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- What Is a “Kit” Patent?
- Submission to The Senate IP Subcommittee for Entry Into the Record
- How Long Are Copyrights Valid For?
- Googles Arm for Self Driving Cars Is Accusing a Former Engineer of Stealing Trade Secrets for Uber
- House Subcommittee Discusses Section 101 and Fraudulent Trademarks
- Supreme Court Says Law Banning Registration of ‘scandalous’ Trademarks Violates First Amendment
- Brain-To-Brain Interfaces Allow Transmission of Thoughts
- Small Businesses Lose Millions Every Year in Unclaimed Tax Benefits
- Using Provisional Patent Applications in Invalidity Challenges
- What Is Mediation?
- Apple Loses Major Antitrust Lawsuit
- Who Owns Marilyn Monroe’s Image
- AI in Patent Law: Enabler or Hindrance?
- Finally, the Supreme Court Agrees to Review the Federal Circuit’s Dangerous Decisions in Oracle v. Google
- IP Enforcement in the Digital Age: Identifying Infringers In an Anonymous Online Environment
- Request for Amici: Tell the Supreme Court to Clarify Section 101
- Recent Cases Show Federal Circuit Is Concerned About ‘Over Abstracting’ Rejections of Method/ Process Patents
- How the EPO and USPTO Guidance Will Help Shape the Examination of Artificial Intelligence Inventions
- In Honor of April Fools’ Day: Diving Into Deepfakes
- IP and Innovation on Capitol Hill: Week of April 1: Medicare Drug Pricing, Lost Einsteins and Data Privacy
- Latest Apple/Qualcomm Ruling Highlights Question of ‘Unwilling Licensees’
- UKIPO Invalidates Babybel Cheese Shape Mark
- Other Barks & Bites: New Register of Copyrights, Win for Qualcomm at ITC and Big Tech Up in Arms Over New EU Copyright Rules
- ‘Bad Patents’ Are Just Another Big Tech False Narrative
- What the PTAB’s Precedential Decisions on Live Testimony and Substitute Claims Mean for PTAB Litigation
- Federal Circuit Affirms PTAB Finding that Adidas Did Not Prove Nike Patent Claims Unpatentable as Obvious
- Other Barks & Bites for Friday, June 26: SCOTUS Denies Cert to PTAB Challenges, CAFC Issues Three New Precedential Patent Decisions, and Ninth Circuit Revives The Shape of Water Copyright Case
- Illegal Circulation of E-Newspapers Online and Through Messaging Apps: Implications for Copyright and Contractual Violations
- Ten Years From Bilski: The Beginning of the End, with No Improvement in Sight
- Federal Circuit Agrees with PTAB that Firebug’s Footwear Claims Are Obvious
- This Week in Washington: Digitized Payment Systems, Operation Warp Speed and Changing American Tech
- WIPO Report Validates Fears About U.S. Patent Decline
- Amici Urge Supreme Court to Grant UMN Petition on Sovereign Immunity for IPRs
- Copyright Office Begins Period of Petitioning for Exemptions to Section 1201 of the DMCA
- Eighth Circuit Finds ‘Hot Pocket’ Patents Were Not Fraudulently Obtained
- Intellectual Property and Bankruptcy: The IP Value Proposition that Startups Should Not Overlook During Financial Distress
- CAFC Holding in Campbell Soup Design Patent Case Addresses Standard for Establishing Proper Primary References
- The Consumer is King: High Court Sides with Booking.com, Rejecting Per Se Test for Generic.Com Trademarks
- Has China Finally Embraced Robust Trade Secret Protection?
- Petition Seeks Rare En Banc Review to Clarify Whether PTAB Can Overrule Article III Courts
- Full Senate Judiciary Committee Addresses COVID-19 Related Fraud
- This Week in Washington IP: America’s Innovation Leadership, Facebook’s Financial Industry Impact and Personal Data Ownership
- CAFC: Claim Construction That Misreads Plain Language of Claims and Specification Is Clearly Erroneous
- First House IP Subcommittee Hearing of 116th Congress Addresses Ways to Increase Female Inventorship
- Inequitable Conduct and Unclean Hands: Is There a Difference and Does It Matter?
- The Federal Circuit Just ‘Swallowed All of Patent Law’ in ChargePoint v. SemaConnect
- This Week in Washington IP: Licensing Week Virtual, the FCC’s Possible Section 230 Reforms and Pro-Innovator Patent System Reforms
- Keeping Up with Copyright Infringement: Copyright, Celebrities, Paparazzi, and Social Media
- Trading Technologies, ChargePoint Ask High Court for Help with Federal Circuit’s Conflicted Approach to Patent Eligibility
- To Truly Help the USPTO, Congress Must First Stabilize Patent Law
- How Businesses Can Prepare for ITC Exclusion Orders: Section 337 Investigations on the Rise
- Will Bayh-Dole Survive Its 40th Birthday?
- A Response to Claims of Patent Propaganda and a Plea for Interpretive Charity in IP Debate
- Chamberlain Petitions Full Federal Circuit to Correct Appellate Overstep on Patent Eligibility
- Tax Implications of a Majority Remote Workforce: Predicting the Post-COVID Economy Part II
- PTAB Rulemaking: Past, Present, and Future
- PTAB Says Collateral Agreements Must Be Filed in Decision Designated Precedential
- FDA Issues Request for Comments on Modernizing Patent Listings in the Orange Book
- D.C. Circuit Finds No Proximate Cause in Patent Attorney Malpractice Case
- Industry Leaders Reflect on Bayh-Dole at 40
- Avoid the Patent Pit of Despair: Drafting Claims Away from TC 3600
- Mad Dash to Coronavirus Vaccine May Face Legal Hurdles
- Trademark Modernization Act Would Restore Presumption of Irreparable Harm in Trademark Cases
- PTAB Issues First Motion to Amend Guidance, Samsung Petitions for IPR Granted Despite NuCurrent Issue Preclusion Defense
- Recent USPTO Update Provides Blueprint for PTAB Patent Challenge Process
- Chrimar Asks Supreme Court to Decide Whether PTAB Can Reverse Final Article III Judgments
- Tillis and Coons Nudge DOJ to Provide Revised Joint Statement on SEPs
- Ecuador May Soon Reap the Benefits of the Patent Prosecution Highway
- Other Barks & Bites for Friday, November 1: CAFC Arthrex Decision Makes PTAB Judges Inferior Officers, USPTO Seeks Comments on IP Protections for AI Inventions and Reports to Congress on SUCCESS Act
- EPO Applications Up 4%, Led by Digital Communication and Computer Technology, 5.5% Rise in U.S. Applicants
- Other Barks & Bites for Friday, March 13: Federal Circuit, Copyright Office, Ninth Circuit Brace for Coronavirus Concerns; Huawei Tops EU Patent Applicants; Apple Pays VirnetX
- Know the Risks Before Licensing Unregistered Trademarks in China
- Senator Ron Wyden, Stop Harming Independent Creators
- Federal Circuit Says PTAB Judges Are Not Constitutionally Appointed
- A Comparative Look at Patent Subject Matter Eligibility Standards: China Versus the United States
- Panelists Warn Senate IP Subcommittee Against Drastic Measures on Patent Quality
- The Latest and Greatest Halloween Patents for Your Perusal
- Practical Tips for Drafting Patent Applications After American Axle & Manufacturing Inc. v. Neapco Holdings
- The PPH Program at the USPTO: Favorable Stats Don’t Alleviate Big Risks
- Chertoff Op-Ed on FTC v. Qualcomm Misrepresents the National Security Threat
- Eight Tips to Protect Your Trade Secrets with Effective Restrictive Covenant Agreements
- Five Years Later, the U.S. Patent System is Still Turning Gold to Lead
- Other Barks & Bites for Friday, June 12: USPTO Provides Relief for Restoring Priority/ Benefit Rights; China Reducing Patent Pendency; CJEU Says Copyright Can Cover Functional Shapes; Tillis Questions Internet Archive on Copyright Concerns
- Federal Circuit Reverses PTAB’s Invalidity Decision Regarding a Wireless Communications Patent
- Case Study: Recently Granted Epitope-Based Antibody Patents in the United States, Europe and Japan
- This Week in DC: Buying Unsafe Counterfeits, 5G Security, Blockchain Tech for Small Business and Online Sales Taxes
- The Impact of Overturning eBay v. MercExchange
- Federal Circuit says THE JOINT is merely descriptive without acquired distinctiveness
- Other Barks & Bites for Friday, December 13: U.S. and China Move Towards Trade Deal, Register Temple Leaves Copyright Office, and Tillis Sends Letters on Copyright Issues
- IPWatchdog CON2020 Has Been RESCHEDULED for September 13-15, 2020
- IBM Inventor Chieko Asakawa Named Inventor of the Year at IPO Education Foundation 2019 Awards Dinner
- Clawing Deeper into the Monster v. Raptors Trademark Battle
- Final USMCA Text is a Missed Opportunity for Innovation
- We Won’t Stop Coronavirus Without IP
- Rare Diseases as A Strategic Springboard: Leveraging Orphan Drug Designations and Patent Protection for Increased Investment
- Lucky Brand Oral Arguments: SCOTUS Likely to Reverse Second Circuit Claim Preclusion Rule
- The Supreme Court is More Interested in Being Right Than Shedding Light on 101
- An Inventor’s Guide to Enforcing Patents on a Budget
- Latest IFI CLAIMS Report Shows U.S. Patent Grants Are Up 15% Over 2018
- Patent Filings Roundup: Supercell Locked in Dispute with Gree, Vudu Fends off Uniloc, BASF PGRs Ingevity Patents
- A Global Look at Post Grant Patent Maintenance Fees
- Views from the Top: IP Leaders Sound Off on Supreme Court’s Refusal to Wade into Patent Eligibility Debate
- This Week in Washington IP: Increasing Inventor Diversity, USCMA Implementation and EU Investments Into R&D
- It’s Official: SCOTUS Will Not Unravel Section 101 Web
- PTAB Holds Packet Filtering Claims Unpatentable in Cisco/Centripetal Networks IPR
- Three Key Strategies for Adapting Patent Departments to Agile Innovation Settings
- Rules Governing Admission to the Bar for In-House Counsel
- CAFC Affirms District Court Judgment on Coffee Cartridge Patents
- What Brand Owners and Small Businesses Can Learn from Backcountry.com’s Trademark Enforcement Campaign
- Episode 15: Kevin Jakel of Unified Patents (Part 2)
- This Week in Washington IP: Selecting the Next Register of Copyrights, 5G Workforce Concerns and Smart City Models for U.S. Communities
- Trade Secrets Review: Key 2019 Decisions and Trends (Part I)
- Responding to Criticism of ‘State Pharmaceutical Importation Programs Threaten Patients and Innovation
- Reflections on Denial of Cert in Athena Diagnostics
- Google v. Oracle: An Expansive Fair Use Defense Deters Investment In Original Content
- Space Force, Star Trek, and Strange New Worlds of Trademark Infringement
- How to Help Data Scientists Overcome Their Patent Doubts
- Let the Music Play: The Performance Rights License Marketplace Thrives Only with Vigilant Antitrust Enforcement
- Other Barks & Bites, Friday, January 17: IP Provisions in Partial U.S.-China Trade Deal Are a Boon for Pharma, IBM Joins LOT Network, and Alphabet Hits $1 Trillion Market Cap
- Innovators Brace for Ninth Circuit Oral Arguments in FTC v. Qualcomm
- Senate IP Subcommittee Examines Foreign Approaches to Digital Piracy in Second Hearing on U.S. Copyright Reform
- Ninth Circuit Set to Clarify Aesthetic Functionality Doctrine
- Medical Innovation Depends on Bayh-Dole’s IP Protections
- WIPO Prepares to Elect New Director General
- Brexit is Finally Happening: Here’s What to Expect for IP
- Federal Circuit Affirms District Court Decision for CBS in Light of PTAB Invalidation
- Privacy Policies and the Value of Data in Bankruptcy Sales
- Users Lament PAIR Changes During USPTO Forum
- Time to Wake Up: Stakeholders Must Compromise to Save the U.S. Patent System
- EU Trademark Owners Relieved by CJEU Judgment in SkyKick Case
- Time to Close the Gap: Is the PTAB Looking at Prosecution Histories in IPRs?
- SMCA Set To Export U.S. Copyright Law to North American Neighbors
- ‘IP That Works for All’: My Vision for the World Intellectual Property Organization
- EPO Provides Reasoning for Rejecting Patent Applications Citing AI as Inventor
- Bayh-Dole 40: Celebrating the Past, Protecting the Future
- PTAB Refuses to Apply SAS Institute on Remand as Ordered by Federal Circuit, Federal Circuit Denies Rehearing
- WIPO and U.S. Copyright Office Team Up to Talk Copyright in the Age of AI
- With Congress Focused on Copyright, Industry Must Deliver Solutions to the Piracy Problem
- Earth to Google: Here’s Why APIs Need to be Copyrightable
- Why eBay v. MercExchange Should, But Won’t, Be Overruled
- Identifying the Crucial Qualities of Great IP Managers
- This Week in Washington IP: Balancing Interests in Tech Exports, Predictive Analytics in Criminal Justice and Energy Storage Innovation
- Other Barks & Bites for Friday, February 14: Federal Circuit Orders Case Against Google Out of Eastern Texas, DOJ Indicts Huawei on Trade Secrets, and USPTO Faces Backlash Over Email Address Requirement
- Oracle Files Opening Brief at U.S. Supreme Court in Copyright Fight with Google
- Six Years After Alice: 61.8% of U.S. Patents Issued in 2019 Were ‘Software-Related’—up 21.6% from 2018
- Senate IP Subcommittee Kicks Off Year-Long Review of Digital Millennium Copyright Act
- The Fragile Nature of Trade Secrets: Clues from the Courts on How to Keep Them
- New USPTO Trademark Rules Seek to Streamline Filing and Crack Down on Fraud, But Could Increase Spam
- Google Wins Mandamus at Federal Circuit in EDTX Venue Dispute
- CAFC Orders Settlement Agreement Enforced, Tosses Summary Judgment of Non-Infringement
- Ranking the Top ITC Firms and Attorneys
- DC Attorney General Launches Antitrust Suit Against Amazon
- How to name your business in the digital age?
- Embedding Images Can Infringe Copyrights
- Non-Compete and Executive Order on Promoting Competition in The American Economy
- Alice Corproration Pty. Ltd v. CLS Bank International, et al.
- Artificial Intelligence (AI): An Over View
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- A Miami, FL Jury Awarded $100 million in Bitcoin Dispute
- Update on Artificial Intelligence (ai): Uspto Files Opposition Brief at The Court of Appeals for The Federal Circuit (cafc) to Affirm Decision that Ai Cannot Qualify as An “inventor.”
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- Dispelling Business Formation Myths
- How Long Does Bankruptcy Appear on a Credit Report?
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- S.2774 - Pride in Patent Ownership Act
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