Latest United States patent law Stories
ATLANTA, March 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- InComm, a leading prepaid product and transaction services company, announced today that a jury in the United States District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin returned a unanimous verdict last week finding Blackhawk Network liable for infringing two claims of InComm's U.S. Patent No. 7,578,439, entitled "System and Method for Authorizing Stored Value Card Transactions." The jury further awarded InComm approximately $3.5 million in...
LOVELAND, Colo., March 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Heska Corporation (NASDAQ: HSKA), a provider of advanced veterinary diagnostic and other specialty veterinary products, today announced that The Patent Board, a leading independent provider of best practices research, tools and metrics for patent analysis and intellectual property investment (http://www.patentboard.com), has again ranked Heska's Science Strength in the top 50 of the Biotechnology industry. The Patent Board's ranking...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., March 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Idenix Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: IDIX), a biopharmaceutical company engaged in the discovery and development of drugs for the treatment of human viral diseases, today announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) declared a patent interference between Idenix's U.S. Patent Application no. 12/131,868 and Pharmasset Inc.'s (acquired by Gilead Sciences) U.S. Patent no. 7,429,572, both related to certain nucleoside...
SAN DIEGO, March 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Ameranth, Inc. today announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office confirmed in Reexamination No. 95/001698 the validity of 27 claims of Ameranth's strategic gaming patent (U.S. Pat. No. 7,431,650) titled "Casino Poker and Dealer Management System" which further confirms Ameranth's innovation and leadership role for many current and emerging automated poker applications and deployments. The confirmation of the validity of this...
SAN DIEGO, Feb. 29, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Essentialis, Inc. announced the February 27, 2012 filing of two new patent applications expanding the patent portfolio claiming its investigational triglyceride-lowering compound DCCR and new methods of using the drug. The first is a continuation-in-part of a current application that includes data from the recently completed clinical trial, CT013; the second is a patent filing covering certain aspects of the use of DCCR in the treatment of...
RALEIGH, N.C., Feb. 22, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) has informed BioDelivery Sciences International, Inc. (Nasdaq: BDSI) that it has rejected all claims by MonoSol Rx, LLC (MonoSol) in its US Patent No. 7,425,292 (the '292 Patent) which is currently being asserted against BDSI and its commercial partners for ONSOLIS. The action by the USPTO represents an additional positive development for BDSI in its case with MonoSol. MonoSol filed...
Facebook’s IPO Prospectus Helps EveryMD Counter Allegations Made by Facebook in Patent Infringement Litigation Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) February 21, 2012 EveryMD announced today that it is publicly releasing a copy of its most recent appeal brief filed February 13, 2012 with the U.S. Patent Office's Board of Patent Appeals. EveryMD's appeal brief is the latest filing in ongoing patent reexamination proceedings before the U.S. Patent Office initiated by Facebook against EveryMD's U.S....
For the first time in any part of the world, Apple has won a patent verdict in their dispute against Motorola Mobility, as a German court ruled that select Motorola phones featuring "slide-to-unlock" functionality infringed upon the iPhone and iPad manufacturer's intellectual property. According to Peter Pachal of Mashable.com, the Munich regional court handed down a pair of verdicts in Apple's favor, declaring that certain Motorola products "infringed on the German part of a broader...
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Feb. 15, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- ParkerVision, Inc. (NASDAQ: PRKR), a developer and marketer of semiconductor technology solutions for wireless applications, announced today that U.S. District Judge Roy B. Dalton Jr. has established a schedule for upcoming hearings and other case deadlines in ParkerVision Inc. v. Qualcomm Inc., No. 3-2011-cv-00719, a patent infringement lawsuit filed by ParkerVision against San-Diego based Qualcomm, Inc. (NASDAQ: QCOM). The patent...
The February Inventor’s Club Meeting will be hosting Patent Lawyer, Pat McCollum to discuss the America Invents Act and the effect that it will have on patent laws, businesses, entrepreneurs and inventors. Williamsport, Pennsylvania (PRWEB) February 06, 2012 The February Inventor’s Club Meeting will be hosting Patent Lawyer, Pat McCollum to discuss the America Invents Act and the effect that it will have on patent laws, businesses, entrepreneurs and inventors. The meeting will be held...
