Intellectual Property News and Reports

The facts of this case support the opposite inference. The inventors of the ’893 patent were introduced to WS-3 and WS-23 by a salesman for Sterling Organics, the distributor of the compounds, during the same sales call, and they were... Read more →

In deciding the present appeal, this court determined that the United States District Court for the District of Arizona (“trial court”) was correct in its judgment and affirmed all of the conclusions reached by the trial court. See Bard Peripheral... Read more →

Toshiba Corporation accused Imation Corporation et al. (collectively, Appellees) of infringing claims of U.S. Patent nos. 5,892,751 (’751 patent) and 5,831,966 (’966 patent) relating to optical disc technology. The district court granted summary judgment of non-infringement for the asserted claims... Read more →

In this patent infringement action, R+L Carriers, Inc. (“R+L”) appeals the district court’s dismissal with preju-dice of its amended complaints and counterclaims against DriverTech LLC (“DriverTech”), Affiliated Computer Services, Inc. (“ACS”), PeopleNet Communications Corp. (“PeopleNet”), Intermec Technologies Corp. (“Intermec”), Microdea,... Read more →

This case is a second appeal from the United States Patent and Trademark Office, Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences (“Board”) involving Patent Interference No. 105,606(JL) between Eliyahou Harari and Sanjay Mehrotra (collectively “Harari”), named inventors on pending U.S. Patent... Read more →

Alpha, a domestic producer of mining tires, sued Al Dobowi and Linglong, foreign corporations. Alpha alleged that the defendants conspired to steal its tire blueprints, produce infringing tires, and sell them to entities that had formerly purchased products from Alpha.... Read more →

Cipla Ltd. (“Cipla”) joins with Velcera, Inc. and Fido-Pharm, Inc. (collectively, “Velcera”) in appealing from a judgment entered by the United States District Court for the Middle District of Georgia in favor of Merial Ltd. and Merial SAS (collectively, “Merial”)... Read more →

The United States District Court for the Southern District of California granted Package Concepts & Materials, Inc.’s (“PCM”) motion for summary judgment on invalidity and non-infringement against Neil Mintz, Marcus Mintz, and Jif-Pak Manufacturing, Inc. (collectively, “Mintz”). This court affirms... Read more →