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Response to Request for Quote Held Commercial Offer for Sale, and Invention Invalid

JD Supra Law

the Federal Circuit held that a catheter insertion design patent was invalid because the claimed design was offered for sale more than a year before the design patent application was filed. Medical Components, Inc., By: Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

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It’s Not Going to Be (Y)easy: What Happens when Business Collaborations Dissolve?

IPilogue

(“Mascotte”), owns a portfolio of 160 trademark applications in the US connected to the “Yeezy” brand, Adidas solely owns all design rights to existing products, as well as previous and new colorways under the partnership. Adidas reportedly intends to take advantage of its design rights by selling the Yeezy sneakers using its own branding.

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Tokenization of intellectual property for IP rights management

The IPKat

Tokenization of IP In a nutshell, "tokenization" means using a smart contract (i.e., The process of creating a digital asset with a smart contract is called "minting". The result is that the smart contract allows you to represent any IP, e.g., trademarks, designs, patents or copyrights, with a token.

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Prefiling Offer by Business Partner Dooms Patent

Patently-O

Design Patent No. D450,839 looks like a set of clown feet (image below), but, in actuality it covers “the ornamental design for a handle for introducer sheath” and is used as part of a medical catheter kit. The parties agree that the products described in the letter embody the design that was later patented.

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What CannI Say? Litigating Cannabis Patents In District Court

LexBlog IP

Cannabis remains federally illegal and thus, attempts to enforce patents against competitors in federal court were doomed to fail under the illegality doctrine. For example, a contract used to hire thieves to rob a bank couldn’t be enforced by a court of law for the purpose of robbing the bank. 2:21-cv-08756-JWH-SHK, ECF No.

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China Joins the Hague International Design System for the International Registration of Industrial Designs

LexBlog IP

On February 05, 2022, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) announced that China had joined the Hague International Design System (the Hague System) that allows registering up to 100 designs in 94 countries through one international application. [1] 1] See [link]. [2] 2] See , [link].

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trolling over gnomes--no, really--on Amazon

43(B)log

6, 2021) (R&R) Shenzhen sought a declaratory judgment that a design patent for a toy gnome figurine was unenforceable and invalid, given that defendant/counter-plaintiff Tatiana Mironova allegedly purchased its stuffed gnome toys, then switched manufacturers and obtained a patent for an identical ornamental design without authorization.