The U.S. Patent Office issued the following 111 patent registrations to persons and businesses in Indiana in January 2014, based on applications filed by Indiana patent attorneys: Pat No. Title D698,459 Container D698,294 Motorcycle license plate D698,220 Tubular lever D698,175 Side chair 8,639,547 Method for statistical comparison of occupations by…
Indianapolis, Indiana – Alexis Hutchison (“Hutchison”) (pictured right) appealed a small claims court (“trial court”) judgment in favor of Trilogy Health Services, LLC, d/b/a Springhurst Health Campus (“Springhurst”), on Springhurst’s claim against Hutchison and her now-deceased mother, Martha Farber (“Farber”), for payment of services provided to Farber while she was…
Indianapolis, Indiana – Indiana patent attorneys for Eli Lilly and Company of Indianapolis, Indiana (“Lilly”) filed a lawsuit in the Southern District of Indiana alleging that Glenmark Generics, Inc., USA of Mahwah, New Jersey (“Glenmark”) infringed Antifolate Combination Therapies, Patent No. 7,772,209, which has been issued by the U.S. Patent…
South Bend, Indiana – Michigan copyright attorney Paul Nicoletti, on behalf of Countryman Nevada, LLC (“Countryman”), sued in the Northern District of Indiana alleging that 16 unidentified John Does infringed the copyright of the motion picture “Charlie Countryman,” which has been registered by the U.S. Copyright Office. The movie stars…
Indianapolis, Indiana – An Indiana patent attorney sued in the Southern District of Indiana on behalf of Eli Lilly and Company of Indianapolis, Indiana; Daiichi Sankyo Co., Ltd. of Tokyo, Japan (“Daiichi Sankyo”); Daiichi Sankyo, Inc. of Parsippany, New Jersey (“DSI”); and Ube Industries, Ltd. of Yamaguchi, Japan alleging that…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The federal government’s annual employee survey finds that the USPTO tops the list of 371 federal agency subcomponents. The U.S. Department of Commerce’s United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) was named number one out of 300 agency subcomponents in the 2013 Best Places to Work in…
Oakland, California – District Judge Claudia Wilkin (pictured) issued a new order regarding in re NCAA Student-Athlete Name & Likeness Licensing Litigation, a putative class action involving the Indianapolis-based National Collegiate Athletic Association (“NCAA”). The NCAA’s motion to dismiss on, inter alia, copyright and First-Amendment grounds was denied. In this…
Alexandria, Virginia – The District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia held in Shammas v. Focarino that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) was entitled to recover attorneys’ fees when brought to court for a review of Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (“TTAB”) rulings. An examiner for…
Geneva, Switzerland – A new World Intellectual Property Organization (“WIPO”) report shows that in 2012 global patent filings increased at their strongest rate in nearly two decades as industrial-design registration notched its best-ever rate of growth. Intellectual property (“IP”) filings have sharply rebounded since a 2009 decline at the height…
Richmond, Virginia – PBM Products, LLC (“PBM”) sued Mead Johnson & Company, LLC (“Mead Johnson”) alleging false advertising in violation of the Lanham Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1125(a)(1)(A) and (B), and commercial disparagement. Mead Johnson filed counterclaims against PBM. The district court dismissed the counterclaims and entered an injunction against…