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Candy Crush Saga is one of the most popular mobile games ever; On the last count, the game had been played more than 150 billion times and had 500 million users downloading it.

The slide switch predates my life in electronics. Having a virtual slide switch on a screen is still a slide switch, just like changing the colour of the plastic on a mechanical one doesn't change the patent that applies.

For the first time in years, the USPTO has published a precedential ruling of the Director: In re P.T. Polymindo Permata , 109 USPQ2d 1256, 1257-58 , in which the Director, exercising supervisory authority under Trademark Rule 2.146 , reversed the holding of abandonment in two applications.

The U.S. Copyright Office will host a Copyright Matters program in connection with World Intellectual Property Day at 1:45 p.m. on Wednesday, April 23, in the Coolidge Auditorium of the Library of Congress, located on the ground floor of the Thomas Jefferson Building, 10 First Street, SE, Washington, D.C. The event is free and open to the public; ... (more)

Peter Arhangelsky: 'A broad decision against POM could upset the apple cart and ripple into the consumer class action realm' As POM Wonderful squares up with Coca-Cola at the Supreme Court in a high-profile false advertising case, one leading food law attorney says a broad win for Coca-Cola could have significant repercussions for the trade.

The U.S. Patent & Trademark Office issued the trademark "Le Vian Exotics" to Le Vian Corporation of Great Neck, New York on April 15 with the registration number 4514707.

Months after he left the Texas law firm at which he was a name partner to form his own boutique, an intellectual property practitioner says it still hasn't given him all of the money to which he is entitled.

I am humbled by vast stretches of gray area in the field of patents I see as I sit in on the second big Apple v.

After reading the beautiful words of Barbara Bloom in the JT about her late husband, Leonard Bloom, I had to add a tribute to my friend.

Alfred Culbreth Announces -- American Premium Water Corporation "APWC" Has Filed Trademark Application for L'Alpina 9.5pH Water The application was filed on April.

Colleges and universities have been amassing a trove of registered trademarks in recent years-and not just for the traditional marks that represent their names and athletic team insignias.

Google has filed a new patent application with the U.S. Patent Office for a contact lens, which comes embedded with a tiny camera.

The regional U.S. Patent Office planned at San Jose City Hall won't be a direct financial windfall for the city, but it will be huge for the local economy -- all of the Bay Area, actually.

Spring Consulting Group announced today that they have been issued U.S. Patent No.

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on Wednesday published two Apple patent applications , both titled "Gesture entry techniques," that together form the basis of a device unlocking feature in which a user draws a pattern on screen with the help of illuminated discs.

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is lining up sources of IT services to meet the storage, engineering and virtualization demands from a huge upsurge in the number of patent applications it anticipates will be filed in the next three years.

Recently, Hal Wegner has been circulating and commenting upon the qualifications of patent law professors.

A few weeks back, the USPTO published TiVo's latest patent: Program Shortcuts , which is effectively an update to their 2009 patent .

NeuroVive , a leading mitochondrial medicine company, is presenting a breakthrough in the company's work on energy regulation at the cellular level.