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27 Nov 2009, 6:14 am by Vincent LoTempio
Kappos (the case which will decide how business method patents are to be reviewed by the United States Patent and Trademark Office). [read post]
6 Mar 2014, 8:17 pm by Florian Mueller
While Apple's rubber-banding patent survived (most of its claims didn't, but the claim asserted in this case was affirmed in June 2013), the Central Reexamination Division of the United States Patent and Trademark Office rejected all claims of the '915 pinch-to-zoom API patent, Apple's most valuable multi-touch software patent in this case, last year and Apple had to file an appeal to the USPTO's Patent Trial and Appeals… [read post]
4 Jun 2015, 2:33 pm
The answer may be that, having been pushed into accepting unfavorably strict copyright, patent, and trademark rules in the process of negotiating its 2012 free trade agreement with the United States, Korea considers that it would be at a disadvantage if other countries were not subject to the same restrictions. [read post]
28 Dec 2010, 3:30 am by Gene Quinn
USPTO Issues Patent Friendly Guidelines Just three years ago who among us would have ever thought that the United States Patent and Trademark Office would ever issue any Guidelines that were patent friendly, let alone made sense? [read post]
23 Oct 2015, 6:40 am
On October 4, 2015, Ministers of the 12 Trans-Pacific Partnership ("TPP") countries - Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, United States, and Vietnam - announced conclusion of their negotiations. [read post]
1 May 2012, 1:44 pm by tonyvittoria
During this explosive growth, Seacrets obtained a trademark registration for its name with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. [read post]
20 May 2016, 11:02 am by Gregory Winsky
A design patent can be awarded by the United States Patent and Trademark Office for “any new, original and ornamental design for an article of manufacture. [read post]
1 Oct 2021, 12:26 am by Mark Summerfield
  On 2 September 2021, Judge Leonie M Brinkema in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia (‘EDVA’) rejected Dr Stephen Thaler’s appeal against the USPTO’s decision to refuse two patent applications on the basis that DABUS is not a human being and therefore cannot be an inventor under US law (Stephen Thaler v Andrew Hirshfeld and the US Patent and Trademark Office, Mem. [read post]
20 Sep 2013, 6:41 pm
Alternately, the dissatisfied patent applicant may choose to “have remedy by civil action against the Director in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. [read post]
1 Oct 2021, 12:26 am by Mark Summerfield
  On 2 September 2021, Judge Leonie M Brinkema in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia (‘EDVA’) rejected Dr Stephen Thaler’s appeal against the USPTO’s decision to refuse two patent applications on the basis that DABUS is not a human being and therefore cannot be an inventor under US law (Stephen Thaler v Andrew Hirshfeld and the US Patent and Trademark Office, Mem. [read post]
11 Sep 2008, 9:32 am
" LINKChanges to Representation of Others Before the United States Patent and Trademark Office - includes comments on the USPTO's adoption of new rules governing the conduct of disciplinary investigations, warnings issued upon close of investigations, disciplinary proceedings, reinstatement to practice before the USPTO, and non-disciplinary transfer to disability inactive status. [read post]
27 May 2015, 3:41 pm
 They can prove that the patent is invalid as an affirmative defence,  file a declaratory judgment requesting the court to declare the patent invalid (MedImmune v Genetech (2007)), seek inter partes review at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board or seek ex parte rexamination at the Patent and Trademark Office. [read post]
17 Aug 2015, 7:10 am by Michael Geist
Late last month, Canada joined eleven other countries including the United States, Japan, and Australia in Hawaii for what many experts expected would be the final round of negotiations on the Trans Pacific Partnership. [read post]
17 Jan 2010, 10:18 pm by Jake Ward
(B) GUARANTEE OF NO MORE THAN 3-YEAR APPLICATION PENDENCY.- Subject to the limitations under paragraph (2), if the issue of an original patent is delayed due to the failure of the United States Patent and Trademark Office to issue a patent within 3 years after the actual filing date of the application in the United States, not including- (i) any time consumed by continued examination of the application requested by the applicant… [read post]
15 Nov 2018, 1:20 pm
Import: Section 337:Trademark:Registered mark, Common-law mark:Secondary meaning:Word mark: Product-packaging trade dress: Product-design trade dress:Restatement (Third) of Unfair Competition:Appeal from the United States International Trade Commission in Investigation No. 337-TA-936.Section 337 provides a remedy at the ITC for, among other things, “the importation into the United States, the sale for importation, or the sale within the United… [read post]
11 Jun 2016, 6:49 am by Ed. Microjuris.com Puerto Rico
La decisión de Enfish así como la de In re TLI Communications Patent Litigation tienen un impacto significativo puesto que el United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO, por sus siglas en inglés) adoptó este marco de análisis en sus guías para los examinadores de patentes.[3] Por lo tanto, al determinar la patentabilidad de un programa informático es importante determinar si el mismo… [read post]
16 Jan 2024, 2:22 am by Eden Winlow (Bristows)
On 20 December 2023, the UK Supreme Court handed down its highly anticipated judgment in the case of Thaler v Comptroller-General of Patents, Designs and Trademarks [2023] UKSC 49, unanimously ruling that only a natural person can be named as an inventor on a patent application. [read post]