Patent Search and Filing

Operators, Vendors Call Patent Firm s Cable Modems A Sham (MultiChannel News)
The five largest cable operators and six DOCSIS equipment manufacturers have launched a new legal counterattack against a so-called patent troll trying to wrest millions of dollars in licensing fees from the industry.

MPR Services Granted Patent for Improving the Conversion of Oxazolidones to Alkanolamines (Centre Daily Times)
MPR Services, Dickinson, Texas, has been granted United States Patent # 7,323,600 for a regeneration process for converting oxazolidones such as hydroxypropyloxazolidone (HPOZD) to DEA or DIPA, dependent on the solvent used. Michael Turoff, MPR Associate Scientist, was the primary developer of this new process. This patented process constitutes a major efficiency breakthrough for MPR’s OXEX(TM) …

Creating a surprise twist in the portable music wars, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has denied (New Mobile Computing)
Apple’s application to patent its method of using hierarchical menus to navigate through the iPod’s contents. The basis for the denial: a similar method outlined in a Microsoft researcher’s patent application, filed after the iPod was introduced but before Apple sought its own patent.

Lucent, Nokia win in Golden Bridge patent appeal (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
A U.S. appeals court sided with Alcatel-Lucent and Nokia (NOK1V.HE) on Wednesday, upholding a lower court’s finding that a Golden Bridge Technology cell phone patent was invalid.

VRNT: Jury Awards $3.3M to Company in Patent Infringement Case vs Nice Systems (Nasdaq)
Verint Systems Inc. (VRNT) announced that the jury in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia ruled unanimously in favor of Verint in a patent infringement lawsuit brought by Verint against Nice Systems, awarding Verint more than $3.3 million in damages.

Nintendo Told to Pay $21 Million in Wii Patent Trial (Update1) (Bloomberg.com)
May 15 (Bloomberg) — Nintendo Co. , the world’s biggest maker of handheld game machines, was told by a federal jury to pay $21 million to a Texas company for infringing a patent used in the Wii and GameCube systems.

Aussie to head UN patent agency (Perth Now)
AUSTRALIAN patent lawyer Francis Gurry was nominated today as director-general of the United Nations’ business-oriented World Intellectual Property Organisation, WIPO.

The business landscape is littered with intellectual property landmines.
Microsoft, Apple Computer, Sun Microsystems, Medtronic, Research in Motion and Nintendo are just a few of the companies that have settled patent infringement disputes for hundreds of millions of dollars.

Toshiba paid a $425 million judgment to Lexar for violating trade secrets. Pfizer’s patents for Viagra were ruled invalid in China and Microsoft faces similar concerns over its Office product in South Korea. In the battle of protecting intellectual property, the IP lawyer is on the front lines

It is the IP lawyer who:

-Drafts the patent applications, knowing that the defensibility of the firm’s intellectual capital hangs on each word that the IP lawyer crafts.

-Must have the prescience to secure valuable IP rights throughout the world in anticipation of his company later doing business in remote markets.

-Must defend his company against attacks by patent trolls.

-Must have the business savvy to transform fierce litigation into mutually beneficial licensing agreements.

-Must retain patent, trademark, and copyright exclusivity while avoiding anti-trust challenges.

This report includes interviews with many of the nation’s foremost authorities on the intellectual property law. Intellectual Property Litigation is extremely expensive and becoming increasingly common. From 1984 to 1999, the mean loss absorbed by companies faced with IP litigation was $28.7 million in total losses. Microsoft, Apple Computer, Sun Microsystems, Medtronic, Research in Motion and Nintendo are just a few of the companies that have settled patent infringement disputes for hundreds of millions of dollars. Cisco Systems reports that it is named as a defendant in at least one IP lawsuit each week.

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Title Index:

Preface

I. The Role of IP in Mergers & Acquisitions: Gary Abelev, Partner, Dorsey & Whitney LLP

II. Licensing Imperatives for Life Sciences Companies: Hollie Baker, Partner, WilmerHale

III. Protecting Your Brand By Protecting Your Trademarks: Elliott C. Bankendorf, Principal, Welsh & Katz Ltd.

IV. How Entrepreneurial Companies Can Best Package Their IP In Anticipation Of An Acquisition: Robert Barrett, Member, Bell, Boyd and Lloyd LLC

IV. The Strategic Protection of Trade Secrets is Smart Business: Stephen E Baskin, Partner, Kirkpatrick Stockton LLP

V. Intellectual Property Securitization: Ronald S. Borod, Brown Rudnick Berlack Israels LLP Don Davis, CommercialStrategy, LLC

VI. Business Methods Patents: Brian J. Colandreo, Senior Counsel, Holland & Knight LLP

VII. The Intersection of Intellectual Property and Employment Law: Adam Forman, Partner, Littler Mendelson, PC

VIII. Intellectual Property Management – When to sell, license and retain
Intellectual Property: Steve Frank, Partner, Goodwin Procter LLC

IX. Patent Assertion: Alan Grimaldi, Partner, Howrey LLP

X. Willful Infringement of Patents in Licensing Negotiations: David Killough, Partner, Vinson & Elkins

XI. The Impact of Patent Quality: The Honorable Bruce Lehman, Senior Counsel, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld & Former Commissioner of the Office of Patent and Trademarks and contributing interviewer, Bruce Berman, President of Brody Berman Associates, Inc.

XII. Blocking Strategies for Intellectual Property: Ira Levy, Partner, Goodwin & Procter LLP

XIII. Trade Secrets Litigation: William Parrish, Shareholder, Jenkins &
Gilchrist

XIV. Financing IP Litigation: Ronald J. Schutz, Attorney, Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi LLP

XV. When Should Young Companies Pursue Patents? When Should They Maintain Trade Secrets?: Diana M. Steel, Counsel, Sullivan & Worcester LLP

XVI. Insights into Trademark and Copyright Infringement and False Advertising: Perry Viscounty, Partner, Latham & Watkins

XVII. Defending the Worldwide Patent System is Akin to Hercules Battling Hydra: David Wanetick, Managing Director, IncreMental Advantage

XVIII. The Importance of Intellectual Property Due Diligence in Context of Mergers & Acquisitions: David Wanetick, Managing Director, IncreMental Advantage

XIX. Defending Your Intellectual Property Through Defensive Publication: David Wanetick,

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Networks In Motion Issued U.S. Patent for Social Networking Applications Using GPS-Enabled Wireless Device (Centre Daily Times)
Networks In Motion (NIM), the award-winning wireless navigation, hyper local search, and location-based services (LBS) company with the largest mobile phone navigation subscriber base in North America, today announced that it was issued U.S. Patent No. 7,333,820, titled “Position Determination System,” which protects its intellectual property involving social networking applications such as …

Patent forum asks how IPRs can help solve climate problem (Eu Business)
How can intellectual property rights (IPRs) be used to promote the development of the clean technologies needed to tackle climate change? This was the question on everybody’s lips at the European Patent Forum, which was held on 6 and 7 May in the Slovenian capital Ljubljana.