Next week in Helsinn Healthcare the Federal Circuit will entertain oral argument to determine whether the secret commercialization of a process invention under Metallizing Engineering remains barred under the Leahy ...
Mark your calender for the USPTO's National Trademark Expo to be be held on October 21st and 22nd at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium, 1301 Constitution Ave. NW, Washington, D.C. ...
With the Supreme Court yet to open its doors for its first hearings next week, the Court has already granted three petitions for review: Samsung v. Apple will be argued October ...
Further to the Sept. 22nd email, the fundamental problem with the American grace period is the different approach taken versus the European Patent Convention and the Japan Patent Law: In ...
I once heard a TTAB judge say that the outcome of most Section 2(d) likelihood of confusion cases may be predicted just by looking at the marks and the identified ...
Recently, this writer published a paper showing that the grace period may fail to save an inventor who publishes before filing. This is because the state of the art to ...
Christopher Larkin has been appointed to the position of Administrative Trademark Judge at the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board. His appointment brings the total number of TTAB judges to 26. ...
A tip of the fedora to FOTTABlog Erik M. Pelton, who once again provides a report (here) on the latest meeting of the Trademark Public Advisory Committee (a/k/a TPAC). Note ...
What is the impact of an inventor’s publication of his invention before filing which may be excused as “prior art” under the grace period? Under the literal wording of amended ...
In are rare decision discussing the affirmative defense of unclean hands, the Board granted a petition for cancellation of a registration for the mark AACHI AAPPAKADAI & Design for "restaurant ...