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The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has started to accept petitions for the Semiconductor Technology Pilot Program. As the USPTO explains, the Pilot Program is designed to support the Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors (CHIP… Read More

A US district court has granted Netflix’s motion to dismiss a claim for copyright infringement by a tattoo artist whose work was shown in the Tiger King series. The case is Cramer v. Netflix, Inc. In March 2020, early in the COVID-19 pandemic, Moll… Read More

The Federal Circuit has reversed a claim construction adopted during an inter partes review (IPR) because the Patent Trial & Appeal Board (PTAB or Board) erred in construing the limitation “a” to mean a single sample rather than including the… Read More

In a world besieged by the escalating impacts of climate change, the pursuit of net-zero emissions has emerged as a global imperative. The Paris Agreement has galvanized nations, setting a collective trajectory toward a sustainable future. Companies,… Read More

The Third Circuit has upheld a district court’s decision that a candy company may not trademark the color and shape of its watermelon candy because these features are “functional”: they tell consumers that the candies are watermelon flavored. T… Read More

In today’s fast-paced and ever-changing business landscape, startups drive innovation, create new markets, and disrupt established industries. The rise of cutting-edge startups has been made possible by the emergence of advanced technologies, s… Read More

The strike by the Writers Guild of America (WGA) that started in May finally ended in late September, after almost 150 days, with a new Minimum Basic Agreement (MBA) with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP), a trade associ… Read More

Everything you need to know about the different IP issues you may come across—and what you can do to prevent them. In the past few decades, both private equity and venture capital firms faced waves of developments and industry-wide evolutions that… Read More