Simon Tam has filed a petition for writ of mandamus with the CAFC, seeking an order directing the USPTO to comply with the CAFC's mandate by publishing for opposition his ...
Some Federal Circuit decisions manifest an unfamiliarity with the fast pace of statutory changes in the patent law. One case in particular has attracted some attention. See Dynamic Drinkware, LLC ...
In Top Ten No. (7) Samsung Electronics v. Apple, the Court has scheduled a secondConference for a vote whether to grant certiorari . Scope of Design Patent: The first Question ...
On March 10, 2016, the USPTO issued Trademark Examination Guide 01-16, stating that the Office will be suspending action on pending applications involving marks subject to refusal under the disparagement ...
The Top Five patent filing countries, including patent, utility model and design patents as to original filings (i.e., excluding § 120 refilings and RCE’s) are: No. (1) China 2,350,000 No. ...
The Trademark Reporter has published its Annual Review of U.S. Trademark Cases: "The Sixty-Eighth Year of Administration of the Lanham Act of 1946," by Theodore H. Davis, Jr. and yours ...
In her forthcoming article, The First Amendment Walks into a Bar: Trademark Registration and Free Speech, Notre Dame Law Review (download from her 43(B)log here), Professor Rebecca Tushnet argues that ...
Yesterday in Bamberg v. Dalvey, __ F.3d __ (Fed. Cir. 2016)(Hughes, J.), following Tronzo v. Biomet, Inc., 156 F.3d 1154 (Fed. Cir. 1998), the court narrowed the scope of the invention ...
On Monday, March 7, 2016, the Supreme Court denied the petition for a writ of certiorari filed by Milo Shammas in Shammas v. Hirschfeld, formerly known as Shammas v. Focarino. ...
The Board affirmed a Section 2(e)(1) refusal to register the mark NAG CHAMPA, finding the mark to be merely descriptive of "incense sticks." The Board concluded that the mark "describes ...