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US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Director Kathi Vidal vacated and remanded a decision of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB or Board) that found Weber, Inc. had shown by a preponderance of the evidence that certain claims of Provisur Techn… Read More

The Federal Circuit has affirmed a finding by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB or Board) that Medtronic failed to prove that challenged claims of a Teleflex catheter patent were unpatentable. The ’116 patent is directed to a method for using… Read More

Trader Joe’s has filed a lawsuit against a cryptocurrency platform called “Trader Joe,” claiming fraud, trademark infringement, and trademark dilution. The crypto site uses the URL https://traderjoexyz.com/avalanche and other domains that incor… Read More

The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has released a revised edition of its China Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Toolkit. According to the USPTO, The Toolkit offers an in-depth look at the basics of protecting IP rights in China… It also p… Read More

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

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

The Federal Circuit has affirmed a ruling by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB or Board) against tobacco company Philip Morris, which had tried to overturn an R.J. Reynolds e-cigarette patent. The patent generally relates to tobacco smoking dev… Read More

The Federal Circuit has affirmed a Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) ruling that a patent Meta was accused of infringing covered an abstract idea and was thus not eligible for patenting. USC IP Partnership, L.P. owns a patent entitled “System an… Read More