http://ip.law360.com/ The Newswire for Legal Professionals Copyright 2009 Portfolio Media, Inc. en-US http://ip.law360.com/images/headings/logo.gif http://ip.law360.com/ http://ip.law360.com/articles/132947 A jury has awarded $13.4 million to I-Flow Corp. in a suit against Apex Medical Technologies Inc. and one of its principals who I-Flow accused of patent infringement, unfair competition and stealing trade secrets related to a medical infusion pump. http://ip.law360.com/articles/132947 http://ip.law360.com/articles/132926 Battling for ownership of Tavern on the Green’s name, New York is trying to move the trademark brawl out of bankruptcy court, where the operators of the iconic Central Park eatery are in Chapter 11 protection. http://ip.law360.com/articles/132926 http://ip.law360.com/articles/132907 The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office plans to help small inventors with multiple patent applications take greater control over their patent prosecution through a pilot program announced Friday that would let inventors willing to abandon one unexamined patent application fast-track another. http://ip.law360.com/articles/132907 http://ip.law360.com/articles/132710 Japan-based Nichia Corp. has slapped Chinese solar products company Jiawei North America Inc. with a patent infringement lawsuit over light-emitting diode technology. http://ip.law360.com/articles/132710 http://ip.law360.com/articles/132851 Fulbright & Jaworski LLP can continue to represent National Envelope Corp. in a trademark dispute in spite of protests from Staples Inc., another Fulbright client and intervenor in the case. http://ip.law360.com/articles/132851 http://ip.law360.com/articles/132788 Aruba Networks Inc. said Friday that it would pay $19.75 million to settle a patent dispute with Motorola Inc. and three of its subsidiaries over wireless networking technology. http://ip.law360.com/articles/132788 http://ip.law360.com/articles/132730 A federal judge has dismissed a suit brought by auction Web site uBid Inc. that accused domain provider The Go Daddy Group Inc. of violating a cybersquatting law by allowing URLs registered by third parties containing uBid's trademarked name to appear on Go Daddy sites. http://ip.law360.com/articles/132730 http://ip.law360.com/articles/132779 The founders of Skype Ltd. have laid down their swords in a battle over eBay Inc.'s $2.75 billion sale of the majority of Skype to a group of private investors, agreeing to drop an intellectual property suit and other litigation in exchange for a stake in the Internet telephony company. http://ip.law360.com/articles/132779 http://ip.law360.com/articles/132801 A group of paying customers has banded together in a newly amended complaint to accuse Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH of prosecuting a patent it knew to be invalid in order to stymie generic-drug makers in their efforts to get cheaper versions of the Parkinson's drug Mirapex to market. http://ip.law360.com/articles/132801 http://ip.law360.com/articles/132849 Yahoo Inc. has settled a trademark lawsuit brought by cosmetics purveyor Mary Kay Inc. over Yahoo’s use of infringing pop-up links and advertisements that allegedly appeared in e-mails sent by Mary Kay beauty consultants. http://ip.law360.com/articles/132849 http://ip.law360.com/articles/132731 Realtime Data LLC has won court approval for a settlement and licensing deal with F5 Networks Inc. and one of its customers, putting to rest allegations that the companies infringed seven patents covering compression-based data acceleration technology. http://ip.law360.com/articles/132731 http://ip.law360.com/articles/132549 A federal judge has dismissed two defendants from an optical drive patent dispute brought by Ricoh Co. Ltd. against rival Quanta Computer Inc., slimming down the case as it inches toward trial. http://ip.law360.com/articles/132549 http://ip.law360.com/articles/132727 Infosint SA has asked a judge to increase a $15 million reasonable royalty award that a jury issued for Lundbeck A/S and Forest Laboratories Inc.'s alleged infringement of a patent for making the antidepressant citalopram, arguing that it should receive additional damages and interest totaling almost $43 million. http://ip.law360.com/articles/132727 http://ip.law360.com/articles/132870 A New York jury has handed a $600,000 verdict to publisher John Wiley & Sons Inc. in a lawsuit it filed accusing a man of unlawfully importing and reselling textbooks in violation of various intellectual property and competition laws. http://ip.law360.com/articles/132870 http://ip.law360.com/articles/132213 A judge has given the green light to a $70 million stipulation agreement among several parties in the Filene's Basement Inc. Chapter 11 case that had faced objections by Fendi SRL because it threatened to limit how much the luxury company could recover in its counterfeiting lawsuit against the discount retailer. (Corrects an article published on Nov. 4.) http://ip.law360.com/articles/132213 http://ip.law360.com/articles/132711 A federal appeals court on Thursday revived a photographer's suit alleging HIT Entertainment and Learning Curve International Inc. infringed his copyright on product photos he took of their “Thomas & Friends” train toys. http://ip.law360.com/articles/132711 http://ip.law360.com/articles/132574 The law firm Michael Best & Friedrich LLP has added two attorneys with expertise in biotechnology and information technology startups to serve the growing market for venture capital investment in Wisconsin. http://ip.law360.com/articles/132574 http://ip.law360.com/articles/132584 A federal judge has upheld a jury verdict awarding Johnson & Johnson subsidiary Centocor Ortho Biotech Inc. and New York University a record $1.67 billion for their claims that Abbott Laboratories' flagship arthritis drug Humira infringed their patent. http://ip.law360.com/articles/132584 http://ip.law360.com/articles/132715 Agricultural products producer Agrium Inc. has launched a lawsuit against a former sales representative and rival Blue Water Agronomy Inc., claiming the ex-employee misappropriated Agrium's trade secrets and breached his employment contract when he went to work for Blue Water. http://ip.law360.com/articles/132715 http://ip.law360.com/articles/132565 An associate at Ropes & Gray LLP was arrested Thursday as part of an ongoing government investigation of insider trading at hedge funds and stock trading firms that last month ensnared Raj Rajaratnam, founder of Galleon Group. http://ip.law360.com/articles/132565