Sentences with phrase «trademark office ruled»

Apple took a major step this week toward getting out of its $ 533 million payment to the patent troll Smartflash LLC after the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office ruled that two of three patents owned by Smartflash are invalid.

Notorious patent troll Personal Audio LLC did not invent adding episodic content to a webpage, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office ruled in an April 10 decision that's...

Specifically, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office ruled that the trademark violates a provision of the Trademark Act of 1946, which «prohibits registration of marks that may disparage persons or bring them into contempt or disrepute.»

America takes its trademark authority seriously, and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office rules surrounding the registration and use of trademarks are rigorously enforced.

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China's top court has ruled in favor of French fashion house Christian Dior in a perfume bottle trademark case, and rapped the local trademark office for rejecting an application by the firm.

In addition to giving Collins's side of the debate a boost, this high - level endorsement of the Bermuda rules may have an impact on discussions within the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO).

Feng and colleagues Robert Desimone, director of the McGovern Institute, and MIT professor Feng Zhang, a co-inventor of the CRISPR technology (pending U.S. Patent and Trademark Office investigation and ruling), are working with Chinese researchers to develop CRISPR - modified macaques — a monkey found in many Old World environments — to model human schizophrenia and autism.

On November 14th 2017, the Court affirmed the March 31st 2017 ruling by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board of the United States Patent and Trademark Office, invalidating all patent claims in United Therapeutics» key patent covering its products Remodulin, Tyvaso, and Orenitram.

Listen up, IP geeks: Bill Heinze posted a key update on new rules for patent applications fees proposed by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

Many patent lawyers were dancing the Papelbon jig last week after a federal judge in Virginia entered an injunction against new U.S. Patent and Trademark Office continuation rules.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled today in a split decision that the Patent and Trademark Office did not overstep its authority in adopting a set of new rules that some intellectual property lawyers say fundamentally alter patent practice and threaten innovation.

In a recent decision, a three - judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) acted properly in issuing a final decision as to some — but not all — claims challenged in...

An exception to this rule is found in the Regulation respecting the language of commerce and business, which provides the public posting of a trademark may be done exclusively in a language other than French, unless a French version of the mark has been registered with the Canadian Intellectual Property Office.

He also has an important post that you really should read if you use Trademark Electronic Application System, or TEAS, in your work: The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is proposing a couple of rule changes, including a provision for TEAS users who want «to file a trademark or service mark application for registration on the Principal Register under section 1 and / or 44 of the act to pay a reduced fee under certain circumstanceTrademark Electronic Application System, or TEAS, in your work: The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is proposing a couple of rule changes, including a provision for TEAS users who want «to file a trademark or service mark application for registration on the Principal Register under section 1 and / or 44 of the act to pay a reduced fee under certain circumstanceTrademark Office is proposing a couple of rule changes, including a provision for TEAS users who want «to file a trademark or service mark application for registration on the Principal Register under section 1 and / or 44 of the act to pay a reduced fee under certain circumstancetrademark or service mark application for registration on the Principal Register under section 1 and / or 44 of the act to pay a reduced fee under certain circumstances.»

A patent application attorney specializes in the rules and regulations set forth by the USPTO (United States Patent and Trademark Office) for obtaining patents for inventions.

• This magnum opus on the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's interim rules on the Cooperative Research and Technology Enhancement (CREATE) Act of 2004.

On April 1, 2016, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office published final rules modifying some procedures used in AIA trials before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB).

Barclay Damon sued on behalf of the innovator, won favorable claim construction rulings in district court, and defended the validity of the patents at issue in reexamination proceedings before the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued proposed rules for the implementation of portions of the America Invents Act relating to the post-grant review and inter partes review of patents and to the conduct of trials before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board regarding such review.

On May 9, 2018, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) released a proposed rule change regarding the future of claim construction during post grant proceedings at the USPTO.

The U.S. Supreme Court, in Cuozzo Speed Technologies v. Lee, 2 is considering the propriety of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's («PTO») rule that, during inter partes review («IPR»), patent claims receive their «broadest reasonable interpretation» («BRI»)

Joyce litigated some of the Animal Legal Defense Fund's earliest cases, including a 1981 lawsuit that halted the U.S. Navy's plan to kill 5,000 feral burros, and a 1988 challenge to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's rule allowing the patenting of genetically altered animals.

In a First Amendment win with many future implications — most immediately for the Washington Redskins football team — the Supreme Court has ruled that the First Amendment does not allow the Patent and Trademark Office to withhold trademark protection from a rock band because it considers its name to be possibly racially disparaging (or self - dispTrademark Office to withhold trademark protection from a rock band because it considers its name to be possibly racially disparaging (or self - disptrademark protection from a rock band because it considers its name to be possibly racially disparaging (or self - disparaging).

The latest decision in the Apple v. Samsung case followed the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's nonfinal ruling that a patent issued for the design of the iPhone was invalid on several grounds.

San Francisco, California — The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) won a court ruling today affirming that an infamous podcasting patent used by a patent troll to threaten podcasters big and small was properly held invalid by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

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