Patent / Trademark Law News

Recently, Hal Wegner has been circulating and commenting upon the qualifications of patent law professors.

A few weeks back, the USPTO published TiVo's latest patent: Program Shortcuts , which is effectively an update to their 2009 patent .

NeuroVive , a leading mitochondrial medicine company, is presenting a breakthrough in the company's work on energy regulation at the cellular level.

Bob wrote: It could be said, "Old ideas never die. They just fade away." The USPTO situation reminds me of the 1970's TV show Welcome Back, Kotter .

Microsoft has apparently filed a trademark application for a new game called "Screamride."

Denver may be an hour or so away from Colorado Springs, but for Pikes Peak area residents looking for patent information and help, it's a lot better than traveling more than 1,600 miles to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's headquarters in Alexandria, Va.

Specific patent information enclosed with the Notice of Allowance included: designs, develops and sells mercury-free lighting products using its proprietary ESL technology.

The provisional patent application, filed with the US Patent and Trademark Office on , describes a Continuously Varying Cross-sectional Subcell method to enhance standard eigenmode expansion calculation techniques, particularly in waveguide structures with continuously-varying cross sections or material properties.

While Google has announced that it will open its Glass Explorer program - at least for a day - the search giant could be "looking" beyond the glasses and toward contact lenses.

Once a patent issues, the patentee must pay a regular maintenance fee to keep the patent in force.

The Broad Institute today announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued the first patent for an engineered CRISPR-Cas9 system that is enabling scientists to modify genes and better understand the biology of living cells and organisms.

The allowed claims are directed to Alzheon's lead therapeutic candidate ALZ-801, and protect the ALZ-801 compound, pharmaceutical compositions containing ALZ-801, as well as methods of treating Alzheimer's disease using ALZ-801.

An Ocean City retailer is suing the brewery for trademark infringement. Though the lawsuit continues, Shorebilly Brewing announced at the end of last year that it would rename itself , opening up suggestions for its new moniker to the public.

A Maine medical device manufacturer has been awarded a patent for an invention that will provide doctors with the ability to detect patients at risk of diabetic limb loss more reliably and at earlier stages.

Things that are worth talking about need names. Good, distinctive names are best.

Bona fide intent , the sine qua non of non-use trademark applications, was given new meaning by the TTAB in a decision released unpublished February 21, 2014 but redesignated as precedent on March 26, 2014, thus placing at risk similar applications for oppositions and issued registrations for cancellation.

In the world of industrial design and branding, the appearance or look and feel of a product can be subject to various forms of intellectual property protection.

Google has a new patent application with the USPTO , which takes one of the basic concepts of Glass and extends it even further, embedding tiny cameras that could be embedded in contact lenses for various uses, including photographing what a wearer sees, or providing the basic input for a contact-based assistive device for the visually impaired.

When Congress enacted the America Invents Act in 2011, the USPTO was charged with designating four satellite office locations, and they chose: Detroit, Denver, Silicon Valley and Dallas.

Depew School District is hosting Camp Invention, a one-week program for children in grades 1-6 with curricula that develops creative, inventive thinking, and problem solving skills through hands-on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.