Court: Risk-hedging strategy can’t be patented 
By:
Pat Murphy
Published: June 28, 2010
Tags: intellectual property, patent
Businessmen could not seek a patent on an investment concept that purported to show energy market investors how to hedge against the risk of price changes, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled.
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
By:
Pat Murphy
Published: June 28, 2010
Tags: intellectual property, patent
Businessmen could not seek a patent on an investment strategy that purported to show energy market investors how to hedge against the risk of price changes.
Federal Circuit agrees to rehear case on patent rules
By:
Correy Stephenson
Published: July 7, 2009
Tags: patent, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
The Federal Circuit has agreed to rehear the Tafas v. Dudas case en banc, which puts the validity of rules promulgated by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office at issue.
J&J wins record $1.67B patent verdict
By:
Pat Murphy
Published: June 30, 2009
Tags: patent
Johnson & Johnson’s Centocor unit won $1.67 billion, the largest patent verdict in U.S. history, from Abbott Laboratories over an invention used to produce the Humira arthritis drug. A federal jury in Marshall, Texas, sided with J&J, the world’s biggest health-care company, after five hours of deliberations yesterday, finding Abbott’s actions were willful and J&J is owed $1.17 billion in lost profits and $504 million in royalties. Click here for the full article from Bloomberg News.
PATENT
By:
Justin Rebello
Published: June 4, 2009
Tags: patent
Must a “machine-or-transformation” test be applied to a particular apparatus in order for it to be eligible for patenting under 35 U.S.C. §10? U.S. Supreme Court. Bilski v. Doll. Certiorari granted June 1, 2009. Ruling below: 545 F.3d 943 (Fed. Cir. 2008).
Court orders EchoStar to pay TiVo $103 million
By:
Pat Murphy
Published: June 3, 2009
Tags: patent
Satellite service provider EchoStar is in contempt of a permanent injunction against using some of TiVo’s technology and must pay the DVR pioneer $103.1 million plus interest, a court ruled Tuesday. Click here for the full article from Reuters.
Microsoft loses $200M jury verdict in i4i patent trial
By:
Pat Murphy
Published: May 21, 2009
Tags: patent
Microsoft Corp., the world’s largest software maker, was ordered by a Texas federal jury to pay $200 million to a Canadian company over a patented way to process electronic documents in Microsoft’s Word products. Click here for the full article from Bloomberg News.
Texas jury awards $72.6M for botched patent application
By:
Nora Tooher
Published: May 14, 2009
Tags: patent
A large Dallas-based law firm has been found negligent in bungling a patent and ordered to pay $72.6 million in damages.
ACLU lawsuit attacks patenting of human genes
By:
Pat Murphy
Published: May 14, 2009
Tags: human genes, patent
A lawsuit naming the University of Utah and a Salt Lake City company has launched a major assault on the U.S. government’s grants of patents for human genes, arguing the practice denies women with breast and ovarian cancer the benefit of new tests and possible treatments. Click
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Court finds patent rules valid
By:
Correy Stephenson
Published: March 24, 2009
Tags: patent
Rules promulgated by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office are valid, the Federal Circuit has ruled.
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