The New York Intellectual Property Law Association (NYIPLA) will host a CLE seminar on the upcoming TTAB rule changes. The seminar will be held on Thursday, January 12, 2017 at ...
Earlier today a report quoted popular patent blogster Eugene Quinn’s attack on the panel in Ex parte Itagaki: “[T]he Administrative Patent Judges that participated in [Itagaki] *** should be suspended or ...
“Drain the swamp!” That’s the theme of the day. An undrained swamp example at the Patent Office: The PTO 3.2 billion dollar budget (2015) is indeed a “swamp” with government waste. ...
Yours truly, The TTABlogger, will present a webinar entitled "Friendly Shores: A Guide to TTAB Practice for Foreign Trademark Owners," on Thursday, January 19th from 10 to 11 AM EST, ...
The average Japan Patent Examiner grants more than twice as many patents as his U.S. counterpart, as explained in the attached chart. Why does a Japan Patent Examiner have higher ...
Amidst talk about patent cooperation amongst the several Offices of the world, a list of countries which have inventors accounting for more than two percent of U.S. filings is led ...
Over four million patent and related forms of protection were filed in 2015 in just China, Japan, the United States and South Korea. Discounting RCE’s and section 120 refilings, the U.S. ...
The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board has scheduled eight (VIII) oral hearings for the month of January 2017. The hearings will be held in the East Wing of the Madison ...
Supposedly one can predict the outcome of a Section 2(d) case 95% of the time just by looking at the marks and the goods. Here are three recent Section 2(d) ...
In Duke University v. Biomarin Pharmaceutical, the patentee-licensor-appellant Duke challenges an Inter Partes Review Patent Office invalidity ruling. As summarized by Duke in its argument at the Federal Circuit, “[t]he ...