Money Transmitter Company Pays $130,000 to Settle Claims of Unlicensed Software Use
WASHINGTON - The Business Software Alliance (BSA), the voice of the world’s commercial software industry, announced in a press release a settlement with Envios de Valores La Nacional Corp., a New York-based money transmitter company serving more than 50 countries from the United States. La Nacional paid $130,000 to BSA to settle claims that it had unlicensed copies of Adobe, Microsoft and Sybase ... More »
eNom Announces the Launch of .CO Domains to All Resellers
SANTA MONICA, CA. - eNom Inc., the world’s largest ICANN accredited domain name wholesaler, announced in a press release at HostingCon 2010 the availability of .CO domain names to all eNom resellers. The launch of the General Availability (GA) window for .CO marks the final stage of the re-launch of the .CO top-level-domain extension. eNom is one of ten accredited registrars selected by the... More »
MOSAID Signs New Patent License Agreement with Nanya Technology
OTTAWA, ONTARIO - MOSAID Technologies Inc. today announced in a press release that it has signed a seven year, royalty bearing patent portfolio license agreement with Nanya Technology Corporation of Taiwan. Nanya’s new agreement begins on October 1, 2010, following the expiration of its current five year agreement on September 30, 2010. The new agreement grants Nanya a license under MOSAID’s memo... More »
TurboSonic Settles Patent Infringement Case
WATERLOO, ONTARIO, CANADA - TurboSonic Technologies Inc., a global provider of clean air technologies, today announced in a press release that it has settled a patent infringement case brought by EnviroCare International Inc., related to its TurboSorb Spray-Dry Absorption (SDA) technology. The EnviroCare patents apply only in the USA and Canada. As a consequence of this settlement, TurboSonic is ... More »
Network-1 Announces Settlement of Patent Litigation with Major Networking Vendors
NEW YORK, NY - Network-1 Security Solutions Inc. announced in a press release that it agreed to settle its patent litigation against Adtran Inc., Cisco Systems, Inc. and Cisco-Linksys, LLC, (collectively, “Cisco”), Enterasys Networks Inc., Extreme Networks Inc., Foundry Networks Inc., and 3Com Corporation Inc., pending in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, Tyler Di... More »
Nycomeds US Patent for Protonix (Pantoprazole) Valid
ZURICH - Nycomed announced today in a press release that Judge Jose L. Linares of the US District Court for the District of New Jersey has confirmed the jury verdict in favor of Nycomed and Pfizer Inc. The decision upholds the jury verdict issued on April 23, 2010, confirming that the patent is valid and rejecting allegations by the defendants that the patent was invalid as obvious and invalid fo... More »
Syria Requests Legalized PoA for All IP Applications
DAMASCUS - Abu-Ghazaleh Intellectual Property (AGIP) announced in a press release that the Syrian Trademark Office has been recently requesting the Powers of Attorney (PoA) to be duly legalized up to the Syrian consulates abroad, which subsequently involves obtaining the Interior Ministry's approval and super-legalization on this document by the Syrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. This practice c... More »
Philessential Receives Trademark Approval from USPTO for Its Antioxidant Skincare Serum
ALHAMBRA, CA - Philessential, the makers of the Philessential Antioxidant Skincare Serum announced in a press release that it has received a trademark approval from the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Since there are thousands of skincare products out in the marketplace that use artificial fragrances to enhance their product with misleading alluring scents, while Philessential ... More »
Solutia Remains Confident in Its PPD Antidegradant IPR through 2019
ST. LOUIS - Flexsys, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Solutia Inc. and a leading producer of specialty chemical products for the rubber and tire industry, will continue to vigorously enforce its Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) after a ruling involving alleged infringement of its United States Base Patent held on its PPD2 technology. A press release by Solutia stated that this Base Patent is valid i... More »
Rambus Reaches 1,000th Patent Milestone
LOS ALTOS, CA - Rambus Inc., one of the world’s premier technology licensing companies, announced in a press release that it has been granted its 1,000th patent. Rambus' growing patent portfolio includes inventions in the areas of high-performance memory and serial solutions, package layout, system design, and lighting and display technologies. “Reaching the 1,000th patent mark in our 20th year ... More »
VeriSign Announces Deployment of DNS Security Extensions at the Internet's Root
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA - VeriSign Inc., the trusted provider of Internet infrastructure services for the networked world, announced in a press release a key achievement in the ongoing effort to improve the integrity of Internet communications and transactions via DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC). As of last evening, DNSSEC -- a critical security technology -- became enabled at the root zone, which lie... More »
Paice and Ford Reach Settlement in Hybrid Vehicle Patent Infringement Disputes
BONITA SPRINGS, FLORIDA - Paice LLC and Ford Motor Company entered into an agreement on July 8, 2010 for the license of Paice’s US Patent No. 5,343,970. According to Paice, each company had filed a lawsuit against the other relating to that patent relating to certain Ford hybrid vehicles. Based on this agreement, the lawsuits will be promptly dismissed, bringing an end to all patent infringement... More »
Sun Pharma Announces USFDA Approval for Generic Flomax
MUMBAI - Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. announced in a press release that US Food and Drug Association (USFDA) has granted approval for its Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA) to market a generic version of Flomax, tamsulosin capsules. These tamsulosin hydrochloride capsules, 0.4 mg are therapeutically equivalent to Flomax Capsules 0.4 mg from Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals Inc. Ta... More »
Sunesis Issued European Patent Covering Voreloxin Combination
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, CA - Sunesis Pharmaceuticals Inc. today announced in a press release that the European Patent Office (EPO) has granted a European patent covering combinations of the company's lead drug candidate, voreloxin, with cytarabine. Cytarabine is the standard-of-care treatment for Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML), and the therapy used in combination with voreloxin in a fully enrolled Pha... More »
EnShale Energy Files for International Patent Protection in 5 Countries
ST. GEORGE, UTAH - EnShale Energy, a subsidiary of publicly held Bullion Monarch Mining, has completed the international patent application process to protect its proprietary method of producing oil from an abundant, high kerogen content rock known as oil shale. According to Bullion Monarch Mining, EnShale filed patents in Canada, Australia, China, Brazil, and Estonia which are all countries know... More »
Anika Therapeutics Comments on Patent Litigation
BEDFORD, MASS. - Anika Therapeutics Inc., a leader in products for tissue protection, healing and repair, based on hyaluronic acid ("HA") technology, announced that they had been served with a complaint alleging patent infringement with respect to the MONOVISC product by Genzyme Corporation. A press release by Anika stated that this complaint was filed in the United States District Court for the ... More »
Epigentek Receives Notice of Allowance from the USPTO
NEW YORK - Epigentek Group Inc. announced in a press release that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has awarded to the epigenetic tools company a Notice of Allowance for a patent to cover novel methods of rapid quantification of global DNA methylation. DNA methylation plays a critical role in the regulation of gene function. Alteration of methylation has been proposed as a mol... More »
Brussels Fellowship Program Reached Successful Conclusion - ICANN
MARINA DEL REY, CA - The 38th Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) international public meeting marked the 3rd year and 10th round of the ICANN Fellowship Program, which was noted in the President’s report during the Welcome ceremony on July 12 to start off the week. A note of thanks to all community members who have supported the Program and its candidates, providing guidan... More »
Watson Confirms Renvela for Oral Suspension Patent Challenge
MORRISTOWN, NJ - Watson Pharmaceuticals Inc. confirmed that its subsidiary, Watson Laboratories Inc., filed an Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA) with the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) seeking approval to market sevelamer carbonate for oral suspension, 0.8g and 2.4g per packet. A press release by the company stated that Watson's sevelamer carbonate for oral suspension product is the ... More »
ICANN Requests Input on Post-Expiration Domain Name Recovery Initial Report
MARINA DEL REY, CA - The GNSO Post-Expiration Domain Name Recovery (PEDNR) Policy Development Process (PDP) Working Group published its Initial Report [PDF, 1.02 MB] on May 31. The PEDNR WG was tasked to address questions in relation to what extent registrants should be able to renew their domain names after they expire. At issue is whether the current policies of registrars on the renewal, transf... More »
Quincy Bioscience Receives Patent for Jellyfish Protein Aequorin
MADISON, WIS - Quincy Bioscience, a research-based biotechnology company, announced in a press release the issuance of United States patent No.7,671,015. The patent covers the use of aequorin-containing compounds for the purpose of preventing and alleviating symptoms and disorders related to calcium imbalance. “Quincy Bioscience continues to strengthen its position in developing this novel calciu... More »
Iraqi Trademark Office Announces First Group of the Missing Trademark Files Damaged in the War
BAGHDAD - Abu-Ghazaleh Intellectual Property (AGIP) announced in a press release that the Iraqi Trademark Office has published on June 7, 2010 a declaration in connection with the missing trademark files which were damaged during the war. The declaration included a schedule of the first group of the missing trademark files, namely the files of the trademarks Nos. (1 -16090). The declaration ... More »
Cabot Microelectronics Patents Upheld in Patent Enforcement Action
AURORA, IL - Cabot Microelectronics Corporation, the world’s leading supplier of chemical mechanical planarization (CMP) polishing slurries and growing CMP pad supplier to the semiconductor industry, announced in a press release that on July 8, 2010, the validity of all Cabot Microelectronics’ patents were upheld in the company’s ongoing patent enforcement litigation in the United States District ... More »
EPO Grants Patent for the Prevention of Addiction to Opioids in Pain Management
CORAL GABLES, FLA. - Catalyst Pharmaceutical Partners Inc. announced in a press release that the European Patent Office (EPO) granted to Brookhaven Science Associates/Brookhaven National Laboratory (Brookhaven) a European patent for the use of vigabatrin for the prevention of addiction to opioids (e.g., oxycodone, hydrocodone) used in pain management. By dampening dopamine release and thus, the e... More »
South Shore Resources Files for International Patent
PROVIDENCIALES, TURKS & CAICOS - South Shore Resources Inc. announced in a press release that it has prepared and filed for international patent protection with the assistance of Sim & McBurney, Patent & Trademark Agents, a Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) international patent application with the World International Property Organization, which describes the technique by electroly... More »