Maryland Intellectual Property Law Blog : Maryland Intellectual Property Lawyer & Attorney : Brian Wm. Higgins : Serving Baltimore, Columbia, Frederick

     The following cases are reported as being filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland in June 2010 (source: Justia.com):

• Patent docket:

   

  • WhitServe LLC v. Benesch Friedlander Coplan & Aranoff LLP, Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione, PC, Dinsmore & Shohl LLP, Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP, EMC Corp, General Electric Co., Intel Corp., Kusner & Jaffe, Mueting, Raasch & Gebhardt, PA and Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, No. 8:2010cv01639 (filed June 18, 2010) 

     

  • Genzyme Corporation v. Sandoz, Inc., No. 1:2010cv01715 (filed June 25, 2010)
     

• Trademark docket:

   

  • B Line, Inc. v. Outrageous Outlet, Yossef Benzakan and David Azoulin, No. 1:2010cv01670 (filed June 22, 2010)
     
• Copyright docket:

   

  • Broadcast Music, Inc , EMI Blackwood Music Inc. and Still on Top Publishing Corp. v. Orange Ball, Inc. and Ho S. Chang, No. 1:2010cv01560 (filed June 14, 2010)
     
  • 88 LLC v. RC Matrice LLC and Rene Mitchell, No. 8:2010cv01607 (filed June 16, 2010)
     
  • Micro Focus(US), Inc. v. Ashley Furniture Industries, Inc., No. 8:2010cv01623 (filed June 17, 2010)
     
  • Micro Focus(US), Inc. v. Ashley Furniture Industries, Inc., No. 8:2010cv01624 (filed June 17, 2010)
     
  • Jonathan Hanson v. Here Publishing, Inc. and Here Media, Inc., No. 1:2010cv01712 (filed June 25, 2010)

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Are you an author with questions about finding a reputable literary agent?  Do you have concerns about protecting the copyrights created in conjunction with your written works?  Are you eager to get published but wary of the business decisions involved in protecting and exploiting your intellectual property?  Join the Maryland Lawyers for the Arts and CityLit Project, in partnership with Creative Alliance, for a "Legal Clinic for Writers," during which many of those and other questions may be addressed.  Speakers scheduled to attend include Cynthia Sanders, Esq. and agent Laura Strachan of the Strachan Literary Agency.

Saturday, August 21, 2010
1:30-3:30pm
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3134 Eastern Avenue
Baltimore, MD 21224

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     On a per capita basis, Maryland inventors received just about as many patents in the first half of 2010 as inventors in states like Illinois and Texas, but the number of patent lawsuits filed in Maryland trailed far behind the number of lawsuits initiated in those and other jurisdictions.  The states with the highest number of patent cases filed in the first half of 2010 are shown in the table below.  In Maryland, only ten law suits were filed in the U.S. District Courts for the District of Maryland (Greenbelt and Baltimore divisions combined) between January 1st and June 30, 2010.  That number is far below the number of patent-related cases brought in judicial jurisdictions like California, Texas, and Illinois, which consistently rank as some of the most prolific states for patent litigation.

Source: Justia.com and PACER; data are for Jan. 1, 2010, through Jun. 30, 2010.

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     U.S. Patent & Trademark Office (PTO) records show that for the one year period ending June 30, 2010, the PTO granted 2,136 patents on which at least one inventor was identified as a Maryland resident. That is an 8% increase in the number of patents issued to Maryland inventors for the previous one year ending June 30, 2009 (1,983), and a 9% increase over the one year ending June 30, 2008 (1,956).

      PTO records show that for the one year period ending June 30, 2010, the PTO published 3,127 patent applications on which at least one inventor was identified as a Maryland resident. That is a 1% decrease in the number of patent applications published to Maryland inventors for the previous one year ending June 30, 2009 (3,172), but a 2% increase over the year ending June 30, 2008 (3,076).

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