Winter Opportunities Found and Revenue Gained
White chimney smoke circling lazily into blue skies, snowflakes falling softly onto the ground crunching merrily underfoot—ok, hold up a minute. It’s time for a reality check. Yes, those images sound...
View ArticleWelcome Back from Thanksgiving Break – Don’t Do This
Dr. Arunachalam has no chance of winning her now pro se patent case against J.P. Morgan Chase – but the sentiments that he puts forth in his petition for writ of certiorari are felt by many who are...
View ArticleNautilus Surfaces Again at the Supreme Court
Nautilus v. Biosig (Supreme Court 2015) (SCOTUS ROUND II) In Nautilus (2014), the Supreme Court significantly heightened the standard for definiteness in patent cases – now requiring that claim scope...
View ArticleU.S. Copyright Office to Extend Business Hours
The Public Information Office of the Copyright Office is extending its hours on a pilot basis through December 31. On Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays, staff will accept inquiries by telephone from...
View ArticleUS and Brazil enter into Patent Prosecution Highway agreement
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and Brazil’s National Institute for Industrial Property (INPI) have agreed to establish a Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) pilot program. The...
View ArticleHey Reader’s Digest: Your site has been attacking visitors for days
Enlarge (credit: Malwarebytes) An active hacking campaign is forcing Reader's Digest and many other websites to host malicious code that can surreptitiously infect visitors with malware and linger for...
View ArticleIn re Allegiance Staffing – The Rare “Any Other Established Fact”
In this case, the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board reversed the refusal to register Applicant’s ALLEGIANCE STAFFING mark (disclaiming STAFFING) for temporary employment agency service on the basis of...
View ArticleMakers of FIREBALL Whiskey file trademark lawsuit against Jack Daniels
Recently, the makers of the FIREBALL brand whiskey filed a lawsuit against rival Jack Daniels for trademark infringement, unfair competition, and deceptive trade practices under Kentucky law.[1] The...
View ArticlePintrips Emerges with Its “Pin” Intact in Trademark Dispute with Pinterest
In a recent federal district court case in the Northern District of California (Case No. 13-cv-04608-HSG), Pintrips Inc., a website-based travel planning service, effectively pinned to the mat the...
View ArticleThe NFL and the USPTO: "there's so many frigging rules"
Within a post on Tom Brady discussing the Patriots losing to the Broncos Tom Brady is 'pretty pissed off' about loss to Broncos one finds the text:"I don't think I still quite fully understand that....
View ArticleBulk Call Details Records Collection Ends: What that Means
The NSA’s collection en masse of the call detail records of millions of ordinary Americans ended quietly at midnight November 29. The bulk collection was phased out after a 180-day transition period...
View ArticleSumner Redstone Won't Immediately Undergo Examination In Healthcare...
The mogul's ex filed Wednesday to be put in charge of his healthcare, declaring him mentally incompetent, and wanted him medically examined this week.read more
View ArticleArt for Art's $ake?
It is rather depressing to hear that once again Wikimedia is being threatened with a copyright suit for publishing digital images of works of art which are themselves in the public domain. Like the...
View ArticleMBBP’s Life Sciences Vector, Fall 2015
U.S. INTRODUCTION TO THE HAGUE SYSTEM For many years, non-U.S. parties have taken advantage of the Hague System to register their design patents, an important part of strengthening and differentiating...
View ArticleTexas Federal Court Rules “Anti-Competitive” Employment Covenants Do Not...
In a case solely comprised of state-law claims to enforce employment covenants, a United States District Judge in the North District of Texas ruled last week in Leica Microsystems Inc. v. Hernandez et...
View ArticleHacked toymaker leaked gigabytes’ worth of kids’ headshots and chat logs
(credit: Motherboard) VTech, the hacked maker of electronic toys and apps that leaked the data of 4.8 million customers, including hundreds of thousands of children, exposed gigabytes' worth of...
View ArticleA Deeper Look Inside the PECB, Pakistan’s Terrible Cyber-Crime Bill
The Prevention of Electronic Crimes Bill (PECB) has received harsh criticism inside and outside of Pakistan since its radical re-drafting in April of this year. A coalition of Pakistan’s leading online...
View ArticleTHE TROUBLE WITH “LIMPING TRADEMARKS”
By Courtney Adamson The term “limping trademark” was first coined by Justice Jacob in Philips Electronics NV v Remington Consumer Products (1997) 40 IPR 279 to describe a mark that was not capable of...
View ArticleVoltage Pictures Affiliate Clear Skies Nevada Drops Bombs in Oregon over...
This month saw the first Pacific Northwest BitTorrent copyright lawsuits filed in Oregon by Clear Skies Nevada, LLC, which owns the rights to the 2014 film Good Kill. This film concerns a military...
View ArticleRand Paul "plagiarism" issue recycled in "The Wilderness"
Many "high profile" accusations of plagiarism are politically motivated, and a recent post on Buzzfeed falls in this category.Rand Paul’s Chief Strategist Was Writer Behind Senator’s Plagiarism.One...
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