By: Victoria Slind-Flor
Source: http://www.businessweek.com
Category: Patent Infringement
(This is a daily report on global news about patents, trademarks, copyright and other intellectual property topics.)
Dec. 30 (Bloomberg) -- Illumina Inc., whose genetic analysis tools are used in disease research and drug development, sued Life Technologies Corp. claiming infringement of one of its patents.
Life Technologies’ Ion Personal Genome Machine and Ion OneTouch System infringe Illumina’s patent 7,060,431, covering a method of “making and decoding of array sensors with microspheres,” Illumina said in a complaint filed Dec. 27 in federal court in San Diego. The company seeks a court order stopping the alleged infringement and unspecified damages.
“Defendants’ infringing acts are willful in that they have knowledge of Illumina’s rights under the ‘431 Patent, but have continued to infringe, and actively induce and contribute to infringement by others,” lawyers for San Diego-based Illumina said in the complaint.
Mauricio Minotta, a spokesman for Carlsbad, California- based Life Technologies, didn’t immediately return a call to his office yesterday seeking comment on the complaint.
Life Technologies said in a Dec. 9 statement that its Ion Personal Genome Machine in June solved Europe’s E. coli outbreak by sequencing the bacteria’s DNA in two hours. The machine is the first of its kind that translates chemical information into digital data, the company said in the release.
The case is Illumina v. Life Technologies, 3:11-03022-LAB- NLS, U.S. District Court, Southern District of California (San Diego).
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Trademark
Boston Capital Corp. Says Boston Capital Partners LLC Infringes
Boston Capital Corp., a real estate investment and advisory firm founded in 1974, sued a company with a similar name for trademark infringement.
Boston Capital Partners LLC is accused of using an Internet domain name -- bostoncapitalpartners.com -- to confuse customers into believing it is affiliated with Boston Capital Corp., according to the complaint filed Dec. 22 in federal court in Boston.
The public is deceived by the similarities of the names, according to court papers. Boston Capital Corp. said that it’s suffered harm ever since Boston Capital Partners began using the website in March 2010, and asked the court to order the company to quit using the offending domain name and any other confusingly similar names.
It also asked for the Bostoncapitalpartners.com domain name to be transferred or canceled. Boston Capital Corp. also asked for court orders for the destruction of all infringing promotional materials, and for awards of money damages, attorney fees and litigation costs.
When accessed Dec. 29, the Boston Capital Partners website didn’t appear to be functional. Links led to a “Page Not Found” notice.
Boston Capital Corp. is represented by Gina M. McCreadie and Jason C. Kravitz of Rochester, New York’s Nixon Peabody LLP.
The case is Boston Capital Corp. v. Boston Capital Partners LLC, 1:11-cv-12298-PBS, U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts (Boston).
‘Havel’ Trademark Registration Stirs Debate Over Airport Naming
After the company running Prague’s international airport registered “Vaclav Havel Prague International Airport” as a trademark, a debate began in the Czech Republic about whether naming the airport for the former president is the right thing to do, according to the CzechPosition.com news website.
Havel, who died Dec. 18 at the age of 75, was afraid of flying and hated go to the Prague airport, according to CzechPosition.com.
Havel’s widow and more than 70,000 others have signed a petition seeking to have the airport named in his honor, while 6,000 others have listed themselves on a petition opposing the idea, the news website reported.
The company that runs the airport applied for the trademark using the English rather than Czech spelling of Havel’s name on the grounds it could be used in international publicity, according to CzechPosition.com.
Source: http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-12-30/illumina-boston-capital-universal-intellectual-property.html
Source: http://www.businessweek.com
Category: Patent Infringement
(This is a daily report on global news about patents, trademarks, copyright and other intellectual property topics.)
Dec. 30 (Bloomberg) -- Illumina Inc., whose genetic analysis tools are used in disease research and drug development, sued Life Technologies Corp. claiming infringement of one of its patents.
Life Technologies’ Ion Personal Genome Machine and Ion OneTouch System infringe Illumina’s patent 7,060,431, covering a method of “making and decoding of array sensors with microspheres,” Illumina said in a complaint filed Dec. 27 in federal court in San Diego. The company seeks a court order stopping the alleged infringement and unspecified damages.
“Defendants’ infringing acts are willful in that they have knowledge of Illumina’s rights under the ‘431 Patent, but have continued to infringe, and actively induce and contribute to infringement by others,” lawyers for San Diego-based Illumina said in the complaint.
Mauricio Minotta, a spokesman for Carlsbad, California- based Life Technologies, didn’t immediately return a call to his office yesterday seeking comment on the complaint.
Life Technologies said in a Dec. 9 statement that its Ion Personal Genome Machine in June solved Europe’s E. coli outbreak by sequencing the bacteria’s DNA in two hours. The machine is the first of its kind that translates chemical information into digital data, the company said in the release.
The case is Illumina v. Life Technologies, 3:11-03022-LAB- NLS, U.S. District Court, Southern District of California (San Diego).
For more patent news, click here.
Trademark
Boston Capital Corp. Says Boston Capital Partners LLC Infringes
Boston Capital Corp., a real estate investment and advisory firm founded in 1974, sued a company with a similar name for trademark infringement.
Boston Capital Partners LLC is accused of using an Internet domain name -- bostoncapitalpartners.com -- to confuse customers into believing it is affiliated with Boston Capital Corp., according to the complaint filed Dec. 22 in federal court in Boston.
The public is deceived by the similarities of the names, according to court papers. Boston Capital Corp. said that it’s suffered harm ever since Boston Capital Partners began using the website in March 2010, and asked the court to order the company to quit using the offending domain name and any other confusingly similar names.
It also asked for the Bostoncapitalpartners.com domain name to be transferred or canceled. Boston Capital Corp. also asked for court orders for the destruction of all infringing promotional materials, and for awards of money damages, attorney fees and litigation costs.
When accessed Dec. 29, the Boston Capital Partners website didn’t appear to be functional. Links led to a “Page Not Found” notice.
Boston Capital Corp. is represented by Gina M. McCreadie and Jason C. Kravitz of Rochester, New York’s Nixon Peabody LLP.
The case is Boston Capital Corp. v. Boston Capital Partners LLC, 1:11-cv-12298-PBS, U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts (Boston).
‘Havel’ Trademark Registration Stirs Debate Over Airport Naming
After the company running Prague’s international airport registered “Vaclav Havel Prague International Airport” as a trademark, a debate began in the Czech Republic about whether naming the airport for the former president is the right thing to do, according to the CzechPosition.com news website.
Havel, who died Dec. 18 at the age of 75, was afraid of flying and hated go to the Prague airport, according to CzechPosition.com.
Havel’s widow and more than 70,000 others have signed a petition seeking to have the airport named in his honor, while 6,000 others have listed themselves on a petition opposing the idea, the news website reported.
The company that runs the airport applied for the trademark using the English rather than Czech spelling of Havel’s name on the grounds it could be used in international publicity, according to CzechPosition.com.
Source: http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-12-30/illumina-boston-capital-universal-intellectual-property.html
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