Patent / Trademark Law News

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.

The semi-random postings of a customs lawyer on the state of American customs law, international trade law, bicycle commuting, technology and whatever else strikes my fancy.

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.

You know you're a patent law geek when these are the things that get you jazzed at the Smithsonian.... Of course, I enjoyed many other things at all the museums, and I highly recommend that you visit them all if you haven't before.

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With the technology industry looking on, the Supreme Court on Monday will explore what types of inventions should be eligible for a patent in a pivotal case that could undermine such legal protections for software.

Association for Medical Pathology & ACLU v. USPTO & Myriad , 09-cv-4515 Earlier this year, a group of organizations and individuals filed suit against the USPTO, Myriad, and individual directors of the University of Utah Research Foundation demanding that the breast cancer gene patents be found invalid or unenforceable and that the PTO's policies ...

Low-resolution, grainy and barely recognizable--sounds like a spy photo of a top-secret supercar in testing.

Low-resolution, grainy and barely recognizable--sounds like a spy photo of a top-secret supercar in testing.

A federal district judge ruled yesterday that a lawsuit challenging patents on genes related to hereditary breast and ovarian cancer can move forward in court.

The SFLC and I recently filed a brief in Bilski v. Kappos , along with plenty of other lawyers, and I gave a talk about the case, and the future of patent law, this morning at Cardozo Law School.

Mr. Sisule F. Musungu, President, IQsensato, Geneva prepared a document titled, " The Contribution of, and Costs to Right Holders in Enforcement, Taking into Account Recommendation 45 of the WIPO Development Agenda ." The report was published on September 28, 2009 for the Fifth Session of the Advisory Committee on Enforcement to take place in ...

Many of them attended a seminar on using the technology. "The PTDL will be of great value to the large business community in Connecticut and, especially, Fairfield County," said Dr.

Vidyo , a provider of personal telepresence, has announced that its VidyoRouter architecture has been granted a patent by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

Memory foam leader Tempur-Pedic has agreed to voluntarily dismiss patent infringement litigation against 17 mattress manufacturers, sources said.