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From Open Access to Open Science; as open as possible as closed as necessary?

The IPKat

It contains first a set of findings, I have chosen the most important ones here: - There is an epistemic blindness regarding the existence of free IP works. The status of the internet as a free IP work composed of the set of more than 9 000 requests for comments is simply ignored by the literature.

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Top Trademark Trends of 2022

Erik K Pelton

IP Cases Abound at the Supreme Court. All Rights Reserved. 2012: [link]. Additionally, since late December 2021, when new procedures went into effect, the USPTO has received around 100 expungement petitions and about 100 re-examination petitions to get rid of registrations for marks that are allegedly not in use.

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Attorneys Dorothy Whelan, Karl Renner, and Casey Kraning, Ph.D., Author National Law Journal Article “A Look Back on a Decade of Practice at the PTAB”

Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

The implementation of the America Invents Act in 2012 significantly changed patent practice in the United States, in part by creating an avenue to challenge a patent’s validity at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) without enduring the time and expense of district court litigation. All rights reserved.