Patent / Trademark Law News

Former Google Inc. executive Michelle Lee has been named deputy director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and will run the agency until a new director is named, the USPTO said on Wednesday.

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Rexahn Pharmaceuticals, Inc. , a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company developing potential best-in-class oncology therapies, today announced that it has been issued United States Patent, No.

Pensions First Analytics, a financial technology business, announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued US Patent 8,566,206 covering its web-based platform for the risk management and reporting of pension plan assets, liabilities and risk.

MANCHESTER, Conn.-The U.S. Patent Office has found that the request for re-examination of Seiko Epson's patent 6,019,470 filed by Ocuco Inc. on May 21 raises "a substantial new question of patentability," and has recommended that all 20 claims in the patent be canceled in a "Non-Final Office Action" published in October.

The vice chancellor for research and engagement at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, is being honored for his contributions in innovation and technology development with the election to the 2013 class of National Academy of Inventors Fellows Taylor Eighmy, vice chancellor for research and engagement at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, ... (more)

The FT's Tracy Alloway reports today that the U.S. Patent Office has published a filing from JP Morgan regarding a payment service that some have some are saying bares a striking resemblance to Bitcoin.

According to Spin magazine , Bob Marley's estate is suing Raising Cane's for adopting the phrase "One Love" as its trademark.

Scott Springer is Chatfield's newest attorney, taking ownership of the former Opat Law office.

Apple has been awarded a patent by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office detailing a manufacturing technique applied to the production of curved touch sensors to be used in existing components such as displays, touch pads, and touch mice.

In Ohio Willow Wood Co. v. Alps South, LLC , No. 2012-1642 the Federal Circuit reversed a district court's summary judgment ruling of no inequitable conduct and suggested in its decision that the patentee committed inequitable conduct before the USPTO.

Would you invest untold hours and thousands if not millions of dollars in developing new property where the rules change every few years? Where savvy lobbying and PR campaigns could stampede political leaders into reducing the value of your property in a matter of months? Unfortunately, this increasingly describes the U.S. patent system.

NEWS ANALYSIS: A new law passed by the U.S. House of Representatives will try to rein in so-called patent trolls by requiring them to show they have valid claims and raising the cost of losing a case.

The tech company has filed a patent application for an accessory that activates the voice recognition mode of a docked device.

The allowed claims on the SSP Plus design include the core design elements of the sloped cylindrical hull of the SSP Plus along with the integrated heave-compensating module.

TherapeuticsMD, Inc. , a women's healthcare company , announced today that it received a Notice of Allowance from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office pertaining to its U.S. Patent Application 13/684,002 - "Natural Combination Hormone Replacement Formulations and Therapies."

There are a number of steps you can take to minimize your intellectual property legal fees, without jeopardizing the veracity of your IP portfolio.

Selecta Biosciences, Inc., a clinical stage biotechnology company developing a novel class of targeted antigen-specific immune tolerance treatments, today announced that the US Patent and Trademark Office has allowed the issuance of a Selecta owned patent with the title "Tolerogenic Synthetic Nanocarriers For Inducing Regulatory B Cells", the first ... (more)

When former resident Chester Greenwood filed a patent 136 years ago for his earmuffs design, he became an enduring local symbol of innovation and business acumen; but he might have had a more difficult time achieving the same success today.

When Chester Greenwood came up with his famous invention 136 years ago, he had to protect his idea by filing paperwork on his invention, titled "Improvement in ear-mufflers," with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.