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Visual Search Engines: A New Side Door for Competitors or a Better Infringement Detection Tool?

April 5, 2019

Text-based search engines, such as Google and Yahoo (remember Ask Jeeves?), were arguably the most important development leading to our now everyday reliance on the Internet. The concept is simple:…

CAFC: Claim Construction That Misreads Plain Language of Claims and Specification Is Clearly Erroneous

April 4, 2019

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The Federal Circuit recently vacated a district court decision which found a patent for the antipsychotic drug “Saphris,” belonging to Forest Laboratories (Forest), valid as nonobvious, but not infringed by…

Inequitable Conduct and Unclean Hands: Is There a Difference and Does it Matter?

April 3, 2019

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Inequitable conduct remains the most powerful defense to patent infringement. In contrast to other defenses to patent infringement that require a claim-by-claim analysis, the defense of inequitable conduct is global.…

Recent Cases Show Federal Circuit Is Concerned About ‘Over Abstracting’ Rejections of Method/ Process Patents

April 2, 2019

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In one of its latest opinions attempting to parse precedent on the subject matter eligibility of software, method of use, and business method patents that arguably involve application of laws…

How the EPO and USPTO Guidance Will Help Shape the Examination of Artificial Intelligence Inventions

April 1, 2019

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It is safe to say that Artificial intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) are hot topics and, as with any rapidly growing technological area on the industry side, there is…

UKIPO Invalidates Babybel Cheese Shape Mark

March 30, 2019

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Litigation, Patent, Trademark

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Fromageries Bel, owners of cheese brands including Boursin, Leerdammer and The Laughing Cow, have been dealt a blow by the UK Intellectual Property Office (UKIPO), with their UK trademark registration…

Other Barks & Bites: New Register of Copyrights, Win for Qualcomm at ITC and Big Tech Up in Arms Over New EU Copyright Rules

March 29, 2019

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Business, Copyright, Litigation, Patent, Trademark

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This week in Other Barks & Bites: Karyn Temple is appointed Register of Copyrights; the International Trade Commission recommends excluding certain iPhone models for infringing Qualcomm patent claims; the EU…

‘Bad Patents’ Are Just Another Big Tech False Narrative

March 29, 2019

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Business, Litigation, Patent

Over the last 15 years, Congress, the courts and the USPTO have gutted the patent system. Fortunately, USPTO Director Andrei Iancu has been taking important steps to reverse some of…

China Court Delivers First Judgment in Favor of a Foreign Company Under Anti-Unfair Competition Law

March 28, 2019

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Litigation, Patent, Trademark

British automaker Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has been engaged in a multi-jurisdiction battle against Chinese automaker Jiangling Motors (Jiangling) over JLR’s assertions that Jiangling copied distinctive design features of JLR’s…

Brexit Q&A: What Now and What Next?

March 27, 2019

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Brexit has been postponed and will not now happen at midnight on March 29, 2019.The UK’s House of Commons has twice voted against the Withdrawal Agreement and Political Declaration, which…