Bayer AG has filed patent infringement suits against Watson Laboratories, Inc. and Sandoz, Inc. due to their recent filings with the FDA for approval to market generic versions of Bayer’s Yasmin contraceptive prior to Bayer’s patent expiring.
Bayer’s patent is below as are the statements from each company:

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Pure Digital Technology, which makes the Flip Video Camera that has captured 13% of the US camcorder market, has recently received a new lawsuit alleging that the camera’s video compression codecs violate US patent no. 5,781,788 that is held by a small Suffern, New York company, Advanced Video Technologies, LLC.  The patent is below and […]

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Seagate has delivered the first blow of its assault on SSD makers. STEC, a maker of solid state drives for industrial applications, today announced that Seagate has filed suit in a San Francisco court for patent infringement. Earlier this year, Seagate CEO Bill Watkins had foreshadowed the possibility of patent infringement lawsuits against […]

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It seems that patent reform this year has been stalled if not killed. Senator Patrick Leahy says the measure, which was already adopted by the House, says that the bill is held up by “just a handful of words”, also saying “this was a missed opportunity”.

Thousands of hours have been spent in […]

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