Tom Payne is now a Congressional aspirant in West Virginia in its Second District! A long time patent attorney, in 2012 Tom began a stint as a Patent Examiner. May ...
Congratulations to newly minted patent attorney Justin Roettger who, as a pro bono public service, has established a gratis use, easy to use website to gain specific details on any ...
In this Section 2(d) opposition, the Board granted Opposer Newegg’s motion for leave to prepare and serve a sur-rebuttal expert report. The Board refused to read FRCP 26(a)(2)(D) as prohibiting ...
Today in Carson v. Dept. of Veterans Affairs, __ Fed. App’x __ (Fed. Cir. 2016)(per curiam)(Moore, Bryson, Reyna, JJ.), the panel manifested a Federal Circuit with too many judges as ...
Charles Townsend with his brother founded the San Francisco based firm of Townsend & Townsend. It became one of the country’s great patent boutiques of the second half of the ...
New Top Ten No. (2a), “Ariosa II”, Genetic Technologies Ltd. v. Merial L.L.C., __ F.3d __ (Fed. Cir. 2016)(Dyk, J.), joins the Top Ten List as it raises issues now ...
MEET THE BLOGGERS is back for the twelfth time. Perhaps the best non-INTA event ever devised by woman or man, MTB XII will be held on Monday, May 23rd, 8 ...
Today in “Ariosa II”, Genetic Technologies Ltd. v. Merial L.L.C., __ F.3d __ (Fed. Cir. 2016)(Dyk, J.), the court followed its notorious Ariosa opinion to deny patent-eligibility to an invention ...
The Board granted a petition for cancellation of a registration for the mark NOBLE HOUSE for furniture, ruling that Respondent Floorco had abandoned the mark. The Board held that use ...
A highly reliable source has said that there is to be an imminent departure of someone from the leadership of the Patent Office. Whither Director Michelle Lee? Whether the exit vel ...