The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) announced that it will open the current Patent Law School Clinic Certification Pilot Program to admit 10 additional schools for the upcoming fall 2012 academic year. This pilot program allows law students to practice patent law before the agency under the guidance of a law school faculty [...]
The USPTO, U.S. Senator Mary L. Landrieu and Cedric B. Glover, mayor of the City of Shreveport, are co-sponsoring the Second Annual USPTO Women’s Entrepreneurship Symposium. The symposium will focus on women entrepreneurs and the importance of intellectual property (IP) protection to the success of innovative businesses. The symposium will be held from March 25-26, 2012 [...]
The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) has affirmed a $20.8 million dollar judgment for patent infringement against Home Depot (See 2010-1409, -1416, November 14, 2011). The judgment includes $15 million in damages for wilfulness, $3 million in enhanced damages, $2.8 million for attorney fees and pre-judgment interest. Home Depot competes with Lowe’s [...]
A lawsuit was filed on Monday in the US District Court for the Central District of California, alleging patent infringement by Rick Santorum, Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich for their use of Facebook business pages. Also included as defendants are unnamed does 1-10. The lawsuit alleges infringement of US Patents 6,671,714 and 7,644,122 (’714 [...]
The Discovery Channel has announced that it is looking for America’s most creative and daring engineers to design, build and blast their way to a grand prize on their new competition TV show “TOP ENGINEER.” Only the select best and most creative men and women will be chosen to take on exciting challenges from various [...]
