Rambus replied that the game is hardly over.
via eWeek.com Nvidia Scores Win Against Rambus in Patent Fight.
TOP 10 Litigation Wins of 2008
03/27/2009 By Leave a Comment
Law.com – Federal Circuit Sides With PTO in Dispute Over Rules
03/23/2009 By Leave a Comment
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled Friday in a split decision that the Patent and Trademark Office did not overstep its authority in adopting a set of new rules that some intellectual property lawyers say fundamentally alter patent practice and threaten innovation.
via Law.com – Federal Circuit Sides With PTO in Dispute Over Rules.
Bilski cited, again, in BPAI rejection
02/02/2009 By Leave a Comment
Method claim 1 does not recite any machine or apparatus or call for transforming an article into a different state or thing. A domain name is simply a series of characters representing the address of a resource, such as a server, on the World Wide Web.
Links: Ex parte Atkin.
Roundup: In re Bilski
12/01/2008 By Leave a Comment
PatentlyO:
- BPAI: “Programmed Computer Method” Not Patentable Subject Matter
- Software Method Claims: Bilski in light of Benson
- Post-Bilski BPAI Approves of Beauregard Claims
- Applying Bilski to Metabolite’s Diagnosis Claim
- Applying Bilski to Biotechnology and the Life Sciences
- Bilski: Adding Obvious but Meaningful Limitations
- Professor Collins: In re Bilski: Tangibility Gone “Meta”
- CLE: How to Draft Software Claims under Bilski
- Patenting Tax Strategies Under Bilski
- In re Bilski: Patentable Process Must Either (1) be Tied to a particular machine or (2) Transform a Particular Article
Fish and Richardson:
Groklaw:
Electronic Frontier Foundation:
Withhold information, deceive the examiner, and lose your patent
06/30/2008 By Leave a Comment
Abbot Laboratories fought for 14 years (receiving 12 rejections) to get a patent allowed, only to have the patent found unenforceable because Abbot’s patent attorney withheld key information in connection with the patent filing. Lesson: disclose information which may be material to the patentability of any of your claims, as required under 37 CFR 1.56.
Links: Law.com article.
Patent Troll Tracker blogger is Cisco patent attorney
02/26/2008 By Leave a Comment
The former anonymous blogger of Patent Troll Tracker has been outed as a patent lawyer at Cisco Systems. He was unmasked after a $15,000 bounty was offered by a senior partner at a law firm criticized on the blog after he filed suit for a client against Google. The blog has been taken down.
Links: Patent Troll Tracker, law.com article.
IP Investment Banking – Patent Brokerage Firms
01/31/2008 By 1 Comment
A partial list of who is acquiring, licensing, and enforcing patents:
Acacia Research Corporation
IPotential
Inflexion Point
Altitude Capital Partners
Ocean Tomo
Rembrandt IP Management
NW Patent Funding Corporation
Intellectual Ventures
Gathering2.0 (online community for monetizing IP assets)
Articles:
Patent Attorneys, Clients Banking on IP Brokerages (law.com)
Patent Pirates (forbes.com)
New Claims and Continuation Rules Temporarily Blocked
11/01/2007 By Leave a Comment
U.S. District Judge James Cacheris granted GlaxoSmithKline’s motion for a preliminary injunction blocking the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office from implementing the rules set to go into effect today. Glaxo filed its suit against the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and its director, Jon Dudas, earlier this month. The company plans to seek a permanent injunction.
Link: Law.com article.
Blockbuster Settles With Netflix in Patent Suit
06/27/2007 By Leave a Comment
Blockbuster and Netflix have settled their patent dispute stemming from a complaint filed last year by Netflix. Netflix alleged that Blockbuster was infringing on its patents US7,024,381 and US6,584,450.
Links: Complaint, US7,024,381, US6,584,450.
