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RETURN to News Archive ================================================== Copyright(c) 1998-2004 GEN-ERIC Channel. All rights reserved. GEN-ERIC Patent News Tuesday, November 23, 2004 ================================================== Use Quick Links to Access any Area of Interest Headlines News Patents of the Day Access Official Gazette and Notices Patents Available for Licensing Patent Related Opportunities Printer Friendly Version ================================================== HEADLINES (patents issued a few hours ago..) The Smart Dial Patent of the Day goes to Sprint Communications Company of Kansas for an Auto-dial business card system The You are Here Patent of the Day goes to Intel Corporation of Santa Clara for Non-GPS navigation Index ================================================== NEWS Court Maintains Preliminary Injunction Preventing the FDA from Approving any Generic Versions of Periostat http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20041122005885&newsLang=en CollaGenex Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq:CGPI) today announced that the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia has maintained the preliminary injunction preventing the U.S. Food and Drug Administration from approving any generic versions of Periostat(R). In maintaining the preliminary injunction, Honorable Judge Collyer ordered expedited briefing of the issue of whether or not Periostat was correctly classified as an antibiotic. A motion by IVAX Pharmaceuticals Inc. and CorePharma LLC to dissolve the preliminary injunction was heard by Honorable Judge Collyer on November 18, 2004. The injunction had originally been ordered pending final resolution of CollaGenex's challenge to the FDA's decision to classify Periostat(R) as an antibiotic, thereby denying CollaGenex the patent and exclusivity protection otherwise available under the Hatch Waxman amendments to the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act. CollaGenex continues to challenge the FDA's decision. Index Gillette sues Water Pik over dental floss patents http://www.pbn.com/contentmgr/showdetails.php/id/109883 Gillette Co., owner of the Braun Oral- B line of electric toothbrushes, filed a lawsuit seeking to avoid paying royalties to Water Pik Technologies Inc. for inventions used in Gillette's new electric dental flosser. Gillette began selling the Oral-B Hummingbird Power Flosser and Pick in March for about $7, and Gillette spokesman Eric Kraus said ``it's been very successful.'' He declined to provide sales figures. Water Pik, which makes products that use jets of water to clean teeth, announced a battery-operated flosser in March selling for about the same price. Gillette's suit said Water Pik claims to own the rights to the technology used in both devices and sought licensing fees from Gillette. The suit asked a court to rule Gillette doesn't owe a fee to Water Pik. ``We filed this because Water Pik has threatened a patent- infringement suit and we strongly believe there's no merit to Water Pik's position,'' Kraus said in an interview. Index Court to Enter Injunction Against Acon Laboratories http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=109&STORY=/www/story/11-22-2004/0002496036&EDATE= Inverness Medical Innovations, Inc. (Amex: IMA), a leading manufacturer and marketer of rapid diagnostics products for the consumer and professional markets, announced today that the jury in its patent infringement case against Acon Laboratories in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts has ruled unanimously in favor of Inverness against Acon's three principal invalidity defenses. Inverness sued Acon last year for patent infringement based on various patents, including U.S. Patent No. 6,485,982 (the "'982 Patent"). The Court had earlier ruled that a number of Acon's test devices, including its pregnancy, ovulation, Strep and H pylori tests, infringed the '982 patent. The jury's decision upholding the validity of Claims 7 and 19 of the '982 Patent covered three basic questions, including whether the invention had been anticipated by certain work allegedly done by others in the early 1980s, whether the invention was "obvious" based on the prior art that Acon considered to be its best prior art, and whether the "best mode" requirement was satisfied by the disclosure in the patent. The jury found in Inverness' favor, and against Acon, on all questions. Index ================================================== PATENTS OF THE DAY
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