Prominent IP Updates on Jan 14, 2015

Apple Inc. (AAPL)’s Sports Camera Patent Sends GoPro Inc (GPRO) Stocks Tumbling

Apple Inc.’s new patent for a waterproof, remote-controlled sports camera sent shivers to GoPro Inc stocks, which fell as much as 12 percent, down $6.91 to $49.87 per share on Tuesday as news of the new Apple patent circulated in blogs and news sites. Patently Apple reported the news first, describing the new device from Apple as a “superior GoPro like camera system.”

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Apple sues Ericsson over LTE wireless telecom patents

Apple Inc sued Ericsson alleging that the Swedish company’s LTE wireless technology patents are not essential to industry cellular standards and that it is demanding excessive royalties for these patents. The iPhone maker said it has not infringed on the patents and does not owe royalties for them.

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Sarvint Technologies Files Complaints for Patent Infringement for Wearable Technology

Sarvint Technologies, Inc., a wearable technology company, today filed complaints in the US District Court, for the Northern District of Georgia, against Athos Works, Inc. and MAD Apparel, Inc., Carre Technologies, Inc., OMsignal, Inc., Ralph Lauren Corporation, Sensoria, Inc., Textronics, Inc., Adidas North America, Inc., and Victoria’s Secret Stores, LLC for infringement.

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NanoSphere Health Sciences Announces Patent-Pending Status For Nanoparticle Encapsulation Of NSAIDs

NanoSphere Health Sciences, LLC, innovative developers of the industry-first, patent-pending NanoSphere delivery system, announced today that the USPTO issued “Patent Pending” status for its new NSAID NanoSphere technology platform. NanoSphere Health’s NSAIDs are the first to encapsulate prescription and over-the-counter (OTC) NSAIDs (non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs such as Ibuprofen, Aspirin, Naproxen, etc.) as a method to treat and prevent inflammatory disorders and global inflammation and pain.

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Apple Gets Patent for Three Dimensional iPhone with Motion Sensors

Apple has won a new patent for a ground-breaking mobile device screen that orients images on the screen according to the user’s perspective relating to the phone. These features have yet to make an appearance in Apple products.  However, it seems that Apple has recently become interested in graphics user interface, virtual reality as well as 3D mapping technology.

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DelMar Pharmaceuticals Receives Notice of Allowance for Third US Patent for VAL-083

DelMar Pharmaceuticals, Inc. today announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has issued a notice of allowance for patent application number 14/083,135, entitled, “Analytical Method for Analyzing and Determining Impurities in Dianhydrogalactitol (VAL-083)”.

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B. Braun Melsungen AG Wins Patent Infringement Suit Against Becton Dickinson GmbH in Germany

B. Braun Melsungen AG obtained a positive judgment in a law-suit against Becton Dickinson GmbH before the Regional Court Düsseldorf. According to this judgment, Becton Dickinson may not distribute any longer the product “Venflon Pro Safety” in the sizes 14G to 22G as it infringes the European Patent EP 2 319 556 B1 (patent in suit) for safety IVC catheters of B. Braun.

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Owl Computing Technologies receives patent for secure network file sharing over data diodes

Owl Computing Technologies, Inc., a network security and information solutions provider, announced the receipt of another patent for work in securing network communications against cyber threats. This latest patent allows users to do secure file sharing across isolated or segmented networks. Users can “reach down” to files housed at a different security level, obtain immediate access to portions of very large files and access files in enterprise networks as well as in the cloud.

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Rentrak Granted Patent on TV Return Path Information

Rentrak the leader in precisely measuring movies and TV everywhere, today announced that it has been granted another patent by the USPTO. U.S. Patent No. 8,930,978, is for detecting and correcting TV viewership levels caused by missing or “dropped” set-top box viewing information. Given that cable, telco and satellite operators may have inadvertent “outages,” this process minimizes their impact.

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McDonald’s Files Trademark for ‘McBrunch’

From McGriddles to Waffle Tacos, it seems the fast food breakfast menu has seen it all.  McDonald’s might be stepping up its breakfast game after a recent trademark filing. In July, McDonald’s filed a trademark for the term ‘McBrunch.’

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Disney Opposes Deadmau5 in Trademark Battle

The Walk Disney Co. is asking the USPTO to refuse a trademark filed by Deadmau5. Deadmau5 (dead mouse) is an electronic music star who wears a LED powered mouse helmet during shows. The man behind the ears is Canadian disc jockey, Joel Zimmerman. Joel has received Grammy nominations and even preformed at the Grammy Awards.

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