Feb
5
UPDATE: Tafas v. Dudas; SmithKline Beecham Corp. v. Dudas, 07–cv-0846 (E.D.Va 2007)
Posted by Keeley Vega at 11:41 am under Litigation, Patent.
Dec. 20, 2007: Cross-motions for Summary Judgment filed
Jan. 9, 2008: Tafas’s Objection to Magistrate Judge Jones’s Opinion and Order Denying Tafas’s Motion to Compel and Quashing Tafas’s Notices of Depositions for Senior USPTO Officials DENIED.
Jan.22, 2008: Responses to SJ motions filed
Feb. 1, 2008: Replies to Response to SJ motions filed
Jan. 18, 2008: Tafas files Motion for Reconsideration (on discovery; Court affirmed Magistrate Judge Jones’s decision to deny Tafa’s requests for discovery beyond the administrative record and a pribilege log)
Feb. 8, 2008: SJ hearing scheduled, 10 a.m.
Amici:
- Elan Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
- American Intellectual Property Law Association
- Monsanto Company
- William Mithchell College of Law
- Intellectual Property Institute of William Mitchell College of Law
- Human Genome Sciences, Inc.
- Polestar Capital Associates, LLC
- Norseman Group, LLC
- Public Patent Foundation
- Computer and Communications Industry Association
- AARP
- Consumer Federation of America
- Essential Action
- Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights
- Initiative for Medicines, Access and Knowledge
- Knowledge Ecology International
- Prescription Access Litigation
- Public Knowledge
- Research on Innovation
- Software Freedom Law Center
- CFPH, LLC
- CropLife America
- Micron Technology, Inc.
- Federation Internationale Des Conseils En Proprit Industrielle
- AmberWave Systems Corporation
- Fallbrook Technologies Inc.
- InterDigital Communications LLC
- Nano-Terra Inc.
- Tessera, Inc.
- BioAdvance
- Washington Legal Foundation
- Life Sciences Greenhouse of Central Pennsylvania
- Pittsburgh Life Sciences Greenhouse
- Intellectual Property Owners Association
- Ron D. Katznelson
- Teles AG Informationstechnologien
- Intellectual Property and Administrative Law and Public
- Health Professors
- Bar Association of the District of Columbia
- Robert Lelkes