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Society should always question rules where the rule-maker is not itself bound by the rules.

Bose has taken issue with some of the technology embodied in products in Apple's newly acquired Beats line of headphones.

San Diego Comic-Con sent a letter saying Salt Lake Comic Con must "cease and desist" from using "Comic Con" in their name.

The U.S. Patent & Trademark Office granted the trademark "DayDream" to H.E. Murdock Co.

Earlier this summer, the Supreme Court decided the subject matter eligibility case of Alice Corp. v.

Who are going to be the successors to Artur Fischer and the five other exceptional inventors who were presented with the European Inventor Award in Berlin on 17 June 2014? The European Patent Office is now calling for submissions of nominations for the European Inventor Award 2015.

A Fort Pierce novelty merchandising company is suing A&E Television Networks claiming its hugely popular show "Duck Dynasty" is violating U.S. law by using the trademarked phrase "My Favorite Color is Camo," according to a news release and court papers.

The Washington Redskins are kicking off their training camp more than a month after the football team's name was deemed offensive to Native Americans by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

Media Executive and Inventor Tom Wolzien had an idea for a new type of TV talk show that includes the ability for fans around the world to call in and participate.

On April 12, 2013, Segin Software sued Stewart Title and several other parties for infringement of U.S. Patent No.

While Samsung looks on enviously in Nokia's direction at the number of patents that they hold , here we are with yet another patent revealed by Apple, where it will adjust iOS notifications that are based on a user's physical activity.

MYOS Corporation , an emerging biotherapeutics and bionutrition company focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of products that improve muscle health and performance, announced today that it recently received a Notice of Allowance from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for U.S. Patent Application Serial No.

PetVivo Announces Expansion of Licensing & Planned Merger Partner's Patent Portfolio Through the Issuance of a Notice of Allowance by USPTO.

The futures of two historic buildings in southeast Baltimore County were discussed at the public meeting of the Baltimore County Landmark Preservation Commission in June.

In Align Technology, Inc. v. International Trade Commission , the Federal Circuit held that ITC action that violated ITC's own regulations warranted vacatur under the Administrative Procedures Act.

Lululemon thinks pretty highly of its clothes, so much so that the company felt the need to protect its designs from potential rip-off artists lurking around each and every corner.

After returning from the American Association of Law Libraries annual meeting in San Antonio last week, I wrote about having seen previews there of major changes in the works for Fastcase, Lexis Advance and Wolters Kluwer.

In a recent federal case, section 75-1.1 made the difference between the plaintiff recovering nothing and recovering almost two million dollars.

According to a release, the invention relates to the company's chimeric and codon-optimized flavivirus replicons, expression plasmids, and RVPs used for infectivity, neutralization, enhancement and structure-function studies of dengue virus and its envelope protein .