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  • January 24, 2006

    HP License Marks Victory for Tiny Calif. Company

    Netting its biggest fish to date, Patriot Scientific Corporation has sold Hewlett-Packard a license to use intellectual property protected by the Moore Microprocessor Patent Portfolio, which the Southern California company owns jointly with the TPL Group.

  • January 24, 2006

    MicroStrategy Patents Denied In Business Objects Case

    The drawn out lawsuit by software maker MicroStrategy Inc. against French rival Business Objects SA has been deflated by a federal judge, who found the asserted patents to be either invalid or not infringed.

  • January 23, 2006

    DataTreasury E-Check Patents Yield Settlement

    DataTreasury, the tiny check processing company that has aggressively asserted its patents against banking giants like Citigroup and Bank of America, has won yet another settlement, this time in its case against global technology company NCR Corporation.

  • January 23, 2006

    Bloomberg Buckles To Reuters Patent Lawsuit: Report

    In their duel over domination of the electronic trading business, Reuters and Bloomberg LP are temporarily sheathing their swords as they prepare to settle a lawsuit Reuters brought against Bloomberg for allegedly infringing patents for its automated trading technology.

  • January 23, 2006

    QLT Loses Again To Takeda Abbott In Cancer Drug Clash

    In the battle over a prostate cancer treatment, an Illinois federal court handed Takeda Abbott Pharmaceuticals Inc. another key victory this week after rejecting the patent “unenforceability” defense asserted by pharmaceutical companies QLT USA Inc. and Sanofi-Synthelabo Inc.

  • January 23, 2006

    High Court Slams Federal Circuit In Patent Case

    The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit overstepped its bounds by reviewing the sufficiency of evidence in a patent infringement and antitrust case, according to a decision on Monday by the U.S. Supreme Court.

  • January 23, 2006

    Besieged Medtronic Settles Heart Patent Dispute

    Mired in patent lawsuits, medical device maker Medtronic Inc. has decided to pay $37.5 million to settle litigation with its latest accuser, a California biotechnology company that specializes in heart valves.

  • January 23, 2006

    BlackBerry Blackout Looms As High Court Rejects Appeal

    The U.S. Supreme Court has pushed BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd. closer than ever to a service-stopping injunction or a financially painful settlement with patent-holding company NTP Inc., after declining to hear RIM’s appeal.

  • January 20, 2006

    Shire OKs Generic Version of Blockbuster Drug

    Shire Pharmaceuticals Group PLC has penned a settlement deal with generic challenger Impax over a blockbuster drug for hyperactivity.

  • January 20, 2006

    MoFo Raids Milbank Tweed, Triggers Calif. Closure

    San Francisco law firm Morrison & Foerster LLP has dealt a lethal blow to the Silicon Valley satellite of Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy by luring its top intellectual property partner with benefits unique to a general practice powerhouse.

  • January 20, 2006

    Google's Trade Secrets "Threatened" By Gov. Lawsuit

    Internet search company Google Inc. has said its intellectual property would be compromised if it complied with a White House demand to turn over huge amounts of search activity conducted by users.

  • January 20, 2006

    Quinn Emanuel Nets Another Big Fish

    Another high-ranking trial attorney has joined the swelling ranks of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges, LLP, marking the firm’s second big catch in a week.

  • January 19, 2006

    Appeals Court Denies Med Student Co-Inventorship

    A former Columbia University medical student who claimed he helped develop a treatment for glaucoma will not be listed as a co-inventor on the patent, a federal appeals court has ruled.

  • January 19, 2006

    Teva's Latest ANDA Draws Fire

    A Japanese pharmaceutical company has slapped Israeli generic drug maker Teva Pharmaceuticals Industries Ltd. with a patent infringement lawsuit in a battle over a drug used to treat acid reflux.

  • January 19, 2006

    Students Say They Were "Tricked" Into Piracy

    A group of college students that was sued by the entertainment industry for alleged copyright infringement is trying to force the creator of a file-sharing network to fund a possible settlement with the organization.

  • January 19, 2006

    NTP Waters Down Injunction To Shut Down BlackBerry

    Patent holding company NTP Inc. is siding with its adversary, Research In Motion Ltd., on the contentious issue of government-held BlackBerry devices, hoping to win an injunction by agreeing the workers be exempt from a possible service blackout.

  • January 19, 2006

    Microsoft Plays Hardball In Demand For New Judge

    The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has given the green light to Microsoft in its bid to request that a new judge preside over a federal patent trial in which the software giant hopes to avoid paying at least $561 million in damages.

  • January 18, 2006

    Medtronic In Hot Water Again Over Spine Patents

    After last year’s record-breaking $1.4 billion payout to a Los Angeles surgeon, medical device maker Medtronic Inc. is now facing charges that it illegally sought patents based on the inventions of a New York orthopedic spine surgeon.

  • January 18, 2006

    Rare Victory For Generic Drug Industry In Patent Ruling

    Pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca has lost a key U.S. court ruling concerning two patents covering the heart drug Toprol-XL in the latest setback in the company’s struggle to sustain its pipeline of blockbuster medications.

  • January 18, 2006

    Court Upholds Pfizer Patent For Norvasc

    Pfizer, deflecting challenges from several generic drug makers over the patents for its second best-selling drug Norvasc, has prevailed in one of the cases, with a judge blocking an attempt by Apotex to launch a generic version of the blood pressure treatment.