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Abandonment

Federal Circuit Upholds TTAB’s Finding of Abandonment of Lens.com’s LENS Mark - Comments (0)
Failure to File Section 8 Declaration of Use Does Not Negate Evidence of Intent Not to Abandon Mark - Comments (0)

Abstract Ideas

US Supreme Court Decides in Bilski – Business Methods Still Patentable Subject Matter - Comments (0)

AIPA

CAFC Constructs Patent Term Extension Provision of 1999 AIPA to Benefit Inventors - Comments (0)

America Invents Act

US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Repeals Statutory Invention Registration (SIR) - Comments (0)
US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Publishes Final Rules on First to File System - Comments (0)
Report On Newly Enacted America Invents Act (AIA) - Comments (0)
US Patent and Trademark Office Director Defends Software Patents - Comments (0)

America Invents Act S. 23

Texas Regional Independent Inventors Conference-Austin, TX Sept. 14-15 - Comments (0)
Micro-Entity Inventors Coming to the USPTO - Comments (0)
America Invents Act – Inventor’s Prior Use, Sale or Offer for Sale - Comments (0)
America Invents Act – Elimination of Twelve Month Grace Period - Comments (0)
New Micro Entity Status Created Under the American Inventors Act (AIA) - Comments (0)

Business Methods

Report On Newly Enacted America Invents Act (AIA) - Comments (0)
US Patent and Trademark Office Director Defends Software Patents - Comments (0)
Clear Guidance on Software Patent Eligibility May Soon Issue by CAFC - Comments (0)
US Patent and Trademark Office Co-Sponsors Women’s Entrepreneurship Symposium in Shreveport, Louisiana - Comments (0)
US Patent and Trademark Office Offers Awards for Patents for Humanity - Comments (0)

Claim Construction

Claims

Federal Circuit Upholds Cancellation from Interference Provoked Two Years After Publication - Comments (0)
CAFC Expands Ruling to Leave Open Question of Abandoned versus Dedicated to the Public - Comments (0)

Copyrights

Ninth Circuit Clarifies Requirements for Vicarious and Contributory Copyright Infringement Claims - Comments (0)
Ninth Circuit Clarifies Requirements of DMCA Safe Harbor Provision in Veoh Networks Case - Comments (0)
US Supreme Court Decides that First-Sale Doctrine Extends to Copyrighted Works Published Abroad - Comments (0)
Copyright – Free Birthday Song Chosen in Contest Not Likely to Change Song That is Sung - Comments (0)
Connecticut Supreme Court Decides that U.S. Copyright Law Limits the State FOIA - Comments (0)

Damages

Federal Circuit Reverses $21 Million East Texas Judgment Against Nintendo - Comments (0)
Hold on to your Blackberrry – More Damages to pay? - Comments (0)

Design Patents

Federal Circuit Clarifies the Description Requirements for a Patent Design Continuation Application - Comments (0)
Federal Circuit Clarifies Pleading Requirements in Design Patent Cases - Comments (0)
Industrial Design Protection Simplified with New Law - Comments (0)

Dilution

Federal Circuit: Evidence Collected After ITU TM App Filed is Relevant to Likelihood of Confusion - Comments (0)
Rosetta Stone v. Google Reversal – Dilution and Confusion of Trademarks by Google in Adwords - Comments (0)
Crackberry Trademark Registrations Refused by Trademark Trial and Appeal Board – Parody not a Defense - Comments (0)
Navajo Nation Sues Urban Outfitters for Trademark Infringement for use of Tribe’s Name on Products - Comments (0)
The North Face Sues the South Butt for Trademark Infringement - Comments (0)

Disparagement

Rosetta Stone v. Google Reversal – Dilution and Confusion of Trademarks by Google in Adwords - Comments (0)
Navajo Nation Sues Urban Outfitters for Trademark Infringement for use of Tribe’s Name on Products - Comments (0)
REDSKINS Trademark Dispute May Go to US Supreme Court - Comments (0)

DMCA

Ninth Circuit Clarifies Requirements of DMCA Safe Harbor Provision in Veoh Networks Case - Comments (0)
Second Circuit Suggests “Willful Blindness” May Trigger Liability under the DMCA - Comments (0)
US Copyright Office Approves”Jailbreaking”Wireless Handsets - Comments (0)

Doctrine of Equivalents

Federal Circuit Clarifies Requirements of the Disclosure-Dedication Rule - Comments (0)
Means Plus Function Claims Still Limited to Structure Described in Specification - Comments (0)

Enablement

Examination Instructions

Amendments or Arguments after Final Rejection may be Accepted under new USPTO Pilot Program - Comments (0)
Prioritized Patent Examination – Track 1 Explained - Comments (0)
Social Networking Patents Emerge from US Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) - Comments (0)

Facebook

Republican Political Candidates Sued for Patent Infringement for Facebook Pages - Comments (0)

Famous Trademarks

Federal Circuit: Evidence Collected After ITU TM App Filed is Relevant to Likelihood of Confusion - Comments (0)
JibJab takes Jab at White Castle for Trademark Infringement - Comments (0)
Crackberry Trademark Registrations Refused by Trademark Trial and Appeal Board – Parody not a Defense - Comments (0)
Navajo Nation Sues Urban Outfitters for Trademark Infringement for use of Tribe’s Name on Products - Comments (0)
USPTO Extends Deadline to be Included in 2010 Trademark Expo - Comments (0)

Fee Diversion

Report On Newly Enacted America Invents Act (AIA) - Comments (0)
USPTO Secures Increased Funding for 2012 - Comments (0)
US Patent Applicants Provided with $400 Incentive to File Applications Electronically - Comments (0)
Sweeping Patent Law is the Most Comprehensive Change to US Patent System Since 1836 - Comments (0)
Federal Government Budget Cuts Included $100 Million of Fee Based USPTO Funds - Comments (0)

Food Patents

Senate Defeats Feinstein Patent Amendment - Comments (0)
Inventive Eats: Incredible Food Innovations Now on Display at the USPTO - Comments (0)
USPTO Teams up With Google to Provide Free Patent Information - Comments (0)

Free Patent Information

US Patent and Trademark Office Offers Awards for Patents for Humanity - Comments (0)
Patents - Comments (0)
US Patent and Trademark Office Introduces Expansion Assistance for US Businesses - Comments (0)
USPTO Teams up With Google to Provide Free Patent Information - Comments (0)

Green Pilot Program

US Patent and Trademark Office has Extended the Deadline to Participate in Green Technology Pilot Program - Comments (0)
USPTO Expands Green Technology Pilot Program to More Classes of Inventions - Comments (0)

Green Technology

US Patent and Trademark Office has Extended the Deadline to Participate in Green Technology Pilot Program - Comments (0)
USPTO Expands Green Technology Pilot Program to More Classes of Inventions - Comments (0)
274 green patents filed in second quarter - Comments (0)

Inducement

Federal Circuit Equates Specific Intent with Deliberate Indifference for Inducement to Infringe a Patent - Comments (0)

Infringement

Federal Circuit Reaffirms Structure Requirements for Means-Plus-Function Claims - Comments (0)
Google Threatens to Sue Youtube MP3 Conversion Site - Comments (0)
Shape of Hookah Pipe not Protectable with Copyright - Comments (0)
American Universities Sued for Copyright Infringement - Comments (0)
An Algorithm for Every Function - Comments (0)

Innovation

Intellectual Property

Legislation Requiring Patent Trolls to Pay Litigation Costs Introduced in Congress - Comments (0)
US Patent and Trademark Office Joins Manufacturing Non-Profit to Support Entrepreneurs - Comments (0)
Federal Circuit Affirms TTAB Decision in Collateral Estoppel Case - Comments (0)
Report On Newly Enacted America Invents Act (AIA) - Comments (0)
Innovation Expo 2013 to be Held in Alexandria Virginia June 20-22, 2013 – Applicants Welcome - Comments (0)

Intent to Use

Federal Circuit: Evidence Collected After ITU TM App Filed is Relevant to Likelihood of Confusion - Comments (0)
Failure to File Section 8 Declaration of Use Does Not Negate Evidence of Intent Not to Abandon Mark - Comments (0)
BLACK MAIL refused for Lack of Proof of Bone Fide Intent to Use the Mark - Comments (0)

Interim Guidelines

Social Networking Patents Emerge from US Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) - Comments (0)

Internet

Republican Political Candidates Sued for Patent Infringement for Facebook Pages - Comments (0)

Inventors Hall of Fame

Innovation Expo 2013 to be Held in Alexandria Virginia June 20-22, 2013 – Applicants Welcome - Comments (0)
Inventive Eats: Incredible Food Innovations Now on Display at the USPTO - Comments (0)

Likelihood of Confusion

Virginia Appellate Court reverses Summary Judgment Against Google for Key Word Advertising - Comments (0)
Federal Circuit Upholds TTAB’s Finding of Abandonment of Lens.com’s LENS Mark - Comments (0)
Federal Circuit: Evidence Collected After ITU TM App Filed is Relevant to Likelihood of Confusion - Comments (0)
Trademark Applications - Comments (0)
JibJab takes Jab at White Castle for Trademark Infringement - Comments (0)

Litigation

Federal Circuit Clarifies Requirements of the Disclosure-Dedication Rule - Comments (0)
Federal Circuit Affirms TTAB Decision in Collateral Estoppel Case - Comments (0)
Federal Circuit Reaffirms Structure Requirements for Means-Plus-Function Claims - Comments (0)
Google Threatens to Sue Youtube MP3 Conversion Site - Comments (0)
Shape of Hookah Pipe not Protectable with Copyright - Comments (0)

Madison Building

Inventive Eats: Incredible Food Innovations Now on Display at the USPTO - Comments (0)

Madrid Protocol

US Patent and Trademark Office Allows Cure of Defective Madrid Protocol Affidavits - Comments (0)

Markman Hearing

Broadest-Construction Rubric Coupled with Term”Comprising”Does not Give USPTO Unbridled License to Expand Scope of Claims - Comments (0)

Means Plus Function

An Algorithm for Every Function - Comments (0)
Means Plus Function Claims Still Limited to Structure Described in Specification - Comments (0)

Nanotechnology

Samsung Graphene Patent for Touch Screens is an Example of Nanotechnology Innovation - Comments (0)

Obviousness

Federal Circuit Upholds Obviousness Rejection in In re Mouttet - Comments (0)
Federal Circuit: Common Sense Must be Substantiated, Not Just Asserted - Comments (0)
Apple vs. Cookies - Comments (0)

Opposition

Federal Circuit Upholds TTAB’s Finding of Abandonment of Lens.com’s LENS Mark - Comments (0)
Federal Circuit: Evidence Collected After ITU TM App Filed is Relevant to Likelihood of Confusion - Comments (0)
Crackberry Trademark Registrations Refused by Trademark Trial and Appeal Board – Parody not a Defense - Comments (0)
BLACK MAIL refused for Lack of Proof of Bone Fide Intent to Use the Mark - Comments (0)

Patent Application

US Patent and Trademark Office Requests Comments on Request for Continued Examination Practice - Comments (0)
Federal Circuit Upholds Obviousness Rejection in In re Mouttet - Comments (0)
Federal Circuit Reiterates Three-Step Recapture Rule is Proper Test in Reissue Applications - Comments (0)
Patent Applications - Comments (0)
Micro-Entity Inventors Coming to the USPTO - Comments (0)

Patent Bill

Sweeping Patent Law is the Most Comprehensive Change to US Patent System Since 1836 - Comments (0)
Senate Passes Historic Patent Reform Bill - Comments (0)
Proposed House Legislation Allows USPTO to Set Fees but Does Not Prevent Congressional Diversion - Comments (0)

Patent Examiners

US Patent and Trademark Office and European Patent Office Launch Cooperative Patent Classification System - Comments (0)
US Patent and Trademark Office Plans to Open Regional Offices in Dallas, Denver and the Silicone Valley - Comments (0)
US Patent and Trademark Office Expands Law School Pilot Program - Comments (0)
Workflow may Pickup at US Patent and Trademark Office by the Third or Fourth Quarter of this Year - Comments (0)

Patent Fees

Report On Newly Enacted America Invents Act (AIA) - Comments (0)
Micro-Entity Inventors Coming to the USPTO - Comments (0)
US Patent and Trademark Office has Extended the Deadline to Participate in Green Technology Pilot Program - Comments (0)
US Patent Applicants Provided with $400 Incentive to File Applications Electronically - Comments (0)
Senate Passes Historic Patent Reform Bill - Comments (0)

Patent Infringement

Federal Circuit Applies Collateral Estoppel to Patent Claim Terms Not Previously Construed - Comments (0)
Federal Circuit Limits Scope of Claims Based on the Specification and Prosecution History Estoppel - Comments (0)
Federal Circuit Declines to Adopt Doctrine of Marking Estoppel - Comments (0)
U.S. Supreme Court to Decide: To How Many Generations Does Patent Protection Extend? - Comments (0)
An Algorithm for Every Function - Comments (0)

Patent Law

Clear Guidance on Software Patent Eligibility May Soon Issue by CAFC - Comments (0)
America Invents Act – Inventor’s Prior Use, Sale or Offer for Sale - Comments (0)
USPTO Amends Rules Related to the Appeal of Rejected Patent Claims - Comments (0)
Sweeping Patent Law is the Most Comprehensive Change to US Patent System Since 1836 - Comments (0)
Senate Passes Historic Patent Reform Bill - Comments (0)

Patent Litigation

Patent Marking

Report On Newly Enacted America Invents Act (AIA) - Comments (0)
Fine for False Marking is Per Article, not Per Ocurrance - Comments (0)

Patent Office Hiring

US Patent and Trademark Office Plans to Open Regional Offices in Dallas, Denver and the Silicone Valley - Comments (0)
IP Contributes $5 Trillion, 50 Million Jobs to Economy - Comments (0)
Exercising Ingenuity on Display at the US Patent and Trademark Office Museum - Comments (0)
Federal Government Budget Cuts Included $100 Million of Fee Based USPTO Funds - Comments (0)
Workflow may Pickup at US Patent and Trademark Office by the Third or Fourth Quarter of this Year - Comments (0)

Patent Pendency

US Patent and Trademark Office Requests Comments on Request for Continued Examination Practice - Comments (0)
US Patent Application Pendency by Technical Area - Comments (0)

Patent Searching

Patent Applications - Comments (0)
Patentability, Infringement and Validity Searches - Comments (0)
Pravel Intellectual Property Law Adopts New Brand, Intellalegal - Comments (0)
Patents - Comments (0)
USPTO Teams up With Google to Provide Free Patent Information - Comments (0)

Patent term

US Patent and Trademark Office Requests Comments on Request for Continued Examination Practice - Comments (0)
CAFC Constructs Patent Term Extension Provision of 1999 AIPA to Benefit Inventors - Comments (0)

Patent Validity

Federal Circuit Decides That a Cross-Appeal is Required for District Court to Consider Patent Validity on Remand - Comments (0)
Federal Circuit Reaffirms Structure Requirements for Means-Plus-Function Claims - Comments (0)
Federal Circuit Vacates Preliminary Injunction Again in Shionogi v. Lupin - Comments (0)
An Algorithm for Every Function - Comments (0)
Federal Circuit Upholds Obviousness Rejection in In re Mouttet - Comments (0)

Patentability

2013 Offshore Technology Conference Sets Record Number of Attendees and Displays Impressive Innovation - Comments (0)
Federal Circuit Clarifies Pleading Requirements in Design Patent Cases - Comments (0)
Report On Newly Enacted America Invents Act (AIA) - Comments (0)
Texas Regional Independent Inventors Conference-Austin, TX Sept. 14-15 - Comments (0)
Federal Circuit Vacates Preliminary Injunction Again in Shionogi v. Lupin - Comments (0)

Patentable

2013 Offshore Technology Conference Sets Record Number of Attendees and Displays Impressive Innovation - Comments (0)
Patentability, Infringement and Validity Searches - Comments (0)
Apple vs. Cookies - Comments (0)
The US Patent and Trademark Office Issues Patentability Guidance after US Supreme Court’s Prometheus Decision - Comments (0)
Patents - Comments (0)

Patentable Subject Matter

Report On Newly Enacted America Invents Act (AIA) - Comments (0)
Impact of US Supreme Court’s Prometheus Patentable Subject Matter Decision - Comments (0)
The US Patent and Trademark Office Issues Patentability Guidance after US Supreme Court’s Prometheus Decision - Comments (0)
US Supreme Court Decides in Bilski – Business Methods Still Patentable Subject Matter - Comments (0)

Patents

PTO-Fees

Report On Newly Enacted America Invents Act (AIA) - Comments (0)
IP Contributes $5 Trillion, 50 Million Jobs to Economy - Comments (0)
New Micro Entity Status Created Under the American Inventors Act (AIA) - Comments (0)
Federal Government Budget Cuts Included $100 Million of Fee Based USPTO Funds - Comments (0)
Proposed House Legislation Allows USPTO to Set Fees but Does Not Prevent Congressional Diversion - Comments (0)

Reexamination

Report On Newly Enacted America Invents Act (AIA) - Comments (0)
Broadest-Construction Rubric Coupled with Term”Comprising”Does not Give USPTO Unbridled License to Expand Scope of Claims - Comments (0)

Renewal

Failure to File Section 8 Declaration of Use Does Not Negate Evidence of Intent Not to Abandon Mark - Comments (0)

Section 112

Section 8 Declaration

Failure to File Section 8 Declaration of Use Does Not Negate Evidence of Intent Not to Abandon Mark - Comments (0)

Software Patents

Report On Newly Enacted America Invents Act (AIA) - Comments (0)
US Patent and Trademark Office Director Defends Software Patents - Comments (0)
An Algorithm for Every Function - Comments (0)
Microsoft Tries to Patent Emotion-Targeted Advertising - Comments (0)
USPTO Issues Temporary Post-Bilski Test for Software Patents - Comments (0)

Statutory Subject Matter

US Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) issues guidelines for Computer Readable Media - Comments (0)

Steve Jobs

The US Patent and Trademark Office to Exhibit over 300 of Steve Jobs Patents - Comments (0)

Summary Judment

Trademark Expo

USPTO Extends Deadline to be Included in 2010 Trademark Expo - Comments (0)

Trademark Registration

Federal Circuit Upholds TTAB’s Finding of Abandonment of Lens.com’s LENS Mark - Comments (0)
Trademark Applications - Comments (0)
USPTO Extends Deadline to be Included in 2010 Trademark Expo - Comments (0)
BLACK MAIL refused for Lack of Proof of Bone Fide Intent to Use the Mark - Comments (0)

Trademark Trial and Appeal Board

Federal Circuit Affirms TTAB Decision in Collateral Estoppel Case - Comments (0)
Federal Circuit Upholds TTAB’s Finding of Abandonment of Lens.com’s LENS Mark - Comments (0)
Federal Circuit: Evidence Collected After ITU TM App Filed is Relevant to Likelihood of Confusion - Comments (0)
Crackberry Trademark Registrations Refused by Trademark Trial and Appeal Board – Parody not a Defense - Comments (0)
REDSKINS Trademark Dispute May Go to US Supreme Court - Comments (0)

Trademarks

Virginia Appellate Court reverses Summary Judgment Against Google for Key Word Advertising - Comments (0)
Federal Circuit Affirms TTAB Decision in Collateral Estoppel Case - Comments (0)
Federal Circuit Upholds TTAB’s Finding of Abandonment of Lens.com’s LENS Mark - Comments (0)
Federal Circuit: Evidence Collected After ITU TM App Filed is Relevant to Likelihood of Confusion - Comments (0)
Trademark Applications - Comments (0)

Uncategorized

New Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) System to Launch in January 2013 - Comments (0)
US Patent and Trademark Office Publishes Rule Changes for the Citation of Prior Art and Written Statements Provision of the America Invents Act - Comments (0)
Federal Circuit Upholds Obviousness Rejection in In re Mouttet - Comments (0)
Patents - Comments (0)
US Patent Applicants Provided with $400 Incentive to File Applications Electronically - Comments (0)

US Patent and Trademark Office

Samsung Awarded Patent for Virtual Musical Instrument - Comments (0)
Report On Newly Enacted America Invents Act (AIA) - Comments (0)
US Patent and Trademark Office and European Patent Office Launch Cooperative Patent Classification System - Comments (0)
Texas Regional Independent Inventors Conference-Austin, TX Sept. 14-15 - Comments (0)
USPTO Intervenes in Case Alleging Copyright Infringement of Non-Patent Literature - Comments (0)

US Supreme Court

US Supreme Court Decides that First-Sale Doctrine Extends to Copyrighted Works Published Abroad - Comments (0)
U.S. Supreme Court to Decide: To How Many Generations Does Patent Protection Extend? - Comments (0)
REDSKINS Trademark Dispute May Go to US Supreme Court - Comments (0)

USPTO

Samsung Awarded Patent for Virtual Musical Instrument - Comments (0)
Report On Newly Enacted America Invents Act (AIA) - Comments (0)
US Patent and Trademark Office and European Patent Office Launch Cooperative Patent Classification System - Comments (0)
USPTO Intervenes in Case Alleging Copyright Infringement of Non-Patent Literature - Comments (0)
US Patent and Trademark Office Plans to Open Regional Offices in Dallas, Denver and the Silicone Valley - Comments (0)