http://ip.law360.com/ Latest articles for search term: Copyright 2010 Portfolio Media, Inc. en-US http://ip.law360.com/images/headings/logo.gif http://ip.law360.com/ http://ip.law360.com/articles/148446 A federal judge has stymied a bid by the National Collegiate Athletic Association to dismiss a putative antitrust class action by former student-athletes who say they're being bilked out of money made from licensing their images. http://ip.law360.com/articles/148446 http://ip.law360.com/articles/148472 Dish Network Corp. and former parent EchoStar Communications Corp. has agreed to pay $5.8 million in attorneys' fees that TiVo Inc. has incurred bringing contempt allegations against the satellite television provider in an ongoing patent infringement suit over digital video recording technology. http://ip.law360.com/articles/148472 http://ip.law360.com/articles/148279 The number of international patent filings fell 4.5 percent in 2009, when sharp drops in the United States and other industrialized nations outpaced gains in a number of East Asian countries, the World Intellectual Property Organization said Monday. http://ip.law360.com/articles/148279 http://ip.law360.com/articles/148274 A federal judge has paved the way for a class action involving secretaries, paralegals and others at Turocy & Watson LLP, conditionally certifying a class in the case brought by a former legal secretary claiming she was improperly denied overtime pay by the intellectual property boutique. http://ip.law360.com/articles/148274 http://ip.law360.com/articles/148235 A magistrate judge has overturned a jury verdict finding Inline Connection Corp.'s patents for Internet access over telephone lines invalid, but left in place the finding that EarthLink Inc. did not infringe the patents. http://ip.law360.com/articles/148235 http://ip.law360.com/articles/148200 A Texas company has launched a suit against more than a dozen semiconductor makers, suppliers and distributors, including Hynix Semiconductor Inc., claiming the companies infringe four patents covering memory chip technology. http://ip.law360.com/articles/148200 http://ip.law360.com/articles/147911 Citing the recent decision in Wyeth v. Kappos, Idera Pharmaceuticals Inc. has sued the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, claiming the patent authority miscalculated an extension for two of its patents covering a cancer treatment by a year and a half. http://ip.law360.com/articles/147911 http://ip.law360.com/articles/148296 A federal judge has granted defendants' bid for a ruling of noninfringement as to one patent in a suit brought by Orica Explosives Technology Pty. Ltd. over electronic blasting technology used in mining and construction. http://ip.law360.com/articles/148296 http://ip.law360.com/articles/148255 In a boost to defendant Arthrex Inc., a federal judge has granted the orthopedic device maker's bid to prohibit rival Smith & Nephew PLC from making arguments at trial as to whether Arthrex literally infringed certain elements of two patents covering a button used to hold tissues in place for knee reconstruction surgery. http://ip.law360.com/articles/148255 http://ip.law360.com/articles/148176 Canadian licensing company Wi-LAN Inc., which has accused a slew of companies of infringing its wireless technology patents, has agreed to settle a dispute over patent ownership interests brought by telecommunications company Telus Corp. that threatened to undermine Wi-LAN's cases. http://ip.law360.com/articles/148176 http://ip.law360.com/articles/148267 Patent-holding company Parallel Networks LLC has dropped its infringement suit against Amazon.com Inc., Google Inc. and Kayak Software Corp. over a patent related to the way Web site servers handle data requests from lower speed Internet users. http://ip.law360.com/articles/148267 http://ip.law360.com/articles/148201 A federal appeals court has reversed sanctions against attorneys for ResQNet.com Inc. stemming from the alleged bad-faith inclusion of certain patents in its infringement suit over software technology, while remanding the damages calculation against defendant Lansa Inc. http://ip.law360.com/articles/148201 http://ip.law360.com/articles/148212 Detecting no error in the lower court's decision, a federal appeals court has upheld an award of $4.88 million in damages and interest for French home cooking appliance maker SEB SA in its suit accusing Pentalpha Enterprises Ltd. of infringing a patent for a plastic skirt on a deep fryer. http://ip.law360.com/articles/148212 http://ip.law360.com/articles/148139 A federal judge has approved a settlement agreement between SanDisk Corp. and Phison Electronics Corp. as defendants continue to drop away from SanDisk's suit, which accused dozens of companies of infringing its patents for flash memory technology. http://ip.law360.com/articles/148139 http://ip.law360.com/articles/148179 Sharp Corp. and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. have signed a settlement agreement to end more than two years of ongoing patent infringement disputes before the U.S. International Trade Commission and in federal courts over liquid crystal display panels and modules for television and computer screens. http://ip.law360.com/articles/148179 http://ip.law360.com/articles/148078 Consumers’ doubts about authenticity and safety can cut to the heart of a megabrand’s value. An aggressive and persistent anti-counterfeiting campaign is just one component to protecting valuable brands against a Toyota-style consumer perception crisis, says Joseph C. Gioconda of Gioconda Law Group PLLC. http://ip.law360.com/articles/148078 http://ip.law360.com/articles/148070 Jenny Craig Inc. has settled a false advertising suit filed by Weight Watchers International Inc. and will halt an advertising campaign that Weight Watchers claimed was deceptive. http://ip.law360.com/articles/148070 http://ip.law360.com/articles/148141 A federal judge has granted a request by Yahoo Inc. and Microsoft Corp. to limit potential statutory damages against them in a copyright infringement suit over their music download services. http://ip.law360.com/articles/148141 http://ip.law360.com/articles/147744 With the Obama administration aiming to jump-start the economy and environmental efforts by boosting U.S. renewable energy production, an ongoing patent dispute in U.S. International Trade Commission over imported wind turbines could shake up the U.S. wind industry landscape, according to experts. http://ip.law360.com/articles/147744 http://ip.law360.com/articles/148151 A federal appeals court on Friday denied Pfizer Inc.'s bid to keep a patent infringement suit seeking to prevent Apotex Inc. from marketing a generic version of cholesterol drug Lipitor in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware. http://ip.law360.com/articles/148151