U.S. Patent No. 10,363,772 B2 (‘772), issued on July 30, 2019, for “Turkey Fan Favorite.” The inventor is Charles D. Brown of Rydal, Georgia. The ‘772 specification describes an invention which allows for displaying device of a recently-harvested turkey for photograph by the hunting party without the need to hold the turkey in place while …
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Trademarks Post-Tam & Brunetti
Two recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions in Matal v. Tam,[1] decided in 2017, and Iancu v. Brunetti,[2] decided this past May, both dealt with registration of trademarks under 15 U.S.C. §1052(a) (§2(a)) that ran afoul of the First Amendment’s freedom of speech clause. 2(a) reads: No trademark by which the goods of the applicant may …
TechPat: U.S. Patent No. 10,241,896 B2
The DreamForce 2019 conference will be held in San Francisco from November 19-22, 2019. To commemorate DreamForce, the blog will highlight a recently-issued Salesforce, Inc. patent. U.S. Patent No. 10,241,896 B2 (‘896), issued on March 26, 2019, for “Formation and Manipulation of Test Data in a Database System.” The inventor is Jameison Bear Martin of …
Prosecution History Estoppel Limits Design Patent Amendments
A fascinating ruling dealing with design patents, amendments made during prosecution, and limitations on claim scope was handed down by the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on September 12, 2019 in Curver Luxembourg, Sarl v. Home Expressions Inc..[1] Curver is an important piece in an otherwise scant design patent case law. Curver Luxembourg …
CannabIP: U.S. Patent No. 10,376,551 B2
U.S. Patent No. 10,376,551 B2 (‘551) issued on August 13, 2019, for “Method for Conducing Concentrated Cannabis Oil to be Stable, Emulsifiable and Flavorlesss for Use in Hot Beverages and Resulting Powderized Cannabis Oil.” It was issued to inventors Ross Franklin of Rancho Cucamonga, California, Ed Rosenthal of Oakland, California, and Rachel Franklin of Rancho …
U.S. Patent No. 10,346,782 B2
U.S. Patent No. 10,346,782 B2 (‘782), issued on July 9, 2019, for “Adaptive Augmented Decision Engine.” The inventor is Steven C. Tiell of San Francisco, California. The applicant and assignee is Accenture Global Solutions Ltd. of Dublin, Ireland. The claims are directed to the computer-implemented method of utilizing artificial intelligence for adaptive decision-making, or reduced …
Limitations on State Sovereign Immunity on Venue
The issue of sovereign immunity has been raised several times in recent memory at the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, including St. Regis Mohawk Tribe v. Mylan Pharms., Inc.,[1] (discussed on the blog here), and Regents of the Univ. of Minn. v. LSI Corp.,[2] (discussed here). Board of Regents of the Univ. of …
TechPat: U.S. Patent No. 10,313,638 B1: Halloween Edition
Halloween will be commemorated by a review of a creepy patent. U.S. Patent No. 10,313,638 B1 (‘638) issued on June 4, 2019, for “Image Creation Using Geo-Fence Data.” The inventors are Kalidas Yeturu of Chennai, India, and Howard Lee Huddleston, Jr., of Seattle, Washington. The applicant/assignee is Amazon Technologies, Inc., the e-commerce giant. Figure 1 …
Collecting Royalties Indicative of Authorship, not Work for Hire
On August 21, 2019, the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled in an interesting example of what is deemed “work for hire,” as defined by the Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. §201(b), in Morricone Music Inc. v. Bixio Music Group Ltd..[1] Ennio Morricone is the late Italian composer of several musical film scores, which …
CannabIP: U.S. Patent No. 10,334,796 B2
U.S. Patent No. 10,334,796 B1 issued on July 2, 2019, for “Methods and Systems of Cultivation,” to inventors Eric Speidell and Kyle Speidel of Denver, Colorado. The applicant/assignee is MJ Brain Bank, LLC, of Denver, Colorado. Figure 2 illustrates the basic algorithm of the claimed invention: This is a utility patent, specified in 35 …