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In the wake of COVID-19, government officials around the world face unprecedented decisions about when and to what extent they should reopen their respective societies before effective anti-viral medications or…

Defensive Publications: A Cost-Effective Tool to Supplement Your Patent Strategy

May 25, 2020

In a world of unlimited resources and intellectual property (IP) legal department budgets, all invention disclosures would lead to patent application filings. But this was not the world we lived…

A Stylized Word Mark in One Country May Be Too Simple and Common in Another

May 23, 2020

Patent, Trademark

A single alphabet letter mark may face a bigger challenge in some jurisdictions than others. Take the example of Prince Sports International Company Ltd.’s stylized letter “P”. The Korean Trademark…

Other Barks & Bites for Friday, May 22: Copyright Office Issues Section 512 Safe Harbor Report, CAFC Denies Review of PTAB Institution Decision and Director Iancu on Possible Filing Deadline Extension

May 22, 2020

This week in Other Barks & Bites: the Copyright Office issues its report on the safe harbor provisions of the DMCA codified in Section 512 of U.S. copyright law; the…

CAFC Finds Claim for Delivery Notification System Abstract as Directed to a Longstanding Commercial Practice

May 22, 2020

Litigation, Patent

Last week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) affirmed a decision of the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida in Electronic Communication…

PTAB Institution Data Analysis Proves That Reforms Have Failed

May 21, 2020

Despite rumors that changes have been made at the USPTO to bring balance to the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB), a hard look at the data shows that it…

Non-Limiting Preamble Costs Cochlear at CAFC

May 20, 2020

Litigation, Patent

Cochlear Bone Anchored Solutions AB (“Cochlear”) owns U.S. Patent No. 7,043,040 (“the ‘040 patent”), directed to a hearing aid for use in those with unilateral hearing loss. Oticon Medical AB,…

Plants and Animals Exclusively Obtained by Biological Processes Not Patentable at EPO

May 18, 2020

The Enlarged Board of Appeal (EBA) of the European Patent Office published opinion G 3/19 “Pepper” on Thursday, May 14, holding that plants and animals exclusively obtained by means of…

Federal Circuit Issues Several Rulings Defining Contours of Arthrex Decision

May 17, 2020

Litigation, Patent

Recently, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has issued several rulings defining some of the contours of the impact of its decision last year in Arthrex v.…

(Not) Copyright Infringement: Is dbrand Infringing Nintendo’s IP?

May 16, 2020

Business, Copyright, Litigation, Patent, Trademark