Rescinding estoppel: the most overlooked means to a broader claim construction
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- July 02, 2015
By Jason Scher
The starting point for achieving a broad claim construction is a well written application, the use of non-limiting traversal of...
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PTO Issues First Set of PTAB Rule Changes
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- June 23, 2015
By: Joseph O. McPartland
Last month, on May 19, 2015, after a notice and comment process yielded some...
Beriont: The Case for Contemporaneous Record Keeping of Inventorship
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- June 05, 2015
By: David Hubbard
A former employee sues company for patent infringement. This is the scenario that...
Alice, § 101, and § 112 – patent application drafting tips to avoid rejections and survive post grant proceedings
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- June 02, 2015
By Seth Cannon
During the prosecution of software patent applications, the two most common rejections are patent eligibility rejections under 35 U.S.C. §...
Designed for simplicity, the path to filing an international design patent application may not be straightforward
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- May 20, 2015
By Jason Scher
The Hague Agreement concerning the International Registration of Industrial Designs (the “Hague Agreement”) took effect in the U.S. on May...
Don’t let your preamble doom your claim construction
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- March 09, 2015
By Thomas Keely
Take care when drafting preambles and summaries in U.S. patent applications. The Federal Circuit recently reminded practitioners of the pitfalls...
In re Cuozzo, a Victory for Patent Challenges?
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- March 03, 2015
By: Stephen DiLorenzo
The recently issued Federal Circuit opinion in In re Cuozzo Speed Technologies, LLC, No. 2014-1301, was the first Federal Circuit...
Patent Office Remains Open During Government Shutdown
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- September 12, 2018
The United States Patent and Trademark Office remains open despite the general government shutdown that began October 1, 2013. ...
Vadim Vapnyar Publications
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- April 12, 2016
Vadim Vapnyar, Note, “Moseley v. V Secret Catalogue, Redefining the Scope of the Federal Trademark Dilution Act,” 77 St. John’s L. Rev. (2003).
M. A. Walters, V....
Intent and Action: Defining “Competitive Injury” in False Marking Actions
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- July 21, 2015
By Rakesh Roy
On May 4, 2015, in a case of first impression, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in...