The October 2016 Term of the Supreme Court (that runs through the end of June 2017) promises to be one of the more active Terms for patent cases. Several cases ...
Today in Bascom Global Internet Services, Inc. v. AT&T Mobility LLC, __ F.3d __(Fed. Cir. 2016)(Chen, J.), where a trial court had dismissed a patent infringement suit under Rule 12(b)(6) ...
Today, Mrs. Clinton released Hillary Clinton’s Initiative on Technology & Innovation [FN*], a 7000 word statement with more than fifty (50) paragraphs including, inter alia, “Invest in Computer Science and ...
Concluding that substantial evidence supported the Board's finding that the marks MAYARI and MAYA, both for wine, are sufficiently dissimilar to avoid confusion, the CAFC affirmed the Board's dismissal of ...
In Top Ten No. (5) Life Techs. v. Promega Corp., the Court GRANTED certiorari, but only as to the Second Question Presented, which asks whether supplying a single, commodity component of ...
Lynne Beresford was a respected retired leader in the trademark field who capped thirty years of government service with a stint as Assistant Commissioner for Trademarks of the U.S. Patent and Trademark ...
In Cuozzo Speed Techs. v. Lee, __ U.S.__ (2016) (Breyer, J.), the Supreme Court in justification of the PTO’s “broadest reasonable interpretation” standard in IPR proceedings agreed with the USPTO that the possibility of ...
On Wednesday, June 22nd, the USPTO published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking entitled "Changes in Requirements for Affidavits or Declarations of Use, Continued Use, or Excusable Nonuse in Trademark Cases,"Federal ...
The once WIPO Deputy Director General James Pooley, near the end of his tenure, made serious charges against Director General Francis Gurry. A thorough, independent investigation was made by WIPO. ...
This Monday the Supreme Court Orders List is expected to announce whether certiorarihas been granted in two important cases, each with a much higher than average chance for grant of certiorari: ...