'Court' Tag

• Court affirms Eli Lilly patents protecting Evista – BusinessWeek

  September 2, 2010

  Court affirms Eli Lilly patents protecting EvistaBusinessWeekEli Lilly and Co. said Wednesday a federal appeals court upheld patents protecting its osteoporosis treatment Evista, giving the drugmaker a victory after …Lilly: Appeals court backs Evista method patentsMarketWatchAppeals court ruling upholds Lilly’s Evista patentsIndianapolis Business JournalU.S. Court of Appeals Upholds Validity of Lilly’s Evista Patents Through March [...]

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• Full Federal Circuit Narrowly Applies Patent Misuse Doctrine

  September 2, 2010

  [Story ID: 3543] A divided U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has ruled that an anti-competitive agreement between two companies to restrict the availability of one of their patents in favor of two others is not misuse of the favored patents. Applying the patent misuse doctrine narrowly, the court determined that the patents [...]

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• Biopolymer Engineering and MIT Fail to Get Vacation (of Summary Judgment)

  August 13, 2010

  [Story ID: 3397] In a nonprecidential opionion, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit dismissed an appeal by Biopolymer Engineering (Biothera) as moot after it appealed a District Court order granting summary judgment of noninfringement by Immunocorp and Biotec Pharmacon ASA (Biotec).  Biopolymer Engineering and MIT v. Immunocorp and Biotec Pharmacon ASA (2010-1096). [...]

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• Drugmakers Get Broader Protection From Generics After Court Says A Means Any

  August 11, 2010

  [Story ID: 3382] Caraco Pharmaceutical Labs and Sun Pharmaceutical Ind. tried to get a rehearing en banc regarding the counterclaim provision of the Hatch-Waxman Act (HWA).  Novo Nordisk A/S v. Caraco Pharmaceutical Labs and Sun Pharmaceutical Ind., US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (2010-1001). The petition for panel rehearing and for rehearing en [...]

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• Eli Lilly Loses Method Patent After the Use Was Disclosed in an Earlier Patent

  August 5, 2010

  [Story ID: 3369] Eli Lilly lost an appeal from a final judgment of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, finding claims 2, 6, and 7 of U.S. Patent No. 5,464,826 invalid for obviousness-type double patenting over its earlier U.S. Patent No. 4,808,614.  See, Sun Pharmaceutical Industries v. Eli Lilly and Co., [...]

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• Circuit Court Judge removes Amendment 9 from November ballot

  July 31, 2010

  [Story ID: 3342] Today, Circuit Court Judge James Shelfer removed Amendment 9′

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• Australian Patent Office Refines Test for Patentability of Business Methods

  July 26, 2010

  [Story ID: 3249] Hot on the heels of the Bilski decision in the US, the Australian Patent Office has now refined the Australian test for the patentability of business methods. The patent application in question relates to a ‘

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• Facebook Roundup: Zuck on TV, Lawsuits,Sarah Palin, Coca-Cola and More – Inside Facebook (blog)

  July 24, 2010

  Facebook Roundup: Zuck on TV, Lawsuits,Sarah Palin, Coca-Cola and MoreInside Facebook (blog)Facebook has been habitually taken to court over extremely broad prior patents, and these cases have tended to not go anywhere. … and more

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• Bilski: One Word That Could Mean Big Bucks for the Patent Bar – Wall Street Journal (blog)

  July 24, 2010

  Patent Baristas (blog)Bilski: One Word That Could Mean Big Bucks for the Patent BarWall Street Journal (blog)Many feared the US Supreme Court would, in the Bilski case, knock a huge hole into so-called ‘

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• Federal Court Finds That Fairchild Semiconductor Willfully Infringed Power … – MarketWatch (press release)

  July 24, 2010

  EETimes.comFederal Court Finds That Fairchild Semiconductor Willfully Infringed Power …MarketWatch (press release)Fairchild was found to infringe four of the company’s patents following a jury trial in October 2006; the jury rejected Fairchild’s challenges to the …Court Sides With Power Integrations in Patent CaseABC News all 74 news articles

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