Eric Pelton reports here on the February 15th meeting of the Trademark Public Advisory Committee (TPAC). PowerPoint slides included. With regard to Our Favorite Tribunal, Chief Judge Gerard F. Rogers ...
Coming on the heels of the recent Blank Rome acquisition of much of the Dickstein Shapiro firm, it has been reported that Polsinelli PC is set to acquire many of ...
Within the next two weeks the expected certiorari petition may be filed in the captioned case. The petition will challenge the Federal Circuit denial of patent-eligibility under 35 USC § 101 ...
On February 11, 2016, the CAFC issued an errata sheet (here) in connection with its opinion in In re Tam, 117 USPQ2d 1001 (Fed. Cir. 2016). [corrected opinion here]. The ...
Arthrex v. Smith & Nephew is scheduled for Conference this Friday. A decision whether to grant certiorari is expected at 9:30 AM on Monday, February 29. Petitioner argues that belief ...
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 ...