U.S. patent office considers Apple's D'677 iPhone design patent...
Interesting things are still happening from time to time in connection with the generally much less interesting patent dispute between Apple and Samsung. Three months after the United States Court of...
View ArticleGraffiti Artist Sues Jeremy Scott and Moschino
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View ArticleLimited Time Offer: 30% off of Lynda.com Memberships
All lynda.com memberships are 30% off starting today, August 18th, through August 24th. Lynda.com has long been a great resource for photographers. Get access to this great content, including the Photo...
View ArticleSky is still blue for Skype trademark in Europe
In the decision dated 5th May, 2015, the General Court of the European Union concluded, upon examining the opposition by British SKY Broadcasting Group Plc (now SKY International) against Skype Ultd,...
View ArticleEmployment Agreement Breach: Failure to Assign Can’t be Fixed Because of...
Personalized User Model and Konig v. Google (Fed. Cir. 2015) This case involves a fascinating set of back-door dealings. While Konig was employed at the non-profit research institute SRI, he started a...
View ArticleWhatever You Write, Sell It
Last week while I was traveling, John Scalzi put up a long blog entry on the state of his writing earnings. The analysis compares his latest novel with an earlier analysis he did about 18 months ago...
View ArticleMBBP Attorneys Travel to the University of North Carolina for Patriot Boot Camp
When Charlotte Creech, Operations Director of Patriot Boot Camp contacted MBBP attorneys Scott Connolly and Joe Martinez to serve as volunteer mentors, they were eager to accept. Charlotte whose...
View ArticleSome of the buzz on the re-exam of Apple's design patent 618,677 is wrong
There's some buzz about a non-final Office Action in an ex parte re-exam on Apple's D'677. For example USPTO Invalidates One of Apple's iPhone Design Patents in Apple vs. Samsung LawsuitThe headline at...
View ArticleGoogle loses appeal at CAFC in PERSONALIZED USER MODEL v. Google: lessons...
From the decision:Google Inc. (“Google”) appeals from the decision of theUnited States District Court for the District of Delawaregranting judgment as a matter of law in favor of PersonalizedUser...
View ArticleApple Design Patent Rejected in Reexamination by USPTO
Earlier this month the Central Reexamination Unit of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) issued a non-final rejection of an Apple design patent at the center of their never-ending...
View ArticleDr. Dre, Ice Cube Demand Out of Wrongful Death Lawsuit Over Suge Knight Killing
Public policy can't possibly demand "tolerating the presence of a dangerous and violent criminal with a grudge," argues a motion.read more
View ArticleCompany pays FCC $750,000 for blocking Wi-Fi hotspots at conventions
A Wi-Fi service provider has agreed to pay the Federal Communications Commission $750,000 for blocking personal mobile hotspots used by convention visitors and exhibitors so they could avoid paying the...
View ArticleThe Secret to Quicker Posts
No, the ED Tex hasn't been quiet lately - my computer has just been on its last legs. I could cut my dictation in stone quicker than I can dictate it at present. I was considering going back to haiku...
View ArticleWhy patent trolls go to East Texas, explained
Recent changes to patent law have made it easier to beat patent trolls, but it hasn't made the patent hotspot of East Texas any quieter. In fact, it's been in the news more. Massive numbers of patent...
View ArticleWill Hollywood's Whining Thwart Better TPP Copyright Rules?
As far as secret, corporate-driven trade agreements go, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a particularly terrible deal for users, not least because it empowers Hollywood and other big publishers...
View ArticleA vessel of trust.
– Aaron Keller, Managing Principal, Capsule Capsule, specifically Aaron and two co-authors, have been deep in the murky waters of writing a book on the physics of brand. Yes, physics, likely the only...
View ArticleHR Lessons to Be Learned From DeflateGate
One of the bombshells in the DeflateGate saga was the revelation that Tom Brady had his cell phone destroyed shortly before meeting with the National Football League’s investigators. According to the...
View ArticleMicro Entities Rising Popularity
The patent statute now provides for three categories of patent applicants: Large entities, Small Entities, and Micro Entities. As their names suggest, the groupings are largely defined by entity size...
View ArticlePatentlyo Bits and Bytes by Anthony McCain
Steve Brachmann: Lexus Develops a Functional Levitating Hoverboard Dennis Green: Why Converse Sneakers Have Fuzzy Bottoms Donald Zuhn: Ferrum Ferro Files Motion To Strike Allergan’s Complaint Alleging...
View ArticleWarrantless airport laptop search dooms Iran arms sales prosecution
Federal prosecutors asked a federal judge in Washington on Tuesday to dismiss the government's prosecution of a South Korean businessman accused of illegally selling technology used in aircraft and...
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