Patent Baristas

I was going to write a Friday rant on Britney Spears’ new baby — the one she had with some guy I’ve never heard of — but then I realized how much I didn’t care. I decided instead to write about Renee Zellweger’s marriage — the one she had with some guy I’ve never heard […]

Novartis AG’s generics unit Sandoz said it has filed a lawsuit against the US Food and Drug Administration, seeking a ruling on its pending new drug application for the human growth hormone Omnitrope. Under both the Federal Food Drug and Cosmetic Act and the Food Prescription Drug User Fee Act, the FDA is required to […]

In a soon-to-be-published decree, raised by ministers after rumors of a PepsiCo Inc. bid for French food company Danone SA, the French government will gain a veto over takeovers in 10 industries deemed “sensitive to national security.” Sectors on the list include some that most countries retain control, such as arms manufacturing and encryption but […]

Akzo Nobel’s human healthcare business, Organon, has entered into a non-binding letter of intent with Cincinnati’s Duramed Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a subsidiary of Barr Pharmaceuticals, Inc., to settle the pending patent litigation concerning a generic version of Organon’s Mircette® oral contraceptive. Under the proposed transaction, Barr would pay Organon $142 million to settle the patent litigation […]

We learned about a new (to us) blawg by Alan Rothman (a non-practicing attorney and an MBA in New York who specializes in implementing and teaching law office technology). It’s called The Subway Fold, named after the urban engineering challenge necessary in order for a reader on the subway to maintain full access to all […]

The Baristas’ law firm, Frost Brown Todd LLC, is willing to offer temporary office space to lawyers displaced by Hurricane Katrina. To the extent a particular FBT office (we have seven offices across four states but our IP practice is mainly in Cincinnati, OH, home to great things like odd chili and Opening Day) has […]

The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit handed down a decision in In Re Dane K. Fisher And Raghunath V. Lalgudi (U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, 04-1465 (Serial No. 09/619,643), September 7, 2005). Monsanto had appealed the rejection of its patent application for five expressed sequence tags (ESTs) that encode parts […]

While spending time convalescing at home from my recent accident, I have spent a lot of time thinking about working at home and how to optimize the experience. Fortunately, my firm has great IT services and I am able to work at home almost seamlessly with my office by using scanners and email. I have […]