DYNACORE HOLDINGS CORPORATION and DYNACORE PATENT LITIGATION TRUST, Plaintiffs-Appellants,
v.
U.S. PHILIPS CORPORATION, and STMICROELECTRONICS, INC., and MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC CORPORATION OF AMERICA, and JVC AMERICAS CORP., and COMPAQ COMPUTER CORPORATION, GATEWAY, INC., HEWLETT-PACKARD CORPORATION, and SONY ELECTRONICS, INC., and EPSON AMERICA, INC., and FUJITSU PC CORPORATION, FUJITSU MICROELECTRONICS AMERICA, INC.,
and FUJITSU COMPUTER PRODUCTS OF AMERICA, INC., and [...]
Monthly Archives: March 2004
Dynacore Holdings Corp., et al. v. U.S. Philips Corp., et al.
Unova, Inc. v. Acer Inc., et al. (Fed.Cir.)
UNOVA, INC., v. ACER INCORPORATED and ACER AMERICA CORPORATION and APPLE COMPUTER INC., GATEWAY INC., FUJITSU LTD., and FUJITSU PC CORPORATION and HEWLETT-PACKARD COMPANY and NEC CORPORATION and NEC COMPUTERS INC.
Federal Circuit, March 31, 2004
“Unova, Inc. appeals from the decision of the United States District Court for the Central District of California entering summary judgment [...]
PatentIn 3.3 Training
USPTO Notice re: “The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) will offer free training on its newest release of the sequence authoring software, PatentIn 3.3. The 2004 training dates are: May 21and September 10…Course Content: Overview of molecular biology; Overview of the sequence rules; and Hands-on authoring of several sequence listings [...]
USPTO Notice re Pre-First Office Action Interviews
Notice of Pilot Program to Permit Pre-First Office Action Interview for Applications Assigned to Art Units 3624 and 3628 and Request for Comments on Pilot Program (signed 30 March 2004) (31Mar2004) [PDF]
AIPLA | Quarterly Journal
I received the new AIPLA Quarterly Journal today. Volume 32, Number 1. Winter 2004. Includes the following articles:
The Interpretation of Patent Claims by the Markman Subcommittee of the Patent Litigation Committee of the American Intellectual Property Law Association;
Condemning a Patent: Taking Intellectual Property by Eminent Domain by Matthew S. Bethards; and
The Niche [...]
USPTO’s PCT Home Page
The PCT Home Page has been modified.
Certain Chapter I and Chapter II fees will increase, effective April 1, 2004, due to an adjustment in the exchange rate caused by currency fluctuation and the Current PCT Fee Schedule has been modified accordingly. The Announcements section has also been revised to include a summary of the [...]
Chiron Corp. v. Genentech, Inc. (Fed. Cir.)
Chiron Corp. v. Genentech, Inc.
Federal Circuit, March 30, 2002
“After a jury trial, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California entered judgment in favor of Genentech that all claims of U.S. Patent No. 6,054,561 are invalid under 35 U.S.C. § 102 because none of the asserted claims is entitled to priority to a [...]
Monsanto Co. v. Bayer Bioscience, N.V. (formerly known as Aventis CropScience N.V.) (Fed. Cir.)
Monsanto Co. v. Bayer Bioscience, N.V. (formerly known as Aventis CropScience N.V.)
Federal Circuit, March 30, 2004
“Monsanto Company filed an action … seeking a declaratory judgment that its transgenic corn products did not infringe four patents owned by Aventis … The patents at issue claim a variety of methods and products relating to the insertion [...]
This Week’s Official Gazette Notices
Official Gazette Notices for 30 March 2004. Usual stuff, plus:
Reclassification Alert Report
Status of Office of Public Records Services
IPO Comments on Proposed USPTO Rules re Attorney Registration and Discipline
IPO’s comments submitted to the USPTO on many of the rules in the complex rulemaking proposal on registration and disciplinary requirements for patent attorneys.
