MEET THE BLOGGERS is back for the twelfth time. Perhaps the best non-INTA event ever devised by woman or man, MTB XII will be held on Monday, May 23rd, 8 ...
Jack Piscitello spent his entire career as a patent attorney for the Union Carbide Corporation in New York until his retirement in 1997. He held degrees from Fordham University (B.S. ...
Several patent events will be held in Washington, D.C., in the period Thursday-Saturday, May 12-14, in conjunction with George Washington University Law School (May 12) and local chapters of the ...
President Obama is now expected to sign into law the Defend Trade Secrets Act. The legislation has now passed both the House and the Senate and needs only the signature ...
In Helsinn Healthcare S.A. v. Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc., Fed. Cir. 2016-1284, the Federal Circuit is expected to consider whether the secret commercialization bar of Metallizing Engineering survives the redrafting ...
Last week we had olive oil and restaurant services. Now it's restaurant services and beef. The USPTO refused registration of the mark BLACK BARK for restaurant services, finding it likely ...
Today in Largan Precision Co., Ltd. v. Genius Electronic Optical Co., Ltd., __ F. App’x __ (Fed. Cir. 2016)(Moore, J.), distinguishing O2 Micro Int’l Ltd. v. Beyond Innovation Tech. Co., ...
There haven't been many 2(d) reversals lately, but here's one. The Board overturned a refusal to registerFAVORIT in the stylized form shown below, for bicycles, bicycle parts, games, toys, and ...
Today in Merck & Cie v. Gnosis S.P.A., __ F.3d __ (Fed. Cir. 2016)(den. reh’g en banc)(Newman, J., dissenting) and South Alabama Medical Science Foundation v. Gnosis S.P.A., __ F.3d ...
Congratulations to Administrative Patent Judge McManus, recently appointed to the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. Judge McManus previously was with Duane Morris LLP; McKool Smith; Adduci, Mastriani & Schaumberg and ...