A query query
A reader has asked what Boolean search query I use to keep a running tab on i.p. injunction cases that apply the eBay formulation, for my resource page on injunction cases.
It is this: ebay and (injunction or enjoin) and (patent or copyright or trademark) and date(after 5/15/2006)
A point on my procedure for maintaining the resource page … I’ve set up Westlaw to run the foregoing search for me automatically each day and e-mail me the result. When the e-mail notice points me to a new case, I read the case to determine if it truly belongs on the resource page and update the page (or not) accordingly. Even if the “last updated” date on the resource page is a week or two old, that simply means that there hasn’t been another pertinent reported case since that time.
In any event … happy hunting!
Thank you again for sharing this professor. It is an enormous help.
Comment by Benjamin Diessel — October 22, 2006 @ 10:05 am
Hi Joe:
I got Westlaw to post the Paice case at
Paice LLC v. Toyota Motor Corp., No. 2:04-CV-211-DF, 2006 WL 2385139, *5-*6 (E.D. Tex. Aug. 16, 2006) (Folsom, J.).
The Judge never issued a formal opinion in Finsar, so I could not get that case posted.
I have seen notation to 2 other cases granting a permanent injunction that are supposedly carried on Lexis. Am. Seating, 2006 US Dist Lexis 59212 and Litecubes, 2006 US Dixt LEXIS 60575. There supposedly is another EDTex case granting a permanent injunction that, like Finsar, was not reported, Acco Brands,Inc. v. ABA Locks, No. 2:02-CV-112 (E.D. Tex. Jun. 15, 2006). I have not seen these opinions, so I can’t confirm the accuracy, but you probably could get someone to run that down.
Bob
Comment by Bob Matthews — October 23, 2006 @ 7:00 am
Bob,
Excellent help!
Thank you,
Joe
Comment by Joe — October 23, 2006 @ 7:02 am