Volume VIII

Issue : 2: January 21, 2010

• Italian Consumer Group ADOC seeks class action suit against Microsoft
• Bulletproof Servers in China Serve File Sharing Services and Spammers
• Amazon in Danger of Sales Tax Again
• Possible Resolution of Viacom Copyright Infringement Lawsuit Against YouTube
• Non Profits Challenge Food Patent
• Kodak Pursues RIM and Apple for Patent Infringement at the ITC
• Twitter Sarcastic Airport Bomb Threat Results in Arrest

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Non Profits Challenge Food Patent

Two non-profit companies in the United States (Breedlove Foods Inc. and the Mama Cares Foundation) have sought to invalidate a U.S. patent relating to a ready-to-use therapeutic food product called “Plumpy’nut”, designed to feed the severely malnourished. These non-profit companies have the assistance of a prominent Chicago patent litigator, and rather than pay royalties to the French owners of the patent, they have filed a claim alleging that the patent is too broad. The patent’s owners claim that the patent is important because it requires licensing of production, maintaining quality of the product, and that royalties are needed to fund further research and development.

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