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March 2, 2005
Appeals Court Orders Retrial In $565M Eolas Suit Vs. Microsoft
In a significant legal victory for Microsoft, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has reversed and remanded the validity and inequitable conduct issues in a $521 million patent lawsuit over the software maker’s browser technology.
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March 1, 2005
RIAA Appeals DMCA Case Vs. Charter Comms.
The recording industry has appealed a federal court's ruling that it can't compel internet service providers to identify music downloaders under the 1988 Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
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February 28, 2005
Commerce Secretary Names New Members To USPTO Advisory Boards
U.S. Commerce Secretary Carlos M. Gutierrez has appointed three new members each to the Patent Public Advisory Committee and the Trademark Public Advisory Committee.
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February 25, 2005
Trading Technologies Sues Refco Over Software Patent
A software vendor that has rattled the futures industry with threats of patent litigation has sued a broker with clients trading on all four of the leading futures exchanges.
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February 23, 2005
Pharma Litigator Leaves Fitzpatrick Cella, Joins Sidley
Pharma and biotech patent litigator Thomas Beck has left Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto to join Sidley Austin Brown & Wood LLP as a partner.
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February 18, 2005
Canada Mulls Ban On Exports Of Patented Drugs
In a move that could wipe out much of Canada’s billion-dollar internet pharmacy industry, the government is considering banning the export of patented prescription drugs to the U.S.
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February 16, 2005
Compuware Claims IBM Stole Trade Secrets To Destroy Company
Attorneys for Compuware told a jury that IBM stole its trade secrets as part of a plan to wipe out the software maker, as the trial phase got underway in the closely watched trade-secrets and copyright infringement lawsuit.
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February 15, 2005
Swanson Tool Awarded $600K In Trademark Counterfeiting Suit
A federal court in Illinois has awarded Swanson Tool Company more than $600,000 in a trademark counterfeiting lawsuit which remains pending against several other defendants.
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February 14, 2005
Judge Denies Injunction Vs. eSpeed, But Sees Clear Showing Of Patent Validity, Infringement
A federal judge has denied Trading Technologies’ motion for an injunction against Cantor Fitzgerald's eSpeed derivatives division, but acknowledged in his decision that there is “a clear showing of patent validity and infringement.”
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February 10, 2005
Duane Morris Hires Former Kenyon Litigator For New York IP Group
Duane Morris has hired another former Kenyon & Kenyon litigator to join its patent litigation practice in New York.
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February 2, 2005
Glaxo Agrees To $65M Settlement In Antitrust Suit Over Paxil Patent Gaming: Report
In a deal that closely resembles similar settlements for arthritis drug Relafen and prescription antibiotic Augmentin, GlaxoSmithKline has reportedly agreed to pay $65 million to settle a class action antitrust suit brought by consumers who accused the U.K. drug maker of filing "sham" patent lawsuits to delay generic competition for antidepressant Paxil.
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February 2, 2005
Arent Fox Hires Former Baker Botts Partner
Former Baker Botts LLP partner Rochelle K. Seide has joined Arent Fox PLLC’s intellectual property practice in New York.
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February 1, 2005
Merchant & Gould Hires Trademark Expert From Meagher & Geer
Trademark expert Christopher J. Schulte has left trial law firm Meagher & Geer to join intellectual property specialist Merchant & Gould as a partner in its Minneapolis office.
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January 31, 2005
Ingenient Technologies Sues PacketVideo, Former Employees Over Copyrights, Trade Secrets
Multimedia software maker Ingenient Technologies Inc. has sued rival PacketVideo and two former employees for copyright infringement and misappropriation of trade secrets.
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January 25, 2005
In Blow To Barr Pharma, Appeals Court Affirms Wyeth Victory In Trade-Secrets Case
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit has upheld a lower court’s determination that Natural Biologics misappropriated trade secrets from drug maker Wyeth for a hormone replacement treatment, dealing a blow to generic maker Barr Pharma’s attempts to make a generic version of the drug Premarin.
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January 28, 2005
Shook Hardy Loses Last Name Partners Of Acquired IP Boutique
Veteran intellectual property attorneys William Kircher and Richard Johnson have left Shook Hardy & Bacon to join Blackwell Sanders Peper Martin in Kansas City, stripping Shook Hardy of the last name partners of a boutique it acquired five years ago.
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January 26, 2005
IP Firms Mull More Aggressive Marketing
As competition becomes increasingly fierce in the intellectual property field, a few firms are experimenting with more aggressive marketing approaches.
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January 21, 2005
Davis Wright Tremaine Hires Patent Attorneys From Pillsbury Winthrop
Davis Wright Tremaine LLP has hired two patent attorneys from Pillsbury Winthrop for its Los Angeles office.
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January 21, 2005
Mergen, Oxford Gene Technology Settle Patent Infringement Suit
Biotech company Mergen Ltd. has agreed to take a license to settle U.K.-based Oxford Gene Technology’s patent infringement lawsuit, the company said.
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January 20, 2005
In Setback For Glaxo, European Court Clears Paxil Generics
In a blow to U.K. drug maker GlaxoSmithKline PLC, the European Court of Justice has ruled that generic drug makers should be allowed to market versions of its top-selling anti-depressant Seroxat, marketed in the U.S. as Paxil.