Patent Search and Filing

Abbott plans to appeal $1.67B patent order (San Francisco Chronicle)
Abbott Laboratories plans to appeal a jury’s $1.67 billion patent infringement ruling in a case involving two blockbuster drugs that treat rheumatoid arthritis and other immune disorders. Late Monday, a jury in the Eastern District of Texas found that Abbott’… Sponsored Topics: Abbott Laboratories – United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas – Patent infringement – …

ImmunoCellular Therapeutics Announces Issuance of Japanese Patent Covering Its Lead Antibody Product Candidate ICT-109 … (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
LOS ANGELES—-ImmunoCellular Therapeutics, Ltd. , a clinical-stage biotechnology company that is developing immune based therapies for the treatment of brain and other cancers, announced today the issuance of a Japanese patent relating to the company’s monoclonal antibody therapeutics.

PubPat and ‘Patent Troll’ Make Odd Bedfellows (Law.com)
A “patent trolling” claim suing several big online names filed in Eastern District of Texas reveals that an attorney doing pro bono work for the Public Patent Foundation — which views software patents as an impediment to progress — isn’t fully in sync with the foundation’s mission.

Sharp violating Samsung patent: ITC (The Japan Times)
Some Sharp Corp. liquid crystal display televisions and computer monitors should be banned from the United States because they infringe on a patent owned by Samsung Electronics Co., the U.S. International Trade Commission said Wednesday. Samsung, the world’s biggest maker of LCDs, won a ruling by the U.S. trade agency that the Sharp products infringe one of its patents. The Washington-based …

Sharp TVs banned from US import following patent suit (MacNN)
A number of Sharp LCD TVs have been banned from unlicensed import to the US, as part of a ruling resulting from a patent dispute with Samsung, according to Bloomberg. The two electronics manufacturers have been battling over technology used in the displays, specifically “apertures formed in the conductive layer comprising the electrode.” The technology is utilized in LCD panels with wide viewing …

3M sues EnvisionWare for patent infringement (BizJournals)
3M Co. said Tuesday it has filed a patent infringement lawsuit in federal district court against EnvisionWare Inc. (MMM)

Obama’s USPTO choice supports patent reform (Ars Technica)
Last Thursday, the Obama administration finally named its choice to head the Patent and Trademark Office: David J. Kappos, who is currently serving as IBM’s assistant general counsel. Kappos has a long history in the field of intellectual property law, and has been an advocate of patent reforms, having testified in favor of a reform bill before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Normally, a public …

Viagra Producers In Canada Win Suit To Protect Patent (redOrbit)
In a major legal victory for pharmaceutical monolith Pfizer, a Canadian court ruled on Thursday that the company s patent for Viagra would remain valid, rebuffing attempts by generic drug manufacturer Novopharm to produce a cheaper version of the popular sex-enhancing drug.The decision is important both as a symbolic and precedent-setting triumph for all manufacturers of name-brand …

Sony Ericsson bracelet phone concept unearthed in patent app (Engadget)
Yeah, we can probably safely leave this one in the file we found it in: you know, the one marked “never going to happen.” Regardless, when we spied this little dude on Unwired View, we thought we’d pass along the weirdness. Unearthed in a Sony Ericsson patent application mysteriously dubbed “Mobile Terminal,” what we have here is a bracelet mobile phone concept, sort of reminiscent of LG’s …

Web standards group scrutinizing Apple patent (CNET)
The W3C seeks prior art in an effort to get a handle on an Apple patent that could hold back the consortium’s work to standardize Web applications.