Insights
USPTO and WIPO to Pool Resources for Standards-Essential Patent Disputes
December 1st, 2022
The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) have announced that they will collaborate to improve efficiency in resolving disputes related to standard-essential patents (SEPs). As the USPTO explai…
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Categories: Patents
Senator Introduces Bill to Overrule Supreme Court Patent Decisions
November 29th, 2022
The office of Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC), the Ranking Member of the Senate Intellectual Property Subcommittee, has released a first draft of the Patent Eligibility Restoration Act, which would overrule the US Supreme Court’s patent eligibility deci…
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Categories: Patents
CHIPS and Science Act Spurs Semiconductor Investments
November 22nd, 2022
The US Senate voted 64 to 33 in favor of passing the Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors (CHIPS) and Science Act. Parallel legislation passed in the House of Representatives on the same day and the bill was sent to the White House f…
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Categories: Patents
Can you own the word “the”?
November 21st, 2022
Can you own the trademark for a basic word like “the”? In some cases, yes. The Ohio State University (OSU) has received a trademark registration for THE in connection with clothing, namely T-shirts, baseball caps and hats. As CNN reported, OSU wo…
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Categories: Trademarks
Bored Apes, NFTs, and Copyright
November 17th, 2022
As we’ve explained before, a Non-Fungible Token (NFT) isn’t a form of intellectual property. It’s not like a copyright, patent, or trademark. It’s closest to a form of receipt for a “unique” digital file. However, NFTs, since they involve…
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Categories: Copyright
How Wimbledon Trademarked its Colors
November 14th, 2022
As the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) explains, A trademark can be any word, phrase, symbol, design, or a combination of these things that identifies your goods or services. Although most people think of trademarks as things like words (Coca-…
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Categories: Patents
Patent Office Issues Interim Guidance on Discretionary Denials
November 10th, 2022
The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has issued new, binding interim guidance on the Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s (PTAB’s) discretionary denials of PTAB petitions. As the memo notes, Congress designed the America Invents Act (AIA) post-g…
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Categories: Patents
Patent Office Announces Climate Change Mitigation Pilot Program
November 7th, 2022
The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has announced a Climate Change Mitigation Pilot Program to expedite examination of certain kinds of climate-related inventions. According to the USPTO, The Climate Change Mitigation Pilot Program is designed…
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Categories: Patents
Article Authorship Isn’t Inventorship but Can Show Patent Contribution
November 4th, 2022
The Federal Circuit vacated and remanded a Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) decision involving a determination of inventive contribution to several patents. In Google LLC v. IPA Technologies Inc., Google appealed three inter partes review (“…
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Categories: Patents
Intellectual Property and New Technologies are Driving M&As
October 31st, 2022
According to the European Patent Office, IP-intensive industries made up 42% of all economic activity in the European Union in 2017–which amounts to about €5.7 trillion a year. Making sure that IP can be used to sell a business is an important pa…
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Categories: Patents
