The Government has now filed an amicus curiae brief in strong support of the position that the Leahy Smith America Invents Act overruled Metallizing Engineering. Like the amicus effort of ...
Applicant S9 Sports whiffed in its attempt to register the mark HIGH SCHOOL WORLD SERIES for, inter alia, "promoting sports competitions and/or events of others; promoting the goods and services ...
On April 29, 2016, the USPTO filed a motion (here) to voluntarily dismiss its appeal from the decision of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama in ...
Chuck Donohoe was formerly Executive Vice President and General Patent Counsel for Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., and had been a fixture of the Washington, D.C., patent scene for decades, first ...
Today in Saertex France SAS v. Hexcel Reinforcements UK Ltd., [2016] EWHC 966 (IPEC)(Hacon, J.), as part of an invalidity ruling, the trial judge cites Lord Hoffmann in Lundbeck A/S ...
Accounts that the head of the Patent Office is job shopping or otherwise frequently absent from the Patent Office have been complemented by an interview she recently gave to Law360: ...
In connection with the grant of certiorari today in the SCA Hygiene case, the question must be asked: Precisely why did the appellate tribunal issue a badly split en banc ...
The grant of certiorari this morning in Top Ten No. (6) SCA Hygiene Prods. Aktiebolag v. First Quality Baby Prods.,LLC, S.Ct. No. 15-927, opinion below, LLC, 807 F.3d 1311 (Fed. ...
The Board rendered a split decision in this opposition to registration of the marks MINIMELTS and MINI-MELTS for "pharmaceutical preparations for use as an expectorant." It dismissed opposer's Section 2(d) ...
Patent Procedures Amendment Act of 2016 is a discussion draft of proposed legislation to provide a dual track for post grant procedures, one for amendment of claims and the other ...