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Trade Secrets:
Trade secrets protection is a timely topic.
Over the past few years the relevant laws and business landscape have changed dramatically.
The ... Read More »
Previous posts (e.g., here and here) have discussed trademarks that are “merely descriptive” of the goods or services. Although the registration... Read More »
Written by Peter E. Heuser, Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C.
In Smart Systems v. Chicago Transit Authority, the Circuit affirms the dismissal of a case based ... Read More »
Written by Caleb A. Bates, Ph.D., Peter Law and Eric Furman, Ph.D.
Sovereign immunity refers to the doctrine that the government cannot be sued without its... Read More »
Written by Peter E. Heuser, Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C.
The Circuit affirms the decision in Secured Mail v. Universal to dismiss an infringement case... Read More »
Written by Lauren Hockett and Vlad Teplitskiy
Since 2014, the USPTO has periodically issued examination guidance, analysis examples, and other insights to... Read More »
In Amgen, Inc. v. Sanofi, Appeal no. 2017-1480 (Fed. Cir., Oct. 5, 2017) the Fed. Cir. panel reversed the district court’s finding that Amgen antibody patents... Read More »
In the first nine months of 2017, we saw a continued decline in patent litigation. District court litigation was down 15 percent to 2,921, compared to 3,418 in the... Read More »
Several new green patent complaints were filed in July and August in the areas of advanced batteries, electrolyzers for sewage treatment, LED lighting, eco-friendly... Read More »
Sitting en banc, a fractured Federal Circuit (Appeal no. 2015-1177 (Fed. Cir., Oct. 4, 2017)) released 140+ pages comprising five separate opinions (7 Judges... Read More »
Broadest Reasonable Does not Mean Broadest Possible!
The USPTO applies a broadest reasonable claim interpretation (BRI) to patents and patent applications. The... Read More »
Written by Jane Xia, Brenden S. Gingrich, Ph.D., and Joseph Reisman, Ph.D.
The U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware recently handed down two important ... Read More »
Written by Peter E. Heuser, Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C.
In almost 150 pages and five separate opinions, a majority of an en banc Circuit remands to the... Read More »
A computer and technology policy is an important part of protecting and managing intellectual property. A business should consider establishing a policy that... Read More »
Written by Ben J. Everton and David T. Kim
The PTAB denied institution of Covered Business Method (CBM) Review, finding that the parties’ license agreement... Read More »
Last week, we released the names of the five most active companies in IPR. However, the most active ones are not necessarily the best performing. This week, we have... Read More »
In an interesting case at the intersection of patent and trademark law, as well as that of functionality and branding, Change Wind Corporation (Change) has lost its... Read More »
Written by Peter E. Heuser - Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt P.C.
In In Re Cray, the panel grants Cray’s petition for a writ of mandamus, ruling that the... Read More »
Last September we released the top 25 petitioners in IPRs. Apple was atop the list with almost 5 percent of all cases filed. We reviewed all IPR cases again this year ... Read More »
Written by Marc Chatenay-Lapointe, Ph.D. and Agnes Juang, Ph.D.
The recent district court ruling in INO Therapeutics LLC et al v. Praxair Distribution, Inc. et al ... Read More »
