Dennis Crouch over at patently-o has posted on his great blog the briefs filed in a patent case soon to be heard in the Supreme Court.  The Court and parties believe the issue is whether there is Article III jurisdiction over a declaratory judgment action brought against the licensor of a patent by the licensee […]

A new blog I came across is IP Law Daily, listed as a media perils, cyberlaw and patent blawg. It is the latest venture from Kevin Heller of Tech Law Advisor fame. According to the site, IP Law Daily monitors approximately 75 intellectual proeprty related legal weblogs (blawgs) and aggregates all the interesting tidbits of […]

A pharmacies’ right to compound prescriptions came in jeopardy after the Food and Drug Administration argued that compounding creates new and unapproved drugs. In Medical Center Pharmacy, et al. v. Gonzalez, et al., No. MO-04-CV-130, District Court for the Western District of Texas, a suit was brought by 10 pharmacies against the Food and Drug […]

One of the items that I tend to fall terribly behind in is mentioning other IP sites of interest. I wanted to make up for some of my wanton and willful negligence by highlighting some noteworthy pages. Joseph Scott Miller, an Associate Professor of Law at Lewis & Clark Law School, launched The Fire of […]

Kevin Heller, the Tech Law Advisor and commissioner of the Legal Bloggers Fantasy Football League, is heading up Blawger Bowl III. The league is made up of draft teams managed by 12 law blawgers. Patent Baristas is participating – although how we got talked into this I’m not so sure. Current Roster: Anonymous Lawyer Bizz […]

In another update to the preliminary injunction issued August 29 in the Apotex case, The Fire of Genius writes that there are two interesting things to note about Judge Stein’s decision: (1) it nowhere mentions the eBay v. MercExchange case, at all (!); and (2) Judge Stein applies the traditional pre-eBay “presumption of irreparable harm” […]

What a perfect wrap-up for the week before a long holiday weekend. The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has released for public comment a draft five-year strategic plan designed to “foster American innovation and competitiveness at home and around the globe.” We’re fostering everyone else’s innovation now? The draft plan identifies quality and […]