Monsanto Co. is pursuing a patent infringement suit against E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company (DuPont) and its wholly owned subsidiary, Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc. (Pioneer), in Federal…
Chattem Inc.’s response opposing LecTec Corporation’s motion for preliminary injunction in a patent infringement lawsuit is due Aug. 30, 2009.
LecTec filed the complaint before the U.S. District Court for the…
Advanced Semiconductor Engineering Inc.’s time to take an appeal from the U.S. International Trade Commission’s final determination finding infringement of the patents-at-issue in Tessera Inc.’s suit is expected to begin…
Lear Corp. intends to continue defending The Chamberlain Group’s and Johnson Controls Inc.’s patent infringement suit on remand in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
On June…
Hewlett-Packard Co. appeals the denial of its post-trial motions to vacate the judgment or reduce the amount of damages awarded by the jury in Cornell University and Cornell Research Foundation…
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, on June 1, 2009, affirmed the determination of infringement in DePuy Spine and Biedermann Motech GmbH’s patent infringement suit against Medtronic…
Six Cordis Corp.’s arbitration proceedings against Medtronic Inc.’s subsidiary, Medtronic Vascular Inc., for alleged product infringement arbitration proceeding, were settled on May 8, 2009.
On Feb. 20, 2006, an arbitration panel…
The amount of disputed royalties and interest related to certain of Medtronic, Inc.’s cardiac resynchronization therapy products has reached US$103 million, as of April 24, 2009.
Medtronic is a licensee to…
Hewlett-Packard Co. and Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization filed a stipulation dismissing the U.S. Patent No. 5,487,069 infringement case last March 26, 2009.
In February 2005, CSIRO had previously…
In response to Medtronic’s Request for Reexamination for each of the four Lau patents, in December 2006, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued an initial “office action” finding that…