Functional Language and A Definite Structure
The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas (District Court) construed certain claim terms in U.S. Patent Nos. 8,965,045...
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Oct 21, 2023
Claim Construction and Additional Limitations
The U.S. Court of Appeals (COA), in ABS Global, Inc. v. Cytonome/ST, LLC, No. 22-1761 (Fed. Cir. Oct. 19, 2023), reversed a Patent Trial...
Mar 22, 2022
Trademark Modernization Act
In an effort to help combat an increase in fraudulent trademark filings and registrations, the Trademark Modernization Act of 2020 (TMA)...
Mar 14, 2022
Teaching Away And Motivation To Combine
Teaching away and motivation to combine are defenses that may help overcome an obviousness-type rejection of claims in a patent or patent...
Mar 1, 2022
The Intersection Of Trade Secrets And Patents
A federal court in New Orleans has allowed a trade secret claim to proceed to trial, even though the alleged trade secrets were disclosed...
Feb 22, 2022
Protecting Individual Replacement Parts
In Automotive Body Parts Ass’n v. Ford Global Techs. (Fed. Cir. 2019), Ford accused the Automotive Body Parts Association (ABPA) of
Jan 18, 2022
In Re Morinville: Computer Generated Business Organization Not Patentable
In the case of In re Morinville, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (“Court”) affirmed on appeal the decision of the Patent...
Jun 7, 2019
How are predictability and criticality relevant to the written description requirement?
In In Re Global IP Holdings (Fed. Cir. 2019), the Court of Appeals vacated the Patent Trial and Appeal Board's decision and instructed...
May 5, 2019
USPTO Issues Examination Guidance For Cannabis And Cannabis-related Marks
The 2018 Farm Bill amended the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 (AMA) to remove “hemp” from the Controlled Substances Act’s (CSA)...
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