Month: February 2009

  •     By Christopher P. Singer — The list of Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) participants continues to grow.  On Friday, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office published a press release announcing a new pilot PPH program with the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS) that will begin on Monday, February 2, 2009.  As with other PPH…

  •     By Sherri Oslick — About Court Report:  Each week we will report briefly on recently filed biotech and pharma cases, and a few interesting cases will be selected for periodic monitoring. Procter & Gamble Co. et al. v. Sun Pharma Global, Inc.2:09-cv-10342; filed January 29, 2009 in the Eastern District of Michigan Proctor…

  • February 12, 2009 – Patent Portfolio Strategies in the Post-KSR Environment (FX Conferences) – 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM (EST) February 12, 2009 – Stanford IP Litigation Clearinghouse: A Pioneering Database with "Life and Death" Statistics for Patent Litigators (Practising Law Institute) – 1:00-2:00 PM (EST) February 13, 2009 – Fourth Annual Workshop on Patent…