Adrian Jacobs News
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Rolls-Royce Holdings Plc, the world’s second-largest maker of jet engines, settled a patent dispute with United Technologies Corp.’s Pratt & Whitney unit.
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Australia made seven changes to its starting lineup for this week’s Tri-Nations rugby opener against South Africa as it tries to rebound from an upset loss to Samoa.
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Scholastic Inc. was sued by the estate of British author Adrian Jacobs over a claim that the company’s best-selling “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire” is “substantially similar” to his 1987 book.
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Amgen Inc. won a U.S. court ruling that bars Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. from selling a generic version of the kidney drug Sensipar until at least 2016.
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Scholastic Corp. , U.S. publisher of the bestselling “Harry Potter” novels, won a copyright- infringement lawsuit brought by the estate of an author claiming one of the books copied his work.
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The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office should get as much as $279 million to help the agency deal with a backlog of patent applications, President Barack Obama said in a request for supplemental funding from Congress.
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Broadcom Corp. , a microchip maker, was sued by the U.K.’s CSR Plc alleging infringement of four U.S. patents protecting global positioning system and telephone headset inventions.
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The U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation that would increase funding for the Patent and Trademark Office by $129 million to help the agency reduce a backlog of patent applications.
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The U.S. government and Johnson & Johnson each filed patent-infringement lawsuits against Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. to block sales of a generic version of the HIV medicine Prezista.
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J.K. Rowling, the world’s richest author, lost a bid to dismiss a U.K. lawsuit over claims that parts of her “Harry Potter” wizard novels were copied from an earlier book about “Willy the Wizard.”
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