Patent / Trademark Law News

THE LEDE : The House is expected to consider the Innovation Act - the patent reform bill authored by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte - on Thursday.

Last week, there was an article published on Seeking Alpha by Penny Stock Realist claiming that Endeavor IP was being promoted.

In this edition of "The Ethanol Report", Renewable Fuels Association President and CEO Bob Dinneen comments on an Associated Press article about ethanol and the environment Ecosphere Technologies, Inc. has announced that the United States Patent & Trademark Office has approved U.S. Patent No.

The U.S. House of Representatives needs to take more time to debate and rewrite a bill targeting so-called patent trolls because several provisions would hurt legitimate patent holders, several critics of the bill said Tuesday.

Orange County companies continue to invent, and lay claim to, intellectual property that is key to their businesses.

DRIVING THE DAY: RULES COMMITTEE EYES PATENT BILL - The powerful House Rules Committee received 26 amendments before its 4 p.m. deadline yesterday, and the panel is set to meet at 3 p.m. today to determine the floor process for the House's consideration of Rep. Bob Goodlatte's Innovation Act later this week.

Awarded to Apple on Tuesday by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, a patent called " Personal computing device control using face detection and recognition " envisions a method to access your iPhone and other devices based on facial detection and recognition.

Great Lakes NeuroTechnologies announced today they have received allowance of claims from the U.S. Patent Office for an application covering their system and method of continuous monitoring of motor symptoms associated with movement disorders such as Parkinson's disease.

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, an agency of the Department of Commerce, is the latest content source to be added to EBSCO Discovery Service from EBSCO Information Services.

NaturalNano's CEO James Wemett commented, "With the issuance of this US Patent, NNAN continues to expand and protect its proprietary uses for HNT, in this case, as a nano-filler.

You might have thought a gun-shy Congress wouldn't legislate sweeping reform efforts that will backfire on the whole economy.

MorphoSys AG /MorphoSys Strengthens European Patent Position on anti-CD19 Cancer Program MOR208 .

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For the first time, even a small number of the U.N.'s sprawling network of agencies, funds and programs have begun to ask for relief from the outsized salary bills on their budgets -- which, unlike the so-called "regular" budget of the U.N. Secretariat -- come from voluntary donations by member countries rather than formal dues.

In days gone by, wedding officiants would ask the assembled guests if anyone knows of any reason the bride and groom shouldn't be wed and "to speak now or forever hold their peace."

Shares of organic light-emitting diode technology developer Universal Display are down 41 cents, or 1%, at 35.70, following a negative note this morning from Canaccord Genuity 's Jonathan Dorsheimer , who reiterates a Sell rating on the stock, and a $22 price target, expanding upon his negative remarks a week ago Friday when a negative patent ... (more)

Technology users -- retailers, in particular -- are being snared in patent infringement lawsuits for offering drop down menus, displaying catalog images or having search engines and other common online services.

A long-awaited patent office in San Jose will soon open, giving inventors and entrepreneurs some help cutting through red tape.

Decision of the Administrative Council of 16 October 2013 abrogating its 1978 decision relating to the interpretation of the term "association of representatives" Decision of the Administrative Council of 16 October 2013 amending Rules 36, 38 and 135 of the Implementing Regulations to the European Patent Convention Decision of the Administrative ... (more)

Guest Post by Mark D. Janis , Robert A. Lucas Chair of Law at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law and Jason Du Mont , Microsoft IP Fellow at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law While design patents for generated images are commonly portrayed as the newest thing in design patent law, they've actually been around for some time.