Patent / Trademark Law News

Apple has been awarded a patent by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office detailing a manufacturing technique applied to the production of curved touch sensors to be used in existing components such as displays, touch pads, and touch mice.

In Ohio Willow Wood Co. v. Alps South, LLC , No. 2012-1642 the Federal Circuit reversed a district court's summary judgment ruling of no inequitable conduct and suggested in its decision that the patentee committed inequitable conduct before the USPTO.

Would you invest untold hours and thousands if not millions of dollars in developing new property where the rules change every few years? Where savvy lobbying and PR campaigns could stampede political leaders into reducing the value of your property in a matter of months? Unfortunately, this increasingly describes the U.S. patent system.

NEWS ANALYSIS: A new law passed by the U.S. House of Representatives will try to rein in so-called patent trolls by requiring them to show they have valid claims and raising the cost of losing a case.

The tech company has filed a patent application for an accessory that activates the voice recognition mode of a docked device.

The allowed claims on the SSP Plus design include the core design elements of the sloped cylindrical hull of the SSP Plus along with the integrated heave-compensating module.

TherapeuticsMD, Inc. , a women's healthcare company , announced today that it received a Notice of Allowance from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office pertaining to its U.S. Patent Application 13/684,002 - "Natural Combination Hormone Replacement Formulations and Therapies."

There are a number of steps you can take to minimize your intellectual property legal fees, without jeopardizing the veracity of your IP portfolio.

Selecta Biosciences, Inc., a clinical stage biotechnology company developing a novel class of targeted antigen-specific immune tolerance treatments, today announced that the US Patent and Trademark Office has allowed the issuance of a Selecta owned patent with the title "Tolerogenic Synthetic Nanocarriers For Inducing Regulatory B Cells", the first ... (more)

When former resident Chester Greenwood filed a patent 136 years ago for his earmuffs design, he became an enduring local symbol of innovation and business acumen; but he might have had a more difficult time achieving the same success today.

When Chester Greenwood came up with his famous invention 136 years ago, he had to protect his idea by filing paperwork on his invention, titled "Improvement in ear-mufflers," with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

Sony has filed a claim with the U.S. Patent Office for a "SmartWig," a toupee or wig that contains sensitive electronics and can sync up with a smartphone or other electronic device.

Apple Balla reports that Apple was awarded this week a new patent by The US Patent and Trademark Office, which provides a technology for the users of Apple devices to charge their desktop computers, mobile phones and tablets without the need for cables.

Pensions First Analytics delivers its proprietary technology through PFaroeA which allows in depth analysis of assets, liabilities and risk on a consistent basis through multiple risk-lenses.

Throughout 2013, there has been a major push to get legislation passed in the United States to restrain patent trolls.

For the first time in decades, the Supreme Court will take up the dispute over the patentability of software, agreeing on Friday to hear CLS Bank International's challenge to a financial software patent held by Alice Corporation Pty Ltd. While the court could end up issuing a narrow decision that only applies to this one case, it opens up the ... (more)

American Innovators for Patent Reform , an industry group representing small patent owners - start-ups, R&D companies, universities and independent inventors - as well as patent practitioners, strongly condemns the passage of H.R. 3309, the so-called "Innovation Act," by the House of Representatives as the most anti-innovation and anti-inventor ... (more)

U.S. Rep. Gary Peters is pushing the Obama administration's Office of Management and Budget to let the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office -- and its satellite branch in Detroit -- off the hook for sequester cuts.

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A bill that aims to simplify the American patent law system passed with overwhelming support in the U.S. House on Thursday, and a Birmingham-area entrepreneur is pleased.