June 2022

Coca-Cola purchased Parle (Exports), Limited of Bombay, India (who introduced Thums Up cola Limca lemon-lime soft drink in India in the 1970’s) and acquired Parle’s Indian registrations of the THUMS…

Static Media sued Leader for infringing design patent D771,400 for a stadium seat. The district court granted Leader’s motion for summary judgement of noninfringement.  This appeal concerns an alleged violation…

Centripetal sued Cisco for infringement of ten U.S. patents relating to systems that perform computer networking security functions. Cisco petitioned for inter partes review (“IPR”) of many of the asserted…

Novartis owns U.S. Patent No. 9,187,405 relating to methods of treating relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS) using the immunosuppressant fingolimod, and markets a drug under the brand name Gilenya. HEC Pharm…

Zeta filed an application to register PARMA COFFEE for, among other things, coffee and coffee substitutes. The examining attorney refused registration finding that the proposed mark was primarily geographically descriptive…

Kingston appeals the District Court’s judgment that Kingston willfully infringed certain claims of Pavo’s U.S. Patent No. 6,926,544 relating to a flash memory apparatus having a single body type rotary…

Shure owns U.S. Patent No. 9,565,493 relating to arrays of microphones and housings for the arrays so that the arrays and housings may be fitted into a drop ceiling grid. …

Tiger Lily, a company with no corporate affiliation to Lehman Brothers (which filed for bankruptcy in 2008) or Barclays (to whom Lehman Brothers assigned all of its trademarks and accompanying…