Patent Baristas

In a bit of shameless self-promotion, we find that the Patent Baristas were ranked (once again!) in the 2008 Edition of Chambers and Partners, a guide to the legal profession that rates attorneys and their practices based upon peer and client review. Chambers USA touts the Intellectual Property Department as known for their “exceptional” attention […]

Yali Friedman announced the new, Third Edition of Building Biotechnology, known as the definitive primer and leading textbook on the business of biotechnology is now available in its third edition.We have not read the newest edition but it promises to be better than ever. This new edition is a whopper containing 20 Chapters, 460 pages […]

The phosita® blog notes perhaps the first dismissal of a declaratory judgment action following the Supreme Court’s decision in MedImmune.  In a dispute over U.S. Pat. No. 5,247,356, a patent involving photogrammetry*, a court in Minneapolis dismissed two counts seeking declaratory judgment of non-infringement and invalidity (Case 08–cv-00816). [*Apparently, photogrammetry is the science of making […]

In a nonprecedential opinion, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit gave the thumbs up to a district court decision that Plaintiff-Appellant Novo Nordisk A/S wasn’t getting a preliminary injunction out of Sanofi-Aventis after alleging that Sanofi’s SoloStar product infringed claims of Novo’s U.S. Patent No. 7,241,278.  Novo Nordisk A/S v. Sanofi-Aventis (08-1225). […]

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled that the manufacture, marketing, or sale of a medical device, which is used in the development of FDA regulatory submissions, but is not itself subject to the FDA premarket approval process, is not entitled to the protection of the Hatch-Waxman Act section 271(e)(1) safe harbor […]

In the book “How to Get Sued” (Kaplan Publishing, NY), J. Craig Williams of May It Please the Court blog fame, has come out with a book on the lighter side of how “real life” becomes “real litigation.”  As a sort of how-to guide, the book points out that all you really need is to […]

Victoria Pynchon at the IP ADR Blog, fulfilled her promise to put forth “one of the best [Blawg Review]’s ever.”  She set out a massive, link-filled review that will last all week. Pynchon states that if intellectual property had a theme song it would have to be “Like a Virgin.” Why? Because IP is all […]

Earlier, Dr. Triantafyllos Tafas’ lawsuit, arguing that the proposed U.S. Patent Office continuation rules are void for exceeding its authority, won a permanent injunction prohibiting the USPTO from putting the new rules changes into effect (Final Rules; 72 Federal Register 161 at 46716).  Triantyfyllos Tafas v. John Dudas and the United States Patent and Trademark […]