Feb
13
Patent updates
Posted by Dirk Avery at 12:02 pm under Litigation, Patent.
A jury in Texas has ruled that Boston Scientific’s drug-coated stents infringe on a 1997 patent issued to a radiologist [represented by Dickstein Shapiro] and has awarded the inventor $431 million in damages, Boston Scientific said Tuesday.
The Patent Office Professional Association (POPA) and 13 other unions collectively sent letters… to legislators this week calling for the Senate to block the Patent Reform Act.
[CNNMoney] The Coalition for 21st Century Patent Reform, which represents 47 companies and other organizations [mostly chemical and pharmaceutical companies], paid a lobbying firm nearly $1.2 million in 2007 to lobby on patent reform legislation.
Edwards Lifesciences Corp…said it filed a patent infringement lawsuit against CoreValve Inc of Irvine, California, for infringement of three patents related to transcatheter heart valve technology.
VoIP, Inc…announced today…it intends to protect its patent [for “Pay-per-Call” advertising and “Click to Call” technology, Pat. No. 6,501,837] from being infringed…by some of the nation’s leading Fortune 500 companies… Byron T. Ball… stated, “I believe the current value of the patent could exceed 1.25 billion dollars.”