22 Jul 2013
One of the most remarkable developments of the past few years has been 3D printing, a system that can literally print a solid object using only a design and some plastic polymers. The applications for such a device are seemingly endless. It can print cheap food for impoverished third world nations and solve world hunger!...
2 Jul 2013
Recently a global investment management and services business known as BNY Mellon obtained a patent for a new management system that it calls Margin DIRECT. Rather than a product or technology, Margin DIRECT appears to be an idea or system that allowed BNY Mellon to enable the secure management of collateral between counterparties by providing...
12 Jun 2013
The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed a district court’s ruling that omission during prosecution of “comparative data” that is not at issue in a prior art does not constitute inequitable conduct. However, the court reversed the lower court’s ruling that found the patent to be invalid as anticipated. Impax Laboratories...
6 Nov 2011
In Abraxis Bioscience, Inc. v. Mayne Pharma (USA), Inc., Case No. 06-1118 (Fed. Cir., Nov. 15, 2006), pharmaceutical company, Mayne Pharma, Inc. (Mayne), lost an appeal from a district court’s decision finding their infringing product was specifically designed to mimic their competitor’s improved anesthetic. But although Abraxis Bioscience, Inc. (Abraxis) ultimately won their patent infringement...