Law360: Thursday, May 27, 2010
Bluestone Lights Up Osram, Others Over LED Patents. Patent-holding company Bluestone Innovations Texas LLC has lodged separate infringement suits targeting lightbulb giant Osram GmbH over a laser diode patent and a slew of Asian companies over a light-emitting diode patent.
USPTO Affirms Abbott Protein Patent In War With Yeda. Abbott GmbH & Co. KG has cemented its victory in a 14-year-old dispute with Yeda Research & Development Co. Ltd. over a patent for a tumor necrosis factor protein, winning recognition that one of its patent applications is the earliest reference to the protein, which is used in autoimmune therapies.