Thursday, January 31, 2013

Big News

The Defendants contend that the statement “as claimed” in the underlined portion of the second explanation is a clear disavowal of claim scope as to all claims of the ‘858 patent and requires the concentrate or syrup after the oil recovery step to be substantially free of oil. The Court disagrees.
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For these reasons, the Court concludes that only claim 7 of the ‘516 patent and claim 8 of the ‘484 patent require that the post-oil recovery step syrup stream be “substantially oil free.”
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With respect to the absolute percentages advocated by the Defendants’, the Court concludes that the argument improperly seeks to import limitations from the specification into the claims. First, the Defendants cannot point to any language in the claims, the specification or the prosecution history that limit the substantially oil free limitation to the quantities listed in Figure 2 of the ‘858 patent family. There simply is none. The claims, as recited above, are completely devoid of any reference to numerical quantities.
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Under these circumstances, the Court concludes that supplemental briefing on infringement will not suffice. Therefore, all pending motions for summary judgment are hereby

DENIED without prejudice and with leave to re-file them according to the Revised and Amended Order on Case Management, Dkt. No. 780, and the Defendants’, with the exception of Adkins, Motion to Strike, Dkt. No. 652, is
DENIED.
 



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SkunK

WOW!  Look at mechanically processing. . . covers everything?  Look at substantially oil free concentrate . . . it appears to cover a huge spectrum  - compares it to the incoming . .  vice pure oil.

Thursday, January 24, 2013

Heron Lake Sale

Lots of names that are familiar in this story . . .

The deal requires the approval of a majority of its unit holders, but a regulatory filing says it already has the approval of Heron Lake's largest stakeholder, Project Viking, a partnership owned by Ron Fagen, CEO of ethanol and renewable energy contractor Fagen Inc., and his spouse, Diane Fagen, who also is an executive with the Granite Falls, Minn., company. They control nearly 45 percent of the outstanding partnership units.

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Heron Lake Blog Here

And more history here

SkunK

Sunday, January 20, 2013

Method of blending fuels and related system

New fuel blending patent was issued this month.  Note that Dave Winsness is the inventor and the Assignee is GS Cleantech Corporation. Greenshift fully owns GS Cleantech. 
Patent #8,352,071 January 8, 2013.  Also note this process took almost 6 years. 

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SkunK

Wednesday, January 16, 2013

COE @ Pacific Ethanol

Pacific Ethanol will install Edeniq’s proprietary Cellunators™ to boost ethanol yields, and will also deploy Edeniq’s patented OilPlus™ corn oil extraction process to increase corn oil recovery.

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SkunK

Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Moot Filing

Here is a new filing deemed moot.  I ask, does the law firm give a discount when they submit a moot filing to the court?  Seems even the lawyers assigned have trouble keeping up.  On the other hand, my guess is the billing records for the defendant's are very much up to date.

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SkunK

Saturday, January 12, 2013

Friday, January 11, 2013

Thursday, January 10, 2013

Ladies' Day

Tactical maneuvers in anticipation of a co-ed jury?  Or second Markman hearing before the judge?  Or just a coincidence that the last two lawyers added to the case are women?  Or is ol'SkunK Musberger just appreciating this new presence of ladies?
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SkunK

Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Thursday, January 3, 2013

Wednesday, January 2, 2013

Closer?

New Lawer added to the GERS Team
Jo-Anne M. Kokoski
Ms. Kokoski has substantial experience litigating patent and other types of complex cases in federal court. She has been involved in all aspects of pharmaceutical, chemical and medical device patent litigation, from fact and expert discovery to summary judgment and trial. She participated in jury and bench trials in the District of Delaware and the Southern District of New York, and in appeals to the Federal Circuit. She also has litigated cases involving the Hatch-Waxman Amendments. Ms. Kokoski also has substantial experience counseling clients regarding patent infringement and validity issues as well as FDA issues involving the development and marketing of generic pharmaceuticals. Ms. Kokoski’s undergraduate degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is in chemical engineering and her J.D. is from Washington University in St. She is admitted in Illinois and Connecticut and to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
See PR here

Is it time to introduce a velvet closer?  Or is she an appeals specialist?  Here she is in an article about settlements. 

SkunK

Few Updates

Ex-Parte Here

Lincoln Request Here

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