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Trademark Board Finds Building Designs Can Be Protected as Trade Dress

The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) has ruled that building designs can potentially be protected as trade dress. As Nolo explains, Trade dress is the overall appearance or total feel of a particular product or service. It consists of all the… Read More
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Categories: Copyright
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Jury Orders Google to Pay $338.7 Million for Patent Infringement

A Texas federal court jury has found that Google violated a developer’s patent rights and ordered the company to pay $338.7 million in damages. As Reuters reported, the jury found that Google’s Chromecast and other devices infringed patents owned… Read More
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Categories: Patents
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PTAB Rules VLSI Patent Unpatentable

The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) recently ruled that an important VLSI patent was unpatentable. The patent at issue was responsible for $1.5 billion of a $2.2 billion Texas jury verdict VLSI won in 2021 against Intel for patent infringement.… Read More
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Federal Circuit Affirms P…

Federal Circuit Affirms Patent Win for Netflix

The Federal Circuit has issued a non-precedential ruling affirming a decision by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) that claims in a Broadcom patent related to video-on-demand technology were unpatentable. The Broadcom patents at issue were cha… Read More
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Categories: Copyright, Patents
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What does “patent pending” mean?

The phrase “patent pending” (sometimes abbreviated “Pat. Pend.”) can be marked on a product or its packaging or marketing material (such as a website) to alert the public that the manufacturer has applied for a patent for the product (or some… Read More
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Federal Circuit Finds Gaming Claims Unpatentable

The Federal Circuit has affirmed a decision by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) that the challenged claims of Bot M8 LLC’s gaming patent, U.S. Patent No. 8,078,540, were unpatentable. Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC petitioned for Inter… Read More
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US Government Agencies Team Up to Fight AI Abuse

The US Department of Justice (DoJ), Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) have released a joint statement on fighting bias and discrimination created via the us… Read More
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Categories: Patents
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USPTO Vacates Salesforce Reexaminations

The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has vacated Salesforce’s reexaminations against Applications in Internet Time (AIT) because Salesforce was a real-party-in-interest (RPI) in RPX’s previous inter partes review (IPR) against the same pate… Read More
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Adobe Releases “Infringement-Free” AI Image Generator

Adobe recently released an AI image generator that it claims won’t infringe third-party intellectual property (IP) rights. The new generative AI tool is called Abobe Firefly and it’s in beta for enterprise in Adobe Creative Cloud and Adobe Expres… Read More
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USPTO Director Again Reverses Patent Board

Katherine K. Vidal, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has again reversed a decision of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). We discussed an earlier decisio… Read More
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Categories: Patents