For our weekly SoCal IP Institute meeting on Monday, December 19, 2016, we will discuss the following: Medgraph, Inc. v. Medtronic, Inc., Case No. 2015-2019 (Fed Cir. December 13, 2016) (available here). Medgraph asserted two patents against Medtronic related to an improved method for diagnosis and treatment of patients that generally relates to symptoms or [...]
Please join us for our weekly SoCal IP Institute meeting on Monday, April 29, 2013, for a presentation by Christine Kopitzke regarding ICANN's new gTLDs. The articles listed below will provide some background for Monday's discussion. “Launch of new generic top level domains – the Trademark Clearinghouse offers two new services to trademark owners to [...]
Our weekly SoCal IP Institute meeting on Monday, April 22, 2013 will be a discussion of two Federal Circuit cases - one regarding patent ownership and the other regarding a patent interference. Dawson v. Dawson and Bowman (Fed. Circ. March 25, 2013) (available here). The Federal Circuit affirmed the BPAI’s decision in a patent interference [...]
Our weekly SoCal IP Institute meeting on Monday, April 15, 2013 will be a discussion of two Federal Circuit cases regarding patents. Brief synopses of the cases appear below. Checkpoint Systems, Inc. v. All-Tag Security S.A., et. al. (Fed. Cir. March 25, 2013) (available here). At the district court, the defendant recovered attorney fees and [...]
We were lucky enough to have Young-Wook Ha , the President of Korean intellectual property firm firm Ha & Ha, visiting with us last week. Mr. Ha provided some guidance on the differences between Korean and U.S. patent practice and recent changes to Korean practice. As a result of Mr. Ha's visit, we did not [...]
Our weekly SoCal IP Institute meeting on Monday, March 18, 2013 will be a discussion of one Federal Circuit case regarding patent divided infringement and a 9th Circuit case regarding copyright fair use. Brief synopses of the cases appear below. Aristocrat Technologies Australia PTY Ltd. et al. v. IGT, Case No. 2010-1426 (Fed. Circ. March [...]