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BMW Sues Patent Office For Nixing Review

IP Law 360

Patent and Trademark Office over its decision to throw out the car brand's bid to reexamine the patentability of a cruise control patent, the latest fight in a larger one over the patent. BMW has sued the U.S.

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PTAB Estoppel is Confused By the USPTO

LexBlog IP

Re-work Frustrates Patent Owners & The System. I have written about Patent Owner estoppel for years. But, it is fairly common for unsuccessful Patent Owners to go right back after a PTAB loss and pursue substantively identical claims through patent reissue or reexamination. Acco Brands Corp., 22, 2019)).

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Trademark Modernization Act—What New and Upcoming Changes Could Mean for Your Trademarks

LexBlog IP

Among other things, the TMA created new procedures for challenging pending applications and registrations and updated several rules relating to the prosecution of trademark applications before the United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”). New Procedures for Challenging Registered Trademarks and Pending Applications.

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TMSR Session 2: Administrative Agencies and Specialized Courts

43(B)log

IP Australia also regulates patent & TM attorneys through professional standards board domination. A broader/systemic problem is the problem of scope: we see this in patent side when Office tries to intervene. The business of the PTO is granting patents/TM. If and when that changes, INTA will show up. Money brings attention.

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TTABlog Quarterly Index: October - December 2021

The TTABlog

35: TTAB Grants MIRAGE BRANDS Cancellation Petition Due To Likelihood of Reverse Confusion On Remand from the CAFC, TTAB Denies Petition for Cancellation of "NAKED" Registration for Condoms TTABlog Test: Three Recent Section 2(d) Inter Partes Cases - How Did They Come Out? Guess What? Yes] Precedential No.

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New PTAB Bill to Drive 101 Compromise?

LexBlog IP

Also yesterday, some of the very same senators introduced the Patent Eligibility Restoration Act of 2023. The co-introduction of these bills suggests a plan to drive compromise on patent eligibility. Tech industry than the liberalized 101 standard of the Patent Eligibility Restoration Act. Senators Chris Coons (D-Del.),Thom

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (July 12 – 18)

SpicyIP

She notes that the most controversial provision in the new Bill is the re-introduction of revisionary powers of the Central Government to direct the CBFC Chairman to reexamine an already certified film. agreed to settle two patent-infringement claims over telecommunications technology royalties. and Verizon Communications Inc.