intellectual property rights

Barr Pharmaceuticals Inc. confirmed today that its Pomona-based subsidiary, Barr Laboratories Inc., has challenged four patents held by Amgen Inc. for its Sensipar drug, used by dialysis patients to treat side-effects of the treatment. Barr said it filed an Abbreviated New Drug Application with the Food and Drug Administration on March 10, the first date the agency could accept such an applicat..

Energizer Holdings Inc. said Monday it filed a lawsuit against Spectrum Brands, alleging the company's lithium batteries infringe on two of its patents. Energizer said it believes that Spectrum Brands' Rayovac lithium batteries infringe on two of its patents, according to the complaint, filed in federal court in Wisconsin. Spectrum Brands, formerly Rayovac Corp. of Madison, Wis., recently ..

Dr Reddy’s Laboratories, the country’s third-biggest drugmaker, will form a joint venture with one of the world’s biggest biotech companies to make biosimilars or generic versions of patented biotech drugs to take on Ranbaxy Laboratories, Reliance Life Sciences, among other Indian companies. Several drugs are expected to come off patent in this segment in the next five years. “The joint venture..

Altair Engineering India is set to partner Indian companies in their quest to create intellectual property with its design, validation and simulation tools with a focus on high performance computers and supercomputing environment. The company, which has a development centre in Bangalore, has secured more than five patents which have significant contribution from its India R&D labs. By Ms.Bo..

Endo Pharmaceuticals Holdings Inc. and another company have sued generic drug maker Impax Pharmaceuticals Inc. for patent infringement related to the pain treatment oxymorphone hydrochloride. Hayward, Calif.-based Impax has applied to make a generic form of the pain drug known as Opana ER. Endo and Penwest Pharmaceuticals Co., which make and sell Opana ER, sued Impax based on an amendment to th..

Great Wall Motor Co said it did not anticipate an Italian court order barring it from selling its GWPeri compact car in the European Union would have a substantial impact on its operations. The Chinese car maker said in a statement issued on Friday that the Court of Turin had on July 16 delivered the order in summary proceedings before formal proceedings following a design dispute brought again..

General Patent Corporation International (GPCI), a leading patent licensing and enforcement firm, announced today on behalf of its client, Winning Edge International, formerly known as GWIN, that Winning Edge has settled its patent infringement lawsuit against Canadian corporation SportsDirect, Inc. and its subsidiary, Irish corporation Covers Media Group Ltd. A lawsuit against Sportsdirect, I..

A concerted effort including awareness among advocates and general public was the need of the hour to protect Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) as a number of cases relating to it are increasing both in India and abroad, a senior Supreme Court judge said on Saturday. Justice Kabir, who was in Chennai on the inauguration of the Judges' Round Table on Intellectual Property Rights Adjudication, ..

American toy company Hasbro Inc has sued Thursday, July 24, the creators of a Scrabble knock-off called Scrabulous. The online game apparently infringed on the Scrabble North-American rights which Hasbro now owns after acquiring the assets of bankrupt Coleco. Also, Hasbro asked Facebook to block the Scrabulous online game, which has attracted some half-million daily users. Although Scrabulous i..

LecTec Corporation (OTCBB: LECT) announced today that it has filed a Complaint for patent infringement against Chattem, Inc., Endo Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Johnson & Johnson Consumer Company, Inc., The Mentholatum Company, Inc. and Prince of Peace Enterprises, Inc. in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. The Complaint alleges, among other things, that the defendants have infrin..

Nokia and Qualcomm have signed a new agreement covering various standards including GSM, EDGE, CDMA, WCDMA, HSDPA, OFDM, WiMAX, LTE and other technologies. The agreement will result in settlement of all litigation between the two companies, including the withdrawal by Nokia of its complaint to the European Commission. While the Finnish company Nokia is handset manufacturer, the US-based Qualco..

Almadoro Minerals Corp. announces the acquisition of Intellectual Property pertaining to mobile phone application development from Michael Stemple, a veteran of the mobile content industry. This acquisition includes TapSlide's membership in the Apple, Inc.Developer Connection for the iPhone platform. The Developer Connection will enable the Company to develop applications for use on Apple's iP..

After many months of doing virtually nothing, Hasbro, maker of the board game Scrabble, finally moved today to shut down a hugely popular, rogue Scrabble website. The giant game company filed suit against the creators of Scrabulous in federal court in New York City Thursday morning, asserting copyright infringement and demanding that the counterfeit game be immediately taken down. Two brothers ..

If you’ve thought about purchasing a GameCube, Wavebird or Wii Classic controller sometime in the future, you might want to go ahead and grab one now. Nintendo has just lost a case that may very well see these controllers taken off the market. Nintendo has been fighting with Anascape Ltd. over patent infringement which names the three above controllers. It seems that Nintendo has flooded the ma..

VocalTec Communications Ltd. a global provider of carrier-class multimedia and voice-over-IP solutions for communication service providers, announced today the closing of the Patent Purchase Agreement (PPA) for the sale of selected patents to Karo Millennium J.P., L.L.C. as previously announced on May 28th, 2008. The transaction was successfully brokered by IPinvestments Group of Atlanta, Georgia...