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, ...
Lexmark International v. Impression Products is now sitting at the Federal Circuit awaitingen banc decision whether the court sustains its Jazz Photo denial of international patent exhaustion (which would trigger ...
Wolters Kluwer, in its IP Today newsletter, provided a chart here listing the current "U.S. Supreme Court Docket, October 2015 Term — Intellectual Property Cases," with links to the docket ...
Today, in a case of first impression, Rosebud LMS Inc. v. Adobe Sys. Inc., __ F.3d __ (Fed. Cir. 2016)(Moore, J.), following grant of the patent, the court denied pre-grant compensation ...
The Board affirmed a Section 2(e)(1) refusal to register HEALTHY HEMP, finding it merely descriptive of "bakery goods; breads; tortillas; all of the foregoing containing hemp" [HEMP disclaimed]. Applicant argued ...
The Board was not pleased with Applicant Rani Sachdev's motion for a protective order, filed on the day her discovery responses were due. It denied the motion as deficient and ...