Washington, D.C. — The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit recently overturned a patent infringement decision by the Southern District of Indiana. Attorneys for Centillion Data Systems, of Indianapolis, Indiana, brought a patent infringement lawsuit against Qwest Communications, a Denver, Colorado company. Centillion, which has merged with CTI…
Indianapolis — This week, an attorney from the United States International Trade Commission (USITC) asked Indiana-based Eli Lilly for clarification regarding Lilly’s allegations of patent infringement over the chemotherapy drug gemcitabine. Eli Lilly owns U.S. Patent Number 5,606,048, which is a process of preparing the gemcitabine. The FDA approved…
Indianapolis, IN – Patent lawyers for Dataflow Systems, Inc. of Indianapolis, IN, filed a declaratory judgment suit seeking a ruling that the company has not violated certain patents held by Defendants Arrival Star S.A. or Melvino Technologies Limited. The lawsuit concerns several patents, issued by the U.S. Patent Office,…
Indianapolis, IN – Patent lawyers for plaintiff Schwindt, claim the defendants Miller and Mark omitted Schwindt as an inventor on a patent application, that turned out to be worth millions. All three were early founders and investors in Suros Sugical Systems, an Indianapolis medical device manufacturer founded in 2000.…
Indianapolis, IN – Patent lawyers for Bald Spot Racing, LLC of Indianapolis, IN have filed a patent infringement suit alleging BSCI, Inc. of Mooresville, NC infringed patent no. 6,733,710 VEHICLE PASSENGER RESTRAINT AND METHOD OF PRODUCING SAME, which has been issued by the US Patent Office. Despite the title…
Batesville, IN – Patent attorneys for Batesville-based Hillenbrand Inc., and its subsidiary Batesville Casket Company, the largest U.S. maker of coffins, have won an order to ban imports of knockoff caskets from Mexico in a patent infringement decision. The U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC) in Washington said Monday that…
Washington DC – The “25% Rule” has often been used by damages experts in assessing damages in patent infringement cases. The rule states that in determining a base royalty rate in a hypothetical negotiation, a starting point is to consider that a reasonably royalty would be 25% of the…
South Bend, Indiana – Patent lawyers for NIBCO, Inc., of Elkhart, IN, have filed a patent infringement suit alleging ERICO International Corporation of Solon, OH, has infringed the following patents issued by the U.S. Patent Office: Patent Nos. 6,517,030,. 6,953,174, 7,191,987, and. 7,441,730. All four patents have the same…
Indianapolis, Indiana – In a case which was transferred from federal court in Connecticut, patent lawyers for GS Cleantech Corporation of New York City have filed a lawsuit alleging Flottweg Separation Technologies, Inc. of Norwalk, CT, and Flottweg AG of Germany are infringing Patent No. 7,601,858, titled METHOD OF PROCESSING…
A patent infringement suit filed in Illinois by MedIdea LLC against Zimmer, Inc. of Warsaw, Indiana has been transferred to the Northern District of Indiana. The suit alleges infringement of the following patents issued by the U.S. Patent Office: 6,200,350 and 6,383,225, which relate to Hips, and Nos. 6,267,785, 6,379,391,…