Patent / Trademark Law News

Amazon continues to aggressively pursue variations on its "one-click" patent, even as it is repeatedly held up as an example of how screwed up the patent system has become.

Back in August 2009, the story of a corrupt USPTO employee was mentioned: Minister pleads guilty to stealing $500K from U.S. patent office Reid coordinated with a patent office employee, referred to as "K.L.P." in court documents, to have $451,252 transmitted from patent office accounts to a Redeemed Music House bank account, he admitted.

Henry E. Smith authored a chapter in the book "Reacting to the Spending Spree: Policy Changes We Can Afford" which examines challenges the Obama administration faces today, and in the foreseeable future, and the administration's planned responses.

A former financial analyst for the Patent and Trademark Office has been sentenced to a year and a half in prison for stealing more than $500,000 from a government account.

Surgient, the leader in management software for internal enterprise clouds, today announced a series of milestones demonstrating the company's continued leadership in virtualization management and cloud automation.

The case is Roxbury Entertainment v. Penthouse Media Group, Inc. : It is well established that films are entitled to First Amendment protections.

Although the YouTube video is titled Hilter is Furious at the Supreme Court for Granting Cert to Bilski , one of the major targets of this satire is the academic "patent law" community who have worked to undermine patent rights over the last few years.

New Delhi The international governing body of football, FIFA, has won a cybersquatting case at the World Intellectual Property Organisation against a US-based person, who had registered the term 'Fifa World Cup' in an Internet domain.

In a small manufacturing shop on Lubbock's southeast side, Mike McDonald is on the verge of something big.

First lady Jenny Sanford sought to trademark her name shortly after she was thrust into the national spotlight after her husband, Gov.

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While the World Intellectual Property Organization is often seen as being inherently in favor of stronger intellectual property rights, every so often, the organization shows itself open to more reasonable approaches.

Is the domain name glennbeckrapedandmurderedayounggirlin1990.com a violation of Glenn Beck's intellectual property? The conservative commenter certainly thought so, but an arbitration panel at the World Intellectual Property Organization has ruled otherwise.

Someone who prefers to remain anonymous points out that the USPTO, in its infinite wisdom, has granted Microsoft a patent on a method for "elevating" a user's rights temporarily .

The long-running battle to redefine what is patentable reached the US Supreme Court on Monday, and the back-and-forth between the Justices and competing counsel hinted that their decision will result in relatively minor changes to existing law - not the sweeping overhaul feared by the software and medical technology industries.

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Glenn Beck has lost a trademark claim over a domain name that is part of a parody of his interviewing style.

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Fox News' Glenn Beck has lost a claim that a website called glennbeckrapedandmurderedayounggirlin1990.com was registered in bad faith and in violation of his trademark rights.

What is a patent? That's essentially the question the Supreme Court could take up Monday as it examines the case of Bernard Bilski.