http://www.dynamicpatents.com Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:22:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en William Lee, patent litigator and co-managing partner at Wilmer Hale, will be discussing fixed fees and the state of patent litigation for clients and law firms on a webinar at November 12, 2009 at 2:00PM. Intellectual Property Owners Association's weekly one-hour webinar on current topics in IP, hosted by Pamela ... http://www.dynamicpatents.com/2009/11/moving-away-from-billable-hours-in-patent-litigation/ Raymond Van Dyke is a partner at Merchant & Gould's Washington, D.C. office and focuses his practice in technology and intellectual property counseling, procurement, licensing, and litigation. Ray has nearly 20 years experience representing technology companies in the intellectual property area, including strategic counseling, patent and trademark litigation, expert witnessing, ... http://www.dynamicpatents.com/2009/11/raymond-van-dyke-merchant-gould-partner-in-dc/ In the first phase of a patent infringement lawsuit Minneapolis medical device giant Medtronic filed against its fellow Twin Cities firm AGA Medical Corp, a San Francisco jury sided with Medtronic in federal district court -- although the $57 million is only half the amount Medtronic asked for in the ... http://www.dynamicpatents.com/2009/08/medtronic-wins-57m-amid-a-sea-of-payouts/ MedicalDevices.com reports that Covidien, a leading provider of healthcare products, was ranked top innovator in the medical devices and services industry. The Patent Board™, the official patent ratings partner of The Wall Street Journal,  ranked 122 companies in the industry by patent portfolio strength. The Scorecard is a tool to recognize ... http://www.dynamicpatents.com/2009/07/covidien-ranked-top-innovator/ [caption id="attachment_1490" align="alignleft" width="136" caption="SteveB isn't worried about the case"][/caption] A Texas jury sided with Toronto's i4i and their US Patent 5,787,499 and ordered Microsoft to pay $200 million for patent infringement involving its Microsoft Office products. i4i, a collaborative authoring and document-management software company, filed the case in March 2007. ... http://www.dynamicpatents.com/2009/05/jury-tells-microsoft-to-fork-over-200m/ The drug Tamiflu so far is the most effective treatment for combating the threat of Demand for antiviral increased in 2004 with the threat of the virulent bird flu, and so all 50 states and many other nations now have large enough  stockpiles of the drug for 220 million people. ... http://www.dynamicpatents.com/2009/04/patent-issues-around-swine-flu-threat/ Earlier this afternoon, Spansion announced that it will receive $70 million from Samsung to settle current patent litigation.  The original lawsuit was filed in November 2008, and was centered around flash memory which retains data when an electrical device is turned off.  In addition, the two companies will also license ... http://www.dynamicpatents.com/2009/04/samsung-writes-check-to-spansion-for-70-million/ The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has just released a series of newly issued Apple patents.  While this may not come as a surprise - as Apple seems to patent something new every week - one of those patents is of particular interest as it applies to solar power technology. As reported by ... http://www.dynamicpatents.com/2009/04/apple-issued-solar-power-patent/ Tate & Lyle, the sugar and sweetener company, suffered a setback late yesterday when the U.S. International Trade Commission upheld an earlier ruling against the British company.  According to Reuters, the ruling confirms a September 2008 decision that Tate had infringed on patents held by certain manufacturers of Chinese sucralose, ... http://www.dynamicpatents.com/2009/04/tate-lyle-suffer-sweetener-setback/ When people think of inventors, often times they focus on individuals, disregarding the support that those inventors may have received along the way.  However, it should not be forgotten how colleges and universities also play an integral part in advancing technology by playing a supporting role. A recent article on OnlineAthens brought ... http://www.dynamicpatents.com/2009/04/universities-provide-ideas-receive-licenses/