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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

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

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

The Federal Circuit has affirmed a federal district court decision that certain claims of digital imaging patents are patent-ineligible. The case involves a dispute between the patent owner, Sanderling Management Ltd., and Snap Inc., which operates t… Read More

A federal court in the Southern District of New York has granted a motion to dismiss a complaint for patent infringement because the patent was directed to patent-ineligible subject matter. Realtime Tracker, Inc. v. RELX, Inc. involves a patent for b… Read More

A US District Court judge in New York has issued a ruling granting a motion for summary judgement filed by book publishers against the Internet Archive (IA), alleging copyright infringement. According to the opinion, the four publishers (Hachette Boo… Read More

A Magistrate Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York has recommended that the District Court grant defendant’s Rule 12(b)(6) motion to dismiss patent claims for a method of picking outfits, finding that the c… Read More

Many people who use the phrase on a regular basis may not realize that “Taco Tuesday” is actually protected by a US trademark. As NPR reported, the trademark is owned by Taco John’s, a Wyoming-based fast-food restaurant chain with about 380… Read More