Patent Baristas

Well, it seems that the reason my Feedburner RSS feed subscribers has remained at zero is that the feed link listed on the side of the Patent Baristas site listed the wrong feed address, i.e., there were some extraneous characters on the end of the address. The proper Feedburner address for subscribing to the Barista […]

Chief Justice Paul Michel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit wrote to Senator Patrick Leahy, Chairman of the Committee on the Judiciary regarding patent reform. He notes the differences between the Section 10 (b) Interlocutory Appeals of the bill and the appeals already authorized under section 1292(b) of title 28. The […]

The U.S. Supreme Court will vote today whether to accept for review Zoltek Corporation v. United States, No. 06-1155. Pharmaceuticals, defense and manufacturing companies are closely watching the case, which centers on the types of protections, if any, that are available to a patent-holder whose inventions have been infringed by the Federal Government or its […]

The Analysis Group released a report on the impact of authorized generic entry on paragraph IV certifications. The report, “Do Authorized Generic Drugs Deter Paragraph IV Certifications?,” was co-authored by academic affiliate Professor Ernst R. Berndt of MIT’s Sloan School of Management, Analysis Group Vice President Richard Mortimer, and Managing Principal Andrew Parece. In looking […]

Brazil decided to break the patent on the HIV drug Storcrin (the brand name for efavirenz), becoming the second country to challenge the pharmaceutical industry in seeking a drastic reductions in drug costs. Brazil’s President signed a compulsory licence for efavirenz to purchase from generic suppliers under provisions permitted by World Trade Organization rules. Brazil […]

EFF Wants You to Help Stop Broadcasting Treaty Flip-Flop The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) wants to mobilize businesses, public interest groups, and creative industry representatives to stand up against what it sees as over-broad protection of broadcast material. The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has been debating a treaty that could severly inhibit digital devices […]

The General Counsel for the Department of Commerce (DOC), as overlord of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), sent its own views on the provisions of H.R. 1908, the “Patent Reform Act of 2007,” to Howard L. Herman Chairman of the Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property, Committee on the Judiciary. This […]

The U.S. Supreme Court rebuffed an appeal from Amgen, which tried to have the Supreme Court review the Federal Circuit’s practice of drawing its own conclusions about patent claims rather than relying solely on findings made by the trial court. See Amgen Inc. v. Hoechst Marion Roussel Inc. and Transkaryotic Therapies Inc., 06-1291. Earlier, the […]