Nutter's Patent and Trademark Bulletin for the District of Massachusetts is a bi-monthly reporter on recent patent and trademark opinions from the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts.

In the July 2013 issue:

  • PerkinElmer has standing to sue because it received "all substantial rights" to the patents-in-suit
  • Claims concerning thermoplastic food containers construed
  • Federal Circuit upholds summary judgement decision regarding inventorship
  • ZOLL Medical compelled to produce testing data
  • Jury finding of patent invalidity stands in Abbvie v. Janssen litigation related to psoriasis treatment
  • Judge Saylor construes claims in Keurig patent infringement suit against JBR, Inc.
  • Magistrate Judge Collings finds "Sugar Maple Creamery" merely descriptive and without secondary meaning
  • Judge O'Toole denies True Fit preliminary injunction against True & Co.

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