Patently-O

OCTOBER 4, 2023

This year we’re limiting the focus to patent law & trademark law. My fellow panelist is trademark expert Richard Mandel of Cowan Liebowitz and we’ll be providing a year-in-review plenary session for the conference. Sanofi decision for both biotech and “regular” tech.

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IIPRD

JUNE 9, 2024

When we talk about IPR in the metaverse various types of Intellectual Properties come into the picture, for example, copyrights, patents, and trademarks. paradigms, (February 05, 2024) The evolution of intellectual property rights in metaverse-based Industry 4.0

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

January 1, 2024, brought numerous hangovers along with an unprecedented amount of media attention to intellectual property law. Trademark law has something to say about use. Rights owners have tried to use trademark law to extend copyrights, albeit with limited success. His full bio can be viewed here. [1]

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 13, 2024

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) and the United States Copyright Office (“USCO”) delivered a report to Congress entitled Non-Fungible Tokens and Intellectual Property on March 12, 2024 (“Report”).

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SpicyIP

MAY 17, 2024

For instance, see this post by Professor Basheer ( here ) for different issues surrounding the drug’s patent. Recently, the allopathic blue pill Viagra found itself in yet another legal dispute, this time over trademark issues, with homeopathic red pill Vigoura. As it turns out the drug never goes out of (use and) news.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 31, 2024

.” Coming to the case: The question “Who is the inventor ,” hints at a potential patentability issue which the case nowhere seems to be about. Sidenote: If this were the case, it might not be the first time a food recipe has had a close encounter with patent law. The case will be heard in May 2024.

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The TTABlog

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

With the door opened to registration of slurs as trademarks, what LGBTQ+-oriented marks have been registered? The article may be downloaded here , and it appears in 2024 U. LGBTQ+ slurs can now be registered as federal trademarks. Brunetti permitted federal registration of disparaging, immoral, or scandalous trademarks.

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Last week we published 9 posts on topics such as the Patent (2 nd Amendment) Rules, the Delhi High Court-Butter Chicken Controversy, and developments regarding the public search and e-register feature of the TMR website. Don’t forget to check them out on the blog too! Read the submitted comments on the Proposed Rules to know more.

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Rather, after analysing the legislative intent of the TRA, conflicting High Court judgements on the said issue and the earlier position of trademark law in India, the Court referred the matter to a larger bench for reconsideration. Afterall, the trademark act is a self contained code. vs The Controller Of Patents.

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Patently-O

JANUARY 26, 2024

by Dennis Crouch The Federal Circuit has just reissued this important trademark decision as precedential. I previously wrote about the case here: Crouch, Failures to Function and Likelihood of Confusion: Takeaways from Two Recent Federal Circuit Trademark Decisions, Patently-O (November 17, 2023).

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 30, 2023

We’ve tried to represent a diversity of subject matter also in this list, so it’s a mixed bag of cases dealing with patents, trademarks, copyright law etc. The judgement has been passed by Justices G.S.Patel & Justice Gauri Godse. Syngenta Ltd.

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Patently-O

JUNE 13, 2024

by Dennis Crouch In an important trademark law and free speech decision, the Supreme Court held in Vidal v. 2024) , that the Lanham Act’s “names clause” barring registration of a mark that “[c]onsists of or comprises a name. Elster , 602 U.S. 1052(c), does not violate the First Amendment.

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The TTABlog

JANUARY 23, 2024

14, 2023, re-designated as precedential, January 22, 2024). e), the CAFC has re-designated as precedential its opinion in In re GO & Associates, LLC , Appeal No. 2022-1961 (Fed. It pointed out that in Elster there was no issue as to whether the proposed mark TRUMP TOO SMALL functioned as a source identifier.

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Patently-O

DECEMBER 12, 2021

Ernst , Professor of Law, Golden Gate University School of Law. Can you register a famous person’s name as your trademark without their consent? Patent and Trademark Office interprets this to mean no, never, no matter what. Lemley, What the Right of Publicity Can Learn from Trademark Law , 58 Stan.

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