Federal Circuit Judicial Conference

The Judicial Conference of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit will be held on Thusday, 15 May 2008 at the Grand Hyatt in Wanshington D.C.  The cost is $275 and you can register online.
The morning session consists of short remarks from Chief Judge Paul Michael; Jan Horbaly, Circuit Executive and Clerk of [...]

Prior Art Absorbs Bayer’s Oral Contraceptive Patent

2008-1282 Bayer Schering v. Barr Pharma D/NJ 05-CV-2308
Bayer has appealed Judge Peter G. Sheridan’s opinion invalidating its
patent for an oral contraceptive.  In 2005, Bayer filed its Complaint
under the Hatch Waxman Act to declare its Patent No. 6,787,531 valid
and to enjoin Barr from selling a generic form of Bayer’s Yasmin®.  After a healthy dose of discovery, [...]

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Central District of California

08-1185 Revolution Eyewear v. Aspex Eyewear CD/CA 03-CV-5965

Middle District of Florida

08-1182 World Triathalon v. Dawn Synidcated MD/FL 05-CV-983

Northern District of Ohio Ultimately Protects Vector Corrosion’s Ownership of Patents

2008-1170 Euclid Chemical v. Vector CorrosionND/OH 05-CV-80
Plaintiff Euclid Chemical has appealed Judge Christopher Boyko’s resolution of declaratory judgment action involving a host of ownership issues for patents related to cathodic protection systems. After Euclid Corrosion received a letter from Vector Corrosion’s IP agent warning of possible infringement of six patents, Euclid Chemical filed suit seeking [...]

2008-1147 TGIP v AT&T

ED/TX   2:06-CV-105   
TGIP asserted two patents related to pre-paid calling cards.  After an hour of deliberating, the jury returned a verdict for TGIP on infringement and willfulness, with damages in excess of $156 million.  Judge Ronald Clark granted JMOL on non-infringement (and willfulness).  According to the JMOL opinion, essentially the patents have limitations dealing with [...]

2008-1150 Warner-Lambert v. Teva Pharm

D/NJ 99-cv-922

4,743,450 is
directed to pharmaceutical compositions containing an ACE inhibitor stabilized against
cyclization and oxidative discoloration, and a process for so stabilizing. Warner-Lambert sued based on Teva’s
ANDA filing and, the Court granted summary judgment of not invalid by reason of
non-enablement. The Federal
Circuit reversed due to a lack of express findings in the summary judgment and,
on remand, [...]

2008-1155 MIT v. Microsoft

ED/TX  5:01cv00344                  
This case was first filed in 2001: 1630+ dockets entries and one earlier appeal (462 F.3d 1344) later, plaintiffs stipulated to non-infringement by Microsoft after the Court contrued to the term "aesthetic correction circuitry" to be limited to hardware rather than hardware and software.  Judge David Folsom adopted [...]