Patent Search and Filing

Ventana Wins Appeal in Patent Case (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
Ventana Medical Systems Inc., a maker of tissue and slide preparation systems used in drug development, said Friday a court overturned a ruling that privately owned BioGenex Laboratories Inc. did not violate a Ventana patent.

eBay Patent Wars: Judge Wonders about Design Workaround (AuctionBytes)
MercExchange will have 3 months to put together a new brief in support of its motion for permanent injunction against eBay’s Buy It Now feature, which generates 34 percent of eBay’s Gross Merchandise Sales on the eBay platform. Likewise, eBay will have until March 16, 2007, to prepare a final brief for its motion for a stay of proceedings in light of the ongoing U.S. Patent Office reexamination …

RSS Patent Claim Sparks Backlash (HardwareZone)
Microsoft’s patent claim on RSS (Really Simple Syndication) has sparked a backlash.

EU office upholds antisense drug patent (PharmaBiz)
Isis Pharmaceuticals Inc. has announced that in oral proceedings earlier this month, the European Patent Office (EPO) technical board of appeal reinstated with amended claims the Isis-owned Patent EP0618925 (the ’925 Patent).

Search Europe’s network of patent databases (Eu Business)
Search 50 million patent documents online! Welcome to the esp@cenet user interface which was developed by the European Patent Office (EPO).

Programmer at Novell Quits in Protest Over Microsoft Patent Agreement (LinuxElectrons)
Jeremy Allison, a high-profile open-source programmer, has resigned from Novell because of objections over its patent deal with Microsoft and is moving to Google.

Novartis in India patent dispute (Financial Times)
The Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis has refused to drop a court case challenging India s patent laws in spite of accusations from public health advocates that the case could severely restrict access to affordable medicines in developing countries.

Sutura Files Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against Abbott Laboratories and Perclose (SYS-CON Media)
Sutura, Inc. (‘Sutura’) (OTCBB: SUTU), a California-based medical device company, announced today that it has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Abbott Laboratories and its Perclose unit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. In its Complaint filed December 21, 2006, Sutura asserts that Abbott and Perclose have been infringing on Sutura’s patents for …

Analog Devices sues Silicon Labs for patent infringement (Electronic Engineering Times Asia)
Analog Devices has filed a lawsuit against Silicon Laboratories for multiple patent infringement and copyright complaints.

Amazon Strikes Back At IBM In Patent War (WebProNews)
Recently IBM sued Amazon.com over patent infringement. On Thursday Amazon fired back with a suit of it’s own directed at IBM for patent infringement. The countersuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. Amazon disputes that they infringe on IBM patents and that IBM infringes on patents that Amazon holds. The Web retailer claims that IBM illegally uses …