Showing posts with label petition. Show all posts
Showing posts with label petition. Show all posts
Thursday, July 6, 2017
PTAB Denies IPR Petition Challenging MiMedx Patent on Placental Tissue Grafts
PTAB Denies IPR Petition Challenging MiMedx Patent on Placental Tissue Grafts
On June 29, 2015, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) denied a petition by Tissue Transplant Technology Ltd. and Human Biologics of Texas, Ltd. for inter partes review (IPR) of U.S. Patent No. 8,709,494, owned by MiMedx Group, Inc. (IPR2015-00320). The MiMedx patent is directed towards “placental membrane tissue grafts (amnion and chorion) and methods of preparing, preserving, and medical uses for the same.” MiMedX commercializes the technology and appears to be a competitor of the petitioners.
The ‘494 patent is one of four patent that have been asserted against the petitioners in MiMedx Group, Inc. v. Tissue Transplant Technology Ltd. et al., Case No. 1:14-CV-719-HLH (W. D. Tex.). The other three asserted patents (U.S. Patent Nos. 8,597,687; 8,372,437; and 8,323,701) are also the subject of IPR petitions: IPR2015-00420, IPR2015-00664, and IPR2015-00669, respectively. The PTAB has yet to decide whether to institute these three remaining IPR requests.
MiMedx has also asserted the patents in a lawsuit pending in the Northern District of Georgia. MiMedx Group, Inc. v. Liventa Bioscience, Inc. et al., Case No. 1:14-CV-00178 (N.D. Ga.). The defendants in that case are the petitioners in IPR2015-00664 and IPR2015-00669. In both cases, the district court has denied the petitioners requests to stay the litigation pending resolution of the IPR petitions, so the infringement litigation is still moving forward concurrently.
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Wednesday, February 15, 2017
Please take action for Albert Woodfox New Amnesty Intl Petition to Gov Jindal Calls for the State to Not Oppose Bail
Please take action for Albert Woodfox New Amnesty Intl Petition to Gov Jindal Calls for the State to Not Oppose Bail
We are excited to announce that Amnesty International has started a new petition in support of Albert Woodfoxs February 6 bail request that he filed in response to the favorable Fifth Circuit Court ruling on February 3. The full text of an email sent out today by Amnesty, describing the campaign, is featured below.
Please take action now!
Freedom is just around the corner
For more than four decades, Albert Woodfox has been held in solitary confinement: first in the infamous Louisiana State Penitentiary (also known as Angola Prison) and later in David Wade Correctional Center.
Albert spends 23 hours a day isolated in a small cell - four steps long and three steps across - with no access to meaningful social interaction or rehabilitation.
Last Friday, Alberts legal team filed for bail. With your help, he could finally walk free.
Albert has been imprisoned for nearly 43 years for the second-degree murder of prison guard Brent Miller in 1972. He has been fighting to prove his innocence in a legal process tainted with flaws.
No physical evidence ties Albert to the crime. Brent Millers widow has said she believes that Albert is innocent. The Federal courts have overturned Alberts conviction three times.
Despite all of this, the state of Louisiana has appealed three times and spent millions of dollars in legal fees during Alberts 40-year struggle for freedom. The state authorities seem hell-bent on keeping him behind bars.
Allowing Albert his freedom is the only just and humane action the state can take after decades of holding him in cruel and inhuman conditions. Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal must ensure that the state stops standing in the way of Alberts freedom.
Tell the Governor: Stop wasting valuable taxpayer resources. Help ensure Alberts release without further delay. It is imperative that justice delayed does not become justice denied.
Albert has endured the unthinkable. It is unconscionable to hold him for a single day longer.
Its time for him to walk free.
With hope for justice,
Jasmine Heiss
Senior Campaigner, Individuals at Risk
Amnesty International USA
Please take action now!
Freedom is just around the corner
For more than four decades, Albert Woodfox has been held in solitary confinement: first in the infamous Louisiana State Penitentiary (also known as Angola Prison) and later in David Wade Correctional Center.
Albert spends 23 hours a day isolated in a small cell - four steps long and three steps across - with no access to meaningful social interaction or rehabilitation.
Last Friday, Alberts legal team filed for bail. With your help, he could finally walk free.
Albert has been imprisoned for nearly 43 years for the second-degree murder of prison guard Brent Miller in 1972. He has been fighting to prove his innocence in a legal process tainted with flaws.
No physical evidence ties Albert to the crime. Brent Millers widow has said she believes that Albert is innocent. The Federal courts have overturned Alberts conviction three times.
Despite all of this, the state of Louisiana has appealed three times and spent millions of dollars in legal fees during Alberts 40-year struggle for freedom. The state authorities seem hell-bent on keeping him behind bars.
Allowing Albert his freedom is the only just and humane action the state can take after decades of holding him in cruel and inhuman conditions. Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal must ensure that the state stops standing in the way of Alberts freedom.
Tell the Governor: Stop wasting valuable taxpayer resources. Help ensure Alberts release without further delay. It is imperative that justice delayed does not become justice denied.
Albert has endured the unthinkable. It is unconscionable to hold him for a single day longer.
Its time for him to walk free.
With hope for justice,
Jasmine Heiss
Senior Campaigner, Individuals at Risk
Amnesty International USA
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