Apple Inc., v. Masimo Corp. et al., No. CV 22-1377, 2024 WL 4436629 (D. Del. Oct. 7, 2024) -
Designing functional features on a device will not make you an inventor for design patents on the device! The District of...more
Hachette Book Grp., Inc. v. Internet Archive, No. 23-1260, 2024 WL 4031751 (2d Cir. Sept. 4, 2024) -
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirmed the district court’s ruling that nonprofit digital library...more
Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc. v. Insall, 2024 WL 3381286 (7th Cir. July 12, 2024) -
The 7th Circuit recently upheld an arbitration award and found that royalties may be collected after the expiration of the related...more
IPA Technologies Inc. v. Microsoft Corporation, No. CV 18-1-RGA, 2024 WL 1797394 (D. Del. Apr. 25, 2024) -
On April 25, 2024, Judge Richard G. Andrews from District of Delaware found that Siri, the digital assistant...more
ALEXSAM, INC., Plaintiff-Appellant v. MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED, Defendant-Appellee, No. 2022-2046, 2024 WL 825658 (Fed. Cir. Feb. 28, 2024) -
On February 28, 2024, in AlexSam, Inc. v. MasterCard International...more
Canatex Completion Sol. Inc. vs. Wellmatics LLC, et al., Case No. 4:22-cv-03306, Dkt. No. 100 (S.D. Tex. Dec. 14, 2023) -
Found a mistake in your patent? You might want to get it fixed at the U.S. Patent and Trademark...more
Great Concepts, LLC v. Chutter, Inc., No. 22-1212 (Fed. Cir. Oct. 18, 2023) -
Challenging years of perceived overreach, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) recently questioned whether the Trademark Office...more
The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia affirmed the Copyright Office’s denial of a copyright registration for a work of art created by an artificial intelligence (AI) computer system. Plaintiff Stephen Thaler...more
The Supreme Court decided the extraterritorial reach of two provisions of the Lanham Act prohibiting trademark infringement. Abitron appealed the Tenth Circuit’s decision that the Lanham Act extended to Abitron’s foreign...more
7/6/2023
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Extraterritoriality Rules ,
Foreign Sales ,
Intellectual Property Protection ,
Lanham Act ,
Likelihood of Confusion ,
SCOTUS ,
Trademark Infringement ,
Trademark Litigation ,
Trademarks ,
Use in Commerce
This week, the Federal Circuit reversed the United States District Court for the District of Delaware’s (“District Court”) decision to add David Howard as a joint inventor on Hormel Food Corporation’s (“Hormel”) U.S. Patent...more
The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (“CAFC”) recently upheld a decision of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“PTAB”) that found some claims of U.S. Patent 8,815,830 (“the ’830 patent”) unpatentable as anticipated....more
3/31/2023
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Gilead Sciences ,
Intellectual Property Protection ,
Inter Partes Review (IPR) Proceeding ,
Life Sciences ,
Patent Infringement ,
Patent Invalidity ,
Patent Litigation ,
Patent Trial and Appeal Board ,
Patents ,
Pharmaceutical Industry ,
Pharmaceutical Patents ,
Prior Art