http://www.law360.com/ Latest articles for organization: Kenyon & Kenyon Copyright 2009 Portfolio Media, Inc. en-US http://www.law360.com/images/headings/logo.gif http://www.law360.com/ http://www.law360.com/articles/135318 A federal appeals court on Thursday struck down infringement claims for a bodybuilding supplement patent held by Iovate Health Sciences Inc. and the University of Florida Research Foundation, ruling that certain fitness magazine ads describing the product had rendered the patent obvious. http://www.law360.com/articles/135318 http://www.law360.com/articles/134825 Teva Pharmaceuticals Industries Ltd. has dropped claims for unfair competition and trade secrets misappropriation against Sandoz Inc. and parent company Novartis AG in a patent dispute over the multiple sclerosis drug Copaxone. http://www.law360.com/articles/134825 http://www.law360.com/articles/133631 Patent-holding company MHL Tek LLC’s suit will continue against major automakers including BMW AG and Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. after a judge refused to throw out its sole remaining claim of infringement of a patent for tire pressure monitoring systems. http://www.law360.com/articles/133631 http://www.law360.com/articles/132727 Infosint SA has asked a judge to increase a $15 million reasonable royalty award that a jury issued for Lundbeck A/S and Forest Laboratories Inc.'s alleged infringement of a patent for making the antidepressant citalopram, arguing that it should receive additional damages and interest totaling almost $43 million. http://www.law360.com/articles/132727 http://www.law360.com/articles/132090 Twin patent lawsuits brought by Hoffmann-La Roche Inc. accusing generic-drug maker Teva Pharmaceuticals USA Inc. and its Gate Pharmaceuticals division of infringing patents related to a popular osteoporosis drug have been dismissed because Teva dropped an application to make generic Boniva. http://www.law360.com/articles/132090 http://www.law360.com/articles/131797 Three lawyers who previously worked at Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP, Foley & Lardner LLP and Arrowhead Research Corp. have launched a new Washington-based intellectual property boutique — Fanelli Strain & Haag PLLC. http://www.law360.com/articles/131797 http://www.law360.com/articles/126495 In its first precedential opinion applying the “machine or transformation” test of In re Bilski to claims directed to methods of treating patients, the Federal Circuit held that steps implicitly requiring the assay of specimens are sufficiently transformative even if they do not require use of any particular instrument or assay method, say Charles A. Weiss and Ashton J. Delauney of Kenyon & Kenyon LLP. http://www.law360.com/articles/126495 http://www.law360.com/articles/128894 Lundbeck A/S and Forest Laboratories Inc. will have to pay Infosint SA a $15 million reasonable royalty award now that a federal jury has ruled that Infosint's patent for making the antidepressant citalopram is valid. http://www.law360.com/articles/128894 http://www.law360.com/articles/127717 Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. has struck back with patent invalidity counterclaims against rival Gilead Sciences Inc. in an infringement case involving drug treatments for HIV. http://www.law360.com/articles/127717 http://www.law360.com/articles/124916 Bowed but not yet broken, Guardian Media Technologies Ltd. has appealed a pair of noninfringement rulings that put leading television and DVD manufacturers — including Sony Electronics Inc., Panasonic Corp. and Toshiba America Inc. — safely beyond the reach of Guardian’s widely asserted patents for v-chip technology. http://www.law360.com/articles/124916 http://www.law360.com/articles/125001 A federal judge has dismissed Sony Electronics Inc. from an inventor's suit accusing a host of computer manufacturers of infringing a patent related to voice and data transmission signals through laptop computers. http://www.law360.com/articles/125001 http://www.law360.com/articles/117730 Section 337 filings at the U.S. International Trade Commission overwhelmingly involve patent infringement, but the ITC can also provide an effective forum for other types of intellectual property cases, particularly those involving gray market goods, according to experts. http://www.law360.com/articles/117730 http://www.law360.com/articles/122399 A federal judge on Tuesday dismissed a bid from Schering-Plough Corp. unit Intervet Inc. seeking declaratory judgment that it did not infringe a pig vaccine patent held by competitor Merial Ltd, which earlier lodged an infringement suit against Schering. http://www.law360.com/articles/122399 http://www.law360.com/articles/121984 Sony Electronics Inc. has exited a suit over a patent for a volume control mechanism for televisions that International Control Systems LLC brought against the electronics maker. http://www.law360.com/articles/121984 http://www.law360.com/articles/120324 A federal judge has ruled that Sony Electronics Inc., Panasonic Corp. and other manufacturers’ DVD players do not infringe a widely asserted patent for v-chip censorship technology, finding that the accused devices' parental control systems are not covered by the patent. http://www.law360.com/articles/120324 http://www.law360.com/articles/118613 Howrey LLP can represent Boston Scientific Corp. in several stent patent lawsuits against Wyeth and Johnson & Johnson Inc., a federal judge has said, rejecting Wyeth's complaints of conflict of interest. http://www.law360.com/articles/118613 http://www.law360.com/articles/116528 A federal judge has granted a summary judgment of noninfringement to Schering-Plough Corp. unit Intervet Inc. in its declaratory judgment case against rival Merial Ltd. over a patent covering a pig vaccine. http://www.law360.com/articles/116528 http://www.law360.com/articles/113214 Illinois Computer Research LLC has dropped its intellectual property suit against Sony Electronics Inc. over an electronic book patent ICR bought from a former Fish & Richardson PC partner at the center of a legal firestorm over his intellectual property portfolio. http://www.law360.com/articles/113214 http://www.law360.com/articles/112738 Paice LLC has dropped certain patent infringement claims against Toyota Motor Corp. related to two Lexus models in ongoing litigation over the rights to three patents covering hybrid vehicle technology. http://www.law360.com/articles/112738 http://www.law360.com/articles/109269 A federal judge has rejected the latest bid from H. Lundbeck A/S and its partner Forest Laboratories Inc. to pare down a patent dispute related to the antidepressant citalopram, ruling that a lone letter from one of the companies' suppliers did not yield enough evidence to drop part of Infosint SA's infringement claims. http://www.law360.com/articles/109269