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Can You Trademark a Color?
Yes, under certain circumstances you can trademark a color... Examples of protectable color marks include: red soles for women’s high-heel dress shoes, where the rest of …
Northern Florida District Judge Decides That Dentist’s Copyright Claims Have No Bite
On June 20th, U.S. District Judge Mark Walker of the Northern District of Florida issued an order on summary judgment which terminated Pohl v. Officite, a …
Nasal Spray Patents Covering Migraine Drug Zomig Not Invalid As Obvious
The sole question on appeal was whether it would have been obvious to make zolmitriptan into a nasal spray. The Federal Circuit agreed with the district court …
Avery Dennison Seeking a Group IP Counsel in Ohio or The Netherlands
Avery Dennison is currently looking for a Group IP Counsel in either their Mentor OH or Oegstgeest, The Netherlands locations. The scope and responsibilities of the position …
Reflections on Drug Patents and the High Cost of Healthcare
The Hatch-Waxman Act and the Biologic Price Competition and Innovation Act are both forged from a noble ideal, grounded in a commitment to a robust and earnest …
Bittersweet Milestone: Ten Million Patents Issued in the US, but What Are They Worth?
Last month, the U.S. Patent Office issued patent number 10,000,000. This historic occasion calls for rethinking our patent system and the future of American innovation... It is …
House Small Business Committee Holds Hearing on IP in Digital Economy With a Mostly Anti-Patent Panel
On the morning of Wednesday, July 11th, the House Small Business Committee held a hearing titled Innovation Nation: How Small Businesses in the Digital Technology Industry Use …
Using Anonymous Third-Party Submissions to Advance Your Business Goals
A decent patent strategy starts with protecting your current commercial product. A better patent strategy builds on this by not only considering what is, but what could …
PolarityTE stock tumbles, harassed by activist short seller misrepresenting Public PAIR data
Whether the Citron report is intentionally wrong for the purpose of causing PolarityTE stock to tumble, which it has, or whether it is recklessly wrong, or just …
Still No Answer From PTAB on Apple Sanctions Request Against VoIP-Pal After Six Months
And yet, despite this apparent vindication of VoIP-Pal’s patents against the strongest of odds in an executive branch tribunal where APJ panels are stacked in the …
High Efficiency Video Coding: How the video ecosystem is evolving
The latest television technology (4K) contains four times the number of pixels as 1080p (full HD). Without HEVC, broadcasters wanting to transmit programs in 4K quality face …
Enabling Technologies and the Underinvestment Problem
Certain innovations—known as enabling technologies—provide the foundation for progress across a range of industries. Enabling technologies include mobile wireless, the laser, CT scanners, the microprocessor, …
12 Questions with Karin Seegert, COO Healthcare, Biotechnology and Chemistry, EPO
Karin Seegert studied pharmacy and received her PhD from the University of Munich in 1985. Following several years working in R&D in industry, she joined the EPO …
Whirlpool sues in Eastern Texas on U.S. Patent No. 10,010,820
That didn't take long! U.S. Patent No. 10,000,000 just issued June 19, 2018, and already a patent in the 10 million series is being enforced. On July 3, 2018, the day the …
Want a greater ROI for taxpayers? Restore the patent system, protect Bayh-Dole and cut the red tape strangling federal labs
Three events boosted our economic turnaround in the 1980's: the passage of Bayh-Dole, which injected the incentives of patent ownership into the federal R&D system; the …
