Business

As companies grow their digital business, many R&D organizations transition to Agile innovation practices*, both in software and hardware development. Any implementation of Agile leads to key changes in how…

What Brand Owners and Small Businesses Can Learn from Backcountry.com’s Trademark Enforcement Campaign

January 11, 2020

Business, Litigation, Patent, Trademark

U.S.-based online outdoor goods retailer, Backcountry.com, has faced a significant social media backlash over the past month, with both customers and competitors publicly reacting to its aggressive trademark enforcement campaign.…

Four Things C-Suite Executives Need to Know About Patents

January 3, 2020

Executives that have decision making capacity within any innovation-based organization, whether a young startup or a Fortune 500 corporation, almost universally have little or no familiarity with patents from a…

Starting the Patent Process on a Limited Budget

December 28, 2019

If you are an inventor new to inventing, you undoubtedly believe you’ve come up with an idea, or two or three, that could really be successful. That eternal optimism and…

Five Years Later, the U.S. Patent System is Still Turning Gold to Lead

December 15, 2019

Business, Litigation, Patent

Five years after the last of the four decisions in patent eligibility doctrine by the Supreme Court—creating what is now referred to as the Alice-Mayo framework—the impact of this upheaval…

Final USMCA Text is a Missed Opportunity for Innovation

December 12, 2019

Earlier this week, Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) reached an agreement with President Donald Trump on passage of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), which if passed…

Agreement on USMCA Strikes Expanded Protections for Biologics

December 10, 2019

President Donald Trump and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi have reportedly reached an agreement on the much debated United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), which would, if ratified, replace the defunct and maligned…

Russian Court Rules Keyword Ads Generated by a Web Service Do Not Violate Trademark Rights

December 7, 2019

Business, Litigation, Patent, Trademark

Businesses often resort to placing keywords in the html code of a web page, meta tags, or in contextual advertising templates for promoting their products on the internet. And in…

Other Barks & Bites, Friday, December 6: Lawmakers Concerned with Copyright Restatement, USPTO Pushed to Keep SEP Injunction Policy, Qualcomm Pushes Back on Koh at Ninth Circuit

December 6, 2019

Business, Copyright, Litigation, Patent, Trademark