San Jose, CA – Lilly of Indianapolis, Indiana filed a declaratory judgment suit against Genentech asking the U.S. District Court, Northern District of California to invalidate Genentech’s recombinant-antibody patents. This suit, filed by patent attorneys for Eli Lilly & Company (“Lilly”) and its subsidiary ImClone Systems LLC, of Delaware, included…
Indianapolis, IN – Copyright lawyers for Broadcast Music, Inc. (“BMI”), of New York, NY and eight other plaintiffs have sued VAT, Inc. (“VAT”) d/b/a Carey Tavern and its owners, Matthew and Valerie Schachte of Westfield, IN, for copyright infringement in the Southern District of Indiana. In its complaint, BMI states…
Indianapolis, IN – Boston Scientific Corporation (“Boston Scientific”) of Natik, Massachusetts, was granted three of its four requests to exclude Defendant’s expert testimony in its declaratory judgment suit against Mirowski Family Ventures, LLC (“Mirowski”) of Bethesda, Maryland. The litigation surrounding the Boston Scientific/Guidant Corp. (“Guidant”) / Mirowski / St. Jude…
Hammond, IN – Unverferth Manufacturing Company, Inc. of Kalida, OH has filed suit against Par-Kan Company of Silver Lake, IN for the infringement of United States Patent No. 8,221,047, which has been registered by the USPTO. Patent attorneys for Unverferth Manufacturing Company, Inc. filed a civil suit in Northern District…
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…