Patent / Trademark Law News

Thursdays the Patent Office publishes new pending patent applications . Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital watermarking .

A patent application published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on Thursday reveals Apple is actively researching methods to ensure a video's multi-channel audio is always played back correctly, no matter how a user holds the device.

Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A. , the largest independent patent law firm in North Carolina, will be hosting a "Review of IP Caselaw for May 2013" on May 28 at 3 p.m. The discussion will be led by Peter Siddoway, an attorney in the firm's litigation group.

"[T]he same claim term can have different constructions depending upon the context of how the term is used within the claims and specification." On May 20, 2013, in Aventis Pharms., Inc.

Among its many changes, the America Invents Act provides several new post-grant procedures for a third party to challenge the validity of an issued U.S. patent.

The ILLINOIS AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION is suing RURAL MEDIA GROUP and SIRIUS XM RADIO INC.

Solar Wind Energy Tower, Inc. , the inventor of a large Solar Wind Downdraft Tower structure capable of producing abundant, inexpensive electricity, announced the allowance of Patent Application Number 13/098,476, titled "Atmospheric Energy Extraction Devices and Methods", by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

Without any surprise, even to those who wrote amici in support of the farmer in Bowman v. Monsanto , the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Monsanto last week.

Welcome to the wacky world of tech patents-a place where you'll find not just the crazy-sounding ideas that inhabit any category of patents granted by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office , but some ideas that seem so minute or so obvious that you wonder how they ever qualified as patentworthy.

It focuses on the research, discovery and development of therapeutic drugs for the treatment of chronic respiratory and inflammatory diseases.

This patent expands the applicability of NTE Hybrid's groundbreaking hybrid technology to non-combined cycle fossil fuel fired power plants, including coal, oil and natural gas fired facilities.

The United States government claims 100% ownership over all your DNA and reproductive rights.

That's disruptive, and not even fair. Because, by the nature of patents, there's always been tons of prior art.

We all get frustrated. After an examiner rejected his client's application for a telescoping tripod sprinkler, patent attorney Andrew Schroeder could no longer resist and filed the following remarks: REMARKS: Are you drunk? No, seriously...are you drinking scotch and whiskey with a side of crack cocaine while you "examine" patent applications? Do ... (more)

Using information gathered from the After Final Consideration Pilot , as well as input from stakeholders and examiners obtained through the RCE outreach initiative, the USPTO will launch the After Final Consideration Pilot 2.0 on May 19, 2013.

DALLAS Dr Pepper, one of the giant names in soft drink history, appears to have its eyes set on the little guy.

Based on documents submitted to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Jaguar may name the all-wheel-drive compact crossover it has in the works the XQ, and call a new compact sedan the Q-Type, according to news reports.

DebMedA , creator of the world's first electronic hand hygiene compliance monitoring system based on the World Health Organization 's Five Moments for Hand Hygiene, announces the issuance of U.S. Patent #8,427,323 by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office for the technology integrated within the DebMedA GMSa .

Thursdays the Patent Office publishes new pending patent applications . Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital rights management .

The Washington Redskins name has attracted fierce debate over the years. Edward Lee and Douglas Masters, attorneys at Loeb & Loeb, discuss the latest attempt to revoke the mark - US trademark law prohibits the registration of a trademark that "[c]onsists of or comprises immoral, deceptive, or scandalous matter which may disparagea persons, living ... (more)