Patent / Trademark Law News

The regional U.S. Patent Office planned at San Jose City Hall won't be a direct financial windfall for the city, but it will be huge for the local economy -- all of the Bay Area, actually.

Spring Consulting Group announced today that they have been issued U.S. Patent No.

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on Wednesday published two Apple patent applications , both titled "Gesture entry techniques," that together form the basis of a device unlocking feature in which a user draws a pattern on screen with the help of illuminated discs.

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is lining up sources of IT services to meet the storage, engineering and virtualization demands from a huge upsurge in the number of patent applications it anticipates will be filed in the next three years.

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.