Purdue pharma loses OxyContin patent appeal

Amazon's One-Click Patent Loses Its Teeth (Micro Law)

The US Federal Circuit court of appeals has dissolved the preliminary injunction that for several years kept bar-nesandnoble.com from offering its Inter-net customers the one-click shopping that Amazon.com offers. The one-click patent, one of the most derided business-method patents, took a heavy thrashing from the Federal Circuit, but it hasn't been knocked out by complete invalidation yet. Th...

The controversy surrounding OxyContin abuse: issues and solutions

This paper overviews the controversies surrounding the abuse of prescription analgesic OxyContin((R)) (oxycodone hydrochloride; Purdue Pharma, Stamford, CT, USA). It discusses solutions to this medication-related issue, which has been touted as reaching epidemic proportions. Relevant literature from 1990 to 2004 was identified through a MEDLINE search, and a thorough internet-based search was c...

United States Patent and Trademark Office ____________ before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board

Enlarged Board of Appeal of the European Patent

Patentit-Teollisuus-Tekniikka –koulutusohjelma perehdyttää osallistujat teollisoikeuksiin ja erityisesti patentointiin sekä Suomessa että ulkomailla. Tätä koulutusohjelmaa on järjestetty jo yli 20 vuoden ajan. Aalto University Professional Development – Aalto PRO – valmentaa sekä uusia että kokeneita osaajia edelläkävijöiksi alallaan. Aalto PRO tarjoaa monipuolisen valikoiman koulutuspalveluita...

Purdue University Press & Purdue Scholarly Publishing

The Purdue University Press monograph series of Books in Comparative Cultural Studies publishes single-authored and thematic collected volumes of new scholarship. Manuscripts are invited for publication in the series in fields of the study of culture, literature, the arts, media studies, communication studies, the history of ideas, etc., and related disciplines of the humanities and social scie...