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August 30, 2010, 11:43 am, 757122
Registration is now open for the 46th Annual Corporate Patent Seminar in Austin, Texas on November 14-16th. Past participants have included representatives from Procter & Gamble, Caterpillar, SC Johnson, Pfizer, Eli Lilly and others.

Limited to senior-level corporate counsel, the CPS is an informal group of patent ...


June 7, 2010, 5:43 pm, 713600

In Crown Packaging Technology, Inc. v.  Reexam Beverage Can Co. (March 17, 2009) the Federal Circuit reiterated that the notice ...


March 3, 2010, 3:43 pm, 660333
Authors rights under copyright law are subject to certain limitations, including the doctrine of “fair use” that was developed through a substantial number of court decisions over the years and has been codified in section 107 of the ...


February 18, 2010, 3:43 pm, 652682
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office expects to complete by March 2, 2010, the software modification necessary to comply with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit's recent decision in Wyeth v. Kappos regarding the overlapping delay provision of 35 USC ...


January 11, 2010, 7:43 pm, 629717
In Ex parte Miyazaki, (Horner, APJ)(precedential), a five member expanded panel of the USPTO Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences (including the chief APJ and ...


January 11, 2010, 7:43 pm, 629716

January 11, 2010, 7:43 pm, 629703
In Bayer Consumer Care AG v. Belmora LLC, Cancellation No. 92047741 (April 6, 2009) [precedential], the U.S. Trademark Trial and Appeal Board held that their is no famous marks Doctrine in ...


January 11, 2010, 7:43 pm, 629702
The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) released its annual “Special 301” Report on April 30, 2009 covering the adequacy and effectiveness of intellectual property rights (IPR) protection by


January 11, 2010, 7:43 pm, 629701
In In re Spirits International, N.V., (April 29, 2009), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit vacated the TTAB's decision in which the Board found the mark MOSKOVSKAYA to be primarily geographically deceptively ...


January 11, 2010, 7:43 pm, 629700
In Erbe Elektromedizin GMBH v. International Trade Commission (Fed. Cir. 2009; May 19, 2009), the court restated its standard of review for decisions of the U.S. International Trade Commission:

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