LexBlog IP

MARCH 13, 2024

Nevertheless, most commenters disfavored new, NFT-specific laws to address trademark infringement both because NFT technology is still evolving rapidly and because many federal court cases involving these issues are still pending and will likely provide answers regarding whether existing trademark laws are sufficient.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 10, 2023

Given the complexities involved in obtaining a patent, hiring a remote patent attorney can offer significant advantages. Trademarks A trademark is a word, phrase, symbol, or design that identifies and distinguishes the source of goods or services.

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Patently-O

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The USPTO argued that this new address requirement was needed to help enforce its parallel new rule mandating that foreign applicants retain U.S. Other potential examples: Requiring that every application include a signed statement from the inventor explaining their contribution in detail, or face immediate abandonment.

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IIPRD

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The first and the foremost question which crosses our minds is that does the digital assets in the virtual reality fall under the category of “Goods” under trademark law, and who should be held liable for infringement when the infringer is unknown. With the growing number of patent applications, the risk is also increasing.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 19, 2023

Conducting a search for competitor patents prior to committing to a substantial investment in a product can minimize wasted time and money associated with product takedown proceedings and lawsuits by providing the seller an opportunity to design around identified patents. on Amazon or elsewhere) or otherwise publicizing the product.

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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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IPilogue

JANUARY 14, 2022

Around the world, patent registrars grappled with patent applications that credit artificial intelligence software as the inventor. Dr. Stephen Thaler’s “DABUS” (Device for Autonomous Bootstrapping of Unified Sentience) applied for patents around the world for its interlocking food containers. Trademark Law.

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Kashishipr

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Today, several generic terms that we use, such as ‘escalator,’ ‘xerox,’ ‘cellophane,’ sound common but were once protected as trademarks. Interestingly, in these cases, the trademark owner itself/himself misused the trademark as the generic name of the product in advertising and Patent Applications.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Similar reasoning applied to statements about licensing a pending patent (application). The statement didn’t necessarily or unambiguously convey that Elysium had submitted an NDI notification; summary judgment was appropriate. Materiality: Here, the court concludes that extrinsic evidence of materiality is not separately required.

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Part III: "Rethinking Copyright and Trademark Law" Part III provides four chapters, three from a copyright perspective and one addressing trade mark.

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IP and Legal Filings

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

The Industrial and Commercial Bank of China’s blockchain patent application, which included a system used to improve the efficiency of certificate issuance and save users from repetitively filing the same document on multiple platforms, was one of the first known blockchain patent applications.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 12, 2023

I briefly mentioned Abitron here recently , but it deserves more attention in the context of defining the boundaries of US trademark laws and just on the notion of defining words. First, the patent applicant used inconsistent definitions of the term “downloadable.” Let’s look at them in turn.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 23, 2023

The Appellant had alleged that despite filing detailed written submissions addressing the objection against the patentability of the invention under Section 2(1)(j) as raised in the examination report, the Respondent issued a cryptic order rejecting the patent application.

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The IP Law Blog

JANUARY 12, 2023

Such inventions may be protectable under federal patent laws. An inventor must secure a patent application within a very short period of time to prevent the work from falling into the public domain.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 30, 2023

The judgement was passed in a writ petition filed by Natco Pharma against the Controller’s order granting Novartis a patent for a form of the Valsartan-Sacubitril complex, after conducting a unilateral hearing excluding Natco therefrom. The case was discussed on the blog here.

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SpicyIP

APRIL 30, 2023

The court agreed with the petitioner’s arguments and also found that the explanation of reverse deduction by the defendant, for the coinage of the mark, if accepted, will trivialize the trademark law. Case: Honeywell International Inc Vs The Controller General Of Patents on 19 April, 2023 (Delhi High Court) Image from here.

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