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Friday Feb 10 | WTAQ-AM Green Bay

Court upholds $371 million CR Bard patent a...

A divided federal appeals court upheld a $371.2 million award in favor of C.R. Bard Inc in a long-running patent infringement dispute with W.L. Gore & Associates over vascular grafts.

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Related Topix: C R Bard, Medicine, Medical Equipment, Healthcare Industry, Industrial Machines, W L Gore and Associates, Textiles, US News

Thu Feb 09, 2012

Fox News

US Appeals Court Upholds Dismissal Of Some AstraZeneca Crestor Patent Suits

A U.S. appeals court upheld a lower court's dismissal of certain AstraZeneca PLC patent-infringement lawsuits against several generic manufacturers that are planning to sell copies of the company's blockbuster cholesterol-lowering drug Crestor.

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Related Topix: AstraZeneca, Biotech, Medicine, AstraZeneca Group, Healthcare Industry, US News, Healthcare Law, Law, Business News

Tue Feb 07, 2012

Illinoisreview

Gingrich reacts to 9th Circuit Court Decision on Proposition 8

Atlanta, GA - Newt Gingrich issued the following statement following today's decision by the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit overturning California's Proposition 8: With today's decision on marriage by the Ninth Circuit, and the likely appeal to the Supreme Court, more and more Americans are being exposed to the radical ... (more)

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Related Topix: US Politics, Newt Gingrich, US News, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals

Patently Obvious

Federal Circuit Stays Relief Pending Appeal

In a December 2011 order, the Delaware district court awarded preliminary injunctive relief to Sciele and Shionogi and forcing Lupin to stop selling generic versions of the patentee's diabetes drug Fortamet .

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Diabetes, US News

Mon Feb 06, 2012

InfoWorld

Appeals court denies Google bid to keep email out of Oracle trial

Google has failed in its latest attempt to keep a potentially damaging email out of the lawsuit Oracle filed against it over alleged Java intellectual-property violations in the Android mobile OS.

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Related Topix: Google, Startups, Emerging Technology, Search Engines, Oracle Corporation, US News, Larry Page, Sergey Brin

Thu Feb 02, 2012

Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly

Pharma co. dealt blow in patent suit

Cambridge-based Momenta Pharmaceuticals Inc. suffered a significant setback in a patent-infringement case over its blood-thinner Lovenox after a judge granted a stay to a would-be competitor allowing the rival to market its own version of the drug, Bloomberg reported.

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Related Topix: Biotech, Momenta Pharmaceuticals, US News

Tue Jan 31, 2012

The China Post

HTC to continue legal fight against IPCom

Taiwan-based smartphone maker HTC Corp. said Tuesday it would continue efforts to fight against German patent portfolio holder IPCom GmbH in a U.S. district court.

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Related Topix: Cell Phones, Cellphones, Electronics, US News

Sun Jan 29, 2012

Detroit Free Press

Sonic to star in Super Bowl ads

It may sound glamorous to be on the road up to 100 days a year covering metro Detroit's sports... Ford won as an appeals court vacated a $56-million patent-infringement award against it over lights that are put on a vehicle's exterior mirrors.

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Related Topix: Hatchback, Chevrolet Sonic, Sedan, Chevrolet, US News, Inventions, Science / Technology, Auto Dealers

Sat Jan 28, 2012

Sys-Con Media

Apple Quietly Appeals ITC's HTC Decision

Apple has taken the International Trade Commission's month-old decision finding HTC's Android gismos infringe only one of the patents it asserted and letting it ship the products while it fixes the problem to the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit .

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Related Topix: Android, US News

Fri Jan 27, 2012

Canadian Plastics Magazine

Dow Chemical wins appeal in Nova patent dispute

Canada's Nova Chemicals Corp. infringed two Dow Chemical Co. patents for making a thinner, stronger plastic, a U.S. federal appeals court that specializes in patents has ruled.

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Related Topix: Rubber-Plastics, Manufacturing, Dow Chemical, Chemicals, US News

Patently Obvious

Patently-O Bits & Bytes by Lawrence Higgins

The Virginia State Bar Intellectual Property Section is seeking papers written by law students who are attending law school in Virginia or are residents of Virginia attending law school outside of Virginia and relating to an intellectual property law issue or the practice of intellectual property law.

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Related Topix: US News, Startups, Intel, Patent / Trademark Law, Law, Aruba

Thu Jan 26, 2012

The National Law Journal

Late payment of fee no bar to patent validity if accepted by PTO

A Delaware federal judge has denied a defense argument in a patent infringement suit that the patent was invalid because the plaintiff failed to pay a U.S. Patent and Trademark Office maintenance fee on time.

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Related Topix: Patent / Trademark Law, Law, US News

GlobeNewswire

Momenta Pharmaceuticals Motion for Preliminary Injunction Against...

Momenta Pharmaceuticals, Inc. , a biotechnology company specializing in the characterization and engineering of complex drugs, today announced that the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit granted Amphastar Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Watson Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

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Related Topix: Biotech, Momenta Pharmaceuticals, US News, Watson Pharmaceuticals, Medicine, Pharmaceuticals, Healthcare Industry

Wed Jan 25, 2012

Law.com

Full Federal Circuit to Reconsider Intervening Rights Patent Doctrine

Patent owners may breathe a sigh of relief because the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has agreed to review a ruling from last year in a case about an alleged infringer's right to sell a product based on a patent claim subsequently changed in a patent office action.

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Related Topix: US News, Patent / Trademark Law, Law

GigaOM

Apple appeal seeks to broaden the impact of HTC import ban

Apple A is looking to sharpen the teeth on a recent import ban it secured from the International Trade Commission against HTC smartphones, according to an appeal filing discovered Wednesday by Florian Mueller .

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Tue Jan 24, 2012

Law.com

Building Judicial Capital in Patent Adjudication

The time has come to reform the way district courts handle patent cases. For many years, academics have studied and provided comment regarding the high reversal rates in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit of district court patent decisions.

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Related Topix: US News

Mon Jan 23, 2012

Business Journal

HemCon fights $29M patent ruling - again

The damages, awarded to Marine Polymer Technologies Inc., were vacated in September on appeal by a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

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Related Topix: US News

Fri Jan 20, 2012

Patently Obvious

En Banc Federal Circuit To Reconsider Scope of Intervening Rights Defense

The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has announced that it will hold an en banc rehearing of the Marine Polymer Tech case.

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Related Topix: US News, Aruba

Tue Jan 17, 2012

San Diego Source

Federal Circuit chief judge playing show at House of Blues Thursday

Randall Rader, chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, will show off his musical chops Thursday night at the House of Blues with his band, DeNovo.

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Related Topix: US News, Pop/Rock, Denovo

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