September 2012

microsoft-building.jpgIPNews® – A newly published Microsoft Inc. patent application for an “immersive display experience” featuring 3-D projections across a user’s environment sheds light on what the next generation of the company’s video game systems could look like after the Xbox 720 makes its debut.

The patent application, filed in March 2011 and published last week

pills.jpgIPNews® – Johnson & Johnson unit Janssen Pharmaceuticals Inc. won a major patent infringement victory Tuesday when a New Jersey federal judge held that its patent for the popular birth control drug Ortho Tri-Cyclen Lo is valid.

The validity finding amounts to a finding of infringement against generic drug maker Lupin Pharmaceuticals Inc., which filed

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IPNews® – The Eighth Circuit on Tuesday affirmed a $222,000 copyright infringement verdict against a Minnesota woman whom the major record labels accused of sharing copyrighted songs through the peer-to-peer file-sharing service Kazaa.

The Minnesota district court had cut the jury’s damages award to $54,000 three times for three separate jury trials in the case

ChuckYeager.jpgIPNews® – Renowned test pilot Chuck Yeager on Monday lost his Ninth Circuit appeal of his failed suit seeking to hold two old friends liable for using his likeness without authorization in their aviation memorabilia business.

Yeager’s claims were time-barred, the appeals court ruled. The Ninth Circuit ruled that a declaration Yeager submitted to the

willitblend.jpgIPNews® – K-Tec Inc., which sparked a viral sensation with its “Will It Blend?” YouTube promotional videos for its Blendtec blenders, won out last week over its rival blender maker Vita-Mix Corp.’s appeal of a $24 million patent infringement judgment in K-Tec’s favor.

The Federal Circuit on Thursday ruled that the district court made no

nuvasive-san-diego.jpgIPNews® – The Ninth Circuit let NuVasive Inc. off the hook for a $60 million jury verdict finding it infringed Neurovision Medical Products Inc.’s trademark “Neurovision,” vacating the district court’s judgment and ordering a new trial.

The appeals court found that the Los Angeles federal court ignored Ninth Circuit precedent, persistently cut off or excluded

200px-Logo_NIKE.svg.jpgIPNews® – Nike Inc. was granted patents last week for shoes containing data transmission systems to collect information about the footwear’s use and for golf clubs containing sensors to measure the club’s movements.

The footwear patent covers a shoe including a system to send data to a remote system like a display or other device

Velvet_Underground_and_Nico.jpgIPNews® – The Velvet Underground on Friday lost its copyright infringement claim against the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Inc. over the licensing of Warhol’s famous banana screenprint cover art for the band’s debut album, but the band’s remaining claims for trademark infringement remain intact.

A New York federal judge ruled that because

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IPNews® – HTC Corp. won out on Thursday over an inventor’s claims that the phone maker infringed two patents for wireless communication devices, after an Illinois federal judge ruled that the two patents were unenforceable due to the inventor’s false statements.

Intellect Wireless founder Daniel Henderson sued HTC in 2009 as part of a larger

Smith_Nephew_CorpMark_RGB.jpgIPNews® – Smith & Nephew Inc. was awarded $4 million in damages on Tuesday for lost profits relating to Hologic Inc.’s infringement of its patents for a medical tissue removal device.

The Massachusetts federal jury verdict resolves consolidated patent litigation S&N first filed in June 2010. S&N alleged Hologic infringed U.S. Patent Numbers 7,226,459 and