Boston high school student also secures patent services from Burns & Levinson LLP for sleep-alert wristband

LexisNexis Patent Law Center Staff — Sat, 10 May 2008 08:12:44 GMT

BOSTON – Soaking in raucous applause from more than 300 fellow students, a jubilant freshman from the John D. O'Bryant School of Math & Science in Roxbury on Thursday, May 8, claimed a $15,000 first-place prize in the Third Annual Power of an Idea® Scholarship Contest sponsored by Boston-based law firm Burns & Levinson LLP.

Court weighs whether to restrict 'business method' patents

LexisNexis Patent Law Center Staff — Fri, 09 May 2008 08:26:12 GMT

WASHINGTON – (AP) Is a baseball pitcher's method for throwing a curveball patentable? How about a chiropractor's techniques?

A federal appeals court wrestled with those kinds of questions Thursday when it considered placing restrictions on patent protections for business p

Sidley Announces Settlement of Patent Infringement Claims Against Fourth LED Manufacturer

LexisNexis Patent Law Center Staff — Wed, 07 May 2008 07:24:30 GMT

NEW YORK – Sidley Austin LLP announced today that firm client Professor Gertrude Neumark Rothschild has settled her patent infringement claims against Epistar Corporation, a Taiwanese corporation. The terms of the settlement are undisclosed. The Sidley team consisted of James D. Zirin and Ashe Puri, partner and associate respectively. Peter Toren of Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman LLP

TechInsights' First Intellectual Property Symposium Attracted More Than 250 Technology, Legal and Business Thought Leaders and Practitioners

LexisNexis Patent Law Center Staff — Tue, 06 May 2008 07:21:35 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO – TechInsights today announced the success of its inaugural Intellectual Property Symposium, a joint effort of EE Times, Semiconductor Insights and Portelligent, which took place on April 15-16, 2008 at the San Jose Fairmont and was co-located with ESC Silicon Valley. The event attracted more than 250 thought leaders and practitioners from the technology, legal and business

Boston Scientific claims decision in patent dispute

LexisNexis Patent Law Center Staff — Tue, 06 May 2008 07:09:50 GMT

NATICK, Mass. – (AP) Medical device maker Boston Scientific Corp. said Monday an arbitration panel with the World Intellectual Property Organization ruled in its favor in a patent dispute with Medinol Ltd.

Israel-based Medinol had argued

CoreValve Names Vito A. Canuso III as Vice President, Intellectual Property

LexisNexis Patent Law Center Staff — Sun, 04 May 2008 16:22:32 GMT

IRVINE, Calif. – CoreValve announced today that it has appointed Vito A. Canuso III as Vice President, Intellectual Property. In this position, Mr. Canuso's immediate focus will include managing the worldwide patent litigation with Edwards Lifesciences. He also will assume responsibilities for expanding CoreValve's global patent portfolio and for developing

Procter & Gamble sues Johnson & Johnson over whitening strips

LexisNexis Patent Law Center Staff — Sun, 04 May 2008 15:59:58 GMT

CINCINNATI – (AP) Procter & Gamble Co. said Friday it is suing rival Johnson & Johnson, alleging patent infringement over teeth-whitening strips.

P&G charges that health products maker J&J and its McNeil-PPC unit broke two of its patents concerning th

Sepracor settles patent dispute with Breath over asthma drug

LexisNexis Patent Law Center Staff — Fri, 02 May 2008 10:56:12 GMT

MARLBOROUGH, Mass. – (AP) Sepracor Inc. said Thursday it settled a patent dispute with Arrow Group's Breath Ltd. unit, involving Sepracor's Xopenex inhalation treatment for asthma.

The agreement allows Breath to launch generic versions of certain Xopenex dosages under an

T-Mobile USA settles patent litigation with Ronald Katz

LexisNexis Patent Law Center Staff — Fri, 02 May 2008 10:52:02 GMT

LOS ANGELES – (AP) Ronald A. Katz Technology Licensing LP and wireless carrier T-Mobile USA Inc. have settled patent litigation, the companies said Thursday.

As part of the settlement, T-Mobile agreed to pay an undisclosed sum for a nonexclusive license under a patent portfolio Katz owns relating to interact

Whirlpool files patent-infringement suit against LG

LexisNexis Patent Law Center Staff — Fri, 02 May 2008 10:01:10 GMT

BENTON HARBOR, Mich. – (AP) Whirlpool Corp. filed a lawsuit against LG Electronics Inc., alleging the Korean company infringes four Whirlpool patents, the appliance maker said Thursday.

Whirlpool said it is asking for injunctive relief a

Buchanan Adds Two Intellectual Property Attorneys in Philadelphia

LexisNexis Patent Law Center Staff — Thu, 01 May 2008 09:41:06 GMT

PHILADELPHIA – Robert F. Zielinski, former partner and co-chair of Wolf Block's Intellectual Property and Information Technology Law Practice Group, and Brian L. Belles, an associate in the same firm, have joined the Intellectual Property (IP) Practice of Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC. Zielinski and Belles joined Buchanan as a shareholder and counsel, respectively.

Director of USPTO Jon Dudas to Keynote at Inaugural IPBusiness Congress in Amsterdam 25-26 June

LexisNexis Patent Law Center Staff — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 09:10:57 GMT

LONDON -- Director of the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Jon Dudas will serve as a keynote speaker at the inaugural Intellectual Property Business Congress (IPBC) to be held at The Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky in Amsterdam on 25th and 26th June 2008.

Mintz Levin Continues Its West Coast Expansion with the Addition of Patent Litigators in Palo Alto

LexisNexis Patent Law Center Staff — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 08:56:33 GMT

PALO ALTO, Calif. -- A group of leading patent litigators, formerly of Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney, have joined the Palo Alto office of Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C., continuing the expansion of the firm's West Coast presence and its Intellectual Property practice. Bryan J. Sinclair and Karineh Khachatourian have joined as Members. Jeffrey M. Ratinoffhas joined as Of Counsel. The new group comes to M

Martindale-Hubbell To Hold Counsel To Counsel Best Practice Forum In San Francisco on E-Discovery and Managing Electronically Stored Information May 7

LexisNexis Patent Law Center Staff — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 17:25:34 GMT

On May 7, 2008, Martindale-Hubbell will hold a Counsel to Counsel Best Practice Forum entitled Increasing Predictability, Mitigating Risks: Next Generation Electronically Stored Information (ESI) Management and E-Discovery Approaches. The session will be held at the Pal

Leading Technology, Media and Communications Group to Join Proskauer Rose

LexisNexis Patent Law Center Staff — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 12:07:53 GMT

NEW YORK -- Proskauer Rose LLP, an international law firm with more than 750 lawyers worldwide, announced that Jeffrey D. Neuburger, Robert E. Freeman and Kristen J. Mathews will join the firm as partners in New York.

Mr. Neuburger, Mr. Freeman and Ms. Mathews join Proskauer fro

Chadbourne Launches Nanotechnologies Practice, Drawing on Firm's 'Critical Mass' of Legal Expertise

LexisNexis Patent Law Center Staff — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:38:36 GMT

NEW YORK -- The international law firm of Chadbourne & Parke announced today that it has launched a nanotechnologies practice, with a transdisciplinary approach bringing together the expertise of long-established Chadbourne practices. The strategy reflects the needs of clients dev

Foley & Lardner LLP To Host Martindale-Hubbell Counsel to Counsel Best Practice Forum On Maximizing Transaction Value With Intellectual Property

LexisNexis Patent Law Center Staff — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:37:38 GMT

Foley & Lardner LLP will host a Martindale-Hubbell Counsel to Counsel Best Practice Forum entitled Guiding What Lies Beneath: Maximizing T

Mintz Levin Adds Leading Patent Litigators to Its Growing San Diego Office

LexisNexis Patent Law Center Staff — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:48:38 GMT

SAN DIEGO -- Patent litigators Matthew C. Bernstein and John Giust have joined the San Diego office of Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C. as Members. The addition of Bernstein and Giust, who previously practiced with Fish & Richardson P.C., continues the s

Court asks government's views on states' patent liability

LexisNexis Patent Law Center Staff — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:23:51 GMT

WASHINGTON -- (AP) The Supreme Court on Monday asked the Bush administration to weigh in on a long-running fight between states and big business over whether states can be held liable for patent infringement.

FRANKFURT -- (AP) Bayer AG said Monday that two of its units have filed a lawsuit in the against Watson Pharmaceuticals and Sandoz over their applications to regulators to market a generic version of the oral contraceptive Yasmin.

SNEW YORK -- (AP) Given Imaging Ltd., an Israeli maker of pill-sized diagnostic cameras, said Monday it reached a patent infringement settlement with Olympus Corp. related to capsule endoscopy products sold in the

BETHLEHEM Pa. – (AP) OraSure Technologies Inc., a medical products maker, said Thursday it received a patent complaint against one of its products.

Pfizer wins blood-pressure drug patent decision in Canada

LexisNexis Patent Law Center Staff — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 06:55:13 GMT

NEW YORK – (AP) Drug developer Pfizer Inc. said late Thursday that a Canadian court upheld a patent covering the active ingredient in its blood-pressure drug Norvasc.

PHILADELPHIA – Saul Ewing LLP is pleased to announce the addition of Gregory S. Bernabeo, Stephen J. Driscoll, Theodore Naccarella, and Mark D. Simpson as Partners in the Firm’s Intellectual Property and Technology (IP/T) Practice Group in its Philadelphia office.

Legal dispute could increase cost of digital TV

LexisNexis Patent Law Center Staff — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 08:55:32 GMT

WASHINGTON -- (AP) A small Pennsylvania company's patent lawsuits could hamstring the government's $1.5 billion effort to make the transition to digital television easier on consumers' wallets.

Seagate files patent suit against drive-maker Stec

LexisNexis Patent Law Center Staff — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 09:08:00 GMT

SANTA ANA Calif. -- (AP) Stec Inc., which makes solid-state computer drives, said Tuesday it is being sued by disk-drive maker Seagate Technology LLC for patent infringement.

StemCells says 2 key patents upheld in infringement dispute against Neuralstem

LexisNexis Patent Law Center Staff — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 09:00:53 GMT

PALO ALTO Calif. -- (AP) StemCells Inc., a clinical-stage biotechnology company, said Tuesday the Patent and Trademark Office upheld two of its stem cell patents in a dispute with Neuralstem

TCS, RIM reach standstill agreement in patent infringement suit, will negotiate until June 12

LexisNexis Patent Law Center Staff — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 09:17:32 GMT

ANNAPOLIS Md. -- (AP) TeleCommunication Systems Inc. said Monday it has reached a standstill agreement with Research In Motion Ltd. regarding a patent infringement lawsuit it filed against the BlackBerry maker, and has dis

New York Biotechnology Association to Present ''Women in Biotechnology'' and ''Regulatory and Policy Affairs'' Workshops in Conjunction with 17th Annual Meeting

LexisNexis Patent Law Center Staff — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 08:43:05 GMT

NEW YORK -- New York Biotechnology Association (NYBA), the voice of New York State's biotechnology industry, announced today that it will feature two new pre-conference workshops as part of its 17th Annual Meeting: Women in Bio

Patent reform legislation hits wall in Congress as compromise effort fails in Senate

LexisNexis Patent Law Center Staff — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 19:43:01 GMT

WASHINGTON -- (AP) A bill to reform patent law, which split the business community and sparked a fierce lobbying battle, hit a roadblock late Thursday in the Senate and may not move forward this year.

Federal patent court denies rehearing of Dish appeal in infringement case

LexisNexis Patent Law Center Staff — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 19:36:27 GMT

SAN JOSE Calif. -- (AP) A federal appeals court said Friday it won't reconsider a ruling favoring TiVo Inc. in its patent dispute with Dish Network Corp.

The decision puts TiVo closer to receiving the $94 million a lower court awarded the Alviso, Calif.-based digital video recorder maker for Dish Network's pate

3Com wins a $45.3 million award in patent infringement lawsuit against Realtek Semiconductor

LexisNexis Patent Law Center Staff — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 19:30:11 GMT

MARLBOROUGH Mass. -- (AP) 3Com Corp., which makes networking equipment, said Friday it won a $45.3 million award in a patent infringement case.

MINNEAPOLIS -- (AP) Medical device manufacturer Vascular Solutions Inc. said Wednesday it will pay $3.58 million to settle Diomed Holdings Inc.'s patent lawsuit.

In March 2007 a federal jury in

Sughrue Mion Expands California Litigation Team; Two West Coast Partners Add Experience and Depth

LexisNexis Patent Law Center Staff — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 10:16:22 GMT

WASHINGTON -- Sughrue Mion, PLLC announced today the expansion of its California litigation team with two new partners in Mountain View and San Diego who bring more than 35 years of litigation experience. James Hall, who is based in the firm's Mountain View

Repligen says Bristol-Myers to pay $5 million plus royalties to settle patent infringement suit

LexisNexis Patent Law Center Staff — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 10:00:22 GMT

WALTHAM Mass. -- (AP) Repligen Corp. said Tuesday that Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. agreed to pay $5 million plus royalties to settle a patent infringement lawsuit for a rheumatoid arthritis treatment.

Re

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Boston high school student also secures patent services from Burns & Levinson LLP for sleep-alert wristband

Court weighs whether to restrict 'business method' patents

Sidley Announces Settlement of Patent Infringement Claims Against Fourth LED Manufacturer

TechInsights' First Intellectual Property Symposium Attracted More Than 250 Technology, Legal and Business Thought Leaders and Practitioners

Boston Scientific claims decision in patent dispute

CoreValve Names Vito A. Canuso III as Vice President, Intellectual Property

Procter & Gamble sues Johnson & Johnson over whitening strips

Sepracor settles patent dispute with Breath over asthma drug

T-Mobile USA settles patent litigation with Ronald Katz

Whirlpool files patent-infringement suit against LG

Buchanan Adds Two Intellectual Property Attorneys in Philadelphia

Director of USPTO Jon Dudas to Keynote at Inaugural IPBusiness Congress in Amsterdam 25-26 June

Mintz Levin Continues Its West Coast Expansion with the Addition of Patent Litigators in Palo Alto

Martindale-Hubbell To Hold Counsel To Counsel Best Practice Forum In San Francisco on E-Discovery and Managing Electronically Stored Information May 7

Leading Technology, Media and Communications Group to Join Proskauer Rose

Chadbourne Launches Nanotechnologies Practice, Drawing on Firm's 'Critical Mass' of Legal Expertise

Foley & Lardner LLP To Host Martindale-Hubbell Counsel to Counsel Best Practice Forum On Maximizing Transaction Value With Intellectual Property

Mintz Levin Adds Leading Patent Litigators to Its Growing San Diego Office

Court asks government's views on states' patent liability

Pfizer wins blood-pressure drug patent decision in Canada

Legal dispute could increase cost of digital TV

Seagate files patent suit against drive-maker Stec

StemCells says 2 key patents upheld in infringement dispute against Neuralstem

TCS, RIM reach standstill agreement in patent infringement suit, will negotiate until June 12

New York Biotechnology Association to Present ''Women in Biotechnology'' and ''Regulatory and Policy Affairs'' Workshops in Conjunction with 17th Annual Meeting

Patent reform legislation hits wall in Congress as compromise effort fails in Senate

Federal patent court denies rehearing of Dish appeal in infringement case

3Com wins a $45.3 million award in patent infringement lawsuit against Realtek Semiconductor

Sughrue Mion Expands California Litigation Team; Two West Coast Partners Add Experience and Depth

Repligen says Bristol-Myers to pay $5 million plus royalties to settle patent infringement suit