Patent Baristas

I will be at the ABA’s Intellectual Property Law Summer Conference in Boston from June 21-24. If you’d like to take time to meet next week, drop me a line and we’ll arrange a meeting at the Marriott Copley Place Hotel. I’ll be there chatting with fellow bloggers over a cup o’ joe at the […]

Barr Pharmaceuticals, Inc. has agreed to settle litigation claims made by Novartis AG units Invamed Inc and Apothecon Inc. related to the raw material source in blood thinner Warfarin Sodium. Warfarin is a generic version of Coumadin, which is designed to reduce the threat of blood clots. Under the terms of the agreement, the Company […]

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced new steps to strengthen existing protections against the growing problem of counterfeit drugs. The measures, which were recommended in a report by the agency’s Counterfeit Drug Task Force, emphasize certain regulatory actions and the use of new technologies for safeguarding the integrity of the U.S. drug supply. […]

The Boston Globe on ran a story on Senate Finance Committee Chair Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and his role as the driving force behind a congressional charge to change FDA. According to the Globe article, Grassley has “exposed internal FDA memos, emails and conversations to unprecedented public scrutiny” in his attempts to “prod the agency to […]

The San Francisco Business Times ran an article reiterating what patent practitioners already know. That is, the increasing backlog at the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office is bad, it’s getting worse and the new set of proposals meant to reduce the waiting time will not provide relief. The backlogs are an increasingly serious issue for […]

In Falker-Gunter Falkner et al. v. Inglis et al. (Fed. Cir. 2006, 05-1324), on appeal from the USPTO Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit set out some guidelines on the adequacy of written description and enablement in biotech cases. The Federal Circuit held that: (1) examples […]

Apparently after making substantial campaign contributions, the Baristas from Patent Baristas have been named Blawgers of the Year in the 2006 TechnoLawyer @ Awards! There’s no cash prize but it beats a poke in the eye. Of course, it’s an honor to just be nominated. It just happens to be even better to win. Blawgger […]

We’ve been quite busy these days and so posting has been light as a result. Since I have a personal interest in getting my own workload reduced a little, I wanted to pass along that my firm is currently looking to hire on new IP attorneys. The Position: Patent Associate with at least one year […]