Patently-O

JANUARY 28, 2024

That the invention was an important real-world manufacturing innovation was, as a factual matter, thoroughly established. The improvement was touted as enabling vastly more efficient and superior manufacture of components – not just by Petitioner’s experts, but also in the defendant’s advertising. Ficep petition for certiorari.

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The TTABlog

MARCH 5, 2024

90518181 (February 27, 2024) [not precedential] (Opinion by Judge Christopher C. TTABlogger comment: Another trademark applicant shsot down while trying to extend protection for an out-of-patent invention by way of a potentially perpetual trademark registration. Welch 2024. In re JM4 Tactical, LLC , Serial No.

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The TTABlog

JANUARY 31, 2024

On appeal, Applicant Seven Seas argued that the mark is at most suggestive because it is "an inventive composite mark that requires some imagination to arrive at a conclusion about the mark's significance in connection with the identified cruise ship and travel tour services for cruise ship passengers." Welch 2024.

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Patently-O

MARCH 31, 2024

27, 2024), involved patents relating to tamper-resistant and tamper-evident food containers. The majority of these factors are associated with what might be termed the “prima facie” obviousness case that focuses on directly comparing the most relevant prior art against the invention as claimed. Lacerta Group, LLC , No.

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

VIII, Issue I [Submit by January 7, 2024] NLU Jodhpur’s Journal of Intellectual Property Studies is inviting original, unpublished manuscripts for publication for its upcoming issue. The last date for submissions is January 7, 2024. Call for Papers: NLU Jodhpur’s Journal of Intellectual Property Studies Vol.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 24, 2023

From an in-depth discussion on the terms of copyright and translations in India to the recent UK Supreme Court’s order regarding the patentability of inventions by an AI, we had some engaging posts on this blog this week. The Court directed the NBA to determine whether the invention relates to biological resource with a reasoned order.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 17, 2023

14 [Submissions by February 29, 2024] NALSAR’s Indian Journal of Intellectual Property Law (IJIPL) is inviting submissions for its 14th Volume. The last date for submission of entries is February 29, 2024. The rejection was based on the argument that the associated hardware lacked novelty and inventiveness. DRS Logistics (P.)

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IP and Legal Filings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

This implies that the Treaty prevents the usage of the Olympic symbol on any goods, advertisements or websites that are unaccredited by the IOC. It is conducted to commemorate the ‘Prometheus gift’, an ancient Greek mythology wherein the flame is depicted as a symbol for life, freedom, rationalism and inventiveness.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 30, 2023

Controller of Patents where the Court emphasised the requirement of the plurality of invention in divisional applications and held that plurality should be disclosed in the claims. Controller of Patents and Designs and Raytheon Company v. In Microsoft v. In another judgement, Raytheon Company v. Makemytrip (India) Pvt.

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Considering section 124, the court clarified that in such a case where rectification and an infringement suit are filed against the impugned mark, the rectification petition has to be decided first, before proceeding with the trial of the suit and listed the rectification for hearing on January 9, 2024.

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