We will be discussing one Federal Circuit case and one California Supreme Court case during our weekly SoCal IP Institute meeting on Monday, December 3, 2012. Brief synopses are presented below. Sargon Enterprises, Inc. v. Univ. of S. Cal., Case No. S191550 (Cal. Sup. Ct. November 26, 2012) (attached). Sargon Enterprises is a small dental [...]
We will be discussing two Federal Circuit cases during our weekly SoCal IP Institute meeting on Monday, November 26, 2012. Brief synopses are presented below. Transocean Offshore Deepwater Drilling, Inc. v. Maersk Drilling USA, Inc., Case No. 2011-1555 (Fed. Cir. November 15, 2012) (attached). This case involves a patent for offshore drilling technology that allows [...]
We will be discussing one Federal Circuit case and one 9th Circuit case during our weekly SoCal IP Institute meeting on Monday, October 15, 2012. Brief synopses are presented below. In re Miracle Tuesday, LLC., Case No. 2011-1373 (Fed. Cir. October 4, 2012) (attached). Miracle Tuesday filed an intent-to-use trademark application for the word mark [...]
We will be discussing one Federal Circuit case and one Ninth Circuit case during our weekly SoCal IP Institute meeting on Monday, May 21, 2012. Brief synopses are presented below. In re Montgomery, Case No. 2011-1376 (Fed. Cir. May 8, 2012) (attached). The examiner rejected appellant's claims in a patent application towards a method for [...]
During our weekly SoCal IP Institute meeting on Monday, March 19, 2012, we will be discussing the case of Internet Machines, LLC v. PLX Technology, Inc. et al., a patent case recently decided in the Eastern District of Texas. In a very favorable verdict for the patentee plaintiff, the jury found that Internet Machines’ two [...]
We will be discussing two patent cases in our weekly SoCal IP Institute meeting on Monday, October 24, 2011. Brief synopses are presented below. Sanofi-Aventis et al. v. Apotex Inc., Case No. 2011-1048 (Fed Cir. Oct. 18, 2011) (attached). This is the third appeal in a long-running dispute between these two companies regarding the manufacture [...]
We will be discussing one district court case regarding the sufficiency of evidence of direct patent infringement and one Federal Circuit case involving claim construction in our weekly SoCal IP Institute meeting on Monday, August 29, 2011. Brief synopses are presented below. Mirror Worlds, LLC v. Apple, Inc., Case No. 06:08 CV 88 (E.D. Tex. [...]
Please join us for the SoCal IP Institute meeting, Monday, March 7 at Noon. This activity is approved for 1 hour of MCLE credit. If you will be joining us, please RSVP to Amanda Jones by 9 am Monday. We will be discussing the following cases: Centocor v. Abbott Laboratories, 2010-1144 (Fed. Cir. Feb. 23, [...]
SoCal IP Institute – Special Presentation – Fred Kuhns on IP Valuation Please join us for the SoCal IP Institute meeting, Monday, January 31 at Noon for a special presentation. This activity is approved for 1 hour of MCLE credit. If you will be joining us, please RSVP to Amanda Jones by 9 am Monday. [...]
Please join us for the SoCal IP Institute meeting, Monday, January 17 at Noon. This activity is approved for 1 hour of MCLE credit. If you will be joining us, please RSVP to Amanda Jones by 9 am Monday. We will be discussing the following: iLOR, LLC v. Google, Inc., No. 10-1117, 1172 (Fed. Cir. [...]