Patent Search and Filing

Data Deposit Box receives patent for interruptible online backup (Computer Technology Review)
Data Deposit Box recently received a patent for its continuous online backup product — “Data Backup System and Method.” Data Deposit Box has the ability to interrupt itself at any point while the computer is being used.

DNA Heritage Success in Patent Battle Helps Keep Genealogy DNA Test Prices Low (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
DNA Heritage has recently overcome patent claims held by a competitor which would have severely restricted the use of DNA testing and databases that allow families around the world to match and connect up through their DNA.

Impax sued for patent infringement (East Bay Business Times)
Generic drug maker Impax Pharmaceuticals Inc. has been sued for patent infringement related to the pain treatment oxymorphone hydrochloride. (PPCO)

Patent Office finds voice, calls for software patent sanity (Ars Technica)
Recently the Patent Office has gotten more serious about reining in frivolous patenting. Supporters of software patents are getting nervous, but they shouldn’t panic yet. Read More…

Analyst: J&J could reap $1 billion from patent extension for Topamax (The Star-Ledger)
Johnson & Johnson could reap an extra $1 billion in sales from its migraine and epilepsy treatment Topamax, now that federal regulators have extended its patent by six months, an analyst said today.

Nokia and Qualcomm Declare a Ceasefire in Long-Running Patent War (CommunicationsDirect)
The long-running disagreement between Nokia and Qualcomm over patent royalties appears to have reached a conclusion. In one of the 11 court actions ongoing between the two companies, the German Federal Patent Court yesterday ruled that Qualcomm’s case against Nokia was invalid. The case had involved a technology used in the GSM…

Nokia Claims Victory Over Qualcomm in Ongoing Patent Battle (PC World)
The German Federal Patent Court today ruled that a Qualcomm GSM patent asserted against Nokia is invalid, said the Finnish…

Axis-Shield gets approval notice for Afinion patent (The Herald)
Axis-Shield, the Scottish- Norwegian maker of medical diagnostic kits, yesterday said it had received approval notice for its patent application covering its Afinion point-of-care system in China.

Wyeth and Impax settle Effexor XR patent case (News-Medical-Net)
Wyeth and Impax Laboratories Inc. today announced that all conditions of a settlement of the U.S. patent infringement litigation pertaining to Impax’s proposed generic capsule formulation of Wyeth’s Effexor XR antidepressant have been approved by the United States District Court for the District of Delaware.

creating its own defensive patent portfolio (New Mobile Computing)
“The United States patent and legal system has turned into a battlefield where companies and technology developers can be attacked.