Patent / Trademark Law News

Frances Arnold, whose process for accelerating the evolution of enzymes that has contributed to significant advancements in science, medicine, chemicals, and energy, has been inducted in the National Inventors Hall of Fame for 2014.

Topics to be covered at this meeting: - The Commercial Value of Patents - Conditions of Patentability - Obtaining a Patent - The Scope of a Patent - Construction and Claims - Identifying and Documenting Inventions - Infringement - Litigation - Principles of Licensing - Patents as Property - Patent Portfolio Management THE VALUE OF ATTENDING THIS ... (more)

To mitigate the threat of "Apple picking" - a term law enforcement officials sometimes use to refer to cell phone theft -- Apple's next iPhone may come with "attack detection mode."

Spansion is fully aware that those two orders are for procedure only, i.e. one for the transfer of case to for the convenience of the parties and the witnesses, and a second order requiring Macronix to amend a portion of its complaint with additional details.

Apple has patented some enhanced pedometer tech ahead of a potential Apple iWatch launch.

As students, many of us found it troublesome when classmates copied each other's answers to get ahead on homework, quizzes and exams.

The U.S. Patent & Trademark Office published a patent application last week from mobile device maker Samsung for a new way to summon a "mobile terminal" out of lock mode: by dragging your finger in a line and having it intersect at some point.

A younger generation knows Schlafly as the brand of an up-and-coming St. Louis brewery co-founded by Schlafly's nephew.

The present invention relates to methods of stimulating and promoting a sustained natural immune system response, resulting in increased resistance and inhibition of infectious agents, including viruses, bacteria, fungi and parasites, and other immunodeficiency-related ailments.

Pfizer Inccorporated said a federal court has invalidated a reissue patent that would have offered an additional 18 months of U.S. exclusivity - and monopoly sales - for its blockbuster painkiller Celebrex.

The U.S. Patent office issued a patent to the United States Health and Human Services back in 2001.

A California attorney has had his license suspended in Minnesota, less than a year after being disbarred in his home state.

This is the latest step that GTL has taken to end what it believes is Securus Technologies' practice of suing rivals for patent infringement, instead of competing in the marketplace.

By a 6-4 vote, the en banc U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit tackled one of the most contentious issues in patent law, reaffirming in Lighting Ballast Control v.

NEI Corporation announced that the USPTO has issued a notice of allowance for its patent for a self-healing coating technology.

Enactment of substantive federal tort reform legislation may be a thing of the past, a prominent tort reform advocate said Tuesday.

Connected speaker maker Sonos has cooked up an odd plan for its patents that it claims will help innovation in the music industry.

The Google Nexus smartwatch could allow you to launch apps from the wristband via special touch buttons.

Great Lakes NeuroTechnologies announced they have received a new allowance of claims from the U.S. Patent Office, the company's fourth in the past eight months focused on technology for Parkinson's disease diagnostics and treatment.

Mr. Suarez is a Lieutenant Colonel in the US Air Force Reserves. Along with Rusty Sailors of LP3, he will discuss the importance securing outside technology and intellectual property and offer advice for protecting ideas and technology investments.