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A Trademark is a legally registered distinctive mark or sign which identifies goods, products or services that originate or are associated with a particular person or enterprise . A typical example of a trademark... more +

DOD Proposes Amending DFARS to Cover Trademarks and Similar Designations

Wiley Rein LLP on 3/7/2024

WHAT: The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) is proposing to amend the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) to provide coverage for trademarks and similar designations. According to the DOD, the proposed...more

PTAB/USPTO Update - August 2023

WilmerHale on 8/8/2023

USPTO News - On July 11, the USPTO Office of the Chief Economist released the 2022 updates to its Trademark Case Files Dataset and Trademark Assignment Dataset....more

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Set to Increase Trademark Fees

Holland & Knight LLP on 5/23/2023

The Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has notified the Trademark Public Advisory Committee (TPAC) of the USPTO's intent to restructure existing trademark fees and released its preliminary trademark fee...more

Proposed USPTO Fee Changes Will Make It Much More Expensive to Patent and to Challenge Patents on Therapeutics. You Have an...

Goodwin on 5/17/2023

The United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO or PTO) recently announced proposed changes to certain fees it charges with respect to patent applications, design patents, and America Invents Act (AIA) trials. These...more

China: Draft Amendments to Trademark Law foreshadow potential major changes

Hogan Lovells on 2/6/2023

On 13 January 2023, the China National Intellectual Property Administration (“CNIPA”) published draft amendments to the PRC Trademark Law for public comment. This Draft marks the fifth time that the PRC Trademark Law is up...more

USPTO and US Copyright Office To Conduct a Joint Study on Intellectual Property Law and Policy Issues Related to NFTs

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 12/8/2022

On November 23, 2022, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and the U.S. Copyright Office issued a Federal Register Notice (Notice) announcing the offices’ joint study of intellectual property (IP) issues related to...more

Trademark Modernization Act of 2020: Part 2

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP on 7/6/2021

Before a mark can become registered in the United States, a trademark applicant must usually provide evidence that its mark is in use. Furthermore, to maintain the trademark registration the registrant must periodically show...more

Hidden Layers Between AI & Patent Policy: Global Patent Office Policy Considerations and Perspectives

Foley & Lardner LLP on 4/9/2020

With the ever increasing adoption of AI technology, no industry will unlikely be left untouched by Artificial Intelligence in the coming years. The worldwide spending on AI systems is estimated to increase as much as 100...more

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Takes on Artificial Intelligence

Vedder Price on 1/3/2020

If the hallmark of intelligence is problem solving, then it should be no surprise that artificial intelligence is being called on to solve complex problems that human intelligence alone cannot. Intellectual property laws...more

When Innovation Creates: Additional Developments in Artificial Intelligence at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

Jones Day on 11/26/2019

The Situation: Advances in artificial intelligence ("AI") are providing the ability to automatically create and design innovations without human assistance. AI's impact on patent, copyright, trademark, trade secret, and other...more

PTO Proposes Requiring Foreign Trademark Owners to Obtain U.S. Counsel

Dorsey & Whitney LLP on 2/26/2019

On the heels of launching its expedited cancellation program to clear deadwood from the Trademark Register, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has now pivoted to a related area: deadwood prevention. The PTO has issued a...more

USPTO Announces Expedited Cancellation Pilot Program

Dorsey & Whitney LLP on 2/5/2019

Back in July 2017, the United States Patent and Trademark Office proposed a Streamlined Cancellation Proceeding (“SCP”) to expedite cancellation proceedings for challenges to registrations of allegedly unused marks. Following...more

Food and Beverage Law Update: December 2018

Holland & Knight LLP on 12/24/2018

Regulation - FDA-USDA Propose Joint Regulatory Framework for Cell-Grown Meat - On Nov. 16, 2018, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) issued a joint statement...more

Trump’s China Tariffs on Fashion & Beauty Products and Requests for Exclusion

Knobbe Martens on 8/1/2018

The Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) released a report on an investigation of China’s acts, policies, and practices related to technology transfer, intellectual property (“IP”), and innovation. The...more

Food & Beverage Litigation Update | September 2017 #2

Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. on 9/11/2017

FDA Seeks Comment on Regulation Changes for "Meaningful Burden Reduction" - Implementing an executive order titled "Reducing Regulation and Controlling Regulatory Costs," the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has...more

USPTO Seeking Comment on Proposed Amendments to Trademark Rules of Practice

Fish & Richardson on 4/12/2016

On April 4, 2016 the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office published a Federal Register notice asking for comments to proposed amendments to Trademark Rules of Practice. Specifically, the rules to practice before the Trademark...more

Intellectual Property Newsletter - September/October 2015

King & Spalding on 9/29/2015

PTAB Update on Inter Partes Review - On August 19, 2015, the Director of the USPTO released a blog post reporting on the state of post-grant review proceedings created by the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act of 2011 and...more

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