Swatch makes Swiss watches. It sells them at Swatch stores, many in malls. The chronometers come in many styles. They cost $100 and up. Young people like them. But you can’t take the body of one Swatch watch and pop it on another Swatch wrist band.
You can do that very thing with Swap watches.
That homologous recombination occurs between the targeted DNA and an introduced plasmid that is homologous to a chromosome does not require that the targeted DNA actually be chromosomal DNA. It requires only that the targeted DNA be homologous to chromosomal DNA. Non-chromosomal DNA, such as mitochondrial DNA or DNA in an additional plasmid, can be
Patent law allows a trial court to make the losing party pay the winner's attorneys' fees but only in "exceptional cases". 35 U.S.C. 285. What counts as "exceptional", you say? Good question.
The U.S. Supreme Court plans to answer it in Octane Fitness, LLC v. Icon Health & Fitness, Inc., No. 12-1184 (U.S.), which
The expense of a big document case lies mainly in the looking for, the sifting through, and the analysis of your client's, and the other side's, megabytes and terabytes of ESI — "electronically stored information", in the words of Rule 26 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.
You'd like to shift that burden to
Herb Reed Enterprises (HRE) claimed that Larry Marshak infringed HRE's trademark rights in "The Platters", a name and mark that relate to a singing group whose hey-day spanned the second half of the 1950s.
The band split up in the 1960s. But nostalgia for "The Great Pretender", "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes", and "Only You"
Drug giants Sanofi and Pfizer each claimed that it had first dibs on patenting a segment of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid).
Who did have first dibs turned on the date when each of them not only isolated the DNA sequence but also "appreciated" what it had isolated. Sanofi-Aventis v. Pfizer Inc., No. 12-1345, slip op.
Blawgletter not too long ago got one of those machines that heats water and then blasts it through a canister of coffee essence to make — voila! — a steaming cup of joe.
These devices come from a Wide Range of sources, but many of them appear to spring from people who make the coffee-essence-canisters
The patent assignment says the assignor — the Inventor — will receive a share of any "recovery of damages" from litigation of the heart-stent patent that he assigned.
The assignee — let's call it Scimed — sues an infringer — which we'll call Cordis. Cordis in turn brings an action against Scimed, accusing it of
A Seattle jury today hit Motorola with a $14 to $15 million damages award for bad faith in negotiating to license patents that Microsoft's Xbox and Windows products infringe.
The dispute involved patents that Microsoft holds on technologies relating to wireless local area networks and video coding.
Two standard-setting organizations (SSOs) incorporated the Motorola technologies into standards that they set — H.264 and 802.11
What happens on appeal after the district court struck an expert report that did not exist until after the other side had deposed the expert and moved for summary judgment and the discovery deadline had passed?
The Federal Circuit affirms, silly. Cheese Systems, Inc. v. Tetra Pak Cheese and Power Systems, Inc., No. 12-1463