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- The United States Patent and Trademark Office Orders the Re-Examination of Two Patents Included in the Patent Litigation between Illumina and Affymetrix
- SAN DIEGO -- Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN) announced today that the United States Patent and Trademark office has ordered the re-examination of U.S. Patent Nos. 6,355,432 and 6,646,243. The serial numbers for the re-examinations are 90/008,885 and 90/008,889, respectively. They were assigned the same filing date of November 27, 2007. The...
- Research articles 2007-12-21
- <i>Inter Partes</I> Reexamination: The USPTO Alternative To Patent Litigation.
- Crippled in its reach, shunned for express estoppel provisions, and written out of the USPTO's 21st Century Plan, the inter partes reexamination procedure has had a troubled start. Nonetheless, inter partes reexamination remains a significant strate Crippled in its reach, shunned for express estoppel provisions,...
- Research articles 2003-09-30
- U.S. Patent and Trademark Office finalizes rejection of central claim in Vitronics vs. Conceptronic patent litigation
- PORTSMOUTH, N.H.--BUSINESS WIRE--April 5, 1995--Conceptronic Inc. (NASDAQ: CNCP) announced today that it received notification yesterday from the United States Patent and Trademark Office that claim No. 1 of Vitronics apparatus patent No. 4,833,301 had been rejected after an appeal by Vitronics Corp.
- Research articles 1995-04-05
- The United States Patent and Trademark Office Orders The Re-Examination of Two Additional Patents Included in the Patent Litigation Between Illumina and Affymetrix
- SAN DIEGO -- Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN) announced today that the United States Patent and Trademark office has ordered the re-examination of U.S. Patent Nos. 5,545,531 and 5,795,716. The serial numbers for the re-examinations are 90/008,888 and 90/008,886, respectively. They were assigned the same filing date of November 27, 2007. The...
- Research articles 2007-12-21
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- U.S. Patent & Trademark Office Rejects Claims in Synopsys Patent, Magma Announces
- SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office today rejected all the claims in Synopsys Inc.'s patent number 6,378,114 (the '114 patent), calling into question the validity of the patent, MagmaR Design Automation Inc. (Nasdaq:LAVA) said in a statement today. The validity of the '114 patent has been...
- Research articles 2006-08-17
- Avery Dennison Says U.S. Patent Office Agrees to Reexamine the 3M Company Patent That is the Subject of Ongoing Litigation
- PASADENA, Calif. -- Avery Dennison Corporation (NYSE:AVY) announced today that the U. S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted the Company's Request for Reexamination of 3M Company's U.S. Patent No. 5,897,930, the patent that is the subject of ongoing litigation between the two companies.
- Research articles 2006-04-13
- U.S. Patent and Trademark Office implements new process for
- The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office USPTO has implemented new processes for handling reexamination proceedings to improve timeliness and quality. Patent reexamination is an alternative to litigation for determining the patentability of the claims in an issued patent. Requests for the USPTO to reexamine a patent can...
- Research articles 2005-09-02
- Scott Smith files notice with U.S. Patent Office, accusing Entrepreneur magazine of fraud.
- Latest battle in long war over magazine's protection of a word The U.S. Patent Office granted a trademark on the word entrepreneur to Entrepreneur Media Inc., publisher of Entrepreneur magazine, in 1982, before it became today's common word. The company has aggressively protected its...
- Research articles 2007-11-09
- Verance Announces Stay of Patent Litigation; Agreement Reached With Digimarc After Re-Exam of Digimarc Patents Granted by the U.S. Patent Office
- Business/Entertainment/High-Tech Editors SAN DIEGO--BUSINESS WIRE--Feb. 13, 2001 Verance, a developer of watermark technologies for content management, broadcast monitoring and wireless systems and data applications, announced today that it has reached an agreement with Digimarc Corp. (Nasdaq:DMRC) to stay all legal activities surrounding recent patent infringement suits filed by...
- Research articles 2001-02-13
- Validity of Actel patent involved in Quicklogic litigation confirmed by U.S. Patent Office
- SUNNYVALE, Calif.--BUSINESS WIRE--Dec. 21, 1994--Actel Corp., (NASDAQ:ACTL) the leading supplier of field programmable gate arrays FPGAs based on antifuse technology, Wednesday announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office had confirmed the patentability of all claims of a key Actel patent, United States Patent No. 4,758,745. ...
- Research articles 1994-12-21
- Brush Wellman Comments On Patent Litigation
- CLEVELAND--BUSINESS WIRE--Aug. 7, 1998--Brush Wellman Inc. (NYSE:BW) today commented on the status of litigation related to its patent for investment casting of aluminum beryllium (U.S. Patent No. 5,642,773). The United States District Court, District of Massachusetts recently issued a procedural order stating the following: "This action having been stayed pending...
- Research articles 1998-08-07
- Venali Files Second Request for Reexamination in J2 Global Patent Litigation
- MIAMI -- Venali, a leading provider of Internet fax services for Enterprise and SOHO systems, announced the second filing in an expected series of Requests For Reexamination of patents owned or controlled by J2 Global Communications, Inc. (Nasdaq:JCOM) with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. The second filing requests...
- Research articles 2005-05-16
- Nucleonics Says USPTO Rejects All Claims for Fourth Time in Re-Exam of Benitec's Patent
- HORSHAM, Pa. -- Nucleonics, Inc., a biotechnology company focused on the development of novel expressed RNA interference-based eiRNA therapeutics, announced today that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued a fourth rejection of all of the claims of Benitec's U.S. Patent No. 6,573,099, which is the subject of litigation...
- Research articles 2008-04-22
- USPTO Rejects All Claims in Re-Exam of Benitec's Patent in Response to Nucleonics' Request for Re-Examination
- HORSHAM, Pa. -- Nucleonics, Inc., a biotechnology company focused on the development of novel expressed RNA interference-based eiRNA therapeutics, announced today that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office USPTO, in response to a second request for re-examination filed by Nucleonics, has issued a second rejection of all remaining claims in...
- Research articles 2007-02-01
- Patent Evaluation Goes Public
- Inventions today are more complicated than ever, which makes it hard to judge the quality of new patents and relatively easy to get protection for half-baked ideas. Sooner or later, those half-baked inventions become the subject of bank-breaking litigation, and the U.S. Supreme Court recently said that needs to stop....
- Blog posts 2007-06-06
- StemCells, Inc. Agrees to Stay Litigation against Neuralstem Pending Reexamination of Patents Involved in Lawsuit
- PALO ALTO, Calif. -- StemCells, Inc. (NASDAQ: STEM) today announced it has consented to a stay, on mutually acceptable terms, of its patent infringement lawsuit against Neuralstem, Inc., pending reexamination by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office PTO of the four patents that are the subject of the litigation. In...
- Research articles 2007-06-28
- Microsoft Case Not Aimed At Open-Source Community, Say i4i Execs
- Microsoft filed an emergency motion to block a court ruling that would have seen copies of Microsoft Word pulled from store shelves. The chairman and founder of i4i, the small Canadian company that filed the suit against Microsoft for infringing on their XML-related patent, say that while they are very...
- News items 2009-08-17
- Microsoft continues battle to save Word
- The case involves i4i's XML-based technology Microsoft has appealed a final judgment against it in a patent infringement case brought by i4i LP. The case concerns i4i's XML-based technology, which received Patent No. 5,787,449 from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in 1998. Related stories: Imagine a world without WordMicrosoft...
- News items 2009-08-28
- How to Negotiate a Merger
- We've boiled down what many M&A experts preach about the hard process of M&A negotiating into four basic steps that more companies ought to practice. Make Your Initial Offer GOAL: Define the ballpark parameters under which...
- Articles 2007-12-13
- Protecting Your Work with Copyrights
- Copyright is a form of legal protection for the creators of original works. It covers literature, plays and other written works; music; choreographed dances; paintings, illustrations, graphics and sculptural works; motion pictures; sound recordings; and architectural works. There are no forms to fill in and no fees to pay: Copyright...
- Articles 2007-03-27
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