Intellectual Property Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) conducted a live meeting for its Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Emerging Technologies (ET) Partnership Series. Conducting an examiner interview to help teach the examiner the novelty of the innovation using terms and definitions that are unique to the technology field.

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JD Supra Law

DECEMBER 15, 2023

On December 1, the United States Patent and Trademark Office launched the Semiconductor Technology Pilot Program.

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IP and Legal Filings

MARCH 5, 2024

Introduction In today’s digital economy, trademarks play an important role in developing a brand’s identity, establishing customer trust, and assuring market competition. Trademark violation raises significant issues. Cybersquatting is another type of trademark infringement.

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Kashishipr

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

The arrival and emergence of advanced technology, specifically the internet as a search platform, have catapulted the quality of performing a Trademark Search. The same has also led to the creation of advanced strategies for conducting a trademark search. It can be a possible search tool for non-word trademarks.

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JD Supra Law

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) conducted a live meeting for its Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Emerging Technologies (ET) Partnership Series. On September 22, 2022, the U.S.

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JD Supra Law

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) conducted a live meeting for its Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Emerging Technologies (ET) Partnership Series. On September 22, 2022, the U.S.

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JD Supra Law

MAY 10, 2024

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has issued a pivotal guidance document, effective April 11, on the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools within patent and trademark practices. This guidance signals a significant advancement in the integration of this kind of technology in IP-related legal processes.

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IP Watchdog

JANUARY 22, 2024

Supreme Court today denied certiorari to Diamond J Wholesale, LLC, who petitioned the Court in December 2023 to clarify how individual liability for willful trademark infringement by a corporation should be assessed. Republic Technologies (NA), LLC, and Republic Tobacco, L.P.

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 13, 2023

USPTO’s Semiconductor Technology Pilot Program by Yuri L. Eliezer Accelerating Innovation: Navigating the USPTO’s New Path for Semiconductor Patents The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) recently announced an important initiative that could significantly impact the semiconductor industry.

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IPilogue

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Tech giant Apple has recently filed a lawsuit against the United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) and Director Kathi Vidal over the Office’s refusal to register Apple’s “SMART KEYBOARD” trademark based on genericness. Generics cannot have trademark protection. A string of refusals. Apple is not giving up.

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Plagiarism Today

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

The same day that the RIAA sent its cease and deist letter to Hitpiece, Nike filed a trademark infringement lawsuit against reseller StockX over Nike-themed NFTs. This legal reckoning will hurt, but if the technology and its supporters can survive it and adjust, it may wind up being the best thing that happened to it. Bottom Line.

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JD Supra Law

MAY 3, 2024

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is requesting public comment on how they can accelerate and incentivize the commercialization of innovative technologies. Public comments can be submitted via this link by May 14, 2024. By: Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

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JD Supra Law

DECEMBER 8, 2023

The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) launched the Semiconductor Technology Pilot Program on December 1, 2023 for patent applications for processes or apparatuses for manufacturing semiconductor devices.

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JD Supra Law

AUGUST 3, 2021

Two titans of the American automotive industry are locking horns over branding for automated driving technologies, underscoring the importance of brand clearance before marketing and selling a new product or technology.

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Olartemoure Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2023

008742 which develops and establishes not only the terms but also the form and content for the registration of technology import contracts before the entity. Such contracts include -among others- technology licenses, trademarks or patents, as well as technical assistance or service contracts, or basic engineering contracts.

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IP Watchdog

DECEMBER 16, 2021

The past year has seen the implementation of brand-new trademark legislation, significant analysis of trademark liability for new technologies, renewed focus on the doctrine of initial interest confusion, the transformation of Nikes into “Satan Shoes,” the functionality of chocolate dipped cookies, and the end to a long-running case involving two multi-million (..)

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IP Tech Blog

MARCH 8, 2024

Over the past several months, we have seen an increase in notices from alleged trademark firms. I am writing to you on behalf of the legal department of [Trademark Firm]. We have received an application for the registration of the trademark “[ recipient company name ]”. We kindly request that you respond to us promptly.

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JD Supra Law

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Company H claimed that the “S” branded engines used in the motorboats it produced came from a lawful source and were used in a proper procedure, and that it had the right to make derivative use of the purchased engines, and that its use of the trademark “S” did not constitute trademark infringement.

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BYU Copyright Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The Trustees of The Stevens Institute of Technology et al.) involves a professional photographer from New Jersey, referred to herein as David Oppenheimer or simply “Oppenheimer,” and the Stevens Institute of Technology (the “Institute”)—a nonprofit institution also situated in New Jersey. This legal case (Oppenheimer v.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 6, 2023

Leonel Lops claims a trademark in the term “Confidence Empire” for shoes. He sued YouTube for allegedly infringing his trademark and sought “$1 billion in damages, $2 million in costs, at least $500 million in punitive damages, and temporary and permanent injunctive relief.” ” Cites to Yout v. .’

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 22, 2023

The Court refused to read the prima facie presumption of validity of trademarks in favour of the plaintiff. ” The Trademark Registry ought to be pro-active in declining the registrations of such marks. This will deter the trademark owners from investing in such weak marks.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Emojico has trademark registrations in the word “emoji” for a ridiculously broad range of product categories–from (I’m not making this up) ship hulls to penis enlargers–and it then licenses the word to product manufacturers and defendants ensnared in its enforcement net. ” That’s true.

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IP Tech Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Is this the time we can really see a change in the fight against Chinese trademark squatters, or are we just adding burdens to legitimate right holders? The China National Intellectual Property Association (CNIPA) has recently published a draft amendment to the Chinese Trademark Law.

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Erik K Pelton

MAY 24, 2021

The following is an edited transcript of my video, Can You Change a Trademark? But what about trademark filings, and whether or not the marks in those filings can change. When a trademark application has been filed or registered at the USPTO, generally only very, very small changes will be allowed. The answer is generally no.

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Corsearch

DECEMBER 7, 2023

As a space inundated with trademark complexities, regulatory issues, a saturated marketplace, intense counterfeiting issues, and much more, the pharmaceutical industry represents perhaps the most complex area of trademark law.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 8, 2022

[Today, Betsy Rosenblatt, Rebecca Tushnet and I sent the following letter to Congress on behalf of 26 trademark academics (here’s a PDF version ). academics with expertise in trademark law. FN: Although the INFORM Act does not address directly trademark law, its provisions partially overlap with the SHOP SAFE Act.

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Patent Trademark Blog

MAY 4, 2023

Can you trademark a feature of a product? Ever notice the packaging of a product touting a beneficial feature or some new technology? Can you trademark the name of an ingredient, component or feature of a product? Yes, it is possible to register a trademark for features. Need to trademark a product feature?

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 11, 2024

INTRODUCTION Trademarks are vital part of modern day commerce because they act as distinctive and unique symbols that enable consumers to recognise and distinguish goods and services offered by different providers. Image Sources: Shutterstock] The primary legislative basis for smell trademark regulation in the US is the Lanham Act.

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JD Supra Law

AUGUST 18, 2021

For the second part of our Intellectual Property series, we take a look at trademarks. Trademarks are not generally considered "technology", but the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office ("PTO") is charged with administering them along with patents. In our first part of this series, we provided a brief primer on patents.

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IPilogue

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Interestingly, Apple first filed the trademark for Dynamic Island with the Jamaican Intellectual Property Office (“JIPO”) back in July before filing it in the U.S. In this case, Apple filed the trademark application for Dynamic Island on July 12, 2022, in Jamaica, a member of the Paris Convention which recognizes the right of priority.

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JD Supra Law

DECEMBER 4, 2023

On November 30, 2023, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) announced a new pilot program for applicants to freely expedite examinations of applications directed to semiconductor manufacturing, including innovations that increase semiconductor device production, reduce semiconductor manufacturing costs, and strengthen the semiconductor (..)

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JD Supra Law

JULY 28, 2023

Patent and Trademark Office to reject patent applications directed to biotechnology-related inventions, held (In re Brana) that utility of such inventions did not require demonstration of therapeutic effectiveness, those determinations being the purview of the FDA. In earlier times, the Federal Circuit, responding to efforts by the U.S.

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U.S. Department of Commerce

MARCH 7, 2023

Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). In my current role, I am the principal advisor to the Chief Information Officer (CIO) and responsible for managing day-to-day Office of the Chief Information (OCIO) operations with significant oversight on information technology (IT) stabilization and modernization efforts. Bureaus and Offices U.S.

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IP and Legal Filings

OCTOBER 23, 2023

E-commerce platforms have produced new kinds of purchasing experiences for customers by combining the forces of technology, competitive price offerings, exciting deals, and quick delivery. Effective trademark enforcement is essential in this situation for protecting the goodwill and financial interests of legitimate businesses.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 18, 2022

Patent and Trademark Office Patent and Appeal Board (PTAB) on behalf of Hamilton Technologies LLC in an inter partes review patent challenge regarding life-saving mechanical ventilation systems. ” The case, Hamilton Technologies LLC v. ” The case, Hamilton Technologies LLC v. Fleur Tehrani, P.T.A.B.,

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

The rightsowner has trademark registrations for the tree-shaped outline: Armed with protectable rights in tree outlines, Car-Freshner has turned into a serial plaintiff, though this is my first time blogging them in-depth. I see potential legitimate trademark defenses for the design. This ruling highlights the legal risk.

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SpicyIP

MAY 18, 2022

She works in a law firm that advises technology companies. Trademarks and the Metaverse: Imaginary Rights or Real Wrongs? World over companies are rushing to protect their trademarks in the online, virtual environment – the metaverse. The views expressed in this post are personal. Aparajita Lath. Image from here. Feb 25, 2022.

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