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Thomson Corp. is off the hook for a $77 million verdict in a patent infringement suit after a federal appeals court said parts of the patent were invalid.

Main Category: Cancer / Oncology Also Included In: Pharma Industry / Biotech Industry Article Date: 22 Jul 2008 Rexahn Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

The Patent and Trademark Office has now made clear that its newly developed position on patentable subject matter will invalidate many and perhaps most software patents, including pioneering patent claims to ...

Companies looking for a competitive edge over their rivals have in recent years been making use of a loophole found in US patent law.

EFF's Patent Busting Project, continues to march forward, this time with more good news about the petition that EFF, in conjunction with Paul Grewal and James Czaja of Day Casebeer Madrid & Batchelder , filed ...

LiveVox announces the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has awarded a patent for the company's carrier-grade, hosted-VoIP-dialer solution.

On 15 July 2008, Slashdot had a post titled: MSM Noticing That Patent Gridlock Stunts Innovation, which includes text--> that most traditional of mainstream media, the Wall Street Journal, arguing the point ...

Over the past five years, there has been an obsession within the patent community to find ways to increase "patent quality." No matter how you define it, most people agree that there have been periods where the ...

An Apple patent for a method and apparatus for automatic detection and healing of signal pair crossover on a high performance serial bus has appeared at the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office.

In Tiffany v. eBay , decided today, the Southern District of New York gives helpful bounds to secondary liability for trademark infringement, saying eBay is not liable for its use of the term "Tiffany" nor for ...

Joff Wild has a post which includes text about work suggesting patent quality is rising: All of this is clearly going to infuriate a lot of people.

Main Category: HIV / AIDS Also Included In: Pharma Industry / Biotech Industry Article Date: 10 Jul 2008 The drug purchasing agency UNITAID is endorsing the formation of a panel of experts to examine the ...

Stem Cell Sciences plc today announced that the UK Patent Office has granted it a patent covering the Company's new range of stem cell culture media.

Case: Fisher Tool Co., Inc. v. Gillet Outillage, 9th Cir. No. 06-55996, 06-56165 The One Sentence Summary: District court properly granted summary judgment for defendants on malicious prosecution, Lanham Act, ...

Leaders in the Pro-Life movement have squared off over who owns the name Operation Rescue.

NEW YORK, July 8 NY-Mexens-Tech-Patent , /PRNewswire/ -- Mexens Technology, the maker of the Navizon software, today announced that it has received a patent from the US Patent and Trademark Office for its ...

On July 8, 2008, the US Patent & Trademark Office published three of Apple's newly granted patents which included one for their iSight camera and video conferencing system, another for a cooling device ...

HAWTHORNE, Calif. - Cereplast, Inc. , manufacturer of proprietary bio-based, sustainable plastics, secured patent protection for its Cereplast Compostable resin family of products from the United States Patent ...

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is proposing double-digit fee hikes for international patent applications filed at the agency that fall under Patent Cooperation Treaty guidelines.