Indianapolis, IN – The Southern District of Indiana has denied all summary judgment motions of both plaintiff CleanTech and all defendants in this multi-district litigation involving patents issued by the US Patent Office. GreenShift Corp. and its subsidiary GS CleanTech Corp. (“CleanTech”) have brought a series of suits alleging infringement…
Geneva, Switzerland – The World Trade Organization (“WTO”) has granted its permission for the twin-island nation of Antigua and Barbuda (“Antigua”) to disregard intellectual property rights granted by the United States (i.e., patents, copyrights and trademarks). The decision follows nearly ten years of negotiations and litigation pursuant to a 2003…
Indianapolis, IN – The Indiana Court of Appeals has vacated the decision of The Honorable Timothy Oakes, Marion County Superior Court, to seize the truck of a defendant who pled guilty to fraud for having sold pirated movies from the truck. In December 2009, the State charged Michael Curtis with…
South Bend, IN – Patent attorneys for Engineered Solutions, L.P.of Mishawaka, IN has filed suit against AL-KO KOBER, LLC of Elkhart, IN for infringement of U.S. Patent No. 6,681,531, issued by the US Patent Office. The plaintiff claims that the AL-KO Kober offers for sale an above-floor, slide-out actuating mechanism…
Washington, DC On January 18, 2013, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on issued final rules setting revised patent fees under Section 10 of the America Invents Act. (78 Fed. Reg. 4211). Section 10 of the AIA permits the USPTO to set or adjust by rule any fee under Title…
Indianapolis, IN – Attorney and self-proclaimed professional photographer Richard N. Bell, suing on his own behalf, filed two separate complaints alleging copyright infringement and unfair competition under the Copyright Act and conversion under Indiana statutory law as a result of the unauthorized use of a photograph he had taken and…
The US Trademark Office issued the following 130 trademark registrations to persons and businesses in Indiana in December, 2012, based on applications filed by Indiana Trademark Attorneys: Word Mark 1 4264717 FLOWERS IN VASES ACROSS AMERICA VIEW 2 4264439 THE BRODERICK VIEW 3 4264390 LEARN MORE, BETTER. VIEW 4…
Indiana patent attorneys obtained issuance of the following 147 patents from the US Patent Office to persons and businesses in Indiana in December, 2012: PAT. NO. 1 RE43,878 Amidophenoxyindazoles useful as inhibitors of c-Met 2 D673,025 Door lock 3 8,340,813 System and process for real time monitoring of mail and…
Local Rules for the Northern District of Indiana have been revised and are effective January 1, 2013. The rules which have been amended are L.R. 1-1, L.R. 5-3, L.R. 6-1, L.R. 16-1, L.R. 83-6.7, L.Cr.R. 47-2, L.Cr.R. 47-3 and Local Patent Rules LPR 1-1 through 6-1. A complete copy of…
Fort Wayne, IN – Copyright attorney Paul Nicoletti filed a lawsuit on behalf of Malibu Media in the Northern District of Indiana alleging copyright infringement of the pornographic movie “Romantic Memories.” It alleges the infringement occurred by downloading it using the Internet file sharing “bittorrent” protocol. The suit was against…