Intellectual Property

  • Oracle Corp. on Monday fought back against a bid by Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. for nearly $18 million in attorney fees in a software copyright case in California federal court, calling the figure an “unreasonably high” amount to award the tech giant for its successful defense against Oracle’s claims… Read this piece in its entirety…

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  • Athena Diagnostics on Monday asked the full Federal Circuit to reconsider a February ruling by a split, three-judge panel that said its patent on an autoimmune disease diagnostic test is invalid under Supreme Court precedent because it claims only a natural law… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.

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  • Compass Coffee can’t register a trademark for a stylized logo using the words “real good coffee” because it’s too similar to a plain-text mark already registered by fast food chain White Castle, according to a ruling by the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.

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  • Drugmaker Impax Laboratories Inc. accepted an illegal payment from Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. in exchange for delaying the market entry of Impax’s generic form of Endo’s opioid pain medication Opana ER, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission said Friday… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.

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  • An ex-prosecutor who came up with the idea for a television series about a fictionalized U.S. Department of Justice lodged a suit Tuesday in California state court alleging his agents at Creative Artists Agency LLC stole the concept and helped their more powerful clients shop it… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.

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