Patent / Trademark Law News

Welcome to the wacky world of tech patents-a place where you'll find not just the crazy-sounding ideas that inhabit any category of patents granted by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office , but some ideas that seem so minute or so obvious that you wonder how they ever qualified as patentworthy.

It focuses on the research, discovery and development of therapeutic drugs for the treatment of chronic respiratory and inflammatory diseases.

This patent expands the applicability of NTE Hybrid's groundbreaking hybrid technology to non-combined cycle fossil fuel fired power plants, including coal, oil and natural gas fired facilities.

The United States government claims 100% ownership over all your DNA and reproductive rights.

That's disruptive, and not even fair. Because, by the nature of patents, there's always been tons of prior art.

We all get frustrated. After an examiner rejected his client's application for a telescoping tripod sprinkler, patent attorney Andrew Schroeder could no longer resist and filed the following remarks: REMARKS: Are you drunk? No, seriously...are you drinking scotch and whiskey with a side of crack cocaine while you "examine" patent applications? Do ... (more)

Using information gathered from the After Final Consideration Pilot , as well as input from stakeholders and examiners obtained through the RCE outreach initiative, the USPTO will launch the After Final Consideration Pilot 2.0 on May 19, 2013.

DALLAS Dr Pepper, one of the giant names in soft drink history, appears to have its eyes set on the little guy.

Based on documents submitted to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Jaguar may name the all-wheel-drive compact crossover it has in the works the XQ, and call a new compact sedan the Q-Type, according to news reports.

DebMedA , creator of the world's first electronic hand hygiene compliance monitoring system based on the World Health Organization 's Five Moments for Hand Hygiene, announces the issuance of U.S. Patent #8,427,323 by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office for the technology integrated within the DebMedA GMSa .

Thursdays the Patent Office publishes new pending patent applications . Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital rights management .

The Washington Redskins name has attracted fierce debate over the years. Edward Lee and Douglas Masters, attorneys at Loeb & Loeb, discuss the latest attempt to revoke the mark - US trademark law prohibits the registration of a trademark that "[c]onsists of or comprises immoral, deceptive, or scandalous matter which may disparagea persons, living ... (more)

A single iPhone may not provide enough light to shoot a dark scene. But a handful of them remotely controlled might just do the trick.

Tech industry watches shouldn't be too surprised to hear that Apple is trying to add Samsung's forthcoming Galaxy S4 smartphone to its list of products that have allegedly infringed its patents.

When Angelina Jolie disclosed Tuesday morning that she had undergone a preventive double mastectomy, she didn't just shine her white-hot starlight on the gene, BRCA1, that significantly increased her chance of getting breast cancer.

On April 30, 2013, Magistrate Judge Westmore recommended that the U.S. District Court, Northern District of California award Facebook $2.8 million in damages from typosquatters under the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act .

Network-1 Security Solutions, Inc. today announced financial results for the three months ended March 31, 2013.

On March 16, 2013, the final portion of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act took effect, and the United States broke from a first-to-invent regime to a first-inventor-to-file regime.

DHA Group, Inc. , an award-winning management consulting and contracting firm serving the federal government, announced today that it is a subcontractor on the Department of Commerce U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Information Technology Security Facilitation Support contract awarded to prime contractor Missing Link Security, a certified, ... (more)

Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents . Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital rights management .