Emil Bednar was a Houston based patent attorney who had been a partner in Bednar & Jamison and, before his retirement, was a name partner in the firm of Vaden, ...
Frank Morris started his career at Bell Labs; he thereafter joined and rose to the position of senior partner in one of the nation's leading patent firms of the twentieth ...
The USPTO refused registration of the mark CAT & CO., in both standard character and design form (shown below), finding the phrase merely descriptive of cat litter, cat beds, cat ...
“PATENT REFORM 2016” (attached ) is a must read comprehensive guide to current patent reform developments in congress, the Executive Branch, the Courts, and the several States. Patents in the ...
Attachment provided, here, for the previous email: “PATENT REFORM 2016” (attached ) is a must read comprehensive guide to current patent reform developments in congress, the Executive Branch, the Courts, ...
While there has been interest in the proposal to further implement first-to-fie, now, further to the previous note (letter attached), the PTO has now given its response acknowledging receipt of ...
The Board affirmed Section 2(e)(1) refusals to register PARIS OG KUSH INDICA and HARDCORE OG KUSH INDICA, finding the marks to be deceptively misdescriptive of "medicinal herbs." Applicant stated that ...
Today in VocalTag Ltd.v. Agis Automatisering B.V., __Fed. App’x __ (Fed. Cir. Sept. 1, 2016)(Stoll, J.), following long-standing precedent, the panel affirmed a conclusion of noninfringement of a “means”-defined claim element ...
The Office of Inspector General (OIG) has issued an incendiary report on Patent Examiner overtime abuse which will surely attract the attention of Congress. Minor Abuse in the Overall Scheme ...
The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board has scheduled five (5) oral hearings for the month of September 2016. The hearings will be held in the East Wing of the Madison ...