pills-tablets.jpgIPNews® – The Federal Circuit on Friday affirmed a Texas federal court’s patent infringement finding and accompanying injunction barring three generic drug manufacturers from making, selling or marketing generic versions of Pozen Inc.’s migraine treatment Treximet.

Par Pharmaceutical Inc., Alphapharm Pty Ltd. and Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Inc. could not overcome the presumption of validity of

knee replacement.jpgIPNews® – Wright Medical Technology is wrongly borrowing the trademark name for a recently-debuted Stryker Corp. knee implant in order to bring more attention and sales to Wright’s own knee implant products, Stryker alleged in a new infringement lawsuit Thursday.

Stryker launched its GetAroundKnee product earlier this year in conjunction with a massive advertising campaign

corn.jpgIPNews® – A Missouri federal judge on Thursday let Dow AgroSciences LLC off the hook for Bayer CropScience AG’s claims that Dow is infringing its patent for a way to genetically modify plants to be unharmed by a powerful herbicide.

Bayer claimed Dow’s “Enlist Weed Control” product infringed its U.S. Patent Number 6,153,401 for a

barber_shop.jpgIPNews® – DC Comics accused a Florida barbershop proprietor on Tuesday of misappropriating its trademarks for the Superman name and logo.

Reginal Jones, operator of Supermen Fades To Fros and Superman Pro Barbershop, is using Superman iconography on his barbers’ shirts, aprons and capes as well as the very names and signage of his businesses

jeans.jpgIPNews® – A Manhattan federal judge on Tuesday let Liz Claiborne Inc. and its Lucky Brand Dungarees Inc. denim subsidiary off the hook for a rival fashion group’s trademark infringement claims over its trademark for the phrase “Get Lucky.”

Marcel Fashions Group Inc. already had the opportunity to seek the injunction it is asking for

mosque.jpgIPNews® – An actress in the anti-Muslim video “Innocence of Muslims” that sparked violent uprisings across the globe sued Google Inc. and YouTube LLC in Los Angeles federal court Wednesday over alleged copyright violations in the unauthorized use of her performance in the video.

Google and YouTube have refused to take the video down despite

pig.jpgIPNews® – The Humane Society of the United States came under fire Monday from the National Pork Board for its newly filed lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Agriculture over its authorization of the $60 million purchase of the trademark “The Other White Meat” from a pork industry political lobbying group.

The board, a quasi-governmental

PTA.jpgIPNews® – The National Parent Teacher Association is claiming in a new lawsuit filed Wednesday that PTO Today is infringing its trademarks and falsely claiming an association with it that does not exist.

PTO Today is a for-profit rival company owned by School Family Media Inc. that provides products and services to parent teacher groups.

courthouse.jpgIPNews® – The Federal Circuit on Tuesday affirmed the dismissal of a “death care” company’s attempt to win a declaratory judgment warding off a potential patent infringement suit from another company over a method of cremating human remains without incinerating them.

Matthews International Corp.’s claims that Biosafe Engineering’s patents are invalid, unenforceable and not infringed