Indianapolis, IN – The Southern District of Indiana has issued a claim construction order in a patent infringement lawsuit. Cook Incorporated, of Bloomington, Indiana, had filed a patent infringement lawsuit in the Southern District of Indiana against Endologix, Inc., of Irvine, California. The patents at issue are owned by…
[Disclosure: Overhauser Law Offices, LLC, the publisher of this website, represents a party in this litigation] Chief Judge Philip P. Simon for the Northern District of Indiana has construed the claims of Patent No. 5,866,210, METHOD FOR COATING A SUBSTRATE. The ‘210 patent describes a method of coating substrates…
Evansville IN – Patent lawyers for GHJ Holdings of Texarkana, Texas filed a patent infringement suit in the Eastern District of Texas alleging Indian Industries, Inc. d/b/a Escalade Sports of Evansville, Indiana falsely marked products with expired and inapplicable patent no. 5,899,824, SNAP-FIT DART AND ADAPTER, 5,498,004, GAME DART, 5,271,625, FLEXIBLE POINT…
Fort Wayne, IN – The Northern District of Indiana has granted partial summary judgment in a patent infringement case. Geocel LLC, of Elkhart, Indiana, had filed a patent infringement lawsuit in the Northern District of Indiana seeking a declaratory judgment that patent no. RE 41,586, PITCH POCKET AND SEALANT,…
Washington, D.C. – The United States Patent and Trademark Office has launched a new web tool that shows that trademark application processing times are down to record lows. The average pendency to a first action on a new application is down to 2.7 months, while total pendency — defined…
Indiana patent attorneys obtained issuance of the following 182 patents from the US Patent Office to persons and businesses in Indiana in August, 2011: PAT. NO. TITLE 1 D644,146 Race car 2 8,010,455 Waste processing system and method 3 8,008,487 Substituted thieno[2,3-D]pyrimidines as fungicides 4 8,008,466 Use of untranslated…
Indianapolis, IN – Trademark lawyers for Allison Transmission Inc. of Indianapolis, Indiana filed a trademark infringement suit in alleging Defeo Manufacturing, Inc. of Brookfield, Connecticut infringed various ALLISON TRANSMISSION trademarks, including registration nos. 2,866,798, 2,625,008, 1,666,977, 1,624,473 , 3,821,442and 2,678,354; along with registration no. 2,615,428 for the ALLISON ELECTRIC…
This case involves companies who each use the trademark BRANDT for selling agricultural equipment, but in different geographic areas. Trademark attorneys for Pitonyak Machinery Corporation claimed it acquired rights to the trademark BRANDT when it purchased several businesses in 2002 from a Brandt family in Carlisle, Arkansas. During discovery,…
The US Trademark Office issued the following 164 trademark registrations to persons and businesses in Indiana in August, 2011, based on applications filed by Indiana Trademark Attorneys: Reg. Number Mark Click to View 1 4,015,515 SAMTEC VIEW 2 4,013,415 STEPS 2 ENROLL VIEW 3 4,017,421 INDIANA WHOLESALE DEALERS VIEW…
Indianapolis, IN – A patent infringement case originally filed in the Western District of Wisconsin has been transferred to the Southern District of Indiana. Patent lawyers for Hill-Rom Services, Inc of Batesville, Indiana filed a patent infringement suit alleging Stryker Corporation doing business as Stryker Medical and Stryker Sales…