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Federal Circuit Affirms Obviousness of Novo Nordisk's PRANDIN Patent
Novo Nordisk v. Caraco Pharm. Labs. , No. 2011-1223 (Fed. Cir.)     by Timothy M. Long In its third trip to the Federal Circuit, the court on Tuesday affirmed a decision holding claim 4 of Novo's U.S. Patent No.  6,677,358 invalid as obvious.  Claim 4 of the '358 patent, listed in the Orange...
Does the Myriad Decision Presage a Golden Age of Patent-Free Personalized Medicine?
By Kevin E. Noonan -- The Supreme Court's decision in the Myriad case has been almost universally hailed as being a great victory for patients, doctors, personalized medicine, and research. Precluding patenting for "merely" isolated human DNA, while permitting cDNA to be patent-eligible...
Wait! No! Stop Hitting Us!
About a week after its bizarre attempt to make the Xbox One as gamer-hostile as possible and in the face of a slew of criticism from all sides Microsoft has publicly climbed down from the ledge and said it now sees reason. In a news post on the Xbox.com site , the company...
Intellectual Ventures Sues Motorola for Patent Infringement Again - One Patent Is For Linking...
Oh, joy, another stupid, bullying patent troll lawsuit trying to crush Android. There simply aren't enough of those already. This one is brought by Intellectual Ventures against Motorola in Florida. Here's the complaint [PDF]. They are already suing Motorola in Delaware . Why not just add...

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Newsmakers: Gardere welcomes back environmental lawyer
After working two years for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Jonathan Bull (pictured) has rejoined Gardere Wynne Sewell in Dallas as a senior attorney in the environmental practice group. His practice will focus on environmental requirements, Bull says. That will include...
I'll Bet It Was Worth Every Penny
You know how the song goes: "Breaking up is hard to do." Usually one party takes it much harder than the other. Such was the case here. Per The Daily News (Galveston County, Texas): Friendswood firefighters responded at 10:10 p.m. Thursday to the 1800 block of LaSalle Street, where...
War — what is it good for?
If you’re the federal government, one thing it’s good for is to turn a losing claim — losing because filed too late — into a possible winner. It works through something called the Wartime Suspension of Limitations Act, enacted by Congress in 1942 as the U.S. entered World War Two, and
R.I.P. James Gandolfini
James Gandolfini, forever loved as Tony Soprano, died today at age 51 while on vacation in Rome. The cause of death has not been released, but the LA Times reports he may have suffered a heart attack or a stroke. [Added: The Daily News reports he... [[ This is a content summary only...
"Strategist Out of Closet and Into Fray, This Time for Gay Marriage"
Thursday's edition of The New York Times will contain a front page article that begins, "As the Supreme Court considers overturning California's ban on same-sex marriage, gay people await a ruling that could change their lives."

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