intellectual property rights

Computer makers Acer, Apple, Dell, and Hewlett-Packard were sued last week for allegedly violating four patents held by Saxon Innovations, an intellectual property licensing company based in Tyler, Texas. The lawsuit was filed in the Eastern District of Texas, which has long been seen as a plaintiff-friendly venue by patent litigators Saxon claims that Acer, Apple, Dell, and HP have violated ..

Bavarian Nordic has filed a patent infringement suit against Oxford BioMedica plc, Biomedica, Inc., and Oxford BioMedica Ltd., in the United States District Court of the Southern District of California. Bavarian Nordic owns several United States patents relating to an attenuated strain of the company's core technology, MVA-BN, which is the basis for its innovative smallpox vaccine, IMVAMUNE. M..

After securing geographical indication (GI) for Darjeeling tea in Europe, the Tea Board is now gearing up to protect the intellectual property right (IPR) of the famed beverage. Tea Board Chairman Basudeb Banerjee said at the annual general meeting of Darjeeling Tea Association (DTA) here that protection of IPR was necessary for Darjeeling tea. He said the Tea Board had taken initiatives in t..

SAP has agreed to pay i2 Technologies, maker of supply chain management software, $83.3 million to settle a patent claim i2 brought against the enterprise software maker. The Dallas company had sued SAP in 2006, claiming that it had infringed on a number of its patents. The settlement was reached on June 23, according to an SEC filing by i2. The brief filing states that SAP and i2 will ..

HIV patient group—Delhi Network of Positive People (DNP+)—has filed a post-grant opposition against Swiss major Roche’s patent for its HIV drug Valganciclovir at the Chennai Patent office. The Chennai patent office granted the patent to Roche last year without hearing the arguments of the two NGOs which had filed pre-grant opposition against the drug, a DNP+ release said. The NGO has oppos..

Kerala Friday unveiled its intellectual property rights (IPR) policy aimed at safeguarding the state’s rich base of ayurveda and herbal medicine. With this move, Kerala has become the first state in the country to have an IPR policy in place. Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan unveiled the IPR policy here by handing over a copy of it to S.P. Shukla, former civil servant and India’s representati..

Patients from Brazil have asked the Delhi patent office not to grant a patent pending on the HIV drug tenofovir because it would prevent the import of low-cost generic medicines from India they say are important for their national AIDS treatment programme, upon which 1,80,000 Brazilians depend. This is the first time that a group from outside the country has challenged a patent pending in the c..

India and China might be the competing economic giants globally, but when it comes to innovation, the land of dragon is way ahead, filing nearly seven times more patent applications compared to our country. According to global research and analytics firm Evalueserve, India filed 35,000 patent applications during the fiscal year 2007-08, whereas China had more than 2.45 lakh applications in 200..

Settlements of lawsuits have become common between branded-drug makers and their generic-drug counterparts -- Pfizer (NYSE: PFE) did it just last week -- but the agreement between Barr Pharmaceuticals (NYSE: BRL) and Bayer may have set a record for the most complex. Let me break it down for you, because there's something in it for everyone. Barr won a lawsuit invalidating Bayer's patent on its..

Mount Everest Mineral Water (MEMW), the Tata Group's beverage company, is fighting legal battle with Bisleri over the Himalyan trademark. It would take another four months to be heard at the Delhi High Court, it is expected to be heard next in October MEMW, which had registered the Himalayan trademark in 1994 has taken Bisleri to court over using the word "Himalayan" in its packaging. Accordin..

Microsoft must pay Alcatel-Lucent $511.6 million, after a federal court refused to overturn an earlier jury verdict against the software giant. Judge Marilyn L. Huff refused to reconsider an April jury verdict that Microsoft infringed Alacatel-Lucent patents regarding how Microsoft Outlook and Windows Mobile sets the date and stylus-based computers. The jury awarded Alcatel-Lucent $357.7 plus $..

According to a company note, Roquette Frères filed a suit against SPI Pharma and DryTec in the US District court for the District of Delaware for infringement of Roquette's US patent No 5,573,777. Roquette identifies the Pharmaburst product line of SPI Pharma as infringing products in Roquette's patent infringement lawsuit against SPI. The claims of the patent cover mannitols with physical and fun..

Now that the Patent Reform Act (S. 1145) has been pulled from the Senate floor schedule, it looks like business as usual for patent litigants, as a holder of touch screen patents has launched a carpet-bombing assault. Re-tooling a patent infringement suit aimed at Dell from 2007, Typhoon Touch Technology and co-plaintiff Nova Mobility Systems have added Apple, Fujitsu, Toshiba America, Lenovo U..

A federal jury awarded neuroscience-based biotech Elan Pharma International $55.2 million and a 6 percent royalty rate in its patent infringement suit against Abraxis BioScience, which said it would appeal. A recent ruling in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware found that Abraxis’ metastatic breast cancer treatment Abraxane (paclitaxel protein-bound particles for injectable su..

Texas-based company, Clear With Computers (CWC), is suing Apple and Hewlett-Packard (HP) in the Texas Eastern District Court for infringing upon two of their patents, namely the patent #5615342 entitled “Electronic Proposal Preparation System,” and the patent #5367627 entitled “Computer-Assisted Parts Sales Method.” In the Count I and II, the plaintiff alleges that Apple and HP are making and u..