http://ip.law360.com/ The Newswire for Legal Professionals Copyright 2010 Portfolio Media, Inc. en-US http://ip.law360.com/images/headings/logo.gif http://ip.law360.com/ http://ip.law360.com/articles/156567 A trademark infringement suit will likely head to trial now that a federal judge has ruled the American Association for Justice, the largest trial lawyer association in the world, did not abandon its old trademarks when it changed its name in 2006. http://ip.law360.com/articles/156567 Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://ip.law360.com/articles/156521 Mosaid Technologies Inc. has fired off a breach of contract suit against LSI Corp. and Agere Systems Inc., claiming they have violated a 2007 patent assignment agreement over wireless technology. http://ip.law360.com/articles/156521 Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://ip.law360.com/articles/156479 Timex Corp. and Paragon Solutions LLC are ironing out the details of a settlement in Paragon's infringement suit against Timex over a patent that covers an exercise monitoring system, bringing years of litigation to an end. http://ip.law360.com/articles/156479 Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://ip.law360.com/articles/156471 Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. has become the latest defendant to settle in TQP Development LLC's wide-ranging patent infringement battle over online encrypted data transmission. http://ip.law360.com/articles/156471 Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://ip.law360.com/articles/156500 A U.S. International Trade Commission administrative law judge has rejected Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.'s bid for a determination that its products do not infringe a semiconductor patent asserted by bankrupt Spansion Inc. in a case over flash memory chips. http://ip.law360.com/articles/156500 Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://ip.law360.com/articles/156462 A federal judge has barred Theflyonthewall.com from issuing immediate online reports regarding equity research recommendations by a group of brokerage firms following her finding that the financial news service misappropriated their “hot news” and infringed their copyrights in prior research reports. http://ip.law360.com/articles/156462 Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://ip.law360.com/articles/156324 A trademark and false advertising dispute between paper towel maker Georgia-Pacific Consumer Products LP and trash bag maker Nextep Inc. over the Brawny trademark for household goods has heated up, with Nextep claiming that it is the senior user of the Brawny mark and accusing Georgia-Pacific of engaging in “reverse confusion” to harm Nextep's reputation. http://ip.law360.com/articles/156324 Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://ip.law360.com/articles/156380 YouTube Inc.'s founders knew of and encouraged widespread copyright infringement on their site, and Viacom Corp. tried to buy YouTube in 2006, according to summary judgment briefs unsealed Thursday in the three-year-old copyright lawsuit between the two companies. http://ip.law360.com/articles/156380 Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://ip.law360.com/articles/156309 A video game designer alleging that a game available on Facebook infringes one of his creations has voluntarily dropped Lanham Act and state law claims from the suit, leaving only a copyright claim remaining against the social networking site. http://ip.law360.com/articles/156309 Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://ip.law360.com/articles/156308 Two American International Group Inc. affiliates have asked a judge to declare that Evanston Insurance Co. owes them more than $18 million for defense coverage provided to toy maker MGA Entertainment Inc. in its long copyright and trade secrets battle with Mattel Inc. over Bratz dolls. http://ip.law360.com/articles/156308 Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://ip.law360.com/articles/156356 The economic downturn caused a steep decline in trademark filings in 2009, with international trademark filings decreasing by 16 percent and U.S. filings dropping more than 13 percent from the prior year, according to the World Intellectual Property Organization. http://ip.law360.com/articles/156356 Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://ip.law360.com/articles/156414 A federal judge on Thursday sentenced a former DuPont Co. employee to 18 months behind bars after he pled guilty to stealing trade secrets about the company's Kevlar products and feeding the information to DuPont rival Kolon Industries. http://ip.law360.com/articles/156414 Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://ip.law360.com/articles/156313 Siemens Enterprise Communications Inc. has become the latest defendant to resolve a suit brought by an Acacia Research Corp. unit accusing nearly two dozen companies of infringing a patent covering a digital network access server. http://ip.law360.com/articles/156313 Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://ip.law360.com/articles/156130 Eli Lilly & Co. has filed a patent infringement suit against Synthon Pharmaceuticals Inc. over its attempt to introduce a generic version of hypertension drug Adcirca. http://ip.law360.com/articles/156130 Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://ip.law360.com/articles/156390 Congress has elected to leave out a proposed ban on “pay-for-delay” settlements between generic and brand-name drugmakers from its health care reform package, a policy idea beloved by consumer advocates but vigorously opposed by pharmaceutical industry interests. http://ip.law360.com/articles/156390 Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://ip.law360.com/articles/156170 Pfizer Inc., which recently suffered a blow in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's re-examination of a patent for Viagra, has moved to drop an infringement case against Eli Lilly & Co. Inc. over a rival erectile dysfunction drug. http://ip.law360.com/articles/156170 Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://ip.law360.com/articles/156257 Seeking to offer better billing rates to clients, a former partner at King & Spalding LLP has started an intellectual property boutique that will focus on providing patent services to biotechnology, pharmaceutical and medical device companies. http://ip.law360.com/articles/156257 Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://ip.law360.com/articles/156327 Sepracor Inc. and Dey LP have agreed to dismiss a range of individual patent claims in their battle over Sepracor's rollout of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease drug Brovana. http://ip.law360.com/articles/156327 Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://ip.law360.com/articles/156212 Seagate Technology LLC and National Union Fire Insurance Company of Pittsburgh have settled the insurer's arbitration action related to its obligation to reimburse Seagate for $9 million in patent litigation costs, a move that comes as the parties near a resolution in Seagate's underlying coverage suit. http://ip.law360.com/articles/156212 Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://ip.law360.com/articles/156350 Business software leader SAS Institute Inc. has sued its former counsel at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP for breach of contract and fraud, accusing the firm of making preparations to sue SAS for patent infringement while the software maker was still a client. http://ip.law360.com/articles/156350 Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500