LexBlog IP

JANUARY 19, 2022

Foro”) is in the business of commercializing the application of high-powered lasers for the oil, natural gas, geothermal and mining industries. In April 2014 Foro contacted Vita through the generic contact form on Vita’s website to discuss building a deployment wheel for Foro’s laser, which it marketed as a multiconductor cutting tool.

Patent 52

Patent Designs Design Confidentiality 52

Trading Secrets

JANUARY 19, 2022

Foro”) is in the business of commercializing the application of high-powered lasers for the oil, natural gas, geothermal and mining industries. In April 2014 Foro contacted Vita through the generic contact form on Vita’s website to discuss building a deployment wheel for Foro’s laser, which it marketed as a multiconductor cutting tool.

Patent 52

Patent Designs Design Confidentiality 52

The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Graf Synergy’s infringement claim was based on a European patent relating to a “device for welding profiled elements in plastic material, in particular PVC” (EP 3 156 214). EP’214 was issued based on a divisional patent application. A PCT patent application was later filed based on this Belgian patent application.

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Litigation Law Patent Invention 82

Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Unlike trademark registrations, there is no requirement that a patent applicant demonstrate that it has used the claimed invention in commerce. A patent applicant’s planned use of the claimed invention thus has no bearing on its patentability. 208 (2014). Pure Hemp Collective, Inc. ,

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