstein Continues Strategic Growth, Adding Tim Nitsch to IP Practice
• Michigan Woman Sentenced to Two Years in Prison for Selling Counterfeit Software Online
• National Institutes of Health Intervenes to End Patent Infringement Suit Against The Jackson Laboratory Concerning Alzheimer’s Disease Research Mouse Models
• United States Patent and Trademark Office Issues 8 Millionth Patent

Monday, August 15, 2011

• Federal Judge Knocks Out Broad Prenatal Screening Patent In Favor Of PerkinElmer
• Pfizer Wins Viagra Patent Trial

Friday, August 12, 2011

• Oblon, Spivak Partner Appointed Vice Chair of AIPLA Committee

Wednesday, August 10, 2011

• Article One Partners Contributes Research in a Patent Lawsuit by Interval Licensing
• Congressman Adam Schiff to Speak at USPTO’s California Regional Inventor Conference in Pasadena, Aug. 12-13
• MOSAID Files Suit on Computer Networking Patents
• Wealthcare Capital Management® Sues UBS Financial Services For Infringement of Wealth Management System Patent

Tuesday, August 09, 2011

• MOSAID Announces ARM Complaint

Monday, August 08, 2011

• IP Enforcement Roundup - August 8, 2011
• Pozen Patents Upheld In Treximet Patent Litigation

Friday, August 05, 2011

• Barnes & Thornburg LLP Represents Midtronics, Inc. in Its Patent Dispute Win

Wednesday, August 03, 2011

• Dr. Richard E.L. Henderson Joins Baker Donelson’s Intellectual Property Practice in Washington, D.C. Office

Thursday, July 28, 2011

• Entrepreneur Attorney Joins Polsinelli Shughart in Denver

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

• Knobbe Martens Client Schindler Elevator Scores Sweeping Patent Victory Over Otis Elevator
• Skiermont Puckett LLP Launches Innovative Law Practice
• Slusser Wilson & Partridge, L.L.P. Joins Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P.
• Winston & Strawn Welcomes David Dalke to the IP Litigation Practice of the Los Angeles Office

Tuesday, July 26, 2011

• Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP Obtains Federal Circuit Victory on Behalf of Paddock

Thursday, July 21, 2011

• Justin Pierce, Former Global Head of Trademarks & Brand Protection at Sony Ericsson, Rejoins Venable as IP Partner in Washington, DC
• USPTO Signs Memorandum of Understanding with China’s Jiangsu Provincial People’s Government

Tuesday, July 19, 2011

• Joe Flicek is Retained as Licensing Executive For WordLogic Corporation
• Knobbe Martens Continues Expansion with Addition of Scott Smith, M.D., J.D., and Opening of Silicon Valley Office
• RPost Sues Adobe and EchoSign for Infringing Five Patents

Monday, July 18, 2011

• IP Enforcement Roundup - July 18, 2011
• IPOfferings Sells Three Patents for Dr. Allen Rushing
• Samsung LED Files Infringement Lawsuits Against OSRAM in the United States International Trade Commission and Federal Court in Delaware

Tuesday, July 12, 2011

• International Patent and Trademark Lawyer Mark Whitaker To Lead ITC Practice at Baker Botts L.L.P.
• Kilpatrick Townsend Adds Attorney Jill K. Tomlinson to Leading Intellectual Property Department

Monday, July 11, 2011

• McAndrews, Held & Malloy Shareholder Christopher V. Carani Appointed Chair of American Bar Association’s Industrial Designs Committee
• Patent Buddy and Patent Research Review Announce The 2011 Top Patent Prosecutors

Thursday, July 07, 2011

• Perkins Coie Adds Another Patent Litigator in San Diego

Wednesday, July 06, 2011

• Mayer Brown Litigators Secure $18.1 Million Award for Faiveley Entities in Trade Secret Misappropriation Case
• Morgan Lewis Further Strengthens Life Sciences Practice with IP Partner in San Francisco focused on Bioinformatics
• Porter Hedges Announces New Intellectual Property Partner Jonathan M. Pierce

Tuesday, July 05, 2011

• IP Enforcement Roundup - July 5, 2011
• Rory Radding Joins New York Office of Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge
• Thomas E. Anderson Joins WilmerHale’s Intellectual Property Department

Friday, July 01, 2011

• Mark Stewart Becomes Chair of Ballard Spahr
• Milbank Partner Michael Nolan Appointed General Counsel of the Intellectual Property Owners Association
• USPTO and Partner Offices Agree to Test New, Enhanced Framework for the Patent Prosecution Highway

Thursday, June 30, 2011

• Europe’s Business Community Welcomes the Formal Adoption of ACTA
• ITC Commission Issues Favorable Ruling in Kodak Patent Case Against Apple and RIM
• McAndrews, Held & Malloy Attorney Joins Advisory Board of Nanotechnology Law & Business Journal

Tuesday, June 28, 2011

• Attorney Andrew B. Whitehead Joins Armstrong Teasdale
• New Partner Boosts Barnes & Thornburg LLP’s National IP Practice

Monday, June 27, 2011

• Attorney Joins Washington Office’s Intellectual Property Practice at Bryan Cave
• Cooley Obtains Rare Defense Jury Verdict in E.D. Texas
• IP Enforcement Roundup - June 27, 2011

Thursday, June 23, 2011

• Brent E. Routman of Merchant & Gould Sworn in as President of Minnesota State Bar Association
• Court’s Ruling in Toys R Us IP Case Sends Stern Warning to Infringers
• IP Litigation Attorney Joins Barnes & Thornburg’s Chicago Office

Wednesday, June 22, 2011

• Cozen O’Connor’s New York Office Expands Intellectual Property Practice with Addition of 19 Lawyers from Cohen Pontani Lieberman & Pavane

Monday, June 20, 2011

• Loeb & Loeb Expands National Patent Litigation Practice

Friday, June 17, 2011

• Four McAndrews, Held & Malloy Attorneys Recognized as Top Patent Prosecutors
• Summary Judgment Win for Kenyon Client Jim Beam Brands Affirmed on Appeal
• This Week on the Copyright Alliance Blog - Week of June 13, 2011
• U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) Institutes an Investigation of Certain Cisco Equipment Based on MOSAID Complaint

Wednesday, June 15, 2011

• Special Feature -- The Bayh-Dole Act Survives the Courts, But What Is Next?

Friday, June 10, 2011

• CAFC Issues One of the First Decisions for a Utility Patent in an Inter Partes Reexamination Proceeding
• This Week on the Copyright Alliance Blog - Week of June 6, 2011
• Washington University-St. Louis Student Wins the 2011 LES Foundation International Graduate Student Business Plan Competition in London

Thursday, June 09, 2011

• Boutique IP Firm in Reston Nabs Cargill VP and Chief IP Counsel
• Entertainment and Music Industry Attorney Stephanie Taylor Joins Bone McAllester Norton
• Foley Adds Former USPTO Deputy Chief of Staff in D.C.
• Hiscock & Barclay Law Firm Expands Intellectual Property Group
• U.S. Court of Appeals Affirms Dismissal of Suit Against Oblon Spivak Client SkyHawke Technologies

Wednesday, June 08, 2011

• Supreme Court Rules in Stanford v. Roche: Analysis from Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.
• Wilson Elser Taps William Fitzgerald for Intellectual Property Practice

Tuesday, June 07, 2011

• Fish & Richardson Attorney Juanita Brooks Named Top Woman Lawyer by The Daily Journal
• Intellectual Property Law Firm Oblon, Spivak Launches Innovative iPhone App

Monday, June 06, 2011

• Armstrong Teasdale Elects Four to Executive Committee
• Intellectual Property Attorney Michael De Vries Joins the Los Angeles Office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP
• IP Enforcement Roundup - June 6, 2011

Thursday, May 26, 2011

• Ben Goodger Plays Integral Role in Launch of New IP Strategy Group
• Congressional Anti-Piracy Watch List Released Today
• Five Countries on 2011 Congressional Anti-Piracy Watch List Account for $13.4B Worth of Software Piracy
• Katten Adds IP Partner Doron Goldstein in New York
• Oblon, Spivak Launches Protecting Designs Law Blog
• USPTO Studying Therasense v. Becton, Dickinson Decision to Assess Impacts on Agency Practice and Procedures

Wednesday, May 25, 2011

• ePlus’ Granted Permanent Injunction to Shut Down Lawson Software Inc.
• For Your Ease Only is Paid $4.3 Million Under Settlement, Concluding 9-Year Patent Litigation Battle
• Steptoe Expands Chicago Office, IP Practice with Taras Gracey
• U.S. Patent & Trademark Office Hands New Victory to Dr. Bruce Saffran
• USPTO and Swedish Patent and Registration Office to Partner on Patent Prosecution Highway Pilot Based on Patent Cooperation Treaty Work Products
• Venable Adds Trademark Litigation Partner Marcella Ballard

Tuesday, May 03, 2011

• Vinson & Elkins Nabs Two Top IP Antitrust Litigation Partners Expanding V&E’s Practices on Both Coasts

Thursday, April 28, 2011

• Huawei Moves to Protect Its Patent and Trademarks with Legal Action in Europe
• NeurogesX Receives Notice of Allowance for Patent Covering NGX-1998 Capsaicin Topical Liquid
• U.S. District Court Order Maintains Patent Exclusivity for Lilly’s Cymbalta

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

• Anika Therapeutics Comments on Patent Litigation
• Island IP is Issued Another Patent and Commences Patent Infringement Action Against First Southwest Corporation
• New U.S. Patent Issued to Dyadic International
• Novell Completes Merger with Attachmate and Patent Sale to CPTN Holdings LLC
• Patents Protect OtterBox Innovation
• Study -- IP Protections Key to Development, Deployment, Diffusion of Clean Technology
• U.S. District Court Dismisses Most of Palomar’s Claims Against Candela
• USPTO Postpones Effective Date of Track One Fast-Track Patent Processing

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

• American Express Launches Intellectual Property Zone
• Cortex Receives Granted US Patent for Its Lead AMPAKINE® Molecule CX1739
• GreenShift to Receive Another Corn Oil Extraction Patent
• MacroSolve Accelerates Patent Enforcement Actions
• Total Vein Systems Looks Forward to Proving Patents Unenforceable Due to Inequitable Conduct in Upcoming Trial in VNUS Dispute

Monday, April 25, 2011

• AstraZeneca and POZEN File Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against Dr. Reddy’s
• Four IP Litigators Join Armstrong Teasdale
• IP Enforcement Roundup - April 25, 2011
• USPTO to Host Public Discussion on Newly Proposed Process to Streamline Patent Reexamination

Friday, April 22, 2011

• Kramer Levin Scores Appellate Victory for Client PBM Products in False Advertising Case

Thursday, April 21, 2011

• Inphi Reduces Litigation After Rejections of Netlist Claims by the U.S. Patent Office
• John D. Magluyan Joins McDermott’s World Class Intellectual Property Team
• Michael Molano Rejoins Mayer Brown as Partner in Palo Alto
• Oragenics Receives US Patent for ProBiora3
• Social Commerce Leader PowerReviews Awarded Patent Enabling Innovative SaaS Delivery
• United States District Court Orders Dismissal of Inphi Versus Netlist Patent Infringement Lawsuit
• WhenTech Awarded U.S. Patent for Method of Evaluating an Option Spread

Wednesday, April 20, 2011

• Aperio Awarded Patent for Innovation that Improves Digital Pathology Workflow
• BNA, ABA Announce Judges for Writing Contest for Young IP Attorneys
• DISH Network and EchoStar Statement Regarding U.S. Federal Court of Appeals Decision on Tivo
• FatPipe Networks Responds to XRoads Networks Release Containing Misleading Information in the Current ’143 Patent Lawsuit
• PAID Inc. Receives Patent 7,930,237 for Online Shipping Calculation Method
• Salix Pharmaceuticals Secures Additional Intellectual Property Relating to Rifaximin
• Watson Confirms Welchol Patent Challenge

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

• Cargill Granted U.S. Patent for Breakthrough Cooking Process Used in Loyall Premium Pet Food
• IP Partner Sanjeet Dutta Joins King & Spalding in Silicon Valley
• Veteran Patent Litigator Paul J. Hayes Establishes IP Litigation Boutique Hayes, Bostock and Cronin, LLC

Monday, April 18, 2011

• Trident Microsystems Announces Sale of Five Patents

Monday, April 11, 2011

• General Patent Corporation Settles Patent Infringement Lawsuit with Coby Electronics Corporation
• IP Enforcement Roundup - April 11, 2011
• McAndrews, Held & Malloy to Host Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce Panel Discussion on Intellectual Property
• Sayles Werbner Wins $63.8 Million Texas Verdict for Commil USA In New Patent Infringement Trial Against Cisco Systems
• USPTO to Host Clean Technology Partnership Meeting
• USPTO Updates Registration Exam for Patent Practitioners
• Volpe and Koenig Attorney Michael Snyder Gives Presentation for Pennsylvania Bar Institute

Friday, April 08, 2011

• Lowenstein Sandler Growth Continues in Silicon Valley

Thursday, April 07, 2011

• LexisNexis Unveils Next Generation of Intellectual Property Research Technology with New Semantic Search Brain
• Six Leading Intellectual Property Litigation Partners Join Latham & Watkins in Northern California
• Three Steptoe Partners Named Among Top 25 IP Portfolio Managers in California by Daily Journal

Wednesday, April 06, 2011

• Bradmer Announces Termination of License Agreement With Duke University
• Cardica Receives Key Patent for Microcutter Surgical Cutting and Stapling Device
• Cypress Intends to Vigorously Defend Patent Lawsuit Filed by Avago Technologies
• Howrey Trademark Lawyer Alan S. Cooper Joins Wiley Rein’s Intellectual Property Practice
• KellBenx Secures Exclusive Worldwide License With AdnaGen for Commercializing Patented Antibodies
• Mirna Therapeutics Reports Notice of Allowance from USPTO Related to the Clinical Application of miR-34a, a Key Tumor Suppressor miRNA
• Rimon Law Boosts New York Presence with Patent Attorney John Boyd
• Shire Files Lawsuit Against Watson Pharmaceuticals, Inc. for Infringement of ADDERALL XR Patents and for Breach of Contract
• Tangoe Awarded Mobile Device Management Patent

Tuesday, April 05, 2011

• Christie, Parker & Hale Obtains Key Patent for a Utility Asset Damage Prevention Method
• Lyfe Communications Announces Provisional Patent Filing for Adaptive Multicast
• MobGob Wins Favorable Claim Construction in Patent Infringement Suit Against Groupon, Inc.
• U.S. Senate Confirms Jimmie V. Reyna, Esq. as Circuit Judge; First Latino to Serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
• U.S.and U.K. Highlight Progress on Patents Cooperation

Monday, April 04, 2011

• IP Enforcement Roundup - April 4, 2011
• University of Louisville Louis D. Brandeis School of Law Wins 20th Annual Saul Lefkowitz Moot Court Competition
• USPTO Announces Launch Date for Fast-Track Patent Processing

Friday, April 01, 2011

• $482 Million Awarded to Dr. Bruce Saffran: Dickstein Shapiro and Albritton Law Firm Continue to Prevail in Stent Patent Infringement Actions
• Erred Decision on Betty Boop Case May Have Serious Implications on Trademark Law

Thursday, March 31, 2011

• EDGAR Online Awarded U.S. Patent for System and Method for Rendering Data
• Fish & Richardson Names Litigator Ann Cathcart Chaplin Leader of Largest Practice Group
• FUJIFILM Corporation Wins Patent Infringement Case in U.S. Court of Appeals
• MOSAID and Hynix Sign Memorandum of Understanding
• Olympus Licenses Digital Pathology Patents to Leica Microsystems
• USPTO Chief David Kappos to Address Licensing and Technology Transfer Professionals at LES (USA & Canada) Meeting in New York May 4-6
• Vitro Out-licenses Patents, Products & Technology for Treatment of Infertility

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

• Advanced Refining Concepts Announces Issuance of Two Additional Patents Relating to the ClearRefining Fuel Technology
• Grandeye Ltd. Files Intellectual Property Complaint Against Sentry360
• Lavante Awarded New Patent for Advanced Statement Audit Processes, Technology and Software Application
• Novak Druce + Quigg LLP Adds Howrey IP Practice Co-Chair and International Prosecution Specialist
• WilmerHale Adds IP Litigation Veteran Lloyd “Rusty” Day to Its Growing West Coast Practice

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

• McAndrews, Held & Malloy Adds ANDA Expert to Growing Life Science Practice
• Nokia Files Second ITC Complaint Against Apple
• Quinn Emanuel’s New York Office Adds Media and Technology Trial Lawyer Carey Ramos

Monday, March 28, 2011

• IP Enforcement Roundup - March 28, 2011
• LecTec Corporation Reports Settlement With Chattem, Inc.
• Modular Genetics Issued Notice of Allowance for Patent Application Covering its First Green Surfactant
• Perkins Coie Adds Three More Attorneys in Denver
• Reed Smith Welcomes IP Litigator Robert N. Phillips from Howrey

Thursday, March 24, 2011

• AlphaRx Receives Notice of Allowance for U.S. Patent on Its Lead Pain Product Candidate
• Annual Student Invention Showcase Returns to Smithsonian
• CommerceTel Acquires Key Telecom Patent
• Communology and Klausner Technologies Announce Global Extension to Visual Voicemail Patent Licence Agreement
• ConvergEx Group Receives Patent for LiquidPoint Price Improvement Technologies
• Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman Expands its Litigation Group
• Fish & Richardson Principal Frank P. Porcelli Awarded Distinguished Service Medal from Linn Inn Alliance
• SAFE Corporation Announces New Plagiarism Detection Tool
• Sanswire Files Provisional Patent on New Airship Design
• ULURU Inc. Announces the Granting of Altrazeal Patent

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

• Agennix AG Announces Issuance of U.S. Patent Covering Use of Talactoferrin to Treat Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer and Renal Cell Carcinoma
• Baker Hostetler Continues to Grow in Costa Mesa as Peter J. Gluck and Mark H. Krietzman Join Firm
• Brooks Kushman Hires Scharf as Senior Attorney; Further Diversifies Trademark Practice
• Finance Express Receives Its First U.S. Patent
• IP Litigator and Patent Attorney Frank M. Gasparo Joins Venable to Head Intellectual Property Practice in New York
• Joseph J. Crimaldi, Intellectual Property Attorney, Joins the Cleveland Office of McDonald Hopkins Law Firm
• NephRx Corp. Awarded U.S. Patent for Use of Novel Growth Factor Peptide NX002 in Inflammatory Bowel Disease
• San Diego Jury Rules That Email Exchange Over Possible Patent Purchase Did Not Constitute Valid Purchase Agreement

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

• Attorney Meghan M. Klaric Added to Honigman’s Growing Intellectual Property Practice
• Axion International Expands IP Portfolio with New Patent for Flame-Retardant Coating
• Cantor Colburn LLP a Top 10 US Patent Firm
• Duane Morris South Florida Offices Add Intellectual Property Partner Nicholas A. Zachariades
• FlexFix Acquires Certain Intellectual Property Assets from Novalign Orthopaedic, Inc.
• Glenn Lenzen and David McCrosky Join Husch Blackwell
• Grunenthal Group Acquires Pain Patent Portfolio From Nectid, Inc.
• ITC Rules in Favor of SMC Corporation By Invalidating Competitor’s Patent
• POZEN Files Motion for Preliminary Injunction in Treximet Patent Litigation
• Pro-Pharmaceuticals Expands Patent Portfolio with New Patents in the U.S. and Australia
• SustainX Receives Control System Patent for Energy Storage Technology

Monday, March 21, 2011

• Dr. Charles E. Runyan Jr. Joins Gallagher & Kennedy to Lead Patent Prosecution Group
• Garmin Announces Patent Litigation Regarding Bryton Inc.’s Cycle Computers
• HistoRx Receives Fundamental Patent on Standardization of Results In Digital Pathology
• Integran Files Patent Infringement Claims Against Modumetal, Inc.
• IP Enforcement Roundup - March 21, 2011
• j2 Global Prevails in Patent Markman Hearing
• K&L Gates Adds Washington, D.C., IP Litigation/Antitrust Partner
• Microsoft Takes Legal Action Against Barnes & Noble, Foxconn and Inventec for Patent Infringement by Android Devices
• Peerless Network Applauds US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Final Rejection of Neutral Tandem’s Patent 7,123,708
• SNR Denton Expands Intellectual Property and Technology Practice in Washington, D.C.
• Source Precision Medicine, Inc. d/b/a Source MDx Announces Foundational Patents Will Be Offered for Sale on April 29, 2011
• Tessera Files Amicus Brief in i4i Case
• Winston & Strawn Expands IP Litigation Practice With Addition of David Enzminger to Los Angeles Office

Friday, March 18, 2011

• Licensing Transactions Partner Richard Hsu Joins King & Spalding in Silicon Valley
• Mayer Brown Expands IP, Antitrust and Litigation Capabilities With Addition of Eight Partners in Four Offices
• McAndrews, Held & Malloy Files Patent Infringement Suits for Client CSP Technologies
• Parker-Hannifin Awarded Nearly $10 Million Plus Attorneys’ Fees for Exceptional Patent Infringement Case
• USPTO Announces Accommodations for Patent and Trademark Applicants and Owners Affected by Catastrophe in Japan

Thursday, March 17, 2011

• CoreLogic Awarded Patent for ParcelPoint Technology
• Exergen Granted New Patent for Temporal Artery Thermometers
• GenSpera Receives Patent on Second Prostate-Targeting Oncology Drug
• Kaye Scholer Scores Major Victory in Patent Case
• MOSAID Files Wireless Patent Infringement Litigation
• Trial Attorney Paul Alexander Joins Arnold & Porter in Silicon Valley

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

• Following Biotage’s Request for Re-Examination US Patent and Trademark Office Has Rejected All Claims in US Patent 7,381,327
• Geoffrey R. Kaiser Joins Anderson Kill & Olick as Co-Chair of Anti-Counterfeiting and Brand Protection Group
• Hyperion Catalysis International, Inc. Concludes a License Agreement with Bayer MaterialSciences AG
• IDT Corporation Begins Spin-Off of VoIP Related Patent Business to Shareholders
• Rambus Signs Patent License Agreement with Toshiba
• Wolf Greenfield Names Technology Specialist and Patent Agent; DiPietrantonio, Ph.D., Specializes in Biotech Patents, and Rudoy, Ph.D., Specializes in Computer and Electronics Patents

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

• Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Reaches Settlement in Litigation Regarding Tuschl Patents
• Christopher D. Agnew Joins Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP as a Partner in its Intellectual Property Group
• Destiny Media Prevails in Patent Litigation
• Digital Reasoning Secures Patent for Text Discovery
• ESA Applauds Administration Proposals to Strengthen Intellectual Property Enforcement
• IP Enforcement Roundup - March 14, 2011
• Leading ITC Attorney Joins Cooley
• MacroSolve Initiates Patent Enforcement Actions; Files Suit Against Four Companies for Infringement of Its Mobile App Patent
• McAndrews, Held & Malloy Announces 2011 Diversity in Patent Law Fellowship Recipient
• MOSAID Enters Microcomponents Patent License Agreements with LG Electronics and MediaTek
• Nixon Peabody Taps New Intellectual Property Leaders
• Optimer Pharmaceuticals Announces Issuance of Key Patent Covering Fidaxomicin Methods of Use as a Treatment of Clostridium Difficile Infection

Monday, March 14, 2011

• Angiochem Granted U.S. Patent for Transporting Drug Compounds across the Blood-Brain Barrier, Using Novel EPiC Technology
• Argentum Medical Issues Response to Recent Decision in Litigation With Noble Biomaterials
• Nelson Mullins Litigation Team Secures Jury Verdict in First Ever Contributory Counterfeit Case Against SEO/Webhost Company
• QualityMetric Receives Patent for Patient Health Survey Technology
• U.S. Patent Office Grants Patent for Contractor Management Process
• Watson Announces Favorable District Court Ruling in Generic Fentora Patent Suit

Friday, March 11, 2011

• ITG and Liquidnet Announce Settlement of Patent Litigation
• Prominent Patent Litigation Team to Join Arnold & Porter in Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles
• Star Scientific Patent Claims Confirmed in Patent Reexamination

Thursday, March 10, 2011

• Arena Pharmaceuticals Expands GPR119 Patent Portfolio for Type 2 Diabetes
• Burns & Levinson LLP Welcomes New Associate, Sara Yevics Beccia
• Delphi Automotive Systems, LLC Wins Four Summary Judgment Motions in Patent Litigation Involving Automotive Technologies International
• New Copyright Blog Now Available from Wolters Kluwer Law & Business

Wednesday, March 09, 2011

• Lpath Granted Another Key U.S. Patent Related to iSONEP and ASONEP Drug Programs
• Reg Technologies Inc. and Regi U.S., Inc. Announce the USPTO Has Awarded Patent Number 7,896,630 to RadMax
• Salient Surgical Technologies Settles Bovie Medical Patent Infringement Lawsuit

Tuesday, March 08, 2011

• Merchant & Gould Announces B. Jefferson Boggs, Jr. Joins Washington, D.C. Office
• Novak Druce + Quigg LLP Adds Two Partners to Houston Office
• Perkins Coie Adds Four IP Litigation Partners from Howrey
• Rader, Fishman & Grauer is Pleased to Announce New Partner Stefan Osterbur
• U.S. Supreme Court Grants Cert in Stanford Law School Fair Use Project Case Golan v. Holder
• USPTO Urges Senate to Pass the America Invents Act of 2011

Monday, March 07, 2011

• IP Enforcement Roundup - March 7, 2011
• Symphogen Receives US Patent on Lead Cancer Compound Sym004
• US Lighting Tech Sues Deco Lighting for Design Patent Infringement

Friday, March 04, 2011

• Fish & Richardson Wins Summary Judgment for the Chicago Board Options Exchange in Patent Case
• Return Mail, Inc. Files Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against U.S. Postal Service

Thursday, March 03, 2011

• Peter Konzel Joins Washington, DC Office of Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge
• Viola Kung Joins Perkins Coie’s Patent Practice

Wednesday, March 02, 2011

• Barnes & Noble, Inc. Settles Litigation with Spring Design
• Court Urged to Review Decision Invalidating Pharmaceutical Patent
• PowerSafe Technology Announces Award of US Patent Titled High-Sensitivity, High-Resolution Detector Devices and Arrays
• Spencer Pharmaceutical Inc. Announces Submission of Patent Application Covering a New Technology of Dual Release Rate of Anti-Inflammatory Drugs
• TuitionFund Granted Third Patent Covering Merchant-Funded Rebate and Rewards Programs

Tuesday, March 01, 2011

• GenMark Diagnostics Dismisses Patent Lawsuit Against Caliper Life Sciences, Inc.
• Interactive Data Awarded Second Patent for Fair Value Pricing of an Asset
• Mylan Confirms First-to-File Patent Challenge Relating to Vivelle-Dot
• Perla M. Kuhn Joins New York Office of Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge
• USPTO to Host Asia-Pacific Patent Cooperation Forum
• Volpe and Koenig Partner Serves on Panel at American Bar Association’s Inaugural Conference

Monday, February 28, 2011

• Fish & Richardson Adds 34 New Associates
• IP Enforcement Roundup - February 28, 2011
• James M. Singer of Pepper Hamilton Speaking at ACI’s Advanced IP Forum for Advertising Counsel
• Kirkland & Ellis LLP Adds Ken Adamo to IP Litigation Practice Group

Thursday, February 24, 2011

• FASB Defendant in Suit Filed by Silicon Economics Alleging Antitrust Violations and Patent Misappropriation
• InterDigital Signs SII Mobile Communications to Worldwide Patent License Agreement
• O’Melveny Lawyers Publish Largest-Ever Statistical Analysis of Trade Secret Litigation
• RPost Sues Swiss Post for Infringing RPost Global Technology Patents
• Tix Corporation and Vegas.com Settle Their Litigation

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

• ACT Secures Patent to Generate Embryonic Stem Cells Without Embryo Destruction
• Andrea Weiss Jeffries Joins WilmerHale’s Los Angeles Office
• Bear Creek Technologies Brings Industry-Wide Lawsuit on VoIP Paradigm Patent
• Court of Appeals Overturns $1.8 Billion Patent Verdict for Centocor Ortho Biotech Inc.
• Immunotope and Immunovaccine Announce U.S. Patent for Therapeutic Cancer Vaccine Antigens
• IP Litigators from DLA Piper and Mayer Brown Form Feinberg Day Alberti & Thompson LLP
• Noven Files Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against Mylan Technologies
• Shurtape Technologies Files FrogTape® Brand Painter’s Tape Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against 3M
• Summit 6 Announces Federal Lawsuit Over Digital Uploading Patents
• Synergy Pharmaceuticals Granted U.S. Patent on SP-333, Synergy’s Developmental Drug for Gastrointestinal Inflammatory Diseases
• TYZX Receives Notice of Allowance for Patent for Use of Stereo Vision for Gesture Control
• U.S. Patent Awarded to LightWild for Innovative Facade Lighting Applications

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

• Democrasoft Sells 2 Patent Families Following Patent Auction
• Former U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Deputy Director Sharon Barner Returns to Foley & Lardner
• InfoSpi, Inc. Subsidiary, NexPhase Lighting, Inc., Receives $17.2 Million Valuation on Patent Pending Filing
• McKool Smith and WiLAN Resolve Patent Litigations Against World’s Leading Technology Providers
• MMDS Acquires Patent for Medical Marijuana Patch
• Perrigo Confirms Filing for Generic Version of Taclonex Ointment and Announcement of Lawsuit by Leo Pharma
• SensiVida Medical Technologies Receives Notice of Allowance From US Patent and Trademark Office
• SIIA Wins its First European Anti-Piracy Case with Five-Figure Settlement Against German Software Pirate
• Sionix Announces Filing of U.S. Patent Applications
• Trycera Financial Files Provisional Patent on User Controlled Alternative Credit Reporting Method

Monday, February 21, 2011

• CSR and WiLAN Reach Agreement to End Litigation
• IP Enforcement Roundup - February 21, 2011
• Sercel to Appeal to the US Federal Court
• VIRxSYS Issued Two U.S. Patents for SMaRT RNA Platform for Gene Reprogramming and Repair

Saturday, February 19, 2011

• Whyte Hirschboeck Dudek S.C. Adds Two Attorneys To Its Litigation-Business Practice Group

Friday, February 18, 2011

• Alexsam Inc. Obtains $9.06 Million Jury Verdict Against IDT Corporation
• Commerce Secretary Gary Locke Appoints Teresa Stanek Rea Deputy Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
• Henry Joins Dykema in Dallas
• Hogan Lovells’ Growth Continues with a Five-Partner Addition to its IP Litigation Practice
• Moglen Warns Adverse Ruling in Patent Case Could Chill Free Software Development
• Oblon, Spivak Partner Todd Baker Receives Minority Business Leader Award

Thursday, February 17, 2011

• China-Biotics Files for 5 New Patent Applications
• CytoSorbents Corporation Broadens Its Intellectual Property Portfolio
• Dickstein Shapiro Grows California IP Practice; Welcomes Four Renowned Patent Litigators
• Entellus Medical Settles Patent Dispute
• ION Awarded Final Judgment and Permanent Injunction Against Sercel in Patent Infringement Lawsuit
• Link_A_Media Files Suit Against Marvell Semiconductor for Patent Infringement
• Valence Technology Victorious in Canadian Patent Infringement Lawsuit

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

• The Trademark Reporter Celebrates 100 Years of Publication
• ACEA Biosciences, Inc. Announces New Patent; Broad Claims Granted for Cytotoxicity Profiling and Chemical Compound Testing on the xCELLigence System
• AirPal Receives Patent for Inflatable Patient Positioning Systems
• Biomoda Receives Notice of Allowance on Patent Application for Method of Analyzing Cancer Cells
• Cenzic Enforces IP Infringement With a Lawsuit Against NT OBJECTives
• Duane Morris Houston Office Adds Intellectual Property Special Counsel Diana Sangalli
• GSLO Files Patent Application for Volt Solar Charger
• Jura Zibas Joins Wilson Elser’s Intellectual Property Practice Group
• Kennedy Clark & Williams, PC Welcomes New Attorneys
• MedImmune and PDL BioPharma Resolve Patent Disputes
• MONKEYmedia Awarded Patent by USPTO
• Patent Litigator Patrick Patras Joins Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP’s Intellectual Property Group
• Report on Legal Cases Between Mitsubishi and General Electric
• Summer Patent Seminar Now Accepting Registrations
• USPTO Rejects All Modular Power Supply Patent Claims in Streak Patent

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

• Howrey Prevails for Client, Pactiv Corporation, in Suit Over Trademark Infringement
• Joyant-Licensed Technology Earns Broad Patent Protection
• Mannatech Receives Patent for Technology Related to New Product
• Rackspace Joins Open Invention Network as Licensee
• SMSC’s Inter-Chip Connectivity Technology Licensed by Qualcomm
• The Medicines Company and WilmerHale Law Firm Reach Settlement Agreement

Monday, February 14, 2011

• Axion Power is Granted Additional Patent on Core Supercapacitor Technology
• IP Enforcement Roundup - February 14, 2011
• Johnson & Associates Adds Two New Partners and Expands Practice Areas
• Leading Intellectual Property Lawyer Mark Whitaker Joins Baker Botts L.L.P.
• Patent Awarded to EDCOR Data Services
• PaymentOne Awarded Two Additional Patents -- Broadening Its Mobile Wallet, Payments, and Carrier Billing Patent Portfolio
• Under Secretary of Commerce David Kappos Announces President Obama’s FY 2012 Budget Request of $2.71 Billion for the USPTO

Friday, February 11, 2011

• Frontline Placement Technologies Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against CRS Advanced Technology Moves Forward
• Immersion and Bayer MaterialScience Strike Licensing Agreement
• Inventorship -- Free Fitch Even Webinar on March 1
• Lando & Anastasi, LLP Names New Partner
• Minkus Electronic Display Systems and LSI Industries Enter Patent License Agreement
• Pillsbury Adds SF Partner Duane Mathiowetz to IP Roster
• TechLaw LLP Announces Ross A. Epstein Has Joined the Firm as a Partner
• TeleCommunication Systems Receives Three U.S. Patents for Wireless Location-Based Services
• U.S. District Court Denies Sidense’s Motion for Delay

Thursday, February 10, 2011

• Akonni Biosystems Announces Signing of License Agreement With U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases
• Charles Russell Expands Intellectual Property Practice With the Hire of Two New Partners
• Dickstein Shapiro Adds Veteran IP Litigator to California Bench; Welcomes Robert Dickerson
• Kevin Townsend Joins Faegre & Benson as Special Counsel
• Meru Networks Awarded Patent for Technology Innovation that Addresses Problem of Wi-Fi Network Congestion Meltdowns
• MPEG LA Announces Call for Patents Essential to VP8 Video Codec
• OurPet’s Company Enters Into Settlement Agreement Concerning SmartScoop
• Perrigo Announces Settlement of Rogaine Foam Patent Litigation
• Phenomenex Announces That University of Delaware Drops Patent Lawsuit
• Quarles & Brady Welcomes Intellectual Property Attorney
• Seventh U.S. Patent Issued to Dyadic International
• SIIA Education Division Releases Don’t Copy That 2 – School Version

Wednesday, February 09, 2011

• Edwards Lifesciences Comments on U.S. Court Ruling
• Fallon Luminous Products Wins Legal Victory as Federal Court Rules That Fallon’s Products Do Not Infringe Patents
• Irdeto Awarded Multiple Patents for Industry’s First Interoperable Watermarking Technology for Set-top Boxes
• Jim Beam Brands Co. Defeats Jose Cuervo Maker in Declaratory Judgment Action
• Medtronic Issues Statement on District Court Ruling Regarding CoreValve
• Protect Pharma Sells Patent Portfolio to Grunenthal GmbH
• TiVo Statement on U.S. District Court Order
• USPTO Allows NivaSonix Core Patent
• USPTO Issues Examination Guidelines to Better Define the Scope of Patent Protection and Thereby Improve Patent Quality
• USPTO to Host Roundtable on the Patent and Trademark Depository Library Program

Tuesday, February 08, 2011

• Reising Ethington Clients Win Patent Infringement Suit Brought by the Largest Steel Producer in the World
• Special Feature -- Securitization of Pharmaceutical Royalties - A Prescription for Market Growth
• Accomplished IP Litigator Robert Galvin Joins WilmerHale’s Palo Alto Office
• Arnold & Porter LLP Expands High Technology Sector Capabilities in San Francisco Office with Addition of IP Litigation Team
• Coats and Bennett, PLLC, Expands Electrical Engineering Intellectual Property Group
• eTAGZ Victory -- Another Win for the Little Guys
• Lexmark Announces Settlements of Patent Litigation
• Magnolia Solar Completes Multiple Patent Filings -- Patent Applications Detail Revolutionary New Thin Film Solar Cell Technologies
• Mandriva Joins Open Invention Network as a Licensee
• Medical Web Technologies Awarded Patent for Web-Based Perioperative Workflow Solution
• Metabolon Awarded Patent for Biochemical Analysis Platform
• Morrison & Foerster Expands Life Sciences Platform with Lateral Partner Addition in Silicon Valley
• Samsung Electronics and IBM Announce Patent Cross-License Agreement
• U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Reaffirms Quantum Data Deduplication Patent
• Water Desalination Patents Granted to Drake Water Technologies

Monday, February 07, 2011

• Brooks Kushman’s Mizrahi Honored as 2011 Super Lawyer for Intellectual Property Efforts
• Burns & Levinson LLP Announces New Chairs of Intellectual Property/SciTech Group
• CPA Global and ICEBERG Innovation Partners Team up to Create a New Force in Patent Monetization
• General Patent Subsidiary, Leighton Technologies, Settles Patent Suit with CPI Card Group-Colorado
• IP Enforcement Roundup - February 7, 2011
• ISTO Technologies Awarded Key Patent for NuQu Injectable Therapy for Degenerative Disc Disease
• MorphoSys Strengthens Patent Position on Lead Program MOR103
• NetLogic Microsystems Accelerates Innovation Leadership with 500th Issued Patent
• Nixon Peabody Reaches Favorable Conclusion for LaserMax in Patent Infringement Litigation
• Selventa Granted Patent for Computer-based Storage System
• Senniger Powers Promotes Janet Hendrickson and Marc Vander Tuig to Partner
• The GEO Group Pending Acquisition Facing Patent Suit
• USPTO Grants Mercury Cable’s Request for Reexamination of CTC’s 7,179,522 Patent

Saturday, February 05, 2011

• Counterfeiters Thrown For A Loss

Friday, February 04, 2011

• AIPLA Applauds Senate Judiciary Committee’s Approval of Patent Reform Legislation
• Ryan Announces California Court of Appeals Rules Telecommunications Software Licenses Exempt as Technology Transfer Agreements
• USPTO and EPO Reach Agreement on Principles of Cooperative Patent Classification System
• USPTO Has Granted SMART Modular Technologies’ Request for Reexamination of Netlist Patents
• USPTO Validates One of Three Key Kilopass 1T Anti-Fuse Patents Asserted Against Sidense
• USPTO Validates Sidense’s Non-Infringement Position and Rejects Two Kilopass Patents

Thursday, February 03, 2011

• Fushi Copperweld Extends Worldwide License With Nexans
• Generex Oncology Receives New Patent for AE37 Immunotherapeutic Cancer Vaccine
• IntelGenx Announces Dismissal of Patent Litigation Relating to Its Once Daily High Dose 450 mg Bupropion Hydrochloride Tablet
• Lpath Issued Two Key Patents Related to Lead Cancer Drug Candidate, ASONEP
• Red Hat Joins Technology Leaders in Requesting the U.S. Supreme Court Correct Patent Litigation Rules
• SIPCO, LLC Signs Five New Licensees to Wireless Mesh Portfolio
• The Licensing Executives Society International Announces the Global Technology Impact Forum 2012
• Three Patents Issued to Magnetecs in January 2011
• Xitronix Wins Patent Infringement Case Against KLA-Tencor

Wednesday, February 02, 2011

• USPTO to Issue Proposal for Track One Accelerated Patent Examination in Flexible Three Track Patent Processing Program
• AMFELTEC Corporation to Be Granted Patent for Batteryless System Logger for Embedded Applications
• Application Search & Download Patent Granted to Single Touch Interactive
• Chan Law Group Invalidates Patents Again
• New York Investigators Seize 10 Websites That Illegally Streamed Copyrighted Sporting and Pay-Per-View Events
• Protext Mobility Updates Intellectual Property Portfolio and Readies AmberWatch SafeText for Commercial Service Launch
• SanDisk Announces Cross-Patent License Agreement with Imation Corp., Settles Patent Litigation
• VantageScore Solutions Granted Patent For Its Characteristic Leveling Method and System
• Vermillion Announces Notice of Allowance of Patent for Breast Cancer Biomarkers

Tuesday, February 01, 2011

• Aircraft Medical Wins Long-running Video Laryngoscope Patent Litigation Against Verathon
• Banner & Witcoff Elects President and Shareholders; Announces New Associates
• Corsearch Expands A2 Beyond Capability for Greater Speed, Efficiency and Anytime, Anywhere International Trademark Screening
• Cricket Communications Prevails in Trademark Infringement and False Advertising Case
• EDGAR Online Awarded U.S. Patent for A System and Method for Rendering Financial Data
• Kyoto University, iPS Academia Japan, and iPierian Announce Global Licensing and Patent Assignment Agreement
• Leading IP Litigation Lawyer Stephen J. Rosenman Joins Ropes & Gray
• Neonode Issued US Patent and Trademark for Touch Screen Technology
• OKI Data Americas Cleared by U.S. International Trade Commission in Ricoh Electronics, Inc. Patent Infringement Case
• Pacific Biosciences Announces Favorable Ruling in Patent Interference Case With Life Technologies
• Proteonomix, Inc. Files Additional Patent Application on StromaCel
• Woodcock Washburn Announces New Policy Committee

Monday, January 31, 2011

• BIO Supports Patent Reform Act of 2011
• Dean Kamen and FIRST® LEGO® League Seek Kid Inventors Globally
• Experienced Technology Patent Litigator Jennifer Dzwonczyk Joins Venable
• Fuisz Media Group Announces Notice of Allowance of Significant Media and Technology Breakthrough
• InterDigital Signs Acer to Worldwide Patent License Agreement
• inthinc Awarded Patent on Technology to Reduce Distracted Driving
• IP Enforcement Roundup - January 31, 2011
• Jim Beam Brands Wins Summary Judgment Against Jose Cuervo Maker in Breach of Contract Action
• U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke Names New Appointments to Patent and Trademark Advisory Committees
• US Patent Issued to PensionDCisions
• USPTO Names Albert Tramposch Administrator for Policy and External Affairs

Friday, January 28, 2011

• $482 Million Awarded to Dr. Bruce Saffran in Johnson & Johnson Patent Infringement Case
• Special Feature -- Patent Legislation - Meeting the Challenges of Reform?
• Court Awards Blendtec Largest Infringement Damages in Utah State History
• Fish & Richardson Names 16 New Principals
• IPRO Tech Awarded Patent for Innovative Litigation Imaging Application, IPRO Copy+
• Kunekt Files Trademark Applications with U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
• Lipocine Inc. Strengthens Its Oral Testosterone IP Portfolio
• McCarter & English Continues to Expand Its Intellectual Property Practice in Boston with the Hiring of Evelyn D. Shen
• Motorola and WiLAN Settle Litigation
• Neuralstem, Inc. Settles Litigation Against ReNeuron, Ltd.
• Rambus and Panasonic Sign Patent License Agreement

Thursday, January 27, 2011

• American Association for Justice Successfully Enforces Trademarks
• Lakewood-Amedex Inc. Receives Notice of Allowance on Three US Patent Applications Relating to Treatment of Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome
• Northern Light Receives U.S. Patent for Meaning Extraction Technology
• Soligenix Executes Exclusive License with the University of Colorado for Vaccine Thermostabilization Technology

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

• Global Debt Registry Awarded Provisional Patent
• Helix Wind Awarded Notice of Allowance from the United States Patent and Trademark Office
• K&L Gates Expands Intellectual Property Litigation Practice with Pair of Palo Alto Partners
• Manatt Bolsters D.C. Office With International IP Litigator
• McAndrews, Held & Malloy Announces Six New Board Members, Two New Partners
• Payment Pathways Receives a Fundamental U.S. X2X Payment Patent
• People Power Receives New Patent for Its Power Usage Monitoring System
• Second Patent Award in 45 Days Validates Reality Mobile’s Vision of Mobile Video Collaboration
• Sidense Granted All Claims by USPTO in Key Patent Dispute
• Squire Sanders Increases Genomics/Biologics Capability
• Walker Digital Retains IP Navigation Group for Patent Licensing Program
• Watson Confirms Welchol Oral Suspension Patent Challenge

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

• Applied BioCode Granted 2 Patents for its Barcoded Magnetic Beads Used in Highly Multiplexed MDx Testing
• Axis Strengthens Its Patent Portfolio
• Kodak Receives Notice of Initial Determination in ITC Patent Infringement Action Against Apple and Research In Motion
• Kruse Technology Partnership Grants License to Cummins Inc.
• LanguageWorks Files Trademark Infringement Lawsuit
• Rader, Fishman & Grauer PLLC is Pleased to Announce the Election of Partner Kristin L. Murphy to its Board of Managers
• Radient Pharmaceuticals’ Wholly-Owned Subsidiary NuVax Therapeutics Signs Exclusive License Agreement for Immune-Gene Therapeutics Technology From University of Florida Research Center
• Realtek and WiLAN Reach Agreement For Technology License
• SANUWAVE Health Granted U.S. Patent on Use of Piezoelectric Fibers to Produce Acoustic Energy in the Shock Wave Spectrum
• US Patent & Trademark Office Rules in Favor of Star Scientific Petition in Patent Reexamination Process

Monday, January 24, 2011

• Andrews Kurth Adds Attorney Dean Harvey in Dallas
• BIOLASE Issued New Patent for Use of Laser Technologies for Eye Surgery
• BSKB Trademark Training Seminar Marks 20th Year
• Embvue and Airbus Sign AFDX Technology License Agreement
• Huawei Files Lawsuit Against Motorola for IP Infringement
• IP Enforcement Roundup - January 24, 2011
• Lathrop & Gage Continues Aggressive Growth of IP Practice with New Boston Office
• Merchant & Gould Promotes Three Attorneys to Partner
• MMRGlobal Continues to Add to Its Patent Portfolio
• Nixon Peabody Successfully Defends Insurance Company Unitrin Direct in Copyright Case
• Rambus Acquires Patented Innovations and Technology from Imagine Designs
• Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox Launches Grid Industry Group

Friday, January 21, 2011

• BioDelivery Sciences Refutes Patent Claim
• Fox Rothschild Welcomes Aaron Craig to Its LA Office
• IP Leaders Weigh in on Developments in High Tech and Changes in the IP Landscape
• Managing IP Risks - The Importance of Obtaining Freedom-to-Operate Guidance -- Wolf Greenfield Seminar, Feb. 17, Boston
• MOPN Files U.S. and International Patents for Soil Cleanup Technology

Thursday, January 20, 2011

• Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath and Gilchrist, P.A. Announces Robert H. Thornburg has Been Named a Shareholder at the Firm
• Broadcom and WiLAN Reach Agreement to End Litigations
• Bryan A. Wong Promoted to Partner at Hamre, Schumann, Mueller & Larson P.C.
• Crosscheck Networks Earns Patent for Using Genetic Evolutionary Concepts to Address Security Vulnerabilities and Compliance
• Dynamax Technologies, Ltd Has Entered into License Agreement with Minkus Electronic Display Systems
• Novo Nordisk Intends to Appeal Adverse Ruling in Prandin (repaglinide) Patent Case
• Patent Issued for Protective Suit Marketed to Nuclear Power Plants
• Reed Smith Defends PBS Kids Show Against $400 Million IP Suit
• UBM TechInsights Expands Patent Brokerage Business

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

• Special Feature -- 25% Rule is Drawn and Quartered: Court Rejects Popular Method for Computing Patent Infringement Damages
• Advanced Voice Recognition Systems, Inc. Receives Notice of Allowance for Third Patent from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and Reports Developments in Its Interference Proceeding
• Amy Baker Mandragouras Named Managing Partner of the Boston Office of Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
• Bingham Expands Intellectual Property Group Partnership
• Preeminent IP Litigation Group Joins Dewey & LeBoeuf in Northern California
• Seminar - NPEs and Other IP Challenges: The New Approach - April 6-7, 2011
• Severstal Wins Patent Infringement Lawsuit
• Tytan Holdings, Inc. Announces New Provisional Patent Pending Application
• VIZIO Resolves Patent Dispute With LG Electronics

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

• BPAI Reverses Written Description and Prior Art Rejections Resulting in Important Victory for GSI Group, Inc.
• Duane Morris’ Sandra A. Jeskie Named Chair of Philadelphia Bar Association’s Business Law Section
• Foley Hoag Intellectual Property Lawyer Joshua S. Jarvis Appointed as IPO Liaison to ICANN
• Kilpatrick Townsend Continues Growth -- Expands Asian Presence with Strategic Move into Taiwan
• Lawrence P. Cogswell III, Ph.D. Joins Hamilton Brook Smith Reynolds as an Associate
• MonoSol Rx, LLC Files Patent Infringement and False Marking Lawsuit Against BioDelivery Sciences International, Inc., MEDA Pharmaceuticals Inc., and Aveva Drug Delivery Systems, Inc.
• Nexenta Systems Joins Open Invention Network as a Licensee
• Nixon Peabody Adds to Firmwide Patents Group
• Noted Intellectual Property Litigators Join Ballard Spahr in Phoenix
• Patent Litigators Douglas Lumish and Jeffrey Homrig Join Kasowitz in San Francisco
• Patent Offices of United States and Finland to Expand Work Sharing Efforts

Monday, January 17, 2011

• AK Steel Wins Patent Suit for Special Automotive Steels
• Coats and Bennett Defends Carolina Ale House Brand
• SAFE Corporation Announces CodeSuite-LT

Friday, January 14, 2011

• Acacia Subsidiary Enters into License Agreement with Geotab, Inc.
• Acacia Subsidiary Reaches Settlement with Vizio, Inc.
• Court Grants Motion to Dismiss Case Against ECORE for Lack of Personal Jurisdiction
• Federal Court Sides With VSP Vision Care; Dismisses Last Claim of Aspex Eyewear’s Lawsuit
• Intellectual Property Partner David E. Weslow Joins Wiley Rein
• New U.S. Patent Covers Breakthrough in Anti-Aging Science
• Seventeen McAndrews, Held & Malloy Attorneys Recognized As Leading Lawyers

Thursday, January 13, 2011

• ERF Wireless Receives U.S. Patent Office Notice of Second CryptoVue Patent Award
• Fish & Richardson Attorney Juanita Brooks Named Attorney of the Year by The Recorder
• IP Law Professionals Launch New Practice in Utah
• Trimedyne Announces a Settlement and Patent License Agreement With Lumenis Ltd.
• US Patent Issued for Microdroplet BOTOX Technology by Dr. Kenneth Steinsapir

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

• Special Feature -- The Supreme Court Considers the Materiality Requirement in the Context of Drug Companies’ Disclosure of Adverse Event Reports
• Arthur G. Connolly III Elected Managing Partner of Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz
• Asuragen Announces New Notices of Allowance from USPTO Related to the Diagnostic Applications of Cancer-Related miRNAs at the JP Morgan Healthcare Conference
• Christie, Parker & Hale Obtains Summary Judgment on Behalf of Ultra Wheel Company
• CommScope Settles Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against BoreFlex Industries
• Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz Elects Four Attorneys to Partnership
• Intellicheck Mobilisa Announces Issuance of U.S. Patent
• Poynt Corporation Awarded Location-Based Advertising Patent for Delivering Coupons and Offers
• Provision Interactive Announces New U.S. Patent
• Sipro Lab Telecom Becomes the New Licensing Administrator of the W-CDMA Patent Pool
• StrikeForce Technologies Inc. Is Awarded the Patent for Multi-Channel Device Utilizing A Centralized Out-of-Band Authentication System
• Thomson Reuters Releases Report on the State of Global Innovation
• VirnetX Files New Lawsuit Against Siemens and Mitel

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

• Augme Technologies, Inc. Appoints Top Intellectual Property Expert to Board of Directors
• CSR and Broadcom Settle All Litigation
• eJamming Inc Awarded Key Patent for its Unique Multiplayer Music Collaboration Technology
• H.C. Starck and Cabot Announce Patent Cross-License Agreement
• Intel Announces New Patent Cross License Agreement with NVIDIA
• Staples Found Guilty in PaperPro Patent Case
• TriMed, Inc. Announces Licensing Agreement with Stryker
• U. S. Patent for Wireless Communication Issued to Mayflower Communications Company, Inc.
• USPTO Introduces Online Tools to Solicit Public Feedback on Patent and Trademark Examining Procedures
• Vermillion Announces Issuance of Patent for Peripheral Artery Disease
• Wiley Rein Files Amicus Brief in Mylan, Inc. v. Daiichi Sankyo Co.

Monday, January 10, 2011

• Ascension Orthopedics Granted Patent for PyroCarbon Humeral Head Design
• AtheroNova Files Patent Application for Potentially Revolutionary Obesity Treatment
• Banner & Witcoff Hits Milestone of Procuring Over 5,000 Design Patents
• BroadLight Issued Two New Processor Architecture Patents
• Eight McAndrews, Held & Malloy Attorneys Honored As Intellectual Property Law Leaders
• Nomadix and LodgeNet Settle Internet Gateway Patent Litigation
• Oblon, Spivak Elects Two Partners and Elevates Three Senior Attorneys and Seven Senior Associates
• PDL BioPharma Announces Decisions on Summary Judgment in its Litigation with MedImmune
• Ronald M. Daignault Joins Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi L.L.P. in New York

Friday, January 07, 2011

• 3M and Minkus Resolve Patent Dispute
• Delta Faucet Company and Watermark Design, Ltd., Reached Settlement in Patent and Trademark Infringement Lawsuit
• Entelos Granted Patent for Predictive Toxicology for Biological Systems
• ePIPE Team Awarded Patent for In-place Pipe Restoration and Leak Sealing System for Pipes
• Sensipar Patents Upheld By District Court

Thursday, January 06, 2011

• Asentinel Announces Multi-million Dollar Patent Licensing Agreement of Telecommunications Expense Management Patents
• Barnes & Thornburg LLP Expands Services in Columbus Office With Addition of Trademark, Copyright Attorney
• Hutchison Law Group Opens Florida Office
• INTA Revamps Brand and Launches New Website and Social Network
• Intellectual Ventures and SAP Announce License Agreement
• Korean Intellectual Property Office Signs with IP.com
• Quinn Emanuel’s San Francisco Office Adds Patent Trial Lawyer Gillian Thackray
• Trident Microsystems Licenses to MSTAR Semiconductors Certain MEMC Patents
• Virdante Granted Key U.S. Patent Related to Sialic Switch Technology for Identifying Anti-Inflammatory Compounds
• Winston & Strawn Bolsters IP Litigation Practice with Addition of Michael Murray to Its New York Office

Wednesday, January 05, 2011

• Calgon Carbon Settles Lawsuit with for Your Ease Only, Inc.
• Franklin Wireless Responds to Patent Infringement Lawsuit
• Marchon3D Issued Patent for Revolutionary Curved 3D Lens Technology
• Noted Life Sciences Lawyer Hemmie Chang Joins Foley Hoag
• Odyssey Thera Announces U.S. Patent for Technologies Enabling Protein Interaction Screening and Directed Evolution
• Optimer Pharmaceuticals Obtains Additional Fidaxomicin Patent
• Rader, Fishman & Grauer Partner Michael B. Stewart Named to The List of 2011 Top Lawyers by dbusiness Magazine
• Reality Mobile Announces First Patent Award

Tuesday, January 04, 2011

• Duane Morris San Francisco Office Adds Intellectual Property Partner Mark A. Steiner
• IntelGenx Receives Positive Ruling in Patent Litigation Hearing
• Kenyon & Kenyon LLP Announces New Partners and Counsel
• Omni Bio Pharmaceutical Awarded Patent for Preventing Anthrax Infection
• OrbusNeich Granted Expanded U.S. Patent of Genous Endothelial Progenitor Cell Capture Technology
• U.S. Court of Appeals Affirms Microsoft Infringed Uniloc USA Inc.’s Patented Technology
• UNH School of Law Breaks Ground For New $3.2 Million Franklin Pierce Center for Intellectual Property

Monday, January 03, 2011

• BNA Books’ New Constructing and Deconstructing Patents Expertly Guides Practitioners Through Complexities of the Patent Process
• BNA Books’ New Third Edition of Patent Litigation Strategies Handbook Provides Knowledge, Insights, and Strategies To Win Cases
• Intellectual Property Attorney Wei Wei Jeang Joins Andrews Kurth as a Partner in Dallas
• Litigator John McDowell Joins the Dallas Office of Andrews Kurth as a Partner
• Marina Biotech Announces Allowance of Patent Covering DiLA2 Delivery Platform From U.S. Patent Office
• Mercury Cable Requests Summary Judgment Based on Invalidity of CTC Patent Claims
• New Second Edition of Biotechnology and the Federal Circuit Examines the Court’s Decisions on Chemical, Biotechnology, and Pharmaceutical Patent Law Cases
• SAFE Online IP Screening Case Study Shows Similarities Between Code From Zynga and CrowdStar

Wednesday, December 29, 2010

• Hamid Piroozi Joins Ice Miller LLP
• Sucampo Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Acquires Sucampo AG to Strengthen Its Prostone Intellectual Property Portfolio

Tuesday, December 28, 2010

• Kodak Enters Into Technology Cross-License Agreement With NEC
• Power Efficiency Corporation Granted New Patent for E-Save Technology

Monday, December 27, 2010

• Rambus and Renesas Electronics Sign Patent License Agreement

Thursday, December 23, 2010

• Federal Appeals Court Sets Hearing Date in GE Patent Dispute with Mitsubishi
• Garmin Announces Ruling in German Patent Infringement Case
• ITG Announces Dismissal of Liquidnet Patent Infringement Lawsuit
• Judge Rules in Favor of Avery Dennison in 3M Patent Infringement Lawsuit
• Mercury Cable Files Request for Reexamination of Composite Technology’s 7,179,522 Patent
• Rader, Fishman & Grauer Acquires Top IP Talent to Grow It’s Growing Trademark Practice

Wednesday, December 22, 2010

• Barrett Technology’s Puck Motor-Drive-Electronics Module Wins US Patent Protection
• Broadcom Receives Favorable Claim Construction Ruling in Patent Infringement Case Against Emulex
• KDE Joins Open Invention Network as a Licensee
• RyMed Technologies Responds to Patent Infringement Verdict
• Spectros White LED Patent Scope Affirmed In U.S. Patent Office Reexamination
• Takeda Completes Settlements With All Defendants in U.S. Patent Litigation Involving ACTOS, ACTOplus met, and metformin HCl) and duetact
• WHERE Awarded Geofence Patent Covering Mobile Advertising and Mobile Commerce

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

• 3M Sues Andover Healthcare Inc. for Patent Infringement
• 41st Parameter Awarded Patent Protecting Groundbreaking Device Identification for Online and Mobile Commerce
• Federal Circuit Affirms Ruling That Tessera Patents Are Valid and Infringed
• Minesoft and RWS Group Announce a Brand New Version of PatBase
• Morrison & Foerster Secures Jury Verdict for ICU Medical in Patent Infringement Case
• United States Court of Appeals Affirms Limelight Networks® Does Not Infringe Akamai Patents

Monday, December 20, 2010

• austriamicrosystems Confirms Validity of Court Decision in Patent Infringement Lawsuit against Melexis, is Confident to Prevail in Appeal of First-Instance Patentability Decision
• Clean Power Concepts Acquires Rights to Significant Technology Production Patent
• Fish & Richardson Attorney David Healey Blogs About IP, Business Strategy at PatentMath.com
• Fuisz Announces Patent Filing on Cipher Wristwatch
• New Hub Will Allow the Public to Connect to the USPTO with Subscriptions to Publications and Updates
• OXIS International Files Patent Application for Methods and Compositions Using Ergothioneine
• Sandra Aistars Named Executive Director, Alliance Board Announces
• TeleCommunication Systems Receives Two US Patents on Information Teleservice Messaging
• U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Terminates Interference Proceeding in Favor of PDL BioPharma, Inc.
• USPTO Deputy Director Sharon Barner to Leave Agency
• Viasystems Awarded Patent for Thermal Management Technology in Printed Circuit Boards

Friday, December 17, 2010

• Attorney Jack Waddey Named to Panel of Neutrals of the International Trademark Association
• BioMimetic Therapeutics, Inc. Continues to Enhance Patent Portfolio
• Buchanan’s IP Practice Group Deepens Technical and Scientific Experience
• COPAN Files New Patents Following the Development of High Nucleic Acid Yield Flocked Swabs
• Garmin Achieves Complete Victory in ITC Patent Infringement Case
• Mentor Graphics Files Patent Infringement Suit Against EVE in Tokyo District Court
• Mylan Confirms First-to-File Patent Challenge Relating to Orapred ODT
• Obsidian Holds the Key to Enterprise Class Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery -- U.S. Patent 7,843,962 Issued
• USPTO to Open First Ever Satellite Office in Detroit

Thursday, December 16, 2010

• Celator Pharmaceuticals Issued U.S. Patent Related to CombiPlex® Technology Platform
• MOSAID and IBM Sign Patent License Agreement, Resolve Patent Litigation Suit
• Newegg Files Opposition to Jones Day Motion to Withdraw as Counsel to Online Shopping Card Patent Holder
• NuVasive and Osiris Settle Patent Dispute With Orthofix International and The Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Over Trinity® Evolution
• Software Industry Looking for Meaningful Improvement on Piracy After Latest Trade Talks with China, Says BSA
• Synaptics Licenses Touch Sensor Patent to Nissha Printing Co., Ltd.

Wednesday, December 15, 2010

• Special Feature -- U.S. Supreme Court’s Interest in Patent Law Continues at Historic Level with Decision to Grant Certiorari in Microsoft v. i4i
• A10 Networks Files Patent Countersuits Against F5 Networks
• Affymetrix Announces Court Order Directing Dismissal of Illumina Patent Infringement Lawsuits
• Generex Receives New Patent for Buccal Drug Delivery Platform Technologies
• Immersion Reaches 500 Patent Milestone
• Retailers Should be Cautious Following Supreme Court’s Omega Decision
• Sterne Kessler Goldstein & Fox Scores Patent Infringement Defense Victory for Jingle Networks
• World Series of Golf, Inc. Announces U.S. Patent for Conducting Sports Tournaments With Wagering

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

• Cell Biosciences Announces US Patent Issuance
• Magnetar Technologies Patent Victory Over Intamin, Ltd. Affirmed On Appeal
• New ITC Report on Copyright Infringement in China Details Harms to US Companies, Says BSA
• OnLive Awarded Fundamental Cloud Gaming Patent
• Scuderi Group Files New Patents for Next-Generation Split-Cycle Engine
• Singulex Announces Issuance of U.S. Patents for Single Molecule Detection of Protein Biomarkers and Key Biomarker for Cardiac Risk Monitoring
• Watson Confirms Exalgo Patent Challenge
• White & Case Wins Ruling Allowing Registration of Thumbdrive Trademark

Monday, December 13, 2010

• NinePoint Medical Licenses 188 Patents and Patent Applications from Massachusetts General Hospital
• Realization Awarded Another Patent for its Multi Project Critical Chain Software
• Tyfone Continues to Build Patent Portfolio with Issuance of Fourth Patent for Its Mobile Secure Transaction Platform
• US Patent Issued to AutoAlert, Inc., Patent No. 7,827,099

Friday, December 10, 2010

• ACCO Brands Responds to Fellowes, Inc. Patent Infringement Lawsuit
• Licensing Executives Society (USA and Canada) Urges Increased Funding for the U.S. Patent &Trademark Office to Help Reduce Patent Backlog and Spur Innovation
• Novatel Wireless Files Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against Franklin Wireless and ZTE

Thursday, December 09, 2010

• Article One Partners Launches Public Review of NTP Patents Asserted Against Mobile & Smartphone Industry
• Duane Morris’ South Florida Offices Add Three Intellectual Property Attorneys
• EHSI: Celulas Genetica to Patent Breakthrough Stem Cell Treatment
• Fellowes, Inc. Files Patent Infringement Suit against ACCO Brands
• Jury Returns Verdict in VNUS’ Patent Infringement Lawsuit With Total Vein Systems and biolitec Finding Some Patent Claims Invalid and Some Infringed
• Kaseya Receives Patent for Technology That Delivers Dynamic Instruction Sets to Remote Devices
• PureCircle Confirms Scientific Leadership with Industry’s First Published Commercially Viable High Purity Stevia Patents
• TeleCommunication Systems Receives Five Wireless United States Patents in 45 Days
• Third Reexamination Confirms Validity of Convolve Patent
• USPTO Chief Economist Unveils Agency’s New Economic Research Agenda During Conference on Intellectual Property and the Innovation Economy
• USPTO Marks 30th Anniversary of Bayh-Dole Act

Wednesday, December 08, 2010

• Intellectual Property Litigator Joins McGuireWoods in Chicago
• Nanobiz LLC: Building Real Value in Your Intellectual Property
• SmartMetric Announces That It Has Filed a Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against American Express
• Stem Cell Therapeutics Corp. Announces the Issuance of United States Patent Relating to NTx-265
• USPTO Implements Pilot Program Allowing a 12-Month Extension to the Provisional Patent Application
• XStor Medical Systems Receives Patent for Software Storage Platform

Tuesday, December 07, 2010

• Special Feature -- Speeding Up the Patent Process Using the Patent Prosecution Highway
• East Morgan Holdings Inc. Finalizes Energy Intellectual Property and Patent Acquisition Agreement
• Fish & Richardson Attorneys Marchese and Barnes Launch Patent Damages Blog
• J. Michael Huget and Deborah Swedlow Join Honigman’s Litigation Department and its Intellectual Property Practice Group
• MoneyGram International Wins Appeal on Patent Case
• Red Hat Files Brief with U.S. Supreme Court Opposing Expansion of Standard for Inducing Patent Infringement
• Terex Issues Statement on Patent Infringement Verdict

Monday, December 06, 2010

• Akerman Senterfitt Expands Intellectual Property Practice with Addition of Four Attorneys in Denver Office
• Foley & Lardner Welcomes Team Led by Prominent IP Attorneys John Lanza and Christopher McKenna in Boston
• General Patent Corporation Settles Patent Infringement Lawsuit with Casio on Behalf of Advanced Video Technologies
• Gina A. Hough Joins Anderson Kill & Olick as Partner in Washington, D.C.
• Patent Litigator Johnny Kumar Joins Mayer Brown as partner in Washington, DC Office

Friday, December 03, 2010

• Bill Richardson Joins Baker & McKenzie Intellectual Property Practice

Thursday, December 02, 2010

• Cantor Colburn Adds Experienced IP Duo with Expertise in Generic Pharmaceuticals, Chemical Arts
• Uniloc USA Inc. Files Patent Infringement Lawsuit against Intuit, Inc. and Electronic Arts, Inc.

Wednesday, December 01, 2010

• Judge Rules in Favor of 3M in Trademark and Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against Internet Distributor of Stethoscopes
• Lidl Enters into MPEG-2 License with MPEG LA
• NTE Energy Files Patent Request for Expansion of Its Hybrid Renewable Energy Technology
• RegeneRx Receives Australian Patent Using TB4 to Protect Against Biological, Chemical and Toxic Agents
• Transamerica Reinsurance Awarded Patent for VELOGICA® Underwriting Technology
• Vern Maine & Associates Announces Attorney Michael Albaneze To Join Firm

Tuesday, November 30, 2010

• Court Dismisses with Prejudice Nero AG’s Antitrust Claim Against MPEG LA
• Duane Morris’ Sandra A. Jeskie Named to the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center’s List of Arbitrators
• Hasbro, Inc. Obtains Permanent Injunction from Buzz Bee Toys for Patent Infringement
• Integrity Tracking, LLC Announces Patent for Alzheimer’s Device
• Marvell Prevails Against Jasmine Networks in Trade Secrets Case
• XtremeSignPost, Inc. Granted U.S. Patent for a Mobile Method to Advertise Personalized Consumer Products Using RFID and Cellular Technology

Monday, November 29, 2010

• Fulbright Hires IP Lawyer As Co-Head of E-Discovery, Information Management Practice
• Intellectual Property Departments Feeling Pressure of Economic Downturn – Evaluating Patenting Costs and Filing Strategies
• Lightwave Logic Receives Notice of Allowance in Patent Application for Perkinamine Chromophores
• Mymetics Secures New Patent for Virosome Based Vaccines
• Sidense Files Action Against Third Kilopass Patent at USPTO

Friday, November 26, 2010

• Impax Laboratories Confirms Patent Challenge Relating to SIMCOR Extended-Release Tablets, 1000/20 mg
• MediVet-America LLC and Vet-Stem Inc. Reach Agreement
• WorcesterWreath.com - Founder Morrill Worcester Files Patent Infringement Suit

Wednesday, November 24, 2010

• Aeris Therapeutics Receives US Patent 7,819,908 with Broad Claims to Use of Energy or Heat for Non-Surgical Lung Volume Reduction
• Analog Devices Wins MEMS Microphone Patent Case
• B. Braun Prevails in Patent Infringement Case
• Date for Oral Argument Docketed in US Federal Circuit Court of Appeals in Star Scientific Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against RJ Reynolds
• HTC and Intellectual Ventures Announce Licensing Agreement and Strategic Alliance
• USPTO to Host Roundtable on Best Practices for Trademark Prosecution in the Current Electronic Environment
• Vance V. VanDrake III Joins Ulmer & Berne LLP

Tuesday, November 23, 2010

• HomeVestors Attains Victory Over Trademark Infringers
• Mitsubishi Prevails Before Federal Circuit in Patent Infringement Suit
• Noted Technology & IP Litigator Kenneth K. Dort Joins Drinker Biddle
• Solar3D Submits Patent Application for Breakthrough 3-Dimensional Solar Cell
• Thomas Major Joins IPOfferings as Vice President in Charge of Brokerage for Larger Patent Portfolios
• USPTO Extends Deadline for Patent Application Exchange Program by One Year
• YANGAROO Receives Patent Grant for Biometric Rights Management System

Monday, November 22, 2010

• Additional U.S. Patent Issued for Rexahn’s CNS Treatment Portfolio
• Baker Hostetler Expands D.C. Office Paul E. Poirot Joins Firm IP Practice
• Impax Confirms Patent Challenge Relating to WELCHOL for Oral Suspension, 3.75 gm/packet and 1.875 gm/packet
• Lumenis and Alma Reach Settlement Regarding Patent Lawsuit
• Soligenix Announces Issuance of United States Patent for RiVax, its Vaccine Against Ricin Toxin
• Tyfone Receives Additional Patent for Cutting-Edge Mobile Electronic Wallet Technology
• WiLAN Initiates Litigation Against Comcast Corporation, Time Warner Cable and Charter Communications

Friday, November 19, 2010

• Appeals Court Stays Judgment in HemCon’s Patent Infringement Case
• FURminator Exercising Zero Tolerance Toward Sellers of Counterfeit Products
• The LES Foundation Celebrates Intellectual Property During Global Entrepreneurship Week And Invites Graduate Students From Across The Globe To Register For Its 2011 Business Plan Competition!
• Three Major Patent Offices Make Significant Advances in Work Sharing

Thursday, November 18, 2010

• Business Associations Band Together in Support of ACTA
• Egenera Awarded Patent for Highly-Available Cluster Technology
• Greenberg Traurig Expands the Los Angeles Office with Intellectual Property Attorney Joseph Geisman
• ID Analytics Secures Patent for Identity-Based Fraud Detection for Transactions Using Historical Identity Records
• McDonald Hopkins Intellectual Property Alert -- Who Is the Patent Owner of Federally Funded Inventions?
• Samsung Electronics and Intellectual Ventures Enter Into License Agreement
• Validity of KCI Patents Upheld in United Kingdom

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

• EDSA Awarded Five New Patents for Real-Time Power Systems Monitoring and Predictive Analysis Technology; Includes New Foundational Patent
• Foley Welcomes Prominent Life Sciences Patent Attorney Lauren L. Stevens in Silicon Valley
• Former Cisco Intellectual Property Executive Joins RPX
• Intematix and Tridonic Consortium Announce Agreement on BOSE Phosphor Patents for LEDs
• Jagex Games Studio Wins Patent Infringement Case
• Morrison & Foerster Partner Brian Busey Elected President of the International Trade Commission Trial Lawyers Association
• Nanotrope, Inc. Receives Patent on New Diagnostic Test for Influenza and Other Viral Infections
• Rheonix Announces Issuance of New Patent for its Microfluidic Diagnostic Platform
• U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Launches Twitter Account
• UC Irvine Extension Offers New Online Course in Patent Law and Procedure: Preparation, Prosecution, and Beyond

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

• AuraSource, Inc. Announces the Filing of a Patent Application for Its Shock Wave Grinding Apparatus
• BLG Files Appeal to Federal Circuit on Patent Reissue Rights
• Christie, Parker & Hale Obtains an Important Patent for a GPS Driven Utility Asset Management and Damage Prevention System and Method
• Clinical Data, Inc. Announces Issuance of New U.S. Patent for Vilazodone
• IGT Files Suit for Patent Infringement Against Aristocrat
• Kane Biotech Issued US Patent for DispersinB® Wound Care Technology
• McCain, Inc. Awarded U.S. Patent for Copper Theft Security Equipment
• Nathan P. Letts, Life Sciences Patent Attorney, Joins the Durham Office of The Eclipse Group LLP
• Otsuka Prevails in U.S. Abilify Patent Litigation
• Patent Calls Hosts First Patent Expert Witness Boot Camp
• SAFE Corporation Announces CodeScreener Online Service for Detecting Software Plagiarism
• SugarCRM Joins Open Invention Network as Licensee
• U.S. District Court Rules from Bench in Lilly’s Favor, Confirms Validity of Alimta Patent
• Wolf Greenfield Hires Two Technology Specialists

Monday, November 15, 2010

• Cellutions, LLC Earns Patent for Modjo Synergy Natural Hangover Prevention Formula
• Copyright, Entertainment Lawyers to Discuss Music’s Fair Use vs. Infringement
• Intellectual Property Association Taps Nixon Peabody Partner for Leadership Role
• Intellectual Property Attorney, Todd A. Benni, Joins McDonald Hopkins Law Firm
• President Obama to Honor Recipients of the 2009 National Medal of Science & National Medal of Technology and Innovation
• Sunesis Issued Important U.S. Patent Covering Vosaroxin Clinical Formulation
• Thomson Reuters Introduces New Japanese Language Patent Research Offering with Single-Login Access to Japanese and Global Patent Collections
• Tomophase Awarded Eighth Patent: Mapping Physiological Functions of Tissues in Lungs and Other Organs
• USPTO Issues Notice of Proposed Rulemaking Regarding Ex Parte Appeals before the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences

Friday, November 12, 2010

• FutureLogic Files Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against Nanoptix
• Labopharm Receives Notice of ANDA Submission With Paragraph IV Certification for Generic of Oleptro
• Luminus Devices Awarded 50th U.S. Patent For Big-Chip LEDs
• MMRGlobal Revives Five Material Biotech Patent Applications
• Seward & Kissel Successfully Defends Joint Authorship Claims for Client Exceller Software

Thursday, November 11, 2010

• Cotendo Responds to Akamai’s Patent Infringement Complaint
• Motorola Mobility Files Patent Infringement Complaints Against Microsoft
• U.S. PTO Grants Eighth Patent on Key Component of Cyclone Power Technologies’ Green Engine

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

• Adolor Corporation Announces Issuance of U.S. Patent for ADL6906, an Analgesic Compound with a Novel Mechanism of Action
• AIPLA Welcomes New Board Officers and Members, Including New AIPLA President David W. Hill and Congratulates Award Recipients
• Anthony Amaral, Seasoned IP Litigator, Joins General Patent Corporation as Chief IP Counsel
• Aperio Awarded Patent for 3D Viewing of Digital Cytology Slides
• Asuragen Reports Notice of Allowance from USPTO Related to the Diagnostic Application of an Important Cancer-Related miRNA
• Brooks Kushman’s Shovein Honored as Up & Coming Lawyer
• Geeknet Joins Open Invention Network as Licensee
• Merck Wins TEMODAR Patent Infringement Lawsuit on Appeal
• Rembrandt IP Management Announces Patent Infringement Lawsuits Against Seagate and Western Digital
• Skyline Solar Awarded Two Additional Green Patents from the USPTO
• Steven Lipman, IP Litigator and Former Senior Attorney to USPTO Commissioners and Solicitors, Joins Seyfarth Shaw’s Boston Office
• USPTO Extends Deadline to Participate in Green Technology Pilot Program by One Year

Tuesday, November 09, 2010

• Augme Technologies, Inc. Receives Fourth Patent From United States Patent and Trademark Office
• MonoSol Rx Issued Strategic U.S. Patent Governing the Manufacturing of Pharmaceutical Films
• Open-Silicon Strengthens Patent Portfolio With Test Technology
• Plantiga Technologies Announces the International Patent Registration of Its Biometric Technology for Major Security Implementations
• Ralink Sues Lantiq for Patent Infringement
• TriZetto’s NetworX Pricer Claims Processing Technology Granted Patent for Unique Functionality in Pricing Healthcare Claims
• U.S. Patent Awarded to Pop Test, LLC for Non-Invasive Saliva Based Glucose Test
• Wolf Greenfield Names El-Hayek, M.D., Counsel

Monday, November 08, 2010

• Composite Technology Receives Court Authorization to Broaden Its Case Against Mercury Cable & Energy
• DLA Piper Adds Renowned Patent Lawyers Henry Koda and William L. Androlia to Tokyo and Los Angeles Offices
• Duane Morris Adds to National Generic Pharmaceuticals Practice
• Fuisz Announces Issuance of Patent for the New Generation of Glucose and Other Analyte Analyzers
• Global Resource Corporation Files Patents for Water Desalination and Purification
• KM Enterprises Files Suit Against Global Traffic Technologies
• StrikeForce Technologies, Inc. Receives Notice of Allowance From the United States Patent Office
• USPTO Commissioner for Trademarks Lynne Beresford to Retire After More Than Three Decades With the Agency
• Verenium Appoints Alexander A. Fitzpatrick General Counsel
• Vet-Stem Signs License Agreement With Affiliate in Australia for Veterinary Stem Cells

Friday, November 05, 2010

• Acacia Subsidiary Enters into Settlement and License Agreement with Texas Instruments
• Asankya, Inc. Announces Issuance of U.S. Patent for Transport Layer Optimization
• Barnes & Thornburg LLP Adds Nationally Recognized IP Partner to Lead IP Practice in Washington, DC
• Business Method Patents - Is Canada Leading The Way? Amazon’s One Click Appeal
• Lando & Anastasi, LLP Expands Litigation and Patent Teams
• Microvision Enhances Patent Position Through Purchase of Motorola Portfolio
• NovaCentrix Awarded U.S. Patent Critical for Sintering Metal Inks on Low Temperature Substrates
• Revolution Eyewear Patent Infringement Victory
• Trade Secrets and Covenants Not to Compete: Whose Secret Is It Anyway? -- Live Video Webcast

Thursday, November 04, 2010

• Eugene Pak Joins Wendel Rosen’s Intellectual Property Practice Group
• Interventional Spine, Inc. Announces Issuance of Key Patents for the PERPOS PLS System
• Marchon3D Receives Notice of Allowance from U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Relating to its Innovative Curved 3D Lenses
• Sandata Technologies Launches Enhanced Location Monitoring
• Soitec Has Prevailed in its Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against MEMC
• UBM TechInsights Announces Japanese Version of PatentVista Enterprise

Wednesday, November 03, 2010

• Camtek Ltd. Files Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against Rudolph Technologies Inc.
• Dickstein Shapiro Secures Victory for Hovione in Flumethasone Patent Case
• Kilpatrick Stockton and Townsend and Townsend and Crew Unite
• MEMC Successful in SOI Patent Infringement Suit
• Patent Calls Innovation Reduces Costs of Patent Litigation
• Post Ariad, What’s Required in Written Descriptions for Patents?

Tuesday, November 02, 2010

• afterBOT Awarded Second Patent for Retail Industry Digital Receipt System
• Alston & Bird Continues IP Expansion in California
• BIO and AUTM File Joint Brief Defending Patentability of DNA-Based Inventions
• CellCast Announces Issuance of First U.S. Patent
• CUBRID Joins Open Invention Network as a Licensee
• Dow AgroSciences U.S. Patent Application for New Class of Herbicide Tolerant Traits Allowed
• Duane Morris’ Matthew C. Gaudet to Speak at the Practising Law Institute’s Patent Litigation 2010 Conference
• GenMark Diagnostics Acquires License to HCV Genotyping Patent Estate
• Guidance Software Secures Search Patent from U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
• Patent Agent With Advanced Life Sciences Expertise Joins The Webb Law Firm
• Sidense Files Action Against Kilopass Patents at USPTO
• Tennessee Intellectual Property Law Association Announces 2011 Board Members
• Vedder Price Continues East Coast IP Expansion

Monday, November 01, 2010

• Advanced Voice Recognition Systems, Inc. Updates Interference Proceedings Between AVRS, Inc. and Allvoice Developments Ltd. and the Litigation between Allvoice Developments Ltd. and Microsoft Corp.
• Ben Goodger Joins Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge as an Intellectual Property Partner in London
• CPA Global Discover Sets New Standard for Patent Search
• General Manifolds LLC Announces Issuance of US Patent in Computational Neuroscience
• Impax Laboratories Announces Litigation Against Shire Relating to Supply of Generic Adderall XR
• Midtronics Announces RFID License Agreement With Battery Dynamics Group
• Nixu Open Joins Open Invention Network as Licensee
• Reed Smith Adds Newberg to Intellectual Property Group
• Register Now for the Nov. 3 Presentation: Current Criteria in the Linkage System in Mexico
• USPTO Issues Patent for Zynx Health’s Structured Data Authoring and Editing System

Friday, October 29, 2010

• Article One Partners Hosts Inaugural IP Summit in Napa Valley; New Litigation Avoidance Service Launched
• Black Eyed Peas Sued for Willful Copyright Infringement by Artists from Chicago and Texas
• Independent Inventors Conference Kicks Off Nov. 4 at USPTO Headquarters
• WOWIO, Inc. Issued Notice of Allowance For Patent Application Covering Advertising in eBooks

Thursday, October 28, 2010

• Green Energy Management Acquires Exclusive Rights to Proprietary Water Valve Technology
• Greenberg Traurig Grows California and Patent Litigation Practice with Addition of Team in San Francisco
• Hansen Medical Receives 11 Additional U.S. Patents for Medical Robotics
• InComm v. Blackhawk Lawsuit Update
• MacroSolve Awarded Patent Revolutionizing Use of Smartphones, Tablets and Rugged Mobile Devices
• Precision BioSciences Announces that the US Patent Office Issues Final Decisions Rejecting Claims of Four Cellectis Patents
• VirnetX Retains Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

• AnaptysBio Expands Global Leadership in Somatic Hypermutation for Antibody Discovery and Optimization with Newly Issued Patents
• CutisPharma Announces Issuance of an Additional Patent for Suppository Compounding
• Intrinsic Bioprobes Announces Issuance of US Patent for Novel Biomarkers and Assays for Myocardial Infarction
• ISSYS Inc. Awarded Another Patent for Wireless, Batteryless, Implantable Sensors
• Leason Ellis Adds Partner and Associate
• OPEL Solar, Inc., Receives U.S. Patent for Its High Concentration Solar Photovoltaic Module
• Schwabe Bolsters Bioscience, Intellectual Property Practices
• Watson Confirms Crestor Patent Challenge
• Winners Announced in 2010 Collegiate Inventors Competition

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

• Christie, Parker & Hale Announces That Judge Rejects Attempt by OSRAM Sylvania to Obtain Summary Judgment Against American Induction Technologies, Inc. (AITI)
• INGfertility Allowed New Pre~Seed Fertility-Friendly Lubricant Patents in USA, Canada and Japan
• Leading IP Litigator Patricia Martone Joins Morrison & Foerster in New York as Partner
• R. Terrance Rader is named Detroit Area Best Lawyers Intellectual Property Lawyer of the Year for 2011
• Shire Receives INTUNIV Paragraph IV Notice Letter
• ThyssenKrupp Elevator Prevails in Patent Lawsuit
• Trius Announces Issuance of Key U.S. Patent for Torezolid Phosphate
• TruePosition Awarded Patent that Enables Advanced Mobile Phone Triggering
• Virtual Hold Technology Awarded New Patent That Protects Workforce Management Integration With Virtual Queuing

Monday, October 25, 2010

• Applied Visual Sciences Receives Patent for Advanced Imaging Technology/Automated Target Recognition
• FIST SA Publishes a New Patent Landscape on Monoclonal Antibodies against Digestive System Cancers
• Helicos BioSciences Amends Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against Pacific Biosciences to Include Illumina and Life Technologies
• ivi TV Reasserts its Legal Position; Files Motions to Deny Big Media Monopoly of Internet Television
• Patent Litigation Capability Further Bolstered With Arrival of International Trade Commission Practitioner
• SMART Modular Technologies Files Patent Office Requests to Challenge Netlist Patents
• Two New Patents Strengthen BIOLASE Intellectual Property Position in Core Waterlase® Technology and Diode Lasers
• USPTO and EPO Work Toward Joint Patent Classification System
• XTend Medical Corporation (XMDC) Secures the BioHarp Patents

Friday, October 22, 2010

• Avery Dennison Files Antitrust Lawsuit Against 3M
• Farouk Systems, Inc. Awarded $300 Million Judgment Against Internet Counterfeiters
• McDermott IP Lawyer Receives the Sedona Conference Lifetime Achievement Award
• Occlutech Wins Dutch Appeal Court Ruling Against AGA Medical
• Steinbeck Family on New York Federal Appeals Court Ruling
• The Webb Law Firm Adds a Patent Attorney

Thursday, October 21, 2010

• Arrambide Promoted to Deputy General Counsel in SwRI’s Legal and Patent Office
• Celtic Pharma Announces Issuance of U.S. Patent 7,816,323 for Xerecept® in Combination with Avastin as a Treatment for Breast and Colon Cancers
• Greenberg Traurig Expands Los Angeles Office with Litigator Robert J. Herrington
• Knobbe Martens Scores Major Patent Litigation Victory for Smith & Nephew
• Lorus Therapeutics Announces Allowance of United States Patent for Lead Antimicrobial Small Molecule
• MAP Pharmaceuticals Appoints Thomas P. McCracken as Vice President, Intellectual Property
• Stanford Law School’s Fair Use Project Asks Supreme Court to Rule on Constitutionality of Restoring Copyrights in Foreign Works
• US District Court Dismisses Infringement Claim Against Beekley in Patent Battle Over Skin Markers Used in Mammographies
• Zoom Telephonics Sells Domain Name Zoom.com and Certain Trademark Rights

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

• 1SaleADay (US) Awarded Trademark Ownership of Australian Copycat Website
• Arradiance Granted Patent for Breakthrough New Microchannel Plate Process
• General Patent Scores the First Licensee in Patent Infringement Suit with the Federal Government
• Metabolon Awarded US Patent for Metabolic Biomarkers of Efficacy of Peroxisome Proliferator Activated Receptor (PPAR) Affecting Drugs
• Mimvi, Inc. Announces Patent Filing for Intelligent Mobile App Search and Recommendation Technology
• Ravenflow Receives Extended Patent Recognition
• Vicor Technologies Issued United States Patent Related to Its State-Dependent Drug Development Platform
• WMS Files Patent Infringement Lawsuit against Bally Gaming

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

• Article One Partners Forms Strategic Partnership to Support Peer To Patent Re-launch
• blackPanther OS Joins Open Invention Network as Licensee
• Ceelox Announces First Patent Issued
• Christie, Parker & Hale, on Behalf of Its Client, Vederi, LLC, Sues Google for Patent Infringement Based on Google Street View
• Crowell & Moring Launches TLD And Domain Name Practice
• Greenberg Traurig’s Ian Ballon Wins IP Vanguard Award
• Michael D. Loughnane Named Managing Partner of Kenyon & Kenyon LLP
• New Book - Thesaurus of Claim Construction
• Patent Awarded for Geographic Online Advertising
• Quinn Emanuel Adds Patent Litigator & Engineering PhD to New York Intellectual Property Practice
• Ryogen Is Awarded Two Additional Patents for Human Genes
• USPTO Launches Second Peer To Patent Pilot in Collaboration with New York Law School

Monday, October 18, 2010

• Enigma Diagnostics’ Patents Maintained by UK Intellectual Property Office
• Global Health Ventures Expands Patent Portfolio
• GreenShift Files Infringement Action Against Flottweg
• International Intellectual Property Rights Granted to N-Viro
• Lightwave Logic Announces Allowance of First Patent
• Marshall, Gerstein & Borun Partner Featured at Chicago Patent Litigation Conference Discussing Patent Reexaminations
• Medifocus, Inc. Obtains Two Patents, One for the Treatment and Prevention of Breast Cancer and the Other for the Treatment of Deep Seated Tumors
• Openwave Licenses Wireless Patents to Mobixell/724 Solutions

Friday, October 15, 2010

• Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath and Gilchrist, P.A. Welcomes New Attorney, Christopher M. Ramsey, Ph.D.
• Christensen O’Connor Johnson Kindness Welcomes Steven Parmelee as a Member of the Life Sciences Practice
• Motorola and Nokia Announce 4G Licensing Agreement
• Secretary Locke Joins President Obama in Announcing the 2009 National Medal of Technology and Innovation Laureates
• Sidense Reports: US Court Rules That No Further Amendments of the Complaint Will Be Allowed by Kilopass
• Syndax Pharmaceuticals Announces Issuance of UK Patent for Entinostat
• Warner Chilcott Announces Settlement with Lupin of Loestrin 24 Fe and Femcon Fe Patent Litigations

Thursday, October 14, 2010

• Amana Tool Awarded Patent for Innovative Tambour Door Router Bit Set
• ContentGuard Licenses Digital Rights Management Patents to Toshiba for Mobile Handsets
• EGPI Firecreek and E-ViEWS Safety Systems, Inc. Announce Significant New Patent
• Ganeden Biotech Granted 100th Probiotic Patent
• Health Enhancement Products, Inc. Announces the Issuance of a US Patent for Its Proprietary ProAlgaZyme Algal Extract and the Treatment of Disease
• SpeechSwitch, Inc. New Alternative Energy Patent Issues
• TaiGen Amends Global License Agreement with Warner Chilcott plc for Development and Commercialization of Nemonoxacin -- a New Generation Quinolone Antibiotic
• The Prieston Group Chairman Receives Patent for Lender Scoring System
• W2 Energy’s Files US Patent for NT Plasma Engine

Wednesday, October 13, 2010

• Biomerix Granted US Patent for Its Proprietary Biomaterial Platform Technology
• Federal Circuit Rules for Solvay Against Honeywell in Patent Infringement Lawsuit
• Gold River Productions Inc. Announces Patent Filings
• Jericho Systems Awarded Second US Patent for Personalization and Targeted Marketing
• Netlist Awarded Patent for Proprietary Planar-X Technology
• New Analytic Capability from LexisNexis PatentOptimizer Uncovers Insights across Patent Portfolios
• Route1 Issued U.S. Patent for the MobiNET
• Sixth U.S. Patent Issued to Dyadic International
• TrovaGene, Inc., Announce Issuance of U.S. Patent for Diagnosis and Monitoring of Pathogenic Infection
• U.S. Patent Office Approves Patent for Dr. Colin Ross’ Eyebeam Detection Device

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

• Auxilium Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Announces Issuance of Patent for Clostridial Collagenase
• Columbia Laboratories Announces USPTO Notice of Allowance for Key Progesterone Preterm Birth Patent
• First Round of Mobile Banking Patent Infringement Lawsuit Goes to Intuit Financial Services. MShift to Appeal.
• General Patent Subsidiary Settles Patent Lawsuit Over Contactless Cards
• HemoShear Announces Issuance of New U.S. Patent For its Human Cell-Based Surrogate Systems
• Karin Segall Joins Leason Ellis in White Plains from Foley & Lardner in Manhattan
• Met-Pro Corporation Acquires Patented Biological Technology
• nlyte Software Awarded US Patent for Server Auto-Allocation Technology
• Proveris Issues the Following Statement on Pivotal Federal Court Ruling Finding InnovaSystems, Inc. in Contempt
• Proximex Awarded Key Patent for EZ Track Technology
• Where Awarded Auto-Snap Patent

Monday, October 11, 2010

• Belwith Products, LLC Announces Federal Action Against J.G. Edelen (Cool Knobs)
• Cachet Financial Solutions Files Patent Application for Their New RDC Platform for Apple’s Mac Operating System
• Essentialis Strengthens Patent Protection of Its Novel ATP-Sensitive Potassium Channel Opener Portfolio
• Graco Inc. Reaches Favorable Settlement to Enforce Patent and Trademark Rights
• McAndrews, Held & Malloy Founding Partners Recognized as 2011 Best Lawyers in America
• Quinn Emanuel Wins Stolichnaya Trademark Appeal in Second Circuit

Friday, October 08, 2010

• ACCESS and Acacia Subsidiary License Smartphone Technology to Microsoft
• Advanced Refining Concepts Announces Issuance of First U.S. Patent for Fuel Production Process
• Cook Biotech and Purdue Research Foundation Prevail against Patent Challenge from Distributor of ACell Products in Europe
• MovingHelp.com Uses Lawsuit to Put an End to Competitor’s Misuse of Trademark and Intellectual Property
• Munchkin, Inc. Prevails in Patent Dispute Against Learning Curve Brands, Inc.
• Proteonomix (PROT) Announces Critical Patent Filing
• R&D Council to Honor Industry and Academia Inventors at the 31st Thomas Alva Edison Patent Awards Ceremony
• Spectrum Receives Notice of Allowance for Its Continuous Refractory Ore Bio-Processing Apparatus
• USPTO Adopts New Patent Examination Quality Measurement Procedures

Thursday, October 07, 2010

• Affymax® Announces Decision in Arbitration Against Johnson & Johnson
• Duane Morris’ Philadelphia Office Adds Intellectual Property Attorney Gretchen L. Temeles, Ph.D.
• Foley IP Leadership Survey Finds Majority of Executives Taking Uncertain IP Environment in Stride
• GeoVax Labs Announces Issuance of 6th Patent
• Lucky Litter LLC Vindicated in International Trade Commission Dispute
• MGA Entertainment’s Statement in Response to Innovation First Lawsuit
• Mindspeed Completes $5.3 Million Sale of Intellectual Property
• Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough and Boston-based Lahive & Cockfield to Join Forces
• Tekmira Intellectual Property Portfolio Solidified with Granting of Key Patents by US Patent & Trademark Office
• TiVo Statement on Decision by United States Patent and Trademark Office
• United States Court of Appeals Rules in Favor of OurPet’s Company
• Watson Reaches Settlement with Endo Over Opana ER

Wednesday, October 06, 2010

• ADVENTRX Pharmaceuticals Receives Notice of Allowance for Patent Claims for Exelbine (ANX-530)
• Bingham Expands Technology Practice in Boston With Addition of Veteran IP Lawyer Steven Frank
• Countries Representing More than Half of World Trade Agree to Criminalize Copyright Piracy, Including Software License Infringement by End Users
• Digimarc Partners with Intellectual Ventures to Expand Patent Licensing Program
• Intercim Receives a New Patent
• Marina Biotech Announces Patent Allowance Covering a Tumor Homing Peptide
• NuVasive Announces XLIF® Clinical Evidence at NASS and Initiates Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against Globus Medical, Inc.
• Pioneer® Surgical Technology Receives U.S. Re-Issue Patent Supporting nanOss Biologic Portfolio
• SIIA Catches Eight Online Software Piracy Operations, Files Lawsuits
• UAT’s HiLo Engine Granted U.S. Patent 7,809,632

Tuesday, October 05, 2010

• Adesto Technologies Corporation Acquires Key Qimonda CBRAM Memory IP and Patents
• Appellate Court Reaffirms Extreme Networks Patents
• Arnold & Porter Expands its Presence in San Francisco, Silicon Valley
• Commerce Department Seeks Comment on Protecting Copyrighted Works on the Internet
• Integrity Engineering Principals Obtain Patent for New Consumer Device Incorporating Advanced UV-Peroxidation Technology
• McAndrews, Held & Malloy Shareholder Christopher V. Carani Selected As one of 40 Illinois Attorneys Under Forty To Watch
• Microdroplet BOTOX Technology by Dr. Kenneth Steinsapir Recognized By U.S. Patent Office
• MorphoSys Further Strengthens US Patent Position on Core Technologies
• PREE Corp. Applies for PREEcharge Provisional Patent
• Redknee and Freedom Wireless Sign Licensing Agreement
• U.S. Government Does Not Appeal Decision in Favor of The Medicines Company in PTO Litigation
• Watson Confirms Azilect Patent Challenge
• WiLAN Initiates Litigation
• Xenonics Awarded Additional U.S. Patent For Technology Used in SuperVision Night Vision Products

Monday, October 04, 2010

• Emerging Business Models are the Focus of 2010 Corporate Intellectual Property Institute, November 4-5
• Genesis Electronics Enforcing Solar Patents
• MOSAID Signs Wireless Patent License Agreement With a Top-Ranked Semiconductor Supplier
• Quarles & Brady Client Munchkin, Inc. Granted Summary Judgment of Non-Infringement in Patent Dispute
• TransCore Receives U.S. Patent for RFID Design Innovation
• Trial Attorney Robert Matz Joins International Business and Intellectual Property Firm, Shaub & Williams LLP

Friday, October 01, 2010

• Acacia Subsidiary Settles Patent Litigation
• AIPLA Urges Congress to Stabilize USPTO Via Long-Term Sustainable Funding
• ASEBIO: A Good Policy for the Protection of Patents, the Key to a Successful Transfer of Technology
• Global Traffic Technologies Initiates Patent Infringement Suit Against Emtrac Systems
• Tessera Moves to Protect Intellectual Property with Two New Legal Actions
• The King of Bling Chris Aire Sues Rolex, LVMH, Hublot and Others for Trademark Infringement
• USPTO Reorganizes Operational Structure

Thursday, September 30, 2010

• Asentinel Initiates Patent Infringement Lawsuit
• Benitec: Approval of US Graham ‘099 Patent in RNA Interference Post Re-examination Hearing
• Chadbourne Files Amicus Brief with U.S. Supreme Court Seeking Review of Patent-Validity Standard
• Former Mintz Levin Attorneys Form Intellectual Property Law Firm
• iPierian Expands Leadership Team With Experienced Business Development and Intellectual Property Executives
• Kraig Biocraft Laboratories Announces Patent Filing on Artificial Spider Silk Breakthrough
• Lando & Anastasi Announces New Intellectual Property Law Podcast Series
• Mars Defense of Flavanol Patent Portfolio Successful
• Mobile Messenger Secures U.S. Patent on Initiating Mobile Communications Using a Trigger System
• New York Intellectual Property Attorneys Join Vedder Price
• OPTi Enters into Patent License and Arbitration Settlement Agreement with NVIDIA Corporation
• Provision Interactive’s Intellectual Property Assets Get Powerful Boost With New Patent Applications
• Williams Mullen Partner Jimmie V. Reyna Nominated to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

Wednesday, September 29, 2010

• AICPA, U.S. PIRG Coalition Urges Congress to Ban Tax Strategy Patents Before Adjourning
• BSD Medical Obtains Patent on Innovative Design for Heat Therapy Devices
• Copyright Clearance Center Expands Presence in Europe, Opens RightsDirect
• Court Increases DataTreasury’s Jury Award to More than $60 Million in Patent Case against U.S. Bank
• CTI is Pleased to Announce the Receipt of a Patent
• Key Patent Issued to Energy Storage Startup SustainX
• LecTec Corporation Announces Orders Provided by United States District Court
• MMRGlobal Files Patent Application for Practice Management System Integration Applet
• Sunlight Research Analyzes Impact of iPSC Patent Activity on Stem Cell Research
• World’s Most Sophisticated Patent Research Platform, CPA Global Discover, Soon to be Launched

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

• CounterPath Granted Key Patent to Assigning Single-Number identity Across Multiple Devices and Networks
• Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property Sharon Barner Announced as Keynote Speaker at CPA Global IP Conference
• Dykema Strengthens IP Department With Additions in Bloomfield Hills and Washington DC
• Entaire Awarded Three Patents for Leveraged Planning
• Foley Adds IP Attorney Joseph Teja Jr. in Boston
• Groom Energy Awarded U.S. Patent for Energy Efficient Lighting Retrofit Product
• Incisive Surgical Issued Notice of Allowance for Key Absorbable Skin Stapler Patent
• Integral Announces 6th License on ElectriPlast
• Oncolytics Biotech Inc. Announces Issuance of Key U.S. Patent
• USPTO Expands the Patent Prosecution Highway to Include Pilots with Austria, Spain and Russia

Monday, September 27, 2010

• BackWeb Files Patent Infringement Lawsuits Against IBM and HP
• BNA Expands Its Portfolio of Resource Centers
• HealthWyse Announces Patent for its Location-Based Remote Personnel Tracking Program
• NAMWOLF Launches Drive to Increase Diversity in Intellectual Property Law
• Neways Receives Its First U.S. Patent for Noni Product
• Pratt & Whitney Files Complaint Against Rolls-Royce
• RAMP Issued Two Seminal Patents to Add to its Growing Portfolio of Content Optimization Intellectual Property
• Taser Is Sued by Inventor James McNulty for Patent Infringement
• The Administrative Law Judge at the International Trade Commission Rendered an Initial Determination Regarding OKI Data Americas and Ricoh Electronics, Inc. Patent Infringement Investigation
• UBM TechInsights Announces Enhancements to PatentVista Enterprise

Friday, September 24, 2010

• Acacia Subsidiary Enters into Settlement and License Agreement with Heidelberg
• Aware Announces Plans to Spin-Off Patent Licensing Operations
• Goodwin Procter Expands National IP Practice with Two New partners in San Diego
• Microfluidic Systems (MFSI) is Awarded Four New Patents in the Field of Automated Biological Sample Processing and Detection
• Perrigo Confirms Filing for Omeprazole/Sodium Bicarbonate and Announcement of Patent Infringement Lawsuit by Schering-Plough Healthcare Products

Thursday, September 23, 2010

• CommScope Files Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against BoreFlex Industries
• K&L Gates Adds Second Boston Intellectual Property Partner Since August
• Marine Polymer Technologies, Inc. Awarded Permanent Injunction in Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against Competitor, HemCon, Inc.
• Merchant & Gould Named Tier 1 Intellectual Property Law Firm in Minneapolis, Colorado by U.S. News & World Report
• Patent Office Issues Reexamination Certificate for Card Activation Patent
• Regulus Therapeutics Secures Additional Patents on microRNA Therapeutics for the Treatment of Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) Infection

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

• Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione Appoints Vander Schaaf to Lead Washington D.C. Office
• Cryptography Research and Tiempo Announce Agreement for Differential Power Analysis Countermeasures Patents
• Iconix Issued Fourth U.S. Patent for Email
• Leading IP Trial Attorney Craig Holden Joins Lewis Brisbois
• Medipattern Receives US Patent for Its Core Technology
• Newegg Confirms Commitment to Challenging Patent Claims Covering Common E-Commerce Functionalities
• Protectus Medical Devices Receives U.S. Patent for Its Safety Syringe
• Teva Files Complaint against Mylan for Infringement of Four Copaxone-Related Patents
• ThermaPure Inc. Receives U.S. Patent on What May Be the Silver Bullet for Killing Bed Bugs and Their Eggs
• USPTO and Rospatent Sign Agreement for Rospatent to Serve as an International Searching Authority and International Preliminary Examining Authority under the Patent Cooperation Treaty
• Walleye Technologies Awarded Second Patent for Millimeter Wave Camera Capable of Seeing Into and Through Solid Objects

Tuesday, September 21, 2010

• Card Activation Technologies Files Suit Against Seven Major National Retailers
• Celera Announces Issuance of United States Patent Relating to KIF6 Gene Variant as a Predictor of Increased Risk of Myocardial Infarction and Reduction of Such Risk Following Statin Therapy
• CGGVeritas Announces Federal District Court in Texarkana Partially Overturned Jury’s Verdict
• Hops Holster Awarded Exclusive Patent For 12 Can Ammo Belt
• Key Decision by U.S. International Trade Commission Will Prohibit the Unlicensed Entry of Energy Drink Products That Infringe on Red Bull Trademark
• Mozilla Joins Open Invention Network as Licensee
• OnAsset Awarded Patent for Wireless Monitoring and Tracking Devices Deployed Onboard Aircraft
• Opposing Lawyers in Gene Patent Case That Could Change the Future of Medical Research to Debate
• USPTO and DPMA Sign Memorandum of Understanding on Bilateral Cooperation
• USPTO and UKIPO Issue Joint Statement on Cooperation
• USPTO Awards Key Patent for New Syringe Injection System, ConfiDisc
• WiLAN Announces Release of Markman Order

Monday, September 20, 2010

• USPTO Launches Effort to Incentivize Humanitarian Technologies
• ABL Announces the Strengthening of Its Patent Estate
• Fairview Research Acquires Patent Database Leader IFI
• HemCon Medical Technologies Will Appeal Patent Judgment
• PIJIP Releases Series of Working Papers on International Intellectual Property Enforcement
• SAFE Corporation’s President Robert Zeidman Recognized by IEEE Santa Clara Valley Section
• Volcano Corporation Files Counterclaim Asserting St. Jude Infringes Three Volcano Patents

Friday, September 17, 2010

• Canon Announces the Resolution of Two Patent Infringement Lawsuits
• Director Kappos to Speak on his First Year and Further Goals for the USPTO at AIPLA’s Annual Meeting in Washington, DC
• Leason Ellis Continues Expansion
• Navizon Awarded New Patent for Wireless Location Technology
• Patent is Filed on Shrink Nanotechnologies’ CellAlign Advanced Tissue Engineering Platform Technology
• Real American Brands Green Blues Statement of Use Approved by USPTO
• The Government of Lithuania and IBM Announce Research Partnership
• Thomson Reuters Partners with the World Intellectual Property Organization to Offer Free and Low-Cost Access to Patent Information in Developing Nations

Thursday, September 16, 2010

• Belwith Products, LLC Announces Lawsuit Against Lauréy Cabinet Hardware
• Medizone International Files Sports Facility and Equipment Patent Application
• Paltalk Receives Two More Patents for Audio and Video Chat Technology

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

• Special Feature -- Canadian Intellectual Property Survey Results - An Overview
• Special Feature -- So You Think You Can Steal My Dance? Copyright Protection in Choreography
• American Medical Systems Receives Favorable Ruling in Patent Lawsuit Against Biolitec
• ConvergEx Receives Patent for Electronic Depositary Receipt (ADR) Technology From the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
• Fish & Richardson Adds José P. Sierra as New Principal in Boston
• Move Networks Awarded Fundamental Patent on Adaptive Video Streaming
• Protegrity Sues Ingrian Networks, Safenet, nuBridges and Voltage Security for Infringement of Data Encryption Patents
• Recent Developments in Patent Litigation: Free Wolf Greenfield Webinar, Sept. 22
• Reducing Software Piracy Would Inject $142 Billion into the Global Economy and Create Nearly 500,000 New Jobs
• TM.Biz Launches Trademark Protection Tools for Social Media
• Uniloc USA Inc. Files Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against Adobe, Symantec and CA Technologies
• USPTO Expands Technical Training Opportunities for Patent Examiners

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

• The IP Summit 2010: The Power of IP for Business Success
• Absorption Systems Awarded Patent for CellPort Technologies
• Advanced Cell Technology Obtains Broad Patent Covering Use of Stem Cell-Derived RPE Cells to Treat Eye Disorders
• Agion Awarded Patent for Innovation in Textile Treatments
• Andrews Kurth Adds Experienced Attorneys, Patent Agents to Intellectual Property Group
• Aptys Solutions Licenses DataTreasury’s Image Capture Technology
• Attorney Shane Cortesi Joins Waddey & Patterson
• Finisar Corporation and Source Photonics Settle Patent Dispute
• Follett Receives U.S. Patent for Unique BestNotes Functionality in Digital Textbooks
• iGo Awarded Additional Patents for iGo Green Technology
• Joule Awarded Patent on Renewable Diesel Production from Sunlight and CO2
• McAndrews, Held & Malloy Secures Victory For American Medical Systems, Inc. and Laserscope
• Medizone International Files Food Industry Specific Patent Application
• Mega Brands Comments on Favorable European Court Decision on Trademarks
• Merchant & Gould Announces Five New Hires
• REGENESIS Granted Patent for Microemulsion Bioremediation Product 3DMe
• TriLink BioTechnologies, Inc. Announces License Agreement with Biofortuna Ltd.
• U.S. PTO Approves Additional Patent Protection For Cyclone Power Technologies’ Green Engine
• Wilson Electronics Issued Patent for Cellular Signal Booster Design

Monday, September 13, 2010

• Asklepios BioPharmaceutical Enters Into A Patent License Agreement With Pfizer
• BSKB to Conduct U.S. Trademark Bootcamp in Los Angeles
• Centrify Signs Protocol Patent Agreement With Microsoft
• Genomas Awarded US Patent for its PhyzioGenomics Platform Technology to Predict Treatment Responses
• Geron Obtains Exclusive License for Deriving Cartilage from Human Embryonic Stem Cells from University of Edinburgh
• Haynes and Boone’s Washington, D.C. Office Adds Litigators to IP Practice
• Loeb & Loeb Obtains Preliminary Injunction in Celsis In Vitro Patent Case
• Metabolon Awarded US Patent for Determining Metabolic Age of an Individual
• Prominent Licensing Executive and HTS Form Unique IP Licensing Management Organization
• SKECHERS Secures Its 70th Patent Worldwide on Shape-ups Footwear
• Swanson & Bratschun LLP Adds Chad King as Partner

Friday, September 10, 2010

• Eckert Seamans’ Janet Linn Named as Chair of the Committee on Patents of the New York City Bar Association
• Fitzpatrick Cella Successfully Defends Blockbuster Drug Benicar on Behalf of Client Daiichi Sankyo
• Merchant & Gould Scores Litigation Victory for The First National Bank in Sioux Falls
• The Medicines Company Provides PTO Litigation Update
• U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Issues Patent for Live Listeria HER2/neu Immunotherapy

Thursday, September 09, 2010

• 01 Communique Files a Patent Infringement Lawsuit against LogMeIn Inc. and Dell Inc.
• ADA Solutions, Inc. Files Lawsuit Accusing Armor-Tile and Access Tile Replaceable Cast in Place Tactile Warning Surface Products of Patent Infringement
• Advent Software Announces Issuance of US Patent for Research Management Technology in Tamale RMS
• Foley Welcomes Patent Team Led by Prominent Attorneys Jerry Swiss and Lorna Tanner to Firm
• Helicos BioSciences Files Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against Pacific Biosciences
• Meditrina Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Announces Allowance of Patent for Treatment of Endometriosis
• NetApp and Oracle Agree to Dismiss Lawsuits
• Perkins Coie Launches New Blog: IP Litigation Update
• SIIA Scores Major Victories in Kaplan Test Prep Piracy Lawsuits
• Stellar Biotechnologies Files Key Patent for Company

Wednesday, September 08, 2010

• AVI BioPharma Issued U.S. Patent Providing Key Coverage of RNA-Based Therapeutics as Antibacterial Agents
• EVTN Files Patents for Oil Spill Recovery Technology
• Manatt Adds Top Patent Litigation Team in Washington, D.C.
• Marshall Edwards Reaches Agreement in Principle to Acquire Intellectual Property Portfolio From Novogen
• Monica Riva Talley Joins Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox
• Silence Therapeutics Issued New Patents Covering siRNA Sequences for RNA Interference Therapeutics

Tuesday, September 07, 2010

• Blackhawk Network Announces U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Agrees to Reexamine InComm Patent
• Court Denies Sandoz/Momenta’s Summary Judgment of Invalidity in Copaxone® Litigation
• Day Pitney Adds Two Intellectual Property Lawyers to New York Office
• The Estee Lauder Companies and OXIS International Resolve Patent Dispute
• Top Patent Litigator Steve Korniczky Joins Sheppard Mullin
• Verint Systems Granted U.S. Patent on Call Center IP Recording
• Watson Confirms Combigan Patent Challenge

Friday, September 03, 2010

• Peerless Applauds the U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois Decisions
• Victory for Electrical Device Manufacturer in the U.S. Court of Appeals

Thursday, September 02, 2010

• Lando & Anastasi, LLP Expands Its Litigation Practice with Addition of IP Litigator from Fish & Richardson P.C.
• USPTO Issues Update to KSR Examination Guidelines
• Widevine Allowed Patent on Transcoding Broadcast Content for Internet Delivery

Wednesday, September 01, 2010

• Court of Appeals Finds Violations of Legrand/Pass & Seymour’s GFCI Patent Rights
• HID Global and UPM Raflatac Announce Worldwide Technology License Agreement for RFID Sealing Label Technology
• Pacific Biosciences Responds to Patent Infringement Complaint by Helicos Biosciences
• Route1 Receives Allowance of its U.S. Patent Application for the MobiNET
• U.S. Court of Appeals Upholds Validity of Lilly’s Evista Patents Through March of 2014
• US Patent Issued to ChannelNet for SiteBuilder Modular E-Commerce Website Development System

Tuesday, August 31, 2010

• Canadian Man Fined, Sentenced for Selling Counterfeit Cancer Drugs and Pirated Business Software
• Kenneth Godlewski Joins Arent Fox LLP as Partner in Washington, DC
• McAndrews, Held & Malloy Secures Victory for Global Instruments, Inc. and Global Concepts Limited, Inc. in False Marking Case
• X-Rite Receives U.S. Patent for Non-Contact Color Measurement Technology Used in Industrial, Food, Cosmetics and Retail Paint Applications

Monday, August 30, 2010

• Fish & Richardson Receives Distinguished Pro Bono Law Firm of the Year Award
• Nixon Peabody Partner Russ Genet to Co-Lead Firm’s Patents Practice

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

• Barnes & Thornburg LLP’s Michigan Office Growth Continues with Addition of Veteran Intellectual Property Attorney

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

• Marc Kaufman Joins Reed Smith’s IP Practice in DC
• SAFE Corporation’s BitMatch Used in Winning Preliminary Injunction for Splitfish AG

Monday, August 23, 2010

• DLA Piper Expands IP Litigation Capabilities, Adding Premier Litigation, Counseling and Prosecution Team in Los Angeles
• USPTO and the Federal Service for Intellectual Property, Patents and Trademarks of the Russian Federation (ROSPATENT) to Begin Patent Prosecution Highway Pilot Program

Friday, August 20, 2010

• Dickstein Shapiro Wins Key Patent Assertions for Lectrolarm in Final Appeal
• Perkins Coie’s Patent Litigation Group Wins $29M Judgment in Football Helmet Patent Infringement Suit on Behalf of Riddell Sports
• Veteran Patent Attorney and IP Litigator Joins Barnes & Thornburg’s Minneapolis Office

Thursday, August 19, 2010

• Barnes & Thornburg Adds Patent Prosecution Attorney in Firm’s Chicago Office
• IP Attorney Terry Gaffney Joins Eckert Seamans’ Washington, DC Office
• Quinn Emanuel’s Silicon Valley Office Adds Patent Trial Lawyer Karin Kramer

Tuesday, August 17, 2010

• Knobbe Martens, San Diego’s Largest IP Firm, Announces San Diego Office Move
• Patent Dispatch from Canada: Use Disclaimers with Caution

Monday, August 16, 2010

• IP Litigator Katrina Quicker Joins Ballard Spahr’s Atlanta Office

Saturday, August 14, 2010

• TruePosition Damages Award Affirmed in Patent Infringement Case Against Andrew Corporation

Thursday, August 12, 2010

• Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney Brings Victory to Client emsCharts and Co-defendant Softtech, LLC in Joint Infringement Case — Inequitable Conduct Remanded
• Kilpatrick Stockton’s Washington, DC Office Adds Prominent Patent Team
• President Obama Signs Bill to Provide USPTO Authority to Spend an Additional $129 Million of FY 2010 Fee Collections

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

• Howrey Scores Impressive Wins for IP Clients
• K&L Gates Welcomes Boston Intellectual Property Partner

Tuesday, August 10, 2010

• Coats and Bennett Establishes Life Sciences and Biotechnology Practice Area
• Lathrop & Gage Tosses Copyright Suit Against Bruno Film
• Morrison & Foerster Wins Patent Interference at USPTO on Behalf of Novartis Vaccines & Diagnostics

Monday, August 09, 2010

• Chapman and Cutler Welcomes New Partner Christopher Buchko, Ph.D.
• Connolly Bove Welcomes Sejal Gosalia to Washington, D.C. Office
• McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP Welcomes Intellectual Property Partner Victor Balancia

Wednesday, August 04, 2010

• ConvergEx Receives Patent for Commission Management Technology from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
• Leading Patent Litigator Joins Latham & Watkins in Washington, DC
• Ropers Majeski Kohn & Bentley Adds Prominent IP Litigator to the Ranks

Tuesday, August 03, 2010

• Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz Adds IP Litigator to Los Angeles Office
• Dykema Adds Jeffrey Pine in Chicago
• Top Advertising/IP Lawyer Seligman Laterals to Frankfurt Kurnit
• U. S. District Court Rules in Favor of Rudolph Technologies

Monday, August 02, 2010

• Former Acting Chief Counsel of the FDA, Jeffrey M. Senger, Joins Sidley Austin LLP in Washington, DC
• Pepper Hamilton Enhances Intellectual Property Practice With Addition of Goutam Patnaik
• Pepper Hamilton Enhances Intellectual Property Practice With Addition of Kurt L. Ehresman
• Squire Sanders Expands Life Sciences Intellectual Property Practice
• Uniloc USA Inc. Files Patent Infringement Lawsuit against Sony America, McAfee, Activision and Quark

Friday, July 30, 2010

• U.S. District Court Protects CRISTAL Trademark

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

• Augme Technologies, Inc. Engages Top Intellectual Property Advisor
• For A Third Time, U.S. Federal Courts Reject Flexsys’ Patent Claims Against Korea Kumho Petrochemical Co., Ltd.

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

• Anika Therapeutics Comments on Patent Litigation
• Aristocrat to Appeal Judgment in Hyperlink Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against IGT
• Card Activation Receives Notice from Patent Office Regarding Reexamination Proceeding
• Cepheid Files Answer and Counterclaims in Abaxis Patent Suit
• Entegris Signs 300 mm Wafer Carrier Patent License With 3S Korea
• ilumisys Grants Intellectual Property Licenses for LED Fluorescent Tube Replacements to ATG Electronics, Diogen Lighting, Hudnut, LEDtronics, LumaSmart and NCS Power
• Miraculins Announces Issuance of Important Preeclampsia Patent in United States
• Nanotechnology R&D Grows in Beauty Industry According to Thomson Reuters Intellectual Property Analysis
• Rovi and Unitymedia Sign IPG Patent License Agreement
• Seyfarth Shaw’s Litigation Department Welcomes Alan M. Lenkin as Partner in the Intellectual Property Practice Group
• Tom Holt Joins Steptoe & Johnson LLP’s Intellectual Property Practice

Monday, July 12, 2010

• Federal Judge Rules No Infringement In Protective Headband Patent Case
• Howrey Expands to Düsseldorf with Christoph Lenz
• Lee & Hayes Announces New Life Sciences Practice Group
• SIIA Campaign Against Online Piracy Yields Six New Lawsuits
• USPTO 2010-2015 Strategic Plan Available for Public Comment

Friday, July 09, 2010

• Cabot Microelectronics’ Patents Upheld in Patent Enforcement Action Against DuPont Air Products NanoMaterials, LLC
• Garmin Beats Back Another Invalid Patent
• NTP Sues Apple, Google, HTC, LG, Microsoft and Motorola for Infringement of Wireless Email Patents

Tuesday, July 06, 2010

• David Manspeizer Joins WilmerHale’s New York IP Litigation Team

Thursday, July 01, 2010

• Alston & Bird Adds Another IP Litigator to Expanding Los Angeles Practice
• Eco-Patent Commons to Receive Three Patents From HP
• U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke Headlines Copyright Policy Symposium

Wednesday, June 30, 2010

• Howrey Creates Trade Secrets Task Force
• Loeb & Loeb Expands Advanced Media & Technology Department

Tuesday, June 29, 2010

• DLA Piper Expands Venture Pipeline Services and Website, Fostering Development of Start-Up Technology Companies

Monday, June 28, 2010

• AIPLA Gratified By Supreme Court Bilski Decision
• Barnes & Thornburg LLP Continues Expansion of Minneapolis Office With Addition of Douglas Williams
• Bradford P. Lyerla Joins Jenner & Block as a Partner
• Licensing Executives Society (USA and Canada) Comments on Long-Awaited Supreme Court Decision – Bilski v. Kappos
• Olshan Adds to Growing Intellectual Property Practice

Friday, June 25, 2010

• USPTO and the Hungarian Patent Office to Pilot Patent Prosecution Highway

Thursday, June 24, 2010

• Eileen Smith Ewing Joins Foley Hoag to Co-Chair Life Sciences Practice
• Kennedy, Clark & Williams Continues Success in High Stakes Litigation

Wednesday, June 23, 2010

• Carl Oppedahl to join the Board of Directors of the American Intellectual Property Law Association
• ITC Confirms MPS Patent Victory Against O2 Micro
• RainDance Technologies Appoints Alan Sherr as Vice President and Chief Intellectual Property Counsel
• Stolarski Joins Dykema’s Intellectual Property Group
• The Webb Law Firm Adds a New Senior Attorney With Significant Litigation Experience

Monday, June 21, 2010

• $11 Million Patent Infringement Judgment Awarded to Blendtec
• Dan Crouse Joins Lee & Hayes
• SIIA Expands Internet Anti-Piracy Campaign with New European Monitoring & Enforcement Effort

Friday, June 18, 2010

• Acacia Subsidiary Enters into License Agreement with Navman Wireless Holdings LP
• Oncolytics Biotech Inc. Announces Issuance of 35th U.S. Patent
• Sharp and WiLAN Enter Wireless License Agreement
• This Week on the Copyright Alliance Blog - Week of June 14, 2010
• XTend Medical Corporation (XMDC) Provides Update on Delaware Lawsuit

Thursday, June 17, 2010

• Alnylam Receives Notice of Allowance from United States Patent and Trademark Office for New Patent Broadly Covering RNAi Therapeutics that Target Mutated Genes
• Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney Client Cosmed Group, Inc. Obtains Favorable Settlement of Patent Dispute
• Digimarc Dismisses Patent Infringement Suit Against Shazam Entertainment While Companies Discuss Opportunities for Cooperation
• EDSA Awarded Foundational Patent for Industry’s Only Real-Time System Monitoring and Predictive Analysis Solution for Electrical Power Infrastructure
• Fredrikson & Byron Attorney Caroline G. Chicoine Appointed to Chair the International Trademark Association’s Internet Committee
• Life Sciences and IP Lawyer Jennifer Camacho Joins Greenberg Traurig as Shareholder in Boston
• Planet’s Inspar Robotic Technologies Inc. Granted an Additional Patent for SIPP Robotic Pipe Lining Technology
• Precision BioSciences Announces that the US Patent Office Action Issues Second Actions Rejecting All Claims Asserted by Cellectis in Litigation
• SPI Pharma Gains Ground in Roquette Patent Dispute
• Staples Denied Motion for Summary Judgment in PaperPro Patent Infringement Case
• Transdel Pharmaceuticals Enters into License Agreement with Jan Marini Skin Research for Cosmeceutical Product
• Two General Patent Corporation Executives Are Named Among The World’s Leading IP Strategists
• USPTO Issues Notice of Allowance for Additional MultiStat Patent

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

• Advanced Cell Technology Awarded Broad Patent for Production of Retinal Pigment Epithelial Cells
• AVEO Pharmaceuticals Granted Patents for Diagnostic Tests to Identify Patient Populations Likely to Respond to Tivozanib Treatment
• Cave Consulting Group Receives Patent on CCGroup Marketbasket System
• eLOTTERY Inc. Announces Patent Acquisition Covering Online Sale of State and Governmental Lottery Tickets in the U.S.
• Orion Energy Systems Issued 27th and 28th Patents
• U.S. Patent for Method and System for Saving and Retrieving Spatial Related Information Issued to TeleCommunication Systems, Inc.
• USPTO Joint Labor-Management Task Force Proposes Changes to Patent Examiner Performance Standards
• Wanderport Files Patent Application Raising the Bar for Innovation and Performance Within the Water Heater Industry

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

• Axis Technologies, Inc. Announces Filing of Provisional Patent Application for Addressable Ballast
• Bayer Sues Teva and Barr for False Advertising and Patent Infringement in Connection with Teva’s Generic Oral Contraceptive Gianvi
• Confiance Group Granted U.S. Trademark for its e-Learning Solution
• Former Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the U.S. Patent Office Named President of FIRST
• Genius.com Awarded First Patent for Instant-On Website Tracking Technology
• Hafendorfer Machine, Inc. Announces Patent on Thermo Break Design for Window and Door Buck Systems
• InfoLogix Continues to Derive Value from Patent Portfolio; Company to Receive $2.2 Million for Patents on Touch Screen Systems and Methods
• iPipeline Awarded Patent for Computerized Method for Preparing Insurance Applications
• Route1 Issued U.S. Patent for the MobiKEY Device
• The Lanier Law Firm Announces Trademark Infringement Lawsuit Against EA Over Mirror’s Edge Video Game

Monday, June 14, 2010

• MMR Information Systems, Inc. Receives Grant From U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to Reinstate Patent to Treat Patients With B-Cell Malignancies
• mPhase Technologies Granted U.S. Patent for Silicon Membrane of Smart NanoBattery
• Questel Acquires PatentPilot Business from Unycom and Enters Into a Cross-Distribution Agreement
• RPost and Swiss Post Settle Patent and Trademark Suit
• Salient Surgical Technologies Sues Bovie Medical for Patent Infringement

Friday, June 11, 2010

• Special Feature -- Patent Litigation on a Budget
• Coats and Bennett Attorney Named as American Bar Foundation Fellow
• ContentGuard Licenses Digital Rights Management Patents to Casio Hitachi Mobile Communications for Mobile Handsets
• Cubist Pharmaceuticals to Oppose Teva’s Attempt to Add Inequitable Conduct Defense in Patent Infringement Action
• Gilead Sciences Announces Notification of ANDA Filing for Ranexa
• Molex Taiwan Prevails in Taiwin Electronics Patent Infringement Lawsuit
• Motorola and Research In Motion Announce Settlement and License Agreement
• Ropes & Gray Wins Top Honor for Intellectual Property at Chambers USA Awards
• This Week on the Copyright Alliance Blog - Week of June 7, 2010

Thursday, June 10, 2010

• Special Feature -- Circuit Rules that Marking with Expired Patents Can Be False Marking
• Avery Dennison Continues Office Products Innovation Leadership With Patent Awarded for Easy Peel Feature
• Bosch and Inverness Settle Litigation
• I-Flow Resolves Patent Infringement, Trade Secret Litigation against Apex Medical Technologies, Zone Medical
• McAndrews, Held & Malloy Attorney Featured At Diversity Forum Spotlighting Senior Women Lawyers
• PURE Bioscience Granted Patent for Anhydrous SDC
• U.S. District Court Orders Stay in Neutral Tandem Versus Peerless Network Lawsuit

Wednesday, June 09, 2010

• Court Grants Claim Construction Favorable to Card Activation
• Destiny Media Relies on NTP v. RIM to Secure Quick Summary Judgment in Music Transmission Case
• Federal Court of Appeals Issues Second Ruling Against iLight Technologies in Patent Infringement Case
• Hovey Williams Adds New Attorney
• Intellect Neurosciences, Inc. Receives Notice of Allowance for Patent on Alzheimer’s Drug From the Israeli Patent and Trademark Office
• MDRNA, Inc. Expands Its Proprietary UNA Intellectual Property Portfolio by Acquiring Exclusive Rights to UNA-Based Diagnostics
• Replay Solutions Awarded U.S. Patent Enabling Higher Quality Multi-Threaded Applications by Reproducing and Fixing Race Conditions
• Silence Therapeutics Announces Issuance of New U.S. Patent Broadly Covering Methods for Enhancing Silencing Activity of RNAi Therapeutics
• TiVo Statement on Decision by United States Patent and Trademark Office
• TriCipher Issued New Patents Extending Advanced Identity Protection Model
• Ungaretti & Harris Grows Intellectual Property Practice With Addition of New Counsel

Tuesday, June 08, 2010

• Alkane Files Continuation Patent for New Synthetic Fuel
• Court Allows Cook Patent Infringement Suit Versus Endologix to Move Forward
• Cubist Pharmaceuticals Receives Claim Construction Order in Patent Infringement Action Against Teva Parenteral Medicines, Inc.
• Cyclone Power Technologies Receives Fifth U.S. Patent for Its Green Engine
• Endo and Penwest Enter Into Agreement with Sandoz to Settle OPANA ER Patent Litigation
• Fish & Richardson Principal Ahmed J. Davis Named One of Nation’s Best Advocates
• Fitzpatrick, Cella, Harper & Scinto Receives The 2010 International Legal Alliance Summit Gold Award for Best US IP Law Firm
• International Stem Cell Corporation’s Parthenogenetic Stem Cell Patent is Approved by the United States Patent and Trademark Office
• IPO Education Foundation Honors Top Inventors of 2010
• Lando & Anastasi, LLP Announces New Design Patent Blog
• Melior Discovery Receives Notice of Allowance from U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for Lead Diabetes and Obesity Drug Candidate
• PlumChoice Awarded U.S. Patent for Integrated Remote/Retail Technical Support Solution
• PNC Enters Into License Agreement With LML
• Roetzel & Andress Lands High-Profile IP Group in Washington

Monday, June 07, 2010

• Advisor Software Awarded Patent for Balance Sheet Solution
• Biomoda Awarded Patent in Mexico
• Brooks Kushman Promotes IP Veteran Sparschu to Head of Trademark Group
• ClearOne’s Strategic Patent for Streaming Audio, Video and Control Over IP Networks Now Granted in Korea Following Grants in United States and Australia
• CryoLife Strengthens BioGlue® Surgical Adhesive Portfolio with Patent Purchase
• CytRx Announces Issuance of Key U.S. Patent Covering Bafetinib
• Dolcera Announces Patent Dashboard for Intellectual Property (IP) Research, Tracking, Collaboration and Analysis
• Experienced Patent Litigator Justin J. Daniels Joins Proskauer’s Boston Office
• Immersion and Simbionix Announce License Agreement
• Matthew Lowrie Appointed Chair of Foley’s Intellectual Property Litigation Practice
• Michael Collyard to Head E-Discovery Practice at Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi LLP
• The Female Health Company Announces Issuance of U.S. Patent for its FC2 Female Condom
• USPTO and Rospatent Sign MOU on Bilateral Cooperation

Friday, June 04, 2010

• Augme Technologies, Inc. Receives Notice of Allowance on Continuation Patent from United States Patent and Trademark Office
• IP Partner Mark Litvack Joins Pillsbury in Los Angeles
• Jackson Laboratory Cleared of Patent Infringement in Mouse Case
• Labopharm Comments on Judgment in Purdue Appeal of Decision Relating to Patents
• Schwabe Expands Intellectual Property Practice with Addition of Prominent IP Attorney
• This Week on the Copyright Alliance Blog - Week of May 31, 2010
• VitaminSpice Files United States and Worldwide Patent Applications

Thursday, June 03, 2010

• Alliance Honored With MPA’s Broido Award
• BackWeb Announces Settlement of Patent Infringement Lawsuit with Microsoft
• Camtek Intends to Aggressively Defend Against New Rudolph Patent Lawsuit
• EmergingMed Granted Patent
• FreeLinc Announces Addition to U.S. Patent Portfolio in the Near Field Communication (NFC) Space With the Issuance of Patent No. 7,532,901
• Intellect Neurosciences, Inc. Receives Notice of Allowance for Alzheimer Monoclonal Antibody Patent from the United States Patent and Trademark Office
• Shire Files Suit Against Anchen Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and Anchen, Inc.
• Stroock Adds Irah H. Donner to Intellectual Property Practice in New York
• TRA Is Granted U.S. Patent Covering Its Unique ROI Technology
• Trubion Pharmaceuticals Wins Genentech and Biogen Idec Patent Appeal
• U.S. Patent & Trademark Office Confirms Validity of Haemonetics Patent
• USPTO Proposes to Establish Three Patent Processing Tracks

Wednesday, June 02, 2010

• BackWeb Announces Resolution of its Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against Symantec
• CPA Global’s 2010 State of the IP Industry Survey Reveals Growing Concern With Budgets and International Protection of IP Rights
• Fish & Richardson Attorney, Laura R. Braden, Receives First-of-Its-Kind Award from Microsoft Corp.
• Health Enhancement Products, Inc. Receives Notice of Allowance from US Patent Office for its Proprietary Algae Extract
• Oddcast and PixFusion Sign Strategic Patent Licensing Agreement
• Ohr Pharmaceutical Awarded U.S. Patent
• Perkins Coie Opens San Diego Office
• Raptor Pharmaceutical Licenses Intellectual Property Related to Huntington’s Disease From the Weizmann Institute of Science and Niigata University
• Skyonic Pioneers Carbon Capture Mineralization Process With First U.S. Patent
• SmartMetric Announces It Has Filed Today First Amended Complaint For Infringement Of U.S. Patent 6,792,464
• Starhome Files Patent Infringement Lawsuit
• U.S. Judge Orders Punitive Damages Against Liz Claiborne, Lucky Brand Dungarees in Trademark Infringement Judgment
• USPTO Teams with Google to Provide Bulk Patent and Trademark Data to the Public
• Vermillion Announces Issuance of European Patent
• VirnetX Granted Claims Dismissal, Microsoft Exits Patent Review

Tuesday, June 01, 2010

• Cannabis Science President and CEO Dr. Robert Melamede, PhD., Files Preliminary Patent Disclosures With the University of Colorado
• Federal Appellate Court Affirms Dow Jones’ Win in Patent Case Over Online Technology Rights
• Generex Awarded Two New Patents for Its Proprietary Buccal Drug Delivery System
• KluwerPatentLaw.com -- New Premier Research Solution for IP Professionals
• Revenue Management Solutions Granted Second U.S. Patent
• William G. (Greg) Lane Joins Rader, Fishman & Grauer PLLC in New Orange County, California Office
• Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Expands IP Litigation Practice

Friday, May 28, 2010

• American Medical Systems Awarded Surgical Method Patent for Implantation of AdVance Male Incontinence Slings
• Federal Court Ruling Likely to Set New Precedent Governing Use of Copyrighted Works
• Smart Glove and Henry Schein Reach Settlement With Tillotson Regarding Patent for Nitrile Gloves
• This Week on the Copyright Alliance Blog - Week of May 28, 2010
• Thomson IP Manager 3.1 Expands its Enterprise Integration and Collaboration Support for Intellectual Property Programs

Thursday, May 27, 2010

• ActiveVideo Networks Files Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against Verizon
• Celgene Announces Dismissal of Suit against Barr Laboratories Following Withdrawal of Thalidomide ANDA
• Green Bridge Technologies International, Inc. Applies for Encapsulated Vortex Technology Patent
• K&L Gates Expands IP Litigation Practice with San Francisco Partner Addition
• New Generation Biofuels Files a Patent Application on New Glycerin-Based Biofuel
• NextAlarm Awarded Patent for Two-Way Voice Over Internet
• Numerate’s Ranking Technology for Pharmaceutical R&D Gains U.S. Patent
• Regulus Therapeutics Receives Exclusive License for Intellectual Property to microRNA-21 for Diseases of the Heart, Liver, and Kidney
• SIIA Announces Arrest of Los Angeles-Based Craigslist Software Pirates
• VIZIO Wins Favorable Federal Circuit Appeal Ruling

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

• General Patent Settles All Patent Infringement Lawsuits with Verizon Wireless Over Key Cell Phone Patent
• International Law Firms to Combine as SNR Denton
• ITC Extends Target Date of Final Determination in Rambus Matter Regarding NVIDIA Products
• Reed Smith Adds Quinn Emanuel IP Litigator
• Silence Therapeutics Issued Novel RNAi Patent Covering High-Value Cancer Target in United States
• Sonic Launches 621 Dynamic Content Patent License Program
• The Cabrera Firm, APC and the Law Offices of Manuel de la Cerra Announce Local Wave Machine Company’s Successful Invalidation of Competitor’s Patents
• White & Case Adds High Tech IP Partner in Palo Alto

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

• Applied Spine Technologies Awarded Two New Patents, Expanding Stabilimax IP Portfolio
• Court Grants Motion to Stay Pitney Bowes Patent Litigation Against Zumbox
• Federal Court of Appeals Reconsiders Recent Order Regarding Fallon’s Infringement of iLight’s Patents
• Global Holdings Inc. Announces Patent Filing
• ID Analytics Secures Identity-Based Fraud Detection Patent
• Phoenix Technologies Resolves Litigation Dispute With DeviceVM
• Regado Biosciences, Inc. Continues to Expand Its Patent Portfolio By Announcing Issuance of a New Patent for Its Product Candidates, the REG1 and REG2 Anticoagulation Systems
• U.S. Patent for Faceplate That Enables Quick Removal and Securing of Encryption Device Issued to TeleCommunication Systems, Inc.
• Voltree Power Secures Second Bio-Energy Harvesting Patent
• Watson Confirms Renvela Patent Challenge

Monday, May 24, 2010

• Algebraix Data Awarded Patent for Breakthrough in Data Management
• Commissioner Tian Lipu of China’s Intellectual Property Office Visits AIPLA
• Duane Morris Associate Christiane Schuman Campbell Appointed Treasurer of the PA Bar Association IP Section
• Firms with Strong Intellectual Property Strategies Fare Better in Raising Capital
• Patent Prosecution Highway: A Key Strategy For Reducing Patent Backlogs
• QD Vision Acquires Motorola Patent Portfolio Covering the Use of Quantum Dots in Display and Lighting Applications
• Retractable Technologies, Inc. Reports Final Judgment and Permanent Injunction in Patent Litigation Suit and Litigation Fee Arrangement
• Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser Names New Partner
• Sidense to Prove Kilopass Patent Invalid -- Company Taking Actions to Prove Invalidity of Kilopass 1T Patent Infringement Assertions
• USPTO Expands Green Technology Pilot Program to More Inventions

Friday, May 21, 2010

• Brown & James Adds to Intellectual Property and Technology Practice
• FICO Patents 8 New Analytic Techniques for Scoring, Fraud, Profit Optimization
• HP Files Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against APM
• Perkins Coie Adds Three Attorneys to Denver Office
• Salix Announces Issuance of U.S. Patent for Rifaximin
• The Medicines Company Provides PTO Litigation Update
• This Week on the Copyright Alliance Blog - Week of May 17, 2010

Thursday, May 20, 2010

• Apollo Enterprise Solutions Granted New Zealand Patent
• austriamicrosystems Scores Success in Patent Infringement Lawsuit against Melexis
• Biocept, Inc. Announces Issuance of Patent for its Microfluidic Technology
• Building and Monetizing Your Patent Portfolio: Wolf Greenfield Seminar, June 17, Boston
• Collegium Pharmaceutical Inc. Announces Notice of Allowance for Second DETERx Technology Patent
• Deep Down Granted Patent on Innovative Subsea Umbilical Technology
• Dow AgroSciences, Bayer CropScience Sign Global Cotton Technology Cross-Licensing Agreements
• Grifols Agrees to Acquire Intellectual Property for Treatment of Post-Polio Syndrome From Pharmalink AB
• Proxy Aviation Systems Receives Canadian Patent for Unmanned Vehicle Command, Control, Communication Apparatus
• Toxcure’s Neurotoxin Treatment for Cancer Gains U.S. Patent
• USPTO and SIPO Sign Memorandum of Understanding on Bilateral Cooperation
• USPTO Eliminates Patent Prosecution Highway Petition Fee
• USPTO Launches Page on Facebook

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

• Aerocrine Acquires All Assets of U.S. Competitor and Ends Litigation
• AirTight Receives U.S. Patent for Automated Wi-Fi Client Classification
• BIOLASE Announces Multiple Allegations in Recent Lawsuit Are Dropped
• BNA Books’ New 2010 Supplement to Patents and the Federal Circuit, Ninth Edition Examines Today’s Rapidly Changing Patent Laws
• Cellceutix Files Foreign Patent Application in PCT and Other Key Countries for Its Flagship Cancer Compound
• Convergys Receives Patent for Major Innovation in Scalability and Timing of Software Development
• European Patent Office Appeal Board Rules in Favor of Alnylam’s Kreutzer-Limmer Patent
• Knobbe Martens’ Zimmerman and Re Recognized Among the World’s Top 250 Life Sciences Patent Litigators for 2010
• Lorus Therapeutics Announces Patent Allowance for Lead Small Molecule Drugs
• Soligenix Announces Grant of US Patent for the Treatment of Irritable Bowel Syndrome with Oral Beclomethasone Dipropionate
• USPTO Grants athenahealth a Patent for its Automated Implementation System for Medical Practice Management Services

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

• ALM’s Law Journal Press Announces Publication of Intellectual Property in Business Transactions: Protecting the Competitive Advantage
• Cantor Colburn LLP Opens Houston Office
• Commil USA Wins $3.7 Million Patent Verdict Against Cisco Systems
• European Patent Office Upholds Molecular Devices Planar Patch Clamp Patent
• Federal Judge Orders Permanent Injunction in Fuel Filter Patent Infringement Case
• Former GE Oil & Gas IP Head and Disney IP Executive Join Chadbourne & Parke’s Expanding IP Group
• Iris Geik Appointed Copyright Clearance Center Associate General Counsel
• SAFE Corporation Announces CodeSuite 4.0
• TEOCO Announces Issuing Of XTrak Patent
• Teva Reaches Settlement Agreement With AstraZeneca Regarding Generic Entocort® EC Capsules
• The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Grants a Notice of Allowance to Cyalume Technologies, Inc. for Model 4 & 10 LightStations
• UnderSea Recovery Corporation Announces New Marine Detection Technology Patent

Monday, May 17, 2010

• USPTO Opens Application Exchange Program to All Applicants to Reduce Patent Backlog
• Acacia Subsidiary Enters into License Agreement with IBM
• AIPLA Opposes Granting USPTO Fee-Setting Authority Without Ending the Problem of Fee Diversion
• Anaqua Launches IP Management Software for Law Firms
• Augme Seeks to Add AOL, Inc. as Additional Defendant to Augme’s Pending Patent Infringement Case Against Tacoda, Inc.
• BioSante Pharmaceuticals Receives Two New Patents for Manufacture of Proteins, Including Antibodies
• Brooks Kushman Hires Smith as Associate as Litigation Practice Grows
• BSKB Announces Dates for 2010 Advanced Patent Seminar
• Copyright Alliance Announces Creators Across America Campaign and Information Resource
• Microsoft and VirnetX Settle Patent Infringement Cases
• United Sates Patent and Trademark Office Issues Foundational Internet Technology Patent to Audio Eye, Inc.
• United States Board of Patent Appeals Denies Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics’ Request for Rehearing on Enzo’s Pending Universal Interference Patent

Friday, May 14, 2010

• Acacia Subsidiary Resolves Dispute with Blue Sky Network, LLC
• International Sale by IpAuctions of Cutting-Edge IP for Pouchless Ostomy Management
• McAndrews, Held & Malloy Attorney Authors Amicus Brief for AIPLA In Major Design Patent Case
• Metso Settles IP Dispute in Australia
• MONKEYmedia Sues Apple for Patent Infringement
• Power3 Medical Announces Filing of Two Provisional Patent Applications with the USPTO
• W2 Energy’s Files US Patent for Non Thermal Plasma Reactor

Thursday, May 13, 2010

• Acacia Subsidiary Enters into Settlement Agreement with Quintum Technologies, LLC
• Humminbird Side Imaging Technology Granted Second Patent
• Patent Awarded to the Design of TechniScan’s Unique 3-D Breast Imaging System
• Shire Files Suit Against Actavis Elizabeth LLC and Actavis Inc.
• US Patent Office Approves WordLogic Patent -- Software Firm’s 3rd Patent Covers Computer and Mobile Multiple Database Searches

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

• Markman Hearing in CUBICIN Patent Litigation Rescheduled to June 9, 2010
• All American Pet Company Inc. Files for Patent Protection for Its Dog Nutritional Food Bars
• HistoRx Receives Key Patent on Application of AQUA Technology to Personalized Medicine
• HTC Sues Apple for Patent Infringement
• Jedi Mind, Inc. Prepares Patent on Thought-Controlled Application
• PositiveID Corporation Files Patent for its Implantable Glucose Sensor to Continuously Monitor Glucose Levels Over an Extended Period of Time
• SpectraScience Receives Notification of the Pending Issuance of Two Patents
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit Rules in Favor of Hearing Components
• U.S. District Court Judge Upholds Rulings against FICO, Denies Fair Isaac Motion for New Trial
• WiLAN Announces Release of Markman Order

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

• Attorney Matthew J. Cavanagh Joins the Cleveland Office of McDonald Hopkins Law Firm
• BSA Reports $51 Billion Worth of Software Theft in 2009
• Innovation First Sues Urban Trend for Infringing Intellectual Property on the HEXBUG Nano Toy
• Opexa Strengthens Tovaxin Patent Estate Through Issuance of Key Patents
• Personal Audio Settles with Coby Electronics and Archos in Patent Litigation
• Solta Medical and Alma Lasers Resolve Patent Lawsuits
• Tripp Scott’s Peter Herman and Alexander Brown Successfully Obtain $21 Million Verdict in Patent Infringement Case Against Home Depot Inc.
• U.S. Patent on Synchronization of Records During Application Execution Issued to TeleCommunication Systems, Inc.

Monday, May 10, 2010

• Banner & Witcoff Welcomes Nine Summer Associates
• Duane Morris’ New York Office Adds Intellectual Property Special Counsel Mitchell A. Frank
• Fish & Richardson Announces 1L Diversity Fellowship Recipients
• Iris BioTechnologies Inc. Awarded New Patents
• LexisNexis Adds Full-Text Patent Records from BRIC Countries to its TotalPatent Global Database Research Service
• Merck Settles Patent Infringement Case for Zetia (ezetimibe)
• Rosetta Genomics Announces New Patent Allowance and Provides Intellectual Property Update

Sunday, May 09, 2010

• Reinhart’s Growth Continues: Patent Attorneys James G. Morrow and Robert A. Lawler Join Firm

Thursday, May 06, 2010

• Aspen Publishers Launches Aspen Patent Authority and Longacre Patent Bar Review
• Baker Donelson Adds Three Patent Attorneys to Intellectual Property Practice in Washington, D.C. Office
• FASB Defendant in Suit Alleging Antitrust Violations and Patent Misappropriation
• Intellipharmaceutics Announces Approval of Settlement Related to ADHD Drug Focalin XR
• Landmark US Patent Granted to Infonic Recognizes Solution for Handling Uncertainty in Accounting Information
• MMI-USA Announces New Patent Applications, Stricter Protections of Device Designs
• Pirate Website www.Htmlcomics.com Shut Down by Coordinated Efforts of Department of Justice, FBI, Katten and Consortium of Comic Publishers
• Skyline Solar Receives Accelerated Patent Approval Under Green Technology Pilot Program
• Syneron Prevails in Patent Litigation Case With Cardiofocus
• TechniScan Secures Patent on Imaging Method for Breakthrough 3-D Breast Ultrasound

Wednesday, May 05, 2010

• Special Feature -- The Second Circuit Finally Acknowledges the Impact of the Supreme Court’s eBay Decision on Preliminary Injunction Standards in Intellectual Property Cases
• NexMed Announces Patent Allowance for NexACT in Canada
• Seasoned ITC Litigator Joins WilmerHale’s IP Litigation Team
• Todd Braverman Joins Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer as Partner and U.S. Trademark Prosecution Chief
• ViaCyte, Inc., Receives Three Additional U.S. Patents, Supporting its Development of a Stem Cell Derived Treatment for Diabetes
• Watson Confirms EVISTA Patent Challenge
• Watson Confirms SIMCOR Patent Challenge
• Williams Mullen’s Intellectual Property Law Section Grows with Addition of Two Partners

Tuesday, May 04, 2010

• CambridgeIP Acquires Boliven.com, a World Leading Information Portal for R&D, Patent and Business Development Professionals
• Marine Polymer Technologies, Inc. Awarded $29.4 Million in Patent Infringement Law Suit
• Newegg Obtains Successful Outcome in Patent Infringement Lawsuit
• Nixon Peabody IP Partner Named President-Elect of IP Law Association
• Palatin Technologies, Inc. Issued U.S. Patent and Receives Patent Allowance on Seven Additional Patents
• Power3 Principals Patent Stem Cell Breakthrough Identifying Protein Biomarkers Which Scientists Expect to be the Gold Standard for Future Stem Cell Therapy
• Vicor Technologies Receives Allowance of United States Patent Application Related to Its State Dependent Drug Development Platform

Monday, May 03, 2010

• Acacia Research Subsidiary, IP Innovation LLC, Receives Jury Verdict in Patent Infringement Case
• Alston & Bird Expands IP Litigation Practice in Los Angeles With the Addition of Two Partners
• Arlon Successfully Resolves Patent Infringement Litigation
• Dickstein Shapiro Expands Trademark Practice in New York
• Georgia Court Grants Intrasweep a Permanent Injunction Against IDC’s MMAX Product With Reciprocity
• Geron Comments on Decision by U.S. PTO on WARF Patent
• Hogan & Hartson and Lovells Merge to Form Hogan Lovells
• Medversant’s AutoVerifi (US Patent 7,529,682) Raises the Stakes in Provider Data Management
• Milestone Scientific Receives Notice of Allowance From US Patent and Trademark Office for Computer-Controlled Self-Administration Injection System
• New Wind Turbine Patent Issued
• Patent on Human Embryonic Stem Cells Rejected After Consumer Groups’ Appeal
• PureSense Environmental Enters Into License Agreement With InvestmentSignals Under Irrigation-Control Patents
• Red Hat Prevails in Federal District Court
• Simmons Firm Announces Settlement of Contingent Fee Antitrust Lawsuit
• Spectros Corp. Enters Into Optical Biotechnology Patent Sale Agreement With Philips Electronics N.V.

Friday, April 30, 2010

• DDB Technologies Files Suit Against the NBA for Patent Infringement
• HemCon Medical Technologies Fights Adverse Patent Decision
• ITC Awards Attorneys Fees in Unprecedented Decision -- Vedder Price IP Litigators Achieve Rare Win on Behalf of Client
• Leading Intellectual Property Litigator, Robert W. Unikel, Joins Kaye Scholer LLP
• Mannatech’s Ambrotose Product Patents Further Validated Against EvenBetterNow and Oasis
• McAndrews, Held & Malloy Secures Victory For Axiom Worldwide
• Repligen Reports Notice of Allowance of a United States Patent Covering the Use of Uridine to Treat the Symptoms of Bipolar Disorder
• SIIA Continues Anti-Piracy Campaign with New Kaplan Test Prep Piracy Lawsuits
• This Week on the Copyright Alliance Blog - Week of April 26, 2010
• USPTO to Hold Public Roundtables on Patent Quality and Patent Quality Metrics

Thursday, April 29, 2010

• Cook Vows to Protect Its Stent Valve Intellectual Property Portfolio
• Edwards Lifesciences Prevails in German Transcatheter Heart Valve Case
• Generex Receives New US Patent for Its Proprietary Buccal Drug Delivery Platform Technologies
• GreenShift Patent Application Accepted into Accelerated Green Technology Pilot Program
• Howrey Wins Ninth Circuit Reversal of Summary Judgment on Issue of Trademark Distinctiveness
• Patent Attorney Estelle J. Tsevdos Joins Ballard Spahr’s Intellectual Property Department
• T-Ray Science, Inc. Grants Technology License to Toptica Photonics, Inc.

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

• Acacia Subsidiary Enters into Settlement with Metaswitch Corporation
• Applied Spine Technologies Awarded New Patent
• European Patent Office -- Winners of the European Inventor Award 2010 Honoured in Madrid
• New Book Shows How to Get Inventions to Market After Filing a Patent
• TOA Technologies Awarded Patent for Dynamic Schedule Mediation
• U.S. Patent on Deployable, Secure Communication System Issued to TeleCommunication Systems, Inc.
• USPTO Expands Trademark Law School Clinic Certification Pilot Program

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

• Special Feature -- U.S. Supreme Court to Consider First-Sale Doctrine
• Air Products Advances Cryogenic Grinding Capabilities Through Licensing Agreement for Fine Grinding System
• Cyclone Power Technologies’ Receives Fourth U.S. Patent for its Green Engine
• EDSA Awarded Patent for Industry’s Only Real-Time Intelligent Alarm Filtering Solution
• IP Expert From White House Office of the U.S. Trade Representative Joins Hughes Hubbard’s International Trade Practice in D.C.
• Netezza Receives Patent for Mantra Appliance Policy Management Framework
• New Patent Blog From Kluwer Law International Features Informative, Timely Discussion by Leading European Experts
• Ohr Pharmaceutical Awarded Japanese Patent
• The Ruby Association Joins Open Invention Network as a Licensee
• Tomophase Receives Seventh Patent: Delivering Light via Optical Waveguide and Multiview Optical Probe Head

Monday, April 26, 2010

• BOWE BELL + HOWELL Awarded Patent for Disaster Recovery Solutions
• CPA Global launches Patent Renewal Monetization Program
• Cryptography Research and Actel Announce License Agreement Enhancing Security of Actel FPGAs by Protecting Against Side-Channel Attacks
• ECBC Issued U.S. Patent for Improved Sorbent to Be Used in Chemical Decontamination
• HTC Sued by Klausner Technologies for Visual Voicemail Patent Infringement
• Leading Attorney Cautions that IP Contracts Overlook Bankruptcy Issues
• O2Micro Issued Patent for Vehicle Emissions Analysis System
• Online Resources Granted Biller-Direct Electronic Payments Patent
• Patent Infringement Suit Filed Against Yahoo! Inc. by DDB Technologies
• Patriot Scientific Corporation Files Complaint Against The TPL Group
• Purdue Research Foundation Names New Assistant Vice President for Technology Transfer
• The 2nd ipShootOut Showcases the World’s Top IP Asset Management Software Products, June 16, 2010 in San Francisco, CA
• Watson Says Appeals Court Affirms Concerta Patent Invalid

Friday, April 23, 2010

• Atlanta Lawyers Launch New Intellectual Property Law Firm
• GreenShift Provides Litigation Update; Infringement Not Denied by Cardinal and ICM
• Marcel Fashions, GET LUCKY Win Trademark Infringement Verdict, Including Punitive Damages, Against Liz Claiborne, Lucky Brand
• St. Clair Reaches Settlement with Pantech in Patent Litigation
• This Week on the Copyright Alliance Blog - Week of April 19, 2010

Thursday, April 22, 2010

• Amira Pharmaceuticals Announces Patent Grant in United Kingdom
• Augme Technologies, Inc., Formerly Modavox, Inc., Files Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence & Evasive Disclosure Practices in Patent Infringement Case against Tacoda (Acquired by AOL Inc.)
• Foley Hoag Launches Trademark & Copyright Law Blog
• GreenShift Corn Oil Extraction Patent Term Extended to 2028
• Intezyne Receives Intent-to-Grant Notice from the European Patent Office
• IP Leaders Gather in Boston May 19-21 for LES (USA & Canada) Spring Meeting Focused on Deals & Commercializing Early Stage Technologies
• OriginOil Files International Patent for Single-Step Extraction System
• The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Grants a Notice of Allowance to Cyalume Technologies, Inc. for IMPACT Lightsticks
• UNESCO’s Copyright Day -- CISAC has Released 3 Short Films on Authors’ Rights on CISACTV

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

• Acacia Subsidiary Enters into Settlement and License Agreement with Netgear, Inc.
• Bionovo Announces Patent Issuance for Bezielle (BZL101) for Metastatic Breast Cancer
• Cybex Confirms Actions to Defend Intellectual Property
• Department of Commerce Sends Letter to Congress Expressing Administration’s Views on Pending Patent Reform Legislation
• Fallon Luminous Products Wins Legal Victory As U.S. Court of Appeals Reverses Verdict In Patent Infringement Case
• Kramer Levin Team Fends Off Vendor’s Second Motion to Dismiss Client Sirius XM’s Indemnity Claim
• Leading PC Companies Lift RPX Membership - Dell & Acer Join the RPX Defensive Patent Aggregation Service
• Quantum Immunologics Announces Landmark Patent Filings
• Scott D. Wofsy Named Chair of Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge IP Group
• Stay Lifted on Patent Infringement Complaint by Tillotson Corporation Against Top Glove Sdn Bhd and TG Medical Sdn Bhd
• Surfware Receives 2nd Patent on TRUEMills Engagement Milling Technology
• Townsend Expands Seattle Office with Two New Attorneys
• WiLAN and TELUS Settle Lawsuit

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

• CardinalCommerce Corporation Reports Patent Grant by the United States Patent and Trademark Office
• ITC Administrative Law Judge Renders Initial Determination That Microsemi’s CCFL Products Involved Do Not Infringe Patent Claims
• Novamont: Validity of Our Patents Acknowledged
• O2Micro Receives Ruling in ITC Case
• OIN Extends the Linux Ecosystem as NHN Corporation, Korea’s Premier Internet Company, Becomes Licensee
• Pattishall Firm Protects Johnny Carson in Life and Death
• Sixth U.S. Patent Issued to Jumptap in Eleven Months
• System Planning Corporation Awarded Multiple Patents for its GlobalTrak Container Security System
• Think Tek, Inc. - Think Globally - Changing the World One Invention at a Time
• U.S. Department of Commerce Issues Report on Role of Patent Reform in Supporting Innovation and Job Creation
• United States Patent Issued for CorMedix’s Neutrolin to Prevent Catheter Related Bloodstream Infections (CRBI) and Clotting in Hemodialysis Catheters
• US Trade Rep. Ronald Kirk, and Chairman John Conyers to Speak at World Intellectual Property Day on April 26

Monday, April 19, 2010

• Acacia Subsidiary Enters into Settlement and License Agreement with Service Management Systems, Inc.
• Banner & Witcoff Announces Diversity Scholarship Winners
• BT Group Subsidiary Ribbit Corp. Settles Patent Litigation with Klausner Technologies
• Global Health Ventures to Expand Patent Portfolio
• Local Technology Leaders Meet To Discuss Challenges With Software Licensing Contracts
• MDRNA, Inc. Announces Patent Allowance Covering siRNA and Delivery Systems With Therapeutic Potential in Multiple Inflammatory Diseases
• National Laboratory Prevails in IP Trial Involving Fusion Technology
• St. Louis-Based U.S. Ring Wins Post-Trial Motions in Patent Infringement Case Involving Ring Binder Mechanism
• Ulmer & Berne Continues Aggressive Chicago Expansion With Addition of Michael Switzer As Chair of Medical Device Practice
• US Patent Covering Amplification Consumables Granted to Enigma Diagnostics Limited

Friday, April 16, 2010

• Acacia Subsidiary Enters into Settlement Agreement Regarding Credit Card Fraud Protection Technology with Retail Ventures
• Covington Named ITC Litigation Firm of the Year
• Dow AgroSciences, Iowa State University Enter into Research Agreement Using EXZACT Precision Technology in Algae
• Federal Circuit Rules Patent Applications Must Have Separate Written Description
• Fitzpatrick, Cella, Harper & Scinto Honored as Firm of the Year in Life Science/Biotech and Pharmaceutical IP Litigation
• Haynes and Boone Patent Lawyer Shortlisted for European Inventor of the Year Award
• NaturalNano has Second Patent in the Energy Sector Issued
• PLC Systems Receives Notices of Allowance on RenalGuard Patents
• Sunlight Research Releases Its Comprehensive Stem Cell Industry Patent Report
• This Week on the Copyright Alliance Blog - Week of April 12, 2010
• UMUC’s Center for Intellectual Property Welcomes Thought Leaders to 2010 Symposium on Sustaining Culture in Copyright
• USPTO and the Korean Intellectual Property Office to Expand Work Sharing Within Existing Bilateral Patent Prosecution Highway Agreement

Thursday, April 15, 2010

• Acacia Subsidiary Enters into Settlement Agreement with Media5 Corporation and Mediatrix Telecom, Inc.
• Additional Documents Unsealed in Federal Copyright Infringement Case Against YouTube and Google
• ChromoCure Signs LOI With Genome Research Group to Merge and Acquire All IP Assets in Transaction Valued Over $25,000,000
• EPO Rules European Patent for XP13512 Is Valid
• Greg Gardella Joins Irell & Manella’s IP Practice from Fish & Richardson
• Kelley Drye Wins Over $30 Million Judgment For Advanced Duplication Services in Theft of Trade Secret Case In Minnesota State Court
• M2 Technologies Becomes Invention Machine Goldfire Provider
• Par Pharmaceutical Wins on Invalidity in Zegerid Patent Litigation
• Power-One, Inc. Announces Its Digital Power Technology Patent License Agreement With Emerson, Artesyn Technologies, Inc., and Astec America Inc. and Dismissal of Legal Proceedings

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

• Banner & Witcoff Handles Acquisition and Intellectual Property Work for Client atebits
• BIOLASE Awarded New Laser Diode Patent
• Diversinet Awarded Patents for Mobile Application Downloads and Security
• Interventional Spine, Inc. Announces Issuance of Key Patents
• OrbusNeich Granted Patent for Stent with Helical Elements - Patent Infringement Case Against Boston Scientific Expanded
• Patent Calls Investigation Concludes 19 Tech Companies Including Dell and Intel Are Not Infringing Wi-LAN Bluetooth Patent
• Permabit Continues Deduplication Momentum With the Award of Three New Patents
• Phyre Technologies Receives GOBIGGS Patent
• POZEN Enters into Settlement Agreement With Teva Regarding Paragraph IV Patent Litigation
• Rader, Fishman & Grauer Announce the Election of Linda Kennedy and Linda Monge as Partners
• TeleCommunication Systems, Inc. Issued U.S. Patent on Remote Access to Intelligent Communication Network Status

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

• Alkane Files for Patent on New Synthetic Fuel
• CASMED Announces Grant of Patent in Japan for FORE-SIGHT Technology
• Cycle Country Accessories Corp. Announces US Patent Office Issues Patent for Cycle Country X-Force All-Poly Blade
• DDB Technologies Files Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against ESPN
• Federal Circuit Court Vindicates Nintendo in Patent Lawsuit
• GT Software’s Ivory Service Architect Awarded U.S. Patent, Acknowledging Innovation in Web Service Technology
• Patent Resources Group Announces Unique Panel Discussion on Reforming or Abolishing the U.S. Patent System
• Penwest and Endo Enter Into Agreement With Barr to Settle Patent Litigation Over Opana ER
• Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner Ranked Second in 2010 Law Firm Patent Scorecard
• Ulteo Joins Open Invention Network
• XOMA Issued Two New U.S. Patents for Methods of Treating Type 2 Diabetes and Inflammatory Diseases Using Interleukin-1 Beta Antibodies

Monday, April 12, 2010

• Advanced Voice Recognition Systems, Inc. Retains Michael McCabe of Oblon Spivak McClelland, Maier, & Neustadt, LLP of Alexandria, VA
• Article One Partners Strengthens Global Automaker Patent Claims
• Carroll, Burdick & McDonough LLP Adds Prominent IP Litigator Robert MacFarlane
• EIF NTE Hybrid Renewable Energy Subsidiary Files for Patent for Biomass Hybrid Renewable Energy Technology
• Jeffer Mangels Adds Two Attorneys in Orange County Including Patent Litigation Partner Gregory Cordrey
• Lando & Anastasi, LLP Names New Partner
• MDRNA, Inc. Announces Patent Allowance Covering Intranasal Formulations for Y2-Receptor Agonists
• Sheppard Mullin and Kelley Drye Win Unfair Competition Case for Perrigo
• SPI Group and Roust Group Announce Settlement of Disputes
• TruePosition Announces Another Significant Litigation Win over Andrew, LLC

Friday, April 09, 2010

• Acacia Subsidiary Enters into Settlement and License Agreement with eMaint Enterprises
• Autodesk and Open Design Alliance Reach Agreement for Autodesk DWG Trademarks
• BASF Protects Fipronil Intellectual Property Rights and Innovation Investments
• ChemImage Issued 100th Patent
• Research In Motion to Acquire QNX Software Unit from Harman International
• This Week on the Copyright Alliance Blog - Week of April 5, 2010

Thursday, April 08, 2010

• Acacia Subsidiary Enters into Settlement and License Agreement with DPSI
• BIOLASE Responds to Patent Action
• Haynes and Boone Adds David Fleischer to New York Litigation Practice
• MPEG LA Launches Initiative to Make Gene Patents Available for Diagnostic Testing
• WiLAN Initiates Patent Litigation

Wednesday, April 07, 2010

• Aerocrine Provides Update on Its Legal Action Against Apieron
• Alnylam Announces Grant of New United States Patent Broadly Covering RNAi Therapeutics
• AuraSource, Inc. Announces the Filing of Four Patent Applications for Its AuraCoal Technology
• Battery Protection Patent Granted to O2Micro
• Discus Dental and Zap Lasers File Lawsuit Against BIOLASE
• Fish & Richardson Names 13 New Principals to Litigation, Patent, and Trademark & Copyright Groups
• Fractus and Motorola Sign a Global Patent Licensing Deal Relating to Antenna Technology
• Husch Blackwell Sanders Adds Two Partners to Chicago Office
• Otonomy Announces Patent Grant in United Kingdom
• Pernod Ricard USA Intends to Appeal the Ruling About Bacardi’s Puerto Rican Rum Havana Club
• U.S. Patent Office Approves Virtual Radiologic’s Patent Application

Tuesday, April 06, 2010

• Boyle Fredrickson Announces Three New Shareholders; Names Senior Associate
• Card Activation Technologies, Inc. Files Suit Against 10 Major Retail Companies for Violation of Patent
• Cryptography Research Announces License Agreement With Toshiba Corporation for Differential Power Analysis Countermeasure Patents
• Fox Rothschild Strengthens Intellectual Property Practice With Addition of Two Attorneys From Darby & Darby To Its West Palm Beach Office
• Hiscock & Barclay Announces Restructuring of Intellectual Property Practice Areas and Enhanced Leadership Team
• Kylin Therapeutics Announces New Patent Surrounding pRNAi Technology
• LensAR Announces Issuance of Foundational Patent in Laser Treatment of the Natural Crystalline Lens
• Litigation Shareholder Donald Myers Returns to Buchanan
• Nabi Biopharmaceuticals Prevails in Opposition to Drug Abuse Therapy Patent
• Open Invention Network Extends the Linux Ecosystem as Ooma Becomes Licensee
• SRU Biosystems Announces Notice of Allowance on Fundamental Patent Application for Cellular Assays using Optical Label-free Biosensors
• Taro Receives Patent for T2007, the Company’s Second Proprietary Non-Sedating Barbiturate Drug
• Tessenderlo Kerley, Inc. Receives Two Additional Patents For Magnesium Thiosulfate and Calcium Thiosulfate
• USPTO Launches Ombudsman Pilot Program

Monday, April 05, 2010

• Acacia Subsidiary Enters into Settlement Agreement with Sonus Networks, Inc.
• Despite Patent Challenges, Emerging Markets Offer Pharma Growth Opportunities
• Dot Hill Adds Six New Patents to Technology Portfolio
• EMG Technology Accuses Apple’s New iPad of Patent Infringement
• Fingerhut Joins Dykema’s Intellectual Property Group
• Genesis Electronics to Investigate Patent Infringements
• Merchant & Gould Opens New York Office, Further Expands in Seattle, Washington D.C.
• MOSAID Enters Into Wireless Patent License Agreement With Sharp
• Par Pharmaceutical Enters Into Agreement With sanofi-aventis to Settle Patent Litigation Over Generic Eloxatin
• Perrigo and Partner Cobrek Announce Settlement of Luxiq Patent Litigation
• Real Paper Displays, Inc.’s Subsidiary Applies for Another U.S. Patent to Protect Company’s Core Technology
• TYZX Expands Portfolio With Two New Patents on High Performance Stereo Vision Systems
• Wood, Herron & Evans Broadens the Scope of Its Intellectual Property Law Practice with Major Expansion

Friday, April 02, 2010

• Banner & Witcoff Adds Renowned IP Litigator to Growing Litigation Practice - IP Litigator V. Bryan Medlock, Jr. Joins the Firm
• Federal Jury Finds Medtronic CoreValve Willfully Infringes Edwards’ Transcatheter Valve Patent
• Medtronic to Appeal Jury Verdict in U.S. Patent Case Involving CoreValve Transcatheter Aortic Valve System
• TASER International Wins Patent Infringement Summary Judgment Against Stinger Systems, Inc.
• USPTO Proposes Change That Would Effectively Allow a 12-Month Extension to the Provisional Patent Application Period

Thursday, April 01, 2010

• Acacia Subsidiary Enters into Settlement Agreement Regarding Credit Card Fraud Protection Technology with Shoe Carnival
• AMD Renews Patent License Agreement with Rambus
• American College of Medical Genetics Lauds Federal Court Ruling of Gene Patents as Invalid
• Duane Morris’ Boston Office Adds Intellectual Property Partner Mark A. Fischer
• Father of GPS and Pioneer of Satellite Telemetry and Timing Inducted into National Inventors Hall of Fame
• Fresenius Kabi Enters Into Licensing and Settlement Agreements with sanofi-aventis
• Hospira Announces Agreement on Oxaliplatin Patent Challenge
• HP Reaches Settlement with Print-Rite
• Idaho Technology Exclusive Licensee of Patent Covering Majority of Real-Time PCR Instruments on Market
• Intellectual Property Law Firm Greenberg & Lieberman Prevails in Trademark, Trade Secret and Cybersquatting Dispute
• IP Partner Russ Hill Joins Sheppard Mullin in Orange County
• Nano Engineered Applications, Inc. Acquires Exclusive License to Patent Pending Technology From University of California, Riverside
• Saint-Gobain Wins Enhanced Damages of $10.9 Million and Attorney Fees Against Xinyi
• Teva Receives Favorable Court Decision Regarding Seasonique
• Teva Settles Generic Eloxatin Litigation
• Thompson Hine Adds Two Intellectual Property Partners
• U.S. District Court Rules on Validity of Lilly’s Gemzar Patent
• Wiley Rein Intellectual Property Group Expands with Arrival of Litigator Anthony H. Son

Wednesday, March 31, 2010

• Acacia Subsidiary Enters into Settlement Agreement Regarding Credit Card Fraud Protection Technology with PUMA
• BIO Statement on Initial Decision in Myriad Genetics Lawsuit
• Collegium Pharmaceutical Receives Notice of Allowance for US Patent Covering Novel Once-a-Day Formulation of Milnacipran
• EnXnet, Inc. Receives Patent for The ThinDisc Technology
• Federal Circuit Court of Appeals Affirms Power-One’s Capstone Patent for Digital Power Technology
• ISA and ANSI Release New Action Guide to Help Business Leaders Mitigate the Risk and Damage of Cyber Attacks
• Luxottica Renews Exclusive Anne Klein New York Global Eyewear License Agreement For Additional Three Years
• Michael Tompkins Joins Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox
• National Inventors Hall of Fame Announces 2010 Inductees
• Patents Awarded to Metabolon for Metabolomics Methods
• Peerless Network Praises the Court’s Unconditional Denial of Neutral Tandem’s Preliminary Injunction Request
• Propex Awarded US Patent for Secondary Carpet Backing Material Construction
• Silicon Image Reorganizes to Bring Increased Focus to Its Products and Intellectual Property Businesses
• TeleCommunication Systems, Inc. Issued U.S. Patent on Re-Directing Requests From Browsers for Communications Over Non-IP Based Networks

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

• Special Feature -- Myriad Genetics, the USPTO and the Patenting of Genes
• Amkor Announces Initial Determination in ITC Patent Infringement Case Against Carsem
• Avago Technologies Files Optical Sensor IP Lawsuit Against STMicroelectronics
• BioNanomatrix Announces Issuance of Key Nanochannel Array Patent for High Throughput Macromolecular Analysis
• CryoLife Files for Preliminary Injunction Against Medafor
• Federal District Court Rules Isolated DNA Claims are Not Patentable
• Hana Biosciences Receives Notice of Allowance for Menadione Patent for the Prevention and Treatment of EGFR Inhibitor Cancer Therapy-Associated Rash
• InfoZen Awarded Multiple Year $22M Contract from U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
• Klemchuk Kubasta LLP Adds Intellectual Property Muscle
• Patent Reform, Google Books Settlement, Biosimilars and Net Neutrality Among Key Topics at 25th Annual ABA Intellectual Property Law Conference
• Power-Save Energy Company Announces Patent Pending Status for Green Billboard Design
• Realization Awarded Patent for Concerto, Its Project Execution Management System
• Sectra Granted Patent for High-Performance PACS Technology
• Townsend Elects New Chair and Management Team
• Vystar Corporation Files Provisional Patent Application For Recently Discovered Benefits of Vytex NRL

Monday, March 29, 2010

• Aliaswire Receives Notice of Allowance for a Fundamental U.S. Mobile P2P Payment Patent
• DDB Technologies and MLB Advanced Media Reach Patent Portfolio Agreement
• Enzo Biochem Says Favorable Patent Appeals Court Decision Will Allow Pursuit of Claim for Substantial Damages
• Haynes and Boone Nabs Veteran IP Litigator Kenneth G. Parker
• MDRNA, Inc. Announces Patent Allowance Covering Methods for Cell Specific Delivery of siRNAs
• Medtronic and AGA Medical Settle Patent Dispute
• Monitorforhire.com Awarded Patent for Clinical Trial Monitor Matching Service
• MPEG LA Lawsuit Against Alcatel Lucent Settled
• Peerless Network Applauds US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Ordering Re-Examination of Neutral Tandem’s Patent 7,123,708
• Quinn Emanuel Continues to Expand Life Sciences and Medical Device Practices with Addition of Patent Trial Lawyer Sandra Bresnick
• Rimini Street Sues Oracle
• Titleist Wins Decision in Pro V1 Patent Dispute with Callaway

Friday, March 26, 2010

• Administrative Law Judge Rules in Favor of Knowles on the Issue of Patent Infringement by Analog Devices, Inc.
• ARCA biopharma Announces Patent Issued for Treating Heart Failure Patients with Bucindolol Based on Genetic Testing
• ePlus Awarded Patent for Network Collaboration
• Leading International Trade Attorney Joins Brinks in D.C. Office
• Limelight Networks, Twister Investments, and Allied Software Trust Announce Agreements
• McAndrews, Held & Malloy Attorney Offers Proposal To Streamline Inter Partes Reexamination Proceedings
• The Medicines Company Files Follow Up PTO Lawsuit
• Vertical Computer Systems, Inc. Receives Notice of Allowance from USPTO in Connection With Its Application for Continuation Patent of Patent No. 6,826,744

Thursday, March 25, 2010

• ActivIdentity and Intercede Settle Patent Infringement Cases
• Copyright Community Applauds Administration’s Strategic IP Planning Process
• Declaratory Relief Complaint for Patent Infringement Under Patent Based on Manufacture, Marketing and Sale of Arzerra
• Forensic Accounting Expert James Pampinella Joins Navigant Consulting’s Disputes & Investigations Practice
• Greatbatch Introducer Patent Infringement Verdict Vacated -- Federal Circuit Review Concludes Trial Court Erred
• InterDigital Signs Enfora to Worldwide 2G and 3G Patent License Agreement
• Pisgah Labs Receives Notice of Patent Allowance
• Thomas Whitelaw Obtains Complete Dismissal in Patent Infringement Lawsuit
• W2 Energy Files US Patent for SteamRay Steam Engine

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

• 8x8 Awarded Virtual Telephone Extension Patent by U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
• Acacia Subsidiary Enters Into Settlement Agreement Regarding Credit Card Fraud Protection Technology With Interbond Corporation of America
• Document Security Systems’ European Patent Validated in Kingdom of Spain by Spanish Commercial (Mercantile) Court in Madrid
• FutureLogic, Inc. Granted Patent for Dual-Port Promotional Gaming Printer
• GTX Corp and Aetrex Worldwide, Inc. Sign Licensing Agreement to Deliver Patented GPS Shoes Worldwide
• IDT Receives Favorable Ruling in Patent Action Versus LSI Logic
• Inventor Seeks Licensee for Gulf Stream Turbine Patents
• IPextreme Constellations Conference - Silicon Valley 2010
• MDRNA, Inc. Acquires Bridged Nucleic Acid (BNA) Patents to Broaden Its RNAi-Drug Discovery Platform
• Melvin Garner, a Leader in the IP Bar, Joins Leason Ellis as Partner From Darby & Darby
• Streaming Media Settlement Patent Granted to Single Touch Interactive
• Techulon, Inc. Secures Exclusive Rights for New Transfection Reagent
• The American Association for Justice Wins Right to Protect Trademark
• Widevine and Verimatrix Reach Settlement to End Patent Dispute on Selective Encryption Technology

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

• Special Feature -- Ariad Pharmaceuticals v. Eli Lilly (2008-1248 (March 22, 2010) - The en banc Federal Circuit Affirms its Obsession with Possession
• Advanced Voice Recognition Systems, Inc. Retains Oblon Spivak to Represent It in the Interference with Allvoice
• AMRI Files Motion for Preliminary Injunction Prohibiting Dr. Reddy’s from Distributing Generic Allegra-D® 24
• Arbitron and Digimarc Enter Into a Collaborative Licensing Arrangement
• ARIAD Announces Court Ruling Regarding NF-KB Patent Lawsuit with Lilly
• Can-Fite and the NIH Have Applied for a Patent to Treat Uveitis – a Sight-Threatening Disease
• Celladon Corporation Receives Notice of Allowance by U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for Broad Patent Covering Lead Drug Candidate MYDICAR
• ClariPhy Granted US Patents Enabling Standards-Based Testing of Networking Components
• Copyright Clearance Center’s Rightslink Implemented by The Perseus Books Group
• Covidien Prevails in Patent Litigation against Applied Medical
• ICI Submits Patent Application for an Affordable Housing and Temporary Shelter Construction System Utilizing Structure Lite Panels
• Ikonisys Awarded Patent for the Process for Identifying FISH Signals
• International Trade Commission Judge Finds 25 Additional Patent Violations of Linear Technology’s Burst Mode Invention by Advanced Analogic Technologies
• Life Sciences Attorney Thomas Duley Joins DLA Piper
• Merchant & Gould Succeeds in Establishing Copyrightable Subject Matter within Software Used for Controlling Surface Mining Machines
• Pluristem Therapeutics Granted European Union Patent for PluriX Three-Dimensional (3D) Bioreactor System
• PositiveID Corporation Files Patent with the United States Patent and Trademark Office for its iGlucose System
• Qteros and UMass Amherst Announce the Issuance of a U.S. Patent for Production of Ethanol From a Unique Microorganism, the Q Microbe
• Seesmart LED Receives Intellectual Property License for LED Fluorescent Tube Replacements in Partnering Deal With ilumisys
• Skinvisible Granted Patent in South Korea
• StarCite Awarded U.S. Patent for Attendee Management and Enterprise Event Marketing Platform
• TurboHercules SAS Files Formal Complaint against IBM with the European Commission for Violations of EU Antitrust Law
• Uroplasty Announces Issuance of New Patent for Urgent PC System Single-Use Lead Set
• US District Court Returns Binding Verdict of Invalidity of Two Claims of Covidien Patent Covering Trocar Seal Technology

Monday, March 22, 2010

• Acorda Therapeutics Announces Filing of Patent Extension Applications for AMPYRA (dalfampridine)
• BioMedical Technology Solutions Holdings, Inc. Receives New South African Patent on Its Demolizer Technology
• Cognex and Fuji Resolve Vision Software Patent Dispute
• EnWave Granted New Patent for Radiant Energy Vacuum Dehydration Technology
• Licensing Executives Society, (USA & Canada) Celebrates World IP Day on April 26th With a Series of Local Events Uniting Business Professionals Across the Globe
• Verayo Secures Worldwide Exclusive License to Patented PUF Technology from MIT

Friday, March 19, 2010

• Applied Minerals, Inc. Receives Patent License From the Department of the Navy
• Chicago Intellectual Property Alliance Attorneys and Law Students Participate for the Seventh Year in Science Fair
• Eight McAndrews, Held & Malloy Attorneys Honored As Intellectual Property Law Leaders
• False or Expired Patent Numbers on Products Can Cause $500-Per-Article Fines
• Lucid Patent, LLC to Host False Marking Webinar
• This Week on The Copyright Alliance Blog - Week of March 15, 2010

Thursday, March 18, 2010

• Acacia Subsidiary (Network Gateway Solutions) Enters into Settlement Agreement with Siemens Enterprise Communications, Inc.
• Former DuPont Employee Sentenced to 18 Months in U.S. Federal Prison for Theft of Trade Secrets
• HP Resolves Ink Cartridge Patent Infringement Complaint
• Inventors’ Bill of Rights Unveiled at AUTM Conference
• Moffitt Cancer Center Signs Licensing Agreement with Proteacel, LLC
• New Website Will Help Consumers Identify and Report Counterfeit Goods
• Partner Leaves King & Spalding To Form Boutique Intellectual Property Firm
• U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Grants Reissue Patent on Picoplatin Composition of Matter
• VirnetX Files New Complaint Against Microsoft - Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Named
• W2 Energy Files US Patent for Algae System

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

• Document Security Systems, Inc. Awarded New European and Canadian Digital Prism Technology Patents
• ImmunoCellular Therapeutics Receives Allowance of a New Patent on its Antibodies Targeting Pancreatic Cancer
• Live Streaming Patent Awarded to ICOP
• Mannatech Vigorously Defends Ambrotose Product Patents With Latest Legal Action Against Multiple Companies
• McKool Smith Announces $105.75 Million Verdict for VirnetX in Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against Microsoft
• Quick-Med Technologies Receives Notice of Allowance for Additional NIMBUS Patent
• Regulus Announces U.S. Allowance of Stanford Patent Application Covering miR-181a Function in Immune Cells
• StemCells, Inc. Granted Broad Patent for Pluripotent Rat Stem Cells and Genetically Engineered Rats
• The Medicines Company Announces Decision in PTO and FDA Litigation

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

• Aldi Nord, Aldi Süd and Lidl Sued for MPEG-2 Patent Infringement
• Brinks Attorney Explains New USPTO Pilot Program Aimed to Accelerate Patenting of Green Technologies
• Director of the USPTO, David Kappos, to Speak at New York Law School on the Future of the Patent Office
• Epeius Biotechnologies Receives Notice of Patent Allowance for Tumor-Targeted Cancer Vaccines
• Health Insurance Provider Pays $61,500 to Settle Claims of Unlicensed Software Use
• I.D. Systems Awarded Patents for Access Control and Luggage Handling
• Island Intellectual Property Awarded Two U.S. Patents for Innovative FDIC Sweep Products
• MorphoSys Granted Further Patent on its Core Antibody Technology in Japan
• Shire Receives INTUNIV Paragraph IV Notice Letter From Teva Pharmaceuticals
• SmartMetric Files Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against Visa and MasterCard in US Federal Court
• U.S. Patent Office Grants Ecosphere Technologies Green Tech Patents to Treat Natural Gas Industry Frac Waters

Monday, March 15, 2010

• Advanced Voice Recognition Systems, Inc. Announces Declaration of Interference by the United States Patent and Trademark Office
• BMSV Buys Intellectual Property Assets of gTrade
• Cantor Colburn Attorney Charles O’Brien Appointed to the Board of the Connecticut Invention Convention
• Impax Laboratories Confirms Patent Challenge Relating to TRILIPIX Delayed-Release Capsules, 135 mg and 45 mg
• ITC Rules in Favor of Avago Technologies in Parallel Fiber Optics Case
• Leading Pharmaceutical Group Joins Fish & Richardson
• New Energy Bolsters Patent Portfolio for Technologies Capable of Generating Electricity from the Motion of Vehicles

Thursday, March 11, 2010

• Bone Biologics Announces a Major US Patent Issuance For Its Recombinant Protein Process For the Formation of Cartilage
• GroupCast d/b/a SchoolReach Dismissed from TechRadium Patent Suit
• Mercury Cable & Energy Receives Notice of Allowance of HVCRC Patent from USPTO
• Protecting Trademarks: Wolf Greenfield’s Martin Gives Five Key Steps in Women’s Business Boston
• Seattle Genetics Expands Antibody-Drug Conjugate Patent Portfolio

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

• Excentus Files Patent Infringement Lawsuit against Kroger After Months of Negotiations Fail to Reach Long-Term Agreement
• Faegre & Benson Successfully Defends Jury Verdict for Seagate in Patent Appeal
• Fifth U.S. Patent Issued to Jumptap in Nine Months
• InterDigital Signs Casio Hitachi Mobile Communications to Worldwide 2G and 3G Patent License Agreement
• Smith & Nephew Announces Next Steps in Patent Infringement Litigation
• Total Nutraceutical Solutions Acquires Ergothioneine Transporter License from the University of Cologne, Germany
• USPTO and UKIPO Announce Action Plan to Reduce Global Patent Backlogs
• Watson Announces Actos Patent Challenge Settlement
• Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Expands Life Sciences Practice

Tuesday, March 09, 2010

• e.Digital Announces License and Settlement Agreement With Roland
• EcoPlus Announces Issuance of Second U.S. Patent
• Intellectual Property Attorney Michael J. Leonard Joins Philadelphia IP Boutique Law Firm Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel LLP as Partner
• IntelliNet Technologies Awarded Key Mobile Data Offload Patent
• Legal Advantage, LLC Names New Vice President of Business Development
• Montavo Files U.S. and International Patent Applications for Confirmed Sales Revenue in Brick & Mortar Stores Attributable to Mobile Phone Ads
• Pierce Atwood LLP Announces Major Expansion of its Intellectual Property & Technology Practice in Boston
• RPost Sues Swiss Post for Patent and Trademark Infringement

Monday, March 08, 2010

• Composite Technology Receives USPTO Notice of Intent to Issue Reexamination Certificate for US Patent 7,211,319
• Court Issues Permanent Injunction Enjoining OMI from Infringing a Retractable Technologies, Inc. Syringe Patent
• Fish & Richardson Adds Nine New Associates to Intellectual Property Litigation Group
• iCAD Granted U.S. Patent on CAD Lesion Metrics That Enhance Clinical Information for Image Analysis Solutions
• Kount Submits New Patent to Increase Protection of Device Fingerprinting and Proxy Piercing Technologies
• Lantiq Sues Network Equipment Manufacturer Billion Electric
• Precision BioSciences Announces that the US Patent Office Issues Second Actions Rejecting Previously Granted Claims to Cellectis’ Core Technology
• Rexahn Pharmaceuticals Issued Japanese Patent for Anti-cancer Compound Archexin

Friday, March 05, 2010

• AIPLA Support Senate Patent Bill
• California Court of Appeal Affirms Crusader’s Victory Over Author Clive Cussler in High-Profile Sahara Case
• Irell & Manella Secures Another Victory for TiVo, as Federal Circuit Affirms Finding of Contempt Against EchoStar
• Patent Issued for Humanetics’ BIO 300 Radiation Countermeasure Drug
• Sandata Technologies and Infocrossing Settle Patent Infringement Suit
• Streambank Announces Bid Deadline and Auction Date for American IronHorse Motorcycles Intellectual Property Assets
• This Week on The Copyright Alliance Blog - Week of March 1, 2010

Thursday, March 04, 2010

• Eastern District of Texas Invalidates Patent Asserted Against Finnegan Client FedEx Corporation
• Island Intellectual Property Awarded Additional Patents for FDIC Cash Sweep Technology
• Jeffer Mangels Butler & Marmaro Adds High Profile Entertainment Lawyer
• Kyto Biopharma Inc. Announces Licensing Agreement With The Research Foundation of the State University of New York (RFSUNY)
• Schlage Stands behind Its Products and Statements and is Ready to Vigorously Defend Its Rights
• TiVo Statement on Decision by U.S. Court of Appeals in Lawsuit Against EchoStar
• USPTO Grants Advaxis New Listeria Based Fusion Protein Patent

Wednesday, March 03, 2010

• Acacia Subsidiary Enters into Settlement and License Agreement with Ledil Oy
• BSKB Announces Dates for 2010 Summer Patent Seminar
• Corporate Counsel’s Sixth Annual IP Counsel Forum to Feature Speakers from Cisco, eBay, Google, Motorola, Sony
• Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman Filed the Most U.S. Trademark Oppositions in 2009
• CT Corsearch Answers Heightened Industry Demand for U.K. Trademark Clearance and Protection Services
• Cyclone Power Technologies Receives Third U.S. Patent for its Green Engine
• Intangible Asset Finance Society Hosting Innovation: Hot Policy & Practice Issues
• Oblon, Spivak Obtains the Most U.S. Utility Patents for 19th Year
• Ramtron Granted Fundamental Ferroelectric Ram Patent
• VUCCC P/L Announces Lodgement in Germany of Patent for Treatment of Type I Diabetes

Tuesday, March 02, 2010

• Acuo Technologies Announces Patent Granted for Asset Communication Format Within a Computer Network
• ALDA Receives Australian Patent for T36® Disinfectant
• Alnylam Provides Update on Ongoing Patent Litigation Regarding the Tuschl I Patent Series
• Amedica Receives Patent on Ceramic-on-Ceramic Bearings
• Apple Sues HTC for Patent Infringement
• Biomoda Awarded Patent Securing Assay Formulation and Use
• Brent Routman of Merchant & Gould Named Acting Treasurer of Minnesota State Bar Association
• Court Issues Preliminary Injunction In Favor Of Weight Watchers Against Curves
• Faegre & Benson Reveals Secrets to Winning Trade Secrets Cases
• Fairchild Semiconductor Files Patent Lawsuit Against Power Integrations in China
• ImmunoCellular Therapeutics Receives Notice of Allowance for a New Patent for its Antibody
• Instacare Corp. Files Patent Application for its MD@Hand Cell Phone Centric Technologies
• Irell & Manella Secures Complete Victory for Novellus Systems after Eight-Year Battle
• ITT Corporation Reaches Patent Settlement Agreement with Nokia
• Kwikset Corporation Sues Competitor for False Advertising and Patent Infringement
• Merrion Pharmaceuticals is Issued a Key United States Patent
• Micro Power Awarded New Patent for Battery Charger Technology
• RevMed Bolsters Patent Security With Engagement of Leading IP Law Firm
• Rovi Announces Expanded Data and Patent License Agreement With Comcast
• Teva Announces Favorable Court Ruling in Generic Hyzaar and Cozaar Litigation

Monday, March 01, 2010

• BioSante Pharmaceuticals Receives Two New Patents for Manufacture of Proteins, Including Antibodies
• BNA Books’ New 2009 Cumulative Supplement to Trademark Dilution: Federal, State, and International Law Gives Clear Guidance on the Elusive Laws Governing Trademark Dilution Protection
• Composite Technology Receives US Patent Office Notice of Intent to Issue Reexamination Certificate for US Patent 7,368,162
• e.Digital Announces Royalty Bearing License and Settlement Agreement With Ikegami
• Enzo Biochem Announces Favorable Judgment by U.S. Patent Office in an Interference against Bayer HealthCare for a Universal Diagnostic Detection System
• Intellectual Property Training Programs are used to drive an Innovative culture - According to ipPerformance Group Survey
• Kaye Scholer Opens New Silicon Valley Office Led By William Sloan Coats
• Leading Coalition of Innovative Companies Supports Senate Patent Bill
• Omnyx Licenses Olympus Digital Pathology Patents
• Patent Owners Find Protection in Landmark Case Argued Before ITC By Pepper Hamilton
• Renowned Silicon Valley Lawyer Curtis Mo Joins DLA Piper
• Seyfarth Shaw Grows Intellectual Property Practice Group With Addition of Richard P. Gilly in the Washington, D.C. Office

Friday, February 26, 2010

• AIPLA’s Women in IP Committee Hosts 23 Simultaneous Cross-Country Networking Dinners
• BNA Books’ New 2009 Cumulative Supplement to Intellectual Property, Software, and Information Licensing: Law and Practice Covers Licensing Law in Every IP Context
• CompX Announces Favorable International Trade Commission Ruling
• Greenberg Traurig Expands its Houston Office With the Addition of Intellectual Property Litigator Dwayne L. Mason
• PIJIP Launches Project to Shed Light on Secretive Intellectual Property Agreement
• This Week on The Copyright Alliance Blog - Week of February 22, 2010
• Universal Security Instruments, Inc. Announces Settlement
• Vanda Pharmaceuticals Announces U.S. Patent Allowance for a Long-Acting Injectable Formulation of Fanapt (iloperidone) in the U.S.

Thursday, February 25, 2010

• Aspera Awarded Patent on Data Transfer Technology
• Bonaire Software Solutions, LLC Issued a Patent for Revenue and Expense Realignment System and Method
• Microsoft Enters Intellectual Property Licensing Agreement With Panasonic
• National Arbitration Forum’s Domain Name Dispute Resolution Program Goes Paperless
• New York Man Pleads Guilty to Criminal Copyright Infringement for Selling Pirated Computer Software Using the Internet
• NewCardio Receives Notice of Allowance for Vital Patent for Cardio3KG
• PaperPro Files Patent Suit Against Acco/Swingline
• RASIRC Granted Patent for Specialty Seal in Ultrapure Environment
• Sun Chemical Finds Right Formula With First To File

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

• Acacia Subsidiary Enters into Settlement Agreement Regarding Credit Card Fraud Protection Technology with Old Comp Inc.
• BSKB Files Appeal to Federal Circuit on USPTO Decision Limiting Patent Reissue Rights
• Caliper Life Sciences and Stanford University File a Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against Carestream Health, Inc.
• Harbor BioSciences to Receive Patent for Apoptone Cancer Treatment
• QR Pharma Receives US Patent 7,625,942 to Treat Down Syndrome
• STRONG and Rovi Sign IPG Patent License Agreement
• Transgenomic Licenses IP From IntegraGen to Develop Genetic Test for Autism
• U.S. Federal Court Rules to Protect Malibu Trade Dress
• VeriTainer Receives Its 5th Patent From US Patent Office

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

• Genocea Biosciences Licenses Extensive Herpes Simplex Virus Patent Estate from the University of Washington
• GTX Corp Awarded Broad U.S. Patents for its Innovative and Potentially Life Saving GPS Shoe Technology
• Immunomedics Awarded Patents for Antibody for PEGylation and Pretargeting Constructs
• Island Intellectual Property Awarded Additional Patents for Innovative FDIC Sweep Technology
• New Jersey Man Pleads Guilty to Unauthorized Recording of Newly Released Motion Pictures In Movie Theater
• Report Emphasizes Connection Between Property Rights and Economic Well-Being
• RPost and Goodmail Settle Patent Suit, Announce Joint Service

Monday, February 22, 2010

• Agilent Technologies Wins HPLC Columns Trade Secrets Case Against Advanced Materials Technology, Inc.
• Buchanan Snags International Trademark Shareholder Bruce McDonald and Adds Associate Jennifer D’Angelo to its IP Practice
• Health Enhancement Products, Inc. Proceeds With Patent Filings for Newly Isolated and Previously Undiscovered Compounds Regulating Cholesterol Metabolism
• Heatwave Interactive Makes Strategic Acquisition of Highly Anticipated Gods & Heroes IP and Core Online Game Technology
• ICOP Digital, Inc. and L-3 Communications Mobile-Vision, Inc. Resolve Patent Litigation
• Intellectual Property Litigation Partner Joins Latham & Watkins in Washington, DC
• ITC Remands Investigation to Administrative Law Judge in Amkor Patent Case against Carsem
• Lineage Power Announces Digital Power Technology Patent License Agreement with Power-One
• Network-1 Receives Markman Order in Patent Litigation Against Major Data Networking Equipment Manufacturers
• Obecure Is Granted Methods and Composition Patents Covering Adjunctive Use of Betahistine to Mitigate Weight Gain Associated With Olanzapine
• Quintic Corp. Rejects Patent Infringement Claims as Baseless
• RADVISION Awarded Patent for Video Conferencing via Instant Messaging
• Semafore Pharmaceuticals Announces Issuance of Key U.S. Patent Covering Composition of Matter for Novel PI3K/mTOR Pathway Inhibitor
• TechRadium Adds a New Patent Licensee and Reaches Settlement Agreement with Saf-T-Net
• Varian Medical Systems Awarded a Patent for Improving X-Ray Shielding

Friday, February 19, 2010

• Ethicon Endo-Surgery Announces Agreement with Hologic Inc. To Resolve Patent Disputes
• Free Webinar: What? Google Has Already Patented That Online Advertising Technology?
• Hologic Announces Settlement In Patent Infringement Suits
• Leica Camera Purchases MMP Portfolio License, According to Patriot Scientific Corporation
• LES (USA & Canada) IP100 Executive Forum Attracts 100 IP Leaders to Discuss Strategies for Advancing IP in Tough Economic Times
• MShift Sues Digital Insight to Enforce Fundamental Patent Related to Delivery of Data Via the Mobile Internet
• Protus Successful in Defeating More Patents of j2 Global Communications
• Rollashoe LLC Sues for Trademark Infringement of Its Trend-Setting Footzyrolls Shoes
• This Week on The Copyright Alliance Blog - Week of February 15, 2010
• WebTech Wireless Learns of Alleged Patent Infringement Claim

Thursday, February 18, 2010

• Altitude Capital Partners Sells Saxon Innovations
• Attorneys For Consumer Watchdog In Court to Argue Against Google Books Deal
• Document Security Systems, Inc. Initiates Patent Infringement Proceedings before the District Court in The Hague, The Netherlands
• Health Discovery Corporation Selected as Best & Brightest Small Cap Company by MDB Capital Group and Expands Patent Portfolio
• Intezyne Announces Issuance of Seven Patents Covering Its IVECT Method
• MetaPower International, Inc. Issued Second Australian Patent for UCoDA Business Process Management Technology
• Positron Recieves US Patent on Tech-Assist
• Recently Announced Changes to USPTO’s Examiner Count System Go Into Effect
• SPO Medical Granted Innovative Baby Monitoring Patent
• Through Alliance, Intellectual Property Investigation Firms Provide Enhanced Global Supply Chain Security
• Tytan International, Inc. Purchases Patent to Reduce Emissions in Tractor Diesel Engines
• U.S. Copyright Industries Identify Trading Partners With Serious Intellectual Property Rights Deficiencies
• Valensa Granted Licenses for BiovaFlex Water-Soluble Egg Shell Membrane Ingredient

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

• Amsted Secures 10-Year Exclusion Order and 10-Year Cease and Desist Orders Against Tianrui, Tianrui Foundry, SCT and Barber
• Barnes & Thornburg LLP Expands Minneapolis Office With Addition of Felicia Boyd
• Bellacure, Inc. R&D Team Receives Patent for Knee Pain Treatment Device
• Immunomedics Awarded Patent for Antibody Therapy
• Intellectual Property Expert Dr. Kara Gorski Joins Edgeworth Economics
• McAndrews, Held & Malloy Announces Five New Board Members, Four New Partners
• O2Micro Issued Patent for Voltage Reference Circuit
• Patent Information Affecting Seven Litigations Uncovered by Article One Partners
• SIIA Announces Content Piracy Case Settlement

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

• CalciMedica Announces Issuance of US Patent No. 7,645,588, a Composition Patent Involving STIM1, a Key Component of the CRAC Channel
• Duane Morris’ San Francisco Office Adds Intellectual Property Partner Guy W. Chambers and Special Counsel Siegfried J.W. Ruppert, Ph.D.
• EKR Therapeutics Receives Two Additional Patents for Ready-to-Use Cardene® I.V. Bags, Providing Substantial Intellectual Property Protection Through 2027
• Eurand Issued U.S. Patent for ZENPEP (pancrelipase) Delayed-Release Capsules
• GeneNews Announces Issuance of Second Foundational U.S. Patent for Core Sentinel Principle Technology
• GreenShift Subsidiary Sues Big River Resources for Patent Infringement
• Innovalight Awarded Key Patent by U.S. Patent & Trademark Office for Solar Cells Manufactured With Silicon Ink
• Intellectual Property Lawyer John D. Titus Joins Dickinson Wright PLLC
• Kashless, Inc. Acquires Extensive Group Purchasing Patents from Vulcan Capital
• Notice of Allowance Issued for Third GreenShift Corn Oil Extraction Patent
• Planet Payment Awarded U.S. Patent 7,660,768 for Time-of-Transaction Foreign Currency Conversion
• Stradley Ronon Adds Intellectual Property Associate
• Sunbelt Software Joins RPX Defensive Patent Aggregation
• U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas Finds Arthrex Guilty of Infringing Smith & Nephew Endoscopy Patent
• Unidesk Files Desktop Virtualization Patent on CacheCloud Image Delivery Technology
• WiSpry Obtains Key Patent for MEMS Variable Capacitors and Actuation Components

Monday, February 15, 2010

• Four Ulmer & Berne Attorneys Appointed to Intellectual Property Owners Association Committees
• Lifetime Products Files Patent Infringement Complaint Against Three Chinese Companies
• Mindspeed Licenses Intellectual Property Cores for Next-Generation Radio Network Interfaces from Radiocomp
• Novak Druce + Quigg LLP Adds Trademark Partner Katherine M. Basile
• Teva Announces Agreement on Famvir Patent Challenge
• U.S. International Trade Commission Enters Final Decision in Favor of LG Electronics in Whirlpool Refrigerator Patent Case

Friday, February 12, 2010

• Avago Technologies Reasserts its Strong IP Position in Optical Finger Navigation
• German Appeals Court Upholds MPEG-2 Infringement Verdicts Against DVD Video Disc Replicator Digital Press Hellas
• Integral Announces License on ElectriPlast Wire Application
• Perrigo Granted Summary Judgment of Non-Infringement in Mucinex Case
• This Week on the Copyright Alliance Blog - Week of February 8, 2010
• USPTO Grants Formatech Novel Drug Formulation Patent

Thursday, February 11, 2010

• Ablynx Wins Patent Oppostion Case Against Domantis/GlaxoSmithKline
• CardinalCommerce Corporation Reports Patent Grant by the United States Patent and Trademark Office
• ePostal Patent Issued
• German Appeals Court Says CoreValve Devices From Medtronic Do Not Infringe Edwards Lifesciences’ Andersen Patent
• Glowpoint Awarded Patent for Usage-based Billing of IP-based Video Calls
• Glycotex, Inc. Expands Patent Portfolio in Advanced Wound Healing Indications
• J. Nelson Landry Appointed to the Copyright Board of Canada
• LVM / eBay - The Paris District Court Rules Against eBay
• Netlist Expands Its Patent Infringement Suit Against Inphi
• Newswire Files Patent on Performance Based Public Relations
• Protea Biosciences Awarded U.S. Patent for Novel Protein Separation Method
• Sisvel Gains Momentum for Creating the LTE/SAE Patent Pool with Expansive Group of Patent Holders
• Successful Patent Defense by EuroMed Helps Reaffirm Proprietary Value

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

• 8x8 Video Communications Patent Reissued by U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
• Amerigon Comments on W.E.T. Automotive AG Lawsuit
• Athersys Receives U.S. Patent Covering Adult Stem Cell Composition & Production
• AVANIR Pharmaceuticals Announces Issuance of New U.S. Zenvia Patent
• FuseTalk Inc. Licenses Strategic Internet Patent Portfolio
• General Patent Corporation Secures Tenth Licensee for Renhcol’s Web-Based Prediction Marketplace Patent
• Health Enhancement Products Retains Intellectual Property Law Experts Kohn & Associates pllc
• Jumptap Issued Fourth U.S. Patent in Eight Months
• Schweitzer-Mauduit Announces Patent Infringement Action
• Seaside Therapeutics Announces Issuance of Key Patent for Treatment of Autism Spectrum Disorders
• YM BioSciences Granted Two US Patents for AeroLEF

Tuesday, February 09, 2010

• 5 Point Products by Dr. Mauch are Being Illegally Copied - Holder of Rights Declares War on Falsifiers Worldwide
• Acacia Subsidiary Enters into Settlement Agreements Regarding Credit Card Fraud Protection Technology with Diesel USA and Gymboree Retail Stores
• CollegeNET Settles Admissions Application Patent Litigation for More Than $15 Million
• CounterPath Patent Granted for Fixed-Mobile Convergence
• Cynosure Announces Successful Settlement in Patent Lawsuit Against CoolTouch, Inc.
• European Union Approves Patent on Cyclone Power Technologies’ Green Engine
• ICAP Ocean Tomo to Auction Social Networking and Electronic Medical Records Technology at Upcoming Live Auction Event March 25th in San Francisco
• PriceDoc.com Receives U.S. Patent for Online Healthcare Bidding
• Sequenom Licenses Worldwide Rights to Develop Age-Related Macular Degeneration Diagnostic Test
• TecSec Files Patent Infringement Suit Against IBM, SAP, SUN, eBay, Adobe, Cisco, Oracle, and Others
• Tillotson Corporation Announces Assignment of European Patent No. 0456333

Monday, February 08, 2010

• Alnylam Receives Notice of Allowance from United States Patent and Trademark Office for New Patent Broadly Covering RNAi Therapeutics
• Business Titan Patrick W. Gross Joins Article One Partners Board of Directors
• Christie, Parker & Hale Obtains an Important Patent for Smart Cars
• Delaware Court Orders Dismissal of Analog Devices’ Claims Against Knowles Electronics
• Lancope Granted Fourth U.S. Patent for Innovations in NetFlow-Based Network Performance and Security Monitoring
• Mark Radcliffe to Join the Board of UTEK Corporation
• NexBio Granted United States Patent Covering DAS181 (Fludase) and its Use for Prevention and Treatment of Influenza and Parainfluenza
• Ocean Tomo Introduces First and Only Platform for Matching Patents to Products
• Patent Related to Live Event Recordings Offered for Sale at ICAP Ocean Tomo’s Live Auction on March 25th in San Francisco
• QIAGEN Acquires Exclusive License for Key PI3K Gene
• Silence Therapeutics Receives Notice of Allowance for RNA Interference (RNAi) Patent Covering Novel Cancer Target
• W.E.T. Automotive Systems AG Files Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against Amerigon
• What’s New in Patent Law? Come Hear it Straight From Leading U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Litigator, Raymond Chen, Visiting Santa Clara University Feb. 9th
• WiLAN and TELUS Sign Letter of Intent to Settle Lawsuit

Friday, February 05, 2010

• BIO Joins Stakeholders in Expressing Concerns with Efforts to Restrict Gene Patenting
• BNA Books’ New 2009 Cumulative Supplement to Electronic and Software Patents: Law and Practice, Second Edition Keeps Pace with Rapidly Evolving Changes
• Merchant & Gould Names Greg Leibold Chair of Technology Transactions Group
• Novel Patent Targets the Most Common Sleep Complaint: Chronic Insomnia
• Phoenix Technologies Files Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against DeviceVM
• RemoteMDx and STOP Announce Settlement of GPS Offender Tracking Patent Litigation
• St. Louis-Based U.S. Ring Receives Jury Award in Patent Infringement Case
• This Week on the Copyright Alliance Blog - Week of February 1, 2010
• Volcano Corporation Announces Litigation Status

Thursday, February 04, 2010

• Acacia Subsidiary Enters into Settlement Agreement with Zhone Technologies, Inc.
• CGGVeritas Announces Sercel to Request Court Overturn Jury Verdict in Patent Infringement Lawsuit
• Eastman Wins Patent Infringement Case Filed by Wellman Inc.
• Fate Therapeutics Receives Allowance of First U.S. Patent for Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Technology
• High School Student Job Shadows Cantor Colburn Patent Attorney Anne Davis Barry
• LTE Patent Owners Meet to Discuss Plan for Patent Pool
• Medicity Awarded U.S. Patent for Its Revolutionary Agent Grid Technology
• Mylan Confirms First-to-File Patent Challenge Relating to Caduet
• Protectus Medical Devices Adds to Its Intellectual Property (IP) Portfolio by Filing Patent for Its Living Hinge
• The Children’s Internet, Inc. Announces the Filing of Three Separate Provisional Patent Applications
• UPEK Comments on AuthenTec’s Meritless Legal Claims
• Waterfall Receives US Patent Approval on its SCADA Industrial Network Security Technology
• ZAGGbuds Patent Issued

Wednesday, February 03, 2010

• Acacia Research Subsidiary Receives Final Judgment of $12.4 Million in Patent Infringement Case Against Yahoo! Inc.
• AIPLA Members Among Those Named to the IP Hall of Fame
• AuthenTec Files Claims Against UPEK for Patent Infringement and Theft of Trade Secrets
• Banner & Witcoff Announces Elected Shareholders and New Associates
• Blue Coat Systems, Inc. Purchases MMP Portfolio License, According to Patriot Scientific Corporation
• Caterpillar Inc. Purchases MMP Portfolio License, According to Patriot Scientific Corporation
• Comprehensive Patent Awarded for Customized Pattern Generation
• Cyberlux Corporation Files Patents for Exclusive Products Contracted by New OEM Customers
• David Wolfsohn is Named Chair of Litigation Group at Woodcock Washburn
• DirectMail.com Announces Patent on GeoSelector Technology
• HealthSport, Inc. Announces Issuance of Mexican Patent
• Hydro Alternative Energy, Inc. Announces Acquisition Of Water Power Technology Patent Rights
• Intangible Asset Finance Society Hosting Monetizing IP Creatively One-Hour Telephone Panel Discussion on Friday, February 5th
• New IEEE Standard Enables Creation and Exchange of IP in Automated Design Environments
• Repligen Receives Notice of Allowance for Recombinant Protein A Patent
• Rosetta Genomics Announces Issuance of Three U.S. Patents
• Top Austin Intellectual Property Attorneys Join DiNovo Price Ellwanger & Hardy
• Vermillion Pays Health Discovery Corporation Final Patent Infringement Settlement Payment

Tuesday, February 02, 2010

• Akin Gump Expands Intellectual Property Litigation Practice With Accomplished Trial Lawyers
• Black Duck Software Awarded Patent for Core Technology That Automatically Resolves Software License Obligations and Conflicts
• Black Sand Announces Acquisition of CMOS PA Intellectual Property
• Celsis Initiates Patent Infringement Action Against XenoTech and Sekisui
• Christensen O’Connor Johnson Kindness Expands IP Litigation Capabilities
• Court Cases to Stop Use of INVISTA ADN Technology Proceed Against Rhodia, Partners
• Cytheris Announces Notice of Allowance for U.S. Patent Covering the Preparation and Uses of Its Glycosylated Recombinant Human Interleukin-7 (CYT107)
• Entelos Granted Patent for Innovative Diagnostic Capability in Obesity, Diabetes
• Fluxion Biosciences Will Vigorously Defend Against Patent Infringement Claim Filed by Cellectricon
• General Patent Licenses DTL’s Cellular Communications Patent to Pantech
• GenSpera Receives Patent on Second Anti-Cancer Drug, G-115
• Laura N. Gasaway and Tarja Koskinen-Olsson Join Copyright Clearance Center Board of Directors
• Micronics Receives Second Patent on Rapid Thermocycling Methodology for Molecular Diagnostics
• NanoBio Awarded Key Patent Covering Vaccine and Anti-Infective Product Platforms
• NetWitness Receives U.S. Patent for Network Analysis

Monday, February 01, 2010

• 2010 National Inventors Hall of Fame Inductees to be Announced at National Press Club
• BioMimetic Therapeutics, Inc. Patent Portfolio Further Strengthened
• Boston Scientific Settles Longstanding Patent Disputes With J&J
• Cellectricon Files Patent Infringement Suit Against Fluxion Biosciences
• Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman Elects New Shareholder - Sujata Chaudhri
• Depomed Announces Allowance of U.S. Patent Covering Gastric Retentive Gabapentin Dosage Forms
• EPIC and Freescale Enter Into Agreements to Settle Pending Litigation
• Global Intellectual Property Leader Marshall Phelps Joins Article One Partners Board
• ION Wins $25 Million Patent Infringement Jury Verdict Against Sercel
• MOSAID Signs Wireless Patent License Agreement With Sony
• Under Secretary of Commerce David Kappos Announces President Obama’s FY 2011 Budget Request for the USPTO
• WABCO Announces Munich Court Has Ruled That Knorr Infringes Competition Law in Germany

Friday, January 29, 2010

• Acacia Subsidiary Acquires Rights to Patents for Information Portal Software Technology
• Biotech Company Ansaris Selects Surety for Integrity and Authenticity Protection of Its Lab Informatics Data
• Heliodyne Announces Sublicense Agreement with Alanod-Solar, Inc.
• IpAuctions to Market Predicant Biosciences and BioSpect Patents and Certain Perlegen Patents
• McDonald Hopkins Law Firm Continues to Expand: Intellectual Property Attorney, Joseph J. Jacobi, Joins the Chicago Office as a Member
• MeetingWave Gains New Location-Based Networking Patent Allowance
• MobileMedia Ideas LLC Licenses Its Patent Portfolio Inventions
• No Future for Non-copyrighted Content
• Passing the Bar: #1 Board Game for Law Students
• Rosetta Genomics Fortifies Patent Position with U.S. Allowance of Claims Covering Human microRNAs miR-21 and hcmv-miR-UL112
• This Week on The Copyright Blog - Week of January 25th, 2010
• UT-Battelle Licenses Tissue-regeneration Technologies to NellOne Therapeutics; Advances ORNL Spin-out on Commercialization Path

Thursday, January 28, 2010

• Austar and Rovi Sign IPG Patent License Agreement
• Captivate Network and Office Media Network Settle Litigation
• Centrro Issued a Patent for Loan Matching Using Consumer Credit Data
• Cleveland BioLabs Granted European Patent for Radiation Protection Drug CBLB502
• Court Issues Order Construing Disputed Terms in Neutral Tandem Patent Infringement Case
• First iPierian Patent for Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Technology Granted by United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office
• Gilead Sciences Announces Notification of ANDA Filing for Viread
• LogRhythm Granted Comprehensive US Patent for Integrated Log and Event Management Platform
• Netlist Announces Settlement of Patent Infringement Lawsuits With MetaRAM
• Peerless Network Files for Re-Examination of Neutral Tandem’s Patent 7,123,708
• Sly Stone Sues Former Manager Jerry Goldstein for Damages of $50 Million for Converting or Misappropriating Royalties
• USPTO Announces Interim Procedure for Patentees to Request Patent Term Adjustment Recalculation
• VisEn Acquires Key Fluorescence Agent Intellectual Property Portfolio and Technology Platforms From Bayer Schering Pharma

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

• Special Feature -- The EU Sends Infringers Where They Belong – To Customs Detention
• AFLAC Purchases a License under the Ronald A. Katz Technology Licensing, L.P. Patents
• Applied Biosystems and Idaho Technology, Inc. Enter Broad Patent Cross-Licensing Agreement
• BSKB’s Nicholas Godici to Address IP Reform and Potential Effects on San Diego Technology Sector
• Cenestra Health Issued Key Omega-3 Formulations Patent
• ChromoCure to Secure Patents on Proprietary Chromosomal Cancer Detection Technology as Foundation in Preparation for Cancer Therapy and Cure Research
• Excentus Corporation and Safeway Inc. Settle Lawsuit and Enter Into Patent Licensing Agreement
• Gary Kitchen Departs McKool Smith to Launch National Patent Dispute Mediation Practice
• ICAP Ocean Tomo to Sell Intellectual Property Licensing Limited’s Patent Portfolio of Digital Radiation Imaging Technology
• IP Litigator M. Patricia Thayer Joins Sidley’s San Francisco Office
• Johnson Outdoors Files Suit in Federal Court Against Maker of Lowrance
• Leading Insurance Providers Purchase Licenses under the Katz Portfolio of Patents Which Cover Customer Service Operations
• MiMTiD Launches Copyright Infringement Search Web Application
• Ropes & Gray Gains Appellate Victory in Patent Dispute on Behalf of Becton Dickinson & Nova Biomedical
• Shinco Electronics Enters Into MPEG LA’s MPEG-2 License
• SIIA Announces Major Anti-Piracy Win in Kaplan vs. Chou

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

• Allied Security Trust Announces Availability of Major Patent Portfolio
• Avistar Communications Monetizes Its Patent Portfolio and Closes Transaction with Intellectual Ventures Management, LLC
• Cytori Issued U.S. Patent for Cell-Enriched Fat Grafting; New Patent Protects Key Cytori Market
• Daniel J. Schwartz Joins Seyfarth Shaw’s Intellectual Property Practice Group in the Chicago Office
• Fish & Richardson Cited for Two of the Top Ten Intellectual Property Cases of 2009
• Johnson Outdoors Announces Patent Approved for Innovative Humminbird Side Imaging Fishfinder Technology
• Lawyers from Hiscock and Barclay Take Part in NYSBA Annual Meeting
• MDRNA, Inc. Issued Patent for the Use of Nucleic Acids to Treat Cancer
• NetMotion Wireless Awarded Eleventh Patent for Mobile VPN Technology
• Neurologix Gains Broadened U.S. Patent Protection for Its GAD-Based Gene Delivery System
• Samsung and University of Illinois Enter into IP License Agreement
• Silicon Laboratories Asserts Intellectual Property Rights
• Trademarkia Announces International Filing Feature
• U.S. District Court Rules Against Merck in TEMODAR (temozolomide) Patent Lawsuit
• ZIOPHARM Receives Important Palifosfamide U.S. Patent Allowance
• Zumba Fitness, LLC Settles Trademark Infringement Suit Over Unauthorized Zumbamania Music

Monday, January 25, 2010

• American Induction Technologies Responds to Allegations Asserted Against It by Osram Sylvania, Inc.
• John Hintz Joins Chadbourne & Parke’s IP Group
• Regulus, Alnylam and Isis Announce U.S. Allowance of Tuschl III Patent Application Covering miR-21
• Report on New Patent Litigation Trends and the Increasing Impact of Nonpracticing Entities Released by PricewaterhouseCoopers
• Widevine Issued Milestone 60th Patent

Friday, January 22, 2010

• Special Feature -- A Faster Track to a Greener Future: The USPTO’s New Pilot Program
• Special Feature -- What the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences (BPAI) Can Learn from the NFL
• Acacia Subsidiary Enters into Settlement and License Agreement with Microsoft
• Advaxis Issued New Patent
• Barnes & Thornburg LLP Client Martin Engineering Wins Second Victory in Patent Dispute with CCC Group
• Infineon Files Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against Volterra Semiconductor
• Inoventions Announces Patents for Two New Products in the Office and School Supply Category
• International Trade Commission Initial Determination Finds Rambus Patents Invalid
• IP Counsel Café, in Partnership with ACC, Presents Future of IP and Entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley and Beyond
• Morrison & Foerster Secures Victory for Courage Campaign in Trademark Infringement Lawsuit Filed by Prop. 8 Advocacy Group
• Motorola Files Complaint with International Trade Commission Against Research In Motion
• Nixon Peabody Expands Silicon Valley Office
• SIIA Gives Highest Ever Anti-Piracy Rewards to Corporate Whistleblowers in 2009
• This Week on the Copyright Blog - Week of January 18th, 2010

Thursday, January 21, 2010

• Applied Materials and Advanced Micro-Fabrication Equipment, Inc. Settle Litigation and Resolve All Outstanding Disputes
• Brooks Kushman’s William Abbatt to be Keynote Speaker at Entrepreneurial Initiative of Southeastern Michigan Event
• Hutchison Law Group Adds Trademark Attorney
• ICAP Ocean Tomo Engaged to Sell Patent Portfolio of Wafer-Level Semiconductor Packaging Owned by Hymite A/S
• IntelGenx Receives Notice of Allowance for Bupropion Patent
• JuryBank Launches Industry’s Fastest & Least Expensive Online Legal Research Service
• MDRNA, Inc. Announces Allowance of European Patent Covering Formulations for Rapid Acting Insulin
• Nomadix Broadens Patent Enforcement, Files Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against SolutionInc Technologies Ltd.
• SENSIO Announces Allowance of New Patent Application From the USPTO Relating to Quincunx Format Decoding
• Sr. Trademark Attorney, John L. Beard Moves From Minneapolis’ Faegre & Benson to Join Rader, Fishman & Grauer in Washington, DC as Partner
• WiLAN Canadian Litigation Update

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

• Banner & Witcoff Leads the Way in Design Patent Procurement for the Seventh Year in a Row, Procuring Design Patents for the World’s Most Innovative and Design-Driven Companies
• BIO Ventures for Global Health Chosen as Administrator of Intellectual Property Pool Involving GSK and Alnylam as Participants
• DispersinB Patent Issues In Australia
• Economics of Patent Litigation: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks - Seminar, Feb. 11
• inovia Launches Foreign Patent Filing Blog
• Medizone International Announces Greatly Enhanced AsepticSure Patent Protection
• Microsoft Enters Into Patent Cross-Licensing Agreement With Funai
• New Patent Announced by Axial Vector Is the Missing Link Breakthrough for Hybrid Electric Cars
• Outdoor Channel Takes Steps To Protect Its Trademarks
• TiVo Releases Statement on Recent Microsoft Legal Action
• Unidym Completes Licensing Agreements to Expand Use of its Carbon Nanotube IP in Diverse Array of Applications

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

• ByAllAccounts Awarded Patent for Financial Portfolio Management Technology
• Document Security Systems, Inc. Announces Expanded Technology Licensing Agreement with R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company
• Edwards Lifesciences’ Transcatheter Valve Patent Found Valid in German Court
• Federal Court Finds DuPont is Not Licensed to Use Monsanto’s Roundup Ready Trait in Combination With the DuPont Optimum GAT Trait
• From Idea to Nationwide Movement – IP Advocate Amplifies Voice of Academic Inventors in Banner First Year
• Licensing Executives Society (USA & Canada) Celebrates 45 Years of Leadership Serving Members and Promoting the Business of Intellectual Property
• Modavox Provides Update Regarding Initial Response by Yahoo! Inc. to Previously Filed Patent Infringement Lawsuit
• Morris, Manning & Martin Client Dr. Yung Yeung Awarded New Patent
• Netlist Granted Two Additional Patents Related to New Hypercloud Technology
• Patent Issued for Revolutionary Automated Litter Box, LitterLoo
• Power-One, Inc. Announces Digital Power Technology Patent License Agreement with Major Communication Technology Vendor
• Rexahn Pharmaceuticals Granted European Patent for Anti-Cancer Compound RX-3117
• Samsung and Rambus Sign Comprehensive Agreement
• SATA and 3M Settle Patent Infringement Suit Regarding Paint Cup System
• Sybase Continues to Assert Vertica’s Infringement of Sybase Patents
• Tax & Accounting Issued a Patent for Tax Provision System in Financial Reporting
• UBM TechInsights Merger Creates Leader in Technical Analysis and Intellectual Property Management
• USPTO to Hold Public Roundtable on Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences Ex Parte Appeals Rules
• WiLAN Initiates Fraud and V-Chip Patent Litigation Against LG

Monday, January 18, 2010

• DuPont to Proceed with License, Antitrust, Patent Fraud Claims Against Monsanto
• Mark Stallion Contributes to Developing a Patent Strategy
• MOSAID and Samsung Reach Comprehensive Patent License Agreement
• NetLogic Microsystems Receives 400th Issued U.S. Patent
• RavenBrick’s Intelligent Window Filter Receives Patent Approval
• SuperSpeed LLC Patents Re-emerge from Reexamination

Friday, January 15, 2010

• Alnylam’s Kreutzer-Limmer I Patent Upheld in German Opposition Proceedings
• Baker Hostetler Expands Cincinnati Office
• Commerce Secretary Locke Names New Members to Patent and Trademark Public Advisory Committees
• Covidien Files Patent Infringement Lawsuit over Ethicon’s Ultrasonic Surgical Devices
• Howrey Forms False Patent Marking Task Force
• Impax Laboratories Confirms Patent Challenge Relating to WELCHOL 625 mg Tablets
• Jan. 22 UC Irvine Law Conference: Bend or Break—Tailoring the Patent System to Promote Innovation
• This Week on the Copyright Alliance Blog - Week of January 11th, 2010
• USPTO Seeking Nominations for National Medal of Technology and Innovation

Thursday, January 14, 2010

• Special Feature -- Patents on the Fringe
• Darby & Darby Announces Five New Principals and Two New Senior Counsel
• Federal Circuit Affirms Decision Finding USPTO Miscalculates Patent Term Adjustment
• Kelley Drye Welcomes Andrea L. Calvaruso as Partner and Chair of Trademark and Copyright Practice Group
• Kodak Alleges Patent Infringement by Apple and RIM
• Mannatech Patents for Ambrotose Product Validated in Case Against Techmedica and Ionx
• NewCardio Awarded Key U.S. Patent for CardioBip
• Ropes & Gray Continues Global Expansion with the Addition of Maxwell A. Fox in Tokyo
• Solarbrook Water and Power Corporation Receives Patent on Aquaculture Process
• UTEK and Patents.com Form Partnership Providing an Easier Path for Finding IP Partners

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

• Akoo Awarded Patent for On-Demand Technology Allowing Viewers to Control Television Programming with Mobile Devices
• Applied Spine Technologies Announces Latest Patent
• BT Diamond IP Awarded U.S. Patent for Integrated Management of IPv4 and IPv6
• Chadbourne & Parke Partner Plays Key Role In Developing Patent Damages Guide
• Court Grants Endologix’s Motion to Stay Patent Litigation
• DuPont and BASF Announce Settlement
• FTC Chairman, Members of Congress Call for Legislation to End Sweetheart Pay-for-Delay Deals That Keep Generic Drugs Off the Market
• General Patent Corporation Acquires IPOfferings LLC to Expand Patent Brokerage Business
• JA Apparel Corp. Again Wins Injunction Affirming Ownership of Joseph Abboud Brand Name
• OFS and Sterlite Settle Lawsuit
• Patent Awarded to Metabolon for Metabolomics Method
• Perry Ellis International Announces License Agreement with The Collegiate Licensing Company (CLC)
• Quinn Emanuel Expands Pharma, Biotech and Medical Device Practices with Addition of Star Patent Litigator Peter Armenio from Kirkland & Ellis
• Sirnaomics Licenses Polypeptide Nanoparticle Technology for Its siRNA Therapeutic Product Development

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

• 1st Technology’s Receives Notice of Intent to Issue Reexamination Certificate from U.S. Patent & Trademark Office
• American Innovators for Patent Reform Joins the Small Business Coalition on Patent Legislation
• Appeals Court Affirms Patent Infringement Rulings Against Emptoris
• Barcelo & Harrison Opens DC Office With Addition of Former Administrative Patent Judge
• Become.com Patents Search Engine Technology
• Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione Opens New Office in Washington D.C.
• Carey C. Jordan Joins McDermott to Head Leading Chemical and Energy Patent Prosecution and Transactions Group
• ICAP Ocean Tomo to Sell Server Based Gaming Patent Portfolio Owned by Legal iGaming Inc.
• Inventors Take Heart: Federal Court Restores Patent Term Guarantees, at Last Protecting Innovators from Patent Office Delays, Noted Professor Says
• Kennedy Law Expands to Form Kennedy Clark & Williams, PC
• Monsanto, Stokes Bio Sign License Agreement for Innovative Gene Analysis Technology
• Oblon, Spivak Elects New Partner and Names A New Senior Associate
• Pisgah Labs, Inc. Tackles Prescription Drug Abuse As It Files Eighth Patent
• Pressure BioSciences, Inc. Granted Five Additional Patents
• Seyfarth Shaw Welcomes Ilan N. Barzilay to the Intellectual Property Practice Group in Boston Office
• SIIA Says 21-Month Federal Jail Sentence for Software Pirate Demonstrates Consequences of Software Piracy
• Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox Announces Election of Two New Directors
• Tree.com Settles Intellectual Property Suit, Certain Loan Loss Exposures, and Announces Approval of a $10 Million Stock Repurchase Program
• Trimega Laboratories to Remain Invested in South Africa After Cape High Court Victory
• USPTO to Hold Public Meeting on the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT)

Monday, January 11, 2010

• A.N. Group Acquires Rights to Graphic Story Legend The Rook
• ARCA biopharma Receives Notice of Allowance for Patent for Treating Heart Failure Patients with Bucindolol Based on Genetic Testing
• Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione Wins Burton Decade Award for Outstanding Legal Writing
• Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney Adds FibroGen Decision to Its Win Record
• Cabot Microelectronics Corporation Reports Appeal of Korean Decision Regarding Infringement by Cheil Industries, Inc.
• Caliper Licenses Microfluidics IP to Becton Dickinson
• DeviceVM Sues Phoenix Technologies over Patent Infringement
• K&L Gates Expands Palo Alto Office with Addition of Two Intellectual Property Litigators
• Kodak, Samsung Enter Into Technology Cross License
• Morrison & Foerster Expands Corporate Practice with Addition of Partner William Choe to the Firm’s Palo Alto Office
• Oilmatic Systems Vindicated: It’s Bulk Oil Distribution System Cleared Of Patent Infringement
• Patent Resources Group Opens Registration for All 2010 Offerings
• SmartMetric Retains Major Intellectual Property Law Firm
• U.S. District Judge Allows Green Project, Inc. to Continue Corporate Spying Claims Against Seiko Epson

Saturday, January 09, 2010

• Marvel Seeks Judicial Declaration that Kirby Heirs’ Copyright Claims are Invalid
• Microsoft Word Injunction Starts in 2 days - January 11, 2010
• Trim Holding Group Announces Patent Assignment Agreement

Friday, January 08, 2010

• Armstrong Teasdale Announces New Intellectual Property Partner
• BNA Books’ New 2009 Supplement to Patent, Trademark, and Copyright Regulations Examines Today’s Rapidly Changing Intellectual Property Laws
• Invotex Damages Expert Testifies in Parker Hannifin Fuel Filter Patent Suit
• Potential Lupus Drug Gains U.S. Patent
• Prominent Patent Litigation Team Led by David Perkins Joins Arnold & Porter in London
• This Week on the Copyright Blog - Week of January 4th, 2010

Thursday, January 07, 2010

• Acacia Subsidiary Enters into License Agreement with D-Link Systems
• Brand Matter Signs Long Term Extensions with Key Ellen Tracy Licensees GIII Apparel Group, Komar and Modern Shoe
• Computer-Related Inventions Lead in Patent Activity According to Thomson Reuters 2009 Innovation Report
• First Circuit Court of Appeals Upholds Ruling in Favor of Great Clips
• NetStreams Receives Strategic Patent for Streaming Audio, Video and Control Over IP Networks
• Panel to Forecast Reputation, Patents, Security and Other Intangible Sources of Corporate Value on Friday, January 8
• Pierre R. Yanney Joins Stroock’s Intellectual Property Practice in New York
• Price Heneveld Names Frank M. Scutch, III as Its Newest Partner
• RASIRC Granted Trademark for RainMaker Product Line
• StockPricePredictor.com, LLC Launches Online Automated Online Patent Portfolio Valuation Service
• Teva Announces Settlement Agreements with AstraZeneca Regarding Generic Prilosec and Nexium
• Whirlpool Corporation Named to Ocean Tomo 300 Patent Index

Wednesday, January 06, 2010

• AdGooroo Launches Trademark Insight Hijacking Report
• Allon Receives Japanese Patent Allowance for Treatment and Prevention of Major Neurological Diseases
• CCIA Launches IP Policy Blog
• ClearOne Awarded Attorney Fees and Costs Against Biamp Systems Corp., Wideband Solutions, Inc., and Others, in Federal Trade Secret Misappropriation Case
• Cleveland BioLabs Receives First U.S. Patent for Radiation Protection Drug CBLB502
• Response Biomedical Receives European Patent Notice of Allowance for Key Component of Immunoassay Intellectual Property

Tuesday, January 05, 2010

• Alert Logic Awarded Patent for Intrusion Detection Solution
• American Board of Internal Medicine Files Complaint Against Arora Board Review, Rajender Arora, M.D., and Anise Kachadourian, M.D.
• Ann Cathcart Chaplin Named Managing Principal of Fish & Richardson’s Twin Cities Office
• Coats & Bennett Attorneys Receive Prestigious Award
• CyDex Pharmaceuticals Receives a Key U.S. Patent for Composition of Matter and Process of Manufacturing High-Purity Captisol
• Fish & Richardson Named IP Firm of the Year and IP Litigation Department of the Year Finalist
• IceWEB Files Key Provisional Patent Application for Locally Connected Cloud Storage Device
• ICOP Application for Live Streaming Patent Allowed
• Lumension and Shavlik Technologies Announce Resolution of Patent Dispute
• Lynn Rzonca Named a Member of the International Trademark Association Panel of Neutrals
• Mark Kalman Joins DeepFlex as Vice President of Engineering
• Moebs Receives Notice of Allowance on Overdraft Checking Product Patent
• Palomar’s Patent Infringement Lawsuits Against Candela and Syneron Reopened
• Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox Expands Litigation Practice Group
• The Medicines Company Files Additional Patent Infringement Lawsuits
• U.S. Company CYBERsitter, LLC Files $2.2 Billion Software Piracy Suit Against People’s Republic of China & Seven Major Computer Manufacturers
• Vapor Chamber Lawsuit Expands to Include Dynatron Corporation and Hewlett-Packard in China
• WiLAN and Conexant Enter License Agreement

Monday, January 04, 2010

• Advaxis Awarded European Patent for New Listeria Vector
• EndoGastric Solutions Announces Key Patent Issued
• Fitzpatrick, Cella, Harper & Scinto Elects Jason M. Okun as New Partner
• Fourth Patent for Groundbreaking Technology Granted to Elliptical Mobile Solutions
• Intellectual Property Lawyer Paul Zeineddin Joins O’Melveny
• International Trademark Association (INTA) Names New President for 2010
• James E. Doroshow, Seasoned Trial Attorney, Joins Fox Rothschild
• Michael H. Bunis Joins Choate, Hall & Stewart as a Partner in its IP Litigation Group
• MOSAID and Samsung Enter Standstill Agreement
• New Sixth Edition of Patent Prosecution: Law, Practice, and Procedure Covers Significant Changes in U.S. Patent Law
• RBS Citizens Bank Enters Into License Agreement With LML
• Sidley Austin LLP Elevates IP Lawyer to Partnership in Dallas, 15 throughout Firm
• Tix Corporation Issued United States Patent for Ticket Distribution System

Thursday, December 31, 2009

• Acacia Subsidiary Enters into License Agreement with Genuitec L.L.C.
• Acacia Subsidiary Licenses Medical Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS) Technology to Stryker Corporation and Stryker Imaging Corporation
• Acacia Subsidiary Resolves Litigation with Oracle Corporation

Wednesday, December 30, 2009

• Acacia Subsidiary Enters into Settlement and License Agreement with Cox Radio
• Centrify Awarded Patent in Identity Management of UNIX and Linux Systems
• Google Loses Domain Name Dispute
• ITC Issues Notice of Final Determination in Tessera’s DRAM Action
• MWV’s Patent Allowed by US Patent Office
• Orrick Successfully Defends Three Semiconductor Companies Before the ITC
• Shanda Honoured as Top Copyright Owner/Operator by the Copyright Protection Center of China
• TeleCommunication Systems, Inc. Issued U.S. Patent on Interactive Menus for Mobile Devices Using Short Messaging Services

Tuesday, December 29, 2009

• Luna Strengthens its Position in Nanomedicine
• Nokia Requests ITC Investigation Into Apple Patent Infringement
• Theratechnologies Receives Patent Protection in Brazil for Tesamorelin
• U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Grants Reissued Patent Replacing OSI Pharmaceuticals’ Tarceva Composition of Matter Patent

Monday, December 28, 2009

• 3-D Technology Moves into the Home, According to Thomson Reuters Global Intellectual Property Report
• Acacia Subsidiary Enters into Settlement Agreement with Eclipsys Corporation
• Arrowhead Research Corporation Subsidiary Tego Biosciences Sells IP Portfolio to Luna Innovations
• Fairchild Semiconductor and Infineon Reach Patent Settlement, Cross-License
• Infineon Reaches Agreement to Settle Legal Dispute with Fairchild

Thursday, December 24, 2009

• Acacia Subsidiary Licenses Medical Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS) Technology to NovaRad
• Cantor Colburn LLP Attorney Curt Krechevsky Selected to Serve on the Panel of Neutrals for the International Trademark Association

Wednesday, December 23, 2009

• Design Patents Issued for Orion Energy Systems’ Outdoor Technology
• IP Lawyers With Degrees in Biomedical Engineering, Biochemistry and Electrical Engineering Join Armstrong Teasdale
• Kodak, Samsung Agree to Negotiate Patent Dispute Settlement
• LadaTech Serves Its Complaint in Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against Illumina, Inc.
• Notice of Appeal Filed by Star Scientific in Patent Infringement Lawsuit
• OPTi Inc. Announces Cross-Appeal in Patent Infringement Action
• Retractable Technologies, Inc. Announces Verdict in Patent Infringement Suit Against OMI
• TeleCommunication Systems and Sybase, Inc. Reach Legal Settlement

Tuesday, December 22, 2009

• Acacia Subsidiary Licenses Medical Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS) Technology to Aspyra
• Amgen Resolves EPO Patent Dispute With Roche
• CalciTech Files New Recycling Patent
• Card Activation Technologies, Inc. Updates Shareholders on Significant Progress in 2009 as it Continues to Seek Licenses for its Patented Technology for Stored Value Cards
• Connolly Bove Elects Two New Partners
• Connolly Bove Welcomes Seven New Associates
• i4i Wins Appeal by Microsoft
• LifeSync Purchases Wireless Patent Portfolio from Motorola
• Loren H. Uthoff Joins Rader, Fishman & Grauer in Bloomfield Hills as Of Counsel
• Mylan Confirms First-to-File Patent Challenge Relating to Vytorin Cholesterol Medication
• Norit Announces Lawsuits Alleging Misappropriation of Trade Secrets and Breach of Confidentiality
• Parker Hannifin Corp. Awarded $6.5 Million in Patent Infringement Trial Against Champion Laboratories
• TDVision Systems, Inc. Announces Allowance of New Patents Application from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Relating to Advanced Three-Dimensional Videogame Systems
• Telvent DTN Awarded U.S. Patent on Configurable Weather Alerting Technology
• US District Court Issues Ruling on Star Scientific Motion for Judgment as a Matter of Law; Company to File Notice of Appeal to Federal Circuit Court
• Vical and the University of Washington Receive U.S. Patent for Herpes Simplex DNA Vaccine
• Viron granted U.S. Patents for Organ Transplant and Arthritis Drug Candidates
• WebTech Wireless Announces Settlement of LunarEye Lawsuit

Monday, December 21, 2009

• BNA Books’ New 2009 Supplement to International Patent Litigation: A Country-by-Country Analysis Provides Updated Analysis of Patent Law and Practice for Countries Worldwide
• D-M-S Holdings, Inc. Announces the Filing of a Lawsuit Against Veridian Healthcare, LLC, Steven M. Bisulca and Michael Mazza
• Eastman Sues Indorama to Protect IntegRex™ PET Manufacturing Technology
• General Patent Corporation Secures New Licensee for DTL’s Cellular Communications Patent
• Hologic Announces Decision in Patent Infringement Suit
• Morrison & Foerster Wins Reversal on Appeal for Novell, Inc.
• Netcordia Awarded VoIP Network Analysis Patent
• Patent Verdict Favors Verizon Wireless, Other Carriers and Novatel Wireless
• Practice Velocity Receives Patent for Basic Urgent Care EMR System (PiVoT)
• Response Biomedical Receives Further U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Notice of Allowance for Key Patent

Friday, December 18, 2009

• Baker Botts L.L.P. Names New Special Counsel for 2010
• Deep Down’s Intellectual Property Continues to Grow
• Fuentek Names New Technology Transfer Consultant
• ITC Affirms Amsted’s Victory Against U.S. And Chinese Cast Steel Railway Wheel Competitors
• Kunekt Files New National Phase Patent Application
• Mannatech Granted Injunction on Patents Related to Ambrotose® Product Infringed by Green Life and Xiong Lo
• Massachusetts Court Reinstates NewRiver Patent Claims - Grants NewRiver A New Trial Against Newkirk Products
• SenoRx Found Not Liable for Patent Infringement
• Sepracor Granted Patent Term Extension for LUNESTA® and Provides Update on LUNESTA Pediatric Studies
• This Week on the Copyright Alliance Blog
• USPTO Launches Interactive Model Predicting Average Patent Pendency Timeframes in Relation to Varying Staffing and Filing Levels

Thursday, December 17, 2009

• Armstrong Teasdale Adds 10 to IP Practice in Six Months
• Christie, Parker & Hale Obtains Award of Attorneys’ Fees against Patent Holding Company and Its Law Firm
• Cyclone Power Technologies Finalizes License to Manufacture Engine Systems for China Market
• Emulex and Alacritech Announce License Agreement for TCP Chimney Offload Technology
• Flight1 Aviation Technologies Licenses Microsoft ESP v1.0 Object Code to Enhance Training Simulations
• Kauffman Foundation Experts’ Solution for University Technology Licensing Reform Named to List of Ten Breakthrough Ideas for 2010 by Harvard Business Review
• Kilpatrick Stockton Partner Barry Benjamin to be Featured Speaker at National Forum on Advertising Law
• LifeCycle Pharma Receives Notice of Allowance for U.S. Patent on Fenoglide
• MDRNA, Inc. Announces Patent Allowance Covering Methods for Targeted siRNA Delivery to the Lung
• Pete N. Kiousis Joins Rader, Fishman & Grauer in Bloomfield Hills as Of Counsel Attorney
• Regulus Therapeutics Receives Exclusive License for Intellectual Property on Immuno-inflammatory microRNAs from the California Institute of Technology
• Salamon Group Inc. Strengthens Intellectual Property and Patent Portfolio
• Showa Denko K.K. and Universal Display Corporation Announce OLED Technology License Agreement for White Lighting Applications
• The Simon Law Firm Files Trademark Infringement Suit Against Microsoft on Behalf of Bing!
• U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Issues New Patent to Eid Passport, Inc.

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

• Special Feature - Technology Transfer and Intellectual Property Issues Take Center Stage in UNFCCC Negotiations
• Acacia Subsidiary Enters into License Agreement with Fulham
• BNA Books’ New 2010 Edition of Patent, Trademark, and Copyright Laws
• Eppendorf Successfully Initiates Import ban Against Nanosphere, Inc. for the Countries of the European Union
• Fitzpatrick, Cella, Harper & Scinto Named Decade Award Winner in Legal Writing by The Burton Foundation
• FTC Challenges Intel’s Dominance of Worldwide Microprocessor Markets
• Illinois Man Sentenced for Selling Pirated Software
• John Schulman, Former Warner Bros. General Counsel, Joins Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp in Los Angeles as Partner and Chair of Entertainment Department
• Makefield Therapeutics Licenses Patent Rights Covering Its Hybrid Nanoparticle Delivery Platform From Albert Einstein College of Medicine
• New Book - The Role of Intellectual Property Rights in Biotechnology Innovation
• Practising Law Institute Publishes How To Write A Patent Application, Second Edition
• Syntiron LLC Enters Collaborative Development and Licensing Agreement with sanofi pasteur to Develop Its Prophylactic Vaccine against Staphylococcus aureus
• Thomas F. Meagher Moves to Volpe and Koenig
• Townsend and Townsend and Crew Elevates Three to Partner
• United States Patent Office Allows CareRise Patent on 24/7 Staff-Census Software
• Virginia Tech Industrial Design Student’s Award-Winning Toy Receives Design Patent
• WiLAN and Ricoh Negotiate Technology License

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

• Special Feature - Nicolas Cage vs. The Fundamentals of U.S. Patent Law
• Acacia Research Subsidiary, DNT LLC, Receives Jury Verdict in Patent Infringement Case
• Alan G. Carlson Named Intellectual Property Lawyer of the Year
• Bend, Oregon Inventor Plunges into ABC’s Shark Tank
• BigString Receives Patent Issue Notification From U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
• Blackboard, Desire2Learn Announce Patent Cross License Agreement and Settlement of Litigation
• Buffalo Licenses WiLAN Wireless Technologies
• CEA and CCIA Continue to Call for Balance Between Innovation and Intellectual Property Protection
• Court Accepts Opinion of Invotex Damages Expert Michele M. Riley
• Dechert Wins Summary Judgment for 3DLabs in Patent Infringement Suit brought by FuzzySharp Technologies
• Fenwal Responds to New Lawsuit From Haemonetics; Reiterates Commitment to Blood Centers
• Gamma Medica-Ideas Licenses Molecular Breast Imaging Technology From Mayo Clinic
• Idaho Technology Issues License to Kapa Biosystems, Inc.
• ImageWare Receives Two New Patents
• IP Advocate Joins Small Business Coalition on Patent Legislation To Protect and Promote Rights of University Scientists in Federal Patent Debate
• Isis and Alnylam Announce Notice of Allowance for New U.S. Patent Application Broadly Covering RNAi Therapeutics
• Licensing Executives Society (USA & Canada) Warns That Healthcare Reform Could Make the Patient Sicker
• McGuireWoods Wins Key Patent Trial for Wireless Carriers
• NovaDel Receives Issue Notification for New U.S. Patent Covering its Oral Spray Drug Delivery Technology
• Paul DiGiammarino Joins as President of World’s Leading Patent Validation Firm
• Secretary Locke Commends European Union and Member State Ratification of WIPO Internet Intellectual Property Treatises
• Small Business Coalition on Patent Legislation Established to Oppose Proposals That Would Harm Small Businesses and Individual Inventors
• SRI International Receives U.S. Patent for Needle-Free Transmucosal Drug Delivery System
• StemCells, Inc. Strengthens Patent Position in Embryonic and Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Technology Platforms
• Sun Microsystems Wins Legal Judgments Against Intellectual Property Violators
• Xenomics, Inc., and its Subsidiary TrovaGene, Inc., Announce Italian Patent for NPM1 Testing for AML Patients

Monday, December 14, 2009

• Acacia Subsidiary Enters into Settlement and License Agreement with Regent Communication
• Best Buy, Samsung, Westinghouse, And Eleven Other Brands Named In SFLC Lawsuit
• Constant Environment, Inc. Announces the completion of Exclusive License Agreement to Develop, Manufacture and Design Under Recent US Patent, a New and Revolutionary Battery Technology
• Duane Morris’ Christiane Campbell Appointed IP Subcommittee Chair of the Pennsylvania Bar Association
• Ethernity Networks is Awarded a key Wire Speed Protocols Interworking Patent
• General Patent Corporation Settles Patent Infringement Lawsuit with Audiovox
• Haemonetics Files a New Legal Action to Stop Fenwal Inc.’s Continued Patent Infringement
• IDO Security Granted Second Patent and First Patent in Israel
• IP Strategy Comes of Age: Best Strategy Book of 2009 Is About Intellectual Property
• Modavox Provides Update Regarding Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence and Evasive Disclosure Practices in Tacoda Patent Infringement Case
• New Diabetes Patent Allowance for CureDM, Inc.
• Rambus Acquires Patented Innovations and Technology from Global Lighting Technologies
• Terry Ross Joins Crowell & Moring’s Intellectual Property Group, Boosts Trial Team
• Three Brooks Kushman Lawyers Honored as Top Lawyers in Metro Detroit
• Transcept Pharmaceuticals Receives Notice of Allowance for Second U.S. Patent Application Covering Intermezzo
• U.S. Patent Office Grants Geron’s Request for an Interference With U.S. Patent No. 7,510,876 to Novocell
• U.S. Patent Office Issues Sword Diagnostics Patent for Highly Sensitive Immunodetection Technology
• USPTO Launches Two Pilot Programs for Accelerating Patent Applications for Green Technologies and Small Entities
• World’s First Financial Exchange Focused on Intellectual Property Taps Former President & COO of Chicago Climate Exchange to Take the Helm

Saturday, December 12, 2009

• Clean Energy Investment Company Moves to Protect Intellectual Property

Friday, December 11, 2009

• Apple Countersues Nokia
• DeviceVM Sues Phoenix Technologies over Unfair Competition, False Advertising, and Violations of the Lanham Act
• Hansen Medical Settles Litigation Against Luna Innovations - Company Obtains Significant Intellectual Property Rights
• Reed Construction Data Amends Its Lawsuit Against McGraw-Hill Construction Dodge
• Trial Date Set for CUBICIN® Patent Litigation

Thursday, December 10, 2009

• Acacia Subsidiary Acquires 97 Patents Covering DRAM, DSP and Microprocessor Technologies
• B Green Innovations, Inc. Files Patent for Green Technology Intellectual Property Embedded Container Recycled Sheet Baskets
• Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione Wins Appeal for Clients Alpine Electronics, Inc., and Alpine Electronics of America, Inc., in a Patent Infringement Case by Encyclopaedia Britannica
• Court Denies Audiovox Motion to Renew/Reargue MPEG LA’s Right to Audit
• e.Digital Announces Royalty Bearing License and Settlement Agreement With Wolverine Data
• Ed Lanquist Elected President of Waddey & Patterson Law Firm
• Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett, & Dunner Announces New Partners for 2010
• Games Developer & Footwear Company Settle With BSA for Unlicensed Software Use, Agree to Pay $175,000
• Hills Industries Limited and Rovi Sign IPG Patent Licensing Agreement
• Kelli Watson Francuzenko, Life Science IP Transactional Attorney, Joins Nevrivy Patent Law Group
• Lee & Hayes Creates Corporate Group, Welcomes Nethercutt as Of Counsel
• MicroTransponder Inc. Awarded Patent for Wireless Neurostimulation Device
• OPTi Files for Arbitration Against NVIDIA Corporation
• Orion Energy Systems Awarded Patent for Compact Modular Technology Cooling Properties
• Salamon Group Inc. Files Revolutionary New Patent for Portable Power for Handheld Devices
• SmartMetric Preparing Filing of Federal Case for Patent Infringement Damages
• Stem Cell Therapeutics Corp. Announces Additional U.S. Patent

Wednesday, December 09, 2009

• $540,000 Judgment Awarded in Software Counterfeiting Case
• CyDex Pharmaceuticals Receives U.S. Patent for New Captisol
• Epic Wound Care Retains Dr. Jennifer McCallum and The McCallum Law Firm as Patent, Regulatory and International Counsel
• European Commission Accepts Rambus Commitments in Final Settlement
• ICAP Ocean Tomo Engaged to Sell pointSET Corporation’s Intellectual Property Portfolio Relating to Remote Programming Through Virtual Interfaces
• IPWatchdog.com Blog Named to the ABA Journal Blawg 100
• Lightwave Logic Files Sixth Patent Application
• Mercury Cable Provides Update on Patent Litigation with Composite Technology Corporation
• OurPet’s Company Granted Patent for Self Scooping Cat Litter Box
• Peer-to-Patent Pilot to Launch in Australia
• Perrigo Confirms Filing for Generic Version of Clobex Spray and Announcement of Lawsuit by Galderma and Dermalogix
• Scott M. Slaby Joins McDonald Hopkins Law Firm as an Associate in Cleveland Office
• Stertil-Koni Gains Ground in Patent Infringement Suit, as Request for Reexamination is Granted by U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
• Trellia Awarded Patent for Unified Control of Mobile Access
• U.S. District Court Rejects Motion to Dismiss in Phoenix Technologies’ Lawsuit Against DeviceVM
• VeriTainer Receives Its 4th Patent from U.S. Patent Office

Tuesday, December 08, 2009

• AbSorber Receives European Patent Protection for Its Transplantation Cross Match-Test XM-ONE
• American Diversified Holdings Corporation Announces Stem Cell Patent Acquisition Program
• Azalea Networks Awarded United States Patent for ’Intelligent’ Adaptive Wireless Mesh Routing Technology
• Ducommun Incorporated Receives Patent for Inertial/Magnetic Measurement Device
• Fitzpatrick, Cella, Harper & Scinto Listed as a Tier One Intellectual Property Firm by Institutional Investor’s 2010 Benchmark Litigation Guide
• Integrien Issued Second Patent For IT Performance Analytics
• IP Attorneys Elected Partner at Cooley Godward Kronish
• ITC Patent Litigator Brian Nester Joins Sidley Austin LLP in Washington, D.C.
• Micro Power Awarded Two New Patents for Battery Pack Technology
• Novo Nordisk Licenses IL-21 mAb and Patent Rights to IL-21 Antibodies from ZymoGenetics
• OPTi Inc. Announces that Apple Appeals Final Judgment in Patent Infringement Action
• Patent Expiries of Blockbuster Antibiotics Will Fuel a Decline of More Than 15 Percent in the Community-Acquired Pneumonia Drug Market
• Sentry Technology Files Operational Video Patent
• SolutionInc Licenses Patented Hospitality Gateway Technology to Single Digits for Industry-Leading Business Access Portal
• TechRadium, Leading Notification Firm, Receives New Patent for Utility Work
• TeleCommunication Systems, Inc. Issued U.S. Patent for Enhanced Assisted GPS Location of Handsets

Monday, December 07, 2009

• Acacia Subsidiary Enters into Agreement with Freescale
• FibroGen, Inc., Reports Decision by USPTO Board Of Patent Appeals and Interferences in the Company’s Favor
• IP Trial Attorneys Win Patent Dispute Before the International Trade Commission
• Juniper Patent Infringement Lawsuit against GraphOn Corp. Dismissed
• New BNA Books Anatomy of a Patent Case A Must-Read for All Who Face the Challenges of Patent Litigation
• Ruckus Wireless Awarded Patent Essential to Running Video, Voice and Other Multimedia Applications Reliably Over Wi-Fi
• Solarflare Awarded Four New Patents That Enable Unique Hardware-Assisted, Scalable Virtualization
• U.S. Commerce Department’s Patent and Trademark Office to Accelerate Review of Green Technology Patents to Speed Deployment to Marketplace
• Walleye Technologies Awarded Patent for Millimeter Wave Camera Technology
• WordLogic Reports 14 Additional New Claims to Patent Allowance Application

Friday, December 04, 2009

• Biomagnetics Diagnostics Enhances Intellectual Property Package from Los Alamos National Security Targeting Multi-Test Blood Bank Screening Biosensor
• Dickstein Shapiro Secures Reversal of Patent Infringement Judgment Against Arthrex, Inc. and a Remand for a New Trial
• Electronic Game Card, Inc. and Bally Technologies Sign Worldwide Licensing Agreement
• Kodak, LG Enter into Technology Cross-License Agreement
• Mintz Levin Intellectual Property Practice Represents Protalix in $60 Million Licensing Agreement with Pfizer Inc.
• New Survey Highlights Current Use of Cutting Edge Technology by Law Firms
• Northwest Biotherapeutics Receives Approval of US Patent for Cost Saving Automation of High-Concentration DCVax Manufacturing
• OPTi Receives Final Judgment in Patent Infringement Action Against Apple Inc.
• The Software Freedom Law Center Submits an Opinion on the Oracle/Sun Merger to the EC
• This Week on the Copyright Alliance Blog -- Weeks of November 23rd & 30th, 2009
• United States Federal Circuit Court of Appeals Rebukes CTS Cement and Owner Edward K. Rice, According to Ultimax Cement
• YANGAROO Sets the Record Straight on Its U.S. Patent Infringement and Injunction Claim against Destiny Media

Thursday, December 03, 2009

• Cree Acquires Semi-Insulating Silicon Carbide and Power Device Patent Portfolio from Daimler AG
• Judge Rules Against Ocean Spray in Legal Case
• McAndrews, Held & Malloy Attorney Sharon Hwang Named Board Member of the Chicago Legal Clinic
• Nexxus Lighting Granted Three New Patents for Array Lighting
• RPX Defensive Patent Aggregation Signs 20th Member
• Stradley Ronon Partner Named Best Lawyers Lawyer of the Year

Wednesday, December 02, 2009

• Cephalon Files Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against Teva Pharmaceuticals
• Dot Hill Announces Patent for Aspects of AssuredSnap Software, Bolsters Portfolio With Three Additional Patents
• LogLogic Announces U.S. Patent for Storage of Raw Log Data
• McDermott Will & Emery Welcomes Biotech Veteran Paul De Stefano
• Mintz Levin Attorneys to Present on Standards Setting Organizations & Patent Pooling at 21st Annual Silicon Valley Association of General Counsel’s All Hands Meeting
• Shire and Teva Settle Litigation Concerning Supply of ADDERALL XR Authorized Generic
• Sterne Kessler Founding Directors Selected as Washington’s Top Lawyers
• Tom Anderton Joins Presidio Pharmaceuticals, Inc. as Vice President of Intellectual Property and Legal Affairs
• Unidym and Nano-C Enter Exclusive License Agreement for Fullerene Derivatives Used in Solar Cells
• Vitro Develops Novel Reprogrammed Human Stem Cells and Files Patent

Tuesday, December 01, 2009

• Duane Morris’ Boston Office Adds Intellectual Property Partner Lee Crews, Ph.D.
• General Patent Settles Lawsuit with HID Global over Smart Cards Patents
• Inphi Corporation Files Patent Infringement Lawsuit against Netlist Inc.
• IntusIQ and Tantalus Systems Corp. Resolve Patent Litigation
• McAndrews, Held & Malloy Wins National Institutes of Health Contract for Up To $181 Million in Patent-Related Legal Services Work
• Patent Lawyer Ginger Dreger Joins Arnold & Porter in San Francisco
• TeleCommunication Systems, Inc. Issued U.S. Patent for Automated Device-to-Device Transfer
• USPTO to Deploy New Intellectual Property Training Modules

Monday, November 30, 2009

• Allos Therapeutics Announces Issuance of U.S. Patent for FOLOTYN
• Applied Spine Technologies is Awarded New Patent
• China Leads All Nations in Publication of Chemical Patents According to CAS, the World’s Most Authoritative Publisher of Chemical Information
• Depomed Files Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against Lupin Limited
• German Court Declares EFI Victorious In Important Patent Litigation Against Durst Involving Inkjet Technology
• Health Discovery Corporation Appoints Tom Gallagher, Former Wall Street Attorney & a Vice President at Goldman, Sachs & Co., to Head the Company’s Global Intellectual Property Strategies
• Merchant & Gould Named A Top 10 Trademark Law Firm In United States By Trademark Insider

Wednesday, November 25, 2009

• McAndrews, Held & Malloy Secures Additional Victory For Sinochem

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

• Acacia Subsidiary Enters into License Agreement with Boston Scientific Corporation
• Acacia Subsidiary Enters into Settlement and License Agreement with BMW
• Attorney Matthew C. Cox Joins Waddey & Patterson
• Christie, Parker & Hale Obtains an Important Patent for a Burt Rutan Engineered Hybrid Rocket System
• DJO Incorporated’s Chattanooga Division Granted Patent for Moveo XP Rehabilitation Platform
• Taiwan Microloops Corp. Responds to the Patent Infringement Lawsuit Filed by Convergence Technologies Ltd.

Monday, November 23, 2009

• Cabot Microelectronics Corporation Receives Ruling on Pending Summary Judgment Motions in Patent Infringement Enforcement Action against DuPont Air Products NanoMaterials, LLC
• India Grants Access to U.S. Patent Examiners for New Traditional Knowledge Search Tool
• Intellectual Property Practice Welcomes Leslie Jacobs to Litigation Team
• Munck Carter Obtains Complete Defense Verdict In Eastern District of Texas Patent Infringement Case
• Nomadix Initiates Lawsuit to Enforce Its Network Gateway Patents
• RASIRC Granted Patent on Vaporizer for Delivery of Water Vapor and Other Low Vapor Pressure Gases
• Samsung Licenses MOSAID Wireless Patents
• Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox Director to Speak on Discovery Mechanics in Foreign Jurisdictions
• USPTO Invalidates 28 of 29 Claims Contained in the ‘319’ Patent of Composite Technology Corporation for Composite ACCC Core

Friday, November 20, 2009

• Cavitation Technologies Files Additional International Patents
• Hogan & Hartson Successfully Defends French Champagne House’s Right to Its Cristal Trademark in Russia
• Huawei Deploys Anaqua’s IP Management Solution
• MediaTek and Qualcomm Enter Into Patent Arrangement
• PlatinumTel Prepaid Files Suit Against U.S. Mobile and EZ Stream for Consumer Fraud
• The Lanier Law Firm Announces Settlement, Judgment In Cloud Computing Patent Lawsuit
• This Week on the Copyright Alliance Blog
• VTech Holdings Ltd. Purchases Moore Microprocessor Patent Portfolio License

Thursday, November 19, 2009

• Harvard International, Formerly Doing Business as Alba, Enters Into MPEG LA’s MPEG-2 License in Settlement of Litigation
• Helix BioMedix Secures Additional Intellectual Property
• Intellectual Property Partner Paul Garrity Joins Sheppard Mullin New York
• Karen B. Dow Joins Sughrue Mion’s San Diego Office
• NIMS Receives Japanese Patent for Its Exer-Rest Platform
• Novartis Wins Patent Infringement Suit Against Teva
• PowerReviews® Granted Patent for Easy-to-Use Product Reviews
• Precision BioSciences Announces that Cellectis Loses Patent Protection for Single-Chain Meganucleases in Europe
• Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi L.L.P. Forms Strategic IP Monetization Practice
• St. Jude Scores Victory in Theft of Trade Secrets Case
• Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox Ranked #1 in Partnership Diversity in The National Law Journal’s 2009 Diversity Report

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

• Amerigon Files Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against W.E.T. Automotive Systems AG
• Aperio Awarded Patent for Client/Server Image Analysis
• Research Affiliates Awarded Patent for Fundamental Index Investment Methodology

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

• Christie, Parker & Hale Obtains Summary Judgment for a Group of Defendants in a Patent Infringement Case
• Dechert’s Glenn Gundersen Honored by INTA
• Digimarc Sues Shazam for Patent Infringement
• Modavox Files Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against Yahoo! Inc.
• Novak Druce + Quigg LLP Moves to New San Francisco Office Space

Monday, November 16, 2009

• Datacard Group Files Lawsuit in UK against Eagle Technologies, Ltd.
• Delphi Division Counsel Joins Detroit Office of Cantor Colburn LLP
• General Patent Corporation Secures Two New Licenses for DTL’s Cellular Communications Patent
• Qualcomm Takes Lead as 4G Patent Holder, According to ABI Research

Friday, November 13, 2009

• Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney Wins Jury Verdict for Client Ren Judkins in Patent Infringement Case
• Functionality: At the Crossroads of IP
• ITC Issues Final Determination in FormFactor’s Wafer Probe Card ITC Action
• Multimedia Patent Trust Dealt Setback in Video Compression Patent Lawsuit
• Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser Names New Associate
• This Week on the Copyright Alliance Blog
• U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Grants athenahealth, Inc., a Patent for its Practice Management and Billing Automation System

Thursday, November 12, 2009

• AMD and Intel Announce Settlement of All Antitrust and IP Disputes
• Cooley Bolsters IP Litigation Practice with Addition of Chris Campbell
• GrafTech Obtains Favorable Judgment in Patent Infringement Litigation
• LecTec Corporation and Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. Settle Patent Dispute
• SIIA Files Six New Software Piracy Lawsuits Against Fraudulent Online Vendors Across the Country
• Thomas Whitelaw Hires Shiff Hardin IP Litigation Partner
• Young & Thompson Selects First To File To Manage Patent Prosecution Workflow

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

• Ryogen is Awarded New Patent
• Saint-Gobain Wins $10.9 Million Verdict Against Xinyi

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

• Special Feature - Filing an RCE and the Potential Future RCE Backlog
• Commerce Under Secretary and USPTO Director Kappos Launches Blog
• Depomed Receives Notice of Paragraph IV Certification Against Patents for GLUMETZA
• Foley & Lardner Adds Co-Chair of Sheppard Mullin’s IP Practice to San Diego Office
• Oblon, Spivak Launches Patents Post Grant Law Blog
• Oppedahl Patent Law Firm Welcomes Two Attorneys
• PCTEL and Wider Networks Settle Intellectual Property Dispute
• Peter Taylor Joins Intellectual Property Department at Baker Botts L.L.P.
• Streambank Announces American IronHorse Motorcycles Intellectual Property Sale
• Teva Files Amended Complaint Against Momenta/Sandoz to Include Infringement of Three COPAXONE-Related Patents
• Teva Receives Favorable Court Decision Regarding Generic Prevacid SoluTab
• UQM Technologies Receives U.S. Patent on Rotor Geometry for Permanent Magnet Electric Motors

Friday, November 06, 2009

• Court Rules Riveer Environmental Infringes Hydro Engineering’s Patents
• Cummins-Allison Wins $13 Million Patent Infringement Verdict
• General Patent Corporation Secures Settlement and Agreement from Trump University over Service Mark Infringement
• This Week on the Copyright Alliance Blog
• USPTO Pilots Program to Accelerate the Patent Process for Small Entity Inventors
• Woodcock Washburn Announces Two New Partners

Wednesday, November 04, 2009

• Jury Determines Streck Patents Valid

Monday, November 02, 2009

• Dr. Kazmierski Joins Armstrong Teasdale’s IP Group

Sunday, November 01, 2009

• Amsted Wins ITC Recommendation For 10-Year Exclusion Order And Cease And Desist Orders Against Cast Steel Railway Wheel Competitors
• Jeffrey I. D. Lewis Elected as Second Vice President of The American Intellectual Property Law Association

Friday, October 30, 2009

• Phillion Joins Armstrong Teasdale

Thursday, October 29, 2009

• Brooks Kushman Hires Redman and Adelman to Support Growing Trademark Practice
• Marc Ackerman Joins O’Melveny’s Intellectual Property & Technology Practice

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

• Fish & Richardson Wins Patent Infringement Suit for Allergan, Inc. Over Leading Glaucoma Drug
• IP Lawyer With Focus on Electrical, Mechanical Engineering Joins Fulbright’s Minneapolis Office

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

• Financial Systems Technology Pty Ltd et al. v. Oracle Corporation - Reexamination Confirms Validity of All Claims as Originally Issued
• Woodcock Washburn Releases 2009 Cleantech Patent Forecast

Friday, October 23, 2009

• Bally Technologies Announces Favorable Federal Court Ruling in Bally iVIEW, IGT Wheel Patent Infringement Litigation
• Joshua A. Mooney Reappointed to Intellectual Property Rights Policy Committee
• Raptor Networks Technology Notes Issuance of Additional Patents in Hybrid Fabric Architectures and Virtualized Systems
• This Week on the Copyright Alliance Blog
• USA Technologies Issued 71st Patent

Thursday, October 22, 2009

• Covington Secures Key Victory for AAA in Domain Name Cybersquatting Dispute
• Hovey Williams Adds New Attorney

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

• Adam Sullins Joins O’Melveny’s Entertainment, Sports & Media Practice
• Kilpatrick Stockton Adds Preeminent Patent Partner

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

• Independent Inventor Triantafyllos Tafas Consents to Dismissal Of USPTO’s Appeal of the United States District Court’s Invalidation of the USPTO’s Claims and Continuation Rules
• McAndrews, Held & Malloy Secures ITC Victory For Chicago-Based Amsted Industries Incorporated
• Thompson Coburn LLP Expands its Intellectual Property Practice in Chicago and Washington, D.C.

Monday, October 19, 2009

• Aqualiner Files a Patent for Its Non-Disruptive Method for Remaking Service Connections Following Drinking Water Main Rehabilitation
• ImmunoCellular Therapeutics Applies for Key Patent Relating to Novel Antigen Targets for Its Monoclonal Antibody Product Candidate
• InterDigital Receives Notice That Commission Found No Violation of Section 337 in ITC Patent Infringement Action against Nokia
• Perrigo Announces Dismissal of Duac Patent Litigation
• SonoSite Announces Global Patent Settlement With GE
• Sughrue Mion’s Alan Kasper Named President of American Intellectual Property Law Association

Friday, October 16, 2009

• OurPet’s Reaches Settlement with Competitor over OurPet’s Play ’N Squeak Patent and Trademark Infringement

Thursday, October 15, 2009

• GreenShift Files Infringement Lawsuit against GEA Westfalia
• Illumina Countersues Life Technologies for Patent Infringement
• John L. Ambrogi Joins McCracken & Frank LLP
• Patent Challenges Reduce Pharmaceutical Innovation and Productivity, Researchers Suggest
• PIKAMAB Secures Critical Patent Rights to Develop Theragnostic Product, Lupus Therasight
• UTStarcom and Starent Networks Announce Settlement Agreement
• Yes, You Can Use Copyrighted Material in Your Open Courseware

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

• EAU Technologies Receives Poultry Processing Patent for Empowered Water
• iRise Settles Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against Axure Software Solutions
• New Boundary Technologies Awarded Patent for Automating PC Configuration Management Activities
• Russia Issues Patent on Cyclone Power Technologies’ Green Engine

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

• Barnes & Thornburg LLP’s Intellectual Property Group Adds Depth With Trademark Protection and Enforcement Attorney
• LES USA & Canada to Explore Intellectual Property Commerce Issues at Its October 18-21 Annual Meeting in San Francisco
• LiveProcess Receives U.S. Patent for Web-Based Emergency Management
• Pictometry International Corp. Files Patent Infringement Suit Against Geospan Corporation
• Shire and Sandoz Settle all Pending Litigation Concerning ADDERALL XR
• Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox Launches Patent Reexamination Website

Monday, October 12, 2009

• Audible Magic Awarded Four New Patents for Unique Content Identification Technologies
• BASF and Dow Announce Support for New Patent Asset Index
• ITC Judge Rules in Favor of LG Electronics in Whirlpool Refrigerator Patent Case
• LexisNexis Introduces Transparent Semantic Search Technology for Patent Research

Friday, October 09, 2009

• Cook Sues Endologix For Patent Infringement Over Aortic Aneurysm Endograft Technology
• Irell & Manella Wins Federal Circuit Affirmance on Behalf of eBay and Skype
• Morrison & Foerster Secures Victory for ICU Medical in Trademark Infringement Case
• Outside GC Launches Patent Firm, Patent GC LLC
• Patent Infringement Suit Filed to Protect U.S. Ethernet Innovation’s 3Com Ethernet Inventions

Thursday, October 08, 2009

• Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney Welcomes IP Litigation Shareholder Philip Hirschhorn to its New York City Office
• Library Study Shows Arcane State Laws Threaten Preservation of America’s Aural Heritage
• Local.com Granted Patent for Enhanced Directory Assistance Services
• SunPower and SunLink Settle Patent Infringement Lawsuit
• USPTO Rescinds Controversial Patent Regulations Package Proposed by Previous Administration
• Valensa Begins Licensing Patent for Astaxanthin in Eye Health Management

Wednesday, October 07, 2009

• AGA Medical Wins Patent Validity Case Against Occlutech
• AVANIR Pharmaceuticals Announces Receipt of Notice of Allowance of New U.S. Patent on Zenvia
• Impax Laboratories Settles Pending Litigation for FLOMAX®
• Judge Validates Key Mannatech Patents for Technology Related to its Ambrotose Glyconutrient Products
• Kylin Therapeutics Receives Notice of Allowance for Key Therapeutic RNA Patent Covering pRNAi Technology
• Perkins Coie Adds Terrence Wikberg to IP Practice in Washington, D.C. Office
• United Parcel Service, Inc. and Ronald A. Katz Technology Licensing, L.P. Settle Patent Lawsuit and Enter into License Agreement

Tuesday, October 06, 2009

• Eolas Technologies Files Infringement Lawsuit
• New Virtual Law Firm Addresses Top Issues Facing Businesses and the Internet
• Rebecca McClintock Barnett Joins Waddey & Patterson

Monday, October 05, 2009

• Coats and Bennett, PLLC, Hires New Associate for Growing IP Litigation Practice
• Foley & Lardner’s Sharon Barner Named Deputy Director of the USPTO

Friday, October 02, 2009

• AnalogicTech Comments on Recent Developments in Patent Litigation
• Biostar Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Receives Patent for Aoxing Ganbao
• Caraco Pharmaceutical Laboratories, Ltd. Closes Asset Purchase Agreement with Forest Laboratories, Inc. to Settle Lexapro (escitalopram oxalate) ANDA Patent Litigation

Thursday, October 01, 2009

• Big River Settles with Sprint Over VoP Patent Infringement Claims
• Luca Technologies Receives U.S. Notice of Allowance for Key Patent Covering the Company’s Technology for Microbially Enhanced Methane Production
• MicroSeismic, Inc. Granted Patent for its PSET Technology
• Rambus Fellow Named Inventor of the Year
• Red Hat Urges Supreme Court to Address Difficulties Posed By Patents to Software
• Spatial Integrated Systems, Inc. Files Patent Application

Wednesday, September 30, 2009

• At 2009 Technology Transfer Society Conference, IP Advocate Founder Dr. Renee Kaswan to Take Aim at Commercialization Barriers Faced by University Faculty Inventors
• BigString’s Patent-Pending Technology Receives Notice of Allowance from U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
• Qualcomm Confirms Japan Fair Trade Commission Order
• Rader, Fishman & Grauer Honored as an Innovative Law Firm for Second Consecutive Year

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

• District Court in New Jersey Awards $570,000 to Bakery Supply Company
• General Patent Corporation Licenses DTL’s Cell Phone Patent to RSA 1 and Mohave Cellular
• Idaho Technology Expands Its High Resolution Melting Patent Portfolio
• Precision BioSciences Announces U.S. Patent Office Reexamination of Cellectis Patents Involved in Litigation

Monday, September 28, 2009

• GEO2 Licenses Patent Portfolio to Corning
• PolyMedix Receives U.S. Patent Protection for Licensed Computational Methods to Design Antimicrobial Polymers

Friday, September 25, 2009

• Baldwin and technotrans End Patent Dispute
• Gersten Savage Expands IP Practice With Partner Jason Lief
• Western Union Wins Patent Infringement Lawsuit against MoneyGram

Thursday, September 24, 2009

• Aerocrine Wins Patent Infringement Suit against Medisoft in Germany
• BroadLight is Awarded a New PON Patent
• ECOtality’s eTec Awarded Patent for Bridge Power Manager
• McAndrews, Held & Malloy Attorney Troy Groetken Named One of 40 Illinois Attorneys Under Forty to Watch for 2009 By Law Bulletin Publishing Company
• McAndrews, Held & Malloy Secures Second Victory For Sinochem Concerning U.S. International Trade Commission Investigation
• Netlist Files Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against Inphi
• Teva Provides Update on Generic Evista Litigation

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

• Cook Incorporated Wins Patent Infringement Appeal Filed By Edwards Lifesciences
• Merchant & Gould Wins Litigation Victory On Behalf of Inventor Over Toy Giant Hasbro, Inc.
• NeuroTherm is Awarded US Patent for Multi-lesion Radiofrequency Generator
• Quarles & Brady Obtains Summary Judgment for Netgear, Inc. in Dispute Over 802.11 Wireless Products
• SmarterTools and Microsoft Patent Licensing Agreement Extends Exchange ActiveSync Reach to 15 Million SmarterMail Users
• SpeedTrack Files IP E-Commerce Suit Against Amazon.com, Best Buy, Dell, 20 Others
• The Hecker Law Group Secures Win for Tower and Jazz in ITC Lawsuit: LSI Patent Claims Held Invalid
• USPTO and European Patent Office to Extend Patent Prosecution Highway Pilot Program

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

• General Patent Corporation Settles Patent Infringement Lawsuit Between ShopNTown and Landmark Media
• K&L Gates Helps Clients Obtain Favorable Ruling from International Trade Commission in LSI/Agere Systems Semiconductor Suit
• Landmark Patent for Online Conventions Granted to Software Management, Inc.
• Venafi Awarded Patent for Automated Encryption Key Management Operations
• Xodtec Granted New Patent for New Type of LED Lens Supporting Frame

Monday, September 21, 2009

• Acacia Subsidiary Enters into Settlement and License Agreement with Mercedes-Benz USA
• Cognex Receives Second Settlement in Vision Software Patent Dispute
• Impax Laboratories Confirms Patent Challenge Relating to ORACEA Delayed-Release Capsules, 40mg
• Knobbe Martens Grows Despite Current Legal Downsizing Trend
• Minerva and Cymbalta Patent Invalidity Evidence Uncovered by Article One Partners Community
• Pluritas Will Auction Zoltar’s GPS Emergency Locator Patents
• Stratavia Awarded Two Patents for Innovative Data Center Automation Technology
• Thomas Pasternak Joins Steptoe IP Group
• Tix Corporation Receives Notice of Allowance from United States Patent and Trademark Office
• Tyfone Receives Patent for Groundbreaking Mobile Electronic Wallet Technology
• VeriChip Corporation Granted Exclusive License for Patents Used in Virus Triage Detection System for H1N1 Virus

Friday, September 18, 2009

• New Les Paul Exhibit at the National Inventors Hall of Fame and Museum
• Regado Biosciences Announces Allowance in Europe of a Fundamental Patent Broadly Covering Oligonucleotide Modulators to Blood Coagulation Factor Aptamers
• Resolvyx Granted U.S. Patent for the First Resolvin Therapeutic to Enter Human Trials

Thursday, September 17, 2009

• InterDigital Signs Cinterion to Worldwide Patent License Agreement
• Medtronic and W.L. Gore & Associates Settle Patent Dispute
• Merchant & Gould Scores Litigation Victory for The First National Bank in Sioux Falls
• Regulus, Alnylam, and Isis Announce First microRNA Patent Grant in Japan from Tuschl III Patent Series

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

• MMP Portfolio Prevails After Multiple Reexams
• Urovalve Files Patent for New Product Offering
• Veteran Patent and Pharmaceutical Litigator Joins DLA Piper in New York

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

• AMRI Files New Patent Infringement Lawsuits against Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories and Sandoz
• Court Hands Veoh Major Victory in Universal Music Lawsuit
• Devon IT Files Patent Application for VDI Blaster Software That Extends Desktop PC Life
• FusionOne Awarded Patent for Cloud-based Multi-Service Sync and Storage of Consumer Media
• MPEG LA and ULDAGE Reach Historic Agreement

Monday, September 14, 2009

• Cantor Colburn’s Elizabeth Ann Morgan Appointed to AIPLA Board of Directors
• Card Activation Technologies, Inc. Receives Ruling on Claims Construction Issues
• Jennifer C. Chen Returns to McDermott Will & Emery From Hitachi
• Patent Application Approval for Remote Monitoring of Patient’s Use of Nebulizer Compressors
• Ropes & Gray Client Triumphs in High-Stakes Trade Secret Litigation in California
• Veteran Intellectual Property Team Joins Brown Rudnick

Friday, September 11, 2009

• IP Litigator Loeb Joins Dechert as Partner in Silicon Valley Office
• K&L Gates Advises YGM Group on Acquisition of Aquascutum’s Asian Intellectual Property Rights
• Warner Chilcott Files New Lawsuit for Infringement of LOESTRIN 24 FE and FEMCON FE Patents

Thursday, September 10, 2009

• Andrew Asks Court to Clear New Technology in Patent Case
• CA Wins Patent Litigation Pending in the Eastern District of New York
• CytRx Secures Key European Patent for Arimoclomol
• Martek Announces Settlement of Patent Dispute with Capsugel France
• Patriot Scientific Corporation Announces Alcon Inc.’s Purchase of a Moore Microprocessor Patent Portfolio License
• Paul Hastings Secures Dismissal in Patent Infringement Case on Behalf of Eisai
• Qualcomm and GlobalWireless Sign 3G Femtocell License Agreement
• Trex Company Prevails in Patent Litigation
• Yahoo! Associate General Counsel Joins Chadbourne & Parke IP Group

Wednesday, September 09, 2009

• 50 Millionth Unique Chemical Substance Recorded in CAS REGISTRY
• Advanced Micro-Fabrication Equipment, Inc. Prevails in Patent Infringement Suit Filed Against the Company by Lam Research in Taiwan
• Burns & Levinson Adds Two Partners to its Intellectual Property Group
• Court Judgment Favors Rudolph Technologies Patent Infringement Case
• Federal Circuit Denies Stay of ITC Wireless Orders
• Intellectual Property Practice Wins Summary Judgment for Arthrex, Inc. in Infringement Case
• SIIA Releases Sequel to Classic Anti-Piracy Music Video Don’t Copy That Floppy
• Thomson Joins Brooks Kushman
• YANGAROO Wins Ruling in Injunction Case Against Destiny Media

Tuesday, September 08, 2009

• Cereplast Granted Patent for Breakthrough Hybrid Resins
• Cognex Receives Settlement in Patent Dispute
• London Office of Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge Continues to Expand
• Michael F. Buchanan, Patent Litigator and Former Prosecutor, Joins Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Friday, September 04, 2009

• Emantix Awarded Patent for Managing Contextual Information
• Microsoft Says i4i Victory Requires Time to Redesign Word Office
• Phoenix Technologies Ltd. Files Amended Complaint in Lawsuit Against DeviceVM
• USA Technologies Issued Important Intelligent Vending Amended Patent

Thursday, September 03, 2009

• Gossamer Receives New Patent on Structural Frames Widely Used In Solar Development
• Klemchuk Kubasta LLP Opens for Business to Specialize in IP Legal Services
• Kunekt Provides Update on U.S. Patent Application
• USPTO Announces Senior Management Changes

Wednesday, September 02, 2009

• Dickstein Shapiro LLP Welcomes IP Team in Los Angeles
• Mike Drummond, Editor-in-Chief of Inventors Digest, Joins American Innovators for Patent Reform Board of Directors
• OPTi Receives Trial Schedule in Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
• U.S. District Court Confirms Validity of Unigene’s Fortical Patent

Tuesday, September 01, 2009

• Special Feature: Federal Circuit Overturns Central Component of Trademark Trial and Appeal Board’s Medinol Doctrine
• Knobbe Martens Announces Seattle Office Move Effective September 1, 2009
• LifeVantage Granted Third Patent for Protandim and Method for Reducing Important Inflammation Bio-Marker C-Reactive Protein
• Maryland Intellectual Property Legal Resource Center Moves to UM
• Oncolytics Biotech Inc. Announces Issuance of 32nd U.S. Patent
• Perkins Coie Adds Former Administrative Patent Judge and Biotech IP Associate to its Washington, D.C. Office
• StratEdge Receives Patent for Hermetic Surface Mount Package Designs

Monday, August 31, 2009

• Cooley Bolsters National IP Practice With Additions to Palo Alto Litigation Team
• ITC Issues Initial Determination in Tessera’s DRAM ITC Action
• Lifeline Biotechnologies Files Additional Patents on Its First Warning System
• MobileFrame Issued Two Patents for Its Innovative 100% Code Free Mobile Computing Platform with Smart Synchronization

Friday, August 28, 2009

• O2Micro Granted Patent for CCFL Driving Circuit
• Patent Filing for Fractal Metamaterial Invisibility On/Off Cloak-On-Command
• Surfware/Celeritive Lawsuit Settled
• Versata Wins $138 Million Patent Infringement Suit Against SAP America
• Winthrop & Weinstine Officially Launches Exciting, Engaging Intellectual Property Blog

Thursday, August 27, 2009

• American Scientific Resources Signs Letter of Intent to Acquire Intellectual Property
• Caraco Pharmaceutical Laboratories, Ltd. Announces Reversal of Summary Judgment in Ultracet ANDA Patent Litigation
• Counsel Corporation Subsidiary Files Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against Four Telecommunications Companies
• DISH Network and EchoStar Statement Regarding Tivo and PTO Action
• i4i vs. Microsoft Patent Infringement Case Update
• Nerites Corporation Announces Two Issued Patents

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

• Coats and Bennett, PLLC, Attorney to Lead American Bar Association Intellectual Property Committee
• McManis Faulkner Founder James McManis Joins IP Litigation Network, XDL Group
• Prominent Intellectual Property Lawyers Lee Bromberg and Erik Belt Join McCarter & English
• USPTO Grants Mercury Cable & Energy’s Petition for Reexamination of Composite Technology Corporation’s Patents for Composite ACCC Core
• Via Licensing Issues Patent Call for IEEE 802.11n Standard

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

• ARIAD And Its Co-Plaintiffs Announce That the Court of Appeals Granted Their Petition for Rehearing En Banc In the Lilly NF-kB Patent Lawsuit
• BioDelivery Sciences Announces Issuance of U.S. Patent Extending Exclusivity for the BEMA Delivery Technology
• Ecolab Licenses Environmental Hygiene Application from Infection Control Expert Dr. Philip Carling
• Intellectual Property Partner Joins Day Pitney in Boston
• Litigators Join Ballard Spahr’s Phoenix Office
• Stuart Levy Joins Sughrue Mion
• TANCS Steam Vapor Granted U.S. Patent

Monday, August 24, 2009

• Emulex Announces Cross Licensing Patent Agreement With IBM to Accelerate Integration of High Performance Networking Solutions
• Foamix Receives US Patent on Novel Foam Technology
• Milestone Scientific Announces Notice of Allowance From US Patent and Trademark Office
• MONKEYmedia Launches SeamlessTV Patent Licensing Program
• Shin-Etsu Chemical to Obtain License from OFS for Use of Patent in Making Preform with Low-Water-Peak Fiber by Cladding VAD Core

Friday, August 21, 2009

• Expedited Appeal Schedule in i4i vs. Microsoft Patent Infringement Case
• Fitch Even Tabin & Flannery Welcomes New Partner
• US Court Grants Finjan a Permanent Injunction for Infringing Technology Found in the WebWasher and TSP Products and Enhances the Jury’s Damage Award

Thursday, August 20, 2009

• Andrea F. Sellers Rejoins Stinson Morrison Hecker LLP
• Foley & Lardner Adds Patent Attorney to Boston Office
• Global Resource Corporation Receives Notice of Allowance in Patent Application for Microwave-Process Technology
• Stella McCartney Wins Perfume Battle With Bono’s Wife

Wednesday, August 19, 2009

• Aerocrine Provides Update on Its Legal Action Against Apieron
• Cisco Systems and Avaya Sued by Klausner Technologies for Visual Voicemail Patent Infringement
• Foley & Lardner Adds Jonathan Moskin to Intellectual Property Department in New York Office
• K&L Gates Adds to Intellectual Property Practice with Palo Alto Partner
• Merck Wins SINGULAIR Patent Infringement Lawsuit
• Teva Provides Update on Generic Singulair Litigation

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

• Amy Brosius Selected for the Boston Business Journal’s 2009 40 Under 40 Award
• Asset Management Finance LLC Awarded Patent For Its Revenue Share Interest Financing Model
• BioSolar Files Patent for BioBacksheet-A Thin Film Photovoltaic Solar Module Component
• General Patent Corporation Licenses Key Cell Phone Patent Owned by DTL to Eleven Phone Companies
• Haier Sued for Infringing Digital Television Patents
• Karl F. Milde, Jr. Joins Eckert Seamans
• McAndrews, Held & Malloy Secures Victory for Bausch & Lomb
• Patent Awarded to US Spine for Facet Gun
• PerkinElmer Signs Exclusive Licensing Agreement with Max Planck Innovation for Silicon Photomultiplier (SiPM) Technology
• Strategic Diagnostics Awarded Patent For Use of Bacteriophages in Microbiological Assays and Processes

Monday, August 17, 2009

• Appellate Court Rules That Pro V1 Patent Case Should Proceed
• Biovail Comments on Ultram ER Court Ruling
• BroadLight is Awarded a Key PON DBA Patent
• Cleveland BioLabs Receives First U.S. Patent Allowance for Its Radiation Protection Drug Protectan CBLB502
• InterDigital Receives Notice of Initial Determination in ITC Patent Infringement Action Against Nokia
• Network Signatures Retains CrowdGather for Online Marketing
• RAYSPAN Corporation Announces Grant of Fundamental Metamaterial Air Interface Patent

Friday, August 14, 2009

• Consona Granted Patent for Pioneering Knowledge Management User Interface Approach
• Embarq Signs Visual Voicemail Patent License Agreement With Klausner Technologies
• Smith Moore Leatherwood Grows Intellectual Property Practice

Thursday, August 13, 2009

• EMO Capital Corp (EMOE) to Acquire Patent from Orexis Technologies
• GeneLink Receives Official Notice Regarding International Patent for Skin Health DNA Assessment
• Medion Sued for MPEG-2 Patent Infringement
• Nutra Pharma Subsidiary, ReceptoPharm, Files Patent Application for the Oral Delivery of Cobra Venom for the Treatment of Pain

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

• Biotechnology and Chemistry Technical Specialists Join Lahive & Cockfield Intellectual Property Team
• Brightstar Awarded U.S. Patent for Improving the Mobility of Fixed Wireless Terminals
• Nine Merchant & Gould Attorneys Named 2010 Best Lawyers in America
• NYC & Company Extends Partnership With OpSec Security as Exclusive Global Supplier for Anti-Counterfeiting Program
• Pfizer Intellectual Property Lawyer Joins Miller Canfield
• TeleCommunication Systems Issued U.S. Patent for Web Page Content Translator
• US Patent and Trademark Office Issues Breakthrough Wireless Patent to Skky LLC After 8 Years Pending
• What Makes a University Great?

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

• Acacia Subsidiary Enters into Settlement Agreement Regarding Credit Card Fraud Protection Technology with Regis
• Fish & Richardson Wins Summary Judgment for TomTom, Inc.
• KSS Receives Patent for Intelligence Behind RackPrice Software
• Patent Awarded to Metabolon for Metabolomics Software
• Qualipat Selects the SyberWorks Hosted Learning Management System to Provide Patent Drafting Instruction
• TechRadium Reaches Agreement With Blackboard Inc. to Cross-License Notification Patents
• TeleCommunication Systems Clarifies USPTO Action in Patent Re-Exam
• U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Grants Another ID Analytics Patent

Monday, August 10, 2009

• AeroVironment Awarded U.S. Patent for Electric Vehicle Energy Data Management and Control
• ClickSoftware Awarded Patent for a Method and System for Sharing Knowledge in the Field
• eInstruction Protects Technology Patent
• Foley & Lardner Successfully Represents Desire2Learn in Patent Infringement Case
• McCarter & English Continues to Expand in New York With the Hiring of Harley Lewin
• Somanetics Corporation Files Patent Infringement Action Against CAS Medical Systems, Inc.
• Three IP Lawyers Join Paul Hastings
• Upstream Biosciences Seeks Licensors or Acquirers for Drug Discovery Portfolio and Cancer Diagnostic Platform

Saturday, August 08, 2009

• AIPLA Applauds Senate Confirmation of Dave Kappos as USPTO Director
• Court Shelves Encyclopaedia Britannica Patent Infringement Case

Friday, August 07, 2009

• Fitzpatrick, Cella Successfully Defends Blockbuster Drug Benicar on Behalf of Client Daiichi Sankyo
• Lawsuit Exposes Potential Patent Danger
• Presstek Announces International Trade Commission Victory in Patent Infringement Case Against VIM Technologies
• Synygy Files Lawsuit Against ZS Associates for Copyright Infringement and Misappropriation of Intellectual Property
• Tessera to Confront Amkor’s Breach of License
• Vanguard and Spurlock Triumph Over Warren Publishing in Famous Monsters Case

Thursday, August 06, 2009

• AGA Medical Announces Verdict in Jury Phase of Patent Infringement Suit
• Altairnano Assigns Renazorb and Renalan Patents to Spectrum Pharmaceuticals
• BIO Urges Supreme Court to Reject Rigid Bilski Rule
• Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione Files Amicus Brief in the Supreme Court in Bilski
• Duane Morris’ New York Office Adds Intellectual Property Partner Stefan Grant, M.D.
• General Patent Corporation Licenses Key Cell Phone Patent Owned by DTL to Mid-Rivers Telephone Cooperative
• International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI) Files Amicus Curiae Brief in re Bilski
• McAndrews, Held & Malloy Secures Victory For Sinochem
• Medtronic Awarded $57 Million in Patent Dispute with AGA Medical Corporation
• OPTi Receives Ruling in Markman Hearing in Patent Infringement Action in Compact ISA Litigation
• Sybase 365 Notes U.S. Patent & Trademark Office’s Initial Rejection of All Claims in TCS ’748 Patent on Multiple Grounds of Anticipation and Obviousness
• TapImmune Announces Acquisition of Additional Technology
• TechRadium Files Lawsuit Against Twitter, Alleges Infringement of Three Patents

Wednesday, August 05, 2009

• Acacia Subsidiary Enters into Licensing Agreement with Xerox Corp.
• Gen-Probe Broadens Intellectual Property Portfolio Surrounding Automated Nucleic Acid Testing
• ICU Medical, Inc. and Medegen, Inc. Announce Resolution of Patent Litigation
• Luminetx and AccuVein Reach Settlement Agreement
• Metiscan Subsidiary Announces Acquisition of iPhone Applications

Tuesday, August 04, 2009

• Acacia Subsidiary Enters into Settlement Agreements Regarding Credit Card Fraud Protection Technology
• APTARE Granted U.S. Patent
• EnLink Geoenergy Announces Patent Infringement Litigation
• NIH Awards Klarquist Sparkman With Three Patent Contracts
• Nutter Ranks No. 1 Nationally for Associate Satisfaction for Second Consecutive Year
• Open Invention Network Announces Launch of Distinguished Inventors Patent Acquisition Program With Purchase of V_Graph Patents
• Palatin Technologies, Inc. Receives U.S. Patent Allowance for Heart Failure Drug Candidate
• Vibes Media Receives Patent for Innovative Radio Platform

Monday, August 03, 2009

• American Fireglass Wins Patent, Trademark and Copyright Infringement Case
• Caraco Pharmaceutical Laboratories, Ltd. Announces Settlement of Ethyol ANDA Patent Litigation
• New Fredrikson & Byron Practice Group Helps Clients With Offense and Defense in High Stakes Competitive Information/Trade Secrets Games
• Squire Sanders Adds Patent Litigator to Palo Alto Office

Friday, July 31, 2009

• Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione Sinks Transocean’s Offshore Drilling Patents
• Court Dismisses Patent Infringement Case Against SkyHawke for Lack of Standing
• Patents Issued Covering Stable Tablet Formulation and Once Daily Dosing Regimen for Kuvan
• SyntheMed Receives US Patent on Novel Polymer Technology
• TeleCommunication Systems Files Two Patent Infringement Lawsuits Against Sybase 365 Inc.
• VirnetX Receives Markman Order in Patent Infringement Action Against Microsoft

Thursday, July 30, 2009

• Bean, Kinney & Korman Wins Appeal for Defendant Imagination Entertainment Limited, et al Regarding the Marketing and Sale of Popular Dice Game
• McAndrews, Held & Malloy Attorney Sharon Hwang Begins Tenure As President of the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Chicago Area
• Morrison & Foerster Secures Another Victory for Funai in Patent Infringement Case
• Uniloc Isolates Defendable Device Recognition Patents

Wednesday, July 29, 2009

• Nutter McClennen & Fish Expands IP Practice
• OPTi and Standard Microsystems Corporation Reach Settlement Agreement in Patent Infringement Action
• Toro and Advanced Sensor Technology Resolve Wireless Soil Monitoring Dispute

Tuesday, July 28, 2009

• EarthSure’s One Invention to Revolutionize Two Industries
• Former Thermadyne General Counsel Joins Armstrong Teasdale
• Patent Office Upholds I-Flow Corporation’s Patent and Court Rules in I-Flow’s Favor in the Case against Apex Medical Technologies, Zone Medical and McGlothlin
• Universal Detection Technology Receives U.S. Patent for Automated Anthrax Detection System

Monday, July 27, 2009

• Abbott and Medtronic Reach Agreement on Global Patent Disputes
• AmberPoint Awarded Patent for the Core Technology It Uses to Manage and Monitor Composite Applications
• Biomoda Adds to Patent Portfolio
• Brightstar Wins U.S. Patent For Reverse Logistics Platform
• Taro Sues Synerx Pharma, Karalex Pharma and DPT Laboratories for Patent Infringement
• United States Patent Office Issues Decision in Re-examination Proceedings

Friday, July 24, 2009

• Cytori Comments on Patent Appeal
• Morrisey Associates -- Patent Claim Has No Merit
• TeleCommunication Systems Files Friend of the Court Brief to Supreme Court in Bilski Methods Patent Case

Thursday, July 23, 2009

• Chexar Networks, Inc. Denies Any Patent Infringement
• Frankfurt Kurnit Enters Strategic Alliance With Serling Rooks
• Merchant & Gould Defeats Trademark Opposition On Behalf Of Its Client, Sportslife Camps, Inc.
• Nanosys Reaches Settlement of Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against Nanoco Technologies for Quantum Dot Technology
• SENSIO’s Patent Application is Allowed by the USPTO
• Stanacard Announces Injunctions Against Competitors in Patent Battle
• Watch Out: Is Canada as Bad as China when it comes to Intellectual Property Infringement?

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

• BackWeb Adds Symantec Corporation as Defendant in Its Patent Infringement Lawsuit
• General Patent Corporation Licenses Video Codec Patent to Electro Flip
• Mayer Brown Strengthens IP Practice With Addition of Gary M. Hnath
• VALID Systems Files Federal Lawsuit Against Chexar Networks

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

• Align Technology Provides Update on Patent Litigation with Ormco Corporation
• Buchalter Nemer Welcomes New IP Shareholder Farah Bhatti
• ICAP Ocean Tomo Retained to Sell a Patent Portfolio Covering USB Flash Drives/Portable Memory Devices Owned by Ennova Direct, Inc. dba ION Technologies
• Immunomedics Announces U.S. Patent for a Facile Method of Fluorine-18 Labeling of Proteins and Peptides
• Medversant Files Lawsuit Against Morrissey Associates for Patent Infringement
• Naresh Soni Joins InterDigital as Vice President, Strategic Engineering
• PARI Granted US Patent for Vortex Holding Chamber
• R. Parrish Freeman Jr. Joins Waddey & Patterson
• Sunstein Kann Murphy & Timbers Announces New Name and Continued Independence
• VoiceAge Announces the Creation of a Patent Pool for AMR-WB/G.722.2 Speech Compression Standards
• YANGAROO’s Next U.S. Patent Application Published

Monday, July 20, 2009

• AuthenTec Further Expands Its Industry-leading Patent Portfolio
• InComm Secures Another Patent for Stored Value Card Transactions
• IntusIQ and Comverge, Inc. Resolve Patent Litigation
• Trapeze Networks Awarded Two More Breakthrough Patents

Friday, July 17, 2009

• Acacia Subsidiary Acquires Patents for Computer Architecture and Power Management Technologies
• Azure Dynamics Awarded Two New Patents
• Circadence Corporation Acquires Extensive Network Intelligence Intellectual Property Portfolio
• EFI Wins Important Patent Lawsuit on Its VUTEk Inkjet Technology
• Personalized User Model, L.L.P Files Search Engine Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against Google
• Schnader Welcomes Salem M. Katsh to the Firm
• Vanguard ID Systems Wins Patent Decision Over Bank of America

Thursday, July 16, 2009

• CTI Group Granted Patent Approval for SmartRecord IP
• Enigma Diagnostics Announces Signing of Patent Licenses With Roche Molecular Systems, Inc.
• Federal Court Rules That Actsoft Alcohol Bracelet Can’t Actually Monitor Blood Alcohol Content
• Hexagon Metrology Initiates Litigation Against Metris and Mitutoyo
• RPX Defensive Patent Aggregation Service Adds HP and Nokia to Membership
• Rush Tracking Systems Acquires International Paper’s Patent Portfolio for Automated Scanning

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

• A New Speech Recognition Patent Is Issued to Advanced Voice Recognition Systems, Inc.
• Acacia Subsidiary Enters into Settlement Agreement Regarding Credit Card Fraud Protection Technology with The Finish Line
• AuthenTec Acquires Assets of Atrua Technologies
• Cellular Dynamics International In-Licenses Key Patent Portfolio for Using Stem Cell-Derived Cells in Drug Testing
• Former U.S. International Trade Commission Senior Investigative Attorney Karin Norton Joins Intellectual Property Litigation Practice in Sidley’s Washington Office
• Immunomedics Announces U.S. Patents Awarded for Bispecific Antibody Technologies
• IP Advocate Enhances Interactive IPAO Forum With New Expert Opinions Section
• Taro Receives Patent for Ovide
• The Kenrich Group Opens New Washington D.C. Office To Accommodate Growing Staff
• The National Inventors Hall of Fame and Museum at the USPTO Opens Exhibit of Michael Jackson’s Patent and Trademarks

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

• ArthroVision Terminates Patent Dispute With Chondrometrics
• Court Rules in Favor of Finance Express in Last of the Patent Disputes Against DealerTrack
• David T. Scheffman, Former Senior Federal Trade Commission Official, Joins Cornerstone Research as Senior Advisor
• ISSYS Licenses Microtube Patent to Affinity Biosensors
• MagSil Corporation and Seagate Technology Resolve Patent Infringement Lawsuit
• MarketAxess Awarded U.S. Patent for Request for Quotation Electronic Trading Capability
• MOSAID Sues IBM for Patent Infringement
• Patent Infringement Verdict Awards Nearly $8M in Damages to Denver Entrepreneur
• Smith Micro Software’s New Patents Provide Customers with Innovative Advantages to Seamlessly Manage Multiple Wireless Networks
• U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Rejects Additional Patent Claims That Rambus is Asserting Against NVIDIA

Monday, July 13, 2009

• Cytori Expands Patent Protection for the Celution System and Uses for Adipose Derived Stem and Regenerative Cells
• Everett Laboratories and Breckenridge Pharmaceutical Settle Patent Litigation Matters
• Medizone International, Inc. Has Filed for Patent Protection for Its AsepticSure Hospital Sterilization System
• The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Grants Innovatier Its Second Patent
• Uroplasty Announces Patent Issuance Related to the Urgent PC System

Friday, July 10, 2009

• Forest Laboratories and H. Lundbeck A/S Enter Into Settlement Agreement With Sun and Caraco Related to Lexapro Patent Litigation
• McKool Smith Announces Additions in Washington, DC
• PacStar Granted Patent for Deployable, Software-Managed, Broadband Communications System
• Proton Energy Systems is Granted Patent for Breakthrough Hydrogen Technology

Thursday, July 09, 2009

• 310 Holdings Inc. Files Patent Application for Plastic2Oil Technology
• Acacia Subsidiary Acquires Patent for Messaging Technology
• AngioChem Granted First U.S. Patent Covering Angiopep-2, an Engineered Peptide for Drugs to Cross the Blood-Brain Barrier
• Microbix Files First Patent Applications On Novel Technology Platform For Large Semen Sexing Market
• Ropes & Gray Achieves Complete Victory in Patent Infringement Case on Behalf of RouteOne LLC
• VIZIO Wins U.S. Customs Ruling

Wednesday, July 08, 2009

• AVEO Pharmaceuticals Granted Patent for Protection of its Directed Complementation Technology
• Centriforce Files Patent on New Water System
• Commerce Secretary Gary Locke Takes Key Step to Address Patent and Trademark Office Challenges
• Inventor of Eco-Friendly Antifreeze Fights for Ownership Rights to His Own Patents, According to New Case Study Published on IPAdvocate.org
• LecTec Corporation Files Patent Infringement Lawsuit
• Metabolon Awarded a Series of Metabolomics Method Patents
• Millipore Sues W.L. Gore & Associates for Patent Infringement

Tuesday, July 07, 2009

• Coats and Bennett, PLLC, Hires Justin Leonard and George Alexander
• Digonex Awarded Third Patent for Innovative Dynamic Pricing System
• Former Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks Joins General Patent Corporation’s Advisory Board of Directors
• FreePatentsOnline Rolls Out First Ever Patent Map
• Growing Minneapolis IP Litigation Firm Nails Back-to-Back $20+ Million Wins
• OCS Granted Patent for Traffic Load Adaptive Network Physical Layer
• Patents at the Speed of Business
• Peer-to-Patent Pilot Releases Second-Year Report Demonstrating Success of Public Participation in Patent Process
• Star Scientific Files Motion for Judgment--New Trial in Patent Infringement Lawsuit against RJ Reynolds, Announces Retention of Carter G. Phillips, Esquire as Appellate Counsel

Monday, July 06, 2009

• Precision BioSciences Issues Update Regarding Recent U.S. Patent Office Action Concerning Cellectis’ Patents

Thursday, July 02, 2009

• 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

Wednesday, July 01, 2009

• Credit Suisse Chief Patent Counsel Joins Chadbourne & Parke IP Group
• 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
• 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

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

• 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
• 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
• Innovation Hot Spots -- Thomson Reuters Analysis of World Patent Activity Identifies Technology Areas Showing Sharpest Growth
• ITC Issues Initial Determination in FormFactor’s Wafer Probecard ITC Action
• McAndrews, Held & Malloy Nationally Recognized by Chambers & Partners as Intellectual Property Law Leader
• PROLOR Biotech Awarded Two U.S. Patents for Its Longer-Acting Human Growth Hormone and Longer-Acting Erythropoietin
• 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

Monday, June 29, 2009

• Acacia Subsidiary Licenses Medical Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS) Technology to FUJIFILM Corporation
• Attorney with National, International IP Practice Joins Barnes & Thornburg LLP’s Chicago Office
• Casio Licenses Wi-Lan Wireless Technology
• Former U.S. International Trade Commission Senior Investigative Attorney Karin Norton Joins Intellectual Property Litigation Practice in Sidley’s Washington Office
• Pangu BioPharma, aTyr Pharma’s Subsidiary in Hong Kong, Files Three Patent Applications
• USPTO and the National Board of Patents and Registration of Finland Partner to Expedite Processing and Improve Patent Quality
• WebTech Wireless Announces Developments in Patent Lawsuit

Friday, June 26, 2009

• 3M Wins Revocation of HTC Patent by European Patent Office
• Anderson Kill & Olick Hires Cynthia M. Monaco, Former Federal Prosecutor, as a Lead Shareholder Anti-Counterfeiting Group
• DuPont and Bayer CropScience Expand Collaboration With Broad License Agreements
• Federal District Judge Upholds Patent Judgment in Favor of Lincoln Financial Group
• Jury Renders Verdict for Ormco - Align’s Invisalign Product Infringes Ormco Patent
• PatentCafe Merges With Pantros IP

Thursday, June 25, 2009

• afterBOT Awarded Patent for Retail Industry Digital Receipt System
• Alkane, Inc. Announces U.S. Patent Filing on High Energy Synthetic Fuel
• Bankruptcy Trustee Launches Sale of Innovative Spinal Technologies, Inc. Assets
• CEL-SCI Files Patent Application to Support Company’s Treatment for More Virulent Strain of H1N1 Swine and Other Influenza Viruses
• Court Affirms Ruling Against CVS to Stop Sale of Counterfeit and Decoded Davidoff Fragrances
• Virtual Law Partners Welcomes David Lawson, Janyce Mitchell, David Roise, and Stephen Sullivan

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

• 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
• Dot Hill Secures Six New Patents, Bolstering Heritage as a Trailblazer in Storage Innovation
• Experienced Intellectual Property Litigator Joins Fulbright as a Partner
• IEEE Collaboration with Via Licensing Gains Momentum
• NIKE and the NBA Basketball Hall of Fame Sued for Fraud and Other Claims by SportsFuzion Over Michael Jordan Products
• SONIC and Shell Canada Jointly Apply for Oil Sands Process Patent

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

• 90 Brain Fitness Patents for Posit Science
• Boingo Wireless Awarded First Patent
• Excentus Files Lawsuit against Safeway and Its Subsidiaries Blackhawk and Randalls/Tom Thumb for Patent Infringement and Theft of Trade Secrets
• Liquidware Labs Granted Two Further Patents
• Priya Iyer Promoted to CEO of Anaqua

Monday, June 22, 2009

• Don J. Mizerk Joins Husch Blackwell Sanders Welsh & Katz
• ION Files Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against WesternGeco
• Just Enterprises, Inc. Prevails in Trademark Dispute
• Micronics Receives Patent on Rapid Thermocycling Methodology for Molecular Diagnostics
• Woodcock Washburn Awarded 10-Year Contract from the National Institutes of Health

Thursday, June 18, 2009

• AllTrust Networks Granted Electronic Depositing Patent
• Cascadia Investments, Inc. to Seek Patent Protection for TinyTwirp.com
• Federal Court Rules CEIVA Patent Is Infringed by Frame Media
• ImmunoCellular Therapeutics Announces Filing of Key Patent Application Relating to Cancer Stem Cell Technology

Wednesday, June 17, 2009

• AVEO Pharmaceuticals Granted Patent for Predictive Biomarker Used to Identify Human Tumors Likely to Respond to Notch Pathway Inhibition
• Curis Announces Issuance of U.S. Patent Covering CUDC-101 Composition of Matter for Novel HDAC/EGFR/Her2 Inhibitor
• DuPont Asserts Anti-Trust, Patent Claims Against Monsanto
• Kirkland & Ellis LLP Wins Chambers USA Award for Excellence in IP Litigation
• MicroFluidic Systems Receives Patent for Method to Selectively Process Different Biological Cell Types for Analysis
• Priviam and EncryptaKey Resolve Patent Litigation

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

• BioMarck Pharmaceuticals Announces the Issuance of Two United States Patents
• Cantor Colburn LLP Selected by the National Institutes of Health as Outside Patent Counsel
• OASIS Introduces Non-Assertion Mode to Its Intellectual Property Rights Policy for Standards Development
• PowerSat Files Patent That Accelerates Viability Of Space Solar Power (SSP) Satellite Systems
• Raptor Networks Technology Notes Issuance of Two Additional Patents in Distributed Fabric Architectures and Virtualized Systems

Monday, June 15, 2009

• Palomar Successful in U.S. Patent Office Re-Examination of Hair Removal Patent

Friday, June 12, 2009

• Charlotte Law Firm Adds Banking Veteran to Trademark Practice
• Christopher K. Albert Joins Hamilton Brook Smith Reynolds as an Associate
• Edwards Lifesciences Prevails on Validity and Infringement in UK Patent Case Against Cook
• Joseph Abboud Wins Appeal
• Merchant & Gould Adds Kevin E. West to its Omaha Office
• Orexigen Therapeutics Announces In-Licensing of Key Patents to Further Strengthen its Intellectual Property Estate for Contrave
• Woodcock Washburn Awarded 10-Year Contract from the National Institutes of Health

Thursday, June 11, 2009

• Dr. Zalman M. Shapiro, 89, Granted Patent for Innovative Method of Synthesizing Diamonds
• Foley & Lardner Adds Japanese Partner Specialized in International Transactions and IP to Tokyo Office
• Patent Reissued Including New Claims for Kemin Health’s FloraGLO Lutein
• VirnetX Hires McKool Smith to Lead Litigation Efforts against Microsoft

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

• Access Pharmaceuticals Announces Granting of Two US Patents for MuGard
• Aperio Files Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against Olympus America, Hamamatsu Corporation and Hamamatsu Photonics
• EdgeCast Inks Strategic Partnership with Web.com
• Forum Systems Issued Patent 7,516,333 for XML Security Gateway
• KV Pharmaceutical Company, Purdue Pharma L.P. Settle OxyContin Dispute
• Rambus Moves to Withdraw Patents From ITC Proceedings Against NVIDIA

Tuesday, June 09, 2009

• Deanne Maynard, Former Assistant to the U.S. Solicitor General, to Head Morrison & Foerster’s Appellate and Supreme Court Practice
• Don J. Mizerk Joins Husch Blackwell Sanders Welsh & Katz
• GraphOn Corp. Files Countersuit Against Juniper Networks for Patent Infringement
• Impliant Granted Two New U.S. Patents and Successfully Defends European Patent Opposition Case
• Leading Patent Practitioners Join Rothwell Figg
• The Graham Company Receives Favorable Decision In Landmark Copyright Infringement Case
• US Patent Office Action Rejects Key Claims to Cellectis’ Core Technology

Monday, June 08, 2009

• In2Focus Films Files Counterclaim Against Champboat Racing, LLC
• Jason Shanske Joins Rader, Fishman & Grauer in Bloomfield Hills as Associate
• Life Sciences Added to Intellectual Property Practice
• McCarter & English Further Expands its IP Practice in Boston With the Addition of David Burns

Friday, June 05, 2009

• Former Pharmaceutical Scientist Joins Nixon Peabody’s Intellectual Property Practice
• Howrey Mourns the Loss of Tom Arnold
• Irell & Manella Secures Another Victory for TiVo, as Texas Judge Finds EchoStar in Contempt of 2006 Injunction Order
• LML Patent Corp. Files Patent Infringement Suit Against Six Defendants
• Neuralstem Receives Patent Allowance for Compounds That Promote Neurogenesis

Thursday, June 04, 2009

• Bethesda-Based IP Firm Berenato, White & Stavish, LLC Announces Team Expansion
• Dennis A. Duchene Rejoins McDermott’s San Diego Office as Partner in the Intellectual Property Department
• Fenwal Statement Regarding Patent Litigation
• Kenyon & Kenyon Announces Arrival of New Partner Megan Whyman Olesek

Wednesday, June 03, 2009

• Finjan’s Gateway Security Patent Receives Second Approval by US Patent Office
• Hovey Williams Named One of the Top Trademark Firms by Intellectual Property Today
• McDermott Will & Emery Achieves Significant Patent Win on Behalf of Honeywell International in Appellate Court
• Novocell Obtains U.S. Patent for Drug Screening Human Embryonic Cell Derived-Endoderm Cells
• US Department of Commerce Awards First Exclusive Bioreactor Patent to ATI Petroleum

Tuesday, June 02, 2009

• CrowdGather Announces Filing of Utility Patent Titled Systems and Methods for Syndicating Content to, and Mining Content from, Internet Based Forums with U.S.P.T.O.
• Lancope Granted Fourth U.S. Patent for Flow-based Detection of Network Intrusions
• Niutang Sucralose Patent Litigation Successfully Concluded
• Prime View International Reaches Agreement to Acquire E Ink
• Single Touch Systems Acquires Advertising Centric Patent Portfolio for $5.5 Million
• U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Rejects Patent Claims that Rambus is Asserting Against NVIDIA

Monday, June 01, 2009

• Special Feature -- Supreme Court Grants Cert in Landmark Patent Subject Matter Case
• 3DIcon Files Provisional Patent Application for High-Resolution Emissive Projection Screen
• New Energy Expands Patent Portfolio for Newly-Prototyped Device Able to Generate Electricity from Moving Cars
• NextWindow Granted Key Optical Touch Screen Patents
• Stantum Granted Key Patents on Its Multi-Touch Technology

Friday, May 29, 2009

• Binary Tree Announces Patent-Pending Process for Migrating Up to 10,000 Users a Week from Lotus Notes to Microsoft Exchange
• Lightwave Logic, Inc. Reports on Positive Patent Activities
• Medical Marijuana, Inc Files Provisional Patent Application for Inventory Distribution and Accounting Solution
• Merchant & Gould Welcomes Five New Partners And Expands Into the Western District Of Wisconsin
• Scene Selection Patent Acquisition Opportunity
• State Supreme Court Decision Paves Way for Intellectual Property Law Development
• Unigene’s First Site-Directed Bone Growth Patent Issues

Thursday, May 28, 2009

• Acacia Subsidiary Enters into a Settlement and License Agreement with Dukane Corp.
• Advaxis Receives US Patent and Trademark Office Approval on Act-A Protein Patent-Pending Rights
• Falcon Genomics Awarded Patent for Innovative Cancer Test
• Network-1 Announces Settlement of Patent Litigation with NETGEAR
• Wi-LAN Adds Seasoned Technology Licensing Executive

Wednesday, May 27, 2009

• AIA Granted US Patent on AGORA, its Electric Power Grid System
• Foley & Lardner Adds Patent Litigation Team to Boston Office
• Frankfurt Kurnit Law Firm Adds New Intellectual Property Partner
• HANS Serves Patent Infringement Suit Against defNder
• McAndrews, Held & Malloy Secures Victory for Client Stryker Corporation
• Osteologix Receives Key U.S. Patent Allowance for Novel Osteoporosis Drug
• PANDORA Wins Key Ruling in Patent Infringement Case
• Savi Technology Announces Settlement in Patent Infringement Case Against AeroScout
• Spire Receives U.S. Patent for Nanophotovoltaic Devices
• U.S. District Court Orders Hynix to Post Security for Infringing Rambus Patents

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

• Cannasat Therapeutics Announces Favorable Decision From United States Patent and Trademark Office
• Collegium Pharmaceutical Inc. Announces Notice of Allowance for U.S. Patent Covering its Novel Combination Allergic Rhinitis Product
• Connolly Bove Welcomes Three IP Litigation Partners
• George Mason Patent Law Symposium Set for July 21st
• QD Soleil Acquires Critical Patents in Solar Energy
• Two Denver-Based I.P. Law Firms Team Up To Win NIH Contract to Provide Biotech Patent Legal Services

Friday, May 22, 2009

• Experienced IP Litigator Nate Dilger Joins Turner Green LLP
• Intrasweep Enjoys Patent on Reciprocal Deposits Technology

Thursday, May 21, 2009

• Irell & Manella Helps Tessera Secure Second Significant Victory This Year
• Patent Application to Curb Teen Drunk Driving Poised to Become Most Discussed Innovation in History of Peer-to-Patent Website
• Viral Genetics Has Option Under Issued Key Patent for Cancer Drug

Wednesday, May 20, 2009

• Microsoft and HP Renew Patent Cross-License Agreement
• Simpson Thacher Wins Dismissal of Antitrust Suit Tied to Generic Patent Drug

Tuesday, May 19, 2009

• Automated Valet Refutes Claim of Patent Infringement
• Intradigm Announces Issuance of RNA Interference (RNAi) Patent Covering Potent siRNA Sequence
• Inventors’ Group Supporters Call Intel Founder Andy Grove’s Comments about Patents Absurd and Irresponsible
• NiTi Surgical Solutions Announces Issuance of Key Patent For ColonRing Surgical Device
• Novocell Awarded Patent for Innovative Stem Cell Therapy for Diabetes
• Osteologix Receives U.S. Patent Allowance for Osteoporosis Drug Manufacturing Patent

Monday, May 18, 2009

• Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione Moves to New Offices in Indianapolis
• Patton Boggs Wins Major Intellectual Property Case
• Squire Sanders Adds to IP Strength in Tysons Corner Office

Friday, May 15, 2009

• Arnstein & Lehr Welcomes Judith L. Grubner to its Chicago Office
• Bingham Expands IP Litigation Team in Tokyo
• K&L Gates Adds Corporate, IP Litigation Partners in New York Office
• Katten Adds Jeffrey Hovden as New York-based Intellectual Property Partner

Thursday, May 14, 2009

• Applied DNA Sciences Files Patent for SigNature DNA in Cyanoacrylate to Add Forensic Layer of Anti-Counterfeit Security
• Kilpatrick Stockton Continues Expansion of Leading Intellectual Property Department in New York
• OMAX Announces Settlement in Patent Litigation
• Palomar Wins Two European Hair Removal Patent Opposition Hearings
• Procter & Gamble Wins Patent Infringement Lawsuit for Osteoporosis Therapy Actonel

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

• Greenberg Traurig Welcomes Patent Prosecutor Cecily O’Regan to the Silicon Valley Office
• Peabody Hotels Successfully Protects Peabody Brand, Peabody Duck Imagery Against Trademark Infringement
• Saxon Innovations Signs License Agreement with HTC Corporation
• Takumi Technology Granted Patent on Effective Proximity Effect Correction Methodology
• Vobach Move to Swanson & Bratschun Adds Software & EE IP Depth

Tuesday, May 12, 2009

• Concert Pharmaceuticals Granted Patents on Deuterium-Modified Compounds
• Mobius Photonics Patent for Precise Average Power Control of Green and UV Fiber-Based Light Sources Targets Process Uniformity, Repeatability, Pulse Stability
• MPEG LA Announces Progress in Facilitation of LTE Patent Pool License
• Nano Terra Inc. and Honeywell Aerospace Announce Development and Licensing Agreement
• Right90 Awarded Patent for Combination of OLTP and OLAP Technologies in Forecasting Business Process

Sunday, May 10, 2009

• Court Upholds Markman Judgment in Strand Bamboo Patent Litigation

Saturday, May 09, 2009

• iLight Technologies Prevails in Patent Infringement Lawsuit
• Quest Patent Research Corporation Enters Into an Exclusive Capital Management Agreement for Intellectual Property Investment Strategy

Thursday, May 07, 2009

• Morrison & Foerster Partner James Pooley Nominated Deputy Director General of World Intellectual Property Organization

Wednesday, May 06, 2009

• Special Feature -- Tafas v. Doll: Federal Circuit Supports USPTO
• Fractus S.A. Sues Ten Cell Phone Manufacturers for Patent Infringement on Nine Different Patents
• Immunomedics Announces U.S. Patent for Dock-And-Lock
• IPLAC Presents New Officers and Board Members
• NeoStem Files Patent Application for Cosmetic Stem Cell Face Lift Technology and Expands Stem Cell Collection Network into New Jersey
• TruePosition Wins $20 Million in Additional Damages in Patent Infringement Case Against Andrew Corporation

Tuesday, May 05, 2009

• Appellate Court Upholds Patent-Infringement Case with U.S. Electronic Toll Road Implications
• Carlsbad Technology Achieves 9-0 Supreme Court Ruling on Issue of Appellate Jurisdiction
• General Patent Corporation Licenses DTL Patent to Plantronics and Sennheiser
• Oblon, Spivak Opens Affiliate Office in Tokyo
• Yangaroo Receives U.S. Patent

Monday, May 04, 2009

• Howrey Mourns the Loss of Cecilia Gonzalez
• Pamela C. Gavin Joins Williams Mullen as Vice Chair of Intellectual Property Practice
• Trio of Acclaimed Los Angeles Litigators Launch Boutique Firm

Friday, May 01, 2009

• Grandis Awarded Seven Key STT-RAM Patents
• K&L Gates Boosts Intellectual Property Practice with Addition of Seattle Lawyer
• MOSAID Signs First Deal for New Communications Patents in Record Time
• Qualcomm and Sanmu Sign 3G License Agreement

Thursday, April 30, 2009

• Federal Court Rules Bally Infringes IGT’s Bonusing Patents
• Genoil Inc. Announces Receipt From the USPTO of Additional Patent for Its Hydroconversion Upgrader
• Optherion Announces Issuance of Canadian Patents Covering Age-Related Macular Degeneration Diagnostics and Treatments
• US Patent Office Confirms Wider Networks Patent

Wednesday, April 29, 2009

• Aperio Awarded Patent for Content Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) Technology
• Court Grants Motion to Move Modavox Patent and Trademark Infringement Cases Brought Against Time Warner, AOL and Platform-A from California to New York
• ImmunoCellular Therapeutics Granted Monoclonal Antibody Technology Patent
• Patent Rights of Micro Imaging Technology, Inc. Assigned to Secured Creditors
• Raptor Pharmaceuticals Receives Notices of Allowance for Two NeuroTrans Patent Applications
• U.S. District Court Issues Decision Regarding Samsung Contract Claims in Rambus Case
• Workshare Receives U.S. Patent for Document Collaboration Technology

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

• AVI BioPharma Receives Key Patents for Drug Candidate AVI-6002 Targeting Ebola Zaire Virus Protein VP35
• Federal Court Rules that DSM Desotech’s Antitrust and Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against 3D Systems Corporation Can Proceed
• HyPower Fuel Files Additional Biodiesel Patents to Protect Its Green Technology
• Morrison & Foerster and New Intellectual Property Management Firm, Ovidian Group, Form Collaborative Venture
• Nanosys Files Patent Infringement Suit Against Nanoco Technologies Ltd./Sigma Aldrich

Monday, April 27, 2009

• Akamai to Appeal Decision in Patent Litigation Case
• Duane Morris Adds Litigation Partners David Landau and Aliza Karetnick from WolfBlock
• PDP Files Lawsuit Against Dreamgear for Patent Infringement
• Unigen Awarded Third US Patent for Novel Joint Health Ingredient

Friday, April 24, 2009

• Big Bang LLC Receives Patent for Universal Imaging Utility (UIU) Hardware-Independent PC Imaging Technology
• InsWeb and Autobytel Announce Settlement of Multi-Party Patent Litigation
• U.S. Patent Office to Reexamine the Validity of the Remaining Power Integrations Patent Asserted Against Fairchild Semiconductor

Thursday, April 23, 2009

• Morrison & Foerster Secures Key Industry Victory for Hansen Medical Inc. in Trade Secrets Case
• Oki Semiconductor Signs DRAM License With MOSAID
• OPTi Receives $19 Million Verdict in Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against Apple Inc.

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

• Covidien Files Patent Infringement Lawsuit over Davol’s Mesh Fixation Device and Applier
• Irvine Sensors Receives Final $1 Million for Patent Deal
• Lewis Brisbois Adds New Partners to IP Group
• Patent Searchers and Information Scientists Benefit from New Online Resource
• Quest Diagnostics to Pay U.S. $302 Million to Resolve Allegations That a Subsidiary Sold Misbranded Test Kits
• Trapeze Networks Awarded Two Breakthrough Patents
• USPTO Finds Convolve Patent Valid in Reexamination

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

• 1st Technology/Bodog Patent Dispute Resolved
• Deepro Mukerjee Joins Alston & Bird’s New York Office
• Entellus Medical Awarded U.S. Patent for FinESS Sinus Treatment
• IPLAC Presents Seminar On Proposed Local Patent Rules For The Northern District Of Illinois
• Leading Patent Practitioners Join Rothwell Figg
• Thompson & Knight Client Obtains Judgment as a Matter of Law in Eastern District of Texas Patent Case

Monday, April 20, 2009

• Amnis Receives Broad Patent Coverage for Diagnostic Cell Imaging
• Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Announces Winners of the Donald W. Banner Diversity Scholarship
• James R. Franks Joins The Webb Law Firm as an Associate
• Patent Attorney Stephen H. Docter Joins Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren s.c.
• USPTO, German Patent Office Partner to Expedite Processing and Improve Patent Quality

Friday, April 17, 2009

• Achillion Granted U.S. Patent for NS4A Antagonists in Hepatitis C
• Court Grants AstraZeneca Temporary Restraining Order Against Apotex in PULMICORT RESPULES Patent Litigation
• MOSAID Extends NXP’s Patent License and Signs New Wireless Agreement
• Sepracor Announces Patent Interference Proceedings (and Schedule) Against Wyeth for Claims Related to O-desmethylvenlafaxine Succinate

Thursday, April 16, 2009

• Authernative Granted US Patent on Communication Session Encryption and Authentication System
• BackWeb Adds Sybase and iAnywhere as Defendants in its Patent Infringement Lawsuit
• OmniComm Systems Announces Settlement of Patent Litigation With DataSci, LLC
• U.S. Patent Office Issues 2nd Patent for ePIPE, Pipe Restoration System

Wednesday, April 15, 2009

• Jacobs-Meadway Talks Use, Misuse and Nonuse of Third-Party Trademarks on the Internet at the Intellectual Property Law Association of Florida
• Premier D.C.-Based Economics Firm Opens Los Angeles Office
• Technology Transfer Tactics Partners with Patents Online to Highlight University IP

Tuesday, April 14, 2009

• Advisor Software Awarded Patent for Goal-Based Advice Solution
• BLADE Network Technologies Announces Patent Cross-License Agreement With IBM
• China Energy Recovery Files a New Patent of Waste Heat Recovery Technology to Capture and Reuse Waste Energy in Cement Manufacturing
• Inventor Sues Therative, Inc. Over Inventorship of Patent on ThermaClear Device
• Issued U.S. Patent Strengthens IP for Allon Technology Platform
• Patent Issued for UNIVAL D3 Data Conversion System
• TableMAX Files Lawsuit Against Shuffle Master for Patent Infringement
• TeleCommunication Systems, Inc. Issued U.S. Patent for Multi-Carrier Messaging Gateway

Monday, April 13, 2009

• Special Feature -- Federal Circuit Changes Course, Finds Claims to Novel Gene Obvious
• Altera and Zilog Settle Patent Infringement Suit
• CoolTouch Inc. Settles Diomed Lawsuit, Files Re-examination Request for Cynosure ’873 Patent
• EERC Foundation Receives Patent Application Approval for On-Demand Hydrogen Fueling System
• K&L Gates Secures Win for Silicon Motion in U.S. International Trade Commission Patent Suit Brought by SanDisk
• Kurgo Issued United States Design and Utility Patents
• Morrison & Foerster Secures Victory for Funai before U.S. International Trade Commission in Patent Infringement Suit

Friday, April 10, 2009

• Advance Nanotech’s Owlstone Granted Two Additional U.S. Patents
• ClearCorrect Voluntarily Dismisses Lawsuit Against Invisalign Maker Align Technology
• McAndrews, Held & Malloy Secures Definitive Victory for Client Alaris Medical Systems
• Modular Security Systems, Inc. (MSSI) Patents Mobile Turnstile Unit
• Thomson CompuMark Introduces Global Trademark Search Analysis
• U.S. International Trade Commission Finds Competitors Violated LitterMaid Patent

Thursday, April 09, 2009

• InTouch Technologies Announces Settlement Agreement Regarding US Patent Dispute
• IP Tactics Retained By Go2Call Software
• O2Micro Issued Patent for Class-D Amplifier Architecture
• Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C. Names New Partner

Wednesday, April 08, 2009

• Humana Inc. and Ronald A. Katz Technology Licensing, L.P. Settle Patent Lawsuit and Enter into License Agreement
• Mo-DV Earns Patent for Technology That Paves the Way for Multimedia Files to Be Played on a Wide Range of Mobile Devices
• SIIA Continues Aggressive Online Piracy Fight with Its First-Ever Lawsuits for Infringement of Clip Art
• SurferNETWORK Granted Its Second Key Patent in Streaming Media Technology

Tuesday, April 07, 2009

• Merchant & Gould Wins 7th Circuit Appeal on Behalf of For Your Ease Only, Inc.
• U.S. District Court Enters Patent Infringement Final Judgment Against Mobile 365, Inc. in Favor of TeleCommunication Systems, Inc.
• Xerox Emerges Victorious in Nine-Year Patent Dispute Over Fax Machine Technology

Monday, April 06, 2009

• Bingham Team Wins ITC Victory in Sucralose Case
• St. Clair Reaches Settlement with Samsung in Patent Litigation
• Turning Technologies, LLC Receives Favorable Ruling in Patent Litigation
• U.S. Appeals Court Issues Ruling in Support of Lilly in Ariad Patent Litigation

Friday, April 03, 2009

• Special Feature -- Robots as Inventors
• ARIAD Announces Court Rulings Regarding Patent Lawsuit with Lilly
• District Court Overturns PTO Decision in Favor of Kenyon & Kenyon LLP Client Photocure
• Standard Textile Initiates Patent Infringement Suit Against Sobel Westex

Thursday, April 02, 2009

• e.Digital Announces Licensing and Settlement Agreement With Olympus
• Ford Motor Company and LKQ Corporation Settle Patent Disputes
• French Perfume Company Nina Ricci Files Trade Dress Lawsuit Against Producers of Box Office Movie Hit, Twilight
• MonoSol Rx Granted U.S. Article of Manufacture Patent
• Nomadix Wins Patent Enforcement Action Against Second Rule
• Shire Files Lawsuit Against Natco Pharma for Infringement of FOSRENOL (lanthanum carbonate) Patents
• U.S. Court of Appeals (CAFC) Rejects ThirdWave/Hologic’s Anti-Trust Claims Against QIAGEN

Wednesday, April 01, 2009

• acardo Wins Patent Case, as Catalina Drops Patent Infringement Charges
• Cytori Receives U.S. Patent Allowance for Key Commercial Products
• District Court Decision Received in CONCERTA Patent Case
• John M. Vassiliades Joins Ballard Spahr
• Provision Interactive Announces New Patents
• Repligen Licenses Patent Rights for Treatment of Bipolar Disorder
• Unidesk Files Patent On Composite Virtualization Desktop Management Technology

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

• Acacia Subsidiary Enters into a Settlement and License Agreement with Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
• Advanced Voice Recognition Systems, Inc. Receives Notice of Allowance for Second Significant Patent from U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
• Angiotech Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Announces License Agreement with Baxter International Inc.
• Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney Secures Significant Defense Victory for Client emsCharts, Inc. in Patent Infringement Case
• Contactual Awarded Patent for Contact Center Innovation
• Court Rules that GE Healthcare Engaged in False Advertising Campaign against Bracco Diagnostics
• Frank’s Auto Supermarket Files Suit Against Ford Motor Company Over Slogan
• Global Energy Services Granted US patent on Activator Hydraulic Submersible Pump
• Merchant & Gould Adds Shane A. Brunner to its Madison Office
• Microfluidic Systems (MFSI) is Granted a Microfluidic Cartridge Patent for DNA Separation
• Novocell Awarded Seminal Stem Cell Patent
• On2 Technologies Receives Patent for Video Encoding Methods
• Osteologix Prevails in European Patent Opposition for Osteoporosis Drug
• Peregrine Pharmaceuticals Awarded New U.S. Patent Further Strengthening Its Anti-Phospholipid Patent Portfolio
• Reising Ethington Law Firm Moves to New Offices to Accommodate Growth