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 ...
Yesterday, in Veritas Technologies LLC v. Veeam Software Corp.,__ F.3d __, 2016 WL 4525278 (Fed. Cir. 2016)(Taranto, J.), an Inter Partes Review proceeding where the Patent Office had denied entry ...
Kenyon& Kenyon had been one of the remaining major patent law firms of New York City. Now, all 55 lawyers of Kenyon & Kenyon have accepted offers to join Andrews ...
The Board reversed a Section 2(e)(1) mere descriptiveness refusal of WATERCRAFT SUPERSTORE for "Online retail store services featuring personal watercraft parts and accessories" [SUPERSTORE disclaimed]. Applicant convinced the Board that ...
The “New Kawai”: The Anachronistic and Discriminatory “Best Mode” Requirement of the Leahy Smith America Invents Act of 2011), recently distributed, has been revised to take into account further information. The revisions are ...
Applicant Jimmy Moore LLC struck out in its attempt to register the mark pitchingsmart (in standard character form) for "entertainment in the nature of baseball games" in Class 41. Recognizing ...
The “best mode” requirement in the Leahy Smith America Invents Act of 2011 continues the previous best mode requirement in largely an attenuated form. But, there are three problems: (1) ...
Congratulations to Andrew Dhuey for his continued contributions to the intellectual property legal field. His pro bono accomplishments go far beyond his significant contributions to his home field of patent law. ...
A statutory discrimination exists against foreign applicants who have a deficient disclosure in their priority application to meet the “best mode contemplated”; this discrimination is not made under the statutory wording ...