Intellectual Property

Fujitsu v. Tellabs: The District Court Orders Additional Sanctions for Fujitsu’s Continued “Contemptuous Conduct”

October 30, 2014

A district court doubled civil fines against Fujitsu Entities’ for “continuing contemptuous recalcitrance” in a patent infringement case against Tellabs.

Use As A Verb Not Always The Kiss Of Death For Trademarks: Elliot v. Google

October 29, 2014

Genericide need not be the death knell of a trademark, after Google mounted a convincing argument in a recent case that when people say to “google” something, the word retains its principle significance.

Looming IP Issues With 3-D Printing

October 29, 2014

The new technologies and the kinds of the intellectual property disputes that are likely to surface as they take hold.

Facebook, Twitter Receive Praise For Resisting ‘Trademark Bullies’

October 29, 2014

Facebook, Twitter, online shopping site Etsy and photo service Flickr got high marks from the Electronic Frontier Foundation for not […]

Is The Troll Problem Overblown?

October 28, 2014

Gene Quinn, attorney with Zies, Widerman & Malek and custodian of the blog IPWatchdog, citing a recent Atlantic Magazine poll […]

Federal Caseload Bogged Down By Patent Litigation, Survey Finds

October 27, 2014

Patent cases and multidistrict litigation were two primary contributors to the federal district courts with the heaviest caseloads from June […]

ICANN Hauls In $26M From Domain Name Auctions

October 27, 2014

The global organization that controls web domain names, ICANN, has reported that it received more than $26 million from “last […]

Tech Firms Winning Troll Battle

October 23, 2014

Giants of Silicon Valley have turned the corner in their battle with patent assertion firms – also known as trolls […]

“Look and Feel” of a Website can Constitute Protectable Trade Dress

October 22, 2014

In a recent case involving maternity belly band companies, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California found that a website’s “look and feel” constitute protectable trade dress under the Lanham Act.

The PTO vs. The Phantom Marks: A Ghost Story

October 22, 2014

A recent Trademark Trial and Appeal Board decision underscores the sometimes mystifying nature of phantom marks, marks in which one element is variable, which were all but banned by the USPTO in the late 90s.

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