Do Online Retailers’ Search Results Constitute Trademark Infringement?
Since the inception of the search engine, trademark owners, advertisers, search engine providers, and the courts have struggled with the issue of the use of third-party trademarks in keyword...
View ArticleDo Online Retailers’ Search Results Constitute Trademark Infringement?
Since the inception of the search engine, trademark owners, advertisers, search engine providers, and the courts have struggled with the issue of the use of third-party trademarks in keyword...
View ArticleMarines give Google’s latest robot a tryout as “working dog”
Spot on point: the Boston Dynamics robot prepares to enter a structure as a scout for Marines in an urban combat drill. 4 more images in gallery In a series of drills this week, the Marine Corps tested...
View ArticleAnother Tough Section 230 Ruling For Ripoff Report–Vision Security v. Xcentric
Photo credit: enameled house number two hundred and thirty // ShutterStockMaybe Ripoff Report’s luck in court is finally running out. I recently blogged on a bizarre case in Iowa where the court held...
View ArticleHow Expansive Is the Definition of “Covered Business Method Patent?” (Part 2)
Last week I wrote about institution of a Covered Business Method (CBM) patent post-grant review that seemed to stretch the bounds of the definition of “covered business method.” Here is a case denying...
View ArticleThey Invented What? (No. 4)
Originally posted on Anticipate This!™ | Patent and Trademark Law Blog: U.S. Pat. No. 5,058,833: Spaceship to harness radiations in interstellar flights What I claim is: 1. A craft for flight in the...
View ArticlePatent Subject Matter Eligibility – Impact on Litigation and Prosecution
Personalized medicine relies on diagnostic technologies to accurately evaluate a patient’s clinical or genetic signature to guide treatment decisions. Protecting innovation by patenting the diagnostic...
View ArticleUnabomber’s anti-technology manifesto published 20 years ago
It was 20 years ago Saturday that the world awoke to a strange treatise published in print by The Washington Post. The piece espoused extreme hatred for technology, what the manifesto's author...
View ArticleGreat Scotch! Win Against Counterfeit Whisky Caps in China
How lovely to hear once again from our former guest Kat, bonny Scottish lassie Kate Manning, who is writing specially for our dedicated readers about a topic that is even closer to Scottish hearts than...
View ArticleNever too late: if you missed the IPKat last week ...
Back in the saddle after too long enjoying himself, Katfriend Alberto Bellan has produced the following summaries of last week's substantive Katposts. These will prove really handy for anyone who was...
View ArticleCelebrate inventors and their inventions this weekend in Washington D.C. at...
In December 2014 Fort Worth patent attorney, Damon R. Hickman, was honored to be admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of the United States of America. While in Washington D.C., Mr. Hickman...
View ArticleCan the U.S. Government Infringe a U.S. Patent? (The U.S. Government Says...
Astornet Technologies Inc. v. BAE Systems, Inc., — F.3d —- (Fed. Cir. 2015) Although a patentee can sue the U.S. government for unlicensed use of its invention, Congress requires that those cases be...
View ArticleSymantec employees fired for issuing rogue HTTPS certificate for Google
Symantec has fired an undisclosed number of employees after they were caught issuing unauthorized cryptographic certificates that made it possible to impersonate HTTPS-protected Google webpages. "We...
View ArticleArtificial Nature: Will the astounding become common?
By Robin Hammond From artificial leaves to digital rodent brains, computer scientists are successfully implementing processes from the natural world. Does the Alice ruling on software patentability...
View ArticleVW scandal highlights irony of EPA opposition to vehicle software tinkering
Russ Allison Loar "I personally am deeply sorry that we have broken the trust of our customers and the public,” Volkswagen Chief Executive Officer Martin Winterkorn said in a statement Monday,...
View ArticleIndiana Copyright Litigation: CelebrityCafé.com Dismissed from Copyright...
Indianapolis, Indiana - The Southern District of Indiana has granted a motion by Defendant The Celebrity Café.com, Inc. ("Celebrity") to dismiss the copyright infringement complaint filed by Larry G....
View ArticleNew Open Letter Calls on TPP Negotiators to Stand up for User Safeguards
Copyright restricts all kinds of important, everyday uses of creative works—even worse, these strict rules last nearly two lifetimes for any given work. We are fighting to reform and push back against...
View ArticleSymantec Issues Rogue EV Certificate for Google.com
On Friday, Google reported on its online security blog the faulty issuance of a certificate for google.com and www.google.com by Symantec, a prominent Certificate Authority. This misissuance is...
View ArticleAspen Forum panel explores international Internet regulations, territoriality...
Territoriality has been a difficult aspect of public international law to apply to the Internet and information technology sectors. It’s a central aspect of the current flap between Google and CNIL,...
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