Intellectual Property
The USPTO should be consistent in rejecting similarly-worded claims under the same rationale, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit said in a ruling that affirmed in part, vacated in part, and remanded back to the PTO’s Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences a case concerning a visual inspection system for printing presses.
After more than seven years, Warner Bros. managed to convince a court that, though Dave Grossman Creations, Inc. used images from the public domain to create its unauthorized Wizard of Oz collectibles, the items were still in violation of the movie studio’s copyright.
In its May Raging Bull decision, the Supreme Court ruled that the equitable defense of laches – an unreasonably delay […]
Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi attorney Marla R. Butler considers several alternative fee models specifically as applied to intellectual property […]
A lawsuit pitting a group of plaintiffs against the governments of Iran, Syria and North Korea has used the D.C. […]
The harried state of the US Patent Office’s workforce, swimming in a glut of new patent filings, is eroding their […]
“Even one misused word can result in costly delays and office actions during patent prosecution, and leave enterprises vulnerable to litigation.”
After Personal Audio LLC, a patent assertion firm, sued comedian Adam Corolla for infringing on its patent for “episodic content,” […]
patent cases was recently applied by a Southern District of New York judge to award attorney’s fees to a plaintiff who fended off “predatory” patent infringement threats.
The holidays are right around the corner as far as much of the consumer manufacturing industry is concerned. Competition will […]
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