Abbott Loses Drug Patent Suit with Centocor

Cited from NewYork Times. A unit of Johnson & Johnson said Monday that a jury has ordered Abbott Laboratories to pay $1.67 billion in a patent infringement suit over rheumatoid arthritis drugs. Abbott’s best-selling drug, Humira, competes with the drug Remicade, an arthritis treatment made by the Centocor unit of Johnson & Johnson. That company [...]

Monsanto sues DuPont over patent

The data is reproduced from the St. Louis Business Journal. Monsanto Co. has sued DuPont to prevent what it calls “unlawful use” of Monsanto’s herbicide-tolerant technologies in soybeans and corn. DuPont subsidiary, Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc., recently admitted that its technology “presents unacceptable risks to farmers,” Monsanto said. In an effort to repair these deficiencies, [...]

Agere Systems was awarded $18.5M from Sony for PSP patent infringement

The data is reproduces from the website. The patent dispute between Agere Systems (now a part of LSI Electronics) and Sony came to an end today, with Agere emerging as the victor. Sony must now cough up $18.5 million as a penalty for infringing upon an Agere patent, 5,670,730 (hereafter referred to as the ’730 [...]