Patently-O

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

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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TraskBritt Intellectual Property

JUNE 10, 2021

An applicant secures a patent after successfully prosecuting the patent application at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). When the USPTO believes an application embodies an invention worthy of a patent, the USPTO grants a Notice of Allowance. Patentability Search.

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Patent Trademark Blog

MARCH 18, 2022

This is where trademarks play a role. Unlike patents, the role of a trademark is not to signify something new, but rather to indicate the source of the product or service. Trademarks can last indefinitely. Unlike patents, trademarks do not necessarily need to be registered in order to be protectable.

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Patent Trademark Blog

MARCH 13, 2024

If the request for an ex parte reexamination is granted, the remaining proceeding will be conducted between the patent owner and the USPTO. The outcome of a patent reexamination may vary. Claims in the reexamined patent may be canceled, amended or unchanged.

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 26, 2023

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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SpicyIP

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

The court held that considering the defendants have been in the market, and the matter is not a case of counterfeiting but of allegedly deceptively similar trademarks, it is appropriate that the defendant is given an opportunity to respond against the ad interim injunction application. Emami Ltd.

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IP Spotlight

APRIL 1, 2020

The newly-enacted Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act provides patent and trademark applicants the opportunity for temporary relief from certain deadlines as more and more businesses face mandatory shutdowns due to effects of COVID-19. Patent and trademark filing extensions.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Discussing the Recent Patent Application Restorations by Delhi and Madras High Courts. We discussed the recent orders from Delhi and Madras High Court regarding restoration of ‘deemed abandoned’ patent applications. Delhi High Court declared ITC’s ‘Bukhara’ to be a well-known trademark. Image from here.

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 21, 2021

The Trademark Modernization Act of 2020 (“TMA”) becomes effective on December 27, 2021 and makes several important amendments to federal trademark law (the Lanham Act) intended to modernize trademark application examinations and clean house of trademark registrations for marks not used in commerce.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 30, 2023

important;}} The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) grants hundreds of new patents every week, showcasing developments in technology and innovation. In our Interesting Patents series, we highlight exciting US patent applications and patents recently issued by the USPTO.

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SpicyIP

JULY 17, 2023

Who’s Filing These Patents, and Are They Working Alright? Looking at the Data from the IPO Annual Reports Patent filings and grants are at an all-time high in India. But who are the parties filing these patent applications? And are these granted patents commercially worked in India? And Anr vs Twin Parts Pvt.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 17, 2023

From conflicting positions on AI as a co-author of a work to the contours of information required u/s 39 about the patent applications filed abroad, we had some engaging posts on this blog this week. Highlights of the Week By Whom and How Are Our Patent Examiners Being Recruited?

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

discuss recent post-grant developments at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). The article examines the USPTO’s updated guidance regarding Fintiv , the Director review process, applicant admitted prior art, proposed legislation, and more. Attorneys Nicholas Stephens and Casey Kraning, Ph.D.

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SpicyIP

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Tejaswini writes on this order by the Division Bench and its subsequent acknowledgment by the court, highlighting how this order can correct the practice of granting unfair ex parte ad-interim interim injunctions in Trademark litigation disputes. Preliminary Exams for the Recruitment of Patent and Designs Examiners Cancelled!

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SpicyIP

AUGUST 14, 2023

Praharsh wrote on the Delhi High Court’s Division Bench order staying the operation of the Single Judge’s direction in Vifor “Product by Process Claims” case and on the Oppositions Status Report filed by the Trademark Registry before the Delhi High Court. Modern Foods v. Case: Google v. DRS Logistics (P) Ltd. &

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SpicyIP

APRIL 30, 2023

Discussing the Relevance of the Responses Filed Against FERs Issued by Trademark Registry Image from here Is FER and its Reply relevant after a mark is registered? The petitioner had filed a rectification petition seeking cancellation of the Defendant’s deceptively similar mark “Burger King”. Done, so Dusted?

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2023

9,593,066 (“the ’066 patent”) which covers its own approved NDA (No. United Therapeutics filed another patent application that issued as U.S. 10,716,793 (“the ’793 patent”) which was joined to the district court litigation. a therapeutically effective single event dose of a formulation containing treprostinil.”

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SpicyIP

MAY 15, 2023

Delhi High Court Sets Aside 3 Orders from the Patent Office and the Trademark Registry, in 1 day! Image from here The Delhi High Court has recently been remanding back a lot of unreasoned orders from the IP Offices rejecting a patent or trademark application. Case: Holyland Marketing Pvt.

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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 case was discussed on the blog here. The Microsoft Technology Licensing judgement was passed by a Single Judge Bench of Justice Sanjeev Narula.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Calcutta High Court allowed an application for rectification directing the Trademarks Registrar to cancel the registration granted to and remove the impugned mark ‘Neemyle’. Delhi District court decreed a suit regarding infringement of trademark and restrained the Defendant from using deceptively similar mark ‘Kamaksh’.

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 13, 2023

9,593,066 (“the ’066 patent”) which covers its own approved NDA (No. United Therapeutics filed another patent application that issued as U.S. 10,716,793 (“the ’793 patent”) which was joined to the district court litigation. group) of pulmonary hypertension patient. .”

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

In calendar year (CY) 2021, the total number of post-grant petitions in the biopharma space, which we define as petitions involving United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Technology Center 1600 patents, was 100, which accounted for ~7% of all petitions filed. Abolishing the Patent Trial and Appeal Board.

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Case Summaries Delhi High Court cancels a registered mark on the basis of an unregistered similar device mark. on 30 January, 2023 (Delhi High Court) Can a registered trademark be cancelled on the basis of an unregistered similar device mark? Case: Raj Kumar Sharma vs Sandeep Kumar & Anr. Case: Jindal Stainless (Hisar) Ltd.

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