Indianapolis, IN – Commercial Recovery Corporation of Blaine, MN has filed a patent infringement suit in the Southern District of Indiana against American Financial Credit Services, Inc. for infringement of U.S. Patent No. 7,167,839 (“the ‘893 Patent”) which has been registered by the U.S. Patent Office. Patent attorneys for Commercial…
Indiana patent attorneys obtained issuance of the following 179 patents from the US Patent Office to persons and businesses in Indiana in January, 2013: PAT No. Title 1 D675,288 Faucet handle 2 D675,231 Double diaphragm pump assembly 3 D675,102 Jar 4 8,365,065 Method and system for creating user-defined outputs…
Reg. No. Word 1 4,284,225 LOGISTICS CHECK-UP VIEW 2 4,283,055 SHADOWLASTIC VIEW 3 4,282,786 IDM I DEFINE ME VIEW 4 4,282,737 LABDOOR VIEW 5 4,282,620 G-FORCE VIEW 6 4,282,568 DIRECTIMED VIEW 7 4,282,372 KW VIEW 8 4,282,366 ANDY’S SCHOOL OF MUSIC VIEW…
Indianapolis, IN – The Southern District of Indiana has issued an Order concerning claim construction for three of nine patents-in-suit: U.S. Patent Nos. 5,699,038,6,147,592 and 7,538,659. Patent attorneys for Hill-Rom Services, Inc., Hill-Rom Company, Inc. and Hill-Rom Manufacturing, Inc. (collectively, “Hill-Rom”) filed a patent-infringement action against Stryker Corporation, doing business…
Indianapolis, IN – The Southern District of Indiana has denied all summary judgment motions of both plaintiff CleanTech and all defendants in this multi-district litigation involving patents issued by the US Patent Office. GreenShift Corp. and its subsidiary GS CleanTech Corp. (“CleanTech”) have brought a series of suits alleging infringement…
Geneva, Switzerland – The World Trade Organization (“WTO”) has granted its permission for the twin-island nation of Antigua and Barbuda (“Antigua”) to disregard intellectual property rights granted by the United States (i.e., patents, copyrights and trademarks). The decision follows nearly ten years of negotiations and litigation pursuant to a 2003…
Indianapolis, IN – The Indiana Court of Appeals has vacated the decision of The Honorable Timothy Oakes, Marion County Superior Court, to seize the truck of a defendant who pled guilty to fraud for having sold pirated movies from the truck. In December 2009, the State charged Michael Curtis with…
South Bend, IN – Patent attorneys for Engineered Solutions, L.P.of Mishawaka, IN has filed suit against AL-KO KOBER, LLC of Elkhart, IN for infringement of U.S. Patent No. 6,681,531, issued by the US Patent Office. The plaintiff claims that the AL-KO Kober offers for sale an above-floor, slide-out actuating mechanism…
Washington, DC On January 18, 2013, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on issued final rules setting revised patent fees under Section 10 of the America Invents Act. (78 Fed. Reg. 4211). Section 10 of the AIA permits the USPTO to set or adjust by rule any fee under Title…
Indianapolis, IN – Attorney and self-proclaimed professional photographer Richard N. Bell, suing on his own behalf, filed two separate complaints alleging copyright infringement and unfair competition under the Copyright Act and conversion under Indiana statutory law as a result of the unauthorized use of a photograph he had taken and…