Charles McKenney was a retired patent attorney who spent his entire career with the New York firm of Pennie & Edmonds, a leading patent firm of the twentieth century. With ...
While it is theoretically possible to petition the Patent Office to compel rulemaking, petitioner faces a heavy burden to succeed, as manifested by Service Women’s Action Network v. Sec’y of ...
The Board issued an Order yesterday vacating its HOUNDSTOOTH MAFIA decision, in compliance with the February 23, 2016 Order of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama ...
Teresa Earnhardt, widow of race car driver Dale Earnhardt, opposed two applications of her stepson Kerry's company for the mark EARNHARDT COLLECTION for furniture and custom construction of homes, on ...
Recently in Secure Web Conference Corp. v. Microsoft, __Fed App’x __ (Fed. Cir. 2016)(Stoll, J.), the panel explained its decision in terms of the "essence of the invention”. Attached is an excerpt ...
In Top Ten No. (3), Cuozzo Speed Technologies LLC v. Lee (Top Ten Patent Cases, attached), a subsidiary issue is raised in this challenge against the “broadest reasonable interpretation” rule ...
Today in Wallace v. Ideavillage Products Corp., __ Fed App’x __ (Fed. Cir. 2016)(Newman, J.), in the course of a routine affirmance in a pro se appeal denying infringement of ...
The Board ordered Applicant Coleman to produce unredacted versions of the documents it had previously produced, rejecting Coleman's argument that the redacted portions were irrelevant or contained confidential material. Intex ...
The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board has scheduled six (VI) oral hearings for the month of March, as listed below. Four of the hearings will be held in the East ...
Prospective amici in support of petitioner in Sequenom, Inc. v. Ariosa Diagnostics, Inc., Supreme Court No. 15A871, would do well to defer a final decision whether to join this case as ...