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Can You Use Color Drawings or Photographs in Utility Patent Applications?

LexBlog IP

Can you file the utility patent application with the color drawings or photographs? Typically, the drawings in a utility patent application are submitted in black and white. Color drawings are not permitted in international patent applications (see PCT Rule 11.13). The answer is YES! See 37 C.F.R.

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Can You Copyright or Trademark a Logo Designed by AI?

LexBlog IP

The legal world is buzzing about AI and its use for all kinds of things, including generating logos, text, and other things people would normally want to register for copyright or trademark protection. For starters, Bob’s Burgers is already a trademark belonging to someone else. Can you use it in the ways you want to?

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Governance and Supervision of Trademark and Patent Agents: Discussing DHC’s Saurav Chaudhary vs. Union Of India

SpicyIP

underscored that there is a need to supervise or govern patent and trademark agents. This post discusses the case and argues that there already exists a mechanism under the Patent and trademark laws that govern and supervise such agents.

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TTAB Orders Cancellation of Safety Helmet Registrations Due to Lack of Acquired Distinctiveness

The TTABlog

In a whopping 163-page opinion, the Board granted a petition for cancellation of two registrations for the configuration of safety helmets, rejecting Petitioner Honeywell's Section 2(e)(5) functionality claim but sustaining Honeywell's claim of lack of acquired distinctiveness. Cancellation No. referred to as the "Ridge Designs").

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How to Expedite Trademark Application: When and how can you speed up your trademark examination process?

Patent Trademark Blog

Can you expedite a US trademark application? The short answer is probably not if your circumstances would be applicable to most applicants. While it’s not impossible, bumping up a US trademark application can only occur under very limited circumstances. You can subtract items from the old registration.

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Joint Inventorship: AI-Human Style

Patently-O

Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) recently published examination guidance and a request for comments on the treatment of inventorship for inventions created with the assistance of artificial intelligence (AI) systems. patents and patent applications. Claims without a human inventor should be cancelled.

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (March 4-March 10)

SpicyIP

In this tidbit, Yogesh discusses the longstanding controversy regarding the CCI’s overlapping jurisdiction in patent disputes and the issues upon which the Supreme Court will adjudicate. The Court held that the pendency of a rectification application, even if filed by a third party, justifies a stay under Section 124.