A revised copy of Top Ten Patent Cases is attached which features new No. (1) Lexmark(dealing with patent “exhaustion”) which, if properly petitioned, is very likely to be the subject ...
Today in Lexmark International, Inc. v. Impression Products, Inc., __ F.3d __ (Fed. Cir. 2016)(en banc)(Taranto, J.), an en banc majority maintained the court’s prior holdings in (a)Mallinckrodt, Inc. v. ...
Earlier this week in Synopsys, Inc. v. Mentor Graphics Corp. v. Lee, __ F.3d __ (Fed. Cir. 2016)(Dyk, J.), where the PTAB had granted a petition for review of some ...
I once heard a TTAB judge say that the outcome of most Section 2(d) likelihood of confusion cases can be predicted just by looking at the marks and the identified ...
Note: The pdf version identified below is attached. Today in Nike, Inc. v. Adidas AG, __ F.3d __ (Fed. Cir. 2016)(Chen, J.), in a patent owner’s appeal of the denial ...
Frank Wolffe was one of the many respected patent attorneys of the mid-twentieth century who gained a legal education from the George Washington University Law School (JD 1954). Frank was ...
Once in a great while, a precedential interlocutory ruling of the TTAB slips through the TTABlog crack. Here's one from December 2015 (although I can't understand why it earned the ...
Today in Nike, Inc. v. Adidas AG, __ F.3d __ (Fed. Cir. 2016)(Chen, J.), in a patent owner’s appeal of the denial of patentability in an Inter Partes Reexamination, the ...
Wolters Kluwer, in its IP Law Daily newsletter, provided a chart here listing the current "U.S. Supreme Court Docket, October 2015 Term — Intellectual Property Cases," with links to the ...
Evelyn Sommer served for twenty years as Chief Patent and Trademark Counsel to Champion International Corporation and had also been in private practice at several firms including Skadden, Arps, Slate, ...