Patent Baristas

A new (to me) blog I noticed recently is the IP Counsel Blog by Todd Mayover. It’s labeled as “discussing issues that concern the practice of in-house intellectual property attorneys.” Mayover is an in-house intellectual property attorney for a medical device manufacturing company in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The site is well-done and has some good […]

It seems that more and more generic drug companies are popping up and are developing more and more low-cost drugs, putting pressure on makers of name-brand drugs and raising fears of an FDA bottleneck. Generics already make up 54 percent of the prescription market, which should increase when Medicare offers more drug discounts on Jan. […]

Taro Yaguchi, one of our associates and a Registered Patent Attorney in Japan at Omori & Yaguchi (But with an office in Philadelphia, PA. Read: they’re open during Eastern Standard Time), sent me a notice that his firm now offers an on-line fee calculator. The calculator gives a comprehensive cost estimate for the PCT Japanese […]

I’m a fan of Feld Thoughts and recommend that you check it out if you don’t already read it. Although the content is sometimes over my head in financial lingo, I enjoy the insights I can glean from it. My favorite past post is where Feld describes mission statements as “vapid phrases that don’t inspire […]

The U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey has issued a summary judgment ruling that GlaxoSmithKline’s U.S. Patent Nos. 5,578,628 (the ‘628 patent) and 4,753,789 (the ‘789 patent) for Zofran ODT(R) (ondansetron) Orally Disintegrating Tablets are valid, enforceable and infringed by Kali Laboratories, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Par Pharmaceutical Companies, Inc. There […]

I have been overwhelmed with comment and trackback spam of late to the point that I stopped posting for a while as I tried to deal with this problem. I noticed that Overlawyered had the same problem. It looks like Movable Type may do something about this in a future version but I had to […]

President Bush has appointed Chris Israel as the new Coordinator of International Intellectual Property Enforcement, a position Congress created last year to coordinate law-enforcement efforts aimed at stopping international copyright infringement and to oversee a federal umbrella agency responsible for administering intellectual property law. Intellectual property law enforcement is divided among a range of agencies, […]

Today’s post comes from Guest Barista C. Lee Thomason, a registered patent attorney and senior litigator at Frost Brown Todd LLC, writing on whether or not inequitable conduct claims in a patent suit should be heard in open court, or confined to a “special office” as proposed in the draft Patent Act of 2005 (H.R. […]