Mailings Are Not “Offers For Sale” And Don’t Trigger Jurisdiction

2010-1158 Dustcap Products v. J&S Fabrication D/MN 09-cv-1179 Judge Ann Montgomery Patentee/plaintiff Dustcap appeals to the Federal Circuit from the order of Judge Ann Montgomery dismissing its action for lack of personal jurisdiction.  J&S is incorporated and located in Pennsylvania, the case brought in Minnesota.  The case involved 6,874,541, generally directed to a slip cover [...]

NEW Federal Circuit Feed From PATracer

One of our new features here at PATracer is PATalert, which alerts you to newly announced opinions and decisions from the Federal Circuit.  PATalerts are listed on the site (to the right), and you can subscribe to get an RSS feed or daily email.  You can subscribe anywhere on PATracer that you see the black [...]

Having Won Appeal, Pitt Appeals Again

2010-1155 Univ. of Pittsburgh v. Varian WD/PA 07-cv-0491 Judge Arthur Schwab Pitt appeals from the order of Judge Schwab dismissing its complaint without prejudice instead of allowing it to file an amended complaint alleging its standing to sue.  The case was just back to the district court after the Federal Circuit ruled for Pitt in [...]

Appealing A Stay Pending Reexamination II

2010-1155 Sorensen v. Spectrum Brands SD/CA 09-cv-0058 Judge Barry Ted Moskowitz Pantentee Sorensen again attempts to appeal from the Order of Judge Barry Moskowitz granting defendants’ motion to stay the case pending reexamination of patent no. 4,935,184.  This is the same plaintiff, patent, judge, and subject as on appeal in 2010-1142.  Defendant in the 2010-1142 [...]

Sometimes A Cigar Is Just A Cigar

2010-1151 Taylor Brands v.  GB II Corp ED/TN 08-cv-325 Mag. Judge Dennis Inman Patentee Taylor appeals from the order of Judge Dennis Inman granting GB II summary judgment of non-infringement.  The case involves U.S. Patent No. 6,651,344 which is generally directed to a spring assisted opening knife.  At issue was the claim term “a set [...]

PATracer v 2.0

We have moved from Typepad over to WordPress, and in the process remodelled and added some new features and content.  The domain name, RSS feeds and email alerts should have automatically updated, so you shouldn’t need to reset or update any bookmarks, feeds etc.  Some of the permalinks to the old site may not work [...]