| Aug.28.2020 |
U.K. Supreme Court Affirms Global FRAND Rate-Setting Procedure in U.K. National Courts |
| Aug.12.2020 |
Doing It That Way Is Natural . . . and Patentable |
| Jul.27.2020 |
Belgian Supreme Court Rules: Creative Use of the Law is Insufficient Ground for Lawyers to Claim Copyright Protection on Work Product |
| Jul.06.2020 |
U.S. Patent Applicants Can Now Expedite Appeals Under New Pilot Program |
| Jul.06.2020 |
Supreme Court Finds that "Generic.com" Terms Can Be Trademarks |
| Jun.22.2020 |
USPTO Announces Prioritization of Pandemic-Related Trademarks |
| Jun.04.2020 |
U.S. Copyright Office Weighs in on "Unbalanced" DMCA Safe Harbor System |
| May.28.2020 |
IP Rights, Collaborative Projects and the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Socially Responsible Approach Should Not Impair Sound Business Judgment |
| May.28.2020 |
Speeding Up Access to Important Treatments: The USPTO’s COVID-19 Prioritized Examination Pilot Program |
| May.04.2020 |
USPTO Provides Further Relief to Patent and Trademark Customers |
| May.04.2020 |
C3P-No! USPTO Says No AI Inventors |
| Apr.29.2020 |
Raising the Stakes for Trademark Damages: Romag Fasteners, Inc. v. Fossil, Inc. |
| Updated April 27, 2020 |
Monitoring the Operations of Patent and Trademark Offices Worldwide in Light of the Coronavirus Outbreak |
| Apr.23.2020 |
Federal Circuit Feels the Beating of a Heart: CardioNet v. InfoBionic |
| Apr.14.2020 |
Coloring in the Lines – Protecting Colorful Product Packaging Just Became Easier |
| Apr.01.2020 |
What to Know about Patent and Trademark Procedures in Light of the Coronavirus Outbreak |
| Sep.17.2019 |
EU’s Top Court Confirms Copyright for Design, but Looking Good Will Not Do the Trick |
| Aug.15.2019 |
Olaplex Dyeing to Protect its Intellectual Property |
| Jul.24.2019 |
No Registration Without Representation: U.S. Requires Foreign Trademark Owners to Engage U.S.-Licensed Attorneys |
| May.21.2019 |
No "Backsies" – Licensors Cannot Use Bankruptcy To Claw Back Trademark Rights from Licensees Says Supreme Court |
| May.13.2019 |
Trademark Infringer Gets the Boot |
| May.07.2019 |
Cannabis Trademarks Not Stoned by PTO |
| Feb.22.2019 |
SCOTUS Hears Oral Arguments on Mission Product with Mixed Reviews |
| Feb.20.2019 |
No Money, No Problem – For the Licensor that Is. The Supreme Court and Trademark Licenses in Bankruptcy |
| Jan.31.2019 |
Federal Circuit Finds That the USPTO Cannot Reduce PTA for a Time Period Where the Applicant Could Not Have Advanced Prosecution |
| Nov.06.2018 |
U.S. Charges Chinese and Taiwanese Companies with Trade Secret Theft, Continues Vigilant Prosecution of Chinese Economic Espionage |
| Mar.06.2018 |
Humanless Self-Driving Cars to be Tested for the First Time on California’s Public Roads |
| Feb.07.2018 |
Was it an Offer for Sale? Law School Nightmare Revisited in Latest "On-Sale Bar" Ruling from the Federal Circuit |
| Jan.12.2018 |
Advanced Video: Time to Check Your Agreement Provisions |
| Oct.09.2017 |
Federal Circuit Gives IPR Petitioners Burden of Persuasion for Proving Patentability of Amended Claims |
| Jun.19.2017 |
Supreme Court Upholds Federal Circuit's Holding That Trademark Disparagement Rejections Are Unconstitutional |
| Jun.01.2017 |
Supreme Court Holds Patent Exhaustion is Not Limited to U.S. Sales |
| May.25.2017 |
"Residence" for Patent Venue Refers Only to a Defendant’s State of Incorporation |
| Feb.02.2017 |
When it Comes to IPRs are University Patents Bullet Proof? |
| Jan.17.2017 |
DOJ/FTC Issue Final Revised Antitrust-Intellectual Property Licensing Guidelines |
| Jan.12.2017 |
PODCAST: Key IP Issues That Should be Addressed by the New Administration — C&M’s First 100 Days Series |
| Dec.06.2016 |
SCOTUS Rules on Design Patent Damages |
| Sep.15.2016 |
Gone Enfishing: Software Patentees Reel in Another Huge Win at the Federal Circuit |
| Jul.25.2016 |
Brexit — What About Your Trademarks and Designs? |
| Jul.12.2016 |
CellZDirect: Hope for Life Science Patents |
| Jul.11.2016 |
Dancing Doesn’t Matter – Federal Circuit Said Biosimilar Companies Must Wait 180 Days |
| May.05.2016 |
The Federal Circuit Does Not Limit Venue in Patent Cases. Next Stop: Congress? |
| Apr.08.2016 |
Trade Dress Protection for the Layout of a Medical Report? Maybe! |
| Mar.24.2016 |
Congress Could Take Steps Toward Patent Venue Reform |
| Mar.08.2016 |
It's Official: Patent Agents May Confer Privilege! |
| Feb.25.2016 |
Supreme Court Appears Poised to Topple 'Rigid' Willful Infringement Test |
| Feb.24.2016 |
First Circuit Joins Third Circuit in Holding That FTC v. Actavis Applies to Non-Cash Payments |
| Jan.05.2016 |
Unified Patent Court: The Language Regime |
| Dec.18.2015 |
European Trademark Reform Approved by European Parliament |
| Dec.17.2015 |
Federal Circuit Denies Rehearing En Banc, Letting Stand Apple’s Permanent Injunction Against Samsung |
| Dec.15.2015 |
Unified Patent Court: Supplementary Protection Certificates (SPCs) |
| Dec.03.2015 |
Four Takeaways for In-House Counsel from the Dec. 1 Amendments to the Federal Rules |
| Nov.17.2015 |
Unified Patent Court: Preliminary Injunction Proceedings |
| Nov.03.2015 |
Unified Patent Court: Measures for Preserving Evidence |
| Oct.13.2015 |
PTAB Decisions Suggest That Petitioner's Motive Is Irrelevant When Instituting Inter Partes Review Petitions |
| Sep.21.2015 |
En Banc Federal Circuit Reaffirms Laches as a Defense to Patent Suits |
| Aug.28.2015 |
The Name Game – The FDA Issues Draft Guidance of Biologics Naming |
| Jul.21.2015 |
European Court of Justice Rules on Abuse of Dominance in the Context of SEP Injunction Proceedings |
| Jul.02.2015 |
Third Circuit Rules That FTC v. Actavis Covers More Than Cash |
| Jun.24.2015 |
Supreme Court Affirms Decision Banning Royalties on Expired Patents, Notes Alternative Methods |
| Jun.23.2015 |
VIDEO: Alternative Fees in Law |
| Jun.22.2015 |
Federal Circuit: 'Molecular Weight' Is Still Indefinite |
| Jun.19.2015 |
Federal Circuit Relaxes Standard for Imposing Means-Plus-Function Limitations When the Term 'Means' Is Not Used |
| Jun.01.2015 |
Design Patents Win Big in Apple v. Samsung |
| Mar.31.2015 |
VIDEO: Supreme Court to Decide Lawfulness of Receiving Post-Expiration Royalties on Licensed Patents |
| Mar.20.2015 |
Is Copyright Law Even Blurrier After the "Blurred Lines" Ruling? |
| Mar.20.2015 |
Federal Circuit Finds That the Actual Provision of Services is Necessary to Support a Use-Based Service Mark Application—Advertising of Services is Not Enough |
| Mar.11.2015 |
Three Take-Aways from Novartis' Historic First U.S. Biosimilar Approval |
| Mar.05.2015 |
Federal Circuit Finds That the Actual Provision of Services is Necessary to Support a Use-Based Service Mark Application |
| Feb.26.2015 |
Calling All Design Patent Applicants: Hague is Coming to Town |
| Feb.13.2015 |
Qualcomm's $975 Million China Settlement: Is NDRC Righting Antitrust Wrongs, or Building Industrial Policy? |
| Feb.06.2015 |
New Year, New Congress, Same Patent Reform Legislation |
| Feb.05.2015 |
Justice Department Will Not Challenge Revised IEEE Standards Patent Policy |
| Jan.30.2015 |
Will the CJEU Uncap the Recovery of IP Litigator Fees? |
| Jan.26.2015 |
Patents Under The AIA: Basics, Trends & Strategies (VIDEO) |
| Jan.14.2015 |
President Obama Announces Major Cyber and Privacy Legislation |
| Nov.12.2014 |
FTC Invokes "Deception" Authority Under Section 5 to Try to Curb "Patent Troll" Behavior |
| Sep.19.2014 |
Important Change in Belgian Patent Litigation: The Belgian Supreme Court Adopts a Less Strict Approach to the Prima Facie Validity of a European Patent |
| Aug.11.2014 |
Filing of Hatch-Waxman Suit and Citizen Petition Could Be Basis for Antitrust Claim |
| Jul.10.2014 |
Federal Circuit Reverses Denial of Stay Request Based On Covered Business Method Review |
| Jul.02.2014 |
USPTO Issues Preliminary Alice Corp. Instructions and Invites Comments |
| Jun.27.2014 |
First Final Written Decision in Inter Partes Review of Pharmaceutical Related Patents |
| Jun.19.2014 |
TTAB Grants Petition to Cancel REDSKINS Registrations |
| Jun.13.2014 |
Supreme Court Permits Lanham Act Challenge to Beverage Label Regulated by the FDA |
| Jun.11.2014 |
Supreme Court Announces Appropriate Standard for Determining Patent Indefiniteness under 35 U.S.C. § 112 |
| Jun.03.2014 |
Supreme Court Overturns Federal Circuit's Inducement Standard But Defers on Divided Infringement |
| May.22.2014 |
'Patent Troll' Legislation Stalls, at Least for Now |
| May.01.2014 |
Supreme Court Lowers the Bar for Awarding Attorney's Fees in Patent Cases |
| Jan.21.2014 |
In Daimler AG v. Bauman, U.S. Supreme Court Makes It More Difficult To Assert General Personal Jurisdiction Over Foreign Parent Corporations |
| Dec.13.2013 |
Patent Troll Successfully Repleads Attack on Patent Aggregator RPX |
| Dec.11.2013 |
Patent Law Alert: Supreme Court Has Opportunity to Bring Clarity to Patent Eligibility of Computer-Implemented Inventions |
| Dec.10.2013 |
House Passes Innovation Act, Senate to Consider Companion Legislation |
| Nov.28.2013 |
EU Lays Foundation For Harmonized Trade Secret Protection Across Member States |
| Nov.22.2013 |
The Federal Circuit's New Factor For Induced Infringement Escapes Rehearing En Banc and Creates Significant Uncertainty In Certain Patent Cases |
| Nov.13.2013 |
Legislation Targeting So-Called 'Patent Trolls' Continues To Gather Steam |
| Oct.01.2013 |
Circuit Court Opinion Confirms Broad Scope of Federal Criminal Trade Secrets Statute |
| Sep.27.2013 |
Federal Trade Commission Votes to Conduct Study on Patent Assertion Entities |
| Aug.27.2013 |
GAO Report on Increase in Patent Litigation Falls Short in Addressing NPE Activity |
| Aug.20.2013 |
Federal Circuit Advisory Council Provides Unofficial Guidance to Further Streamline Patent Litigation |
| Aug.06.2013 |
Obama Administration Vetoes ITC Ban on iPhones and iPads |
| Jul.17.2013 |
Congressional Efforts to Curb NPE Suits Intensify |
| Jun.20.2013 |
Third Circuit Finds That Use of a College Football Player's Likeness in a Video Game Violates His Right of Publicity |
| Jun.06.2013 |
ITC Rules for Samsung; Bans Imports and Sales of Older Models of Apple's iPhone and iPad |
| May.28.2013 |
Texas Adopts Version of Uniform Trade Secrets Act |
| May.23.2013 |
U.S.P.T.O. Modifies Program for Consideration of Responses Submitted to Final Office Actions |
| Apr.30.2013 |
Much-Anticipated Decision On Rates To License Standard Essential Patents Issues |
| Mar.26.2013 |
Companies May Begin to Protect Their Online Presence Anew: Trademark Clearinghouse Now Available For New gTLDs |
| Mar.11.2013 |
ICANN Publishes the URS Rules and an Updated Version of the URS Procedure |
| Mar.04.2013 |
New Legislation Seeks to Shift Legal Fees to Unsuccessful Nonpracticing Entities |
| Feb.22.2013 |
First Ever RICO Claim Against NPE Dismissed, But Other Claims Including RAND Commitments Remain Viable |
| Feb.21.2013 |
The White House Shines a Spotlight on Trade Secret Theft |
| Feb.11.2013 |
Congress Increases Criminal Penalties for Trade Secrets Theft |
| Feb.05.2013 |
Court Dismisses Patent Troll Attack on Patent Aggregator RPX (For Now) |
| Feb.05.2013 |
Second Circuit Holds That Employee's Misuse of Information on a Computer Server Alone Satisfies Minimum Contacts Test for Personal Jurisdiction in That State |
| Jan.30.2013 |
California Court Recognizes Narrowly Drawn CFAA Claim Against Traffickers of Access Credentials |
| Jan.16.2013 |
Federal Circuit Clarifies the ITC's Domestic Industry Requirement for Licensing Activities, Opening Door for More NPE Filings |
| Jan.09.2013 |
FTC Settles with Google on Standard-Essential Patents |
| Dec.21.2012 |
Congress Broadens Federal Criminal Trade Secrets Statute |
| Dec.18.2012 |
FTC Continues Campaign Against Injunctions for Standard Essential Patents: Uses Section 5 to Push Section 2 Boundaries |
| Aug.13.2012 |
The Latest Attempt to Federalize Trade Secret Law |
| Jul.20.2012 |
Patent Law Alert: An Invention is Patentable Unless it is Not "Manifestly Evident" That the Invention is an Abstract Idea |
| Jul.18.2012 |
Patent Law Alert: Pre-Suit Licenses Cannot Block Challenges to Patent Validity |
| Jul.18.2012 |
ITC Proposes Comprehensive Changes to its Rules of Practice and Procedure |
| Jul.13.2012 |
Sunbeam: Seventh Circuit Says That Rejection in Bankruptcy Does Not Vaporize a Trademark Licensee's Rights |
| Jun.18.2012 |
Patent Law Alert: Willful Infringement Requires a Threshold Judicial (Not a Jury) Finding of Objective Recklessness |
| Jun.15.2012 |
FTC Urges ITC to Deny Exclusion Orders for RAND-Encumbered Standard Essential Patent Holders |
| Jun.11.2012 |
Federal Circuit Rejects Common Sense Approach to Obviousness |
| Apr.17.2012 |
Federal Circuit Holds That Settlement Negotiations Are Not Privileged |
| Mar.14.2012 |
DOJ Prosecution of Chinese State-Owned Enterprise for Trade Secrets Theft Offers Lessons for U.S. Businesses |
| Jan.31.2012 |
New Jersey Adopts the Uniform Trade Secrets Act |
| Jan.30.2012 |
Circuit Court Reinforces That Neither Lack Of Novelty Nor Ability To Reverse Engineer Are Defenses To Trade Secret Misappropriation |
| Jan.17.2012 |
Crowell & Moring's Top Ten Copyright Cases of the Last Year |
| Dec.08.2011 |
The ITC Can Play A Critical Role In Combating International Trade Secret Theft |
| Nov.02.2011 |
What You Should Know About U.S. Copyright Office’s New White Paper on Mass Digitization of Copyrighted Works |
| Sep.22.2011 |
Sweeping U.S. Patent Law Changes - America Invents Act |
| Sep.20.2011 |
District Court Carves Out "Trade Secret Exception" to California Ban on Enforcement of Non-Compete Agreements |
| Jun.30.2011 |
Texas Supreme Court Expands Scope of Enforceable Non-Competes |
| Jun.29.2011 |
FTC Hosts Workshop on Intellectual Property Rights In Standard Setting: Tools to Prevent Patent Hold-Up |
| Jun.13.2011 |
Trade Secret Misappropriation and Non-Competes Across (California) State Lines: What Law Governs? |
| Apr.04.2011 |
USPTO Announces Prioritized Examination for One Year Prosecution Available May 4th |
| Feb.04.2011 |
Crowell & Moring's Top Ten Copyright Cases of the Last Year |
| Jan.12.2011 |
Retailers With Websites Containing Store Locator Function Sued In Series of Patent Lawsuits |
| Sep.02.2010 |
Federal Circuit's En Banc Princo Decision Limits Patent Misuse Doctrine |
| Aug.04.2010 |
FTC Settles Charges That Intel Violated Section 5 of the FTC Act |
| Jun.28.2010 |
Supreme Court's Bilski Decision: Business Method Patents Survive, at Least for Now |
| May.03.2010 |
Second Circuit Wants Full Court Review of Reverse Exclusionary Settlement Payments |
| Dec.16.2009 |
Federal Trade Commission Charges Intel With Anticompetitive Conduct; Commits to Expedited Administrative Trial and Decision |
| Nov.24.2009 |
European Commission Closes Qualcomm Investigation |
| Jul.08.2009 |
European Commission Publishes Final Report in Pharmaceutical Sector Inquiry and Opens Formal Proceedings against Patent Settlements |
| Jun.11.2009 |
Protecting Your Trademark on Facebook |
| May.14.2009 |
European Commission imposes record € 1.06 billion antitrust fine on Intel |
| Feb.27.2009 |
Federal Circuit Affirms Extension of The 30 Month Hatch-Waxman Stay Preventing FDA Approval of Generic Version of Evista |
| Aug.25.2008 |
Patent Application Process Must Be Compliant with U.S. Export Controls |
| Aug.11.2008 |
California Supreme Court Leaves Intact Broad Prohibitions On Enforceability Of Non-compete Agreements |
| Oct.25.2007 |
New TTAB Rules Go Into Effect November 1 |
| Sep.18.2007 |
Federal Circuit Raises the Bar for Proving Willful Infringement, and Provides for Protection of Trial Counsel Communications and Work Product From Discovery -- Great News for Accused Infringers |
| May.16.2007 |
Post-KSR Patent Prosecution “Survival Guide” |
| May.01.2007 |
US Supreme Court Makes it Easier to Find Patents Obvious |
| Jan.29.2007 |
MedImmune's Impact May Be Greater Than Many Suspect |
| Dec.19.2006 |
Supreme Court Signals Shift in Obviousness Standard |