SCOTUS Watch: Bar on Immoral and Scandalous Marks Violates First Amendment
Source: FUCT™, soon to be FUCT® On June 24, 2019, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down Iancu v. Brunetti, dealing with the Lanham Act’s Section 2(a) bars to trademark registration’s collision against...
CannabIP: Second Circuit Refuses to Dismiss CBD Reclassification Case
On May 30, 2019, the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in Washington v. Barr, refused to dismiss outright a case where the plaintiffs alleged marijuana’s classification on the Drug Enforcement...
SCOTUS Watch: Government Is Not a Person for Purposes of AIA
On June 10, 2019, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Return Mail, Inc. v. United States Postal Service, in which the Court held that the Government was...
CannabIP: Hemp Now Accepted For PVP Protection
On April 24, 2019, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that the Plant Variety Protection Office (PVPO) will begin accepting applications for new, distinctive hemp-based...
TechPat: Justice Department Reviews Truvada Manufacturer for Possible Patent Violations
Tenofovir disoproxil fumarate, C23H34N5O14P The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has recently opened an investigation into possible violations of Gilead Sciences, Inc.’s exclusive license with the...
CannabIP: U.S. Patent No. 10,179,694 B2
U.S. Patent No. 10,179,694 B2 (‘694) issued on November 20, 2018, for “Constant Illuminated Tamper-Resistant Plant Shipping Container.” It was issued to applicant/inventor Larry D. Fenner, Jr. of...
TechPat: U.S. Patent No. D844,022 S1
U.S. Patent No. D844,022 S (‘022) issued on March 26, 2019, for “Computing Device Display Screen with Graphical User Interface.” It was issued to inventor Shalin Amin, of San Francisco, California....
Fed Circuit Watch: EV Battery Claims Found Patent-Ineligible
What had opened with a promise of clarity for patent subject matter eligibility under 35 U.S.C. §101 took a detour with the ChargePoint, Inc. v. SemaConnect, Inc., decision issued on March 28 2019,...
Fed Circuit Watch: Treatment Method Claims Found Patent-Eligible
The third treatment method case in the last year that was challenged as patent-ineligible subject matter under 35 U.S.C. §101 has been found eligible by the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit,...
Fed Circuit Watch: Cat’s Out of the Bag: Continuous Reduction to Practice is Reasonable Diligence
Arctic Cat Inc. has been involved in a few patent-related cases in recent years, including one case from 2018 which we discussed on this blog dealing with the law of obviousness’s motivation to...
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