Roche Pulls Accutane Off Market After Jury Verdicts

(Dallas Fort Worth Injury Lawyer Blog)
... have taken Accutane since it went on the market in 1982. The medication was Roche's second-biggest selling drug before the patent expired in 2002 and rivals started selling generic versions. Roche's prescription market share of the drug is now ... warn them the medicine could cause inflammatory bowel disease. The drug also has been linked to birth defects and depression. Lawyers for John Mullarkey, a 20-year-old Monroeville, Pennsylvania, man facing murder charges over the death of his 16-year-old ...
July 2, 2009 04:55 am
Today's issue of TechnoLawyer NewsWire covers a new automated legal forms program for New York lawyers (see article below), an iPhone app for scanning documents on the go, a legal-specific toolbar for Microsoft Office that automates document ... cut drafting time in half and also reduce errors. ProDoc New York Automated Forms accomplishes this feat thanks to a patented document-assembly engine that enables you to create several documents simultaneously. You choose the documents you want to assemble ...
July 1, 2009 02:41 pm

LAW.COM Newswire Highlights July 1, 2009

(New York Supreme Court Criminal Term Library Blog)
... Recorder News of Monday's $1.67 billion patent verdict against Abbott Labs had patent lawyers slack-jawed across the United States. But ... latest bar group to protest new Federal Trade Commission rules requiring lawyers to become involved in preventing identity theft, calling the move unauthorized, unnecessary and ... Center Alternative Billing Increasingly Important for Texas Firms, Survey Shows Texas Lawyer Balancing the risks and rewards of using alternative billing, such as fixed or contingent ...
July 1, 2009 12:38 am
... third party is in the initial stages when a reexamination is requested. After that, the reexam is conducted by the examiner and the patent owner, without any further input from a third party. In contrast, inter partes ... 520 and is typically a lengthy and complex document requiring quite a bit of work by a lawyer. You can expect total costs to range from$10,000 up. Nevertheless, ... CFR 1.530). If the patent owner formally responds, a third-party requester has two months to reply (37 CFR 1.535). If no ...
June 30, 2009 10:44 am
... attention of two groups of lawyers down in Marshall, Texas were presumably focused elsewhere, namely, on whether a jury would return with a verdict in a huge patent case involving ... down its verdict, the collective anxiety presumably turned to glee for the J&J lawyers, a group from Woodcock Washburn, led by Dianne Elderkin, and disappointment for the Abbott Labs ... unit of J&J, called Centocor, $1.67 billion for infringing a patent on J&J's drug Remicade that helped Abbott create the Humira ...
June 30, 2009 08:39 am
... within the categories. Two posts hinge on benchmarks (See my post of Aug. 3, 2005: patents per billion dollars of R&D; and Aug. 4, 2005: benchmark study spurs ... department of 850; April 30, 2006 #5: "procurement manager"; Aug. 8, 2006: its top lawyer in Europe; Jan. 4, 2006: Deputy GCs; Feb. 7, 2007: IP czar appointed; and ... 8, 2007: law firms help with rule-based drafting; Dec. 11, 2007: software to classify patent portfolios; and May 3, 2008: internal blogs.). Talent, too, had a cluster of ...
June 30, 2009 04:13 am
... slapped - and I mean slapped to the freaking moon - by an East Texas jury with the largest patent verdict ever: $1.67 billion, Bloomberg reports. The winner: a division of rival drug company Johnson & Johnson called Centocor Ortho Biotech and its lawyers from Philly's Woodcock Washburn and the Texas firm Sayles Werbner. The big- ... a cow? The previous record-holder was a $1.52 billion award against Microsoft in a patent suit with Alcatel-Lucent, which has since been overturned. - Zusha Elinson
June 29, 2009 06:17 pm
... firm marketing workshop were incredible. While most were from California, we had lawyers who flew in from the states of Washington, Florida, Nevada, Utah, and Texas to join us. The ... has 3 times more traffic than Martindale and will soon surpass lawyers.com to become the #1 largest legal directory. And did I mention it's FREE... ... your marketing efforts. I highly recommend this to all attorneys." Robert Rolnik, Esq. (Patent Law, Kingwood, TX) "This was very thought provoking. I have not had such a ...
June 29, 2009 07:29 am
... week included: USPTO bailout bill introduced (Peter Zura's 271 Patent Blog) (The Invent Blog) (IP Watchdog) (Inventive Step) Unravelling the Canadian copyright ... appeal 'invalid for insufficiency': Pipe for filling bottles/Gallardo Gonzales (PatLit) Prevent patents inhibiting knowledge diffusion for green technology, EU told (Intellectual Property Watch ... trolls? (IAM) Is there an emerging business model for IP lawyers' owning so-called 'patent trolls'? Only until their corporate clients find out (IP ...
June 29, 2009 01:00 am
... favor of larger corporations and rights holders. However, this limited evidence and Sotomayor's few judgments concerning patent cases have not given the AmeriKat any definitive guidance on how to predict Sotomayor's approach to Bilski. If it ... the rights to 251 Beatles' songs, and his own catalogue of valuable copyright works, that will be preoccupying numerous lawyers handling the administration of his estate in the coming months. As reported in Rolling Stone, since Jackson's death on Thursday, ...
June 28, 2009 09:52 pm
The IP Business Congress ("IPBC") was held on June 21-23 in Chicago. This meeting, established by IAM Magazine, brought IP business experts, both lawyers and non-lawyers, from around the world to discuss issues relevant to IP. If, like me, you were unable to attend, you will appreciate the blog authors who have thoughtfully posted their summaries and thoughts about the Congress. (If anyone comes across any more, please let me know and I will add them.) Joff Wild: IAM Magazine Blog Michael Martin ...
June 27, 2009 04:02 am

SSI-17

(IPBiz)
... bring up the issue of journals issuing corrections. As a lawyer, I participated in a litigation wherein an uncorrected error in J.Am.Chem.Soc. produced a multi-million dollar patent case. [4] Nevertheless, even with this example, ... patent reform. The models of Quillen and Webster erroneously assume that all continuing applications are repeated attempts to patent the invention of the parent application. The methodology of Quillen and Webster, even as modified in 2002, involves double counting of ...
June 26, 2009 10:12 pm
... indeed when an appellate court comes across a set of facts that compels it to step in and reverse a fee ruling that is so patently unfair it simply can't be left alone. This is one of those cases. Here are the facts: The personal ... the attorney testified to the services rendered by the law firm in representing the personal representative in a will contest, a motion to disqualify another lawyer, and work done with the curator. The trial court accepted the expert's affidavit that $13,500 was a ...
June 26, 2009 07:25 pm
... Dallas today, at 9 this morning you could have heard me speaking on the state of patent venue law post-In re TS Tech, or you could have heard Justice ... their new book Making Your Case: The Art of Persuading Judges. Amazingly, a roomful of patent lawyers made the wrong choice and came to listen to me instead of the Supreme Court ... my book (very nice inscription - it reads "To my favorite renegade jurisdiction lawyer, Nino.") Great, great conference - speakers including Doris Kearns Goodwin on Lincoln ...
June 26, 2009 04:07 pm
... for life, and forcefully would promote general deterrence. On the ongoing nature of the fraud, the government writes: With respect to his patent disrespect for law and basic ethical conduct, the duration of MadoffÂ’s criminal conduct speaks for itself. ... have been unable to redeem billions of dollars and inevitably would have complained to the authorities. Madoff's lawyers argued earlier this week that Madoff deserved some credit for turning himself in. On that point, the government writes: Madoff ...
June 26, 2009 03:51 pm
... submitted in the review process and additional information, see Green Guides. The newer arena is green trademarks. The United States Patent and Trademark Office is now routinely rejecting, based on descriptiveness, multiword trademarks, that start with or contain the word ... The lesson is: If you want to include the word "GREEN" in a trademark, some careful review and advice from a trademark lawyer is in order. Want to read more? See "Eco-Friendly Claims Go Unchecked" (USA Today June 22, 2009). ...
June 26, 2009 11:27 am
... Strategy: Buying Tivo's Bull Zusha Elinson The Recorder June 26, 2009 getNumber('1202431771710') As the make-or-break patent trial between Tivo Inc. and EchoStar Corp. got under way in Marshall, Texas, Tivo' ... , goats, broiler chickens and rabbits are sold by dedicated young farmers. Samuel Baxter, perhaps the best-known lawyer in the Eastern District of Texas, was representing Tivo, along with Irell & Manella's Morgan Chu, the big-time, bow-tie-loving patent litigator. Baxter recalls now how ...
June 26, 2009 11:06 am
... looked upon from a legal perspective, which comes as no surprise since current educational systems worldwide only train lawyers in IP. Economists, political scientists, sociologists, historians or even engineers know most of the times very little about ... as a commodity, where negotiation is only possible over price. Read on here. I'm most interested in what Dennis Crouch at Patently O, Jackie Hutter at the IP Asset Maximizer Blog, David Donoghue at Chicago IP Litigation Blog and Jeremy Phillips at ...
June 26, 2009 10:23 am
... of what IP actually is. So says Dr. Roya Ghafele in the most recent article to be published at IP Think Tank - 'Make patents not war'. Dr Ghafele is of course a lecturer at the University of Oxford. And, yes, we're opening our virtual doors to ... looked upon from a legal perspective, which comes as no surprise since current educational systems worldwide only train lawyers in IP.' 'A different perspective on IP, one that looks at it as a strategic asset more than a legal framework gives way to new ...
June 26, 2009 09:35 am

Make Patents, not War

(IP Thinktank)
... to understand this historical context when seeking to "brand" intellectual property. Currently, the brand value of IP is somewhere between "patent kills" and a general lack of awareness what IP actually is, a left over from the Pre-TRIPS time. With that in ... from a legal perspective, which comes as no surprise since current educational systems worldwide only train lawyers in IP. Economists, political scientists, sociologists, historians or even engineers know most of the times very little about ...
June 26, 2009 09:17 am
 
 

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